Speaker 1: Sit in her hair in this chair thing again, Wanda
wear hair, this world school.
Speaker 2: Socks of wool, horror.
Speaker 3: All low around, watch these buildings.
Speaker 4: Grumbo to do.
Speaker 5: Graha sipy boise change and told.
Speaker 6: Them mon and not them all.
Speaker 2: This change.
Speaker 7: Wady way way, Why.
Speaker 2: See this hey? He spread into the crowd.
Speaker 3: Affoording boots are a long two parties, says Sto, designed
to devine.
Speaker 2: Friends and family for she on shift.
Speaker 6: Change the change?
Speaker 8: When whenning?
Speaker 6: When when we going.
Speaker 9: Ballaticians pulling all those strings.
Speaker 10: We'll just bomb it in this bullet and go ray.
Speaker 3: Lead with your hall heart loves well it all big gains.
Let's stand to gether and learn to love Fuga.
Speaker 11: That is a very very cool song. Everybody's changing. And
let me get that mic up, and I'm going to
ask I'm gonna to ask him to so I don't
screw up his last name. Welcome, how do you? Okay?
Go ahead and introduce yourself, Sarah. Let me get these
uh make sure this mike is working here, Go ahead
and introduce yourself.
Speaker 12: My name is Stephen de Keir.
Speaker 11: Stephen de Ure local.
Speaker 12: Musician from Nasha, New Hampshire. I played full time all
around New Hampshire in the Massachusetts area. Tonight, I'll be
in York Maine, York Beach playing from seven to ten pm.
Speaker 11: Okay to the show. Very cool, very cool. Yeah, so
Stephen de ure Yes, that's I say it. Okay, very good,
very good. Because you're I'm curious if your name ever
gets messed up on a poster, gets.
Speaker 12: Messed up all the time, all the time. Yes, got that.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna get this camera on you here so people
can see who are watching online if you are just
joining us. Matt Connorton Unleashed. We have entered our number
two New Marrow dose here on this Saturday morning, and
Stephen de Kerer is with us, and he brought his guitar.
He's gonna play. He's gonna play for us in just
a moment. But I love that song. So where was
that recorded? Where did you do that?
Speaker 12: So I've been recording with Charlie Brusso over at Woodshot
Productions in Atkinson, New Hampshire.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 12: He's worked with like God Smack and run DMC over
the years, some pretty prominent names. Yeah, he's good friends
of mine, a few of my other friends. So I've
been working with him and I've been working on this
EP coming out now on almost two years now. I've
been working on it.
Speaker 11: Oh wow, yeah, Now how did you? How did you
come to work with him? Because obviously you know he's
worked with some heavy hitters. I mean, how did that
come about?
Speaker 12: So just mutual friends of my mom and dads and
friend music friends of ours that I've known throughout the years. Uh,
you know put me in touch with him, and I've
been working with him ever since.
Speaker 11: How many are you putting out an EP or how many?
Speaker 12: Just an EP? It's my very first EP, so it'll
be six songs.
Speaker 11: Oh wow, song EP. Very cool, congratulations on that. Who
else is on? Who else is working?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 11: Is it all just you?
Speaker 12: It's mostly just me. I have obviously Charlie producing it.
He's putting most of it together for me. But I
also have Jeff McGinnis. He's one of my lead guitarists
on the on the track on the album as well.
He was guitarists on Everybody's Changing as well. Oh okay,
and he's super super talented, super super talented guy, really nice.
He actually owns the Mojo's music.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, ye oh, very cool.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so that's what I'm working with on on that
and getting some other people in for bass and things
like that, and usually I just do it myself.
Speaker 14: Though.
Speaker 11: Yeah, uh, well, do you want to play something for us?
You got your guitar, Let me turn that, turn that guitar,
hero Play've got the right. Oh that sounds nice. That
sounds nice in the headphones.
Speaker 12: Yeah all right. This one's called quiet Moments. This is
an original right.
Speaker 3: Quiet moments.
Speaker 15: All the long.
Speaker 3: Hours Friday, my beIN.
Speaker 2: Fill these patures.
Speaker 3: And the stories, arrange them your homeway, sing them for me.
Looking at mountain window is the sun creets the day, birds.
Speaker 2: Of singing clean tree suit tree.
Speaker 3: Writing songs come suweesally surrounded by me chos.
Speaker 16: Beudy play the skits are.
Speaker 3: Day and tun hide create the fire high.
Speaker 8: I know you like.
Speaker 2: Fill these pages.
Speaker 3: Traw umbost or horries, arrange them your homeway, sing.
Speaker 15: Them for me.
Speaker 3: Looking at my window is the clouds over the day.
Window is boring meaning song its way. Writing songs come
sreesonly surrounded by niechous, beudy, quiet moments.
Speaker 15: All along.
Speaker 3: House is empty, no once on.
Speaker 2: Fill these pages.
Speaker 3: Lonely stor homies, range them your hollway.
Speaker 2: Sing for me.
Speaker 12: Quite a Moment's a little rough, but you.
Speaker 11: Know a little rough, dude. That was beautiful. That was beautiful.
Welcome everybody, if you are just joining us. We have
Stephen Dekire here with us alive in studio, and that's
that sounded fantastic.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 11: How long have you been? How long have you been
doing that? So have you been?
Speaker 3: No, I have been playing?
Speaker 14: Uh So.
Speaker 12: I started playing guitar when I was seven years old. Okay,
my uncle got me an electric electric guitar, so I
was playing you know Metallica, Iron Maiden, you know all
the Megadeath, you know Green Day. And then when I
was freshman in high school, I had to do a
guitar class, so I had to get an acoustic guitar
because I didn't have enough for all the kids. So sure,
I had to go buy one, got one, never looked back.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So I've been playing since I was like seven, and
I've been doing like full time gigging for about a
little over ten years.
Speaker 11: Oh, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 11: Where are you from?
Speaker 12: Uh So? I was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Okay, moved
to Nashville when I was about six years old. So
I've been in Nasha since about two thousand and two
thousand and one.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, now how did you how did you when
when you were starting out? I mean, did you always
do a solo acoustic thing or did you play a band?
Speaker 12: I've always done solo acoustic.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 12: Over the years, now that I've you know, been doing
it for a while, I've been trying to work more
with like, you know, bands and like get up on
stage with bands and as far as that goes. But
I usually just do it solo.
Speaker 11: It's easier, right, I mean it's you know, you don't
depend on anybody else for ye know, their availability and
in terms of rehearsing and playing shows and.
Speaker 12: All that exactly exactly. It's it's a it's a little
bit it's a little bit easier to go about a
business wise.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Do you do covers as well?
Speaker 12: Or do do covers as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 12: I do mostly covers even at all my shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Like I said, this is the first EP I have
coming out, So these are my first original songs that
I have. Yeah, and so I mostly do covers and
things like that.
Speaker 11: Yeah. How many originals do you have at this point?
Would you say, I mean, can you even put a
number on how many songs you have?
Speaker 12: I have about like six or seven okay, Okay, I said,
I rarely just started writing about maybe a year or
two ago, okay, And I moved back into you know,
my parents and stuff, and yeah, my dad's been helping
me a lot with you know, the writing, and oh good,
help me put together the music and things like that.
Speaker 11: What is it that motivated you to want to start writing?
Speaker 12: I really just want to get my own music out there.
I mean, I play, I do all the I play
live full time, and you know the next step is
to get onto my own stage hopefully, you know what
I mean, and have people come and see my music.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 12: You know, put music out there that you know can
help people along the way. And yeah, the ways that
music's helped me along the way.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 11: You want to play another one?
Speaker 12: Yeah, of course?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, if you're just joining us, Stephen the cure
saying it right is he is here with us in
in studio. Sounded amazing. Yeah, that's correct, And hear another one?
Does that?
Speaker 15: Ever? Does?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 11: I I assume, like, what what's the I'm just curious
what what's the most unusual shall we say pronunciation? You've
heard of your name?
Speaker 12: I mean I've had I've had, I've had the queer,
I've had the choir, I've had I felt a lot. Yeah,
declare mind better?
Speaker 11: How did you say it? I don't remember?
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 17: Blue?
Speaker 11: Oh, yes, there you go. That sounds.
Speaker 12: I've had people put a queue in front of it.
Speaker 11: Oh really yeah, yeah, yeah, I can imagine, scarious. What
are you gonna play for us next?
Speaker 12: I'm gonna do so, I'm actually gonna do a cover
for you. This is a rail of Montane's empty nice nice.
Speaker 3: M shless screwed up two knees walks through the garden
rooms with the Bedfielder never learned to come up this
sings choosing stair too, twins stirs walk on down the
hill through the grasscon Jill and Brown still had sons.
Speaker 18: Some mounts to that go of life, Babe, I'm.
Speaker 3: Best busty back then holding rusty gotta like that, sinks
into this fields collecting ray willow ways feel this way.
So see so wes strange enough. The'se got thort busted sunset,
These cold and damn biden.
Speaker 15: Mornings, I use gone feet.
Speaker 3: Through market and dusty dam still leaves and spoke. These
words are allud No one hear me. Fel blouse across
the chair, bid four flowers from your hair and gets
me with a country mouth sore, play napside the rain
and stepping on the leaves. To me, it sounds like
they're blooding us.
Speaker 19: Quite love me.
Speaker 2: Will ways feel this way.
Speaker 3: So so wss Strange, Well love looks my team means
in the I stood in my chest said to your
best to destroy me. You see, I've been in the
hell ling back so many times. I standing bed kind
of for me. There's a lot of things I can
give the man. There's a lot of ways to die. Yes,
since I am ready there to walk side me, And
there's a whole lot of things. I don't understand why
so many people lie. Let's hurt you ounfuse The fir
inside me will always.
Speaker 12: Feel this way.
Speaker 20: So see So Liz Strange, Steven Deckure here with us
live in studio.
Speaker 11: That was amazing. That was a ray Lemming I can't
say his name either. Song that was gorgeous.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that was really a beautiful light.
Speaker 11: That was really good. That was really good. So much
is is there anyone that you covered that you found
challenging to do, like vocally.
Speaker 12: Or Steely Dan Amy Winehouse. Really yeah, Yeah, Vocally they're
pretty challenging. I mean some of the new Benson Boone
songs that I've been working on challenging as well.
Speaker 11: Now what is it about so somebody like I'm curious
that somebody like seely Dan for example, What what is
it that's that's challenging about that?
Speaker 12: Oh my god. They are such nerds when it comes
to the musicality of it. Yeah, pronunciation of when when
you know you're singing, And I mean Michael McDonald did
an interview about how when he was recording PEG with
Donald Fagan, Yeah, and how he was very that's the
word I'm looking for. He wanted it perfectly. He wanted
it perfectly every single time. So this pronunciation with his words,
how he was pronunciating it, I was singing it everything.
It took him like seventeen to eighteen takes no can
do the harmonies on PEG or whatever he goes. It
was one of the hardest things I've ever read to do.
Speaker 11: Oh wow wow.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Is it important to you when when you do these covers?
Is it important to you to sing them as closely
as possible to the original.
Speaker 12: I like to bring a justice but also make it
my own. Yeah, give it my own twist on it
in a way, so it's not oh hey, he's just
you know, like the other everybody else the run of
the mill, right right, Yeah, stand out a little bit.
Speaker 11: So yeah, no doubt, no doubt. What are do you
have a favorite like, do you have a favorite cover
that you do? Is there one that really kind of
stands out of something to every show?
Speaker 12: I just I went over this, I get this question,
actually asked a lot. Yeah, it's hard to say. I
have like almost two hundred songs that I play off
to my head, so yeah, it's hard to like pick
and choose. It's usually ones that like I'm like just
learning or you know what i mean, just getting out
there to play. Yeah, as of lately, it's been noa
Kn's Dial Drunk. I really enjoying playing that one out lately.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it kind of always fluctuates for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 11: What's the longest show you've done?
Speaker 12: Oh man, the longest show I've done I think was
like seven and a half hours.
Speaker 11: Oh my god. Okay, tell me about it. Way seven
and a half hours.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was a private pool party.
Speaker 11: Because usually when I ask people this question, I'll get like, oh,
you know, we did a five hours, like seven and
a half yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: So so like I did like a lot of like
the shows like El Street Tovern last year, and yeah,
there was a couple of times like that I had
to do both of the shows because one of the
guys canceled. Yeah, or so I had to go on
there early, play from like three to three thirty to
seven thirty, then play seven thirty to midnight or wow.
Yeah it's rough. It's rough.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, but why we do it?
Speaker 12: You know what I mean?
Speaker 11: When you do something like that? Do you do anything
special for your voice too?
Speaker 12: Like I really just drink tea and lemons. Oh that's
really all I do. Especially I didn't drink any today.
I was running late this night.
Speaker 11: Oh you sound great, now, you sound great? And yeah,
but pretty unusual to sing this early, probably right, it
is for me.
Speaker 12: Usually usually I'm waking up at like three really yeah yeah,
getting ready to go to work at six.
Speaker 11: Yeah, there you go, there you go, yep. So and
as far as playing, I mean, obviously, with what you
do you're able to play, you know, you can play
just about anywhere, but just about like do you get
out of do you get out of New England much?
Speaker 12: Or do you kind of stick to I Actually I
haven't played. I play in Massachusetts a lot. Yeah, do
like Brownies Pub. I usually do Muddy Waters where's that
that's in Methune as well. Oh okay, yeah, and then
a few other places that I've played, But other than that,
I usually stay in New Hampshire.
Speaker 11: No kidding. Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, I mean it's remarkable
with you do a lot of breweries. I assume I
do a lot of breweries.
Speaker 12: I do, so I work with not so costly productions.
Speaker 11: Oh excellent, Dmitri, no wonder you're so busy. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
they do a great job.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so I work with them. I've been working with
Paul Costley and Dmitry for over god, probably about eight
years now.
Speaker 11: No kidding.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm working with them for a long time.
Speaker 11: Outstanding.
Speaker 12: Yeah, They've been nothing but good to me, and they
helped me out with shows and you know, and I
booked myself as well, and some other people or whatever
that I know through the industry.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, it keeps me busy. Yeah, no, that's fantastic.
Speaker 12: Out of Trouble, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: Do you want to play another one for us?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Of course, trying to hear you play another one selfishly
if you're just joining us. We have Steven de Cure
here and he sounds sounds amazing. Yeah, level up on
that guitar.
Speaker 12: What would you like to hear another cover?
Speaker 11: I'm gonna leave that up to you. Okay, I'll leave
that totally up to you.
Speaker 12: Let's do another original, all right? So this is this
is the first single that I released off the EP,
and I got it released on ninety two point five
The River in Boston.
Speaker 11: Oh congratulations. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I was very excited about that. And it's called Towards
the Sun goes like this all right, it's so fail.
Speaker 2: We talk.
Speaker 3: Was seeing nothing else in door do stocks sweety year
me zag boundbo things, sweet fers sit in no nacking
sheep shaping staff from a cool blass shop. Zaga whenna
opens on a sun zag wanna open bottom fern indve
free time that we fall.
Speaker 2: No shoe, I had new car.
Speaker 3: You talk those slap street two mouth face nine at
nine another slap in the face.
Speaker 19: And now we stand believe in your please, I said,
he a long write this song in Paine.
Speaker 22: Cauza own wanna open sorts of Sun, cauzack gown, wanna
open bottom fun cause I own wanna old bye sort
of sun. Cauzack gown wanna open sorts of sun. Zack
O wanna orpan sorts of sign can back O wanna
open bottom fun cazack O wanna old bine sort of signing.
Speaker 2: Zack O wanna orban sorts of.
Speaker 11: S Towards the Sun by Stephen Dick Heure Live in Studio. Fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 2: What do you?
Speaker 11: I feel like I feel like your songs are pretty upbeat,
Like what do you What do you like to write about?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 12: You know, I really like to write about, you know,
things that people can relate to. Yeah, and they can
you know, take from their own lives and you know,
either use it to help them with whatever they have
going on. I mean Towards the Sun for instances essentially
about you know, no matter where you are in your life,
you're happy, down, sad, you know, depressed, whatever it is,
there's always you know, look one eye towards the son.
There's always something better. No matter where you are, if
you're in a good spot, you can always be doing better. Yeah,
you know what I mean. Just try and stay positive. Yeah, yeah,
you know, yeah, very good, Try and send out a
positive vibe.
Speaker 11: I just noticed your shirt too. I didn't notice it
it first, Anni DiFranco. Yeah, I met her probably, Oh
my god, it's more than twenty years ago now. She
was playing at a show in Providence, Okay. And at
the time, I was working for a promoter, Joe Fletcher,
who's he's not here, he's on the West Coast now,
but he used to. He used to have big world
productions here in New Hampshire, and so he was he
was putting on shows around New England and he did
a bunch of shows with her. But yeah, that's that's
how I met her. And yeah, she was fantastic.
Speaker 12: She's absolutely incredible. So I just went and saw her,
first time I've ever seen her. I used to watch
her show videos all the time. My mom got me
into her. Yeah, I had front row seats with her
and I called out. I yelled at shame play shameless
her and it happened to be the last song that
she was going to play that Now, Oh, Wow, she goes, Oh,
you got lucky, I have I have a video of it.
She handed me the set list. Oh no, okay, yeah
it was really cool.
Speaker 11: Oh, very nice.
Speaker 12: Definitely awesome. She's incredible. Yeah my favorites.
Speaker 11: Yeah absolutely, Yeah. Was that recent or very recent?
Speaker 12: It was at the oh she's it was? It was
in April nineteenth, Yeah, April nineteenth, I believe it was.
Speaker 11: Okay, where did you see her.
Speaker 12: In Somerville Summerville Theater?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I haven't. I haven't kept up with her unfortunately, so,
but I assume she's still putting out. Uh does she
still have her label?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 11: Righteous Babe? Is that still?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Regeous Spabe Records.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the cool things
about her too, is you know, not only uh did
I always love her music? But I shouldn't say past
tense because she's obviously still active, But but I always
thought it was cool that, you know, she she started
her own label. She started that indie label at a
time where like, like today, it's not even a big deal,
right because of the Internet, anybody can can start a lab,
you know, quote unquote right, but she but she did
it at a time when it was unusual, and you know,
I I know she's talked in interviews about how you know,
she faced a lot of headwinds doing that. People didn't
necessarily believe in her, give her a chance.
Speaker 12: They were like, I think, uh, she's done a lot
for the women of the you know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, oh totally absolutely, Yeah, yeah, because I remember one
interview I read with her, she was saying, like, you know,
people just looked at her like, who is this chick
who thinks she can do this?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 11: But but she was determined to do it, and she
did it.
Speaker 12: Give somebody an opportunity. If they have the drive and
the hunger, they'll they'll make it happen.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah one who So obviously she's a big inspiration
to you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, very big inspiration.
Speaker 11: Like who else? Who else?
Speaker 12: You gotta throw the Beatles in there? Yeah, the Beatles
are number one for me.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Huge Jim Crochey fan, Are you ye huge Jim croach fan.
I just saw his son play Croachy plays Croachy.
Speaker 11: Oh no, kidd see, I didn't even know that was
the thing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, he does it at t Plow.
Speaker 11: What's the son's name?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 12: Interesting, it looks just like it said, oh yeah, yeah,
so I saw him my front row tickets to that
one too. My friend Liz also Scott does for me.
Oh excellent, very nice to her, very nice her. Yeah,
and so I met him after the show. Okay, talk
to him. I always open up every show I used
to do with don't mess around with Jim.
Speaker 11: Oh really yeah.
Speaker 12: My dad always laughs at me for it. He's like,
you gonna open up a tool mess around with. So
I met him and talked to him for a few minutes,
showed him my tattoo. Yeah as much as dad, you know,
it was a big inspiration to me, and I'm glad
that he's carrying on his legacy.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, no, that's extremely cool. That's extremely cool.
Speaker 12: Yeah. So you know the Croaches, Steely, Dan Simon and Garfunkle. Yep,
I'm an old soul. I really like the old school,
the classics. Yeah, the music that lives on. Sure that's
meaning you know what I mean? Yeah, I can still
relate to it nowadays.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. Do you want to play? Do
you want to play one more? We have time, we
will play one more live one. Yeah, if you're just
joining us. Stephen dea ciros Here with us live in
studio on this Saturday morning, singing much earlier in the
day that he's used to. But he sounds he sounds great.
Speaker 12: We'll try this one out.
Speaker 11: This is a cover, right, something's uh that's doing that.
The cord might have been loose. Yeah, try that again.
It's it's almost like I wonder if your arm was
hitting the cord going into the guitar, it might have
been what it was I was hearing. Yeah, I was
hearing something like uh percuss. Yeah, that's much better.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Cool.
Speaker 12: So it goes like this.
Speaker 3: Miracle from the stupaka, you know, but it's raining from
cold and drawn from man and surrounding your perspective of
sween seeking before my oudience still my happy man.
Speaker 2: I used to be.
Speaker 3: A doubting I forget about it. Whatever, And it's all
the same many ways.
Speaker 19: And now you back forth to bunch that throne.
Speaker 3: In the name of someone long and a fort she
will be he young junkin lord drap dancing his shins,
being a radio. And now I don't knock you in
they do me in the corn. Heck, even name is
my emergency phone call, honey, ringing, ring, Even the COPSATCHI
rover rainder and now telling Chunk countside, Chunk countside you
monteto and from pots to me recognize from charming to
alarming in seconds, I'll be betd and I'm at the
pain matastasize. But next morning I'll forget it.
Speaker 15: He tie you talk.
Speaker 6: Is all.
Speaker 2: And now you bad all.
Speaker 3: Two bunches out of throne. Win the name of someone
now long and no.
Speaker 6: For seam will being young, junk.
Speaker 2: In alone traffic lancing.
Speaker 3: This trans me in a radio.
Speaker 15: Now don't knock you in they do me in the corner.
I gave your name.
Speaker 3: Is my emergency phone call, honey, ringing ring, even the
cops that you rover raindow and that time Chunk got time,
Trunk got time for you.
Speaker 15: And no time for you.
Speaker 3: Now beg you surge. Just stay in the car looking
for you my blood alcohol. I'll ride on with the
pronouncing seal and I'll changed my faith out pray it's
a flag. It's sweet as sash. Your call me back,
some of you danger to yourself.
Speaker 15: Help sir.
Speaker 19: Just stay in the car to give you my blood
out call.
Speaker 3: I'll ride on with the announcing seal, and I've changed
my faith out, kiss the baths.
Speaker 19: It's sweet, I swiss, you call me back, somebody?
Speaker 2: Do you do this to yourself?
Speaker 3: And I said, and now ain't proud all two punches
down the throne, win the name of someone now no
longer know for the shame of being young, junking alone,
drive the blots in the strings in the video, and
now I don't like you any to me in the
car I gave your name is my emergency phone? Cool honey,
ring and ring e. Then the cops thatt you for
ring you know not time? Chunk countdown, chunk countdown.
Speaker 11: For you, hm hmm.
Speaker 17: Gorgeous, gorgeous, just gorgeous.
Speaker 11: Thank you, absolutely very nice, very nice. Stephen Takira here
with us live in a studio, sounding amazing. We should
remind people. So so the do you know when the
EP is going to be out?
Speaker 12: So I'm hoping the EP is going to be this July.
That's what I'm hoping for. I go back into the
studio on Father's Day, finish up the last song on there,
and then I just want to add some finishing touches
and mix some master it and yeah, get it out
to the people.
Speaker 23: Man.
Speaker 12: It'll be a nice big weight off my shoulders.
Speaker 11: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt about that.
Speaker 14: Huh.
Speaker 11: Very cool. And then where are you playing this weekend?
Do you have anything to plug this weekend?
Speaker 12: Tonight I'll be York Beach, York, Maine en Yeric Beach
in and then I'll be doing that from seven to
ten pm.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 12: And then tomorrow afternoon I will be at the Portsmouth
Gaslight Deck two to five pm.
Speaker 11: Okay, very good.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and then I have like a couple of days
off and then back at it again.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Sweet.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 11: And where is the best place to go online for
people like keep this book?
Speaker 12: Is the best place to go online? And check me
out Stephen d Kere. You can add my main profile page.
You can add my music page of just Stephen de
Cure music.
Speaker 11: We should probably tell people how to spell your name too.
Speaker 12: Yes, it's s t E p h e N. My
last name is d E c U I r E Yes. Yes,
and you pronounce it d q d cur yes.
Speaker 11: Excellent, outstanding, outstanding, I think.
Speaker 2: Uh So.
Speaker 11: Another studio track that you sent us is this Quiet Moments.
Yes that you didn't play this one?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 2: I played that?
Speaker 12: That was the first one I played.
Speaker 11: Oh, that was the first one you played. Maybe we
should maybe we should replay the one we opened with
that subscribe where yeah, well that's okay. Actually, now we'll
let people hear the studio version of Quiet Moments. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
maybe I'll play the other one again afterward, though, because
I really like that. Everybody's changing. Really, I really like
that one a lot. Thank you. That's excellent, outstanding, outstanding.
So if you are listening live, by the way, is
Katie here? She is in the billion Katie Dobbins is
coming up in the third hour, so it'll be nice
to see her and I get to hear her. And
did she bring her guitar? Good? Okay, And we will
close out this segment with this. This is called Quiet Moments.
Stephen de Cure again, thank you so much, Thank you
so much.
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Speaker 11: That is wild by Katie Dobbins. Katie is with us
and we're going to be talking with her in just
a moment as she makes a return to the show.
If you are just joining us, of course, on this
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We have entered our number three on this June seven,
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Speaker 2: Amazing.
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Speaker 11: Yes, By the way, I want to make sure we
don't forget you had someone you wanted to shout out
this morning, not a someone.
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that the reflex sympathetic distript the association is having an
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Speaker 17: Someone is a singular, yeah, not a not a plural.
Speaker 11: No, my goodness, Oh my goodness. I can't do it.
So where where should people go to find out?
Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 11: Is that so that's happening today?
Speaker 17: Yes, it's a virtual all across the country, actually around
the world. M I thought you were going to bring.
Speaker 11: This up at the end. Oh, we'll mention it. We'll
mention it again at the end too, But yeah, I
just didn't want to forget.
Speaker 17: Yeah, well, I'll give more info later.
Speaker 11: Okay, Oh very good, very good. And uh let's see
so Katie is here, let me get that make up. Katie.
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 26: Hi, Thanks thanks for having me.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we talked. Uh, so we did talk a little bit.
It was a couple of months. It was still during
the winter, or was the end of winter. It was
like it was like roll. It was like we thought
winter was over and then woke up one morning to
a winter wonderland.
Speaker 26: That was That was wild.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that was that was That was so traveling was
a bit difficult, but you did call in, so that
was great. But it's great to see you in person.
And the last time I saw you in person was
of course on Rob as a Vito show granted State
of Mind. So that was a lot of fun. But
welcome back. Thanks, And I know we talked about it
on Rob show. But that song wild, that's you know,
it's different for you, different than than Can you tell
us again the story of how that came together in
the studio for people who might maybe not have heard
us talking about it before.
Speaker 26: Yeah, it was really cool because I was doing a
collection of songs at Rocking Horse Studio and I went
in one day just to lay the piano tracks, because
all three songs that I had chosen were piano based
songs that I had written on that instrument, and so
I laid the three songs and then I was like,
you know, I do have another piano song that I
could throw in here, but it was kind of a
last minute Let's try it. Let me just record the
piano and let you guys hear it, and if down
the road you feel it and we want to add
anything to it, we will. And so I kind of
did it on a whim. Again, I had only been
planning on doing three singles, and the guys in the
studio they loved it, and I wasn't. I hadn't gone
in with any idea of production or anything, so again
wasn't planning on recording it, and so because of that,
we had a lot of freedom to just try stuff,
and the production ended up coming out really unique and
different than anything I've done. So it was an exciting
process and really fun. And my dad's actually on that
track too. He did a speaking part that's kind of
embedded in there, which is pretty neat.
Speaker 11: Yeah, when you approached him with that, what did he like?
How did he react it? First? Was he was he
into it? Was he skeptical? Was he like, what you
want me to do?
Speaker 17: What I think?
Speaker 26: He was like so excited, but he was also nervous.
Speaker 11: So both yeah, yeah, no, it came out great. Do
you do you usually write on the piano. You mentioned
the three tracks you recorded, there were all songs you
wrote on the piano.
Speaker 26: I've been writing more on the piano, but a piano
was actually my first instrument when I was younger. But
I was I learned classically, so I was, you know,
classically trained kind of, and so it took me a
while to realize, oh, I could write on piano just
like I write on guitar, because you know, you've heard
guitar all you need is three chords in the truth.
So once I learned three chords on guitar, it was like,
oh my gosh, I was writing all these songs. I
was in eighth grade, and I was just like, oh,
I'm writing about my life. This is awesome.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 26: But it wasn't until much later that I kind of
challenged myself to think, wait, I think I could create
stuff on the piano as well. So, yeah, I do.
I do both. And sometimes I don't write on an
instrument at all. I just I lyrics and melody comes first,
and I do I'll write like a whole song with
no instrument and then add things later.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've heard a lot of a lot of instructors
say that it's it's a good idea to learn at
least no matter what instrument you're playing, to learn at
least some basic keyboarding because it will help you with
everything else, which sadly, I never bothered to do. I had.
I had one of those old, cheap Cassio keyboards growing up,
but I never really learned to play it. But yeah,
but what do you play anything else? You play guitar,
you play piano, do you play anything else?
Speaker 26: Or every now and then, if someone lets me, I'll
play kahone really yeah, yeah, like on one of their
songs or something. But just I don't. I haven't done
anything technical with it. I have my dad has a
bass guitar that he was learning how to play, and
I've picked that up a couple of times and fiddled
around with it. It's an instrument i'd like to learn.
I just haven't dedicated enough time to it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you can pick it up quick, I mean, if
you're already played guitar, you can pick up the bass
pretty quick.
Speaker 26: Yeah, It's it makes sense because it's sprets and I
tried to learn violin when I was younger, and I
also attempted the saxophone both. I thought I was doing
pretty good, but I think my family didn't agree, right.
Speaker 11: Right, saxophones loud instrument, Yeah, no, they're so.
Speaker 26: Super supportive, but I think there are some instruments that, like,
if it's not coming quickly and naturally, might be more
painful to listen.
Speaker 11: To them, right, No, that makes sense, that makes sense.
Speaker 26: Yeah, yeah, But I love the violin. I wish that
I had fully learned it because it's just so beautiful.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Now do you have a busy summer? Are you playing
a lot? I would imagine you're playing out there.
Speaker 26: Yeah, yeah, And I have some things I'm excited about.
I I record with other instrumentalists and singers, like most
of my music is recorded with a band and kind
of bringing out that fuller production. But normally when I perform,
I'm pretty much always solo. I haven't really done band
shows since, you know, my different album release shows that
I did years ago, and a couple other kind of
special things. But this summer I have a full band
show coming up at Bank in New Hampshire Pavilion on
their side stage. Oh wow, So that'll be fun to
bring the fullness back together again and perform with other people.
And then I don't know if you know Chris Noise.
He's a bass player. He played on these new singles
on Wild and.
Speaker 11: I don't think I know Chris. Is he related to
Ron Noise?
Speaker 26: I don't know, because.
Speaker 11: Ron's a musician, I wonder if they're related. No, I
don't think I know Chris.
Speaker 26: So he played bass on some of my studio tracks.
And he's playing with me up in Portsmouth at the
Tuesdays on the Terrace at Strawberry Bank Museum.
Speaker 11: Oh cool.
Speaker 26: So we've got that and a couple other kind of
fun outdoor summer shows where I'm playing with him and
another guy on drums. So yeah, it'll be fun to
play with other people again and bring the songs to
life in a different way.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but it doesn't sound like you have any any
interest in doing like a permanent full band.
Speaker 26: We'll see see where things go. I'm never Before we
went live on air, you guys were saying, like we go.
Speaker 15: With the flow.
Speaker 26: Like I'm not really married to anything. It's kind of
how I feel.
Speaker 17: I don't know.
Speaker 26: I have I have hopes, but I don't have like
necessarily set in stone expectations that I want or don't want.
So if it came together naturally and it was like
really fun and everybody totally gibed, I could see doing.
Speaker 11: More of it for sure. Yeah, no, that makes sense.
And are you still are you still just putting out
singles or do you have an EP or I don't.
Speaker 26: I was just shy of an EP when I recorded
my four songs. I mean, I suppose I could have
turned it into a collection. I've thought about adding some
songs and making it a full collection. I'm not there yet,
I haven't. I actually have one kind of wintery song,
not to bring snow back up on. I have one
song that I'm working on recording. It's kind of a
mix of I recorded some of it at home and
some of it at Mike Moran's home studio. He is
a drummer and a bass player and a guitarist, and
we've played together a lot in the past, and we
have some stuff coming up this summer, so we've been
working on producing that song together. So and then I
have some other ideas, but nothing no like exciting release
dates to share.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Right now, You've worked with a number of different producers, right,
it seems like you've.
Speaker 26: Yeah, every project has been totally different. First record I
recorded in New Hampshire with Ryan Ordway and then yeah,
yeah and that was really fun. And then my second
record I recorded on the South Shore in mass with
Sean McLoughlin. And then this last collection I did with
Brian Coombs at Rocking Horror Studios in Pittsfield. And then
I've done a little bit tried to do a little
bit of home recording too and kind of feeling that out.
But it is a lot of work to record your
own stuff. I mean, it's a lot of work to
go to the studio too, but oh yeah, you have
other hands and eyes and ears on it, and they
know what they're doing more than like I'm sort of
learning as I go. But it's fun. I like that
part of it too.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, let's the adventure of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Do you want to play something for us?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Sure, let me turn up that. Yeah, go and god
and strum a little. Just want to make sure I
get there. Oh yeah, that sounds good. Badphones, yeah, excellent?
Speaker 26: All right, cool, I'm gonna play a brand new one
for you if that's okay. Absolutely, so I've been trying
to challenge myself. I think I mentioned this to you
last time I saw you challenge myself to make time
for songwriting, which sounds like, well, duh, you're a songwriter, right,
is that all you do? But sometimes the weeks just
go by and I'm like, oh my gosh, like my
creative need is just like being squished down. And so
I've been trying to bring that more to the forefront.
So in trying to write more songs, which if anyone's listening,
I would like to follow along on my new songwriting journey.
I've been sharing things, all the new stuff on Patreon,
which is like a place online that you can support artists,
and patreon dot com slash Katie Doobbins music. But this
is one of the ones that I wrote for my
almost song a Week project, not quite a song a week,
but it's called Coffee in the Morning, and it's about
how when you fall in love and suddenly you're liking
things and doing things that you never really cared about before,
just because of that other person.
Speaker 23: You know, is it that wrangler or your rugged hands
in my is it that open road or the smell.
Speaker 2: Of your cologne?
Speaker 23: Do I even like the challenge of a standard. It's
just the way you laugh every time I stall it.
I don't even know if I like coffee in the morning.
Maybe that's just something out the way you pull it
for me as the soul lights up the kitchen. We're
too early for my liking, but I like having that
quiet time with you. Is it that country song or
the way you sing it for me?
Speaker 26: Is it that dance floor or.
Speaker 23: The way you pull me clothes? Do I even like
staying up past midnight? Or just the way you hold
my handwalking in me home. I don't even know if
I should like that whiskey bourbon. Maybe there's just something
about the taste of it on your lips as the
moon lights.
Speaker 2: Up the kitchen.
Speaker 23: Too late for my liking, but I like talking into
the night with you. I don't even know if I
like bike rides, game night, using.
Speaker 15: Fireflies in a jar. I don't think I haven't need
to go.
Speaker 23: Fishing or stay all night chasing stars unless it's where
you are, unless it's.
Speaker 15: When you.
Speaker 23: Because I don't even know if I like coffee in
the morning. Maybe there's just something in about the way
poor informed me is the swing lights up the kitchen
way too early for my liking.
Speaker 26: But I like Kevin, that quiet time with you.
Speaker 23: I don't even know if I like coffee in the morning,
but I know how really like.
Speaker 15: The way you poor it for me.
Speaker 11: Oh that's beautiful, Thank you, very nice, very nice. So
that's uh so that's new. That's that's very new then, right?
Speaker 26: Yeah, I reade that a couple of months ago.
Speaker 11: Now, very cool, very cool. If you're just joining us.
Katie Dobbins is here with us, alive in studio and
sounding amazing. So so you have are you playing that
one out curly or is that or have you not?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 26: I played it a couple of times at live shows.
I think that was the radio debut.
Speaker 11: Okay, awesome, We Love That, We Love the We Love
the World premieres here. Do you have any idea how
many songs you've written at this point? Can you put
in like like like is it in triple digits yet?
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 9: Or?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 26: I mean it probably depends on if I want to
count every song I've ever written, probably yes, But if
I just count the ones that I like, yeah, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Do they? Do you have some that you've kind
of retired, Like, are there some early ones that used
to play that you don't play anymore?
Speaker 26: Yeah, I mean I I play the stuff from my
first album still. I play several of those songs out yea,
not all of them. And then there are some, yeah,
the some originals that I used to play, Like when
you first write it and you're like, I really love
this song because you wrote you just wrote it, so
you're right and real, like passionate and emotional about it
because you know it just came from.
Speaker 11: Your Yeah, it's most being.
Speaker 26: And yeah, So I had some like that I felt
really excited about in the moment, and then kind of
down the road was that sort of faded, you know,
and they really got their full full moment in the sun,
I guess.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've probably asked you this before, but do you
remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 26: The first song I wrote was a co write. Well,
the first song I wrote was actually a cappella in
like fifth grade, and I wrote it my best friend
had moved to California and I was so sad, and
so I wrote this song about you know. I think
it was called best Friend. The first song I ever
wrote on guitar was a co write. My friend Sarah
Ellen had taught me a few chords on guitar and
she had been writing songs, so we're like, let's write
a song together. And we wrote a song about our
grandfather's But if you asked me to play it, I
truly don't remember how it goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 26: I remember thinking it was really good. I was so
you know, we were so excited about it, and we
played it at some open mics and things like that,
which is like really really fun. Yeah, you know, you're
in eighth grade on stage playing a duet that you
wrote and you just feel like a rock star.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Now have you you've been doing this full time
now for quite some time?
Speaker 26: Right, a few years now?
Speaker 23: Yeah.
Speaker 26: I think I made the shift to full time in
like spring of twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two, okay, Yeah,
And it took took a while to find my stride
and still kind of, you know, figuring out balance. I
feel like I talk about balance a lot, but it's hard,
Like you wear so many hats when you're oh yeah,
music is a it's not just songwriting and performing, but
you're I think of it as like you're running your
own business. You know, you're booking, you're promoting, you're trying
to make money, you're doing you know, recording all this stuff. Yeah,
and so finding balance and a good rhythm is something
I feel like I'm always like working on getting a
little more honed in. But it's fun. I love it,
and since making the decision to do it full time,
I've never regretted it at all. But I will say
it's not for everyone because I feel like whenever I
tell another artist, oh, yeah, I do it full time,
because they'll ask what do you do during the day,
And I feel like a lot of times people say, oh,
like I want to do that too. I'm just I'm
trying to get there, and almost from a place of
like they feel like they're not doing it yet if
they're not doing it full time or something, and it's
like you really have to assess. I mean, it's it's
it adds a sort of you have to really want
to do it full time and know that there's going
to be a period of like hardship that comes with that,
and be okay with that. And also there's nothing wrong
with having, you know, a job that you're good at
or that you like that you know funds funds what
you love too, and it gives you that like consistency.
So I love doing it how I'm doing it, But
I don't think it's for everybody. So when I say that,
if you're an artist listening, don't feel pressured to like
I need to do that too, You don't, you know,
everybody does this so differently.
Speaker 11: So yeah, and I think too, you know, if you
you can still call yourself a professional musician even if
you're doing it part time. You know, the way I've
always looked at it is, and really with any profession,
you can call yourself a professional if you've ever been
paid for what you do. True, That's how I look
at it. So even if even if you you know,
you've just gotten you know, thirty dollars you know, playing
a set somewhere, well, you're now a professional musician. If
somebody somebody gave you money, you know, for that, then
you're now a professional. And you know, I think I
think sometimes, yeah, I think sometimes people get self conscious
about it, you know, if they're if they're doing it
part time, you know, but they're still working at something else.
But but I think too, part of the key is
and you kind of alluded to it. If you have
if you have another job that you really love, then
you know, because the important thing is to fill your life,
I think with things that you love to do, you know,
whether it's part time, full time time, whether you're a
full time musician or a part time musician and full
time doing something else, or whatever it is. You know,
don't you don't want to no matter what. You don't
want to waste your life doing things you hate, which
is what a lot of people do. You know, They
work their whole lives at a job they don't like,
and it's like, why find something you love?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 26: You know definitely.
Speaker 11: Now, do you have any advice for people who are
you know, because a lot of musicians listen to the
show and a lot of industry people. Do you have
any advice for someone who is really thinking about trying
to do this full time but they're hesitant?
Speaker 26: Yeah, I would talk to people who are doing it
full time. Yeah, that's what I did. I talked to
several people that were doing it full time and I
was like, what is this really like for you? How
is this working? And I found out that most people
that are doing it full time that you know, they
are getting support in some way loved ones, or they're
sacrificing something, you know, like my Manny Pattic cares I
used to be able to get for myself on I mean,
that's a tiny sacrifice. I'm part kidding, but yeah, you know,
you said you might sacrifice like some kind of lifestyle
that you're used to in order to pursue this, And
I just I would talk to somebody who's doing it,
or multiple people that are doing it, just to get
like a full picture of what this actually is before you,
you know, just put the pedal to the metal and
you know, give up everything you know and and go
in blindly. So that because it always sounds like such
a dream, you know, but you really want to make
an informed decision about and ask yourself, is this really
what I want to do?
Speaker 11: Right? And nothing's as glamorous as it looks from the
outside either, you know, And as you also mentioned, there's
a lot of work. You know, it's not just creating music,
it's it's all the business stuff you got to do, right,
and keeping up with social media too, which some people
enjoy and embrace and some people are just like I
wish I didn't have to do that part. But you
do have to do that part, yep.
Speaker 26: And I feel like it ebbs and flows too, like
I have and I we used to get harder on myself,
and I'm accepting this more and more. Like there are
seasons where I'm doing a lot more stuff online social media,
you know, posting videos, things like that, and then there
are seasons where I'm playing out a lot more so
I don't have as much time to be present online.
Then there are seasons where, oh it's a slower show season,
so I'm songwriting or I'm in the studio. And I
think at first I felt like I have to do
all these things all the time, you know, like and
I still feel that a little bit, but it's like
being okay with the ebb and flow of what it
means to be an art maker and performer, like distributor
of that art. There's just you can't always do it
all all the time or you totally burn out, right.
Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, no doubt. Oh do you want to play
another one for us?
Speaker 26: Yeah, I'll play giants since you told me like this
one do.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So the first time I heard that was on Rob Show.
That was the first time i'd heard that song, and yeah,
I love this song. Yeah cool absolutely Haitie Dobbins live
in studio.
Speaker 26: I feel like this is a good song to play
right now too, because it's about doing things that feel
hard and facing the things that feel impossible in your
life and remembering that you are actually more powerful than
you may realize. And the giants in your life they're
just make believe, like those giants in your closet when
you're a little kid.
Speaker 23: Your sweatshirt falling off my should it's too big. But
then again, it onlys was when did I become so small?
Living in your shadow? I don't fill the space. Ah,
feel like I've been swallowed. Don't take too much space,
my mind said, shrink, So I don't riskiny thing bader
to be safe then to be sorry.
Speaker 15: Well I'm sorry.
Speaker 23: I don't feel safe far frount shy.
Speaker 15: Maybe it's time.
Speaker 23: I co matter Hi day Aptain Saultier just makes me good.
Speaker 29: I lie.
Speaker 23: Just so you could think that you're the child. You're
colone rushing off my shoulder. It's over powering, But then again,
it onlys was now that I am coming clean, shutting
everything but me, doing all my skin. Tell me, are
you panicking baby, do you feelcy far round choy hand
because I think it's time I come out of her
dingy apt in small just makes me god.
Speaker 15: I lie in just so you could think that you're
char but you're no cho.
Speaker 23: Don't take too much space man and see it shrink.
So I don't raise anything trying to put me.
Speaker 12: But I know now.
Speaker 29: The giant sar make believe, their make.
Speaker 23: Believe, so I don't feel afraid around no Hynd. I
know it's time out, come out. Hating hapting smashes makes.
Speaker 15: Me coun and.
Speaker 29: But you are no chahet their arena chah die giant
sarmic believe their meg blie.
Speaker 26: Acting small just makes me good.
Speaker 23: At Lion, you are only giants.
Speaker 24: In my mind.
Speaker 23: Acting small just makes me good.
Speaker 35: I Lion, you were only giant in my mind, and
giants schist make.
Speaker 23: Believe.
Speaker 11: I love it, Katie Dobbins live in Studio. Yeah, that
is a great, great song.
Speaker 17: I love it.
Speaker 11: Great song, great song that one's been out for a
little while, right, But that is that is that kind
of newer Yeah, that's.
Speaker 26: Like in my newer collection of singles recorded at Rocking Horse. Okay, okay,
and that when I actually started writing on the electric guitar. Okay, yeah,
I have an electric guitar. I just I don't play
it out. I would like to learn how to do
cool stuff on it. Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah, I
kind of had like a little riff going, and then
I moved to acoustic guitar, and then I was like, no,
this is a piano song.
Speaker 11: So oh okay. Have you have you played electric guitar
on any of your studio recordings so far?
Speaker 26: No other people have played my guitar.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 26: Yeah, actually that's not true. I recorded I have a
single called Starlights that I recorded during the pandemic in
my home studio that I actually did do my own
little electric guitar riff on.
Speaker 11: Oh really Yeah, you want.
Speaker 26: To check out my electric guitar playing. You can check
out Starlights.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, okay, very cool, very cool. When you when
you play out, I mean you must do some covers too, right,
I assume you make some covers in yeah.
Speaker 26: Yeah, And it depends on the show. Yeah, if I'm
doing like a three hour gig, for sure.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 26: And then I have I have a bunch of shows
coming out this summer that are like focused on original
music that I'm really excited about. Yeah, but even when
I do that, I'll throw in, you know, one or
two just people kind of like something familiar, you know,
and it's fun. It's fun to I always think, like,
how cool it must be to be Taylor Swift or
something and you look out and everyone's singing every lyric
to your song, right, But that's that's fun about covers,
is you know. Sometimes I'll transition into a cover song
from an original. It's just fun to look out and
see people bopping around and singing along with you, and yeah,
fun moment.
Speaker 1: Do you have?
Speaker 11: Do you do any covers that you found particularly challenging
to learn? Sometimes I get some surprising answers when I
ask people this. I'm just curious, like is there anything
you said I'm going to learn that one? And then
it turned out to be kind of challenging.
Speaker 26: I don't think so, But I don't learn traditionally, Like
if I'm learning a new cover, I sort of just
will look up the chords and then play it however
feels good to me. Whereas some people are which would
be good for me to do. Some people are going
on you know YouTube and like watching a bunch of
videos and learning how the actual original artist plays it.
Speaker 11: Sure.
Speaker 26: I sometimes when I learn to cover, I don't even
know the song that well, like I'll kind of know it,
and then I feel like it makes it easier to
put my own twists on it because my kind of
I'm learning it, but also like making it feel good
to me because I only kind of know the song.
Speaker 11: No, I'm at school, they'll make it your own.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 26: Yeah, But I I did learn Forever Young as a
song I love playing by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell
has a version of that song. I'm sorry. Joan Bias
has a version of that song that's really beautiful, and
so I did learn her guitar version to it, and
it was a really pretty like I felt really fancy
when I learned to this, you know, yeah, and it's
really pretty. Yeah, So that one I did learn traditionally
because I was like, that's just so beautiful.
Speaker 11: I got to learn that part that makes sense, that
makes sense. You want to play another live one? I yeah,
we got we got time.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Selfishly, I want to hear more. You just sound so great.
Speaker 26: Ah, that's so nice. I want to hear another new
newer one.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that would be cool, that would be great.
Speaker 26: I have a I have a single out. My newest
single is called Grateful, and it's about gratitude. Yeah shocker uh.
And so I'm not going to play that, but I
will play another song that's sort of on the same theme.
I feel like it's called miss these days, because you know,
today or someday we're gonna be like that was the
good old days. So you gotta soak it in.
Speaker 23: Yep, Mama's calling from the kitchen on the other side
of the house. I can't hear what she's saying. I
just chuckle to myself, and the dog is going crazy
about a squirrel outside the window, and Daddy's watching news
about what God only knows. It's a little bit of
chaos on a quiet country road, in a humble, old
brick house where we made ourselves a home. I don't
know what tomorrow brings. I'm not sure of much, but
I'm sure someday I'm gonna miss these days. I'm sure
some day I'm gonna.
Speaker 6: Miss things days.
Speaker 23: So I'm living on hope and excite me for each
day as it comes. Keep showing up for the journey
where for riddamy lead Life's father uncertainty. But all I
wanna do so kid in.
Speaker 14: Kiss.
Speaker 23: I'm sure someday I'm gonna miss these days. I'm sure
some day i'm gonna miss things day days. I'm heading
down the long road on the way to another show,
running on prayers and Kathene will being my sons to
touch your souls. And the car is packed so high
I can't see out my back window. I'm following my dreams,
and now some guy who's going so slow. I got
a little bit of road rage on a quiet country
road in a humble old Volkswagon where I made myself
a home. I don't know what tomorrow brings. I'm not
sure of much, but I'm sure someday I'm gonna miss
beads days. I'm sure some day I'm gonna miss beads day.
So I'm living on hope, and excite me for each
day as it comes. Keep showing up for the journey
where for ridding me life is love uncertainty the head
all one, Let you still kidding, because I'm sure some
day I'm gonna miss these days. I'm sure some day
I'm gonna miss these day.
Speaker 29: So take this day.
Speaker 15: It be what I'm true leaving.
Speaker 36: I keep me for on this amis ma. I go
some day I'm gonna miss this day.
Speaker 23: I know someday I'm gonna miss me day. So I'm
living on hope and excitement for each day as it comes,
keeps showing up for the journey where the dam a
hyphus fellow uncertainty. But all I wanna do, sun Kiddy,
because I'm sure some day I'm gonna miss these days.
I know someday I'm gonna miss it day. Yeah, you know,
someday we're gonna miss this day.
Speaker 11: I love it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Hidie Dobbins live in studio with a and that was great.
So that's another new one. Huh yeah, very cool. Very cool,
by the way, So you're getting some love here in
the chat room. Eric and Pallamini, also known as Temple Mountain.
He's been on the show a few times now. He
says Katie is the best, so glad her name spells
Katie with a K and not with a G. I
don't know if there's an inside joke there. I don't.
I don't get it to ask him, Yeah, I don't.
I don't quite get it, but uh yes, I'm also
glad you spell Katie with a K and.
Speaker 26: Not a G me too. Hey, Eric, thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 11: He's amazing.
Speaker 26: He's amazing, awesome, super supportive too, like super supportive of
you know, other musicians, ands and radio and he's just
like always good, positive energy. Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 17: He sends people to us.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, he's referred a bunch of
really good, really good musicians to us. Also, good morning
to Miriam who's in the chat room. Good morning, and
Rob Dyon, who else to show here through the stage door,
is part of the WM and H family. He said,
I'm heading to a gig right now, but I just
wanted to say Matt that the musicians you have on
this morning really are amazing, very good, very good.
Speaker 15: Yes, so nice.
Speaker 11: Thanks absolutely so, Katie. What do you have this weekend?
Do you have shows this weekend?
Speaker 26: Actually don't. I have a kind of a quiet weekend,
which I'm very excited about. After I leave here today,
I'm gonna head over to hang out with Chris Noise
the Bassis. We're gonna do some practice in for our
gig at Strawberry Bank later this month.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and then I do.
Speaker 26: I'm part of I sing at my church, which meets
on top of a mountain on Sunday morning, So tomorrow
I'll be hik into that and doing that whole thing
up at Gunstock Mountain. But other than that, my weekend's
pretty quiet and I've been very much on the go lately.
I just got back two weeks ago from my first
solo road trip tour down to Nashville, Tennessee. I was
gone for a week and a half and I didn't
really plan and transition time before or after the trip.
I just said, I was like, yeah, I'll just like
keep going one hundred miles an hour right up to it,
and then I'll just come back and get right in
the swing of things. So I'm definitely feeling the effects
of that a little bit.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 26: So I'm kind of happy to have a quiet weekend
and then things will pick up. I have shows next week.
On Wednesday, I'm in Portsmouth, and then Thursday I have
a cool I'm hosting a touring artist at hermit Wood's
Winery in Meredith, New Hampshire. It's a listening room up there,
so if you're up in the Lakes region or heading
up that way, come hang out Thursday night, and then
I got shows like all weekend, so it'll be a
nice little break leading into that.
Speaker 11: Excellent, excellent. How was your trip to Nashville?
Speaker 26: It was awesome. Yeah, it was there. You know, I
felt like I was just really craving a different perspective
and just being completely immersed in original music and just
like seeing new people. And I've also been wanting to
plan a little road trip toward in Nashville for a
few years now, but I kept kind of coming up
against some roadblocks and it just didn't felt. I never
like it when it feels like I'm forcing something and
it feels like, Okay, maybe this is not the right timing.
So this finally came together in a really great way
and I was able to do it, and I was
down there for I was in I played a show
in West Virginia on my way down and stayed with
some friends, which was awesome, and then I was in
Nashville for seven full days and I played almost every
night that I was there. I had one or two
writers round, so it was like I just met so
many songwriters and you get to hear them because when
you're playing a writer's round, you know, you play a
little bit, and then you also get to hear like
three other people playing in the round, and so it
was very inspiring. And it's just so it fills your
cup and inspires you to like be reminded. Oh yeah,
there's so many people doing this and doing it you
know successfully, and I just I And I also it's humbling.
I left feeling like, yeah, I got to get better,
keep writing, you know, which is what kind of the
kick in the butt that I wanted. So yeah, it
was great.
Speaker 11: Yeah that's pressure. Yeah Nashville, Yeah, absolutely, no, it will
well that's very cool. Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 26: It scratched the itch for touring too. I'm like, yeah,
let's get on the row.
Speaker 15: Let's go.
Speaker 26: I mean, I mean being a musician.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 26: I talked about the hardships of doing it full time
and stuff, but part of the reason I initially wanted
to do it full time was well, I was just
so hungry to do it, and I was like, if
I don't try this, I'll never know if I could
have made it happen, you know.
Speaker 12: So I just had to do it.
Speaker 26: And part of it was I wanted to do touring,
which I really am just kind of dipping my toe into,
at least beyond New England. I play all over New England.
But I wanted to do more touring, and that's hard
to do when you have a set work schedule. I
was teaching, so oh yeah, you know, it's kind of
hard to tour when you need to be in the classroom.
So I that was part of what I wanted to do.
So I'm kind of now just starting to be like, Okay,
what how can this look and how it citing to
think of, Wow, I could actually go travel to places
and see different places around the country and play music
doing it, you know, I mean that's pretty that's pretty sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely. Do you ever miss teaching or I mean,
I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure you miss.
Speaker 26: Any of my old students are listening so much. I
did love teaching, I really did. I really did. But
I have to say it was the right decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I have never I've never felt like the desire
to go back to teaching.
Speaker 36: Yeah.
Speaker 26: I think that it was really really good for the time.
You know, it was a good a good season. I
learned a lot and there's actually weirdly a lot of
overlap between managing a classroom and managing your business and
also like teaching, standing in front of a class, teaching
and engaging students, and also performing on stage and engaging
an audience. It's weirdly similar. So like, I'm very, very
grateful for my teaching.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah, that totally makes sense.
You ever hear from any of your students who have
followed your your music career.
Speaker 26: So they some of them do follow me in you know,
social media, and they'll like like a post. And I
have a student who will sometimes come when I play
in Massachusetts. He'll come sometimes come to my shows, which
is always really fun.
Speaker 11: That's cool. That's very cool. Yeah, yeah, that's excellent. Well,
so we uh will begin to wrap up in a moment,
but we'll probably play studio track.
Speaker 26: Whoops, I knew that was coming.
Speaker 17: It's usually me so thank you.
Speaker 11: Jenny and I are both clutches, so where the last
people will ever judge you for dropping.
Speaker 17: Something to hold onto anything for two days?
Speaker 26: Lately, I feel like my clumsiness is getting worse and
it might just be the like I said, the aftermaths
of the trip and not planning enough time to transition.
Speaker 17: To blame it on the humidity week. Maybe it's just
you know, yeah, it got to us problem.
Speaker 26: I am actually writing a song. It's like, well, I
only have this so far.
Speaker 23: It's like I can a little clumsy, chipping over my
own two feet.
Speaker 26: People think I'm funny, but I'm just trying to get by.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm a little.
Speaker 26: Clumsy something something.
Speaker 23: But the clumsiest thing that I ever did.
Speaker 26: Was falling for you.
Speaker 2: For you, I.
Speaker 15: Wait to hear it.
Speaker 26: Maybe you can help me write the rest.
Speaker 11: There you go?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 11: What what what should we play to close the show?
What's a studio track we should play?
Speaker 26: Either just because I can or Grateful? Depends if you
want to play like a rocker track or a dreamy
grateful track.
Speaker 11: Was Grateful the one that you said had some of
your electric guitar playing in it.
Speaker 26: No, I don't think you have that song. I don't
know if I ever sent that. Well, it's called Starlights.
That was the one I recorded entirely in my home studio.
I don't know if you have that one.
Speaker 11: Is it online? It is, because if it's online, I
can find it.
Speaker 26: Oh, I found it okay, and now people in the
comments can tell you what they think of this was.
This was before I even had logic pro. I produced
this on Oh was it garage band?
Speaker 11: At This will be very interesting. Okay, cool? Cool and
uh And before we wrap up to Jenny, you want
to mention the what's happening today the virtual event.
Speaker 34: Yes, today is the sixth annual Virtual Walk to support
and raise awareness for c RPS Complex Regional paint Syndrome.
You can find out more information at r s d
S dot org. R s d S dot org is
the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association, which is what the disease.
Speaker 2: Used to be called.
Speaker 34: So if you want to find out more about complex
sweet your pain syndrome, if you want to help us
and donate to the walk, all the money and proceeds
goes to help with awareness and helping folks out there
that have it, both young and oult. So check out
r s d S dot org and for more information
on me, go to gencoffee dot com, j E N
N C O F f.
Speaker 17: U I dot com.
Speaker 11: Very good, very good, And of course if you missed
any part of today's show, it'll be up in just
a little bit at w m hradio dot org and
on my website Matt Connorton dot com. And Katie Doobbins,
thank you again so much. Always nice to see you.
Speaker 26: Thank you so much for doing this and supporting so
many local artists, not just me. Oh you've supported me
from like the early days, and I appreciate you so much.
Speaker 11: Oh absolutely, well, well, well we appreciate you. Oh did
we mention your website?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 11: It's Katiedobbins music dot com.
Speaker 26: Is that's right?
Speaker 11: Everything is there? Absolutely and uh here's a so This
track features Katie on the electric guitar. Check this out.
This is called Starlights two.
Speaker 23: Nice and quite tie you smiling remind me we're still shining.
No matter where life takes us will be fine.
Speaker 29: Because we are shine from his side.
Speaker 10: I f.
Speaker 29: A lot.
Speaker 26: My starlight.
Speaker 23: When my life is dimmed and fading. You speak to
my heart, reminding me ead.
Speaker 15: Eating a little.
Speaker 23: Bit of gle can be enough to light after the host.
Speaker 29: We are shot.
Speaker 37: From itside back to It's a lot starlight, starlight.
Speaker 23: To cover all your hungry hearts. Let's come alive tonight.
Speaker 38: Oh we need a lot, a lot of bed piddle
bil I get a hold of right away, cannot feel
your hand in mine. Join us, see me, hope me,
snowing all of us ki shine.
Speaker 6: We are start.
Speaker 29: Shot from the side. Be flight.
Speaker 13: Starlight we starlight, we starlight, starlight, weave starlight
Speaker 6: Yah