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the dobles. Yeah, see sitting and living room. Your life's gone by
way too soon, which we can be going back in the bad. We
live by the times they win to face rob towns now we shall now.
I know you did knockings. You were seeking around with another dude. I
can't stand up be packing soon. I'm running away. I'm leaving today.
I call me by. Sorry to lead you sallow. I'm running away.
Oh, I'm leaving today. I'm coming back tomorrow. Sorry, lead you
sou Yeah. I was making my child for an hour or two. The
thought of being somewhere else alone with you having me shook up and shake him.
Don't know what to do? So where you from? Where you ban
up from? My heaven? Done nothing? And I don't really want to
be the one who got caught. I'll start alwayting all away, And I'm
saying I'm running away. I'm leading to day. I call me by,
sorry to lead you sallow, I'm running away. Oh, I'm leaving today.
I'm coming back tomorrow. Sorry, leading with surrow. So where you're
from? Where you been? Not from about heavens, noting noth there?
And I don't really want to be the one who got caught. Duck,
don't wasting all away. I'm running away. I'm leaving today. Hell,
I'm coming back tomorrow. Sorry, you don't leave you and say, oh
yay, I'm hunting away. I'm leaving today. I'm coming back tomorrow.
Sorry, you don't leave you a son, yay, I'm running away.
That is running away. That is two towns band here on matt Connerton,
unleashed on this Saturday morning. It is Saturday, June twenty two, twenty
twenty four. Jenny is here as well at the news table. Aunt of
for and by the way, thank you again so much to Mary Peters and
Sue Smith from the Sister Witch Company for joining us in the last hour,
and of course in the first hour today we had a Jus Old Rebel.
I think I'm saying his name correctly. Hill, Yes, yes, But
right now we have with us the members of Two Towns Band. We have
Zach and James with us here live in studio. How are you guys?
Good met? Yeah, welcome, welcome. Yeah. I love your as
I was saying off here. I really like your sound. You guys sound
great. And that track that's been getting some airplay you mentioned the River in
Boston. Yeah, we were featured a few weeks ago on the new upcoming
music Homegrown I think it is. But yeah, yep, yep, they
played a couple of weeks ago and that was a song that we featured on
it. So that's off our last our first debut album that we put out
two years ago. Now Shell City okay, okay, oh fantastic, And
we do have some other songs of your Sue that we'll be playing today.
And uh uh it was nice. I didn't have to make any radio edits.
There's no swears, which is nice. Keep it, keep it pretty,
We keep it pretty clean, at least at least for now. I
only imagined that because our first, our first guest today who we love.
He was excellent, a Jue's old rebel. He was great and very positive
and everything. But I had to make some radio edits of his songs which
had much editing, which I don't mind doing. I do it all the
time, but for for people who are going to be on the show if
I really want to play their stuff. But he was he was very uh.
He took me a while. So it's always nice one. It's always
nice one. I can say, Jenny yea. I didn't have to do
any radio ads this time. It was great. How long have you guys
been around? So this started like I want to say, three three to
four years ago. It was me and another buddy and we both came from
two different bands when we were in high school. So I was in this
band called Insider, and we actually did pretty well in Vermont for a while.
We like played Higher Ground and did a bunch of shows there. We
were actually on ninety nine The Buzz a few times out there too. And
he was in this other like rock band. They were called Prohibition. So
his name was Hunter Myers and me and him started this right before, like
right after COVID started, Like we realized that the whole five piece band thing
was gonna go away for a while, and we were like, Okay,
how can we keep this going while still like making music and like going out
and playing during the pandemic, So that that all happened, We recorded an
album during the pandemic. After that, we just got on the road,
started touring pretty much anywhere we could in the Northeast. And then I think
it was about a year and a half ago and Hunter moved to Indianapolis to
start doing some other projects. So James really came in a clutch in this
last few months here, and I was like, hey, what do you
play guitar? What are you doing? I need somebody to fill this spot
and start doing shows again and start getting this like back up to where we
had it before, where we were like playing every week three four times a
week and recording albums and putting stuff out. And he really stepped up and
just came in and did what he had to do. So now it's going
great again. Well that must have been a big relief, right because it's
scary when I mean I know from my own experience, it's it's scary when
you have a project that has a lot of momentum and you feel like you're
really getting somewhere with it, and all of a sudden, the bottom falls
out because somebody says, yeah, I'm not gonna be here anymore. Yeah,
yeah, it was. It was nerve racking at first, and then
I was like, Okay, it's fine. There's people can play guitar,
Like, there's people out there who know how to play guitar, and honestly,
it was hard finding somebody for a while. It Yeah, yeah,
like nobody, nobody really lived up to the standard. I'm like super perfectionist
and like, yeah it had to be like really good to where I needed
to be. And yeah, James just came in and did exactly what needed
to be done. Excellent, excellent. Did what Was it a challenge for
you, James coming in and learning the because obviously, like like Zach said,
he's a perfectionist. Was that a challenge for you. Yeah. I
got my first guitar about a year ago on my birthday. So I'm like,
oh, I'm extremely Wow, he's doing he's stepped up. He's good.
Yeah, so we had our first show at the end of May I
think it was May thirst and then it was the beginning of the March.
We worked together another job. I showed up with my guitar and he said,
oh, you play guitar? Would you like to join the band.
I didn't know it was gonna pick up this much or get it big,
but yeah, yeah, oh that's awesome. Yeah, it's like fate.
Yeah, is that at a job you guys? Is that how you guys
mad at work? Or yeah? So that we work for a marketing company,
like outside of doing two towns and stuff. So it just kind of
worked out like we were just away at an event somewhere. I think we're
in like Pennsylvania or something. He had his guitar with him. I'm like,
oh, you're gonna you're gonna be with me now, like you're gonna
cancel your summer you're doing shows. Yeah, wow, excellent, excellent.
So now on the on the tracks, on the recorded track, So who
else is on or do you guys do everything between the two of you?
So chel City came out before James's time, That was before James, but
Hunter actually did the drums and everything on that, and he did all like
the mixing, mastering, recording. Fantastic audio engineer. But other than that,
vocals, guitar, and I think most of the bass was me.
Okay, yeah, doing all that. And then on the running Away feature,
we have a Luke Bolt he's one of the original members of Prohibition too
with Hunter there, and we got him to do a little feature on there
and he just knocked it out of the park. Oh cool. What does
he do on the track? He did? He does like the little outro
verse towards the end there. Okay, yeah, okay, So what happens
live is it just do the two of you just play live, and yeah,
it's the two of us. Usually James is just like leaning the way
with the guitar and then I'm just kind of in the background a few chords
and all the vocals are coming from me and we're we're getting enough to speed
on the vocals be harmonies very soon here. Yeah. Yeah. So when
you play live, it's a stripped down like you're not using any kind of
a backing track for the drums or anything like a stripped down like doing stuff
off of Shell City, doing covers and stuff we and just playing everywhere that
we can. Is there any kind of a long term plan to have a
full band or or do you like doing it? I would imagine there's a
lot of advantages to it just being the two of you in terms of fucking
shows and all of that. I mean, yeah, there's there's advantages to
doing it just the two of us. I mean, like we get paid
more both, and they like it's definitely easier, like logistically because we just
show up with two speakers and a few cables and guitars and it's a show.
I think we've done the big band thing before, Like we Two Towns
actually played Higher Ground two years ago. It was one of our last shows,
and Higher Grounds and you and Verma, I don't know if you're to
it, it's like, yeah, it's great, we love it. And
we played with a full band there and it worked out pretty well. It
was kind of like we grabbed the Hunter played drums, we grabbed the other
guitarists we were working with at the time, Jackson Garrow, and then we
grabbed my old bassist, Zach Hayes from Insider and we were just like,
hey, we're gonna be a band for one night, and we're all gonna
play and it's gonna sound awesome. And it went good, and I think
moving forward it would definitely just be like having like a session session drummer,
or having like a guitarist or a bassist or something like that. I don't
think we would ever want like change the core of the group. I think
I just keep that to the two people who are really invested in it.
Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yes, yeah, that makes a
lot of sense. Higher Ground is that? Is that where Green Jelly just
played, where they had the incident where they got shut down three songs in
green Jelly might have been. Yeah, yeah, I've seen Green Jelly at
Higher Ground. I was just looking at that. Yeah, that was it.
They were here last weekend. I saw that. I saw him,
like je was there. They're coming back through in August. Really all right,
but yeah, so they played it was higher Ground. Yeah, so
they played, they got three songs in, and they got shut down.
I guess, uh really, something something to do with Bill's pants hanging from
the chandelier. I guess I guess that's a deal breaker. Yeah, all
right, playing in the playing in the small room over there, put your
pants on the chandeliers? That no, no, yeah, well, I
don't he I don't know who put them there. I mean, you know,
I don't know if he put them there himself or I mean I don't
I don't know the details. I don't know how they got there. Yeah,
I don't know how the pants got off of Billing onto the chandelier.
But I assume he was playing the music at the time. It may not
have been Bill's fault. I don't know. I don't know, but uh,
yeah, it didn't go well. It was pretty h Yeah. Yeah,
it looked like a wild scene. Are you guys doing a lot of
shows. We're playing a lot. Yeah, we're playing out of our minds.
We actually have a show later today up in a Waterville. We're playing
the Waterville Valley town Square. Oh cool, providing that the weather holds up
for us, which I think it's going to hopefully. Yeah. And two
nights ago we were at l Street down in Hampton Beach, and then last
week we were at Telly's and Epping and we're playing Shane's and Hampton. We're
playing in Boston. We're playing at the Bebop Music Hall later in September.
We got pretty much anywhere that you can house a band. We're getting in
there, yeah playing, Yeah, that's excellent, excellent. Well, let's
play another one of these studio tracks. I'll let you pick what should we
what should we do next? We haven't played go to STU. I like
Overdue. I think Overdue is one of the stronger ones that I've written.
Overdue. Okay, we'll do that one next, and uh maybe maybe the
next one after that, I'll reveal what my favorite is of the one.
Oh, I have a personal favorite. I think I know what it's going
to be. Yeah, all right, well we'll we'll find out. We'll
find out. But in the meantime, this is Overdue. The band is
a two towns band. They are here with us, live in studio.
We have Zach and James here with us. But check the South. This
is called Overdue. Mm hmm. I feel nothing. I'm rusting without you,
no desire, I'm tired, asking nothing through. I'm lost in my
head. A lot feels over to still riding and I'm trying to make it
through. But I new that Iskar and I new I can't take this say
anymore. So if you love me, the leave me, just let me
go, Deny And I'm crying I was getting true and if you want me,
lead me, love you, because maybe I love it's just overdo.
If you love me, be love me, if you love me, if
you love me, if you love me, you love me, if you
love me, if you love me, I'm reathless. I'm breathless. I'm
broken too. I'm lying deciding that I don't need you. Which way at,
sir, I'm so confused. I'm empty. You just let me feel
something new. I know that is getting nod and I can't take this say
anymore. So I love me to leave me. Just let me go,
Tony, and I'm crying. I'm asking true. If you want me,
lead me, love you this, maybe I love it. Just still me
too. If you love me, if you love me, if you love
me, if you love me, if you love me, you love me,
if you love me, if you love me, That's just one thing
I asked to be us that you help me to me Gazzaly Joe, love
me, you love me, if you love me, if you love me,
if you love me, love me. I love that. That is
overdue. The band is Two Towns Band, and we've got the guys from
the band here with us live in studio. Zach and James are here with
us on this Saturday morning here on w m n H. Yeah, great,
great song. I love it. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. How many
how many original songs do you guys have as a as a unit our entire
album, Chel City? I think it is. I think I want to
say nine. I want to say nine songs. That's just what we have
out, Like, we have plenty more ready to go. We're actually working
with a Blackheart studio right now and we're gonna get some awesome We're gonna get
some dates in in the fall here in September where so we're thinking about doing
this, uh little cover album sort of thing. So we're gonna call it
two Towns Covered Up. Okay, it could be fun, and we're gonna
do five ish cover songs and then we're just gonna like throw in make maybe
five six more originals. Just start getting the ball rolling. So you're gonna
be recording with Eric Sotter, I yeah, I believe, I believe.
So, Yeah, we had him on. It was a few months ago
now, we we finally had him on the show, and uh, I
had said to him, you know, it's great to finally have here because
your name comes up all the time because his name comes up all the time,
YEP on the show and he's he's amazing. No, that's very cool,
very cool. So the the the album that that you had done,
where was where was that recorded in Hunter's basement? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
he did all the record like we did all the recording there, the
mixing, mastering, like everything was just done in his basement. Wow,
came out way better than we expected. Really, Yeah, for a basement
di y album, it came out good. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
you know, with the technology that's available today, you can really I mean
you can, you can really get some you know. I mean obviously what
you get out of out of Blackhart is going to sound better than better than
anything you've yet. I'm sure, I'm sure, but no, but that's
I'm genuinely surprised though, that that was all done, because, like I
said, all these tracks they sound really really good. Yeah, thank you?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, So when you do you know, when
you when you start recording the next one, start in like September twenty if
September twenty first ish, like right around that range. We're gonna start doing
these like next songs and start getting them out. So Yeah, we're going
to record it, have it all done and recorded by the end of September,
and then hopefully for an early winter release we will be a full album.
Yeah, we're trying to make it a full album. Good yep,
good. Now are you what's the writing process? Like, are you guys
writing together or are you are you doing most of it Zach or how does
that work with so so far we haven't done any like me and him sitting
down in a room just being like, Okay, we got to write something,
put the ideas together, and get hit out there. Yeah. Like
the stuff that we have right now is just stuff that's like been in the
back pocket for a while and being like, Okay, we're gonna record eventually,
and then we have fifty shows in three months and they're like, oh
record, yeah, so let's save it for next year. And then we
have another fifty shows in three months, are like, Okay, we're gonna
save this again, and then so eventually we're just here now after Shell City,
and we still got those songs in the back pocket, so those are
ready to go. We'll probably get those out on this next upcoming project with
Blackheart, and then anything past that will be written by me and James collaboratively.
Okay, okay, excellent. Are there any plans to re record anything
from Shell City or I want to redo Overdue? Yeah, you were saying
something about that off air. Yeah, yeah, I want to redo Overdue,
Like it's I think that for having it been been like written in fifteen
minutes, I think that it's one of the strongest lyrical songs that we have.
Yeah, there's just so much raw emotion and passion that I put into
that song when writing it, which I don't even know where it came from.
Like I was in a good place. I was like, oh,
freshman year of college, You're like, yeah, have fun with all my
buddies, and then it's like, Bam, let's write a sad song.
I don't know where it came from, but hey, it came out good.
Yeah. Yeah. What is it that you don't like about the because
I think it sounds phenomenal. I like it. I think like when it
goes into like the chorus part I the original version that we had, the
vocals were much higher, raspier, and more They had more feeling and more
tone to it, and I want to get back to that. The only
thing that we didn't why we didn't do that on Shell Cities because we had
a version of it before that we had put out and it wasn't doing as
well as we had thought, Like it was some audio issues with it with
like it clipping and stuff and just not sounding like the professional standard that we
wanted it to. So I think if we get back into Blackhart, it'll
be a lot easier to get the sound that we want and have the audio
quality not be compromised. Yeah, oh that makes sense. That makes sense.
Now, when when you guys play live, do you do any covers
or is it all originals or yeah, we do, we do covers,
originals, everything. So I mean our usual set, what are we going
on like to twoish three hours? Our usual set? Oh wow, okay,
I know we're we're playing like two ish three ish hours at like bars,
pubs and again everywhere we can play, and we do quite a bit
of covers, And I just think our covers sometimes like I like to I
like when we're told that our covers sound better than the original version that so
we were playing, I think we're playing Telly's last week and there was like
a bunch of people at the bar and I love their new open concept thing.
They like got a stage and everything surrounded now instead of like in the
corner like we were a couple of years ago. But yeah, so we
had There was people at the bar and they came up to us after.
There's like, man, that Zach Bryan's song. He doesn't he doesn't hit
those notes live, And I'm like, oh, yeah, we we try
to be different and try and do stuff that like the people who are playing
these big shows out there aren't doing, because like we want to bring we
want to bring like as much of the experience as we can to them and
just try and sound as authentic as we can. Yeah. What what song
we were doing? Burn Burn Burn Zach Bryan? Okay, Yeah, and
when he gets to the end there he goes, let me go down that.
Yeah. I was like hitting those notes and like getting them correct,
and people just loved it. You know, They're like, well we saw
him live and he didn't do that. I was like, yeah, well
we try and be the best. Yeah. No, that's and that's validating,
right when somebody says that to you, that's amazing. Yeah, it's
it's great. We love to hear it. Yeah, yeah, do you
do any obscure covers where people don't necessarily know o their covers? Yes,
oh my god. Yeah, well we're playing we're playing el Street the other
and he's like, are you guys just playing covers? Are this originals too?
And just like it's both. We hadn't played any originals yet. Yeah,
yeah, it's both. We're getting there, but it's both for now,
like like like what what what what's an example of like an obscure one?
Gosh, Miles Smith, Yeah, Miles Smith. He's he's getting up
there. But like we play Solo by Miles Smith, and that's a pretty
obscure one. Yeah. I think like for non like college students, Kilby
Girl would be another. Yeah, that's that's a new favorite. Rus like
killby Girl by the Backseat Lovers. We started playing that a couple of weeks
ago and it's hasn't reached this way to the older audience yet, but it's
getting there. Yeah. I think another one we play that's really obscure Disco
Nights. I honestly don't even know who that's by. It's obscure to me.
Yeah. I think it was like one of those TikTok songs, just
like yeah, let's play that, right, Well, let's let's play my
favorite. Now. You said you you think you you can get us?
Which one is my favorite of the track? Seat you want to guess that
you guys sent rhyme? Yeah? Am I right? That's the one,
is it? Yeah? So weird? This was not that song was not
like intended to ever be a song. Really. Yeah. So me and
Hunter where we were just in his basement one night. It was me and
him and his brother, his girlfriend, like a bunch of friends, were
just like, I bet I could write a pop song. Like we were
probably like hanging out and doing stuff, and like I was like, oh,
I could write a pop song. I could do that. It's easy,
And like an hour later this was created. Well, yeah, apparently
it is easy because yeah, it's a great track and it's yeah, I
know what you mean about it being a pop song. It's catchy as hell,
and it's the length of a pop song. It's only two minutes and
forty seconds. Yeah, so you're coming in under that three minute that's perfect
for radio. I think that was the point where like, oh, radio
pop songs, Yeah, anybody can do that. And we just did it
in an hour and you did it. Yeah, well you did it well.
So I love it. So let's give this a listen. So this
is method and the rhyme. The band is two Towns band. You're in
studio. Check this out. If you give me one more chang, maybe
just let me in. I just need a second time. Then you're on
my mind. I'll must spend my wings in fly and I need to second
time. I just want to buy my side. Just slay with me tonight.
I guess you need a little bitter time to me. You're on the
method and the vibecause I'm just getting overbeat. I am another beeat. I'm
just really sick of it. You get to auger around in beginning, choose
the things. I'm gotta do this. They just offer me beat. I'm
just really sick of it. It's all on my head and my bed.
Wasn't the monsters in mouth? Let me they rise here to night better than
that. The other thing that I said, now what I meant was gonna
said all the text you said. Okay, not understand the things you said.
This I'm the thing, not just scale them. I guess you need
a little bitter time to figure auto method and right because I'm just getting over
me. I had that and up with it. I'm just really sick of
it. You get to aug around he beginning, chose the things I'm gotta
do. I am just up, just really sinking BE. I guess you
need a little bit of time to be here at the method and rhyme because
I'm just getting up with be. I'm just really saying compete. Don't get
to ug around he beginning, just the things I'm gotta do this. I
am just up, just weed to say be. That is method and the
rhyme. The band is Two Towns band and they are here with us live
in studio, and uh yeah, it's like it's so catchy, like I
start swaying back. I don't do that to everything. That's true, It's
true. I really do like that song. Yeah. I love all of
your music. Really, you have an amazing sound. Yeah, thank you
very much. You know, it reminds me a little bit. I think
it's in the vocal, the way you singing it reminds me a little bit
of Maroon five. It's funny because I really don't even like Maroon five,
but I like that song. All right, that's good. But when I
when I first listened to it, I was like, the vocal reminds me
of somebody, and I think it reminds me of him. All right,
I can hear it a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because
you know, because your vocal approach is a little different on that one too
than the other tracks. I feel, oh yeah, but yeah, no,
that's really good. But you were you were also saying off air,
you don't like playing that one live necessarily. We I've played that song live
one time. Oh no, I played that song live one time, and
that was at Higher Ground and we were we weren't gonna play it live.
We weren't gonna play live. It was not in the set list. And
sure enough, it's everybody's favorite song. So at the end of the show,
they're just like chanting method in the rhyme and like, okay. So
Hunter had to just play it on his computer and then me and another guy
were working with at the time, Jackson Garrow, we just got it on
stage, like I said, one microphone in each hand and just kind of
did it. And it just feels so unnatural. Yeah, so not have
a guitar or something in your hand, and I just yeah, it just
don't play it live other than that wow wow fidget. So you can have
something and it's gonna be it's gonna be something. Yeah, yeah, guitar,
how about a guitar? No strings uses? Yeah you uses hold a
guitar and not not play it. I don't know. Yeah, I can
be there to fiddle. I think it's a great song. I think you're
missing something playing it not playing it live. I gotta tell you see what's
gonna you know what's gonna happen. Right, that's gonna end up being a
huge hit, even even if you don't push it. Somehow, radio stations
are gonna pick it up, and then you're gonna be forced to and then
we're gonna have to be a pop band. And then and then some day
no, and then someday you're gonna be on a big tour going, oh
I hate playing that song, but you're gonna feel obligated. That's gonna be
your encore because it's gonna be this massive yep. That's what's gonna happen.
Yeah, that's like, hey, you know that song is gonna be big.
It's like why because it's good? Yeah, it sounds good, but
like it when you're when you're recording it, or you're like, Okay,
this is great like pop song, it's gonna be catchy, sounds awesome,
and then like when it's done and you've listened to that same ARPEGGI hated No
maybe five thousand times and like you're just hearing it, and then it comes
out that night, you're like all excited and you hear it, You're like,
ah, should have been different. Yeah. It's also I feel like
it's a little like removed from our other tracks. Yeah, clearly it's oh
yeah pop not we're more like country indy, but right, so it changes
the pace of the shows if we did play it live, which would be
nice. But it's also you know that jumping from Zach Bryan to that to
like ever do is completely different. Yeah yeah, yeah, No, I
can see that definitely definitely, So you won't be that that's not one that
you're gonna be uh re recording with Eric Soderiz No. I think I think
that one, that one kind of came out as good as we could get
it. Yeah, Like I was really happy with the action and quality and
everything on that song. Yeah, I have no issues with that one.
Absolutely, Now do you guys when you play out do you ever are there
other bands in the area that you kind of you know, I just know
from my own experience sometimes it happens sort of our organically, you end up
teaming up with other bands and playing a lot of shows with them. Is
there any anybody like that for you guys who you do a lot of shows
with. So with just with Two Towns, I can't say that we've like
really teamed up with anybody. We've like became friends with people like on the
road, just like seeing occasionally, like, uh, somebody that we like
run into and bostonalized Rebecca Turmel. I don't know if you guys have heard
heard of her. She's coming on and is it I think it's October.
It's a way I think it's on my birthday. She's coming. I remember,
yeah, yeah, yeah, she's super talented, fantastic. Like we
ran into her at a show at the Bop in Boston. Uh, probably
about a year and a half ago, Like she was just getting going,
like we were like kind of solidifying where we were in the New England music
space. And yeah, she's fantastic. So you have a great guest there,
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah, we met her and conquered at
the run like thief show. Yep, yeah, yeah, yep yeah,
and she is coming in on your birthday, yes, yes, nice,
yes, very cool. Yeah. You guys, obviously with this configuration where
it's just the two of you, you can play a lot of different kinds
of places, right yep, and really fit in with a lot of different
I mean, do you obviously you have enough music with you know, between
the originals and the covers to fill a full night, But do you play
a lot of shows where you only have like maybe forty five minutes or do
you try to do you try to book shows where you have more more time.
I mean, I think the thing when we used to do we used
to book the shows where it was like, oh, forty five minutes an
hour, playing a lot of the original stuff, and we'd get people there,
and like, I think that was great when we were coming out of
like the cover thing and like really building up and just being like, Okay,
now we're just gonna start doing originals and stuff. And then when we
stopped touring for that like year and a half almost two years, like we're
finding the need to like not start over, but kind of pick up the
pace again where we're like playing these bars, these smaller shows and just getting
as much music out there and like getting as many people engaged as we can.
Yeah, and that's what we're kind of finding ourselves doing with these like
two three hour sets right now. Yeah. And we're we're definitely like in
the process of booking like the forty five minutes to an hour and a half
shows of where it's just all the originals. Sure, but that'll probably come
later, like in the fall winter time, and then next summer the tour
that we have planned, we're gonna go all over. Yeah, So it's
not we're not gonna limit ourselves just to the Northeast. We're just gonna get
on the road and do it. Yeah. Excellent, excellent. By the
way, where does the name come from? Two towns? Well? Yeah,
I got asked this a lot, And it was just during COVID,
like I was just driving the Hunter's house and I was like, Oh,
I wish you didn't live like two towns away, Yeah, because like it
was, it was a drive. It was like a thirty minute drive.
Every time I had to go record something to do something practice, I was
like, I wish you didn't live two towns away, and that was just
kind of oh it. We just kind of stuck with it. Yeah.
So yeah, I was gonna say, what was the name before, because
I don't know what it was? Two towns? It never changed. Yeah,
before that thought you didn't have a name. Music. Yeah, all
right, there was just music. They were just like two towns. Like
the slogan that we like is like two guys from two towns. And that
was just kind of stuck. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I only have
to one other person, so then I never have to change the name.
There you go, I get like four people. Then I got to start
doing some explaining, well, but if it's four people, but two of
the people live in one town and two of the people living see that worked
out for our Higher Ground show. It was like they it worked because they
were from one town, we were from the other. Yeah. See there
you go, there you go. Well, let's play another track. What
should we do next? I think we we've played how how many of we
played? Three? Three? Oh? Good? So we have yeah,
so we have plenty to choose from yet because you sent us six, do
you have a preference when we go with next? Oo? My next favorite
out of the ones that we sent probably seventeen seventeen. Yeah, okay,
and anything we should know about this song. I don't know songs where there's
an age. It almost I get the sense that there might be a story
or something. Yeah, so I wrote I wrote seventeen when I was just
like leaving, like leaving home. It was kind of like being like,
okay, it's like you're growing up, you're going to college. Like seventeen
was about all the things that like I had done or like we had done
as friends when we were younger, and kind of like saying that if you
could go back and do it all over again, you just wouldn't change the
thing. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool, Pretty cool. All right,
let's give this a listen. This is seventeen, and this is the two
not the there's not the right. It's just two towns band two towns,
like straight up, two towns, two towns. Yep, here we go.
We were so young, we didn't know, and we never did what
we were to break all the rules. We didn't care. Why can't we
go back there? We were seventy Love that it means because we can be
anything we want to be. The fucker turn back time. If fucker real,
Why I would do it all the second time? And if you Bama
side, we take to this guy's in life like when we were seventeen.
Remember the day we leave any play a lot of them to care about anything?
All there we do this party is in jewels. We'd run around and
then act like rules. We could go back then I know the we we're
too bid our care the fucking turned that time in fucking real. Why I
don't know what I would do you know the second time? And with you
mama's side, we take to this guy's in li like when we were seventeen.
When the seventeen we were so young. We didn't know, we never
didn't, but we were so break all the rules. We didn't care.
Why can't we go back there when we were seventeen, when we were seventy
you fucking turned back time it fucking re Why hello, I would do you
all a second time? Then we do by my sade, we turn to
this guy's in fine like when we were seventeen that fade out snuck up on
me there That is seventeen, by the way, Okay, so we were
talking off here. It's officially the name is Two Towns not two towns bann
yep correct two towns, two towns, two towns, Facebook, Instagram all
over it, two towns, gotcha, gotcha. And the other thing that
we were talking about too, is so one of the songs this isn't one
of the ones you sent me, but you mentioned that this is your favorite.
Let me just see if I just want to get to where I can
play because I had to open up Spotify here, which I can definitely do.
But this this has an interesting story. So it's called fall Apart ye
and uh yeah, tell us tell us about this while I looked for it.
Fall Apart we It originally started as there was this band from Norway,
Lauren Liz, and they had somehow heard our music and reached out to us
over on Instagram DM. And this was right when we were starting, like
we were in the process of doing shell City and we're like, okay,
we need like one or two more songs to fill some more slots in this
album. And just miraculously, one day they reached out and they're like,
hey, let's do a song together. And they sent us like a few
bits and pieces of like ideas that they had and then it was just like
a back and forth collaboration, and it kind of see it kind of like
gave me a little light to how just because you're like way apart in the
world, like you're two different parts of like the globe, it doesn't mean
that you can't like collaborate and make music with other people. So yeah,
I mean we we live in a time where, you know, because I'm
old enough to remember when you know, nobody was thinking about, you know,
being able to email and drop box, you know, those songs back
and forth and all that stuff. So yeah, it is amazing that we
were able to do that, do all of that. Now, let's see.
Okay, I think I've got Spotify open here and it's uh is it?
Oh? Yeah, here we go, uh oh see more there it
is. Yeah, let's give this a listen. Yeah, so this is
called fall Apart and this is two towns. He was promised shooting stars,
thunder lining and Frost driving cars, and he unstard and then he let chase
calling nice all blinded Bottle, she cat down Belieble before the bach once to
fighting and she bless. She's start about. It is not ju Lay to
change, It's not Tolay to change. It's not delay. It's not delay.
It's not to it's not ju lay to change, it's not delay to
change. It's not Jay, it's not delay, it's not too. Did
well, very cool? That is fall apart. Two towns did that.
So in the end, obviously that that collaboration. You said it's your favorite,
so you're you're obviously very happy with it. Yeah, it's one of
my favorites that we did. And it just it came from absolutely nothing and
they just reached out and yeah, turned into something beautiful. Did it Did
it turn out the way that you expected? Or was it a surprise?
Because it was It was definitely a surprise. It was more of like,
oh, this actually turned into something that like we can use, and it
was it was a long process, like I think we spent three to six
months just like back and forth communication being like Okay, who's going to do
this, You're going to do this, and it turned just something that like
we were really proud of in the end there. Yeah, yeah, do
you obviously you know you don't have another vocalist with you to do that.
Do you do that live at all? Or that one? We haven't really
considered doing live. I think it's just because we don't have the female vocalists.
Yea, unless your voice can get that high. I mean we can
see what's going on. Yeah, you never know. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, we just haven't really considered doing it live because we don't have that
female vocalist aspect of it. But it's definitely something we would like consider bringing
in, maybe reworking a little bit of the vocals to fit my range or
maybe James's and then yeah from there, yeah, very good, very good.
Let's see, we've got time. I don't know if we'll have time
to get all of them in. What was the one, uh you had
mentioned, uh, maybe playing before we started talking about fall apart. I
think the two that we have is the two that we have left unoriginal and
should have been me those the oh should have been me. I really liked
that one a lot too. Should have been me. I actually wrote when
I was in eighth grade. No kidding, should have been me. I
wrote in eighth grade, and it just kind of followed me all the way
till we started. Two times We're like, hey, here's something, and
it kind of just came to be no kidding. Yeah, So did you
did you have the lyrics written down somewhere or did you just always remember them?
I had the lyrics written down somewhere, and we were renovating like one
of our rooms in the basement that used to be my bedroom into a recording
studio, and I had found this book from like this like little notebook from
when I was like in middle school, eighth grade time, and I opened
it up and like the first page I opened it up to, should have
been Me was on there, and I was like, Hey, we're gonna
we're gonna try this, and it just turned out to be a great song.
Wow, I'll be Did you rewrite any of the lyrics or did you
stick with thee I think we stuck with everything I had. I think we
reworked, like the ending part a little bit, the outro I think we
reworked, and maybe second verse. But yeah, that was the first song
that Two Towns Ever put out, and that was back in twenty twenty,
I think November of twenty twenty. Okay, okay, oh cool, all
right, let's give this a listen. This should have been me, this
is Two Towns. I've made mistakes and I'm remanded with that. Remove that
make now what the lie? But you would give me the second try.
You are the one. Oh, my w li lolylovo. Yeah, you've
passed me by now while I see him. Those are the guys. Oh,
we should have been me that you wanted more? Should have been me,
and I'm rifted to No, should have been me, love me,
should have gotten me? It should have been me? Why not you,
though? Should have been me now, my hot fear so should have been
me now, it should have dot me whoa whoa whoa Yeah in my dreams
tonight. Oh, you're probays their health every time I want to take a
ride, and you know I want you by my side, my side,
my side, and when you catch by, oh, my hearts clips inside
inside. Oh but you walk good bye? Now, I feel I'm wasting
time high wastingside. Yes, Oh, it should have been me that you
wanted more. Should have been me. I'm ripty, don't no, it
should have been me now. It should have been me here, It should
have been me when not you, though, should have been me? I
my half so should have been me now it should have been me. Not
bad for eighth grade, that's really good. I like that a lot.
That should have been me. That is two Towns. We have two towns
live in studio. Of course we have Zach and James here and uh we
should mention so before we run out of time, you guys got to show
tonight, right yep, we got to show up in a Waterville Vale,
the Waterfollo Valley town Square read at the gazebo in the center town. We
are playing from six to nine tonight, and then next week we go to
the gas Light Co in Portsmouth on Thursday, and then we're at somebody Nose
Brewery on Saturday. Excellent. Yeah, now you guys are staying busy,
Yeah, gotta stay busy. That's really good. That's really good. And
what should people know about where to find you online? Best place is definitely
Instagram. Two towns on Instagram. You got a two towns on Facebook.
And we're really starting to make a TikTok presidence out there too before it goes
away. So we're just trying to get as much content out there as possible.
So yeah, two towns on TikTok as well. Yeah, yeah,
you think you'll think it's gonna go away TikTok. It might, man,
I don't know, I know, I know, yeah it could it could,
so, I mean, use it while it's there. That's right exactly.
And we do have one more track which we'll we'll use on the show
at a moment. But guys, thank you so much. This has been
wonderful. I really like your sound. I like what you're doing, so
thank you very much. Oh. By the way, Melanie in the room
and her husband Jay fed from our friends from Vermont. They're very beard centric
and they notice you guys don't have beards, which is unusual for musicians in
this era. Everybody's got facial hair. Really, I just shaved this morning.
I can't. I can't grow beard. I can do like this really
patch thing. Yeah, past that nothing, It just grows in patchy and
goofy and nope, I gotta take it off. You guys are young.
Eventually that pesty facial hair start to show up. Probably we're really young.
So yeah, yeah. One of them was saying that, uh, yes,
you James, Uh you could rock a handlebar mustache. I've told yeah,
yeah I can the hat. Yeah it would be amazing. Yeah,
Melanie said, yeah, handlebar stash and some crazy sideburns. So something to
keep in mind. I'll go for it. And uh, Jenny before we
wrap up, did you want to plug your website? Absolutely, you can
come check me out at Gencoffee dot com, E N N C O F
F E Y dot com. Always up to something, Yes, yes,
absolutely, and thank you again to our other guests today too. Of course
we had a Jusel the rap No, I'm sorry you were so close to
doing it right, I'm mixing him up with Hope the Rapper who we did
the world radio premiere for one of his new singles, of course, but
also a Jusel the Rebel was our first guest in the first hour today,
and of course we had the ladies from the Sister Witch Company in the second
hour and very happy to have them on. And guys, thank you again.
Of course, two towns here in studio with us, and we're going
to close out with this track. Oh anything we should know about this?
Why is it called the Unoriginal? I think so. I actually didn't write
this song. This is the only song on the album that I didn't write
wrote it, and I think he wrote it. I think he called it
unoriginal because it was kind of a play on a Rex Orange County thing that
we were doing, like, oh, what's the typical like indie pop be
like I Love my girlfriend's song. Yeah, and this is what he ended
up coming up with, so oh cool, Yeah, all right, very
good, all right, Zach and James from Two Towns. Thanks again,
guys, and we will leave you with this. This is unoriginal. I
get this funny thing and looking back at you with your eyes in your heart
so blue. I gotta say one thing, three words. Yes, this
song is on original. But Darling, I love you. I love you,
Yes, I do, Yes, I do? Oh? Is sue,
I really really really love you? Yes? I do, yes,
I do. I love you, baby, hold my hand, maybe kissing
again. I'll make the herd go. Wait, just promise me that you
stay. I've never met anyone like you, your mam boo, Darling,
I love you, I love you, Yes, it's true. Yes,
Oh I do true, I really really really love you. Yes, yes,
I it's true, Darling. I love you, I love you,
I love you. I love you. Oh, I love love love love
you. Don't don'thing they know it's really fault. I'm gonna need a minute,
minute minute, let's go. Who died It's hope. I'm with the
pod Ron gone back, shaktoki. I've got down since he's got something.
An passed out. In twenty twenty, Mass called and I felt like pot
man pop mam. They just see the same for nigros. They washed down
the product and murdered out. He broke sound. The culture been bunched with
egos like Yay saying we just want the power the people and Pizzo. How
they're holding the remote nowadays seems like the truth of seafold me though, I'm
a rebel with one cause this ball might set the middle of detect dolls.
How she knowing is something like Brett falls. I'm gonna need a breath because
you go into the long yard. Heard you playing like Kevin and Kitt hard
thinking number doll. So probably I'll hit pause swing, gonna lose this swin
a circle working for the bill Board in the night commercial art that'll put him
in check. Let me take up breath? Wait, will up next?
We ain't gonna lose this winter circle working for the bill Board in the night
commercial. Four, that'll put them in checked. Wait, let me take
up breath? Wait will up next? Wait a second verse? You gonna
need a nurse soldier boy, tell us it is that we get the first
hold a noise because this gonna hit him. Wear hurts, Pulo roids.
We had a rally, so ir gonna bring this darn loop. We gonna
turn into a garden. Were not the same. I ain't like James Harden
shoot for the Star said no, you can't guard him. I will not
touch that brick. But no bogs hard as it feels like a speak washing
in my own world, I find myself often they tell me stop by saying
we just started. Might lose my mind. But Keith with my heart starving,
I ain't eat a bit up in a minute. But I treated like
I'm Papa and ate away my swining, just trying to reach limits that I
never said. I go, can't stop. And Chris Wallace with kick dose
ten toes and get do a line. Know this ain't know William not ninten
do drap needa fix and we giving out good. No, I will not
stop. You will have to come my brow. We ain't gonna lose this
Winner's circle. Who's working for the bill Board in the night commercial working Mata
whom in check? Wait, let me take a breath, wait wi up
next. We ain't gonna lose this winter circle working for the bill Board in
the night commercial orcuit, thatta wotem in check. Wait, let me take
a breath, Wait way up next day, it's hope. I'm with the
bard Man God that won Uncle SHUKTALKI Afghan and since it's got something gonna pass
down twenty twenty, massac on k I felt like Bradman Man the command God,
don't get Supreme Leader. Maxio g