May 4, 2026 • 38 mins
What happens when grief becomes a song? 💔🎶
Joseph Blue joins Vigilantes Radio Live to discuss “Summer Nights Goodbye”, a deeply emotional country ballad rooted in a real-life tragedy. Telling the story of sudden loss, love, and unanswered questions, this track goes beyond music; it’s a raw expression of grief and healing.
In this powerful conversation, we explore the story behind the song, the emotional weight of telling it, and how music can become a space for processing pain. 🙏
This isn’t just a song… it’s a story that many will feel.
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Joseph Blue joins Vigilantes Radio Live to discuss “Summer Nights Goodbye”, a deeply emotional country ballad rooted in a real-life tragedy. Telling the story of sudden loss, love, and unanswered questions, this track goes beyond music; it’s a raw expression of grief and healing.
In this powerful conversation, we explore the story behind the song, the emotional weight of telling it, and how music can become a space for processing pain. 🙏
This isn’t just a song… it’s a story that many will feel.
Tap in and experience it.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6o1kW5lUm86qT6yE6CJpdG?si=gvtRVT15SKeW5DWhRcm79w
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVFFdTvDzWF7y80xc6wx0pQ
https://www.instagram.com/blacksheeprecordsmusic
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/joesph-blue/1887410079
https://play.anghami.com/song/1268408280
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vigilantes-radio-live--2166168/support.
Vigilantes Radio Live! by The Only One Media Group ℗©2025
Episode Credits:
Produced, edited, mixed, and written by Demetrius "Whodini Blak" Reynolds, Sr.
Artwork designed by Demetrius "Whodini Blak" Reynolds, Sr.
Show Introduction by Kate
Segment jingles composed & produced by Demetrius "Whodini Blak" Reynolds, Sr.
Additional music licensed through 7th Sign Recordings
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You know, some songs are made to entertain and some
are made to chart. But every now and then a
song comes along that wasn't created for any of that.
It was created because someone had nowhere else to put
the pain. Because grief doesn't ask permission. It doesn't show
(01:47):
up when you're ready, and it doesn't leave just because
life has to keep moving. And when words aren't enough,
when conversations fall short, sometimes the only place that pain
can go it's into a song. Not for attention, not
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, Tonight's guests is bringing the powerful
and deeply emotional story to life through music. With this
country ballad Summer Nights Goodbye. He captures the raw reality
of love, loss, and the kind of grief that changed.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Everything in a moment.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Back by Nashville Production and rooted in a true story.
This song stands as more than just music. It's a
reflection of real life and real emotion because basic, guys,
sometimes sometimes life hurts.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I've been through that myself, and I'm sure thousands of
others have been through what we call pain. So please
join me and saying welcome friend to Joseph Blue. Hey, Hey,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Hey, thank you. Good good, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I'm doing the well, just another summer.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Night, absolutely absolutely all right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Well, Joseph Man, we are super excited to have you
with us. Man, We're going to chill out. We're gonna
talk music, talk life, and just really dive deep into
everything that you have going on. But before we kick
everything off, Joseph, what's been on your heart and mind
lately as you've been sharing something this personal with the world.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, you know, I did lose my wife and you
know after nineteen years and just one night just went
to bed and never woke up. And the song outlines
what happened that night. You know that we as the
family came together and just kind of like surprising all
what happened to a party two old woman? You know,
(06:09):
So it's just I can't tell people enough more about
my wife because it's been nearly three years and they're
tired of hearing it. So instead of keep repeating it,
I just kind of put the message in the song.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Absolutely, man.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
But you know what, there's millions, billions of folks in
this world, so for somebody it's going to be new,
but it's new for me.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And I'm not going to tell you I'm tired of
hearing the story that I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
So, man, talking it through is a way to get
through that, you know, and get everybody else's feelings.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Man, but I'm super happy you put it in a song.
That's super cool.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It will live on forever and I could just imagine,
you know, how your world flipped upside down, not get
into proper goodbye. That's tough, man, it's tough. So how
did you put all of that into a song?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Just the processing? Just processing. I've been writing songs for
about twenty years because my dad died twenty years ago
and he was a songwriter, but not published, and just
something we come up with, you know, playing around in
the car and just making lyrics to melodies, just impro improvisational.
So I just had no way of you know, I
(07:27):
just kept telling people my wife died, and you know,
and they kind of get tired of hearing the same story,
even though you told him seventeen times. They just you
could just see that, you know, when are you gonna
move on? You know it's like, well, I kind of
need to grow, but you know, grief doesn't have a
time limit, so it still works on me every day.
(07:48):
So this way people can hear it without you know,
without me having a speaker.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I get that, I get that. We'll take you back.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Twenty years uh before that. Man, I know you wrote
and recorded the song. What was your response to it
when you've heard it back for the first time After
all the mixing, all the mastering, and all the the
bells and whistles were at it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Just kind of blown away, you know. Like I said,
I handed it off to their music group in Nashville
and in the hands of Eli and and you know,
Jim and they're they're a Titus and uh, they just
came back with undeniable uh material. You know, It's like that.
It's not the only one I've done with them. You know,
(08:37):
there's sixteen more after that. The two of them which
got recorded today. It's just uh, it's a great, great
group and they got many accolades, you know, some of
them boys have Grammys and and just just nominations of
awards in the CMA, you know. So I'm just lucky
to have found them.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, how did you find them?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Google?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
At Google?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I went to Sugar Hill Studios in Houston and tried
to do some recording there and that that that that
label formerly did a lot of stuff, but now it's
more hip hop, which which is cool.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It was cool to walk.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
In up building like that and see all where all
these troop of stars went through. But but the label
was more focused on hip hop now, and it was
it was just kind of me, you know, not wasting
money because my daughter's gonna go with her her her
version because she likes hip hop, so she's gonna go
that way, and me too. We all love hip hop.
It's just business country. So you know, it was kind
(09:41):
of the wrong place, but it kind of got us
motivated to look around.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Got you, got you is your does your dark do music?
Or she just loves hip hop?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
She's she's the girl, and she's she's the girl. She's
she's the one that do did the CPR. She's she
was fourteen at the time. Oh, she loves hip hop.
She does thing too, because we took her at the
same but she she's like, Dad, that's not my genre
that I you know, my hip hop like hip hop.
So I'm good, you know, you know, creativity. I grew
(10:10):
up on hip hop. I grew up with the elkooj
and Tat Boys all them. You know, I'm fifty three,
so I grew up when it first started. So you know,
I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, so let's take it back twenty years. How did
you find music?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know, it's been a little you know, it's been
since two two thousand and four. In two thousand and five,
I went through some deep depression and you know, I've
always loved me just completely loved it. That's all I
lived on. And it's just just something in the family.
My family just liked music, and they liked to go
(10:52):
around and just listen to what. We always played music.
So my dad was kind of more country and oldie,
but it didn't really get the hip hop thing. Back
then we called it rapp. He didn't get that. But
that's something I loved, just like sneakers. I'm sneakerhead, right.
Uh my dad was like, you like shoes, aren't you
become shoe Selph's some things, you know, But just a
(11:15):
lot of loss in the past twenty years drove me
to put a little more, more more detailed oriented.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Thoughts on paper. Yeah, Okay, what kind of music was
flowing through the house? Well, well, I know country, but
what what artists? You know, what songs were flowing through
your house growing up?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
When I was growing up, you know, of course my
Mamma and them, they listened to you know, they wouldn't
listen anywhere from Steppenwolf tc R to to Loretta Lynn,
Conway Twitty, of course, George Jones and then me. You know,
I was welkoo j I'm telling you, just just fat
Boys a favorite, right, you had Curtis Blow and like that,
(12:00):
and then you know, in the nineties it kind of
changed where you had n W A and stuff like that.
Of course, your your life change as you get older
and you can listen to them kind of lyrics, you know,
but I was, I was my dad. Would you know
they didn't have explicit albums in the eighties, They didn't
put that label on there. I didn't start till the nineties,
(12:21):
so of course when you're old enough by them, But
until until I was old enough, I had to sneak it.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Mm yeah yeah, sounds like me. I had to sneak it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So man, this this song is called Summer Nights Goodbye.
What do you want people to understand about love? Loss
and what it means to keep going?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Sometimes, you know, life don't give you a choice, or
it just hands you something and then you know, maybe
not what you on it, maybe maybe not. You know,
maybe that wasn't your plan. Doesn't mean it wasn't God's plans, right,
So it's just you. You take it and you run
with it. But it's to help people understand that they're
(13:13):
not the only one that goes through a loss like that,
and and if them listen to my laws help them
move through something, then then that's what it's far. It's
to help people to know that, hey, you know, it's
it's just it's it's three almost three years later and
I'm still struggling. So when somebody gives them a time limit,
(13:33):
like hey, you should move on and go find another
special person, it's not ready. It's your your you. You
got to be ready, And I don't know when I'll
be ready. Maybe I'll be ready next year, maybe I
won't ever be But uh, time limits. People can can't
can't time grief.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, then I went through a very tough divorce and
I went through like this period of darkness and depression.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
But I knew I used to be an artist too,
But I knew I.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Had to write a song about it and get it
out of my system. And do you know, Joseph, I
sat on that record. I had the music, I just
didn't have the words. I sat on that record for
like a year and a half because I couldn't. I
couldn't create the right words to portray how I was feeling.
How long did it take you to write your song
(14:28):
Summer Nights Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, if I would, if I would be completely honest,
it didn't take long because you know, maybe in a
few days. Right, Because it's truth, It's exactly what happened
in the house. When I say Gabby came in and
quote her mom off the bed, she did exactly that.
(14:52):
Joe came right behind him and then taking over the
wheell you know, when the when the ambulance got here,
all that stuff is, so I didn't have to make
it up. I just had to, uh put the wording
a little different to make it go flow with the song,
you know, make them make them a show, not tail,
so make them feel like they were in the house.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, I want to talk about that because that opening
scene is heavy. I don't I don't know how you
prepared yourself to even step into that moment emotionally, but
how did you How did you deliver something like that
without breaking during the recording.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, the honest thing is, we went to sugar Hill
and I couldn't, so I actually had to. I had
to get a I had to hire a performer that
could perform it because I couldn't. No way, there's no
way I could do it. I still can't do it,
you know, hearing it, I tear up. So I actually
(15:54):
threw through Eli and and Titus. They they contacted a
performer to a vocal performer to vocalize it. So that's
not me singing, because you have to have the professional
If you're going to do a professional you're going to
spend that kind of money on a professional song, It's
got to be professional, you know. I understand there's there's
(16:16):
you're Zach Brown. I'm sorry, you're Zach Uh you think
is Zach Ryan. He can do it, he can, he
can have a broken performance because it's him and he's
got the courage to do it. But we've never been
trained to do vocal so uh going into a studio
like the one that did in Houston and him not
knowing how to work with non singers, He's like, man,
(16:39):
I never did this in my life, so I knew
it was just a waste of money and and talking
to music industries like, hey, maybe your your best foot
for us forward would be to put someone who that's
what they do, so that you know, I had to.
I had to take the background and just give him
(17:00):
my words and let him try to do the justice.
And his name is Ron. He does he did a
fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yes, yes, yes, So as an artist who does.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Create his own music, you don't have any problems with
AI being inserted into live music.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, you know, I think AI is good in a way.
You know, you know, I listened to some things and
I use some of that to to help me get
a thought out. But I don't think it's I think
it can't duplicate even though it sounds well, what Ron
to do in that vocal booth and what AI can
(17:49):
do is two different things. Because Ron has the brief,
AI does it, you know, so it can, it can,
It can take a line and it can it can
spend it out for twenty three seconds for and uh,
you know, a human being has to breede, has to
come up for air, you know. So I just think
I took my production to be a music group, to
(18:11):
have everything real, you know, you know. And I don't
have a problem listening to some AI stuff. It's just
I think, uh, it's a starting point. I think it's
going to get better. But I just think production radio humans,
you know, humans. I don't know, I'm human, you know,
(18:32):
maybe I'm just kind of you know.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I think it's a very good too. I just think
it's designed to as a media in the immediary, if
that makes any sense.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I totally agree with you. Man. I prefer to
hear the press between certain.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Notes because breath can add you know, emphasis, it can,
it can. It could be dramatic, Uh, when you breathing
in the right moment on a certain word or phrase.
I have a buddy right now who recorded his entire
album using Ai. He cloned his voice and yeah, and
he doesn't know that I know is Ai.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
He keeps lying to me, yeah, man, and I know
he can't sing it. So that's how I know it Ai.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But this, this AI voice is incredible and so I'm
just waiting to.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Put an egg on his face. But I don't know.
I may I may not tell her. But if you're listening,
I know.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I pay this.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, people you know it's it's a good starting point.
And like I said that, studios like, hey we get
this from studios. Dang, studios are using that. You know,
instead of sitting in there would have then want trying
to figure out they put it together and they send
it to these these studios and they say, hey, this
is what we would like it to be. Like that
(19:53):
that saves a lot of time, a lot of money,
a lot of effort. You know, when I give him
a track and like hey this is what I want yep,
they from there. You know, it's like they have a template.
They don't have to go out there and like hey,
how do you like this rip or how do you
like this drum solo? You know, they don't have to
sit there and you know, because time is money. You know,
a session with a real six piece stand is about
(20:15):
forty four hundred dollars, you know, for three hours. There's
a lot of money, you know, a lot of money.
I've done that three separate times already, and first time
I got five five tracks out of it. The next
two times it got six and six, so if you
count them, I got seventeen being finished today. You know,
today was the last vocals on. Ron was out of
(20:38):
town last week, so he did the last vocals on
two tracks today. And when you were talking about the breaths,
it makes a difference because during one of the lines
of the songs, he had to take a breath, and
when he took that breath, it gave you the brief
it gave you, it gave.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
The hurt, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So it's like you can hear that come out.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You know, Yeah, all right, we're going to play the song.
But before we play that, there's a question why her
and not me? You know, that question hits deep. Someone
we love, we would definitely want to take their place
if anything should happen to them, whether it's pain or
(21:19):
or death itself.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You know, what does that line mean to you? Personally
what it means.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's like what I when when at that time I
was fifty, she would she just turned forty two for
eighteen days. So it's like she's more deserving to be
here than me. You know, I live, you know, I
lived eight more years. I lived more of a life
this young lady. You know when I say young lady,
it was my wife. Her father was murdered when you
(21:49):
know her. Then she came, you know, three years later.
Her grandmother was taking care of her and she died
in a you know, ambulance flipped over, killed her grandma.
Then she came here. And two thousand and one, her
uncle that was taking care of her in the States,
which the US, right, because she was from Belize, he
died of an aneurism at work. It's like she lost everybody,
(22:10):
and then she found me. Two years later. I was
mental institution because depression. You know. It's like, you know,
I tried to take my life, right, she found me there.
Three weeks after she found me, we got married and
we was married for nineteen years in the day until
summer night, Dudbye happened.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I'm sorry that happened.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Man. Oh, it's just like you know, I'm kind of sorry,
but I'm not because if it wouldn't happened, I wouldn't
have had her. So everything's meant to be, you know
that the time when she passed away, you know, when
she met me. A year later, my father committed suicide.
You know, so we got married. A year later, we
were about to have our first child in December. Dad
(22:51):
committed suicide on the fifteenth of October two thousand and five.
It's like that was unexpected. So it's just just drama.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
If if she wouldn't have been in my life, I
don't know if I would have been able to get
through some of else.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Andy. My heart goes out to you. Well, I do,
thank you, yes sir. All right, guys, let's jump into
some music.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Summer Nights, Goodbye. We'll be right back with more. Joseph Blue,
stay tuned.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
TV was good and you were fast asleep, swept the
floor squiet promises to keep early to bed just like
you always day held my bread, tackles every noise and
day reas for your hands.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Steal the site me cold, flicked on the light switch,
dread began to food, shook you, CRIDs your name into
the dark.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Scream for the kids with the shattered herd bar Cabby
food in puts you down to the ground of tiny bits,
bumping on her chest without a sound show.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Ride beside, giving all he possessed, two angels spiking death,
the butther Mama's bread.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Oh, the last summer night, and when they help arrived,
me reading line back, hoping you survived thirty two.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Foo you send us out in the hall, feel like
a river rising, two drivelers.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Some calling my mama, Lord, please her meon said the
kids with Carl until the darkness was gone. Then they
walked down.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Slowly spoke the words cutting through. We lost her son.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
There was nothing more we could do.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Stunner the nifty. Let me roll her up with blue
lass pain at the track, wear red serene space. Step
outside these, they said, gotta fine answers. Where the lone
light fled hours in lifetimes on that poor step by
cry before the cold question where should she resign?
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Should have been made?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Not you beneath the storm God the sound cycle?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
How do I walk here? Long?
Speaker 10 (25:39):
This shattered picture, this and least spy?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
How do I live without my wife?
Speaker 9 (25:49):
How do I face light?
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Oh? That left summer night when the humble by me,
made the life back, hoping you survived. They took to me,
sent us out in the hall, feel like a river
rising tud some calling Ma, Mama, Bood, please hear me, Yon,
sit the kids in carl It till the darkness was gone.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Then they walked down, slowly spoke the words cutting through.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
We lost her. There was nothing more we to do.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Gabby's curries, Joe's junk tears, Wait about my coming years,
the silas screaming, when your laugh was arry. A summer
night when the angels came and they took you home.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Left me Belne, God only those spy This Summer Nights Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
All right, all right, welcome back again. That what Summer
Nights Goodbye by Joseph Blue.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Such an incredible song, deep personal hit, all the right pockets.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
And I'm sure if you were going through that season
right now, that season of loss, you know, that season
of grief, darkness, this is the one for you.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
There's also a civil lining in it.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You know, hope still lives on, you know, life still
goes on, and what better way to honor someone with
something that can live forever? All right, let's go ahead
and bring Joseph Blue back on Yo Yo Yo, welcome
back to Yoe.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yes, sir, how are you good man?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Good good man?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I love the sound has that Nashville sound. So the
guys really did great on the production. It's polished but
still emotional.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
How important was it to get it get the sound
just right?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Really important. It's just because it's not meant to be,
you know, a chart toper. It's not it's not meant
to to, you know, be the summer song of the summers.
It's meant to release it on on on Good Friday.
You know, it's a summer song, so it's it's made
just just just let you know that, you know, people
out there, they're not the only one going through things
(28:27):
like this. You know there are people that's struggling through
it and and trying to find a way through the grief.
And this happens to be an outlet that I'm turning
to and just just for them just to say, hey,
just wait for the next day, you know, the next day,
and keep going one one day at a time, and
before you know it, look where you have you you
(28:49):
thirty four months in right mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, yeah, before you know it, And I've heard once
that to get through a storm, you have to go
through the storm.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know, you do you do now? I think if
I might say that the hardest thing was we had
a vacation eleven days after she died that was already playing.
Her bags were packed at the you know, I still
I had to take my kids because you know, that's
what they wanted, is like, it was the worst vacation
(29:26):
to go on. But but it was my duty as
a father to bring my children. And you know, my
mom joined of course, and we took her bag with us.
But that's just some of the things you do. You know,
you don't ever think you have to.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, you took your wife's bag.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Absolutely, it's still packed in the day.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
There is one question I wanted to ask, you know
before we let you go.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You know, this song touches on questioning God. How do
you personally view faith in in moments of loss?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, he's there, he's president and everything. You know. My
my question is, uh just basically not really questioning his
is what his choices were, just like why, you know why?
It makes you question yourself, you know, So it's not
questioning that is there. God is just questioning, like why
would that choice be the right choice? You know, maybe
(30:24):
maybe maybe it was her turn, maybe it was his choice.
He seemed her living through enough pain and maybe that
was that was her time. You know. I can't question that,
you know, because you know if I do that, you
know who dies yesterday? Why you can't question everything. It's
just it's just life you have to take and sometimes
it's just your mind playing with you.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah, all right, after something that powerful, what's next for you?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Musically?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
We have a release coming out on the eighteenth. It's
called Heaven's Got a View, which is kind of a
follow up to that, but more of like, hey, what
is she doing in heaven right now? You know, that's
exactly what they're saying. You know, it's about having it,
but they don't just speak about her. It speaks about her,
my mom, my sister, you know, all my family members,
but not not by name, you know, so everybody can
(31:17):
place their self in it. And it's just coming out on
the eighteenth and for the momorial they see this.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
All right, sounds good. Sounds good, Joseph, leave us with this.
For someone listening right now who has lost someone they love,
what's one thing they need to hear tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
We love them, you know, we love you, and that
you know, everybody in your corner. Everybody's in the corner,
even though they don't know how to say it. You know,
people come here and tell you something and maybe it's
the wrong way they say it, but the meanings there.
They do it because they love it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Love that, Joseph.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Where can our listeners connect with you on the internet
and got more music and updates?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I would be honest with you because this is new
for us. So my kids are actually helping me get
you know, the website, it's it's it's Black Black Sheep
Records MUSICLC dot com. But it's other than that. Spotify.
You can find me on Spotify and you can google me.
You can google something like goodbye, and there's there's articles
(32:24):
about it and and some links in there. But we
it's all new for us, and I have a seventeen
year old helping me, you know. She she she she
played it on her her TikTok account got fifteen thousand views.
It's just I don't know, I don't know what else
to say. I really this is new for us, and
it's learning and process and we're working on it. We
(32:46):
actually have a Spotify campaign we just got approve for.
So it's just we didn't know how to put a
credit card in. That's how bad. I've been waiting for
nine days trying to figure that out. So I'm fifty three.
I'm a dummy, Just a dad in the country raising kids,
you know.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, all right, all right, Wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
This is a family function, you know, sticking together in
a moment where things can fall apart. And I applaud
you and your kids.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Shout out to.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Your kids, by the way, for helping Dad navigate them
music business. You guys sound like you make a great team.
And to you listeners out there. I will have the links,
because I have the links to some of the sites
and things he mentioned. I will have the links in
the description of this episode and in.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
The show notes.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
So all you guys have to do really is just
click the links, connect, listen to the music, stay up
to date with everything Joseph Blue has going on. Well, guys,
you know some music, you hear some songs, and some
songs you feel. This right here is one you feel,
So make sure you tap in with Joseph Blue and
listen to summer nights, goodbye and tonight. If you are
(34:04):
carrying something heavy, just know that we over here at
Vigilantes Radio. I myself Deni, and I'm sure Joseph Blue
as well. Just want you guys to know that you
don't have to carry it along. I know it feels
like a time of loneeness, and you know it's a
lonely journey, but.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You're not alone in this. There is a God.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
And like Joseph said, we can't question things that happen.
We may have many questions and one day we'll get
those answers, but just understand there's sometimes there are deeper
plans that our human minds can't can't understand because through
through actions there is a reaction can pull science into
(34:52):
that and you never know what's working behind the scene.
You never know who's getting healed in the process of
a loss. You never know what's coming down ten years,
fifteen years later from a different journey being forward. You
never know, So don't lose sight. Thank you Joseph for
being our guest tonight. It was an author.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I want to tell you thank you too for your
skill set and and you're dealing with me. I don't
know anything about what I'm doing right now is talking
to you, so I know it's all broken and it's unrehearsed,
So thank you for being patient with me.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Hey Joseph, this is the way we prefer it. All real,
all real.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah, hey man, you be blessed and we're rooting for
you and your family.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Thank you, and you have a good evening.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
You too, Take care, Thank you, Peace to all.
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Speaker 7 (37:10):
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, Tonight's guests is bringing the powerful
and deeply emotional story to life through music. With this
country ballad Summer Nights Goodbye. He captures the raw reality
of love, loss, and the kind of grief that changed.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Everything in a moment.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Back by Nashville Production and rooted in a true story.
This song stands as more than just music. It's a
reflection of real life and real emotion because basic, guys,
sometimes sometimes life hurts.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I get that.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I've been through that myself, and I'm sure thousands of
others have been through what we call pain. So please
join me and saying welcome friend to Joseph Blue. Hey, Hey,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Hey, thank you. Good good, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I'm doing the well, just another summer.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Night, absolutely absolutely all right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Well, Joseph Man, we are super excited to have you
with us. Man, We're going to chill out. We're gonna
talk music, talk life, and just really dive deep into
everything that you have going on. But before we kick
everything off, Joseph, what's been on your heart and mind
lately as you've been sharing something this personal with the world.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, you know, I did lose my wife and you
know after nineteen years and just one night just went
to bed and never woke up. And the song outlines
what happened that night. You know that we as the
family came together and just kind of like surprising all
what happened to a party two old woman? You know,
(06:09):
So it's just I can't tell people enough more about
my wife because it's been nearly three years and they're
tired of hearing it. So instead of keep repeating it,
I just kind of put the message in the song.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Absolutely, man.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
But you know what, there's millions, billions of folks in
this world, so for somebody it's going to be new,
but it's new for me.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And I'm not going to tell you I'm tired of
hearing the story that I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
So, man, talking it through is a way to get
through that, you know, and get everybody else's feelings.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Man, but I'm super happy you put it in a song.
That's super cool.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It will live on forever and I could just imagine,
you know, how your world flipped upside down, not get
into proper goodbye. That's tough, man, it's tough. So how
did you put all of that into a song?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Just the processing? Just processing. I've been writing songs for
about twenty years because my dad died twenty years ago
and he was a songwriter, but not published, and just
something we come up with, you know, playing around in
the car and just making lyrics to melodies, just impro improvisational.
So I just had no way of you know, I
(07:27):
just kept telling people my wife died, and you know,
and they kind of get tired of hearing the same story,
even though you told him seventeen times. They just you
could just see that, you know, when are you gonna
move on? You know it's like, well, I kind of
need to grow, but you know, grief doesn't have a
time limit, so it still works on me every day.
(07:48):
So this way people can hear it without you know,
without me having a speaker.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I get that, I get that. We'll take you back.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Twenty years uh before that. Man, I know you wrote
and recorded the song. What was your response to it
when you've heard it back for the first time After
all the mixing, all the mastering, and all the the
bells and whistles were at it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Just kind of blown away, you know. Like I said,
I handed it off to their music group in Nashville
and in the hands of Eli and and you know,
Jim and they're they're a Titus and uh, they just
came back with undeniable uh material. You know, It's like that.
It's not the only one I've done with them. You know,
(08:37):
there's sixteen more after that. The two of them which
got recorded today. It's just uh, it's a great, great
group and they got many accolades, you know, some of
them boys have Grammys and and just just nominations of
awards in the CMA, you know. So I'm just lucky
to have found them.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, how did you find them?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Google?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
At Google?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I went to Sugar Hill Studios in Houston and tried
to do some recording there and that that that that
label formerly did a lot of stuff, but now it's
more hip hop, which which is cool.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It was cool to walk.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
In up building like that and see all where all
these troop of stars went through. But but the label
was more focused on hip hop now, and it was
it was just kind of me, you know, not wasting
money because my daughter's gonna go with her her her
version because she likes hip hop, so she's gonna go
that way, and me too. We all love hip hop.
It's just business country. So you know, it was kind
(09:41):
of the wrong place, but it kind of got us
motivated to look around.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Got you, got you is your does your dark do music?
Or she just loves hip hop?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
She's she's the girl, and she's she's the girl. She's
she's the one that do did the CPR. She's she
was fourteen at the time. Oh, she loves hip hop.
She does thing too, because we took her at the
same but she she's like, Dad, that's not my genre
that I you know, my hip hop like hip hop.
So I'm good, you know, you know, creativity. I grew
(10:10):
up on hip hop. I grew up with the elkooj
and Tat Boys all them. You know, I'm fifty three,
so I grew up when it first started. So you know,
I've loved it ever since.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, so let's take it back twenty years. How did
you find music?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know, it's been a little you know, it's been
since two two thousand and four. In two thousand and five,
I went through some deep depression and you know, I've
always loved me just completely loved it. That's all I
lived on. And it's just just something in the family.
My family just liked music, and they liked to go
(10:52):
around and just listen to what. We always played music.
So my dad was kind of more country and oldie,
but it didn't really get the hip hop thing. Back
then we called it rapp. He didn't get that. But
that's something I loved, just like sneakers. I'm sneakerhead, right.
Uh my dad was like, you like shoes, aren't you
become shoe Selph's some things, you know, But just a
(11:15):
lot of loss in the past twenty years drove me
to put a little more, more more detailed oriented.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Thoughts on paper. Yeah, Okay, what kind of music was
flowing through the house? Well, well, I know country, but
what what artists? You know, what songs were flowing through
your house growing up?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
When I was growing up, you know, of course my
Mamma and them, they listened to you know, they wouldn't
listen anywhere from Steppenwolf tc R to to Loretta Lynn,
Conway Twitty, of course, George Jones and then me. You know,
I was welkoo j I'm telling you, just just fat
Boys a favorite, right, you had Curtis Blow and like that,
(12:00):
and then you know, in the nineties it kind of
changed where you had n W A and stuff like that.
Of course, your your life change as you get older
and you can listen to them kind of lyrics, you know,
but I was, I was my dad. Would you know
they didn't have explicit albums in the eighties, They didn't
put that label on there. I didn't start till the nineties,
(12:21):
so of course when you're old enough by them, But
until until I was old enough, I had to sneak it.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Mm yeah yeah, sounds like me. I had to sneak it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So man, this this song is called Summer Nights Goodbye.
What do you want people to understand about love? Loss
and what it means to keep going?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Sometimes, you know, life don't give you a choice, or
it just hands you something and then you know, maybe
not what you on it, maybe maybe not. You know,
maybe that wasn't your plan. Doesn't mean it wasn't God's plans, right,
So it's just you. You take it and you run
with it. But it's to help people understand that they're
(13:13):
not the only one that goes through a loss like that,
and and if them listen to my laws help them
move through something, then then that's what it's far. It's
to help people to know that, hey, you know, it's
it's just it's it's three almost three years later and
I'm still struggling. So when somebody gives them a time limit,
(13:33):
like hey, you should move on and go find another
special person, it's not ready. It's your your you. You
got to be ready, And I don't know when I'll
be ready. Maybe I'll be ready next year, maybe I
won't ever be But uh, time limits. People can can't
can't time grief.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, then I went through a very tough divorce and
I went through like this period of darkness and depression.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
But I knew I used to be an artist too,
But I knew I.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Had to write a song about it and get it
out of my system. And do you know, Joseph, I
sat on that record. I had the music, I just
didn't have the words. I sat on that record for
like a year and a half because I couldn't. I
couldn't create the right words to portray how I was feeling.
How long did it take you to write your song
(14:28):
Summer Nights Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Well, if I would, if I would be completely honest,
it didn't take long because you know, maybe in a
few days. Right, Because it's truth, It's exactly what happened
in the house. When I say Gabby came in and
quote her mom off the bed, she did exactly that.
(14:52):
Joe came right behind him and then taking over the
wheell you know, when the when the ambulance got here,
all that stuff is, so I didn't have to make
it up. I just had to, uh put the wording
a little different to make it go flow with the song,
you know, make them make them a show, not tail,
so make them feel like they were in the house.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, I want to talk about that because that opening
scene is heavy. I don't I don't know how you
prepared yourself to even step into that moment emotionally, but
how did you How did you deliver something like that
without breaking during the recording.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, the honest thing is, we went to sugar Hill
and I couldn't, so I actually had to. I had
to get a I had to hire a performer that
could perform it because I couldn't. No way, there's no
way I could do it. I still can't do it,
you know, hearing it, I tear up. So I actually
(15:54):
threw through Eli and and Titus. They they contacted a
performer to a vocal performer to vocalize it. So that's
not me singing, because you have to have the professional
If you're going to do a professional you're going to
spend that kind of money on a professional song, It's
got to be professional, you know. I understand there's there's
(16:16):
you're Zach Brown. I'm sorry, you're Zach Uh you think
is Zach Ryan. He can do it, he can, he
can have a broken performance because it's him and he's
got the courage to do it. But we've never been
trained to do vocal so uh going into a studio
like the one that did in Houston and him not
knowing how to work with non singers, He's like, man,
(16:39):
I never did this in my life, so I knew
it was just a waste of money and and talking
to music industries like, hey, maybe your your best foot
for us forward would be to put someone who that's
what they do, so that you know, I had to.
I had to take the background and just give him
(17:00):
my words and let him try to do the justice.
And his name is Ron. He does he did a
fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yes, yes, yes, So as an artist who does.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Create his own music, you don't have any problems with
AI being inserted into live music.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, you know, I think AI is good in a way.
You know, you know, I listened to some things and
I use some of that to to help me get
a thought out. But I don't think it's I think
it can't duplicate even though it sounds well, what Ron
to do in that vocal booth and what AI can
(17:49):
do is two different things. Because Ron has the brief,
AI does it, you know, so it can, it can,
It can take a line and it can it can
spend it out for twenty three seconds for and uh,
you know, a human being has to breede, has to
come up for air, you know. So I just think
I took my production to be a music group, to
(18:11):
have everything real, you know, you know. And I don't
have a problem listening to some AI stuff. It's just
I think, uh, it's a starting point. I think it's
going to get better. But I just think production radio humans,
you know, humans. I don't know, I'm human, you know,
(18:32):
maybe I'm just kind of you know.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I think it's a very good too. I just think
it's designed to as a media in the immediary, if
that makes any sense.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I totally agree with you. Man. I prefer to
hear the press between certain.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Notes because breath can add you know, emphasis, it can,
it can. It could be dramatic, Uh, when you breathing
in the right moment on a certain word or phrase.
I have a buddy right now who recorded his entire
album using Ai. He cloned his voice and yeah, and
he doesn't know that I know is Ai.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
He keeps lying to me, yeah, man, and I know
he can't sing it. So that's how I know it Ai.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But this, this AI voice is incredible and so I'm
just waiting to.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Put an egg on his face. But I don't know.
I may I may not tell her. But if you're listening,
I know.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I pay this.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, people you know it's it's a good starting point.
And like I said that, studios like, hey we get
this from studios. Dang, studios are using that. You know,
instead of sitting in there would have then want trying
to figure out they put it together and they send
it to these these studios and they say, hey, this
is what we would like it to be. Like that
(19:53):
that saves a lot of time, a lot of money,
a lot of effort. You know, when I give him
a track and like hey this is what I want yep,
they from there. You know, it's like they have a template.
They don't have to go out there and like hey,
how do you like this rip or how do you
like this drum solo? You know, they don't have to
sit there and you know, because time is money. You know,
a session with a real six piece stand is about
(20:15):
forty four hundred dollars, you know, for three hours. There's
a lot of money, you know, a lot of money.
I've done that three separate times already, and first time
I got five five tracks out of it. The next
two times it got six and six, so if you
count them, I got seventeen being finished today. You know,
today was the last vocals on. Ron was out of
(20:38):
town last week, so he did the last vocals on
two tracks today. And when you were talking about the breaths,
it makes a difference because during one of the lines
of the songs, he had to take a breath, and
when he took that breath, it gave you the brief
it gave you, it gave.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
The hurt, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So it's like you can hear that come out.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You know, Yeah, all right, we're going to play the song.
But before we play that, there's a question why her
and not me? You know, that question hits deep. Someone
we love, we would definitely want to take their place
if anything should happen to them, whether it's pain or
(21:19):
or death itself.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You know, what does that line mean to you? Personally
what it means.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's like what I when when at that time I
was fifty, she would she just turned forty two for
eighteen days. So it's like she's more deserving to be
here than me. You know, I live, you know, I
lived eight more years. I lived more of a life
this young lady. You know when I say young lady,
it was my wife. Her father was murdered when you
(21:49):
know her. Then she came, you know, three years later.
Her grandmother was taking care of her and she died
in a you know, ambulance flipped over, killed her grandma.
Then she came here. And two thousand and one, her
uncle that was taking care of her in the States,
which the US, right, because she was from Belize, he
died of an aneurism at work. It's like she lost everybody,
(22:10):
and then she found me. Two years later. I was
mental institution because depression. You know. It's like, you know,
I tried to take my life, right, she found me there.
Three weeks after she found me, we got married and
we was married for nineteen years in the day until
summer night, Dudbye happened.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I'm sorry that happened.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Man. Oh, it's just like you know, I'm kind of sorry,
but I'm not because if it wouldn't happened, I wouldn't
have had her. So everything's meant to be, you know
that the time when she passed away, you know, when
she met me. A year later, my father committed suicide.
You know, so we got married. A year later, we
were about to have our first child in December. Dad
(22:51):
committed suicide on the fifteenth of October two thousand and five.
It's like that was unexpected. So it's just just drama.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
If if she wouldn't have been in my life, I
don't know if I would have been able to get
through some of else.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Andy. My heart goes out to you. Well, I do,
thank you, yes sir. All right, guys, let's jump into
some music.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Summer Nights, Goodbye. We'll be right back with more. Joseph Blue,
stay tuned.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
TV was good and you were fast asleep, swept the
floor squiet promises to keep early to bed just like
you always day held my bread, tackles every noise and
day reas for your hands.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Steal the site me cold, flicked on the light switch,
dread began to food, shook you, CRIDs your name into
the dark.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Scream for the kids with the shattered herd bar Cabby
food in puts you down to the ground of tiny bits,
bumping on her chest without a sound show.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Ride beside, giving all he possessed, two angels spiking death,
the butther Mama's bread.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Oh, the last summer night, and when they help arrived,
me reading line back, hoping you survived thirty two.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Foo you send us out in the hall, feel like
a river rising, two drivelers.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Some calling my mama, Lord, please her meon said the
kids with Carl until the darkness was gone. Then they
walked down.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Slowly spoke the words cutting through. We lost her son.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
There was nothing more we could do.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Stunner the nifty. Let me roll her up with blue
lass pain at the track, wear red serene space. Step
outside these, they said, gotta fine answers. Where the lone
light fled hours in lifetimes on that poor step by
cry before the cold question where should she resign?
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Should have been made?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Not you beneath the storm God the sound cycle?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
How do I walk here? Long?
Speaker 10 (25:39):
This shattered picture, this and least spy?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
How do I live without my wife?
Speaker 9 (25:49):
How do I face light?
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Oh? That left summer night when the humble by me,
made the life back, hoping you survived. They took to me,
sent us out in the hall, feel like a river
rising tud some calling Ma, Mama, Bood, please hear me, Yon,
sit the kids in carl It till the darkness was gone.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Then they walked down, slowly spoke the words cutting through.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
We lost her. There was nothing more we to do.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Gabby's curries, Joe's junk tears, Wait about my coming years,
the silas screaming, when your laugh was arry. A summer
night when the angels came and they took you home.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Left me Belne, God only those spy This Summer Nights Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
All right, all right, welcome back again. That what Summer
Nights Goodbye by Joseph Blue.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Such an incredible song, deep personal hit, all the right pockets.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
And I'm sure if you were going through that season
right now, that season of loss, you know, that season
of grief, darkness, this is the one for you.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
There's also a civil lining in it.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You know, hope still lives on, you know, life still
goes on, and what better way to honor someone with
something that can live forever? All right, let's go ahead
and bring Joseph Blue back on Yo Yo Yo, welcome
back to Yoe.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yes, sir, how are you good man?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Good good man?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I love the sound has that Nashville sound. So the
guys really did great on the production. It's polished but
still emotional.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
How important was it to get it get the sound
just right?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Really important. It's just because it's not meant to be,
you know, a chart toper. It's not it's not meant
to to, you know, be the summer song of the summers.
It's meant to release it on on on Good Friday.
You know, it's a summer song, so it's it's made
just just just let you know that, you know, people
out there, they're not the only one going through things
(28:27):
like this. You know there are people that's struggling through
it and and trying to find a way through the grief.
And this happens to be an outlet that I'm turning
to and just just for them just to say, hey,
just wait for the next day, you know, the next day,
and keep going one one day at a time, and
before you know it, look where you have you you
(28:49):
thirty four months in right mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, yeah, before you know it, And I've heard once
that to get through a storm, you have to go
through the storm.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know, you do you do now? I think if
I might say that the hardest thing was we had
a vacation eleven days after she died that was already playing.
Her bags were packed at the you know, I still
I had to take my kids because you know, that's
what they wanted, is like, it was the worst vacation
(29:26):
to go on. But but it was my duty as
a father to bring my children. And you know, my
mom joined of course, and we took her bag with us.
But that's just some of the things you do. You know,
you don't ever think you have to.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, you took your wife's bag.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Absolutely, it's still packed in the day.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
There is one question I wanted to ask, you know
before we let you go.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
You know, this song touches on questioning God. How do
you personally view faith in in moments of loss?
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, he's there, he's president and everything. You know. My
my question is, uh just basically not really questioning his
is what his choices were, just like why, you know why?
It makes you question yourself, you know, So it's not
questioning that is there. God is just questioning, like why
would that choice be the right choice? You know, maybe
(30:24):
maybe maybe it was her turn, maybe it was his choice.
He seemed her living through enough pain and maybe that
was that was her time. You know. I can't question that,
you know, because you know if I do that, you
know who dies yesterday? Why you can't question everything. It's
just it's just life you have to take and sometimes
it's just your mind playing with you.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah, all right, after something that powerful, what's next for you?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Musically?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
We have a release coming out on the eighteenth. It's
called Heaven's Got a View, which is kind of a
follow up to that, but more of like, hey, what
is she doing in heaven right now? You know, that's
exactly what they're saying. You know, it's about having it,
but they don't just speak about her. It speaks about her,
my mom, my sister, you know, all my family members,
but not not by name, you know, so everybody can
(31:17):
place their self in it. And it's just coming out on
the eighteenth and for the momorial they see this.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
All right, sounds good. Sounds good, Joseph, leave us with this.
For someone listening right now who has lost someone they love,
what's one thing they need to hear tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
We love them, you know, we love you, and that
you know, everybody in your corner. Everybody's in the corner,
even though they don't know how to say it. You know,
people come here and tell you something and maybe it's
the wrong way they say it, but the meanings there.
They do it because they love it.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Love that, Joseph.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Where can our listeners connect with you on the internet
and got more music and updates?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I would be honest with you because this is new
for us. So my kids are actually helping me get
you know, the website, it's it's it's Black Black Sheep
Records MUSICLC dot com. But it's other than that. Spotify.
You can find me on Spotify and you can google me.
You can google something like goodbye, and there's there's articles
(32:24):
about it and and some links in there. But we
it's all new for us, and I have a seventeen
year old helping me, you know. She she she she
played it on her her TikTok account got fifteen thousand views.
It's just I don't know, I don't know what else
to say. I really this is new for us, and
it's learning and process and we're working on it. We
(32:46):
actually have a Spotify campaign we just got approve for.
So it's just we didn't know how to put a
credit card in. That's how bad. I've been waiting for
nine days trying to figure that out. So I'm fifty three.
I'm a dummy, Just a dad in the country raising kids,
you know.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, all right, all right, Wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
This is a family function, you know, sticking together in
a moment where things can fall apart. And I applaud
you and your kids.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Shout out to.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Your kids, by the way, for helping Dad navigate them
music business. You guys sound like you make a great team.
And to you listeners out there. I will have the links,
because I have the links to some of the sites
and things he mentioned. I will have the links in
the description of this episode and in.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
The show notes.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
So all you guys have to do really is just
click the links, connect, listen to the music, stay up
to date with everything Joseph Blue has going on. Well, guys,
you know some music, you hear some songs, and some
songs you feel. This right here is one you feel,
So make sure you tap in with Joseph Blue and
listen to summer nights, goodbye and tonight. If you are
(34:04):
carrying something heavy, just know that we over here at
Vigilantes Radio. I myself Deni, and I'm sure Joseph Blue
as well. Just want you guys to know that you
don't have to carry it along. I know it feels
like a time of loneeness, and you know it's a
lonely journey, but.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You're not alone in this. There is a God.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
And like Joseph said, we can't question things that happen.
We may have many questions and one day we'll get
those answers, but just understand there's sometimes there are deeper
plans that our human minds can't can't understand because through
through actions there is a reaction can pull science into
(34:52):
that and you never know what's working behind the scene.
You never know who's getting healed in the process of
a loss. You never know what's coming down ten years,
fifteen years later from a different journey being forward. You
never know, So don't lose sight. Thank you Joseph for
being our guest tonight. It was an author.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I want to tell you thank you too for your
skill set and and you're dealing with me. I don't
know anything about what I'm doing right now is talking
to you, so I know it's all broken and it's unrehearsed,
So thank you for being patient with me.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Hey Joseph, this is the way we prefer it. All real,
all real.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah, hey man, you be blessed and we're rooting for
you and your family.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Thank you, and you have a good evening.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
You too, Take care, Thank you, Peace to all.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
My name is Dane and I am the host of
Vigilantes Radio Live. I think that we are.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Beyond just.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Asking cool questions. DV was doing you cool responses. I
think that we are here as groatos to provide an
example that you can do things different. It's outside of
expectations because some of us simply we're not into the club.
(36:17):
But there is perhaps a door, window back and gate
that we can leave a clue for you to get into.
Life is short, but there are plenty of moments to
try to get it right. Pursuing your dreams and learning.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
From the stakes maybe tough to recrret.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
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Co count on you heave.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
We all are counting to step into your purpose and
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line Radio Peace.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
Until the artist was gone.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Then they walked down, slow spoke the words cutting through.
We lost her so there was nothing more we could do.
Stunner and nility that we rolled her up. Play Blue
Last Pain at the track Way aay Cerbeny Space, step
(37:31):
outside please, they said, gotta find answers.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
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