1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,279 Tom Russo is here. Let me get that mic up for you. Sir. 2 00:00:03,319 --> 00:00:06,719 Hello, Hello, welcome to the show. Thank you. Really looking 3 00:00:06,719 --> 00:00:09,679 forward to hearing you play. By the way, that opening track saying Hallelujah, 4 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,960 which I really love. That's so good. That's so good. And 5 00:00:13,439 --> 00:00:17,879 also too, we have Kate Shimkey from Darlene Hill is in studio as well. 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,079 Good morning, y'all. Are family you guess cousins. Yeah, I 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,239 watched him play music when I was a kid. So oh, very cool. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,480 Definitely inspired me for sure. Watched me. Didn't didn't grow up, 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,079 I didn't grow up both had He got me hooked on Elvis Presley. Oh 10 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:34,799 okay, how it all started? Oh very cool. It is a good 11 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:38,600 Elvis impression. Oh excellent. Well, we might have to we might have 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,520 to hear that later. Well, Tom's got his acoustic guitar out and he's 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,000 going to play live for us, and then after that we'll we'll listen to 14 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:50,039 another studio track and then we'll we're going to talk for a bit and uh, 15 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:55,119 but I'm really looking forward to hearing this and Tom, this is the 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,119 song you're gonna play. This has not been recorded. This is uh yeah, 17 00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:02,119 this is actually a new song I am writing, was even adding a 18 00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:04,640 few lyrics this morning. Oh very cool, but yeah this is this is 19 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,840 a newer one, so just trying to kind of work it out. Wow, 20 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,920 so oh cool. So this is this is like an exclusive, this 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,359 is a world premiere. This could be making or break it right here, 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:21,799 like I'm either going to Hollywood or I'm not going very nice And uh, 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,439 what's it called? Do you? Or do you have the title for you? 24 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,879 That someone was you? His name of the song that someone was you? 25 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,200 Yeah, all right, very good. Uh yeah, whenever you're ready, 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,000 go ahead, ladies and gentlemen, Tom Russo live in studio, brand 27 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:53,719 new song, Give it a go, all right. I took my chance 28 00:01:53,760 --> 00:02:07,760 on luck. Look took no chance on me. I belonged to where I 29 00:02:07,039 --> 00:02:21,479 was. Something's got a hold on me. I was all over the road. 30 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:30,360 It took some more harm to see. That's some Ham was using. 31 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:59,759 That someone was I told the world of love and everything it could be love 32 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:15,280 and marked away until the day in this free Loff came back to show the 33 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:30,960 way it took something Ham to see. That's someone with you, that's someone 34 00:03:30,439 --> 00:03:53,639 was me in the back in the black in the dark five in the light 35 00:03:54,599 --> 00:04:08,879 and the light in the truth. We too. I took my chance on 36 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:23,240 luck. Luck took no chance on me, and I belonged to where I 37 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:36,839 was. Something's gotta hold on me. I was all over the road. 38 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:59,519 It took someone harm to see. That's someone. That's someone, that's someone, 39 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:20,639 that's someone. This me Tom Russo here in studio. That sounds finished 40 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,600 to me. I'm glad. I just threw the bridge and the bridge was 41 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,639 awesome. Bridge was written at about five am this morning, No kidding, 42 00:05:28,759 --> 00:05:30,959 and practice for the first time in front of you. Yeah, two or 43 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:33,160 three minutes ago. Oh, very cool, very cool. No, I 44 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:35,920 love it. That's that is excellent. Well, here's what we're gonna do. 45 00:05:35,959 --> 00:05:40,439 We're gonna play another studio track from Tom Russo, and then we're gonna 46 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:45,720 come back and talk and get to know him. But this is called Broke 47 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,079 Heart. Check this out and then we'll be right back Tom Russo live in 48 00:05:49,199 --> 00:06:26,199 studio. This is the end of me, of you, of us? 49 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:45,600 Where did we lose our word? Are the the trust? This is a 50 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:56,920 new start. This is my brodcoll with all discars and pain, how much 51 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,680 we both have changed. This is a new start. This is the best 52 00:07:03,759 --> 00:07:12,040 part. I'm walking down the road and lone, walking down the road. 53 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:29,600 I thought you spoke the truth. You lie, Smith died here I go 54 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:40,360 adam a new day, a new lie. This is a new star. 55 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:50,120 This is my road cart with all its scars and pain. How much we 56 00:07:50,399 --> 00:07:59,120 both have changed. This is a new start. This is the best part. 57 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:07,839 I'm walking down the road, lawn, walking down the road, and 58 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:16,000 then up from the ashes comes a winn. I know these chances, and 59 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:26,680 you can't find me there. And it's our sand down gravel. It's nothing 60 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:35,799 that I can handle. And I'll reach beyond my yesterday. I reached beyond 61 00:08:35,840 --> 00:09:16,679 my yesterday. This is the endomy coming of us to where where did we 62 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:37,559 lose our ways? Of the trust? This is the end of coll of 63 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:56,159 us, to where where did we lose our wed piso the trust to come 64 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:05,120 back? This is the start. I like that a lot. That track 65 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,600 is called Broke Heart, and that is Tom Russo, who is here with 66 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:13,039 us alive in studio. Here we have Tom Russo as well as Kate Shimkey 67 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,759 from Darling Hill who was on with us. When were you on at the 68 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,360 time? It all runs together for me. It was a few months ago, 69 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,559 right right before Halloween, right before Halloween. Okay, right before Halloween, 70 00:10:20,639 --> 00:10:24,919 gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah? And then so, as we mentioned earlier, 71 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,840 so the two of you are cousins, and if you have you made 72 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:31,960 music together, do you appear on each other's projects at all? Or I 73 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:37,320 don't think we've made music together. Now, I've booked him at my house. 74 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:39,120 Remember I have like a backyard where I book music. Yeah, so 75 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:43,639 I've had him play at my house. We've we've we've split gigs before, 76 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:46,200 I think at Marco's and air. But we've never worked creatively together. But 77 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,360 I would like to. We fight a lot. We Oh yeah, so 78 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:56,200 drama No no, I mean maybe that's a conversation we should have on the 79 00:10:56,279 --> 00:10:58,279 ride home. That's right. Oh, they we'll write the song on the 80 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,759 ride homeless, or you can have it here. It'd be good radio. 81 00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:07,279 Uh studio tracks, Tom, Where where are these recorded? Uh? They 82 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:13,960 sound great? These are mostly well actually all in New Hampshire. Clark Creative 83 00:11:13,159 --> 00:11:18,759 in Amherst. He's done a couple of them also Boardhouse Productions. He's in 84 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:24,240 Brookline right Pete pelloquin okay, git yep, okay. I was gonna say 85 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,759 that that's a familiar name. Yeah, so a lot of a lot of 86 00:11:28,799 --> 00:11:31,639 these may have started at my house, in my own little small studio, 87 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:37,600 and then I'd bring the tracks over kind of continue on from there. Yeah. 88 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,399 But yeah, Brokekart, I think you played that singing Hallelujah. Those 89 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:48,399 were both Clark creative, but I try to change it up a little bit 90 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,360 too, to just see what sound I'm getting, and because you definitely get 91 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,480 different sounds based on where you go or different inspiration. Yeah. Absolutely. 92 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:00,600 How many studio tracks have you recorded? How much? How much do you 93 00:12:00,639 --> 00:12:05,360 have? It's tough to say because I have a lot with either other bands 94 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,759 or other I had a solo release I think in two thousand and eight. 95 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,519 They're not all on there, but you can find them on Spotify and Yeah, 96 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,480 over the years, it's it's tough to really say. Like now, 97 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:22,200 recently, in the last year, I've released I think three maybe four. 98 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,960 Okay, but you've been playing your whole life. Yeah, I've been playing 99 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,480 my whole life and recording my whole life. It's just he's probably got a 100 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,799 lot. Yeah, they're not all up, you know, We're we're now 101 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,519 actually getting a lot of the old stuff from old bands. I've been in 102 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,759 and yeah, we're taking that and kind of fixing it a little bit, 103 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:43,200 making it sound a little cleaner, louder. So we will be releasing that. 104 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,720 I had an old band called on four oh, and I feel like 105 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:50,600 I remember on for do you I think so we were around here for quite 106 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,919 a while. Okay, yeah, I was gonna say the name's familiar. 107 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,200 That was the young band. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, for the 108 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,279 most part, I just now have been trying to record as much as I 109 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:05,159 can now continually. Do you play with any bands now or do you strictly 110 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,039 do solo? Mostly just solo? Yeah, solo, unless I had opportunity 111 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,759 where somebody needed a you know, a band or a duo. Right, 112 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:18,159 But it's you know, it's nice playing with by myself. It's just I 113 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:22,279 can't blame any of the mistakes on anything else, right, But it's easier 114 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:28,840 in terms of scheduling and decision for people trying to come up with a schedule, 115 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:33,000 right, right, Exactly how long has it been since the last time 116 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,600 you played in a band? Have you been a solo artist for a long 117 00:13:35,639 --> 00:13:39,639 time? I think last time I was actually playing in the band was pretty 118 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:45,759 steady in two thousand, okay, two thousand to two thousand and five ish, 119 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:48,240 I think. And then before that it was mostly all bands. Like 120 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:52,919 I didn't really start solo until moving back from Atlanta. Okay, that was 121 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:58,399 like ninety I'm getting my years on this. It's somehow, somehow the story 122 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:03,039 makes sense. But once I started doing solo, I just built up the 123 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,320 confidence to do it a little more. Yeah, in the beginning, I 124 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,000 may have had to repeat songs. Maybe I didn't, but maybe I did. 125 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:15,000 Yeah. So yeah, I would just go out and try to pick 126 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:20,080 up as many kind of little small venues here and there. But are you 127 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,759 from here originally? Yeah? Yes, Temple, ne Hampshire now but I 128 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,080 was New Hampshire, Yeah, Temple, Greenville, Mason, New Hampshire. 129 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,960 Okay, and then you live but you lived in Atlanta for a time. 130 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,960 Atlanta. Moved there in right about time of the Olympics, Okay, moved 131 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:41,759 down there with a band, oh before before the Olympics, and we played 132 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,759 for a couple years in Atlanta. Okay. Interesting, So so the whole 133 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:50,399 band moved together from from here to there, from here to there? Was 134 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,320 that on for or was that that was that was on for? Okay? 135 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,399 Wow? And that we started as four people in the band, then it 136 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,840 became three people, it was a three three member and when we moved to 137 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,519 Atlanta, but we're all still really good friends. Yeah. Now that's interesting 138 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:09,840 because you don't hear you don't hear stories like that much where a band decides 139 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:13,639 to all move together. Yeah, we actually moved with We didn't really even 140 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:18,759 know where we're gonna live. W so not really a lot of money, 141 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:22,720 just kind of stayed with somebody for a couple of weeks type thing. And 142 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,279 then yeah, so you were you really believed in while you were doing obviously, 143 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:30,080 yeah, yeah. And why Atlanta? Actually a lot of it was 144 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,039 the Olympics, you know, the Olympics coming in and the excitement at the 145 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:37,799 Olympics just and things were happening there, a lot of a lot of music 146 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,120 we could. We were getting sick of playing in the winter, yeah, 147 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:46,720 like and then we suddenly were able to play during the day. You know. 148 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:50,879 It wasn't screwing up our schedule at all. Interesting, and we traveled 149 00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:54,919 a lot of college yeah, college type gigs. Yeah, yeah, no 150 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,679 doubt. How long were you there in Atlanta? I think it was right 151 00:15:58,759 --> 00:16:02,600 about two years to two and a half okay, and then did you all 152 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:04,840 move back together? What happened then? No, like a few stayed there 153 00:16:04,919 --> 00:16:07,919 and we're you know, if you stayed there, I came here, uh 154 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:14,279 okay. One of the members, Sean went up to Colorado. I think 155 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,399 John stayed and he was in Florida and North Carolina and so Atlanta broke up 156 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:25,360 the band ultimately, right, we did have a great time. We had 157 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:27,440 gone there with you know, really being into the band R. E. 158 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:33,360 M. And Athens, Georgia, so we were we were kind of intrigued 159 00:16:33,399 --> 00:16:37,600 by that. Yeah, yeah, excellent. What what was the was the 160 00:16:37,679 --> 00:16:44,240 music scene like really different there just in terms of it was just there were 161 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:48,360 just a lot more places to play, like uh, you know, you 162 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,080 could you didn't have to like rely on two places in a local area. 163 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,039 Sure, sure, and it was just more exciting, you know, and 164 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,440 it was people seemed to be a little bit more willing to have music all 165 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,799 the time. Interesting. The schedule was a little different. A lot of 166 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:07,759 those gigs would start at ten at night. Oh really yeah, be ten 167 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:11,720 to two to two am. Okay, So we our life changed a little 168 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:15,000 bit with the schedule. But yeah, yeah, we enjoyed it. Yeah, 169 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,880 yeah, cool. And then, uh, so was it weird coming 170 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,359 back here because it's it's so and it sounds like it's really different there in 171 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,359 some ways, Yeah, it was. It was weird coming back where the 172 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,920 excitement wasn't the same, you know, like we were excited to be back, 173 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,279 but we didn't have I was excited to be back, but yeah, 174 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:40,160 didn't have the momentum. And and then when we would come up to visit, 175 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:42,079 same the same deal. We'd feel, what's there, what's there to 176 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:47,480 do up here? Right? But we we just spent so much time playing 177 00:17:47,519 --> 00:17:52,160 music together and practicing that we really didn't always care as much where we were. 178 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,920 Yeah, but yeah, definitely two different places. We were probably excited 179 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:03,240 to just get out of that cold and stop hitting the frost heaves. Yeah, 180 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:04,319 yeah, I know. It sounds like it was a good experience. 181 00:18:06,279 --> 00:18:08,160 Does does any of the material that you did and on forward is that? 182 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,960 Do you still do that today as a solo artist or not? Not really. 183 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:17,079 I may have done like one of the songs recently or on a different 184 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,960 album, but not really. I mean once in a while I'll go back 185 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,000 and listen to some of those or yeah, the guy that was in the 186 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,839 band with me, Sean. We're kind of in talks right now and might 187 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,599 even be a new song coming that we're we're kind of you know, so 188 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,559 we're excited about that. Maybe he's listening right now and shaking his head. 189 00:18:34,559 --> 00:18:41,400 No, I believe that's what's going to happen. I think most of us 190 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:47,359 have moved on with a lot of the older songs, and you know, 191 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,079 they're all there and we're excited about those still, but we it would be 192 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,759 nice to to do something new, you know, especially to see what we 193 00:18:53,839 --> 00:19:00,319 might come up with now versus because we felt we were pretty great back then. 194 00:19:02,079 --> 00:19:06,359 Well then you yeah, years later you listen and you you're like, 195 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,119 well that that guitar was out of tune, I wasn't singing right, you 196 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:15,319 know, But it just shows you you can always keep getting better. Yeah, 197 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,960 yeah, no doubt. I've seen some people get worse, so that's 198 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,680 that is possible. Also, do you miss being in a band or yeah, 199 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:29,000 yeah I missed. I just missed the playing off of each other in 200 00:19:29,079 --> 00:19:33,640 terms of where the music is going. Yeah, yeah, I do. 201 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,039 But it has to be always the right band. I've always been lucky enough 202 00:19:37,079 --> 00:19:40,519 to always be in the right band, Like every band I've ever been in 203 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,039 has worked for me, you know, so it's never been like wow, 204 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,839 this is like it's only taken me somewhere else in terms of music. So 205 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:56,240 yeah, okay, I think we should play another studio track, but I'll 206 00:19:56,279 --> 00:19:59,960 let you pick. I think we have a couple that we haven't played. 207 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,599 Yeah, let's see. Why don't you letu? Should I be afraid it's 208 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,480 a little unique? Should I be afraid? I wrote that song the day 209 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:12,319 of the studio time was booked. I actually started the night before and finished 210 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:17,480 it on my lunch break, and then I ended up at Boardhouse Productions that 211 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:22,279 night tracked it with Pete. And that's how this That's how the story is. 212 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:26,799 Is there a story behind the song itself or man? Probably not really? 213 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:33,440 Okay, I have a good friend on it rapping doing a rap. 214 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,519 He goes under the name bug Out. His name is Brian Ladd. Sorry 215 00:20:37,599 --> 00:20:40,559 if i've oh, yes, I know that is you know Brian. I 216 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,319 think I do. I think I've met him, at least I don't know 217 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,160 us in the Granite State. I'm sure i've met him. Kind of a 218 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,440 hip hop type guy. Yeah. Brett Wilson of Roots of Creation is playing 219 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,440 guitar on this one. Oh cool, excellent, Rick Cars on drums doing 220 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,279 some different you know, just had him kind of come in, but yeah, 221 00:20:59,319 --> 00:21:03,680 nothing too special, A pretty straightforward song. All right, well let's 222 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,960 let's give this a listen. So, uh, this is Should I be 223 00:21:07,039 --> 00:21:10,400 afraid? Tom Russo is with us in studio. We'll play this and then 224 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:32,440 we'll come back and talk some more. Where I begin tell you all of 225 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:41,160 mysing. I'm not a perfect man. I'm not to understand these things. 226 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,680 It's taken most of me. What's life? It's hard to see to do 227 00:21:53,519 --> 00:22:06,759 now it's time safe ghost. I'm not afraid to stop. So say I'm 228 00:22:06,799 --> 00:22:18,279 wasting time? What so be mine? Here making up your mind? I 229 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:33,119 decided it. Should I be afraid? I be afraid? Would I do 230 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:45,880 not know? I live the sun shining, I lift stop, dance with 231 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:56,440 my soul? Should I be afraid? Be a friend? I everything? 232 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:07,720 I hold revery man, A man of five shinta amna. A guy is 233 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:48,519 wearing rack though now the wheel is spirs. We all have a different I'm 234 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:56,839 not a perfect matter. Just be the best that can. SA is taking 235 00:23:57,079 --> 00:24:10,440 most of me. What's left? It's hard to see today Should I be 236 00:24:10,839 --> 00:24:18,680 afraid? Can I be a friend? What I do not know? What? 237 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:27,960 I'm letting you start shining? Left to stop shining, dancing myself? 238 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:42,319 Should I be afraid you free your everything? I know everything I know. 239 00:24:44,759 --> 00:25:18,599 I'm letting her start shining, shines, win a ra You know what? 240 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:23,119 Hard times before the John Rosser can't hide forever put it feel like it's hard 241 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,599 to find, trying to keep focus, to seem hopeless of fin notice in 242 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,079 my getting up in the heis and my hope is to try to hope this 243 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,039 moment is gone, gone with the can before the storm is off. But 244 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,359 when they notice and broke the best of reminded, when they give no longer 245 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:45,279 promise in minds or the predominance that we've been in the silence home. Well, 246 00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:48,000 that is very cool. That is Tom Russo and Tom who remind us? 247 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,880 Who is that at the end? That is bug out? Bug out? 248 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,880 Yeah, that is very cool. That's you know, it's it's it's 249 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,559 cool too, how it's it's just at the end, and so you have 250 00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:03,119 no idea that it's coming, but it sounds so naturally. I'm glad you 251 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,319 said that because when I when I had the idea to put it there, 252 00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:11,480 and he's he is a hip hop guy, if you know Brian from Granite 253 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:17,279 State. Yeah, he's like, oh, nobody's ever really done that in 254 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,960 the term you know, it's not like I'm really planning it that way. 255 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,400 But I liked it in the in that fact that it it didn't start at 256 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,160 the beginning of the song where you had any idea it was going to come 257 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,680 in at all, right, right, yeah, because usually when you do 258 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:33,400 hear anything even close to that, it's usually in the beginning and I'm sorry, 259 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,640 not in the beginning in the middle, right, you know, like 260 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,279 where you might expecting a guitar solo, you might you'll hear a verse of 261 00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:44,720 rapping. But to put it at the very end, I'm trying to think 262 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,359 of I can't think off the top of my head of another example of somebody 263 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,920 doing that, although I feel like I feel it has I'm sure it's definitely 264 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,279 been done, but it's uh but but it's cool. It's it's kind of 265 00:26:56,559 --> 00:27:00,200 it's it's surprising, but it's almost subtle at the same time because it just 266 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:04,759 fits it so perfectly well. Actually, the thing I was really happy about. 267 00:27:04,759 --> 00:27:07,359 If you listen to the lyrics and he wrote he came up with those 268 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,920 lyrics. I basically told him this is what this is, what the song 269 00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:15,799 is. Just I want you to do your thing. But his lyrics are 270 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,759 meaningful too, Like he those they fit the song, and that's his style, 271 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,319 that's that's where he is, that's why he does it, and he's 272 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,839 he's a natural at doing it. So I thought, I was like, 273 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,119 I've never had a rap on a song. And even earlier, Concetta was 274 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:40,319 the one singing with me on sing Hallelujah, and she was somebody from the 275 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,880 studio where I had gone to and recommended her, and she sang the national 276 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,680 anthem at Red Sox Yankees game. Just recently, she's worked with a lot 277 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:55,000 of big people. She just came in and sang that and that that's what 278 00:27:55,519 --> 00:28:00,319 that song needed. So the same deal with this song is it's it felt 279 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,680 cool to put it there. I'm sure some people might not like it, 280 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,599 or maybe a true hip hop person would be like, you know, because 281 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,960 don't they're not listening to the other stuff. Sure, but I think it 282 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:15,400 fits. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. If you're just joining us, we 283 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,799 have Tom Russo here alive in studio with us. Are you recording an album 284 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,759 or are you doing any or what's what's your trajectory there? I guess I 285 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,279 have taken a different approach this time, where it seems like I'm doing it 286 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,960 as singles. Yeah, And then the way I look at it is, 287 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 then if I had ten different singles versus an album, gives me ten different 288 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:42,759 opportunities to be in front of somebody. Yeah, you know, I think 289 00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:49,000 the idea eventually would be to have enough songs that an album would be made, 290 00:28:49,359 --> 00:28:55,759 you know, or maybe then kind of redone and the best of twenty 291 00:28:55,839 --> 00:28:59,759 different songs and maybe it would be one album. But yeah, I guess 292 00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:03,359 it's to say, because if they're done and recorded, I want to keep 293 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,240 going right right. Yeah. We live in a time where, you know, 294 00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:11,680 you have so many different options as far as how you release things and 295 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:17,279 whether you want to put out a single or an album or rep or A 296 00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:18,680 lot of guests we've had on the show recently too, they talk about, 297 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,039 you know, just releasing singles and then once all the singles are out that 298 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:26,880 they want for that album, you know, then releasing an album of those 299 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,880 singles, which is interesting because it's, you know, an obvious inversion of 300 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,000 how it was when we were growing up, where you know, a single 301 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:37,000 would come out a little bit before an album, and then the album would 302 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,559 come out, and then any more singles would come out after the album was 303 00:29:38,599 --> 00:29:41,200 out. But now it's like you can do anything you want to with the 304 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:45,200 Internet. Well, the Beatles did it all that way if you think about 305 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,480 it. They had different arrangements, collections of songs, and different US versions 306 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:56,440 of versus other versions, and they just keep making different albums. Yeah, 307 00:29:56,599 --> 00:30:00,680 yeah, which people like that though, right absolute Are the Beatles a big 308 00:30:00,759 --> 00:30:04,200 influence on you? I hear some of that, Yeah, definitely. The 309 00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:11,200 Beatles have always been probably really one of my you know, the influences I've 310 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,400 had have been the Beatles, Elvis, Yeah, in the beginning, that's 311 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:21,759 who they were, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Everly Brothers, but yeah, 312 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,960 that would crowded, how squeeze. Those are bands I've really been into, 313 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:30,480 and I've been into a lot of singer songwriters like Sean Mullins, Chris 314 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:37,400 Christopherson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson. Tom Petty is actually a huge influence 315 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,519 on I just like the style of writing. Yeah, so Tom Petty is 316 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:45,640 somebody that can encourage me that I can just write a song the way it 317 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,960 should be written, which is just write it as simple as it can be, 318 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,440 right, right? What is there a process in terms of do lyrics 319 00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:59,000 come new first or do you think of a melody first? Or does it 320 00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:06,880 change or it seems to change now, it's probably worth a few words. 321 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:11,920 Something will just start, could be a phrase, could be four words that 322 00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:15,440 I just it's the words that make me think of the melody, and then 323 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:21,359 it kind of takes off from there and then I either know like it's worth 324 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,319 going or it's you know, I either have to convince if it's good. 325 00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:26,920 I have to convince myself it's good. If it's if it's not a walk 326 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:33,079 away from it, you know, or a little confusing. But it comes 327 00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:37,000 in so many different ways. It could be you could say something to me 328 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:44,160 that I had never known about, and maybe that could inspire me to to 329 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,519 write something. Yeah. Does anything you write ever wind up sounding really different 330 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:55,039 when you record it than what you had envisioned. Yeah. Yeah. The 331 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,720 reason I ask is it sounds like because it sounds like you're very open to 332 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,640 you know, like having bug out on that track or having I forget the 333 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,799 name of the singer on Oh Conchetta, Conchetta. It sounds like you're very 334 00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:07,799 open in that sense in terms of having, you know, having things kind 335 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:12,640 of take a left turn for you know, from what you may have originally 336 00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:16,599 envisioned. I think it's easier now at my age because I can keep working 337 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:21,599 for the song. When I was younger, you'd be four guys in a 338 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,640 band and everybody has their part, and everybody has their opinion, which is 339 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:30,440 fine, but sometimes it just it it holds things up. It can take 340 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:35,880 longer in this sense where you're still building songs, but you are taking the 341 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,000 time to like you're getting smart enough to know if something doesn't fit, like 342 00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:45,839 you're taking it out. Like So there are tracks that I paid studio musicians 343 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,400 to come in on some of these songs that were great parts. It's just 344 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,319 that didn't work for the song. I had a violin on a song coming 345 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:59,960 up called Greet the Sun, and the violin's beautiful and I've played that version 346 00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:02,799 of people who like it, but it just didn't work. Yeah, that 347 00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:07,680 would have been harder to do in the band if you played the violin and 348 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,119 said, hey, you know, really the part that we all really liked. 349 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,240 Last week. We don't like it anymore. Right, we have a 350 00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:17,680 call. I think somebody has a question for you. Man. That's Mike 351 00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:22,079 Doyle. Hey, Mike, how you doing. Good morning to you, 352 00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:23,720 Good morning to you. Guess hey, I just turned you on. I 353 00:33:23,799 --> 00:33:28,599 thought maybe I said, no, he's playing music. Maybe maybe he's not 354 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,759 on today or something. And I ended up listening to the song and I 355 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:37,240 got to tell you that song was was fantastic. It was who doesn't that 356 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,680 fit that? The words I'm not a perfect man? You know, right 357 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:46,599 right, it's it's that's making it's that's making you reflect on yourself and friends 358 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,839 and you know, the whole world, and with all this stuff going on 359 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,039 these days, I mean, who's a perfect man? You know, there's 360 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:58,400 probably only one that we all know, but that it was a great song, 361 00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:05,240 great lyrics, great great great music, great vocals. And I'm not 362 00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:08,639 a rap guy at all, but that that ending, you know, catch 363 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:12,360 you. I'm thinking here it's going to be a soft landing for the ending, 364 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,400 and all of a sudden, the rap it's it, it's it. 365 00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:20,840 It wasn't overbearing, it wasn't it was just enough. So I just wanted 366 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,119 to say a great song all the way around. Well, thank you very 367 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:27,960 much. That that Actually, that's really cool to hear, uh, because 368 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,519 I don't know who you are, and it's neat to hear coming from a 369 00:34:31,559 --> 00:34:35,599 sixty five year that's coming from a sixty five year old man. Man, 370 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:39,559 he's living in Manchester all his life and he's definitely not a perfect man. 371 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,480 I'm glad you picked up the phone. Yeah, yeah, thank you very 372 00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:47,960 much. Appreciate your music. I'm going to look deeper into what else you 373 00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:52,039 do. Thank you. I'll keep singing them for you. Excellent. All 374 00:34:52,119 --> 00:34:53,559 right, man, thanks all right, Mike, thank you for the call. 375 00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:57,199 Appreciate it. All right, We'll see you all right, bye bye. 376 00:34:58,039 --> 00:35:00,519 Yeah, it's interesting what Mike was saying. That's a exactly what we 377 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:01,840 were talking about. That the part at the end with bug Out, it 378 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,239 just you know, it's a surprise, but and yet it just fits so 379 00:35:06,519 --> 00:35:09,039 seamlessly into the song. Well, and what's cool here is I I might 380 00:35:09,119 --> 00:35:14,000 think that somebody just hears the song and they go about whatever they're doing, 381 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:21,360 But he actually heard my lyrics and just he recited back what he just heard 382 00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:24,760 and he had meaning in what he heard. And that's to me, that's 383 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,800 probably one of the coolest things I've ever really experienced to have somebody just call 384 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,079 right and it's not my uncle that called in, right, of course, 385 00:35:34,119 --> 00:35:39,519 it could be. It could be thanks uncle, Mike. Right. Yeah, 386 00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:42,639 that's awesome. Yeah, that's got to give you chills. Right when 387 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,559 when somebody really when they give you more than just oh I like that song, 388 00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:50,440 when they actually get something from the lyrics, you know, that's awesome. 389 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,079 Well, and even you bringing up the rap, so you're you brought 390 00:35:52,159 --> 00:35:57,880 up something to me that was already a discussion between myself and Brian that did 391 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,679 the rap, Like, well, it's you know, but I didn't come 392 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:01,639 in here and ask you, hey, what do you think about that? 393 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,480 Yeah, like you brought that up on your own, and he just called 394 00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:09,320 in in the same way. He was surprised to hear that. So I 395 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,320 guess that's that was effective in how it's supposed to be in there. So 396 00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:15,920 yeah, yeah, yeah, well done, well done, thank you. 397 00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:22,639 That is awesome. So yeah, so kind of circling back though to what 398 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,119 we were talking about, so are you before about the singles? So is 399 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,960 is your are you just kind of doing singles for now and then kind of 400 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,719 see where it leads or yeah. I mean, I think I would like 401 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,320 it to lead somewhere where I just keep making better songs, right, and 402 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:42,360 then I make it to the point where you just can't deny it anymore. 403 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,400 Like, you know, I'll just keep throwing good songs at people, and 404 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,360 then I'm gonna just end up where that's going to take me, which could 405 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,880 then mean playing more music, you know, full time original music, or 406 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,039 selling music, or just getting it everywhere. So I think the intention would 407 00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:06,960 be to just keep going in the direction that I don't. I don't want 408 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,559 to do it. I'm not. I've never done it just as a hobby, 409 00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:12,719 you know, I've always in the background of anything I've been doing, 410 00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,239 plugging away. Do you play out a lot? Are you doing a lot 411 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,440 of shows? I'm playing fewer now. I mean, there was a point 412 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,199 where I used to play, you know, fifteen eighteen times a month and 413 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,719 work a full time job. I'd say, Now it's and once I get 414 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,559 going again, it's probably on average, maybe more like five to eight times 415 00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:37,719 a month. More than that. How many you know, did you say 416 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,159 a month? How many times would you say, oh before yeah, fifteen, 417 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,280 twenty seventeen, you know, But that's crazy to me. But that 418 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,000 would be because I was saying yes to every gig I got, right, 419 00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:52,639 Yeah, like a lot they would call and you were working. Yeah, 420 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,280 but I'd be playing a Monday night, Tuesday night, a Wednesday, a 421 00:37:54,360 --> 00:38:00,360 Sunday. And eventually I decided, actually that's when I decided to start getting 422 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,400 back into focusing on recording my music. I was like, I'm not gonna 423 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,440 record my music and play all these gigs. So yeah, but I but 424 00:38:08,559 --> 00:38:12,360 I'm just more selective now, you know. I have some coming up. 425 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,760 I'm playing in peter Boron Hampshire at a nice little family diner Christmas Eve called 426 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:22,400 Pipa and Lulu's. And I went to school with both of the people that 427 00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:24,480 own the place, and they just I was in there recently and they asked 428 00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:29,639 me, and yeah, I'll come in and do that. So I've let 429 00:38:29,679 --> 00:38:32,440 a lot of things happen. You know. I don't really search for it 430 00:38:32,519 --> 00:38:37,679 as much anymore. I do have a booking agent once in a while get 431 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:42,119 some calls, but yeah, I just kind of go where I think I 432 00:38:42,159 --> 00:38:44,639 should be, go where the road takes you. Yeah, yeah, no, 433 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,239 that makes that makes sense. Now do you have do you have anything 434 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,639 coming up that you want to mention, any shows in the area that I 435 00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:55,400 wish I wrote them down, or you can tell us where to find that. 436 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,239 I don't think I have. I think I have one coming up. 437 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,159 It's like January thirteenth, but that's in Hillsbrow that a place called Main Street 438 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,159 Grill. I have a show coming up over at Hampshire Hills, a couple 439 00:39:07,199 --> 00:39:12,719 of those what is that called the Hills, The Hills, the Hills. 440 00:39:14,119 --> 00:39:16,559 But I will start like I've just this time of year. I was like 441 00:39:17,159 --> 00:39:20,719 December, and you know, it's a little slow, and then yea, 442 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,880 it will get warmer and then I'll be playing like you know, maybe some 443 00:39:23,039 --> 00:39:29,079 sea coast things and some places around here. But really now I'm just trying 444 00:39:29,119 --> 00:39:34,440 to really refine my sound, get better with my equipment, you know, 445 00:39:34,639 --> 00:39:37,519 learn my equipment a little bit more in terms of sound, because I just 446 00:39:38,639 --> 00:39:44,559 I'm not I just put stuff on the floor and I don't I don't turn 447 00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:50,679 too many knots to what I'm saying. We should tell people too, So 448 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,760 what's what's the best way for people to find you online? Who want to 449 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,199 follow you, follow your music and and and part of why I think it's 450 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:04,039 especially important make that clear with our listeners. Is because uh not everyone's going 451 00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:06,360 to know how to spell your last name. That's true. Yeah, we 452 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,519 should correct that. So it is Russo r O U S S E a 453 00:40:10,679 --> 00:40:14,639 U. That's how you. I'm sure all you had a pen when I 454 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:20,639 just said that. Guys on the chat room, I've dropped Tom Russo Music's 455 00:40:21,039 --> 00:40:23,400 race book link. Oh yeah, there for you. I would you know, 456 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,599 and I would say. Now, what I try to do now, 457 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,480 and I've been encouraged to do this more, is just get people to stream 458 00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:34,519 it. Stream more like go on Spotify, listen to whatever you want, 459 00:40:34,639 --> 00:40:38,400 go on iTunes music, go on Amazon Music, Apple Music. So it's 460 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:43,679 it's all out there. Yeah. So it's it's it's all there for people 461 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,519 to get it free. I think now the idea is just really getting people 462 00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:51,599 to share it. Like like I didn't really get that until a couple of 463 00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:54,559 years ago. I have my friend Lewis Gendron there that wrote Broke Heart with 464 00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:58,199 me. He actually started off that song. He was more of the main 465 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,320 writer than I came in. He's he's been the one plugging for me to 466 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,480 do that. He's like, you got to get people to stream it, 467 00:41:06,639 --> 00:41:08,920 because if I had a stack right now of three hundred CDs and I even 468 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:13,280 told you it was two dollars for the CD, you might not buy it, 469 00:41:13,559 --> 00:41:15,760 right, you know. It's people don't care about that anymore, so 470 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:22,679 some people do it. It's it's interesting how I would want a CD. 471 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,159 Yeah, I mean, physical media has really kind of hung on. But 472 00:41:28,679 --> 00:41:30,719 you know, some people, like if they're really into an artist, you 473 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,280 know, they want the art and the liner notes and everything, you know, 474 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:42,239 And we had like like we've had actually like Byron G and Cody Pope 475 00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:45,599 when they were on a couple of you know, pretty young hip hop guys, 476 00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:49,800 and they're like, oh yeah, we still put out CDs because you 477 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,360 know, some some people still want physical media. But but it's it's certainly 478 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:58,760 has changed a lot. I think I think it was in twenty twenty two, 479 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,840 I think, I hope I have this right, was the first year 480 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:07,079 that Vinyl actually outsold CDs that yeah, yeah, you're right about I'm missing 481 00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:10,360 albums. Yeah, I missed, you know, having those big sheets and 482 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,360 liner notes and stuff. But I'll tell you you're definitely on my playlist, 483 00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:16,079 which is why I don't know a lot of current day songs. You were 484 00:42:16,079 --> 00:42:19,360 at before the show, you had asked me about a current day song. 485 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,559 My playlist is pretty much all independent artists. But I really don't hear a 486 00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:27,679 lot of modern now. But you had only just heard it recently, right, 487 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,199 I wasn't on your playlist, right right? No, No, you're 488 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,760 going on my play you are going. You are coming onto my independent playlist. 489 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,159 That'd be bad. If I've had to give my playlist for years I've 490 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:43,079 just met. No, I'm not that quite it turns out, it turns 491 00:42:43,079 --> 00:42:46,920 out it's a different time. Russo, Tom Russo are Uss was approved and 492 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:53,239 I did not even play. I would say funny. Even for music, 493 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:58,320 I'll be out more and more, uh, playing in live, so somebody 494 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,159 usually can kind of go search. I'll always post my gigs on Facebook. 495 00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:07,840 I do have the musician page and my private page, but over the years 496 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:14,079 nobody half of them come in on my private my personal page, and I 497 00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:15,800 still accept them because it's just like, well, that's what they find. 498 00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:21,280 So I think there's Tom Russo music and Tom Russo, but I'd say share 499 00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:24,280 share that music as much as you can for sure. I don't know, 500 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,519 do you have time to play that one last song or oh yeah, that's 501 00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:30,199 that's how I want to Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's that's how 502 00:43:30,199 --> 00:43:32,239 I want to end. I don't want to wear out my welcome here. 503 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:37,000 And I'm very curious about that bike. And if anybody laughs at you when 504 00:43:37,039 --> 00:43:43,960 you ride that bike, there's a bike in the well. It looks like 505 00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:46,039 a lot kind of a scooter. It's a bike scooter. I was gonna 506 00:43:46,039 --> 00:43:52,039 say a lot of that, like is somebody somebody won that at the Miracle 507 00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:55,760 on Elm Street, which is an awesome fundraiser that's done here every year and 508 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,800 all the money and toys and things that are raised day right here in Manchester 509 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,599 and go to Manchester kids. So that was part of a raffle prize. 510 00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:07,000 It was probably called the Miracle on Elm Street. When they sat actually rolling 511 00:44:07,559 --> 00:44:10,800 is look at it two wheels. I would have to get on it and 512 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,400 I'd be like, I do not know what to do. I should write 513 00:44:14,639 --> 00:44:16,760 things like that. I value not breaking any more bones. I think it 514 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:21,320 looks really cool though. It does look cool. It does, so we 515 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,880 will. Yeah, so we're gonna end the hour with this, uh, 516 00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:28,400 this song. I greet this on what should we know about this Tom before 517 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:34,519 we play just actually to me kind of started a lot of this off in 518 00:44:34,679 --> 00:44:37,199 me recording again. Actually, I wrote the song a piano, which isn't 519 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,360 really what I would do. So I played piano on the song. A 520 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,119 friend of mine's playing with me as well. But it just seemed really easy 521 00:44:45,159 --> 00:44:50,440 to write because I wasn't playing a guitar, so I really didn't know what 522 00:44:50,519 --> 00:44:52,679 I was doing, so I didn't know what I couldn't do. It was 523 00:44:52,760 --> 00:45:00,519 more just playing it and it sounded right. But yeah, I don't know. 524 00:45:00,679 --> 00:45:02,880 It seems to this this seems to be a song that will always be 525 00:45:04,519 --> 00:45:07,320 an end of the album song. It just it feels that way to me. 526 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:14,679 It's kind of slow, but it has a certain melody feel that that 527 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,599 I wanted to get through and I think it happened. Yeah, well but 528 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,760 pretty simple, you know, pretty simple overall, perfect way to and the 529 00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,000 segment then excellent, Tom Russo, thank you so much. This has been 530 00:45:25,039 --> 00:45:30,760 wonderful. Well, thank you very much for having me absolutely absolutely and my 531 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,440 cousin Kate O Yeah, Kate from Darling Hill. Go back and check that 532 00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:37,719 out if you missed that interview. That was really good. That was a 533 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,559 few months ago, right before right before Halloween. You said, right, 534 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,800 yeah, And I just want to thank you guys for showcasing local artists like 535 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,039 you do. Happy to do. It's really fun to sit back and watch 536 00:45:46,079 --> 00:45:49,920 you interview them and ask them all the questions like you seem to get to 537 00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,239 the heart of the creation process, which I really, I really think it's 538 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,920 cool to hear and share with people. Oh, thank you. I appreciate 539 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:00,320 that nice style, right and I love that. Let's give this a listen. 540 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,360 This is greet the Sun, Tom Russo, Tom, thanks again, 541 00:46:04,559 --> 00:46:44,159 thank you. I don't see anything in front of me. I see well, 542 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:59,559 want to see. I hear what I hear, don't hold on. 543 00:47:01,159 --> 00:47:15,679 I'm still singing, singing more song, dreaming, same mold dream till I 544 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:32,639 come back. And it's nothing that I haven't seen. I've been haunted by 545 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:44,880 the same old dream. Comes to take my hand, das night, I 546 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:53,440 pray the Lord he has my life. I'm still going down the same old 547 00:47:53,880 --> 00:48:07,360 road telling stories. I've all already talk and I'm waiting here for me to 548 00:48:07,519 --> 00:48:53,920 come by the corner. I'll be meet someone you can see. Still dreaming 549 00:48:57,039 --> 00:49:16,400 every dream till a comby, come till it come back. Come till it 550 00:49:16,559 --> 00:49:28,239 come back. Come till it come back. Come till it come back. 551 00:49:28,519 --> 00:49:34,719 Come till it come back. Come back till it come back.