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Speaker 4: What a beautiful song? That is April Days by Mike Fraser.
And he is here with us, live in studio. We're
gonna talk with him, He's gonna play for us. This
is gonna be great. If you are just joining us.
This is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the
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infoshow archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, May tenth,
twenty twenty five, and I'm gonna bring that Mike up here,
and Mike Fraser is here. Hello, sir, Hello, We'll turn
you up a little here.
Speaker 14: Make sure reel good to be here.
Speaker 4: Sounds good, sounds good? All right, love that song April Days,
Thank You really good. Yeah, we played we played that
for the first time, maybe a couple months ago. I
think Sweet you had first sent us a single and
Jenny and I met you at the Shaft Skiine. I
don't remember by time. It all becomes a blur, but
it was I remember it was cold.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was November.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 14: Towards the end. Well it's middle November of last year. Okay,
I think it was the eighteenth or something like that. Okay,
around then, yeah, and it was it was a little
chilly that day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were playing there. Jesse Coffee, who is Jenny's Sun,
was playing that. Yeah, so that's that's the main reason
that we were there and we saw you and we
had to talk to you because we were just very impressed,
not only with your set but your story. You've you've
you've been through some stuff, my friend, you have been
through some stuff. But and well we'll get into all
of that, I'm sure, but also you're you're not from here.
You're on tour right now.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, originally from My wife and I were from
the Shadow Valley from Winchester, Virginia, like our west of DC, Okay,
and we live in Seattle now. We moved up to
the northwest in August of twenty two. But yeah, we're
playing some shows around the Northeast and also getting neurology
appointments while I'm back in town. So you know, it's
good to be back here though, and be able to
be on the road because I mean, I said last
night in Boston. The last time I played in Boston
was May of twenty twenty three. Yeah, and I'm usually
up in the Northeast at least a couple of times
a year, and you know, prior to moving to Seattle
even Yeah, and so last year really made that difficult.
I'm glad we at least got to get to Manchester. Yeah,
but yeah, I mean happy to dive into that.
Speaker 4: And where are you playing tonight?
Speaker 14: We're playing at Tourists in North Adams tonight.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 14: Yeah, so it's been nice to get a little Northeast vibe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, because we'll.
Speaker 14: Be in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania tomorrow, and then we're coming back
up playing Queens and Jersey. Okay, so yeah, hitting some
spots I haven't been to in a while.
Speaker 4: Oh and you brought us a beautiful vinyl record by
that way, Yeah, and uh, later I'll take a picture
of it and I'll post it later because I don't
have a camera on me. But but this is actually
maybe well actually maybe for those watching online, Oh, I
figured out a way I can show it. Sweet there
we go. If you're watching live, you can see Beautiful
April Days, the uh, the name of the album, and
of course the name of the song that we just played,
the great studio track. And yeah, absolutely absolutely I love
that this is Seattle, assume in the cover.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, that's in the neighborhood we live in Ballard.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, right on Ballard. Ave.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 14: And you know, I showed that record to someone the
other day. I said, you know, it's really going for
that free wheeling vibe, same aesthetic. But and they were like, well,
you know, Dylan really screwed up not putting a cute
dog on the cover, so we put Conoli, our Boston
terrier on with us.
Speaker 16: Oh.
Speaker 14: Very yeah, she adds a vibe for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm always impressed with because you've got
the harmonica. Yeah yeah, and you've got what do you
call that that where that you put it in that
contraption harpholder, I guess okay, yeah, I'm always impressed with
that because when you do that, you're playing guitar. You're
literally playing two instruments at once. So that always impresses me. Thanks.
Speaker 14: Thanks. I mean I literally learned how to play along
to like any of the songs on Harvest and that
was like, all right, well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is he your biggest influence?
Speaker 14: Neilia, I'm being top for sure. Yeah. Well, which I
got a great story about which I'll dive into. Getting
brain surgery here shortly. But what the surgeon told me
after surgery was a real ego boost for sure. Okay, okay,
it involves Neil as well.
Speaker 4: So for those of you just tuning in, because you
probably have not heard I'll talk about the brain surgery,
you probably haven't heard a guest say that before on
this show. But like I said, so, if you're just
tuning in, not only do you want to keep listening
for the music, but you want to hear Mike's story
because you have been through it. But yeah, you want
to play something to set us out.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll start with this. So essentially, for two years,
I had been dealing with the worst mental health and
physical health crisis in my life. I didn't know what
was wrong with me for years. Found out on April
seventeenth of last year, I get admitted to the hospital
in Virginia when I was supposed to be on tour.
I had started going unconscious and I happened to be
at lunch with my doctor son in Virginia and he
saw me go unconscious for about fifty seconds. His dad
and his dad got me an MRI the next morning.
I would have been in the van all the way
to New Jersey to start the tour. I was going
unconscious again before the MRI and I get admitted to
the hospital. That day I get diagnosed with temporolo of epilepsy.
And the neurologist, this guy, doctor lyons, he looks at me,
and he says, every single time you felt nauseous for
the last two years, and every single time a doctor
has told you you have really bad acid reflux, you've
actually been seizing. And it usually usually happened when I
ate and I had a mass on my right timpoorlope
called cortical dysplasia, which I was a congenital defect that
I didn't know was there and took twenty nine years
for them to find it and for two years of
countless seizures until I started going unconscious. Usually when it
would happen, I would I feel like I was getting
stabbed in the stomach. Oh my gosh, cruciatingly painful, and
it affected my mind tremendously.
Speaker 4: Too, imagine.
Speaker 14: So you know, years of dealing with that, you know,
I finally get this diagnosis, and it sure was some
good news for me in that regard, because I finally
knew what was wrong and So this first one off
play I wrote about two weeks after the surgery, okay,
and it's called What's wrong with Me?
Speaker 8: All right, my darling, I've gone like the.
Speaker 18: Willow ma Lee's laid bath.
Speaker 12: And the cold.
Speaker 14: My heartaches from something I can't see it.
Speaker 12: My mind feels as.
Speaker 14: Of control. My the darkness, it steals away my memory.
Speaker 11: Give me.
Speaker 14: A break from the pain. Medication has sah lends the melody,
and no one seems to understand him but me. I've
wandered this world without answers, hiding my pain from those
as I smile, though I am weary, always can put.
Speaker 12: On a show.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 14: My darkness, it steals away my memory.
Speaker 11: Give me.
Speaker 12: A break from the pain.
Speaker 14: Medication has sidles the melody. No one seems to understand.
Speaker 20: Me, and one day they will find what's wrong with.
Speaker 16: Me?
Speaker 3: They sure did.
Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful. Thanks Mike Fraser is here with
us live in studio and uh no, that was great,
thank you. What so that was written obviously before they
had a diagnosis.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, no, that that was written. That was after
the diagnosis.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, Yeah, that was the.
Speaker 14: First one I finished after surgery.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, Yeah, that.
Speaker 14: The the only song I wrote, well, like, I really
finished beforehand while I was still in the hospital was
the title track April Days, which I'll finish.
Speaker 16: With that one.
Speaker 14: Yeah, but yeah that you know, for the first first
like week, I couldn't play guitar or really sing at all. Yeah,
which was scary for a minute for sure. I mean
I was also in unimaginable pain. I mean I didn't
sleep for like two and a half weeks. And you know,
from my case, you know, brain surgery was the best
option because they also weren't sure if it was cancer
or not.
Speaker 4: So oh okay, you know it until they went in.
Speaker 14: I yeah, yeah, so they you know, while I'm sitting
in the hospital on the seventeenth, the neurologist comes in.
It's just my wife and him and I in there,
and uh, I had three seizures in front of him
right in that moment. He was watching it on the
EG and he was seeing they were all coming from
that that mass. So he was confident it was that
what is what was causing it, right, But they weren't
confident as if it was cancer or if it was
cortical dysplaysia. Okay, so you know, as I said, best
option was to cut it out. And but for me,
I mean I was like, yeah, that do it, no
matter what I mean, because in my mind it was like, well,
there's my way out, especially because of the way that
affected me mentally.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can imagine that was that was to me.
Speaker 14: That was even worse the fact that you know, I
couldn't even really I couldn't eat without having a seizure
at that point. Every time I ate, it happened. But
for me, it was like I was the most depressed
I'd ever been in my life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: And uh, I mean my wife saved my life at
that point. A couple of days prior to getting the diagnosis,
I was on the ledge and she really saved my life.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 14: And you know, getting that diagnosis though, it was like, well,
this is my way out, you know, I know what
it is now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's frightening to hear that, right, But at
the same time, it's like, at least now I know.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I mean, I like, I I wasn't. It's weird, Like
I wasn't frighten by it.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 14: I was elated to know what it was, you know,
I was more frightened not knowing what that that was
really it because it had just been years of the
misdiagnosis and then it just kept getting worse and worse.
From what I understand, you know, that's kind of the
way that epilepsy works. It's like a computer, it just
gets smart, like it upgrades. Especially so my mine was,
you know, it's just getting to the point where I
was going unconscious. So that's how I found it. But yeah,
it was, Uh, it was quite the time, to say
the least. And then so I go through with the
surgery and then the like I said, the first week
or so couldn't play at all, but then you know,
I had the rest of May and then June and July.
Really I just wrote constantly, and uh, what was a
real trip was the way that after they took this
mass out of my brain, I didn't realize how much
it had been affecting writing, you know, from I remember,
I remember it was really like the end of twenty
twenty three, I started noticing, you know, just how difficult
it was to write. I mean I would sit down
and just play and play and play. Nothing like melodies
would come about, but just couldn't put the connection.
Speaker 4: And at the time you probably thought it was writer's blocky.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, you know, I was just like, well,
I'm just working a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Also mentally I'm struggling. Physically, I'm struggle. I'm just like,
it's just probably a bunch of things at play here.
But it was crazy, like they you know, a couple
of weeks after, I'd say, well, it was about it
was about a month or month and a half after surgery.
I'm sitting down reading my wife's book, Steph Bruno. She's
an author. She wrote this book called The Recipe for Yellow,
and I'm reading her novel and it was wild, Like
I flipped. I get like twenty pages in and I
was like, this is the fastest I've ever been able
to read. And I remember texting the doctors. I was like, so,
before the surgery, you said my IQ might go up
a little bit, which I was really having a field
day with interesting. Yeah and uh but but that's what
I guess. You know, when I started writing again, it
was just like the ease at which was pretty profound.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I was like, they literally removed a block a lot
in a lot of ways, and it just was easier
to get in that flow state for sure of just
like sitting down. Yeah, I would do this like admititay,
I do some yoga and then just like start ripping
through songs.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 14: It was It was sweet. It was definitely unlike any
writing experience I've had in the past. And you know it,
like I think I wrote twenty songs for this record,
but we recorded it four months after the surgery, so
it was like twenty songs in four months.
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, it's pretty good. Yeah, and how
did you record this? By the way, So so we.
Speaker 14: There's a studio house in Ballard in Seattle. Multiple bands
live at this house and it's been a banded house
since the nineties. So I'm always wondering, like, you.
Speaker 4: Know, who's oh yeah there, especially.
Speaker 14: Being in Seattle and you know, being a big punk
rock fan, I was always wondering, like, oh, no doubt,
I wonder who's walked through here. So I'm getting my tuner.
But yeah, so I essentially I got a few of
my friends from the East Coast, my buddy Samir, Matteo
and Mark they flew in from Jersey, and then I
had friends from Seattle just come in and play steel
and fiddle all sorts. Of different stuff. It was cool
like East Coast West Coast vibe. Yeah, but we tracked
it all live in the basement, really leaned into the
after the gold Rush. Yeah, like I was saying, yeah,
and which does time to this story? After I got surgery,
the surgeon comes.
Speaker 12: In my room.
Speaker 14: I remember, right before I went out for the Antesia hit.
He looks at me, uh, and he goes, well, hey, man,
are you gonna are you gonna listen to fish? Will
you operate on my brain? Because I was told like
a couple of days before the surgery he was seeing
fish at the sphere.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding.
Speaker 14: I once again had a field day with that. I
mean I was telling everyone like, yo, a fishhead's operating
on me or what that's gonna be? Like, right, I
wonder what's gonna go down. Well, right before I the
Antesia hits, I look at him and like, yeah, you're
gonna listen to some fish. He was like, actually no,
I was wondering if you were on Spotify I was
gonna play your music? And I was like, oh, yeah
I am, and then I went unconscious.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: But so he comes in my room after the surgery
and he's like congrats, Mike, I got everything. He gave
me a fist bump and he goes, uhcause, just so
you know, while I was operating on your brain, I
was listening to music the whole time. I really like it.
You sound like Neil Young. Oh that's cool, that's cool,
which my wife was like, yeah, of course he loved
hearing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I so yeah, I really leaned into that, you know,
after the goal versus. I love the way that he
made that record at that because it was his house
and to pang A Canyon. Yeah, we really went for
that feel.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, no, I think you achieved it. Absolutely appreciate that.
Speaker 14: But yeah, woman, just roll a couple more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's do it. I'm down here more.
Speaker 14: Well, you know, the one I there was like, yeah,
the like I said, wrote a bunch of songs for it.
One in particular was that it was just really profound
out all came about. It was the first time I
ever had like a dream about like melody and lyrics. Okay,
that never happened to me before. And every time I
saw an interview of a songwriter talking about that, I
was like, no, way right, people just say that for
interviews right right, it does sound good, but it finally happened.
So so, uh, I wake up immediately like on my phone,
recorded just this melody. Uh, And I had this line
imagine a world without Empires, and I you know, I
got the I got the melody for it. I just
lay it down real quick, just immediately wake up, sing
it and wrote, got up, wrote the lyrics for it
in like twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 14: And but then I quickly was like, well, Imagine might
be a little leading, a little too into John Lennon there,
so I didn't want to rip off too much. So
then it switched it to Envision, Okay, okay, yeah, So
so that you know, that was like the first time
that had ever happened for me, which was real cool
to say the least. And and that you know that
like the I think the overarching theme of the record,
you know, it's not just like an epilepsy brain surgery record.
I think it is this concept of like healing, yeah,
just in general and not even just like me any person.
And also the planet. That's that's the big thing, And
that was that was the big thing about this song too.
It's just this idea of like, well if we stop
building bombs and build a better future, you know. And
like last night, I tried this vibe where I told
everybody close their eyes, take a deep breath. You know,
picture the children of Palestine are free. There's no more
bombs being dropped. People have you know, clean soil, clean
air to drink, clean clean, clean air to breathe, clean
air to drink. And that was kind of the whole
idea of this song. It's just like what it would
be like if we stop building bombs, right, So it
seems like, why, you know, shouldn't be that crazy of
a concept, right exactly, But that, yeah, that's what this
one was. Vib I'm we do rip that one?
Speaker 4: Yeah please, yeah, hear it.
Speaker 14: Let me tune up a little bit, but yeah, you know,
just to have the like the melody, and of course
you know it's still kind of that like classic folky melody.
So now it wasn't like I woke up with some life,
right right, but you know, just to have that happen
was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: If you're just joining us, Mike Fraser is here with
us live in studio.
Speaker 16: All right.
Speaker 14: This one's called World Without Empires. Imagine what that could
be like? Vision a world without Empires, where people can
live without fear of tyrants bombing their city, destroying what
they hold dear. One day, it won't be too crazy
to think of how it could be our world without empires,
living harmonious sleep. Well, the Earth is finally saved. The
walls are crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll
happen somehow. Vision a world without Empires. The wars would
be obsolete. Why would you build an army if killing
wasn't in me? Well, the Earth is finally saved, the
walls all crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll
happen somehow. Well, the Earth is finally saved, the walls
all crumbling down. Envision world without Empires. Sure it'll happen somehow. Yeah,
I'm sure it'll happen somehow.
Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful, Absolutely beautiful. If you're yeah, I
hope so, huh If you're just joining us, Mike Fraser
is here with us, alive in studio and that's on
April days, I assume, right, Yeah, yeah, that definitely captures
that Neil young vibe. Who your going?
Speaker 14: Thanks?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, We don't have a ton of time. You
want to play another one.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you want to finish with the April Days.
Speaker 4: You want to well, okay, well we're finishing with that one.
We don't have to rush quite yet.
Speaker 14: But uh yeah, I could do. I could do one
from Secrets of Atlantis.
Speaker 4: Okay, I just selfishly want to hear you play more.
You sound so good man.
Speaker 14: Thanks you really do you really do?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 16: Thank you?
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, well I I'll do. I'll do love you forever.
That one's uh so, Secrets of Atlanta's was a record
I made during the pandemic, record like three records in
those few years, and I put this one out April
twenty sixth of last year. Surgery was April twenty fifth,
excuse me, so surgery was not planned, record was still planned,
records still was released. And Steph took this photo of
me with the bandage on my head holding the LP
like half awake in the bed.
Speaker 4: Like oh okayd wow, but this one, you know.
Speaker 14: So there's a little bit of a dare I say,
friendly competition between Steph and I when it comes to writing.
Unbelievable writer, and that was made really apparent when we
got married, especially during our vowels. You know, I was
like all right, I'm gonna blow everyone away here I
write these really, I'm like, we get married under the
Redwoods in Santa Cruz. So picture that we're under the
red It's a bunch of people sitting. It's this beautiful backdrop,
and the place is losing it. I mean, everyone's crying
their eyes out. The redwoods themselves are crying. I mean,
the place is going nuts. Then Steph reads hers and
not only does everyone cry, but they also laughed. And
that's when I knew I should have added one joke.
Because she she ends hers with everyone here knows the
best songs. The ones you write about medn't top that one.
So she writes this book, The Recipe for Yellow, which
is about four generations of women living together in house
in Virginia, very timely with Mother's Day tomorrow. So I
wrote this one about her cosmic relationship with her grandma,
who passed away visits her in her dreams. That's so
this one's all right. I have to hold the guitar
this way. There's like a loose bracing in it.
Speaker 4: Here it are okay, Yeah, it sounds great.
Speaker 14: Yeah, the cosmic wonders around you, the violid aura of.
Speaker 18: J gateways to endless evotion, a place where there is
no pay.
Speaker 22: I wanna love you for ever, but I know time.
Speaker 8: Is a line.
Speaker 14: I know we'll be back to get.
Speaker 8: Next live.
Speaker 14: Vibrations from their demention.
Speaker 23: They've visit me in my dream, leave me behind my
earthly body.
Speaker 22: And travel with you in p he. I wanna love
you forever, but I know time is a live.
Speaker 12: I know we'll be back to get.
Speaker 14: Next.
Speaker 1: Lo.
Speaker 20: I wanna love you forever, but I know time.
Speaker 12: Is a live.
Speaker 24: I know we'll be back to againther. I know we'll
be back to againther. I know we'll be back to again.
Speaker 8: Next li.
Speaker 1: O.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful and I know I keep saying the same
thing after every song, but they are their beautiful son.
Thank you. I appreciate that absolutely. If you're just joining us,
Mike Frasier is here with us live in studio on
this Saturday morning. Hey, before we uh, before we head tour,
because I know you want to finish with April days. Yeah,
I want to remind people where you're gonna be tonight.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'll be over in North Adams tonight at Tourists Okay, Planet.
Speaker 4: Eight excellent, excellent, Yes, and then uh, and then from there,
where do you go from there?
Speaker 14: Pennsylvany, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania tomorrow okay, place called the record shop okay.
And then we'll be home for a little bit. Uh,
gotta get a could get an EG and then uh,
I'll go back up the Northeast. I got a couple
more shows and some shows in Virginia.
Speaker 4: So okay.
Speaker 14: Trying to get back to Manchester in the fall, for sure. Yeah, yeah,
I hope so good time to be here for sure. Yeah, absolutely, yes,
we'll be back for sure.
Speaker 4: Where should people go online to? Where's the best place
to go to keep up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 14: Mike Fraser via mainly on Instagram is the one I'm
probably most active on, okay, uh, the one that I
remember to update regularly, gotcha, Yeah, that's probably the best one.
Or Geneva Records dot Com. Oh okay, yeah, I started
a record label back in twenty fifteen to put out
my friends. Oh, just use it to put out my
own records.
Speaker 4: Oh, no kidding? Yeah, so oh very cool. Yeah I
have to check that out. Yeah, yeah, for sure, very
curious about that.
Speaker 14: Thanks. Got Steph's book on there too?
Speaker 4: Oh nice?
Speaker 14: Yes, and What's what's the book called the Recipe for Yellow?
Speaker 4: The Recipe for Yellow?
Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, yeah, perfect time to pick that up before.
It's a good Mother's Day gift for sure.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, all right, Mike Fraser live in studio. He's
gonna play April Days for us.
Speaker 12: Thanks.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I figured, you know, and with this one, because
you know, like I said, this was the U. This
was really the only song I finished before surgery. Oh okay,
you know, I'm if you picture this, I'm laying in
my hospital bed. I got the eg on my head
and uh got the ek geo in my heart. And
they were kind enough to let me have the guitar
in the room so my friends would come down and visit.
One in particular, my buddy Mark Masefield. He brought his
accordion to my room and yeah, he'd play well, I
got my blood drunk. Oh wow, he was playing take
me out to the ball game.
Speaker 4: That's funny.
Speaker 14: But but yeah, I this was one. Like you know,
I had the melody too before I got admitted, and
I was just you know, kind of putting it all
together with him while I was well, I was a
waiting and yeah, this is like I think The overarching
idea is like healing. Like I said, the mind, the earth,
your everything. Yeah, and I'll do the I'm gonna heal
thing to finish. So anybody out there listening, you can
sing along to It's real, It's real, easy, all right?
Speaker 12: Can you hear that?
Speaker 17: All right?
Speaker 4: That sounds great?
Speaker 14: April days if coming gone. Spring, rain is rolling on.
My heart breaks without a song. The road starts to wind.
They're funding war so they last been. Times are coming fast?
Will peace get a chance?
Speaker 12: Who would have known?
Speaker 14: I've been feeling like something is wrong. The voice in
my head has been here for too long. One day
I will get to live live again. Laying in my
hospital bed, the sun shining on my head, the doctor
stopped bye, said they know what's the cause. I've been feeling.
Speaker 20: Like something is wrong. The voice in my head has
been here for too long.
Speaker 14: One day I will get to live life again. I'm
happy to be alive. The worst days are long behind,
healing from all the time spent in pain. I've been
feeling like something is wrong.
Speaker 21: The voice in my head has been here for too long.
One day I will get to live life with him.
Speaker 14: All right, we'll do that. We'll do this sing long
while so I should know too. I'm a year seizure
free as of the that's four twenty and so it
was real good getting back up to the Northeast. But yeah,
here's here's the singalong song. So I wrote this one
just really to sing in my head while I walked around.
But we'll do the singalong part too. So here's what
Here's what I say. Anybody out there listen. I'm gonna heal.
I'm going to heal. I'm gonna heal my mind. I'm
going to heal. I'm going to heal. I'm gonna heal
my mind. We're gonna heal. This is the part. We're
gona heal. We're gonna heal our mind. We singing together.
Come on, we're gona heal. We're gona heal. We're gonna
heal our minds. Everybody out there, if you're out there,
we're gone heal.
Speaker 12: We're going to heal.
Speaker 14: We're gonna heal our minds. One more, We're going heal.
We're going to heal. We're gonna heal ourmids.
Speaker 20: I want to be jo just fine, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Oh, Mike Fraser, thank you so much, my friend.
Thank you, thank you so much and having me. How
many dates left on the tour? We got five more shows,
five more shows. Awesome, awesome. Well, the next time you're
out on tour and you're coming this way, we're gonna
have to have you back.
Speaker 14: I would love to be back.
Speaker 4: This is This has been wonderful.
Speaker 14: Thanks to start in the morning.
Speaker 4: For sure, You're probably not used to sing this early.
Speaker 14: Hu, I've been getting a good routine, like I'll wake up.
I've been starting awake early because STEP's a substitute teacher too,
so I'll wake up, make her breakfast, and then I'm like,
all right, well I'm up. I may as well, you know, yeah,
start my day nice, yes, yes, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, thank you Mike, and of course if you
missed any part of today's show, it will be up
in just a little bit at wmn hradio dot org
and of course my website Matt connorton dot com. And
thank you of course to uh we had awaiting Abigail earlier.
And then of course Trall great band from Portland, Maine,
and last but certainly not least, Mike Frasier from from
Seattle and early on tour. Yeah, yeah, exactly, well, yeah,
you're on the road, you're kind of from everywhere, right,
all right, you absolutely that's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 16: For now.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye, everybody, Bye,
all right.
Speaker 13: Just can't forget all the places where we've been, man,
I just get a rays all the things out we
have seen. Now you away, because I'll see you with
my dreams. Oh please not.
Speaker 11: I see.
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the morning ring swinging green fans us loder and white.
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