Good morning, beautiful people. How are you guys doing? You know,
I can tell you guys sing just by the way you said high arrow,
because that was harmony. Oh my god. Yeah, that's our default,
you know, can't escape it. Oh my god. I mean you know
they always Randy from from the group Alabama used to say that harmony only comes
from family, and and everything that I've read about you guys, you are
family. You and you you really bring family together for us out here.
Oh cute. So to put this book together only because I'm the author that
usually writes, and while I'm putting my stories together, I create music.
You're you're going the other direction. You you created music and now you're writing.
Did you how are we supposed to pick up on your song on a
page? Well? Yeah? Like it that. I mean, music is
everywhere for us, and you know, we recently became dads, and so
we've just been immersed in kids music and kids books and all this stuff.
And it it's just with such a natural transition to creating something that put all
of that music onto the page. I guess I like that we have.
What's so hard about what's so hard about this is that I want to share
my book that that was sent to me with everybody. But I'm going no,
that's not the business world of books. They have to go buy their
own book right available everywhere. Books are solved because it's filled with so much
love. And we live in a society and I love me some American idol,
and America's got talent, but they still judge. And that's why so
many people do not sing, because they don't want to be judged. That
is absolutely the message of our of our book that singing is for everyone.
Singing is without any requirements. Everyone has a follow And really the question of
why do we sing? That the book answers that there are so many reasons.
Certainly entertaining is one of them, but so is storytelling, so is
preserving you know, parts of your culture. So is you know, singing
your children. So there are so many reasons we sing, and we wanted
to capture a few of them in this book. Well, and you go
well beyond where radio even touches, because you talk about I mean, you
talk about Bollywood, you talk about Broadway even in our own backyard, which
I do all the time inside this forest in South Charlotte. Oh absolutely,
yeah, wow, But yeah, I mean, and so the book,
you know, touches on those reasons and then through the lens of all of
these, like you said, global vocal traditions. So it's also teaching kids
that you know, all the reasons you know you sing, there are people
around the world singing for those exact same reasons, even if the music sounds
different. I'm so glad that you bring that up, because this was the
very first time in American music history that there were more Latin songs on the
charts than American songs. Yeah. International music is so huge, and it's
something that I think is so exciting that we're more and more exposed to music
from around the world, in different languages, from different cultures. Yeah.
And on the soundtrack album, we collaborated with some great artists and artists in
vidiovox for a Bollywood inspired track, with Anthony Gonzalez, who is the voice
of Miguel from Coco on a Mariachi inspired track. So there's a little bit
of that sort of international influence in the soundtrack album as well as the book.
Why do We say? Isn't it inspiring in the way that that you
take thoughts and you create a book, you create music. A lot of
people don't understand that openness and that journey, and I think a book like
this hopefully will serve as an invitation to It's okay to sing in your bedroom,
but give it to the world. Yes, I mean that is you,
you encapsulated in a nutshell, and I mean so much to us to
hear you say that that's what you got from it, because that's exactly It's
an invitation. And you know, for so many kids, singing as the
first way we can make music. And so this is a book saying go
for it, do it. And there are so many reasons why. Now
I'm not going to lie to you, guys. I still have a cassette
tape from my father in the nineteen seventies where he literally walked into my bedroom
and told me to shut up, quit making so much noise, and that
inspired me to even get louder. That it's great that you took inspiration from
that. We welcome the newise. Yeah, I mean, because I can't
imagine how many other kids or even young adults before even teen years go through
that where where the parents just don't understand being out of tune is okay,
oh yeah, oh for sure, I sure, Oh yeah, I think
you know if you're if you're learning violin, you're it's not gonna sound like
a concert violin for a while. But the journey is part of the journey
is part of it, and I think some of the fodest memories that you
carry as a musician are from childhood and when you're a teen and when you're
learning and practicing and nothing is perfect yet, nothing is the final product.
But it's one of the most beautiful partner of the journey. Well, not
to harp on my father, I do have something very happy about him.
He was a yodeler, and you included in this book. I was like,
oh my god, he was a yodeler. Oh that's hard. Did
he teach Are you a yodeler too? I can't go that way, I
mean I but he would. He would yodel in the kitchen on the weekends
when he was making breakfast. And that's probably the biggest memory I have of
my father. Oh beautiful, yodeling is hard and so cool. Yeah,
well, it's only because when we watched he Haw on Saturday nights that they
would yodel a lot on that show. And I'm sure, that's why he
did it. Yeah, yeah, but you have to really master your flip
between chest voice and head voice for that. On the album, we thought
about doing a yodeling inspired track and we're like maybe for the next one.
How much pressure was on you Sam to do the illustrating. You know,
I've always, since I was the kid again, sort of finding the joy
and the things we loved when we were children. I've always loved drawing and
painting, and this is really the first project where I've been able to sort
of put that on display. And childhood Home is covered in his paintings from
and your Mom saved every etchra scale. Yeah, so this really feels like
the first time I've been able to put everything that's important to me, you
know, the music, the singing, my family, the illustration all into
one sort of package. And it feels so surreal to be able to hold
that in my hands. So it's really speciful. Well, that's how I
got people to come to my writing is that I'm also an artist on the
canvas, but I would put poetry on the canvas, and so they would
go up there and look at the art and then and then take note of
the poetry. So, I mean, I totally understand that you bring things
together when art, you know, becomes all genres absolutely and it adds a
new dimension to the art. Yeah, definitely cool. Yeah, what did
you learn from this project? Because once again it's you know, it seems
so easy to get out there and just sing on YouTube and things like that,
but when you put a book together that comes from your soul. Yeah,
I think that's exactly it. Just realizing how how easy it is when
something is flowing from your passion and genuine love, and that every every part
of the process, even the stuff where you're okay, how do we edit
this, how do we cut that out? It's also really fun to work
on and now maybe comes even the most fun part when we get to see
kids reading it and families sharing it, is like so cool. Yeah.
I mean I think it's challenging with the project that's so close to you because
you want it to be the perfect encapsulation of how you feel about music and
art. And I think just just actually being confronted with making this full album
and writing and illustrating this book was a real release of Yeah, will you
ever extend the reach and try to get onto pop radio? Hey, you
know, never say never. Yeah, and definitely you know with this album
of kids music, we we're excited about that as well and want to do
more. So Yeah, we're going to keep on singing. Speaking of music,
they told me in the very beginning that there's a guitarist with you.
I would be robbing my listeners of a beautiful journey if I didn't allow you
guys to share your art. Absolutely. This is a little selection from the
lead single of our official soundtrack album, Why Do We Sing? Yeah,
you can sing at home, you can sing on stage, a song to
a trio. Why sing for fun? You can find for shading, to
weather taine or to inspire. It's a song for you and the song for
me. When we sing there, they can say, not for me.
Why do you read novel? Oh yeah? Why do we read? A
song? Can do anything? That's why read. Oh my god, you
guys have got to make a movie. Oh my god. I mean,
if that, dude, oh my god, if that didn't feel like I'm
sitting there watching a movie, Oh my god, that was unbelievable. Thank
you so much. And I'd love that you put the La La laws and
the Sha laws and things like that because that's how most people sing. You
don't have to put words in there. And Paul McCartney prove that true with
with Scrambled Eggs, which came, which became let it Be. Now,
the question is where can we find you? You can find us online Sam
Shuey A, Sam T s u, I, Katy Brevis b R E
V E s on all the socials and you can find out what we're up
to and not not sure yet, but we're doing a few little fun book
events for the release today and in the coming week in LA New York and
the Philly area. But h yeah, stay tuned, follow us on Socialists
to know more. Oh, you're going to those tiny little towns, oh,
I understand. Start, start very small, and then and then eventually
you'll get to like a waxaw in North Carolina. I get it. I
get it. Yes, I love you guys man. I can't thank you
enough. Thank you for having me. Will you be brilliant today? Okay, thanks