Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome walk Welcome. It's time
now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust.
And we've got a couple of very special guests in the studio. I
have Chris Coffin, who's a producer, a producer and listener. I've almost
conflated the two words there. And we have a legend in here. We've
had Morris McCorvey in here before. But Morris, it's great to have you
back in the studio. How are you today? Great to be back.
Well, we got we got a lot to celebrate here. We've got a
new record coming out and we're gonna we're gonna kind of set the tone here.
We're gonna play this a little bit of a musical party from the record
right now, and then when Morris comes in. Morris, you've got a
thing, uh poetry, but it's poetry all your own. Explain what your
poetry is, Well, it's my poetry. And using quotes from other poets,
Dylan, I think you have on this one in the way that jazz
musicians quote other musicians they're playing. Yeah, so you combine the hole boetry.
Yeah, Yeah, let's play a little clip of that here, real
quick broken lines, broken strings, broken threads, broken springs, broken idols,
broken heads, people sleeping in dead, broken beads. Ain't no use
jazz us joking. This is a great collection that you've got to put together
here, Thank you. Sounds like you just had a lot of fun with
this, so you get to you get to think it's a lot of work,
but it's also like a lot of fun at the same time. A
lot of work, a lot of fun with both the same thing, yeah
for me, and a lot of magic. A lot of magic. I
guess that some of that magic is is Chris and Chris you're you're producing for
very special record. Yeah it is. It is a very special record.
You know. We started this about four years ago and Morris brought over some
records of you know, Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost actually reading their poetry,
and I'm like, hey, what why don't we do why don't we do
some of this? You know, we had some YouTube we had some YouTube
videos of his poetry and you know Morris's poetry. Is it just seemed you
know, even though it's accessible Internet, you know, YouTube videos accessible,
this lends itself to something a little more special, a little more permanent,
and so I was like, you know, let's let's let's let's do this
record, you know. And we had some really great friends, Donnie and
Bridget would yeah, and they lent their their studio and Red Cat Studios in
great dog listening room, which is special specially you know. Yeah, yeah,
cats and dogs. Well they got along that night. But so we
have some of that night that we recorded there and then some of uh I
would say about hop the record is recorded there, just live and some magic
was captured. And then the other half is things that Morse came over and
we just recorded and it has some uh conflict, uh complaint, how would
I say it? Some music behind his uh some soundscapes behind his poetry that
lend lends itself to it really well. So Morris, you like performing live?
Yes, I like to be alive. Performing live a little bit tricky.
Yeah, recording is pretty good though, and I like to record.
I like performing live because as feedback from the audience that lends itself to the
performance, you know, it becomes a oneness that emphasizes the oneness that we
all are. It always takes to the art a little bit higher when there
are people in sympathy with you and empathy with you while you're doing it.
So, yeah, I did it. You know, you do feel that
they call it feeding off the audience, while the audience feeds off you and
it becomes a very powerful sharing experience. Yes, and there's an exhilaration there
that you really can't define, but it's there. Now. Going into the
studio and recording, you know, that had to be a kind of fun
too, a lot of fun because we're working on a jam session and you
have a lot of talented musicians, a lot of talented technicians, a lot
of talent in the room and they're lightning flashing all the time, you know,
so you have to find some partico agreement and work together. And that's
a beautiful thing too. Wow, now I understand we're putting this on vinyl
Fylly. Yeah wow. Now, Morrison and I were talking a little bit
about how vinyl feels just a little bit. Maybe it's because we're so used
to it. Yeah, yeah, sure. But the thing is, you
can read liner notes, you can read more about the artists, you can
tell the musicians who performed, and just a variety of everything with as you
said too, you have the intention of listening, not just putting something more.
Yeah, that's right, Yeah, we had you know, you can't
delete it. No, you can't lose it on your hard drive. No
you can't. You remember the r l of you know where to go to
listen to to it. So yeah, once you have it, it's yours.
So yeah, and this one has uh is packaged in art. Yeah,
it is includes gallery worthy uh by Julie Elkins and Andy Andy Andy do
Andy Dawson's photographs. Yeah yeah, sure right. So yeah, so we
have a photography that was captured that day by Andy uh Andy do it and
Jerine Elkins did the line work on top of a very both talented artists here
in Bartlesville. And we'll have this printed up on the story on the internet
to can please continue? Oh yeah yeah, so yeah, they both worked
on the art about So we wanted to have this as a community, the
community of artist. More said, you know, let's not just make it
about just the two of us putting things together. Let's let's get the whole
about it. Let's get the whole community involved. And so we had some
really talented musicians Chris Christopher, Papa Foster and Tulsa and his crew, Dream's
husband, Zach Elkin's saxophonist. Anyway, to a lot of people out here
there that really made this happen, may have pulled it together. So really
probas that video. Oh yeah, the videographer. Yeah we had yeah video.
So yeah, we do have some videos out there of the session.
So yeah, any Lake, she did the video that you actually see.
It's actually on Kickstarter, so how we're actually promoting this. It's a pre
order, but it's on Kickstarter. So if you go to kickstarter dot com
and just type in Hoe Poetry so h O B O E t R Y,
you're going to find find the Kickstarter and you can actually pre order it
there. So for one record, I think it's a there's different tiers,
but for one record's twenty eight dollars go out there. And yes, it
helped support and that was a magic I was talking about in the studio.
We had Annie, and we had Andy, we had Chris, we had
Chris, we had everybody was doing their thing at the same time, you
know, and that's what the lightning was flashing. You know. It was
much more than my poetry ever would have been all on its own. So
it was a beautiful experience. Where did you get the idea to mix your
poetry with great music? I mean, where where did that come about?
Well, you know, I've morew up in Oklahoma City, near Deep Deep
Deuce, and uh, I got jazz in my blood. My poetry comes
out of jazz, oh okay, And so jamming was what I wanted to
do. I just wanted to get together with some good musicians and jam you
know, uh eras and all. And then I got lucky and got Chris,
you know, willing to be involved with me. And we'd been working
on to record a poetry for a few years anyway, and uh it just
became something more than just a bunch of ragged jamming, you know. Uh,
let's tell le let's talk about Danny too, right. So, yeah,
my cousin Danny. I'd been playing with him for many, many years
back in in the s in the city. You know, we used to
hang around down on Deep Douce and hang around and join some this and at
the back to the jazz musicians who would come in after playing dances downtown and
just get together and play whatever. Wow, you know, and they had
battles and and it was uh, you know, there was no mistakes because
what you played next made what you just played correct, and that it was
the whole spirit of Jamin. You know. That really had to be like
magic, you know for a young guy seeing all these people who were playing
the big bandstands and just all of a sudden they get back and there get
real with each other and just having fun cutting lows. Yeah, it was
crazy because as a kid, I was I was putting words in where they
were improvising and and the elders usually tell me there are no lyrics there,
and the lyrics there, but I kept hearing words and putting words there.
So this is an opportunity for me to be an instrument among the instruments and
to get some of those words out of me. And Chris you capture that
in the audio recordings and uh you know in that sense that that that that
whole, that whole well yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know we're where
he's talking about filonious monk and uh and so that's big stuff. Yeah,
yeah, Miles Davis. So I listened to those records intensively and just listen
to the production, you know, on the production side of things, and
so I'm like, Okay, let's try to match up. And so I
think we got pretty close to it. Yeah, And see, that was
the thing about the Bob Dylan thing. Miles might be playing anything, he
would quote any other musician, any other song, you know, And that's
how Bob just spontaneously came in there, and a couple of other quotes from
poets you know. But that's what jazz musicians you do. They play music,
and if the music happens to have been played by someone else, you
know, it just goes into the jam. And that's why they call it
jams. Yeah, it's all jam in there. Yeah. One thing I
would also like to say about the record. You'll see whenever you have the
record that there's lots of QR codes there, so they're definitely online content.
It's kind of a mismash of you know, your your vinyl old type of
experience in some of the new stuff. So we do have a channel that
just has all of Morse's poetry on it that's not on the vinyl. So
whenever you scan that QR code, you'll be able to go to that channel
see everything. It's kind of like a menu. Oh yeah, yeah,
and we have a QR code of you know what the album's about. We
have a QURA code for the photography that was taken that day by Andy,
and it'll be all on that vine and you could click on you know,
scan your phone, go through it and look at it all. So it's
all interactive, it's not just with perfect encapsulation. Well, this is really
a great project and I'm looking forward to get my copy. So you go
to the Kickstarter or just use a QR code. QR code on that Yeah,
QR code on that post. They can take you there. We're going
to post this in a news story a little bit later this afternoon, So
if you're looking for a u R L just pull out your cell phone,
get out the camera. It'll it'll take you there. Yeah, it'll take
you. And if you don't know how to do that, get your grandkids
because they know how. That's right. Yeah, no shame in that,
No shame in that. Bob over here, Susie over here. Oh there
we go. We got it, absolutely got record. This is really a
tremendous undertaking and just just seems like a labor of love but also a labor
of fun. Yes, the definition of spontaneous spontaneity, you know, which
takes away some of the onus of labor and the definition once again of what
can happen when when people get together and uh and share lovingly and get that
feedback from an audience. You know, that is just astounded, you know
what was going on. You know, we we jammed in the afternoon and
rehearse, so to speak, in the studio, and some of what we
did with the audience, you know, came from that, but a lot
of it was just spontaneous. So it's almost like having two different sessions,
and it is having two different sessions and two different spirits because in one it
was just us the technicians and musicians and all of that. But when you
add the audience and and all of that energy, it's something altogether different.
You know, Well, let's make this project the world class winner, folks.
The production is already there. That part's world class. Let's make it
something that be a great holiday gift, something that you can treasure. Yes,
show me something that you can share with the with a lot of people.
Yeah. Let me let me make it clear that once it's funded,
So the kickstart ends on December thirty first, okay, and once it's one
hundred percent funded and then we go into the We just take what we have
and send it to a place out in California called Pirates Press and they actually
do the records. So it takes a couple of months, so it'll be
about March timeframe that we anticipate the records being here. So I love I
love the fact that there won't be but two hundred and fifty of them.
Yeah, only two not an you're not trying to selling me in records.
This is two hundred and fifty periods. Yeah, oh yeah, one time
minting is yeah, yeah, yeah, this has a lot of effen So
yeah, it has like you know what we talked, Felonious Monk and some
miles stuff on there. So we have mechanical licenses for those, and so
those mechanical licenses only limited us to two hundred and fifty vinyls. So that's
why it's not going to be on YouTube or streaming or anything. Well,
this is this is the key here, folks, because there's only going to
be two hundred and fifty. Get it? Why you can because there's no
two fifty one right, exactly correct, It's not two starry nights, you
know, Well, put wors Butkorby, thank you for being with us Todayank
you and Chris, thank you for being here too. I appreciate it.
Thank you very much. Thanks for sharing with us. And we're going to
get the story out a little bit later today and folks over the long weekend
to be able to enjoy a little bit some pieces of this and of course
get the QR code, enjoy the art and a little bit of everything that
goes with this project. Discover hoboetry, the dive into a sonic odyssey.
I like that. That's pretty kind of profound that Chris is poetry. Oh
it is, you know, anything to anything to capture the I right,
or capture I'm bringing that upside down, folks. I got to thank you,
gentlemen. We've got more coming up right here on K one. Look
at the news and we'll tell you just now how cold it's going to get.
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