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Speaker 3: That's good stuff that is called on my mind. The
band is Modern Fools, and we got a couple of
the guys from the band here with us. We're going
to speak with them in just a moment, but welcome everybody.
This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we have entered our
third hour New Marrow Trace on this snowy Saturday. For
those of you listening live today is Saturday, January eleventh,
twenty twenty five, and we, of course are coming to
you from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester,
New Hampshire. And yeah, that's a great track. Let's get
right into it. So we've got two of the guys
from the band here. Welcome gentlemen. If you could each
introduce yourselves and tell us, tell us who you are
and what you do in the band.
Speaker 13: Hello, I'm Josh. I played guitar and sing and yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, very good. Welcome Josh, and you, sir.
Speaker 14: I'm John Brought. I also played guitar and sing, but
not as much singing.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yep, very good, very good. So and Josh,
so I interviewed you. We were talking off air back
in Oh my God twenty eleven. Is that right, twenty eleven. Yeah,
you were in a band called the Ghost Dinner Band.
Speaker 13: That's right.
Speaker 3: And I interviewed you on another show that I do
called Local Outbreak and uh wow yeah so and you
you mentioned too, So you actually went back and listened
to that.
Speaker 13: I did. Yeah, I found the archives I was. I
was listening back as funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I yeah, I remember, I remember the Ghost Dinner
Band and whatever ended up happening to that.
Speaker 13: I mean, we we had a good run of it,
and things just kind of fizzled out. You know, we
all we were like a high school sweetheart band. You know,
we have been playing together since high school. Yeah, just
you know, we all just kind of went our separate ways.
But everybody's still playing in different bands, and yeah for
the most part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. And the song that we just played,
so is that the current single that that on my mind?
Featuring Rachel Sumner?
Speaker 13: Yep, that's it. That's it. And Rachel Sumner is an
incredible songwriter from Boston area. She's just amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 14: She had a giant TikTok moment last year really yeah
with a song called Radium Girls, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
they went really viral.
Speaker 3: It's a great song. You should check it out. Oh
I well, yeah, I thought her name was familiar. Maybe
that's why I know it. Yeah, how did you guys
get connected with her to do this track?
Speaker 13: So we just we knew her, like, you know, acquaintances
and friends in the scene, and when writing the song,
we just knew that it needed a female voice. Yeah,
kind of do that duet classic thing. And yeah, she
came to mind. So we reached out and she was
into it, and yeah, she just nailed it. We sent
her the tracks and she kind of sent like, hey,
is this what you're looking for? And we were like absolutely, like,
just knocked it out of the park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well very cool. Yeah I like that song a lot.
It's got got kind of a little bit of a balance,
a little bit of a swing to it. But yeah,
very cool. Now the album or album, I guess are
you calling it an EP? It's seven tracks.
Speaker 13: It's kind of in that, right, It's it's seven it's
seven So yeah, it's an EP, but it's like, you know,
it's somewhere between.
Speaker 3: It's in that weird gray zone between EP and album
and is that already out or is that coming out soon?
Speaker 13: It's coming out on the seventeenth O next week.
Speaker 3: Oh, very good, very good. So this is this is
like a world premiere, world premiere, excellent, excellent. Yeah, and
it makes sense for that to be, you know, because
of Rachel. It makes sense that that would be the
first uh, the first single. But you guys have released
other things before this, right, yep. Yes, this is our
third album, and this is actually the third single from
from the album. So we've we've dropped a few singles.
We've been trickling them out a little bit. Oh okay, Yeah,
that's interesting. That's something that comes up a lot on
the show is you know, we live in a time
where you can use all these different strategies in terms
of of how you release things, and it it I've
noticed that, you know, because I'm old to remember that,
you know, every band would release an album, the first
single would go to radio maybe six eight weeks before
the album, you know, and then the album comes out,
and then the second single, and then the third single
and so forth. But now, you know, because of the
Internet and the way things have changed over the years,
there's so many different things you can do. You can
release an EP, you can release an album, you can
release a series of singles that eventually become an album.
You can you know, release you know, a few singles
ahead of an EP. What what decisions? Why did you
guys decide to use the strategy that you're using for
this release or or did it just and there may
may not be a reason, It may just feel organically
right to do it this scort, but yeah.
Speaker 14: We're guessing at what works. You know, we've seen a
lot of like strategic how you do all this stuff,
but also like albums in collections of songs aren't really
something that that gets a lot of shine these days.
You know, a lot of there's a lot of singles
and stuff like that, and like there's a real reason
to do that, but there's there's a level of we'd
like to get together and work on six seven eight
songs in the studio at a time.
Speaker 13: So right, well, yeah, it is sad because albums as
a whole aren't being consumed as they used to be.
Still people still do listen to them, and yeah, but
you know it is a single culture for that matter.
But yeah, I mean we follow the what is the
the waterfall releases what they call it, where you kind
of tickling the algorithm before the album comes out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. By the way, we have received an
instant message from deb Blair, says Josh's mom listening live
from Phoenix, Arizona. Well, hello Mom, there we go, so
very nice, nice, very nice. By the way, we can
I forget to mention this to our listeners. But if
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dot com slash a lot for all the social media
stuff and all of it. So but uh yeah, so
this is where where did you guys record? Where do
you record it? Because everything sounds fantastic.
Speaker 13: Thanks. Yeah, we have a kind of a home studio, Yeah,
in Peterborn, Hampshire, and uh yeah, it's it's it's where
we rehearse and it's kind of like our project studio
and yeah, do everything there.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's another thing that's kind of changed over the years
is you know, we live in a time where you
can there's so many different options for how to record,
and you can you know, obviously there's a lot of
great studios around, but you can also do you know,
do most of it at home or all of it
at home, and you know, you can email tracks back
and forth if you want to. There's so many ways
to do it, and you can you can actually produce
something that sounds like it was recorded in a million
dollar studio totally.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm I'm always reminded that that first Billie Eilish
album I think was recorded fully in her bedroom with
your brother. Yeah, you know, like, I'm not a pop guy,
but that's impressive that you can do that and then
blow up like that.
Speaker 15: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How do you, guys, how do you
just describe your sound? I was looking at the website
and I saw some pretty interesting verbiage. But somebody who
was it somebody recently, because you're the name Modern Fools
has come up on the show more than once. So
there's a lot of other artists in the area who
are are big fans of you guys. And somebody described
you as cosmic country. Yeah, yeah, I think that's kind
of what we've been rolling with. Lately, And I know
that gets a lot of ties to Daniel Donado, who's
a younger artist now who has put it in his name,
But it really goes back to like Grand Parsons is
really the founder, I would say, the godfather of cosmic country,
which is sort of just a blend of you know, country.
Speaker 13: Rock, which is he's responsible for that. Yeah, yeah, cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly doesn't sound like what you hear on
the radio.
Speaker 13: Sure, it's not bud Light country. We're more of a
Miller high life. I had not heard that term here
to describe modern country. I've heard the term bro country. Yeah,
that works.
Speaker 3: I've heard that a lot.
Speaker 13: Yeah, We've been working on figuring out like I think
that beer is a just a good description for country
in general. So there's lots of different varieties of country.
Obviously Corona country, Yeah, Corona country. That that'd be more
like the Jimmy Buffett era of country.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 14: Don't get me wrong, I still like Corona country sometimes.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Sure, say that's just you know, whatever you're whatever
you're drinking is kind of you know, it defines you
in the country real.
Speaker 3: Well, are so we live with us or he lives
with us? Really DJ Reckless. I don't know if you
has no DJ Reckless, but he's he works at ninety
six five Now Live Free Country, Yeah, Live Free Country.
I keep wanting to still call it the Mill, even
though it hasn't been that in at least a year.
But but uh, you know, I'll turn that station on
and and some of what I hear it it doesn't
even sound like like it's country. It's got just enough
twang in it to be country, some of the modern stuff,
but but some of it like just barely enough, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's basically just pop music, right, And some of it, yeah,
have a banjo in the back and like a pedal
steel and then yeah.
Speaker 14: Well the Nashville thing has really been homogenized at this point.
And it's not it's not bad. Those guys are incredibly
talented players. But you go to Nashville to make a
certain type of music and and it comes out being
in that vein and it it's not the same kind
of classic country that that were turned on too. It's
definitely a derivative of that thing. But yeah, you know,
there's there's there's merit in in in anything you're making
for us. We when we think of country, we're thinking
you know, Christofferson, cash Parton, you know, the Graham Parsons,
the Flying Burrito brother Yeah. I could probably name them
for for longer than they should. And we go back
to an era where it really feels like it was
like it was an outsider art form.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, interesting. What about Are there any modern country
artists who who you guys kind.
Speaker 14: Of relate to a bunch?
Speaker 3: Are there?
Speaker 13: I would say that right now is probably like the
healthiest time for uh, what I'm gonna coin is good
country for lack of a better term. But yeah, I
mean like there's there's a lot of just bands that
are like, you know, like Charlie Crockett maybe being like
one of the bigger artists right now. But yep, that's
you know, like going back to that roots stuff and
it's you know, it's very much not but light driven.
Speaker 3: I still love that. That's funny. The name that comes
up really consistently on the show is Chris Stapleton, Like
especially with the not just with bands, but singer songwriters,
just guys coming in with just an acoustic guitar like
Chris Stapleson's name. Chris Stapleton's name comes up all the time.
Speaker 13: Definitely, he's he's doing he's doing it right for sure.
Speaker 14: I think he's one of those few guys that's still
like like keeping that whole art form pure. It's cool
to see a guy that's doing that still maintaining that
level of popularity too.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, well he's uh yeah, he's a hell of
a songwriter. I think, great voice. And and as far
as Nashville goes too, I feel like, uh, I always
say this from a just from a production standpoint, Nashville
really has it down. Like I think that just sonically
in terms of production. Like I'm I'm really picky about
drums when I listen to a song and I think,
you know, the drum sounds coming out of those Nashville
studios just are I think it sounds absolutely perfect. And
and I think a lot of things, you know, a
lot of I listen to a lot of metal, but
a lot of modern metal. Something went wrong where like
the guitars don't sound right to me. They sound small,
if that makes sense, Whereas when I was growing up,
metal sounded you know, the guitars sounded nice and crunchy.
So I have complaints about how modern metal is produced
and now, and I can you know, I have a
little bit of an audio engineering background, so I can
pick up part a lot of things. But when I
listen to anything coming out of Nashville, it's like just
from a production stamp, whether I like the song or not,
just from an audio production standpoint, it's like, wow, like
they've got it.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 14: That's Have you ever been down Music Row in Nashville.
Speaker 15: I have not.
Speaker 3: I've never been to Nashville, So, I mean.
Speaker 14: Given it was it was probably three or four years
ago now, but my wife and I were down there
and we're walking through and we're seeing like big machine
and you know, all the all the giant labels, and
I had that same thought. But that, I mean, like
I'm a music nerd, right, how could you not be
being you know, our age still releasing singles to But like,
for for us, like that emanates from like the late
sixties and the seventies when you had guys like Bob
Dylan going in to record with a what's the name
Billy the Nashville producer. I'm I'm not gonna go, but
you know who I'm talking about. So he went in
there and then Neil Young goes in there ten years
later and the sound like it's the Nashville thing. They
went there to record and lay down those kind of tracks.
It's really cool. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Do you guys, everything that you've recorded, have you've done
it the same way in terms of how you produce it?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 13: No, we changed it up. This record. We did almost
exclusively live. Oh it's very live in this Oh cool.
This record was kind of like a concept album to
some regards anyway, with moving into the honky Tonk realm.
That's not really what we typically do. There's always kind
of a tinge of country in there, but this is
like full on country. And the whole thing actually stemmed
from On the album cover, there's a sign that says
clearly country, which I found at a yard sale and
I had seen it in the day time and I
just couldn't stop thinking about it. I didn't buy it. Yeah,
I don't know why. I just had to go. I
had to go buy it. So I went back and
bought it, and I didn't really know why at the time,
but it sort of sparked this inspiration. It was like,
that's an album cover, yep, honky Tonk record.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's great, it's very cool. It's very cool.
Has the lineup been the same over the course of
the band or has that changed at all?
Speaker 13: So it's actually changed. So the band formed originally in
twenty fourteen, okay, so, and I was the only original
member from that lineup. We kind of fizzled out in
probably twenty sixteen or seventeen. We never actually did a record.
We did a bunch of local shows well, and by
fizzled out.
Speaker 14: That was about when I joined the band and we
became a different band entirely sure, called the Flood. And
I don't know if you know eight A m or
Adam in the Flood, but we used to play in
his band and did a little little move in with him,
and then COVID happened.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the pandemic time is we just kind of like
got it all together and started recording.
Speaker 14: And so he was traveling all throughout the US writing
songs and sending us demos back here. You know, some
of our favorite came from your time in Joshua Tree
in California. And then Justin and I the drummer, would
get these demos and we were kind of pouring over them.
These are great. So our first album was largely recorded distance. Okay, now,
not all while you were on the road, but because
of COVID, like none of us knew what was going on,
we weren't getting together. So so we were sending tracks
left and right in that first album, see or we
did probably about ninety percent separated from each other.
Speaker 13: For sure.
Speaker 3: Was it hard doing it that way? Or because one
of the things, you know, the pandemic comes up a
lot on the show because it's it's a very very
common tale. You know, we we were doing this, we
were doing that. We had all these plans and then
the plague. But and as awful as it was, you know,
I always say, we have to find these silver linings
where we can, and I feel like one of the
few silver linings of it was it kind of forced
people to be creative in ways that maybe they hadn't
previously considered and getting comfortable with things like sending tracks
back and forth and doing all that.
Speaker 14: Sure, so I think for us we in various iterations. Right,
New Hampshire is a small state, right, and we're a
small music scene. Josh and I have known each other
twenty some odd years now, you know, we started playing
music together about ten years ago in real capacity. But like,
you know, our stories are very intertwined, and so there
was a level of we've played with these guys, all
of them for a minimum of five six years at
that point, or various like ins and outs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do we.
Speaker 14: Take that relationship and how do we do it in
a different sort of way. So, like, it probably would
have been a lot harder to try to get the
whole thing going like like like fresh. Yeah, but you
got a bunch of guys that are gonna eat nachos
with each other any day anyway. You know what difference
is it if you're sending texts in everything?
Speaker 3: That makes sense? Yeah, that makes sense. Definitely we should. Uh,
let's play another track.
Speaker 15: What do you guys?
Speaker 3: Uh, I'll let you I'll let you all pick. I
listened to the you know, obviously I listened to the
ones you suggested, but I also listen to the rest
of the album too, or ep. The whole thing is great.
I love it, but uh, whatever whatever you want to go.
Speaker 13: With next, Let's do something that we haven't released yet.
My side, My side will be like a world premiere
right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, world, We like the I don't know if you
know this. We really like the World Radio premieres here.
Speaker 14: This one goes out to all the Steel Guitar fans
out there.
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, into all the ex wives.
Speaker 3: You guys ever play with You must know them regals?
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we haven't played with them, but
we've been chatting with them and talking about doing some shows.
Speaker 14: Yeah, familiarly. We would love to. We would love to
have them out to Keen and come out to Manchester
do a show.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, they off with them.
Speaker 3: They're fantastic. Actually, I think they're one of the I
think they mentioned you guys because I think they're one
of the bands we had on that mentioned you because,
like I said, the name Modern Fools has come up
a few times, but you know when you mentioned Steel
Guitar made me think of that love it. Yeah, those
guys they came to played live to you know, just
two of them and it was amazing. But let's give
this a spin. So this is yes, the World Radio premiere.
This is my side and the band is Modern Fools.
Speaker 7: This emd.
Speaker 5: Outside inside you're so.
Speaker 7: No food.
Speaker 4: And blues.
Speaker 5: Nobody he's waiting.
Speaker 2: Bad like turns in to.
Speaker 7: Country, So.
Speaker 5: Stop inside you're.
Speaker 7: Why am I still sleeping.
Speaker 10: My side of.
Speaker 7: This high? Any think.
Speaker 6: Drinking locks laches.
Speaker 5: Lucky when she said doing luck dragon hard gravel and ask.
Speaker 10: Him for the lord.
Speaker 5: My don't you saw still inside of you?
Speaker 7: Whoy I still sleep.
Speaker 5: Outside?
Speaker 7: Hard song? Why like don't stop.
Speaker 11: Five skip bambo sends you go when when go from
the drink.
Speaker 5: Sad forget?
Speaker 7: Why by.
Speaker 6: My side of.
Speaker 5: Why cons you son.
Speaker 7: Stuck inside of? Why by my side of the thing?
Why by you'll see my side of.
Speaker 13: That is my side.
Speaker 3: The band is Modern Fools, and we have two of
the guys here. Do we have fifty per Is it
a four piece or a five piece?
Speaker 13: It's a fluctuating five piece.
Speaker 3: Okay. We weren't sure because your bio says force them
on the website. But then there's a picture on Facebook
with five people.
Speaker 14: We can do shows with four. We like to do
him with as many people as possible. Gotcha.
Speaker 13: We have a keyboard player that he's there sometimes he's there.
Speaker 3: Not Okay, I suspected it might be something like that
because obviously the style of music that you do, the
vibe and everything, you know, you've got that flexibility you
can kind of you know, kind of do that. I've
always been I've always been a little envious of that. Actually,
you know, I used to play. I don't play anymore.
I used to play a bunch of bands, But I
was never in a project where we had that kind
of thing where you know, you could you could, you
could vary it and and still make it work no
matter what, you know, and bring guest musicians on stage.
Speaker 14: And yeah, that's really the thing we got.
Speaker 15: We got.
Speaker 14: I mean, you don't say the four core because Nicky
is Nicky's five, but but four of us can pull
it off. We got steel players we can bring in.
We have a great time, a couple of auxiliary vocalists
and yeah, this yeah, fun thing to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's cool to be able to do
it that way. Are you guys playing out a lot?
Are you doing a lot of shows?
Speaker 13: Uh, yeah, we're This is actually probably a good time
to plug our next next week on the release date,
the seventeenth, we're also doing a release show at the
Bank of an h Stage conquered excellent. Yeah, and uh
yeah that's with Slim Volume, as you know.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, they were on with us last week and
they were talking about that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they're amazing. Absolutely love those boys.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and then we got Rachel Berlin from Conquered Area.
She's opening the show. It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3: I interviewed her a long time ago.
Speaker 13: I think still at it. Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I interviewed I interviewed her on the same show.
I interviewed you on Oh yeah yah Center Band, but yeah,
probably around that same time period. Actually wow, okay, well
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, oh very cool, very cool. Do
you guys play everything from the from the EP? Do
you do all the songs?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, we will so, and we'll have the full band.
We've got keys and pedal steel, and our friend Jocelyn
is gonna be singing with us that night too, so
where we've got the whole old lineup and it's uh yeah,
it's gonna be a good night excellent.
Speaker 3: Is that an NH Music Collective show? It is, oh,
very cool.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We had John MacArthur on the show and uh boy,
he that guy's busy.
Speaker 14: Huh yeah, give me it moving absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: Do you guys do any covers when you play out
or a couple?
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, well we'll throw some covers in, especially like
if it's a longer night. You know, we'll add some
some covers and stuff. What do you guys do for covers?
Speaker 14: Well, Josh has has the cover edict of if if
you can hear my dad playing with his band, we're
not allowed.
Speaker 13: To cover it. That's true.
Speaker 14: I don't know. I I feel like it's uh no,
we gotta We got a luxury liner by the International
Submarine Band, which is the cosmic country stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, Graham Parsons, you know the band Big Star is
that I know of them. I don't think I've ever
listened to it.
Speaker 6: So we do.
Speaker 14: Uh we do in the Street, which is also that
seventies show. Uh opener, Oh cheap Trick does the opener.
But Big Star wrote the song. Oh we got that one.
We did a share song for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah we really Yeah what what share song?
Speaker 13: Believe?
Speaker 3: Really interesting?
Speaker 14: Put Josh through an auto tune and.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. We mix it up. We
tried to changes seasonally.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just realized you've got your your water bottle.
It says clearly country on it. Do Yeah, that's the sticker,
that's the sign. Oh okay, if you haven't seen the cover,
that's the I did I did see the cover. Yeah,
oh that's cool.
Speaker 14: Josh's mantra is always be selling.
Speaker 3: Yep, so you can you can put that sticker on
anything really and uh, and then you've got branded merch.
Speaker 13: I love that.
Speaker 14: Also, come get stickers and brand your own merch.
Speaker 3: There you go. Ye, Now are there hard copies available
of the Are you doing CDs or is it strictly digital.
Speaker 13: Or yeah, we're doing CDs. I think we will do
vinyl eventually. It's just that it takes a little while
to get the vinyl in your hands these days. Yeah,
but yeah, we got CDs and we're actually tomorrow we're
actually going to be over at the Music Connection to Manchester. Okay,
we're doing like a little in store performance thing, so
it's worth worth mentioned if you're in the Manchester area
two pm, two pm. Gonna play a few songs and uh,
we're giving away a pair of tickets to the show,
and I think they're going to add in some other.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we've been told it'll be a cool little event
by John over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. Where is I haven't been in there
and I feel like a very like I don't even
remember where it is.
Speaker 13: Exactly. I've never been.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so we're not we're not Manchester local, right, I
mean you're Peterburger. I've been in Music Connection a couple times.
And he's also got a Turner's Fall store, which is cool.
Speaker 13: Oh, I'll look up the address, why not, might as
well put it Yeah, put it up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me do that so I know it's not
on ELM. I'm just trying to think. I think I've
been there. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I haven't.
Speaker 14: I mean, it's it's a cool store, it's it's it's
very much stuck in that like we are a record shop.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: We love being a record shop mentality, and I love that.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, it's super great. We'll be there. We'll have
some hard copies of the CDs, which is kind of
funny because I don't think people are going there to
buy CDs. But right right, maybe.
Speaker 14: Seventeen eleven South Willow across from the mall, New Him
or oh okay, Music Connection.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have been in there. I remember going in
there now. Yeah, because I can now you said the address,
I can picture it right right across from the mall. Yeah,
that's very cool and it's great that there's still places
around that.
Speaker 13: Do that, you know, definitely.
Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people probably don't even
realize that there's still places around to do that. So
that's awesome, dude.
Speaker 14: I still pull up all those old Wilco in store
performances to watch back. Those are some of the greatest
ones really.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they're so neat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool? Are those on those?
Speaker 14: You can find them on YouTube? Yeah, they hear in
a band do a stripped down thing. Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely absolutely. You guys want to pick another one?
We should play another one?
Speaker 13: Yeah, John, why do you pick one?
Speaker 14: I already told you what I want to pick.
Speaker 13: Well, it's your turn, all right.
Speaker 14: So I wanted to give a shine to the other
two guys who couldn't be here today, Justin who's a
great drummer, and hopefully we'd play Ballroom because that's an
unbelievable drum drum track. But Ian did the lead off
on this one, which is Don't Let Your Love Run Cold,
so Josh wrote it. But Ian, who is our bassist,
is just an unbelievable vocal ranger.
Speaker 8: So this is it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, this is a not a long song, but it's
always fun to give shine to the guys that can
do stuff that's incredible.
Speaker 13: It's uh, you didn't even say the song I didn't
run it Run Cold, Run Cold? The first track there,
it is. It's a it's kind of a funny one
to play on the radio. It's all vocal arrangement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is short. It's it's only a minute and
a half. But uh yeah, and it opens the album
opens the album. Yeah, very cool. All right, let's give
this a listen. This is Ron Cold. The band is
Modern Fools.
Speaker 2: Don't let your run Cold, keep your heart.
Speaker 10: Turn five to cold, Don't let you run cold.
Speaker 2: It's this lives.
Speaker 16: You hell mine, stay by your se.
Speaker 2: Is this live a lie?
Speaker 10: If food?
Speaker 7: Who hell are you love?
Speaker 14: We are groups.
Speaker 5: Involving food.
Speaker 17: Don't let you love from Cold, keep your heart of cold, turning.
Speaker 5: Fire to cold, Don't let you love roum Cold.
Speaker 3: That is Run Cold. That is Modern Fools. And we've
got Josh and John from the band Modern Fools with
us here in studio. That's nice. I like the I
do like the vocal. So it was a little bit
although it's not all vocals, there was a little bit
of guitar.
Speaker 14: A little guitar in there.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like in the back room sounding
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 14: That one we intentionally recorded huddled around in old microphone.
Oh no, if it sounded like it, it does, I
can I can picture it. I can definitely picture it.
Speaker 3: No, that's cool. Have you guys done any Yeah, you
could do some interesting visuals with that. Have you guys
done any videos for any of these or not? For these?
Speaker 13: We have done some interesting music videos in the past.
We've had some fun with that, but uh yeah. We
recently did a like a live session. We took over
the Hancock Depot, which is in Hancock, New Hampshire. Yeah,
it's an old train depot and they have like a
it's a really cool little cabaret style venue. They have
a stage, but we took over like basically like the
living room there, which is like this turn of the
century looking railroad station. It's like all this old stuff
in there, and we uh yeah. We brought in some
friends and film crew and recorded the whole thing. So
we're starting to release that and they'll be sort of
a like a full band live video shoot. That's we're
gonna slowly start putting out.
Speaker 14: Oh okay, So to recap. We recorded the album live
and then we re recorded the album live to release
a video of it.
Speaker 3: No, that's cool though. How many songs did you record
for the video?
Speaker 13: I think we did all We did eight because we
added a cover in there, did the full album, and
then we did an extra song.
Speaker 3: So are you going to release a full video at
once or are you going to split that up?
Speaker 13: We'll split it up to you. We already released one. Yeah.
We did a version of Ballroom Bender Blues, which is
which is really cool. It's just that oh, very cool
visual and it was just a fun experience.
Speaker 15: It was.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we have a little content to keep the content
train rolling after the fact.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, well that's important. Absolutely, it's very important
to do that, do you guys? I ask everybody this question,
but I'm always curious. Are there any other bands in
the area that you kind of you know, it often
happens organically, but anybody you've kind of teamed up with
that you happen to play a lot of shows with it.
Speaker 13: Well, we started playing with our friends Coyote Smoke, who
are a newer band from the Sea Coast.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't know them. Yeah, great cool name.
Speaker 13: Yeah, they're brand new, and they they're also like playing
with the regals as well, so like we're all kind
of tied in in that regard and sort of creating
this this new scene hopefully, like this interesting kind of
old country thing that's that's forming.
Speaker 14: There's Slim Volume, who we love those guys. There's the
Rear Defrosters. They're out of Vermont, but they are I mean,
they're kind of like the spiritual country grandfathers of the area.
Yeah yeah, I mean, like we're we're getting on the
the old uncle territory. But but these guys were doing
this kind of stuff like you know, the early two
thousands and now actually one of them owns one of
the venues in Keene called Nova Arts. I don't know
if you've been there. It's great play.
Speaker 3: I've heard about it. I've not been there, but.
Speaker 14: If you like that, And because New Hampshire is so small,
once a month there's actually a honky tonk Night by
the Rear Defrosters over there. Worth a trip over for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Vermont.
Speaker 14: They are Brattleborough Putney, Okay, you know the hill people.
Speaker 13: Yeah, no, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't heard of them either. I'll have to
look them up. That's cool. Do you do you ever
play shows with bands that you don't necessarily fit like.
Speaker 13: It's happened for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: You know, sometimes venues will just put together a show
and yeah, but for the most part, people are pretty
in tune with like trying to get us, you know,
onto like like similar bills. We we did a thing
with say z U Zoo on Stone Church where those
guys are great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 13: All country legends in New Hampshire basically and yeah, yeah,
so hopefully we'll do some more stuff with them this
summer and yeah, and John Nolan's Eye Project band as well.
Speaker 14: Okay, yeah, I think probably the weirdest ones that we've
been paired up to are those ones were supporting like
major national acts coming through. But you know those are
just like we're we're happy to be on the stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like, what what are some nationals you've you've
gotten open for?
Speaker 14: Well, I mean this one's not weird, but Steve Earl
was a fun one to that was very cool.
Speaker 13: Ryan Montlu Yeah.
Speaker 14: He's he's a Boston guy. We did last year Fogerty
and thorough Good.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a meadow Brook.
Speaker 14: It was a Meadow Brooks So we were on the
hazy stage at that one. But that one was a
lot of fun.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we we left pretty bad to the bone.
Speaker 13: On that day, John and I did a duo set
opening for Charlie Parr. Are you familiar with Charlie park
I don't think he's amazing.
Speaker 14: Oh man, resonator, guitar champion of the world.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, what what? What was it?
Speaker 14: So, so there's there's only a few guys like this
out there, but he's been a folk musician for so long,
and I'm gonna tell his story. I know I shouldn't,
but whatever, He's not coming on here in the next
month or two, so we're safe. Yeah, but we're So
We're sitting in the green room in the back of
a venue in Lowell with him and he's like, you know,
I did a two hundred and fifty dates last year,
and I was like, that's a lot, man. He goes, yeah,
I call it the divorce here because when I got home,
my wife handed me the keys and said her boyfriend
moved in.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 14: But like like the kind of like the kind of
life that leads to those stories comes out in his
music and and like there's a lot of fun guys, right,
you know here here in Bad to the Bone is fun.
But when you hear a guy that's you know, playing
the two hundred and fifty people and has him captivated
with a resonator guitar, like there's something special about what
Charlie's doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll follok him up.
Speaker 14: Charlie Park, Charlie Park.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yeah, I'll fook him up. Very cool,
very cool. If you're just joining us. We've got two
of the guys from Modern Fools, Josh and John are
here with us in studio, and we got time. Let's
play another one? Should we? You mentioned ballroom blender blues?
Should we play that? Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: We'll do that one next this one. I seem to
recall this one standing out? And where should people go
while I'm loading that up? Where's the best place for
people to go online to keep up with everything you
guys are doing?
Speaker 13: If you ask Jeeves about us, well, I mean we're
on Spotify, in Apple Music or you know all the
places you can listen.
Speaker 14: But yeah, we're doing it like most bands, Instagram and Facebook.
If you want news about us and Spotify and Apple.
If you want to listen to our stuff band camp,
if you actually want to send us money instead of
sending it to.
Speaker 3: Spotify, there you go, There you go, which is not
a bad idea.
Speaker 14: We love it and merch too, that's always cool.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's give this a listen. This is
called Ballroom Bender Blues and the band is Modern Fools.
Speaker 8: Some lock booze at the end of the day. Some
lock booze, take pain away. Some folks drinking ride last away.
Speaker 18: Trembling hands will start to shake, shaky hands.
Speaker 7: Don't do no chores.
Speaker 8: Got me a friend that liquor store. Jack, be nimble
jack bee quay squid and be really does trip showers.
Speaker 10: Well me the strong pull of your dan, not that.
Speaker 7: The dance round chicken for the broom loning like my
shop got to ball room bat.
Speaker 19: Have tools, raise your glass, pour it on the ground
for your brands, avants, round the rocks.
Speaker 7: Strong man.
Speaker 5: Brow comes gum boots.
Speaker 13: Games so.
Speaker 10: Fully and a strong.
Speaker 16: Your pads and shoes numbers das lamp shaking for the
booze loading like my shadow.
Speaker 7: Down those ball roomman boots.
Speaker 11: Don't be no Truster, lack of still bides and door.
Speaker 1: Lost myles, games, stummy, some food, pull me in the strong,
you love your dancing shoes number to the dance you
lock shaking, boof.
Speaker 5: Loading lock my shot.
Speaker 7: Guns got both body man.
Speaker 16: Loading lock my shotguse got those bay.
Speaker 20: Man, I love it Ballroom Bender Blues.
Speaker 3: The band is Modern Fools, and we've got Josh and
John from the band here with us in studio on
this Saturday morning here on Matt Connorton Unleashed and now
it's definitely got that live vibe. Well, especially at the
end of course when you hear live people.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah. We wanted to be like those old
like Hank Williams records where you got a hoot and
holler and yeah, it's like all his buddies are in
the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's very cool. You definitely you definitely captured that. Hey,
by the way, where does the name come from? Modern Fools?
What's the meaning?
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's not very deep really. The original logo that
we had was the waffle house logo, you know, like
the sign is just like the big sign with the letters,
and I don't know, initially it was just I knew
I wanted that sign to be the logo, so I
was figuring out different letters that fit within that sign. Okay,
that's that's pretty much it.
Speaker 14: Oh okay, And then over the last few years we've
really grown into the name.
Speaker 3: So really absolutely for sure, there you go, there you go.
Are you guys already obviously you know this this EP
is just about to come out, But are you already
working on new stuff? You strike me as guys, you
probably have a lot of ideas.
Speaker 13: Definitely, there's there's some stuff in the works. I think
we're gonna start putting their nose at the grindstone very soon.
And yep, that's the next thing we've got.
Speaker 14: We've got hopefully some covers that we're gonna be dropping
over the over the next few months. Josh has had
a tumultuous twenty twenty four that that led to some
songs coming out, so uh so we're gonna be working
on some demos of that too, hopefully hopefully some new
music coming out in the fallish.
Speaker 13: Ye, we're doing a Midwestern emo kind of thing for sure.
Speaker 14: Oh my god, just kidding, but we just do like
full switch arounds every time you're do an album.
Speaker 13: I don't mind that though. I like, there's some bands
out there that do that. There's just like one album
like a punk album for no reason, and the next
one is a country album.
Speaker 14: You oh yeah, like you're long for the Red.
Speaker 13: Daniel Romano is one of those.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well even you know, last week we had Slim Volume,
and you know, we're talking about the difference and the
two EPs that they released, and you know, even they
kind of went for a different not drastically different, you know,
but kind of different vibes with each EP.
Speaker 14: I mean, at the end of the day, it's still
the same guys playing the same instruments, right Like, so, yeah,
you only get so much variation, right.
Speaker 13: Well, we all we thought we'd jump on the train
with Post Malone and Beyonce doing country albums. So here
you go. Why can't wait?
Speaker 3: That's your real inspiration, right post Malone and beyond That's it.
We should remind people before we run out of time
about the the EP release officially and of course the
event coming up at Music Connection and all that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So just to plug everything real quick, tomorrow we're
going to be at the news It Connection in Manchester
across the street from the mall down by the mall
down by the mall, and yeah, we're gonna be giving
away We're gonna be playing some songs. We're gonna give
away some tickets to our January seventeenth release show, which
is in Concord, Hampshire at the Bank of NH Stage
with Slim Volume Rachel Berlin. It's gonna be a killer
show and the actual physical album will be out everywhere
and you can steal it wherever you steal music from.
Speaker 3: Oh excellent, very good, very good. And of course you
guys are easy to find online and everything is on
all the major streaming platforms and so forth.
Speaker 13: As long as you can spell modern fools, you're in
for a tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very good. Well, guys, I want to thank you
so much for coming in, Thanks for having us. This
is absolutely we will do it again in the future.
And what should we end the segment with. We've got
a couple we haven't played yet. I love all these,
Like I said, I listened to the Holy p It's great.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I guess maybe we close out with She's No Saint.
Speaker 3: Yeah on that.
Speaker 13: It's it's an interesting uh, maybe a spiteful song that
I wrote about a conversation I had with my high
school sweetheart who broke my heart, and I told her
mother that her daughter was the devil.
Speaker 14: Oh, like I said, twenty twenty four has been hard
for josh heart. Yeah, a long time ago, but I
still feel it. So all right, very good, So we'll
we'll end with that in a moment. And Jenny, you
want to plug your website. You've got You've got a
lot going on, as our regular listeners know.
Speaker 3: Yes I do. You can check out more about me
at gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 2: J E n n c O F f e y
dot com.
Speaker 3: And uh, last week at this time we were talking
about your interview, which you've done now for status kup yep,
that's up and on YouTube. Yes, check it out. Jordan
is an excellent, excellent host and I watch them regularly. Yeah, yeah,
it's really good. So if you haven't seen it or
listen to it, you should definitely definitely check it out.
All right, Modern fools guys, thank you again, and uh
we will close out today. Oh and if, of course,
if you miss any part of today's show'll be up
in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot orgon on
my website Mattconnorton dot com but we will.
Speaker 13: Close with this.
Speaker 3: This is called She's no saying bye modern fools, Oh
love of mine.
Speaker 2: Where have have you been?
Speaker 5: Swelclock not closing?
Speaker 2: Call your name?
Speaker 5: Thees came?
Speaker 13: Where have it.
Speaker 7: Under?
Speaker 6: Chective join door line still gone before.
Speaker 5: My balance, tie the woods.
Speaker 12: It's gone away forest.
Speaker 6: Daughter has a devil in the ride, wicked hearts store apart.
Speaker 8: My life.
Speaker 10: Excu still be.
Speaker 15: The sweetest scale I know. Daughter is still full. Download
cigar tweets linen.
Speaker 2: Can't pregat.
Speaker 7: Man within.
Speaker 18: Soon, Remain from the hilly do cheating hard life next
to you.
Speaker 6: Daughter half devil in the ride, cheating hard store?
Speaker 7: Are my life?
Speaker 10: You still me?
Speaker 5: Sweetish gab?
Speaker 15: I know.
Speaker 5: Daughter is double down. Don't call me the mornings because.
Speaker 2: I'm crying in my bed.
Speaker 5: Left with final mornings and I'd rather receive.
Speaker 7: Red hair.
Speaker 2: Shoot took me.
Speaker 7: She never was my friend.
Speaker 9: Devils and details, hell fis.
Speaker 8: And devils and details, all the five came in in
my life for us, Such a strange time.
Speaker 5: My stranger.
Speaker 8: Came locker song that has never been written, melody such
waking up in the hotel, fall across the pall.
Speaker 5: Seven weeks, I'll travel sticking me while I'm going.
Speaker 7: Into the room.
Speaker 5: Yo, the first thing.
Speaker 8: I noticed lighting up to the room. Life hast ways
teaching this lessons.
Speaker 5: Teach me something.
Speaker 8: Dreaming and feel clover dreaming all light. Now, I'm not
asking you to be true sickly wild we men knew
my life.
Speaker 5: They are such a strange time you stretching me. I'd
write you a song.
Speaker 7: But you've had every damn.
Speaker 5: Life with harmony sus.
Speaker 8: Waking up in a different country, waking up band doll,
four weeks.
Speaker 5: Till on Eastern standing, sickly gone.
Speaker 2: Sticking the while.
Speaker 21: Sticky the love sick while well, I could sleep the
dream up the place since I have been, And I
can't hear.
Speaker 9: Called my name, but i'll hear voice. It's just the same.
I'm the owl, the town.
Speaker 5: Stranger in my home, wonder rounders.
Speaker 4: M ride.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so.
Speaker 12: I'll not sundos down. It's food in time, it's feed.
You only think that's on my mind.
Speaker 5: Passive blue, ain't.
Speaker 6: No surprise, howl land deep down inside.
Speaker 8: On the out of town.
Speaker 2: Stranger and marvel wall surround.
Speaker 7: Rib r y s now that travele lock it s
TI just came make a sound.
Speaker 5: Son s e spot just came Send it down on
the out time stranger and novel
Speaker 7: Lon River