September 21, 2025 • 53 mins
Legendary NW King of Soul Andy Stokes talks about his latest release “No Better” featuring “Best Day Ever”, “Turn Back Now”, “Let’s Have A Good Time”, “I Don’t Give a Damn”, and “We on Da Flo (with Snoop Dogg)”! Andy was born in Danville, VA and raised across the US and Germany with an All-Army family, spent over 3 decades captivating audiences across the globe & solidified his place as one of the most respected/beloved voices of R&B and a 2x inductee in Oregon’s Music HOF, began his amazing career in ’83 at a Portland nightclub to join legendary funk band Cool’R earning various accolades, shared the stage with Michael Bolton, George Clinton, Peabo Bryson, The Temptations, etc., and shares the stories behind the music! Check out the amazing Andy Stokes on all major platforms and www.andystokesmusic.com today! #andystokes #nwkingofsoul #nobetter #bestdayever #turnbacknow #letshaveagoodtime #idontgiveadamn #weondaflo #snoopdogg #danvillevirginia #germany #oregonmusichalloffame #r&b #portland #coolr #michaelbolton #georgeclinton #peabobryson #thetemptations #spreaker #iheartradio #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnerandystoles #themikewagnershowandystokes
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R and B. He's a two time Ducty in Oregon's
Music Hall of Fame. Born in Danville, Virginia, raised across
the US in Germany with All Army as Well Too
and star athlete and mount Hood College University of Oregon,
and also began his career in e three at a
Portland nightclub. Joined a legury funk band of Cool Hour,
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earning various accolades, and also signed at A and M Records.
Shared the stage with Michael Bolton, George Clinton and People,
Bryson and Mormon. He's got a new release called No
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You're managing legendary Northwest King of Soul. Three decades of
captaining audiences, ladies and gentlemen, multi tellent, Andy Stokes, Andy,
(02:16):
good morning, Good afternue get Any.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Today, Man, thank you having to me here. Man, thanks
for having me on the show.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It's great to have you on board. Andy.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So, You're legendary Northwest King of Soul over three decades
of captaining audiences across the globe and Slive finding your
place is one of the most respected, beloved, the voice
of R and B. Two time deducting Oregon's Music Hall
of Fame. Born in Danville, Virginia, raised across the US
and Germany. Also star athlete in college as well. You
began a career in eighty three at a Portland nightclub
(02:44):
to join the legendary funk band Cool R and earning
various accolades. You got cool Arloer, got signed to A
and M Records in eighty nine, Testa, Time and Mormon.
You share the stage with Michael Bolton, George Clinton, Peeble
Bryson and Mormon and also a number of appearances that
Fast Venues and more. You have a new release called
No Better, plus others as well, including Full Circle and
(03:05):
before getting Landy. Tell us how I first got started.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Well, I, like I said, I went to Lakes High
School in Lakewood, Washington, which is south of Seattle like
half hour. And we you know, we moved from Stuttgard,
Germany to Washington Fort Lewis, Washington. My dad was into
service and and I had a pretty good high school
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you know, sports career, baseball scholarship, football scholarship.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Then I went down to I got.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Scholarship the university to Oregon, and but I went to
junior college first at mount Hood, had a great career there,
went down to Oregon, you know, got you know, graduate
from Morgan, and then you know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Didn't pursue any more sports, didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We wanted to go to pro but it didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
So I was, I was, Uh, I come from music,
my dad, you know, not as a musician or as
my dad used to play records.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
My dad loved music and every.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Saturday we would he would put on the little forty
fives and and we would just listen to music all day.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And when I was a junior.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I realized that I had a pretty good voice, and
so it was it was a fantasy of you know,
it was a man that'd be nice if I could
be at least singer in front of a band and whatnot.
But you know, my whole goal was to you know,
my whole goal was jump me back to the sports.
Was to make pro football and buy my mama house.
(04:36):
Uh you know, so but that didn't work. So and
I wouldn't would uh you know, I had friends who
were in the music business, and so I would go
see him and you know, fantasize and whatever, and you know,
sing a little bit around the house. And you know,
when the football thing didn't work, my mom came to
me and said, excuse me. I came to me and said, son,
(05:00):
football was not for you. That's singing. That's your calling.
You need to sing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And so I I was one.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I was a guy who was blessed into great bands.
You know, I was dinking around at the club on
the west side of Portland and you know, uh, we'll
go there on the Thursday night when nobody was there
with a group of guys, and I got to know
the owner, Pete Dominici, and I would just make up
(05:34):
words to songs that the DJ played and uh and
so so uh.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The next night was Friday night.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Uh, the DJs called themselves Billy Pump and uh uh
it's about midnight, and Billy Bump goes, we just gotta
we hit. You know, we have a singer in the house,
just made his debut in Vegas and he's here with
us tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Maybe we can get him up to sing. So we're
all looking around and see who the singer.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Was was, And then the spotlight hit me and I froze,
and I believe it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I've done the same thing. You'll be like, what do
I do? I understand.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Yeah, I froze, and so they you know, you know,
they got me in there, and uh. The first time
lest that I performed in front of people was standing
on a chair in the DJ booth making up words
to the song Ring My Bell.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
By Nita Ward and the.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
People that song yes, uh huh, and the.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
People went nuts, you know, And I was talking about
the problem going a while and so afterwards ben Wolf
Gun named Ben Wolf who's from Portland came up to
me and said, hey, we have a band. Uh, we
need a lead singer. He said, you know, would you
like would you like to join? I said, I said, oh, hell,
(06:55):
why not? And being and so that band was called Nightlife.
So I didn't know what I was doing. So I
joined the band. We played one gig and and then
after that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
The leader of the band called lights Out, who was
very popular that you know, playing downtown Portland, which was
the big deal. You play downtown you you know, you
made it locally, and they asked me to join the band.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
They hurt me.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
So I got with lights Out and that was I
was with them for two years.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And then in eighty three I joined Coolar.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Coolard were members of the great group group excuse me,
great group Pleasure, who was really big out of the
Portland area. And uh I had the great drummer Bruce
Carter that played with Kenny g and and everything. And uh,
I couldn't believe that I was playing with them because
I had albums at home with their pictures on them.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Wow. Yeah. I called my dad. I said, Dad, I'm
in a band.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
He goes, what I said, You remember that album that
says pleasure and they got the female's hand on there
with like like she put her hand in jelly.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He goes yeah. I said, I'm singing with them guys.
He goes oh. I start screaming and everything.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
And so I was with them for like seven years
and then we ended up getting signed. We were went
down to LA to play at Rocky at the Rock Seat,
a big.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Deal for me.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I had never been to California then, and we were
doing sound check and Herb Albert was there his car
My gosh, yeah, his car broke down. And uh he
was with lou Adler had owned had owned the place,
and we did soundcheck and he heard heard the band.
And then by the time that was in August of
(08:48):
eighty eight, and by the time by February we were
signed with AM Records.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And uh and like.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I said, I'm still green, I'm still I don't know
any anything about the business.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm just going along with the flow, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And so, uh, I jumped into songwriting and I wrote
this song called Victim with Phil Baker, who used to
be the bass player with Diana Ross, who was also
from Portland, Okay. And so we wrote the song Victim,
and so and uh. So when the album was done,
(09:22):
they informed me that they were gonna pick my song
Victim to be the single from the record, and I
was like, lord, you know, everybody in the band was
like what you know, he he, They goes, you don't
even know what you were doing, and you just wrote
a single that's going to be the single for our record,
you know, you know, and so.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Uh you know, uh, the record did pretty good. We
ended up uh the album.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
What bothered me about the cooler album that didn't sound
like we sounded when we were playing locally. The bass
player produced it, and I think he overproduced it. It
didn't sound it didn't sound the R and B funk
like we were playing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You know. That got us signed And so.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
The record did okay, and we ended up going to
Japan and on tour, and I think that's when I
came into my own, you know, far as being the entertainer,
and my voice got stronger.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And I was not comfortable onstage. And if you know
R and B.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Our first show was at Pickford Live Hall, this you
know Venu in Japan, and I was sitting backstage the
whole time with my first big concert and on foreign ground.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And excuse and me.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I looked out the window, I mean look from behind
the curtain, and I'm seeing all these starts from Charlie Wilson,
Trylli's Hyman to George Clinton to the TIMEX Social Club,
Midnight Star Barcades. All of them were in the audience
because all the Americans came to see each other over Japan.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
So yeah, I was sitting the backstay scared. I got
scared and basically, you're okay. I said, no, man, I said.
He said come on, man, he said you got this,
and so I said, just give me some time. So
I looked up and said, God, if you're going to
give me voice, give it to me tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And I came out there and did a really good job.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
And at the end of the show, Charlie Wilson ran
on stage and hugged me.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
He said, h he said, man, he hugged me. Wouldn't
let go. He's hugging me tight.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
He was over there with the Eurythmics and he goes,
you have something special in that throat. You need to
go home and find it. You need to start your
own journey. And so with those words, you know it.
Let me know that I was good enough, you know,
to go to the next level. And so then Charlie
left and then I walked up the stage and George
(12:01):
Clinton's crew was, you know, standing alongside the stage and
uh George.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Comes up to me as I'm walking by, he stops me.
He goes, F you. I you.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I said, f you and then uh f Fhitdler the
keyword player comes fro me.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
He said, no, man, it's a compliment. But he said,
you sing, you're behind off.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Oh my god, money, yeah, man, and so and so
then so and I got to talking and then after
he said, hey, man, what you doing.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
After I said nothing, he said, let's go hang out.
So him and I.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Left up Pickford went to this club called the Lexington
and we just sat and talked about live music and everything.
And invited me to the show the following day.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So I went to there. The following day.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I'm backstage with the with the George Clinton and the
crazies and standing in the in the in the dressing room,
and and and and walked out of there, hired in
a kite from contact from the UH on the side
of the stage, and they started to do their thing.
And then halfway through the show, Eddie Hazel, you know
(13:15):
made Rest in Peace, was waving over to me. I
thought he's waving to h stage hand. He walked up
and said, George want you on stage. I said, okay,
and so I walked on stage. George said, I'm tired.
You front the band for the rest of the night.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So here I am fronting George Clinton and Funkadelic.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
And uh afterwards, George said, come break bread with me,
come sit with me and eat. I said, okay. So
he told me almost exact same thing that Charlie did.
So when I went back home, I left Coolaw and
started my own journey, started my own band and from.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh my gosh, wow, and so, uh go ahead, this
is really good.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm loving this for we thank you.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Yeah, and uh, so I went back home, you know, nervous,
you know, you know, never was the leader of a band, and.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, I really didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
So I just started reaching out to musicians and put
a band together. And cool Ark cool Ark disbanded and
and so you know, I was looking for guys, putting band,
putting musicians together.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
The first the first band I put together that really
didn't work. It wasn't the sound I was looking for
it because I was doing original music. I wasn't doing
covers at all. I was writing songs and stuff and
and uh, even though I was in a band that's
very popular in Portland, the club owners weren't sure about,
you know, me being a solo artist on my own.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
They just saw me with the cool ark and I said,
all I need is to chance. And so.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Club wanner name Tony Demacola and le Key Largo. I
went to him and I said, you know, hey, man
got a new band. I said, we're really good. We've
been urged him for six months and uh just wanted
to get a chance, you know. And so he had
me open up for uh, this guy named Curtis Selgado,
(15:25):
who is very popularly in Portland. Blues guy had me
open up for him, and man, we came out and
we just crushed it and came out and crushed it
and and uh at the end of our set, you know,
because Curtis Sogatto is one of my favorite singers south
of Portland, and I, you know, so I'm trying to
hype his you know, his set up. I said, hey,
(15:47):
you're ready for Curtis Sigado and the people went no,
one more one more like that. I didn't know what
to do. I was frozen on stage and I said
thank you, and I just walked off the stage.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Come on, Curtis, takeover, please, please please?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, And so I walked off the stage and everything.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Curtis was standing right on the side door hearing all this,
and his manager and then his manager told the owner said,
we don't want Andy to open up for us anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You know. I didn't find out that till later, but.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So Tony finally gave me, gave me a Saturday night
and it was packed lines around the corner.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And I had a great career in Portland.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
And and then you know, so I was working the job,
just playing music and basically it's all I was doing,
and putting out local records. And then I was working
for the Girls and Boards Club with the Portland Trail
Blazers NBA team helping and and Z one hundred is
(16:55):
one of the big radio stations important and so we got.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
To go on the radio.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And prior to that, I had met these guys out
of Elsa, Rito, California, recorded these songs and one of
the songs is called test of time.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And so we went on the radio talking about the
Girls and Boys Club, you.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Know, helping them out and you know, make sure you know,
I was basically a mentor, and they got Indy, do
you have any music?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I go sure, I said, I got the song off.
This is the time.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
So I ran in my car and got the cassette.
And remember the cassettes back in the days, right, oh.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I remember that. I used to collect those.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And of course you had the metal tapes, remember that,
and the tape machines were impressive. Who could forget those?
I still assessed back to these tapes.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And so.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I brought it in there and they played it in
the phone linees lit up and and it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Was a local hit.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
It's debuted at twenty nine and finished I think it
topped out at number nine on the.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So it did pretty good.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
But after that, you know, it boosted my popularity, and
so you know, I stayed busy, made really good money
for a long time, and so made all that noise.
And then here comes Warner Brothers nineteen ninety six. Okay,
(18:25):
Warner brother signed me. Went down to La all the
accolades had a nice house, nice up condos, swimming pool everything,
and I was getting doing the album, and I was
it was being produced by the great producer Kashik, and
so you know, I'm down there working with Kashif and
(18:49):
he's still I'm blowing away because you know, like I said,
I had the albums at home and everything, and and
he played me the song called I Don't Give a Damn,
which he had wrote and actually put out in two
thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
After that, and we were in studios.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It was him and I and then Mariah Carey came
in and specific palisades and I was listening to the song.
He said, well, what do you think. I said, first
of all, it's a song about infidelity. And I said,
I hear it as a ballot because to me, it's
a message to men and women. You know, guys cheat,
(19:33):
women cheat, But I think the message, I said, you
don't hear too many songs about a guy admitting that
he messed up and then trying to get his woman back.
I said, but you I think it's a ballot. I said,
I'm a balloteer. I love singing ballads. He said, well,
so we recorded it, recorded the album, did the two videos,
and then waiting for it to drop.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
In April of.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Ninety seven, and so you know, I was sitting there
in the condo board and I called him. I said, hey, man,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Man?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I can you know? He said, I'm just sitting here.
He said, you need to come over. Haven't you heard?
I said, heard what he said?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Come over?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
So I went over to his place and he said,
have you heard that Warner Brothers dropped about nine artists.
I said no. He said you were one of them.
I said, nobody called me. I said, I was wondering
why the money stopped coming because I was getting like
five hundred dollars a week, right.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Nine artists. Warner Brothers dropped, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, And that's when they went.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
They merged with AOL and was doing some Time Warner
and all that suff.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Oh yeah, that was a big merger.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
It was that AOL time Warner Warner Brothers has a
monster mess. And he said, was that around like early
around two thousand or something like that.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
It was like they started it messing with it in
two and ninety six, the latter part of ninety six.
And man, so I'm sitting there, man, just you know,
my my parents were coming down, and you know, Dad
never went to California. My dad always wanted to kiss
(21:12):
my mom on Hollywood and Vine. And so anyway, they
were on the train coming down the next day, and
so they got here, put them up and so you know,
I had the driver and took them to Hollywood to
Vine and got to you know, fulfill their dreams of
kissing on Hollywood and uying to.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
A's a really good for couples. I never thought of it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, And so.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
My dad said something I had that. I didn't say
anything about the record company. You know, I was just
trying to keep everything, you know, happy, And my dad said,
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Boy?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And then I told him. After we got back to
the hotel, I told him what happened, and he said,
you know, you can't he said, I can't understand you
being upset. But you know it's was out of your hands,
he said, you know, And I said yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And then the.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Kashifs goes, welcome to the record business. And so I
had nowhere to go. My parents had to go back,
get on the train and go back up to Tacoma, Washington.
And so I had a friend named Bill Beckman who
had just got hired at UCLA Hospital as an anesthesiologist,
and so I went and stayed with him, and I
(22:28):
was done with the music.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I was so done. I didn't want to deal with
music anymore.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I just want to go home, be a regular guy
and just work and everything. And so I was staying
at Bill's house feeling sorry for myself.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I just was, you know, just mad. I was mad,
you know. And Bill goes, you have a gift, and
you just he said, come on, get you out of
the house.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
So we went to this place, Toppers, and this guy,
this violin playing guitar player was performing and and I
was just mad and looking at Santa Monica Pier. You know,
I want to go home. I want to go home,
and he goes, you want to sing? I go, hell, no,
I'm not singing nothing. I'm done, you know. And so
(23:16):
he said, come on, I said, Bill, he's he's one
of those friends that he don't give up, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
He wouldn't, you know. He want to make sure that
you're okay. And he went up.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
To the musicians and I guess told him about me,
and so they.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Called me out. You know, hey, we got to sing her.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Let's get him up here, and I just looked at
Bill with this mean, look, what are you doing? He said,
He said, all that anger that you got, you sing
the hell out of the song. You're gonna do and
get it out of your system. And then he hugged me.
And so I'm walking out, and so I walk up
and and uh, I'm sitting there and I'm looking at
this this guy.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I said, that's Robert Plant. Robert Plant was there.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Here, Robert, Oh my god, wow, here I am.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm going wow.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
So I didn't know what's on the same So I'm
looking out the window at the Santa Monica Pier.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So I sang Doc of.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
The Bay by otis ready, and I put everything into
a people screaming and everything, and and uh, you know,
you know, and Bill was right. I felt really good afterwards,
and and uh, Robert Plant was, uh that was the
time when Chris Broughton's wife had died, so he was like,
really he was intoxicated. And so after I finished up,
(24:33):
they walked by head into the elevator and Robert Plant
goes he said, you got a hell of a voice,
my friend. He said, keep going, and then he walked out.
So that was the third person of that caliber that
let me know that I was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And so so.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Then fate came in and the violin player was moving
back to Boston, and the guitar player say, hey, man,
sing with me on Thursday night, I said. The violin
players leaving, So I had a gig every Thursday night.
So I stayed for another year. Wow okay yeah, and
made money and then uh, it made enough money to
go back home. And I think the smartest thing I
(25:13):
did was taking leave of absence from my job. So
I had my job when I got back home, and
so I just started playing around town. And playing around town,
met a songwriter out of a California named Ralph Stacey.
He died from COVID, but I did. That's when this
(25:34):
is about the Full Circle Record. So I went down
to LA and recorded the Full Circle Record. And then
the hit song off of that was called Promise. I had, like,
let's say it was Promise, Let's have a good time
music for love.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And are you ready where the hits off of that?
You know that album? And then and.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
So then after that, my wife goes, she goes, honey,
she said, let's r in an airbnb in California, for
a month, and you just write songs that's coming out
of you.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, and put it on the album and see
what it does.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Because if you don't, you're gonna be miserable the rest
of your life that you didn't put out your own stuff.
So we made some good connections down there, and so
I sat in Dana Pointe, California, in this condo and
and wrote up the whole album and.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And the first song I recorded was Best Day Ever.
And then and finished the record. Decided that Best Era
would be the single.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And I had no idea that this song what's going
to do what it did.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It ended up being top ten on.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Billboard, the number one independent and number one independent song
for three weeks, took me to the Grammys, being still
played all over the world. Then the next song after
that was I ended up meeting Uh, my friend wife Barkley,
who was working with the record company, had a connection
(27:27):
with Snoop Dogg and uh and so uh and it's
DJ Battlecat. So I went to DJ Battlecat and we
wrote a song called We're We're on the floor, and
after we plan it, we were you know, it was
sounding so good in the studio, battle Cat said, Hey,
we got to get Snoop on this, and Snoop agreed
to it, and so we got Snoop on the record,
(27:50):
and then that one ended up being top fifteen on Billboard.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
N Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Then after that, my radio guy said, hey, and you
need a ballot.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
We've got to put a ballot out. So I let.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
I told him I had worked a ballot with Kashi
and I'm going to put it out. And so I
re recorded it with the with a producer called p
k and uh Man. And then that song came out
and I think it made it made it up the
(28:25):
top fifteen on Billboard.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And then.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
After that I did a remake up Turnback, turn Back Now.
I did a remake up It's too late to turn
back Now that one.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Oh yeah, I think that was.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm falling and uh, Brothers.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That Cornelia's brothers and sister Rose. That one really stuck
in my head right there won my faves.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, and so that one, Uh, I think that made
it up to number number seven and then uh and
then uh and then here comes No Better, No Better.
I wrote with the artist out of Oklahoma name is
Irvan Rushing. This This guy is an amazing singer.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
The amazing songwriter.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And and he used to live in Portland, but we
never got to meet, and we just happened to connect
through a friend and and he said, hey, I got
this song I think that you would like.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And he let me.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Hear it, and and so we recorded it. You know,
he said, you know, I got the music. You put
your you know, you put your style on it and
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And man, it just.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
It's one of my favorite songs I recorded because of
you know, the beat of the music. And man it did.
It did really well. It did really well. They got
the number five.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh my gosh, that is amazing. And I'm gonna say this,
you can add this the list. I think you've already
mentioned three four having You've got one heck of a voice.
And I say this, I don't know where we're gonna
put this one. You can add me to this list.
You've got one hell of a voice. You can have
me to that list.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Thank you, Thank you so much, thank you, and thank.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
You as well too.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
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on the Mic Waders Show and going from No Better
and UH to More as well too, And I think
we might cover a little bit you also, George Clinton
was really amazing and you also worked with Michael Bolton
and Pebo Bryson as well too, and a bit about
those and some of the others you've worked with.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, I've worked with.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Michael Bolten had came to Portland and to do a
concert and UH and he was that he had a
fundraiser that UH fund was raised money to for this
organization that helped battered women, and so Jerome Cursey, who
played for the Blazers, was part of that, and so
(33:22):
I got to meet him and and and when he
came in town, some of his members had came to
Sunday nights.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I was.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I was working Sunday night at this place called the Candlelight,
and so, uh, some of his band members came in
and I guess said something to him, and then the
hey asked me to come come on stage with them,
and uh, so I got to sing with Michael Bolden
and uh then we had a little softball game to
raise money for Battered Women and it was a great deal.
(33:53):
He was a great really a highlight of my career,
you know, getting to meet him and work with him,
and it also helped, you know, help his charity. And
and so after that, I, uh.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
The best they ever had just had just came out.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
And I was on tour and on the East Coast
and I was in Columbia, South Carolina, and uh there
was this show for women and it was me people
brycing the Hamiltons, and uh that was the first time
I got to meet him in person, and uh record
with him, and I'll not record with him, but performed
(34:35):
with them on the same same bill, and so that
went good. And so the next day I went to
Augusta and Georgia and.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It was a big, a big concert.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
It was like that SOS band, the Hamiltons people Bryce
and the band full Force from back in the day
got It was like about fifteen bands and uh and uh.
So I got to be a part of that. And
and you know that's when I really got to, you know,
(35:10):
sit down with people and talk and you know, he said, hey,
he said, uh, he said, so, he said, you just
getting here.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I said, yeah. I was a late bloomer, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
May and you were kind of like that. These days,
late bloomers you get in common.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
He said.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
He said, he said, well, he said, he said. Look,
he said, you got a great voice. Man, He said,
I heard you in Columbia. He said, when you was
singing Bessie Ever and you hit that big note. He said, man,
we all came running out of the dressing room. This
is you know, see who you were. And uh and
he goes and then to hear you go from that
song to singing that that that ballad out the call promise,
(35:52):
He said, Man, I'm telling you. Everybody backstage were was amazed,
you know, and uh and so that's been.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
It was one of my.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Favorite bands coming up, you know, and nice and uh
so to get to meet them and then the full
force man back in the day, back in the you know,
the eighties and nineties, you know, meeting all those guys
and and uh you know, it was a it was
a big deal. I'm you know, I'm blowing up my
phone calling home and you know, my brothers and everything.
(36:22):
Oh my god, Oh my god, you're playing with Oh
my god, you know, sending all the pictures and stuff.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
It was oh, yes, I know, I know what you mean.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Yes, yeah, and so uh so then after that, I
another highlight was uh Tom Joyner Family Reunion show in Orlando,
and that's when I got to play with.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Beb Bib Devo.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
And uh Frankie Beverly and Mays and uh yeah, I
was on the same bill with them. And so my
you know, my career man from really started, you know,
from two fifteen when I started putting out records till now.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Perhaps I've had a pretty good run.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
I've had a really good you know, I had a
bunch of I've been a had a bunch of hits.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
And I'm really blessed and that.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
And you know, I own my own record company, which
is New five Records and what along with my wife
and other partner of Michael Hawthorne and uh for independent artists,
I think I've done pretty good.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We've done pretty good.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It sounds like, and who are some of the artists
that you have with New five Records and everything like that?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
No, we have, it's mainly me.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
We haven't signed any artists as of yet because we've
been really just focusing on my career.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
And so that's that's coming, you know, down the road.
That's going to be.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
You know, I'm looking at artists because I'm already working
with h hip hop artists.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
And and I got this other guy, his name is
uh uh. He called himself just me.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
And then I have another artist named Rece Philip who's
like crazy good on piano, like Billy Joel and all that.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
You know that, Oh j.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Twenty three years old, amzing and this guy, and then
I have a and then I started mentoring this really
young girl. She's like eleven. Her name is Lily uh
Fair and Tom Thayer's little niece, you know, of the kiss.
He's from Portland, the guitar player, and so I've been
(38:45):
giving her voice lessons and she just started her new
band last week. And uh she's singing Pat benuitar songs
and all that at ten years old and killing it.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
So anyways, so that's down the road I got.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I'm getting ready to put out another album.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
So working on like about six six seven songs right now,
and and so that'll be coming out.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Pretty soon. When I finished with him. I just uh
got the producer I wanted to do. I want to
work with name of the name of Tiger Roberts.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
He's a Grammy Award winning producer, did sup with Gladys Knight,
and you know, also people brycing a bunch of people.
And so I'm hooking up with him to to do
these songs and and next them steady steady doing shows,
they steady calling my name.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Songs still being played all over the world.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
And you know, I'm just a blessed guy who never
thought that he would even be doing this.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
You know, I was, I was. I was a sports guy,
you know, and never thought.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
Never my wildest dreams, I think that I thought that
I would be too in the country and going overseas
and driving down the street and in Mississippi and my
song comes on the radio and you know that kind
of stuff, and from I just I'm just feeling blessed.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I'm just like, man, I'm the luckiest guy in the world,
you know.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
For somebody who never never took music, don't know how
to write, read music, you know, taught myself how to
write by just listening and learning and and to have uh,
you know, like eight hits, you know, hit songs, and
I'm just blessed.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
That's blessing.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
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Right place, right time?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Tuned into the Mike Wagner Show. You heard me, We're
back to legendary Northwest King of Soul Andy Stokes. Here
in the Mike Wagner Show, we talked about no better,
best day ever. I don't give a damn full circle
of more. I mean, you've you've involved with sports, being
a Portland Trail Lazers, you know, Mariners and all that.
(43:09):
You as been a couple of your TV appearances, like
in NBC's Grimm and Tilsea's Librarians. Tell us about those.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Yes, I was. Uh. I had a friend of mine
named Bruce what's his name? Uh, I came his name.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Anyway, he was a cameraman and uh, and he used
to come see me play Coular's first video he shot.
He said, Hey, man, I'm working on set on the
set of Griham. I think you would be good for it. Said,
So I signed up with the booking agent and they
booked me. It's Detective Jones on the Grim show.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (43:45):
So I was in about five episodes and uh and uh,
you don't had you know, I think I had like
four times I got to you know, had sneaking parts
and everything, and uh. So that was that was a
good run. That was some nice experience. And then and
so out of being on Gram, the Librarian came into town,
(44:07):
uh to shoot, you know, to shoot their episode. And
then I got called to be you know, to be
a cast member on that.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
So nice.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Okay, any possibility maybe getting to TV in the future
as well too, along with some continued singing.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Uh. Yeah, that's you know, that's the goal. You know,
that's the goal.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
Right now, I'm putting feelers out and you know, you know,
having Alex that's my new manager now, I think doors
are going to open up now, you know.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
And certainly does as well.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
If there's other music that we haven't covered, I think
we cover a lot of it. If there's something we
haven't covered, uh, let's uh, you know, bring some songs
as well too that I don't think it has been covered.
I'm looking through it's like, have we covered Everything's like
I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (44:57):
Oh man, I got h an album that I did
when I first came out.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I was that was produced by this guy named Roger Saus.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
It's called It's About Time and God I did those
like back in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
You can find if you go on YouTube and put.
Speaker 6 (45:15):
In Andy Stokes It's About Time album, then those songs
that come up and uh and yeah. So you know,
I did a lot of music, and but that record
was mainly local. It didn't go national. It was just
a Portland thing. It was like the number two best
(45:36):
album that uh. That was the least important at the time,
but behind the cherry popping daddies that was very popular
back then.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
And so, you know, I have a lot of music
out there, and.
Speaker 6 (45:49):
Earlier in my career in the nineties, it was mainly local.
At the time was local. You know, the record the
album About Time album was local.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
So there's a lot of music out there, you know.
And and at the time, you know, I you know,
I had a lot of help. Man. I didn't do
this by myself. You know.
Speaker 6 (46:11):
I worked with people who could play piano, who can
do drums, and and I could sing melodies in my
head and I get with my keyboard player and then
we would figure it out. And that's how, you know,
our learned. And so so now I can play, you know,
I learned. I taught myself coord so I can, you know,
at least write songs and I could take it to
my keyboard player. So I've been you know, so all
(46:31):
your musicians out there, collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. There's enough out
there for everybody. And uh, two three, four heads are
better than money.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
That's what the magic is to.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Me, right, I think that's I think that's great idea
as well.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Too.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
In the meantime, where can we find your latest release
night Works at Andy?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (46:52):
You can find everything about me on at Andy Stokes
music dot com. On Instagram is at Andy Stokes Music,
and on Facebook on my artist pages www, Facebook dot com,
Forward slacks, get Stoked and to Get Stoked and then Facebook.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
Yeah, all right, we'll certainly check those oles. Well, here,
where's the multi talented, legendary Northwest king of soul Andy
Stokes here on the Mike Wadner Show, Andrew, just a
few more things. What else can we expect me twenty
twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
Well, you can expect new music coming out, new videos
coming out, and and hopefully you know, you know, we're
working on it right now, a tour, you know, European
tour and the United States tour.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
So we're working on that stuff. But everything is uh,
you know, we're working on that and and doing music, man,
writing music, performing, you got it.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
Yeah, we'll certainly check that out.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Who do you consider biggest influence in your career?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Wow, far as god, this is man, there's so many.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
I mean from I I love artists who were entertainers
like James Brown, Elvis Presley, You know, all the solo
artists who was just had all the energy because that's
you know, when I'm on stage, that's how I performed.
So mainly James Brown was mainly my guy. I you know,
(48:31):
not so much his dance and stuff, but he uh,
he gave you know, he gave the people what they want.
And so that's that I adopted the motto, you know,
if they're going to pay to see me, I'm gonna
I want them to leave happy.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I want them to leave talking about the show. I
want to be able to, you know, touch them. And so.
Speaker 6 (48:58):
I explained my music as giving unconditional love and so,
you know, and feel good music. But I think James Brown,
Elvis Presley and then and of course Luther vandros and
and the band the Isley Brothers, you know, all the
(49:18):
old school cats you know I grew up with, you know,
I I would watch them to learn and uh and
it paid off.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
So those are my influences.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
And certainly indeed, yes, definitely. And what's the best advice
you can give the anvice this point.
Speaker 6 (49:35):
If you decide to come into this business, before you
do anything, learn the business. Learn the business of music,
so you know when you're talking contracts or whatever.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
You know, you know what they're talking about, and they
don't pull the wool over your eyes.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
So learn the learn the business. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse for
cat craft, you know, and uh, never give up. I'm
the prime example of never give up, my first ten
Billboard single at fifty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
I dy'll like that, yes, and of course you still
have the best voice out there. It's like I'm doing
it times too for you.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
So thanks, Mike, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
There you go, there you go, and we're here at
the amazing multi twent Andy Silkes legendary Northwest king of
Soul with no better here on the Mic Winner Show. Andy,
very big, thank you, time you event absolute fantastic, learned
a lot looking forward, having soon keeps up today, keep
in touch, laugh, if you back and watch your website.
How do people contact you bringing people purchase or check
out your music?
Speaker 6 (50:39):
I am on Spotify, Apple Music, Andy Stokes music dot
com and.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Going there and download the music. You would definitely enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
So and we certainly as well too.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Once again, Andy, very big thanks you, time you Ben
abslete fantastic, learned a lot looking forward and soon kIPS
up today keeping talks, lave at you back.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
We wish our best and Andy you definitely have a
great future.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
He you, thank you very much. Thank you for having
me on the show. Thank you so much.
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Music Hall of Fame. Born in Danville, Virginia, raised across
the US in Germany with All Army as Well Too
and star athlete and mount Hood College University of Oregon,
and also began his career in e three at a
Portland nightclub. Joined a legury funk band of Cool Hour,
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earning various accolades, and also signed at A and M Records.
Shared the stage with Michael Bolton, George Clinton and People,
Bryson and Mormon. He's got a new release called No
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You're managing legendary Northwest King of Soul. Three decades of
captaining audiences, ladies and gentlemen, multi tellent, Andy Stokes, Andy,
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good morning, Good afternue get Any.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Today, Man, thank you having to me here. Man, thanks
for having me on the show.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
It's great to have you on board. Andy.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
So, You're legendary Northwest King of Soul over three decades
of captaining audiences across the globe and Slive finding your
place is one of the most respected, beloved, the voice
of R and B. Two time deducting Oregon's Music Hall
of Fame. Born in Danville, Virginia, raised across the US
and Germany. Also star athlete in college as well. You
began a career in eighty three at a Portland nightclub
(02:44):
to join the legendary funk band Cool R and earning
various accolades. You got cool Arloer, got signed to A
and M Records in eighty nine, Testa, Time and Mormon.
You share the stage with Michael Bolton, George Clinton, Peeble
Bryson and Mormon and also a number of appearances that
Fast Venues and more. You have a new release called
No Better, plus others as well, including Full Circle and
(03:05):
before getting Landy. Tell us how I first got started.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Well, I, like I said, I went to Lakes High
School in Lakewood, Washington, which is south of Seattle like
half hour. And we you know, we moved from Stuttgard,
Germany to Washington Fort Lewis, Washington. My dad was into
service and and I had a pretty good high school
(03:29):
you know, sports career, baseball scholarship, football scholarship.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Then I went down to I got.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Scholarship the university to Oregon, and but I went to
junior college first at mount Hood, had a great career there,
went down to Oregon, you know, got you know, graduate
from Morgan, and then you know.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Didn't pursue any more sports, didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We wanted to go to pro but it didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
So I was, I was, Uh, I come from music,
my dad, you know, not as a musician or as
my dad used to play records.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
My dad loved music and every.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Saturday we would he would put on the little forty
fives and and we would just listen to music all day.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
And when I was a junior.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I realized that I had a pretty good voice, and
so it was it was a fantasy of you know,
it was a man that'd be nice if I could
be at least singer in front of a band and whatnot.
But you know, my whole goal was to you know,
my whole goal was jump me back to the sports.
Was to make pro football and buy my mama house.
(04:36):
Uh you know, so but that didn't work. So and
I wouldn't would uh you know, I had friends who
were in the music business, and so I would go
see him and you know, fantasize and whatever, and you know,
sing a little bit around the house. And you know,
when the football thing didn't work, my mom came to
me and said, excuse me. I came to me and said, son,
(05:00):
football was not for you. That's singing. That's your calling.
You need to sing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And so I I was one.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I was a guy who was blessed into great bands.
You know, I was dinking around at the club on
the west side of Portland and you know, uh, we'll
go there on the Thursday night when nobody was there
with a group of guys, and I got to know
the owner, Pete Dominici, and I would just make up
(05:34):
words to songs that the DJ played and uh and
so so uh.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
The next night was Friday night.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Uh, the DJs called themselves Billy Pump and uh uh
it's about midnight, and Billy Bump goes, we just gotta
we hit. You know, we have a singer in the house,
just made his debut in Vegas and he's here with
us tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Maybe we can get him up to sing. So we're
all looking around and see who the singer.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Was was, And then the spotlight hit me and I froze,
and I believe it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I've done the same thing. You'll be like, what do
I do? I understand.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Yeah, I froze, and so they you know, you know,
they got me in there, and uh. The first time
lest that I performed in front of people was standing
on a chair in the DJ booth making up words
to the song Ring My Bell.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
By Nita Ward and the.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
People that song yes, uh huh, and the.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
People went nuts, you know, And I was talking about
the problem going a while and so afterwards ben Wolf
Gun named Ben Wolf who's from Portland came up to
me and said, hey, we have a band. Uh, we
need a lead singer. He said, you know, would you
like would you like to join? I said, I said, oh, hell,
(06:55):
why not? And being and so that band was called Nightlife.
So I didn't know what I was doing. So I
joined the band. We played one gig and and then
after that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
The leader of the band called lights Out, who was
very popular that you know, playing downtown Portland, which was
the big deal. You play downtown you you know, you
made it locally, and they asked me to join the band.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
They hurt me.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
So I got with lights Out and that was I
was with them for two years.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And then in eighty three I joined Coolar.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Coolard were members of the great group group excuse me,
great group Pleasure, who was really big out of the
Portland area. And uh I had the great drummer Bruce
Carter that played with Kenny g and and everything. And uh,
I couldn't believe that I was playing with them because
I had albums at home with their pictures on them.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Wow. Yeah. I called my dad. I said, Dad, I'm
in a band.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
He goes, what I said, You remember that album that
says pleasure and they got the female's hand on there
with like like she put her hand in jelly.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He goes yeah. I said, I'm singing with them guys.
He goes oh. I start screaming and everything.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
And so I was with them for like seven years
and then we ended up getting signed. We were went
down to LA to play at Rocky at the Rock Seat,
a big.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Deal for me.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I had never been to California then, and we were
doing sound check and Herb Albert was there his car
My gosh, yeah, his car broke down. And uh he
was with lou Adler had owned had owned the place,
and we did soundcheck and he heard heard the band.
And then by the time that was in August of
(08:48):
eighty eight, and by the time by February we were
signed with AM Records.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And uh and like.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I said, I'm still green, I'm still I don't know
any anything about the business.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I'm just going along with the flow, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And so, uh, I jumped into songwriting and I wrote
this song called Victim with Phil Baker, who used to
be the bass player with Diana Ross, who was also
from Portland, Okay. And so we wrote the song Victim,
and so and uh. So when the album was done,
(09:22):
they informed me that they were gonna pick my song
Victim to be the single from the record, and I
was like, lord, you know, everybody in the band was
like what you know, he he, They goes, you don't
even know what you were doing, and you just wrote
a single that's going to be the single for our record,
you know, you know, and so.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Uh you know, uh, the record did pretty good. We
ended up uh the album.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
What bothered me about the cooler album that didn't sound
like we sounded when we were playing locally. The bass
player produced it, and I think he overproduced it. It
didn't sound it didn't sound the R and B funk
like we were playing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You know. That got us signed And so.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
The record did okay, and we ended up going to
Japan and on tour, and I think that's when I
came into my own, you know, far as being the entertainer,
and my voice got stronger.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And I was not comfortable onstage. And if you know
R and B.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Our first show was at Pickford Live Hall, this you
know Venu in Japan, and I was sitting backstage the
whole time with my first big concert and on foreign ground.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And excuse and me.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I looked out the window, I mean look from behind
the curtain, and I'm seeing all these starts from Charlie Wilson,
Trylli's Hyman to George Clinton to the TIMEX Social Club,
Midnight Star Barcades. All of them were in the audience
because all the Americans came to see each other over Japan.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
So yeah, I was sitting the backstay scared. I got
scared and basically, you're okay. I said, no, man, I said.
He said come on, man, he said you got this,
and so I said, just give me some time. So
I looked up and said, God, if you're going to
give me voice, give it to me tonight.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And I came out there and did a really good job.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
And at the end of the show, Charlie Wilson ran
on stage and hugged me.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
He said, h he said, man, he hugged me. Wouldn't
let go. He's hugging me tight.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
He was over there with the Eurythmics and he goes,
you have something special in that throat. You need to
go home and find it. You need to start your
own journey. And so with those words, you know it.
Let me know that I was good enough, you know,
to go to the next level. And so then Charlie
left and then I walked up the stage and George
(12:01):
Clinton's crew was, you know, standing alongside the stage and
uh George.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Comes up to me as I'm walking by, he stops me.
He goes, F you. I you.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
I said, f you and then uh f Fhitdler the
keyword player comes fro me.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
He said, no, man, it's a compliment. But he said,
you sing, you're behind off.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Oh my god, money, yeah, man, and so and so
then so and I got to talking and then after
he said, hey, man, what you doing.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
After I said nothing, he said, let's go hang out.
So him and I.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Left up Pickford went to this club called the Lexington
and we just sat and talked about live music and everything.
And invited me to the show the following day.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So I went to there. The following day.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I'm backstage with the with the George Clinton and the
crazies and standing in the in the in the dressing room,
and and and and walked out of there, hired in
a kite from contact from the UH on the side
of the stage, and they started to do their thing.
And then halfway through the show, Eddie Hazel, you know
(13:15):
made Rest in Peace, was waving over to me. I
thought he's waving to h stage hand. He walked up
and said, George want you on stage. I said, okay,
and so I walked on stage. George said, I'm tired.
You front the band for the rest of the night.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So here I am fronting George Clinton and Funkadelic.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
And uh afterwards, George said, come break bread with me,
come sit with me and eat. I said, okay. So
he told me almost exact same thing that Charlie did.
So when I went back home, I left Coolaw and
started my own journey, started my own band and from.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh my gosh, wow, and so, uh go ahead, this
is really good.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm loving this for we thank you.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Yeah, and uh, so I went back home, you know, nervous,
you know, you know, never was the leader of a band, and.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, I really didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
So I just started reaching out to musicians and put
a band together. And cool Ark cool Ark disbanded and
and so you know, I was looking for guys, putting band,
putting musicians together.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
The first the first band I put together that really
didn't work. It wasn't the sound I was looking for
it because I was doing original music. I wasn't doing
covers at all. I was writing songs and stuff and
and uh, even though I was in a band that's
very popular in Portland, the club owners weren't sure about,
you know, me being a solo artist on my own.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
They just saw me with the cool ark and I said,
all I need is to chance. And so.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Club wanner name Tony Demacola and le Key Largo. I
went to him and I said, you know, hey, man
got a new band. I said, we're really good. We've
been urged him for six months and uh just wanted
to get a chance, you know. And so he had
me open up for uh, this guy named Curtis Selgado,
(15:25):
who is very popularly in Portland. Blues guy had me
open up for him, and man, we came out and
we just crushed it and came out and crushed it
and and uh at the end of our set, you know,
because Curtis Sogatto is one of my favorite singers south
of Portland, and I, you know, so I'm trying to
hype his you know, his set up. I said, hey,
(15:47):
you're ready for Curtis Sigado and the people went no,
one more one more like that. I didn't know what
to do. I was frozen on stage and I said
thank you, and I just walked off the stage.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Come on, Curtis, takeover, please, please please?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, And so I walked off the stage and everything.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Curtis was standing right on the side door hearing all this,
and his manager and then his manager told the owner said,
we don't want Andy to open up for us anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You know. I didn't find out that till later, but.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So Tony finally gave me, gave me a Saturday night
and it was packed lines around the corner.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And I had a great career in Portland.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
And and then you know, so I was working the job,
just playing music and basically it's all I was doing,
and putting out local records. And then I was working
for the Girls and Boards Club with the Portland Trail
Blazers NBA team helping and and Z one hundred is
(16:55):
one of the big radio stations important and so we got.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
To go on the radio.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And prior to that, I had met these guys out
of Elsa, Rito, California, recorded these songs and one of
the songs is called test of time.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And so we went on the radio talking about the
Girls and Boys Club, you.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Know, helping them out and you know, make sure you know,
I was basically a mentor, and they got Indy, do
you have any music?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I go sure, I said, I got the song off.
This is the time.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
So I ran in my car and got the cassette.
And remember the cassettes back in the days, right, oh.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I remember that. I used to collect those.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And of course you had the metal tapes, remember that,
and the tape machines were impressive. Who could forget those?
I still assessed back to these tapes.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And so.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I brought it in there and they played it in
the phone linees lit up and and it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Was a local hit.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
It's debuted at twenty nine and finished I think it
topped out at number nine on the.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So it did pretty good.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
But after that, you know, it boosted my popularity, and
so you know, I stayed busy, made really good money
for a long time, and so made all that noise.
And then here comes Warner Brothers nineteen ninety six. Okay,
(18:25):
Warner brother signed me. Went down to La all the
accolades had a nice house, nice up condos, swimming pool everything,
and I was getting doing the album, and I was
it was being produced by the great producer Kashik, and
so you know, I'm down there working with Kashif and
(18:49):
he's still I'm blowing away because you know, like I said,
I had the albums at home and everything, and and
he played me the song called I Don't Give a Damn,
which he had wrote and actually put out in two
thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
After that, and we were in studios.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It was him and I and then Mariah Carey came
in and specific palisades and I was listening to the song.
He said, well, what do you think. I said, first
of all, it's a song about infidelity. And I said,
I hear it as a ballot because to me, it's
a message to men and women. You know, guys cheat,
(19:33):
women cheat, But I think the message, I said, you
don't hear too many songs about a guy admitting that
he messed up and then trying to get his woman back.
I said, but you I think it's a ballot. I said,
I'm a balloteer. I love singing ballads. He said, well,
so we recorded it, recorded the album, did the two videos,
and then waiting for it to drop.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
In April of.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Ninety seven, and so you know, I was sitting there
in the condo board and I called him. I said, hey, man,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Man?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I can you know? He said, I'm just sitting here.
He said, you need to come over. Haven't you heard?
I said, heard what he said?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Come over?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
So I went over to his place and he said,
have you heard that Warner Brothers dropped about nine artists.
I said no. He said you were one of them.
I said, nobody called me. I said, I was wondering
why the money stopped coming because I was getting like
five hundred dollars a week, right.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Nine artists. Warner Brothers dropped, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, And that's when they went.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
They merged with AOL and was doing some Time Warner
and all that suff.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Oh yeah, that was a big merger.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
It was that AOL time Warner Warner Brothers has a
monster mess. And he said, was that around like early
around two thousand or something like that.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
It was like they started it messing with it in
two and ninety six, the latter part of ninety six.
And man, so I'm sitting there, man, just you know,
my my parents were coming down, and you know, Dad
never went to California. My dad always wanted to kiss
(21:12):
my mom on Hollywood and Vine. And so anyway, they
were on the train coming down the next day, and
so they got here, put them up and so you know,
I had the driver and took them to Hollywood to
Vine and got to you know, fulfill their dreams of
kissing on Hollywood and uying to.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
A's a really good for couples. I never thought of it.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, And so.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
My dad said something I had that. I didn't say
anything about the record company. You know, I was just
trying to keep everything, you know, happy, And my dad said,
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Boy?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And then I told him. After we got back to
the hotel, I told him what happened, and he said,
you know, you can't he said, I can't understand you
being upset. But you know it's was out of your hands,
he said, you know, And I said yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And then the.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Kashifs goes, welcome to the record business. And so I
had nowhere to go. My parents had to go back,
get on the train and go back up to Tacoma, Washington.
And so I had a friend named Bill Beckman who
had just got hired at UCLA Hospital as an anesthesiologist,
and so I went and stayed with him, and I
(22:28):
was done with the music.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I was so done. I didn't want to deal with
music anymore.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I just want to go home, be a regular guy
and just work and everything. And so I was staying
at Bill's house feeling sorry for myself.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I just was, you know, just mad. I was mad,
you know. And Bill goes, you have a gift, and
you just he said, come on, get you out of
the house.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
So we went to this place, Toppers, and this guy,
this violin playing guitar player was performing and and I
was just mad and looking at Santa Monica Pier. You know,
I want to go home. I want to go home,
and he goes, you want to sing? I go, hell, no,
I'm not singing nothing. I'm done, you know. And so
(23:16):
he said, come on, I said, Bill, he's he's one
of those friends that he don't give up, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
He wouldn't, you know. He want to make sure that
you're okay. And he went up.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
To the musicians and I guess told him about me,
and so they.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Called me out. You know, hey, we got to sing her.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Let's get him up here, and I just looked at
Bill with this mean, look, what are you doing? He said,
He said, all that anger that you got, you sing
the hell out of the song. You're gonna do and
get it out of your system. And then he hugged me.
And so I'm walking out, and so I walk up
and and uh, I'm sitting there and I'm looking at
this this guy.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I said, that's Robert Plant. Robert Plant was there.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Here, Robert, Oh my god, wow, here I am.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I'm going wow.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
So I didn't know what's on the same So I'm
looking out the window at the Santa Monica Pier.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So I sang Doc of.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
The Bay by otis ready, and I put everything into
a people screaming and everything, and and uh, you know,
you know, and Bill was right. I felt really good afterwards,
and and uh, Robert Plant was, uh that was the
time when Chris Broughton's wife had died, so he was like,
really he was intoxicated. And so after I finished up,
(24:33):
they walked by head into the elevator and Robert Plant
goes he said, you got a hell of a voice,
my friend. He said, keep going, and then he walked out.
So that was the third person of that caliber that
let me know that I was pretty good.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And so so.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Then fate came in and the violin player was moving
back to Boston, and the guitar player say, hey, man,
sing with me on Thursday night, I said. The violin
players leaving, So I had a gig every Thursday night.
So I stayed for another year. Wow okay yeah, and
made money and then uh, it made enough money to
go back home. And I think the smartest thing I
(25:13):
did was taking leave of absence from my job. So
I had my job when I got back home, and
so I just started playing around town. And playing around town,
met a songwriter out of a California named Ralph Stacey.
He died from COVID, but I did. That's when this
(25:34):
is about the Full Circle Record. So I went down
to LA and recorded the Full Circle Record. And then
the hit song off of that was called Promise. I had, like,
let's say it was Promise, Let's have a good time
music for love.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
And are you ready where the hits off of that?
You know that album? And then and.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
So then after that, my wife goes, she goes, honey,
she said, let's r in an airbnb in California, for
a month, and you just write songs that's coming out
of you.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You know, and put it on the album and see
what it does.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Because if you don't, you're gonna be miserable the rest
of your life that you didn't put out your own stuff.
So we made some good connections down there, and so
I sat in Dana Pointe, California, in this condo and
and wrote up the whole album and.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And the first song I recorded was Best Day Ever.
And then and finished the record. Decided that Best Era
would be the single.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And I had no idea that this song what's going
to do what it did.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It ended up being top ten on.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Billboard, the number one independent and number one independent song
for three weeks, took me to the Grammys, being still
played all over the world. Then the next song after
that was I ended up meeting Uh, my friend wife Barkley,
who was working with the record company, had a connection
(27:27):
with Snoop Dogg and uh and so uh and it's
DJ Battlecat. So I went to DJ Battlecat and we
wrote a song called We're We're on the floor, and
after we plan it, we were you know, it was
sounding so good in the studio, battle Cat said, Hey,
we got to get Snoop on this, and Snoop agreed
to it, and so we got Snoop on the record,
(27:50):
and then that one ended up being top fifteen on Billboard.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
N Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Then after that, my radio guy said, hey, and you
need a ballot.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
We've got to put a ballot out. So I let.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
I told him I had worked a ballot with Kashi
and I'm going to put it out. And so I
re recorded it with the with a producer called p
k and uh Man. And then that song came out
and I think it made it made it up the
(28:25):
top fifteen on Billboard.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And then.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
After that I did a remake up Turnback, turn Back Now.
I did a remake up It's too late to turn
back Now that one.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Oh yeah, I think that was.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I'm falling and uh, Brothers.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That Cornelia's brothers and sister Rose. That one really stuck
in my head right there won my faves.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, and so that one, Uh, I think that made
it up to number number seven and then uh and
then uh and then here comes No Better, No Better.
I wrote with the artist out of Oklahoma name is
Irvan Rushing. This This guy is an amazing singer.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
The amazing songwriter.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
And and he used to live in Portland, but we
never got to meet, and we just happened to connect
through a friend and and he said, hey, I got
this song I think that you would like.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And he let me.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Hear it, and and so we recorded it. You know,
he said, you know, I got the music. You put
your you know, you put your style on it and
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And man, it just.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
It's one of my favorite songs I recorded because of
you know, the beat of the music. And man it did.
It did really well. It did really well. They got
the number five.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh my gosh, that is amazing. And I'm gonna say this,
you can add this the list. I think you've already
mentioned three four having You've got one heck of a voice.
And I say this, I don't know where we're gonna
put this one. You can add me to this list.
You've got one hell of a voice. You can have
me to that list.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Thank you, Thank you so much, thank you, and thank.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
You as well too.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
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on the Mic Waders Show and going from No Better
and UH to More as well too, And I think
we might cover a little bit you also, George Clinton
was really amazing and you also worked with Michael Bolton
and Pebo Bryson as well too, and a bit about
those and some of the others you've worked with.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, I've worked with.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Michael Bolten had came to Portland and to do a
concert and UH and he was that he had a
fundraiser that UH fund was raised money to for this
organization that helped battered women, and so Jerome Cursey, who
played for the Blazers, was part of that, and so
(33:22):
I got to meet him and and and when he
came in town, some of his members had came to
Sunday nights.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I was.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I was working Sunday night at this place called the Candlelight,
and so, uh, some of his band members came in
and I guess said something to him, and then the
hey asked me to come come on stage with them,
and uh, so I got to sing with Michael Bolden
and uh then we had a little softball game to
raise money for Battered Women and it was a great deal.
(33:53):
He was a great really a highlight of my career,
you know, getting to meet him and work with him,
and it also helped, you know, help his charity. And
and so after that, I, uh.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
The best they ever had just had just came out.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
And I was on tour and on the East Coast
and I was in Columbia, South Carolina, and uh there
was this show for women and it was me people
brycing the Hamiltons, and uh that was the first time
I got to meet him in person, and uh record
with him, and I'll not record with him, but performed
(34:35):
with them on the same same bill, and so that
went good. And so the next day I went to
Augusta and Georgia and.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It was a big, a big concert.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
It was like that SOS band, the Hamiltons people Bryce
and the band full Force from back in the day
got It was like about fifteen bands and uh and uh.
So I got to be a part of that. And
and you know that's when I really got to, you know,
(35:10):
sit down with people and talk and you know, he said, hey,
he said, uh, he said, so, he said, you just
getting here.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I said, yeah. I was a late bloomer, you know.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
May and you were kind of like that. These days,
late bloomers you get in common.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
He said.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
He said, he said, well, he said, he said. Look,
he said, you got a great voice. Man, He said,
I heard you in Columbia. He said, when you was
singing Bessie Ever and you hit that big note. He said, man,
we all came running out of the dressing room. This
is you know, see who you were. And uh and
he goes and then to hear you go from that
song to singing that that that ballad out the call promise,
(35:52):
He said, Man, I'm telling you. Everybody backstage were was amazed,
you know, and uh and so that's been.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
It was one of my.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Favorite bands coming up, you know, and nice and uh
so to get to meet them and then the full
force man back in the day, back in the you know,
the eighties and nineties, you know, meeting all those guys
and and uh you know, it was a it was
a big deal. I'm you know, I'm blowing up my
phone calling home and you know, my brothers and everything.
(36:22):
Oh my god, Oh my god, you're playing with Oh
my god, you know, sending all the pictures and stuff.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
It was oh, yes, I know, I know what you mean.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Yes, yeah, and so uh so then after that, I
another highlight was uh Tom Joyner Family Reunion show in Orlando,
and that's when I got to play with.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Beb Bib Devo.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
And uh Frankie Beverly and Mays and uh yeah, I
was on the same bill with them. And so my
you know, my career man from really started, you know,
from two fifteen when I started putting out records till now.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Perhaps I've had a pretty good run.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
I've had a really good you know, I had a
bunch of I've been a had a bunch of hits.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
And I'm really blessed and that.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
And you know, I own my own record company, which
is New five Records and what along with my wife
and other partner of Michael Hawthorne and uh for independent artists,
I think I've done pretty good.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We've done pretty good.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
It sounds like, and who are some of the artists
that you have with New five Records and everything like that?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
No, we have, it's mainly me.
Speaker 6 (37:44):
We haven't signed any artists as of yet because we've
been really just focusing on my career.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
And so that's that's coming, you know, down the road.
That's going to be.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
You know, I'm looking at artists because I'm already working
with h hip hop artists.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
And and I got this other guy, his name is
uh uh. He called himself just me.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
And then I have another artist named Rece Philip who's
like crazy good on piano, like Billy Joel and all that.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
You know that, Oh j.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Twenty three years old, amzing and this guy, and then
I have a and then I started mentoring this really
young girl. She's like eleven. Her name is Lily uh
Fair and Tom Thayer's little niece, you know, of the kiss.
He's from Portland, the guitar player, and so I've been
(38:45):
giving her voice lessons and she just started her new
band last week. And uh she's singing Pat benuitar songs
and all that at ten years old and killing it.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
So anyways, so that's down the road I got.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I'm getting ready to put out another album.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
So working on like about six six seven songs right now,
and and so that'll be coming out.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Pretty soon. When I finished with him. I just uh
got the producer I wanted to do. I want to
work with name of the name of Tiger Roberts.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
He's a Grammy Award winning producer, did sup with Gladys Knight,
and you know, also people brycing a bunch of people.
And so I'm hooking up with him to to do
these songs and and next them steady steady doing shows,
they steady calling my name.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Songs still being played all over the world.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
And you know, I'm just a blessed guy who never
thought that he would even be doing this.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
You know, I was, I was. I was a sports guy,
you know, and never thought.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
Never my wildest dreams, I think that I thought that
I would be too in the country and going overseas
and driving down the street and in Mississippi and my
song comes on the radio and you know that kind
of stuff, and from I just I'm just feeling blessed.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I'm just like, man, I'm the luckiest guy in the world,
you know.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
For somebody who never never took music, don't know how
to write, read music, you know, taught myself how to
write by just listening and learning and and to have uh,
you know, like eight hits, you know, hit songs, and
I'm just blessed.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
That's blessing.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
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Right place, right time?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Tuned into the Mike Wagner Show. You heard me, We're
back to legendary Northwest King of Soul Andy Stokes. Here
in the Mike Wagner Show, we talked about no better,
best day ever. I don't give a damn full circle
of more. I mean, you've you've involved with sports, being
a Portland Trail Lazers, you know, Mariners and all that.
(43:09):
You as been a couple of your TV appearances, like
in NBC's Grimm and Tilsea's Librarians. Tell us about those.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Yes, I was. Uh. I had a friend of mine
named Bruce what's his name? Uh, I came his name.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Anyway, he was a cameraman and uh, and he used
to come see me play Coular's first video he shot.
He said, Hey, man, I'm working on set on the
set of Griham. I think you would be good for it. Said,
So I signed up with the booking agent and they
booked me. It's Detective Jones on the Grim show.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (43:45):
So I was in about five episodes and uh and uh,
you don't had you know, I think I had like
four times I got to you know, had sneaking parts
and everything, and uh. So that was that was a
good run. That was some nice experience. And then and
so out of being on Gram, the Librarian came into town,
(44:07):
uh to shoot, you know, to shoot their episode. And
then I got called to be you know, to be
a cast member on that.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
So nice.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Okay, any possibility maybe getting to TV in the future
as well too, along with some continued singing.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Uh. Yeah, that's you know, that's the goal. You know,
that's the goal.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
Right now, I'm putting feelers out and you know, you know,
having Alex that's my new manager now, I think doors
are going to open up now, you know.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
And certainly does as well.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
If there's other music that we haven't covered, I think
we cover a lot of it. If there's something we
haven't covered, uh, let's uh, you know, bring some songs
as well too that I don't think it has been covered.
I'm looking through it's like, have we covered Everything's like
I can't remember.
Speaker 6 (44:57):
Oh man, I got h an album that I did
when I first came out.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I was that was produced by this guy named Roger Saus.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
It's called It's About Time and God I did those
like back in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
You can find if you go on YouTube and put.
Speaker 6 (45:15):
In Andy Stokes It's About Time album, then those songs
that come up and uh and yeah. So you know,
I did a lot of music, and but that record
was mainly local. It didn't go national. It was just
a Portland thing. It was like the number two best
(45:36):
album that uh. That was the least important at the time,
but behind the cherry popping daddies that was very popular
back then.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
And so, you know, I have a lot of music
out there, and.
Speaker 6 (45:49):
Earlier in my career in the nineties, it was mainly local.
At the time was local. You know, the record the
album About Time album was local.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
So there's a lot of music out there, you know.
And and at the time, you know, I you know,
I had a lot of help. Man. I didn't do
this by myself. You know.
Speaker 6 (46:11):
I worked with people who could play piano, who can
do drums, and and I could sing melodies in my
head and I get with my keyboard player and then
we would figure it out. And that's how, you know,
our learned. And so so now I can play, you know,
I learned. I taught myself coord so I can, you know,
at least write songs and I could take it to
my keyboard player. So I've been you know, so all
(46:31):
your musicians out there, collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. There's enough out
there for everybody. And uh, two three, four heads are
better than money.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
That's what the magic is to.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Me, right, I think that's I think that's great idea
as well.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Too.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
In the meantime, where can we find your latest release
night Works at Andy?
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (46:52):
You can find everything about me on at Andy Stokes
music dot com. On Instagram is at Andy Stokes Music,
and on Facebook on my artist pages www, Facebook dot com,
Forward slacks, get Stoked and to Get Stoked and then Facebook.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
Yeah, all right, we'll certainly check those oles. Well, here,
where's the multi talented, legendary Northwest king of soul Andy
Stokes here on the Mike Wadner Show, Andrew, just a
few more things. What else can we expect me twenty
twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
Well, you can expect new music coming out, new videos
coming out, and and hopefully you know, you know, we're
working on it right now, a tour, you know, European
tour and the United States tour.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
So we're working on that stuff. But everything is uh,
you know, we're working on that and and doing music, man,
writing music, performing, you got it.
Speaker 5 (47:54):
Yeah, we'll certainly check that out.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Who do you consider biggest influence in your career?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Wow, far as god, this is man, there's so many.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
I mean from I I love artists who were entertainers
like James Brown, Elvis Presley, You know, all the solo
artists who was just had all the energy because that's
you know, when I'm on stage, that's how I performed.
So mainly James Brown was mainly my guy. I you know,
(48:31):
not so much his dance and stuff, but he uh,
he gave you know, he gave the people what they want.
And so that's that I adopted the motto, you know,
if they're going to pay to see me, I'm gonna
I want them to leave happy.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I want them to leave talking about the show. I
want to be able to, you know, touch them. And so.
Speaker 6 (48:58):
I explained my music as giving unconditional love and so,
you know, and feel good music. But I think James Brown,
Elvis Presley and then and of course Luther vandros and
and the band the Isley Brothers, you know, all the
(49:18):
old school cats you know I grew up with, you know,
I I would watch them to learn and uh and
it paid off.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
So those are my influences.
Speaker 3 (49:27):
And certainly indeed, yes, definitely. And what's the best advice
you can give the anvice this point.
Speaker 6 (49:35):
If you decide to come into this business, before you
do anything, learn the business. Learn the business of music,
so you know when you're talking contracts or whatever.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
You know, you know what they're talking about, and they
don't pull the wool over your eyes.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
So learn the learn the business. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse for
cat craft, you know, and uh, never give up. I'm
the prime example of never give up, my first ten
Billboard single at fifty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
I dy'll like that, yes, and of course you still
have the best voice out there. It's like I'm doing
it times too for you.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
So thanks, Mike, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
There you go, there you go, and we're here at
the amazing multi twent Andy Silkes legendary Northwest king of
Soul with no better here on the Mic Winner Show. Andy,
very big, thank you, time you event absolute fantastic, learned
a lot looking forward, having soon keeps up today, keep
in touch, laugh, if you back and watch your website.
How do people contact you bringing people purchase or check
out your music?
Speaker 6 (50:39):
I am on Spotify, Apple Music, Andy Stokes music dot
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Speaker 2 (50:49):
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