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Speaker 1: That is catchy as hell. That is bigger bus. We

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need a bigger bus, Eli Lev, who are going to

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be speaking with me in just a moment. What's up?

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Speaker 2: I need a giant canvas.

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Speaker 1: That's a well, seriously, I want to go paint to that.

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That's so much fun. I love that great, great song.

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This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from

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the studios of w m MH ninety five point three

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FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can

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stream the show at Matt connorton dot com slash Live.

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Today is Saturday, September fourteen, twenty twenty four. And let

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me get that mic up there. We have Eli Lev

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with us live in studio.

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Speaker 3: Hello here, yo yo yo.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good? Sounds good? Yeah, I love that song. This

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just came out relatively recently, right president Journey of the EP.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just a couple months ago. We are on the

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present journey right now, it's happening.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You're on a big tour, right yep? How many? How

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many dates?

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Speaker 3: Well, really, this whole year has been a big long tour.

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This particular one is a fall tour, going up to

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Canada and back it's about us six weeks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, excellent, excellent. Now where do you? Where do you

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go from here? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: From here, I'm going to Lawrence, Massachusetts, then up to

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Maine and then up to Quebec, then back down be

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in New Hampshire again, coming back down Vermont. And I

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got to play in Rhode Island. I've never been. I've

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never been Roeland. That was the last state that I

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had never played in. So that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's so tiny, it's easy to miss.

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Speaker 3: It's so tiny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the last state you hadn't played in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've played in all US states except Rhode Island.

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Speaker 4: Stop it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the That was the last one.

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Speaker 1: Usually you think the last one is gonna be like

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Hawaii or like Alaska. Yeah, no, really, Rhode Island.

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Speaker 3: Crazy good on you to be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We live in a beautiful country. It's absolutely incredible being

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able to really get the sense of like the consciousness

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of folks you know, north south east West, and I've

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been able to play tunes and and share share moments

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with them. It's been cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. You've been at this a while, I assume.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, Actually I'm a former middle school teacher.

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Speaker 1: No kidding.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I just I started picking up the guitar

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and doing this full time about six years ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, I was watching I was watching another

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interview that you had been on a podcast. You had

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business minded guy and that it's important to you. And

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talk about a lot on the show. You know, we

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interview obviously a lot of musicians and other people in

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the industry, and something that we talk about a lot

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is the importance of really being kind of business minded

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about your career. You know, obviously, the creative part of

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is nothing else to do really with it. But but

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if you're not business minded about it, you're gonna have

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a short career or you know, you could play music

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all your life. But you know, if your goal is

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to get out on tour like you're doing, you've got

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to really kind of pay attention to the business side

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of it. And it seems like you've really got to

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Speaker 3: You brought up spreadsheets when I came in. You're like, bro,

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going to get along just fine.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, my spreadsheet database is insane, Like if you

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looked in there on my Google Drive, you'd be like,

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all the information from? But yeah, I really enjoyed it.

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creativity aspect of it, strangely enough, because there are so

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many talented folks out there, But how many of those

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Speaker 1: It's funny too, because there's always people who will tell you, well,

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little skeptical when I hear someone say that. It's like, really,

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like writing songs, you know what I mean. It's like

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a form of therapy.

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Speaker 3: Some folks just want to share shilly songs with friends

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and family. That's great. Yeah, And some folks like want

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to do the thing, you know what I mean. And

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if you want to do the thing, then it's just

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it's all in. Yeah, I mean, go for it.

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where you made that decision? To uh, to do this

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full time instead of continuing with your career as an educator,

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time or was there was there something that kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna get a little spiritual.

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Speaker 1: Okay, cool, that's fine, We're getting there.

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Speaker 3: Everything there all right. So come with me, Matt to

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a beach on the west coast of Mexico, north of

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a town called Salulita, Okay. And it was my last

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semester of grad school from a master's in English, and

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on Google Maps and I picked a beach in Mexic.

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I'm like, I'm gonna go there for two weeks and

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just camp out. Bring my guitar. So that's what I did.

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started listening. You know, the trees were kind of like

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and I kind of like just took a moment and

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has been amazing. You know, creator or whatever you want

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to call it. The rest is in your hands. I'm good. Yeah,

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so you let me know what's next, and I will

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let go and go all in on whenever that is.

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getting viby, they were like, you should try this music thing,

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you know, try to try to sing some songs, record

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them and see what people think. And I recorded my

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first demo in Indiana six months after that, and I've

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Speaker 1: No kidding, no kidding. That's awesome. Yeah, good for you.

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Speaker 3: So it was like a moment, you know what I mean.

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let's let's be up for it. And then you know,

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music kind of just has shown the rest of the

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Speaker 1: You ever have any doubts along the way, like when

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Speaker 3: Where you really like, you know, when you get into it,

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it's like, you gotta be ready to play shows to nobody.

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going to be a hit but nobody likes it. But

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the song that you didn't think that no one would

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like would be your hit song. You gotta be ready

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to you know, just you know, bust, bust your bottom

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and getting tickets sold to a show, and you know

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maybe the band that you wanted didn't come or like,

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every song didn't work out exactly as you want. So yeah,

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one hundred percent along the way. And there's imposter syndrome

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as as you're entering into a new identity. But that's

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that's with everything. So yeah, yeah, but the music's been

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carrying me, which has been.

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Speaker 1: Great, outstanding, and you've recorded quite a bit, right in

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Speaker 3: Court On was forty songs. Yeah, that's that's a lot released.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so excellent, and that the one that we played.

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Speaker 3: And then this project is three worlds, so Present Journey

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Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's very cool. Well, I'm going

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to hear you if you want to do it, play

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something for us, and uh, I'll kind of off to

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Speaker 3: So, Matt, do you remember cassette tapes vividly? Do you

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this song. And do you remember like the first like

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mixtapes where you recorded the radio and recorded other tapes

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onto tape, you wrote the song names on the back

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and you gave to someone you know, a friend, and

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you know your relationship would last at least another week

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Speaker 3: And you know, I remember my first mixtapes, and I

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you back exactly to that emotional mindset that you were

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Music has that power kind of thing, absolutely, So I'm

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going to tell you my first mixtape, and just a

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list of some of these bands. You remember them. So

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my first mixtape was it was Johnny Cash and Fleetwood Mac,

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but also Bruce Springsteen YouTube and mc hammer YEP, New

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of Seagulls there as well. So just a wild range

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of songs. And I'll remember that tape forever because I

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listening and catching the words to all the songs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right, wonderful, here we go.

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the tape and I heard a voice going through you

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was singing loud and singing.

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Speaker 4: Strong to the words.

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Speaker 6: I barely knew.

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Speaker 3: I was hanging on to the edge of the song,

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waking up all my senses.

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Speaker 7: Oh who, for the first time, I'm singing alone.

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Speaker 4: For the first time.

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on radio and TV, but this one song when it.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm singing along for the first time, for the

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first time.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, and it was Springsteen in the Street, Cash

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in summer Heat.

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in my room, learning in every line of that tune.

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get up and start to danswer.

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Speaker 8: W where.

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Speaker 4: Here we go?

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Speaker 2: I'll sing alone for the first time now for the

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first time.

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Speaker 4: Yet, it were Springsteen in the Street, Cash and summary,

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will Leave on the Road, the Coban in the cour

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Steviie in my room, learning every line of that tune.

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Speaker 4: Chorus came, it was my chance. I'm singing for the.

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Speaker 3: First time, for the first time, I'm singing along for

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the first time.

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Speaker 1: A fantastic, fantastic That is Eli Love is here with

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us live in studio if you are just joining us

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and playing some playing some live tunes for us. And

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do you remember the first song you ever wrote?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 1: How old were you?

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Speaker 3: I was thirteen? Yeah, it's from middle school talent show

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and it was called my white underwear go get it,

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and I performed it in front of an entire auditorium

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that had my grandparents in it. Yeah, and it mostly

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consisted of me just screaming into my wad underwear over

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and over again. Yeah, huge hit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've been trying to get back to that moment ever since, right, right, So, yeah,

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that's what started my career in music.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome, that's awesome. How many songs have you written?

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Do you think? I know you said you've recorded about

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forty right, Wow.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting. Yeah, let's go back. How many songs do

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you think I've written? I think probably finished songs probably

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about two hundred. Okay, I think maybe like half finished,

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probably like three hundred. Yeah, and I think like ideas

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probably about a thousand.

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Speaker 1: No kidding, Yeah, just out there. Yeah, you seem like

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someone who would be pretty prolific. Yeah, were you when

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you were still teaching? Were you already writing a lot?

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Speaker 3: Or I was? You know, songwriting has always been like

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that friend, that's just right there. You know. The guitar

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has just been like kind of like a something to

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have a conversation with. Yeah, I mean, times are great,

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times not so great, and all in between, so you know,

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it's just you know, I think back, it's like, yeah,

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probably about like more than a thousand times. There's been

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like some voice memo that I've taken of, you know,

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some idea or a title or like an emotion or anything.

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So quite the uh yeah, quite the body of work,

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but not like you know, half finished work right right?

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Speaker 1: And what and when you play is it? Is it

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always just you and the guitar? Do you ever have

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other musicians with you or yeah?

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Speaker 3: I started, Uh, I did a full band Maryland. It

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was Elilev and the Fortunes found the first iteration, and

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then it was the Elilev Collective and it was Eli

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Lev Band, and then it'll be something else, I'm sure.

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But I love performing with other musicians. There's nothing like it. Yeah,

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just being on stage and kind of like creating that

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musical space with folks. But on tour, I just kind

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of do. The solo thing keeps a little easy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot easier really, right, because you know, it

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kind of opens up places you can play when you

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don't have a full band. And of course, you know,

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I've been in bands, and I know that the pain

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of dealing with everyone's schedules and all of that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, tell me if I'm wrong. But like, being

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a band is like kind of being in like five

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relationship and those fire relationships also being in five different

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relationships at the same time. So you know, there's this

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wonderful family atmosphere, but there's everything that goes along with

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being in a family.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's that's a great way. But that's absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I get I love it though, I love

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I love performing with other musicians.

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Speaker 1: The songs that that you had in these bands, I

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assume those those have survived and you still play those

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today or some of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all the songs are pretty much the

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ones that I recorded, just maybe I'll play them with

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a band or solo or duo. Yeah. When instrument did

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you play in the band?

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Speaker 1: Bass?

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Speaker 3: Bass? Okay, see, bass is the smartest instrument ever. Everybody

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goes and learns guitar wants to be the lead singer.

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But if you can play a bass, you'll get work

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the rest of your life. Oh yeah, and you want it.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, when I was, when I was really active playing,

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I don't play currently, but okay, you know I was.

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I was kind of sod after in the scene. But

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it wasn't because I was a great base. I mean,

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you know, I'm very objective about, you know, my own

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sessing my musical ability. It was average. I was an

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average bass player, but I was a bass player.

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Speaker 3: That is a hot commandity, exactly, exactly, that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I think I think drummers are the most in demand

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because you know, we we interview a lot of bands

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on the show, and okay, the drummer is always in

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ten different bands because there's no drummers.

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Speaker 3: Right right, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no basic drums. Yeah,

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remember that, kiddos, you want to make a currd music?

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Speaker 1: Do you play on on what you've recorded? Do you

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play anything other than guitar? Do you stick to guitar

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and have other musicians.

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Speaker 3: Or I do, yeah, play guitar, play piano. I play

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a native flute from Arizona. I do harmonica, mandolin, make percussion, noises,

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strange sounds of my mouth like whistling and who knows what,

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but yeah, I love making sounds.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah do you so? Do you do everything on

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on the albums?

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Speaker 3: Or I work with different producers on the albums, so

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I like collaborate with in the studio, they'll do some instruments,

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I'll do some instruments. We'll bring in some other you know,

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kind of hired guns to rock the rest, and so

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it's a nice kind of a mix.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but it's nice when you have the ability

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to play multiple things, and I mean that gives you

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a level of control that you wouldn't otherwise necessarily have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's you're almost like a conductor, like

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of an orchestra. Yeah, I mean, like you get to

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really kind of imagine melody lines and different sounds and

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different instruments. So it's really it's really awesome. I love

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the process of kind of putting sounds together for a song.

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Speaker 1: You enjoy being in the studio, I do because I

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know a lot of musicians. A lot of musicians just

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want to play live and they hate the studio or

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they're ambivalent about it. But yeah, if you actually enjoy

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the process, that's good.

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Speaker 3: Fast Now I love it. Yeah, And like the different takes,

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you know what I mean, Like, oh, which take a

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we're going to go with? Yeah, it's it's a really

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wonderful process. I don't I'm not personally a producer, but

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I love working with and callabrity.

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Speaker 1: Are you ever surprised because you're working with producers, are

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you ever surprised at what comes out?

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Speaker 8: Like?

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Speaker 1: Do you ever have an idea for a song and

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you've written it and you you know what you want,

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you know what it's supposed to sound like, and then

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it ends up coming out very different and hopefully you're

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pleasantly surprised when that happens. But do you ever have

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that happen?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, That's why I like to work with different producers,

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because they bring different sounds and different ideas. And you know,

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when I come up with a song, it's usually vocals

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and guitar or just vocals and piano. So watching it

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develop and bloom and blossom, like for example, like two

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days ago, you know, you record a song and then

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you get back a mix, you know, so it's like

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the first time you really hear what you recorded with

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all the instrumentation. And bro, I was listening to this

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first track of my upcoming album, Past Lives is called Echo,

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and it's about like hearing the echoes of our ancestors,

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like kind of coming in and you know, living with

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that knowledge. And I was like laughing and crying at

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the same time. Hearing a song come to life like that. Yeah,

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I mean I'm just like, oh my god, this is amazing.

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So like having those visceral emotional reactions is like, is

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really cool. And you know, only the only people who

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heard that was my producer in me. Yeah, So having

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that special moment of like really being there like on

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this like creation is just awesome. So I love the studio.

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I love the process of creating songs too.

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Speaker 1: It's really fun. Yeah. And you've made some videos, right,

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I saw I watched the Universal song, yeah, which is

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really cool. I love the song and the video is great,

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and that's you know, we were kind of talking earlier

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about you know, the music side of I mean the

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business side of it. That's important, right, making videos.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So what I did in the pandemic when everything

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shut down and all my tours were canceled is I

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went online and started live streaming. Yeah, and that's where

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the Levitator's community came and people were just looking for

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things to do. So we did participatory music videos. Okay,

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so people would uh video themselves. For example, I had

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a song called Dancing on the Lawn, so they would

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go outside and take a video of themselves. Dancing on

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the lawn essentially. Yeah, and the music video is levitators

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from around the world. We're talking Europe, Australia, Africa, Canada,

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South America sending in videos of them dancing on the lawn,

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all spiced together.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So I did a participatory video with Chasing Daylight, with

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another one anywhere we Can Go, and I think I

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should do one with we need a bigger bus. You

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should like get like get like rent a school bus, yeah,

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I mean, and go around and pick folks up and

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just kind of like, you know, like film this party

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happening on a bus.

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Speaker 1: That's a great idea.

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Speaker 3: So it's really important because especially today and like we

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live in a visual kind of content world, so anytime

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that people can see your music, yes, you know what

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I mean, is important.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, it's funny because there was a time

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when well, you know, some people still think today. Even

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I'll hear people say, oh, you know, I miss the

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days of music videos, you know, because they're thinking of

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it in the context of MTV. Yeah, it's like and

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some people just don't realize, you know, because they're maybe

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not paying attention that there's actually more music videos than ever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are, we just don't see them.

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Speaker 1: They're they're on YouTube, they're not on they're not on

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a table. But something we also talk about a lot

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on the show is, you know, with the pandemic, terrible

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experience for us all, but we have to find the

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silver linings where we can. And you know, you're a

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great example of what you did, you know, trying to

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you know, innovate and come up with ideas, you know,

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to keep people involved and keep people engaged. Yep. Yeah,

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so that's really cool. Yeah, I'm dying to hear you

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play another one. You want to play another song.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do that universal song, the one

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you're talking about with the music.

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Speaker 1: Video wonderful and if you are just joining us, Eli

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Love is here with us live in studio and I

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do love this song. So yeah, whenever you're.

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Speaker 3: Ready, let's do it. All right, all right, So imagine

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like Eurovision, it was not just for Europe, but it

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was like for the whole galaxy. Like there's like a

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Milky Way Eurovision, and then imagine there's like a Universal

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song contest where the Key Way would sending their entry

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and the Andromeda Galaxy, who's sending theirs? And what that

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song would sound like. So this, this song kind of

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00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:17,640
explores that possibility. I was on a train in the

475
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,599
middle of the city. Saw a girls sitting on the

476
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floor with their headphones on.

477
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,319
Speaker 4: She was homing a tube, looking as happy.

478
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 3: As as she could be, nodding ahead and closing her

479
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,559
eyes and singing. And the song she was singing.

480
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 4: Na, and the sun broke through the window.

481
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:48,359
Speaker 3: Now everyone's songing alone.

482
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,279
Speaker 4: She got everybody.

483
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 5: Singing that you and n versu songo, yeah.

484
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:07,039
Speaker 4: Singing it all day long. I was on a cruise

485
00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:08,400
in the middle of the ocean.

486
00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:15,279
Speaker 3: I was sitting alone out a table for two. The

487
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,480
band was on a break because the singer.

488
00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 4: He was late.

489
00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 3: But the second he got on stage started singing that

490
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:28,640
same o too. He was singing nine No, No, and

491
00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,119
everyone got on the dance floor.

492
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:34,599
Speaker 4: They were shaking their hips.

493
00:24:35,079 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 9: Nine.

494
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 4: He got everybody singing that Uni Verso song.

495
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,839
Speaker 3: All let's bring the aliens or the fifth dimensional beings,

496
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:57,000
whatever you prefer. Well. I heard on the news today

497
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:01,640
that they made contact with outer space. The transmission was

498
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,119
coming in loud and clear, and all the scientists and

499
00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:11,640
linguists and astrophysicists try to decipher the sound that was

500
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,599
coming into their ears, but all the air it was not,

501
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:19,880
and they started shaking their shoulders to.

502
00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 4: They all agree that that's.

503
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 2: What we should do. Everybody in the world singing. We

504
00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:35,240
got the hands up in the air.

505
00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 5: Nowmic Badies getting along. Abody as seeing that universal so.

506
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:53,279
Speaker 4: Goes like this.

507
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 9: Nine no no, no, no no no.

508
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: I love it. That's awesome, the universal song that is

509
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,480
Eli love. He is here with us alive in studio

510
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,240
on this Saturday morning, and that is great. And I

511
00:26:20,279 --> 00:26:22,720
do encourage people to check out the video. Video is

512
00:26:22,759 --> 00:26:29,200
really cool, really cool. So how is how's the tour

513
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,000
been going? Any any interesting uh stories, any big surprises

514
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,519
or or has it been has everything been been smooth?

515
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,960
Or I love roads stories? If you have if you

516
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,200
have any, and if you don't have any, that's actually

517
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,440
a good thing. That means that means everything's going well generally.

518
00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:46,519
Speaker 3: But plenty of stories.

519
00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:47,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

520
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I play every night pretty much, Yeah, and

521
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,839
every night it's different, Like sometimes it'll be like last

522
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,079
night I was at the basement of a church playing

523
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,240
the opening set of an open mic. Yeah, and then

524
00:26:57,319 --> 00:27:00,480
before that I was at this like amazing fancy fancy

525
00:27:00,599 --> 00:27:04,880
listening room winery thing, whereas like professional sound, you know,

526
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,440
table service and all that jazz. And you know, the

527
00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:11,680
night before that, I was playing at this vegan restaurant

528
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,799
in Vermont in Burlington, and it was like a Thursday,

529
00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:19,079
and it was a nice night out. So you never

530
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:20,759
know what's going to happen you show up. It could

531
00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:25,240
be ten twenty fifty, who knows. But that night there

532
00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:28,839
was just a couple, oh no, kidd and they were

533
00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:30,599
out on a date. They came in and they're like,

534
00:27:30,759 --> 00:27:33,440
table for two please, I could tell you what I mean.

535
00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:36,799
They were in for the experience and it was just

536
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,079
me and this couple and this waitress. And I was like, well, y'all,

537
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:46,160
it's just us, so let's have some fun with this,

538
00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,799
you know. So we were chatting, we were making up

539
00:27:49,839 --> 00:27:52,440
songs together, you know, having a great old time. And

540
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,559
then you know, they were a younger couple and they're like,

541
00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:58,359
can you play a slow dance song? And I was like, yes,

542
00:27:58,519 --> 00:28:00,400
I can play a slow dance song for so I

543
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:07,559
played Van Morrison's Crazy Crazy Love She gave Me Love

544
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Love Love Love, Crazy Love, and they got up and

545
00:28:13,079 --> 00:28:18,440
danced and they were not good dancers, and they knew

546
00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:21,319
it and they were just having the time of their lives.

547
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,920
It was just them in this empty restaurant with me

548
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,920
and the waitress, and they danced the entire song. Wow,

549
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,039
you know, just you know, missing steps and kind of

550
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:34,640
fumbling and trying to do twisty things and like kind

551
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,880
of knocking over little flower things whatever. But they just

552
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,839
had a blast, and it was just a wonderful reminder

553
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,079
that you know, it doesn't necessarily really matter what we

554
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,880
look like or sound like or seem like on the outside.

555
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,960
It's like how we feel the space, you know what

556
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,039
I mean that moment and it was beautiful, Like I

557
00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:58,400
was like really emotional adverts. I was like, yeah, that

558
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:01,079
is so sweet. Y'all the biggest sweeties and me and

559
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:03,200
the wagers gave him a big, you know, round of applause,

560
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,759
and they had an absolute blast. Yeah, you know, got

561
00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:08,319
some merch, I had a great tip. I made more

562
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,720
in merch and tip that night with two people than

563
00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:13,839
sometimes I will with like thirty or forty, you know

564
00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:15,960
what I mean. So it just depends on getting into

565
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,119
the experience, really holding it, being aware. So that happened

566
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,920
just a few nights ago. I will always remember that

567
00:29:21,079 --> 00:29:24,039
and they made my night a VIP night too.

568
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's awesome. Well that's a positive roads story.

569
00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:30,200
That's absolutely I don't hear many of those, Okay. Usually

570
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,920
it's like usually it's like broke down. Yeah, the van

571
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,319
broke down, or we got to the place and toilet

572
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,200
didn't work, and.

573
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 3: You know, you know what I mean, we lost our

574
00:29:40,319 --> 00:29:43,759
band member. We drove away from the gas station and

575
00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:47,079
we realized two hours later, you're missing her drummer.

576
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're all kinds of terrible things. So it's

577
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,839
good to hear a positive story like that. Yeah, that's awesome.

578
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,839
That's awesome. You want to play another one? Yeah?

579
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,519
Speaker 3: Happy too? Do you want one more tune? This is

580
00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:02,000
from Present Journey as well. Okay, I also played this

581
00:30:02,079 --> 00:30:04,279
song for the couple. This one's called Love in the

582
00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:05,039
Middle Ages.

583
00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: Oh yes, this is I listened.

584
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,119
Speaker 3: I like this one.

585
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,359
Speaker 1: You like a lot.

586
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 3: I like this one too.

587
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: This is really good.

588
00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:11,759
Speaker 3: Awesome, here we go.

589
00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 9: When I was in my early age, I heard him

590
00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:33,079
talk about Tula, so I started looking for where it

591
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,839
could be. I ran from kisses in the third grade.

592
00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:40,119
DI did a girl in middle school.

593
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,319
Speaker 4: For ten days. I thought it would never come out.

594
00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:49,480
But I found love Middle Ages.

595
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 3: It ain't always fireworks, and it comes in stages, and

596
00:30:56,599 --> 00:31:02,119
it takes courage and trust in it other. I know

597
00:31:02,279 --> 00:31:03,559
I found.

598
00:31:04,839 --> 00:31:08,279
Speaker 4: What you love is. It's love in the Middle Ages.

599
00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:14,039
Love in the Middle Age.

600
00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:25,559
Speaker 3: I chased love across the ocean, but I never knew

601
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:32,200
what it was like to stay, what it took to

602
00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:40,000
really listen, how to compromise, and how to sing the sing.

603
00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 4: Now I'm oldly enough to see.

604
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 3: I found love.

605
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 4: Middle Ages. It ain't always.

606
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 3: Firings, and it comes instages.

607
00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 4: It takes courage, trusting each other. I know I found

608
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,759
what you love is. It's love in the middle Age.

609
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 3: It love in the middle Age, and it's a trip

610
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:28,559
to Duncan in the morning. It's knowing exactly what she's

611
00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:33,599
gonna say. It's getting cozy on the couch after.

612
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,119
Speaker 4: A long hard day.

613
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:42,079
Speaker 3: It's growing old together, figuring it out along the way.

614
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 4: Because I found love the Middle Ages, It's not just fate.

615
00:32:50,799 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 3: Or even the promise. It's something deeper, something stronger. I

616
00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:01,920
put down my sword and took off.

617
00:33:01,799 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 4: My arm because I found love the Middle Ages.

618
00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 3: It ain't always fireworks, and it comes in stages.

619
00:33:14,599 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 4: It takes courage, trust in each other.

620
00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:21,279
Speaker 9: I know I found it.

621
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 4: What you love, it's love.

622
00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:31,839
Speaker 9: In the middle, love in the Middle Age.

623
00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:37,279
Speaker 4: It's love in the middle Age.

624
00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:42,759
Speaker 9: Love in the middle lady.

625
00:33:46,039 --> 00:33:47,839
Speaker 4: M hm mm hmm.

626
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,799
Speaker 1: That is beautiful. That is beautiful.

627
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:57,319
Speaker 3: Some sauce on it.

628
00:33:58,960 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 2: You.

629
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,559
Speaker 1: I love is with a here live in studio on

630
00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:06,359
this Saturday morning on Matt Connorton unleashed and planned some

631
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,320
tunes live for us And yeah, that's that's great. By

632
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,960
the way, you in terms of your vocals, have you

633
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:17,400
did you get formal vocal training or are you self taught?

634
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:23,639
Speaker 3: I did not. Yeah, I uh vocal I found out.

635
00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:25,760
I found out at the beginning of my career that

636
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,760
your vocal chords are like muscles. Yeah, and you can

637
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,159
train them. Yeah, you can get better. I did not

638
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,400
have like a American idol. I still don't have an

639
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,519
American ile voice. But it wasn't like people who heard

640
00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:42,000
me sing and were like, whoah, you should be famous.

641
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,280
Never you know what I mean? Never in the thing.

642
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,599
But after singing for almost every day for the last

643
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:50,519
six or seven years, really developing into it, getting into

644
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:52,760
the character and kind of like feeling in you know,

645
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,760
what I really also found is just like just being unique,

646
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,440
you know, not necessarily sounding like someone else, but just

647
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,119
like whatever, the true voice is kind of letting that out, yeah,

648
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,360
really kind of leaning into that.

649
00:35:02,599 --> 00:35:05,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do, you do things to take care of

650
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:07,159
your voice, like you know, lemon and all that.

651
00:35:08,119 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 8: Yeah.

652
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 3: So so my tours, Matt, Like, I know, like there's

653
00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:14,920
this image of tours being like wild and crazy, I

654
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,679
stand up and partying and stuff, but I'm an indie

655
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,000
fault singer songwriter. Yeah, so that's not usually the case. So,

656
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,960
you know, it's a lot of a lot of hydration.

657
00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:27,800
I'm drinking a lot of water, I'm drinking smoothies. I'm

658
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,880
sleeping as much as I can. I'm going to plant

659
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,880
fitness in the morning, you know what I mean. I'm

660
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,079
doing vocal warm ups, I'm doing vocal cool downs. I'm like,

661
00:35:35,159 --> 00:35:37,599
you know, like doing the throat coat tea and kind

662
00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:39,840
of like you know, massoging all that kind of stuff

663
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,519
because it makes me feel better, it makes me have

664
00:35:42,519 --> 00:35:45,400
better performances, and it keeps my voice. It's like what

665
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,159
I'm doing is kind of like an ultra marathon. Yeah,

666
00:35:49,519 --> 00:35:51,920
two hundred twenty five days on the road. You can't

667
00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:54,880
mess around, right, you know, what I mean. So, and

668
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,480
I've had times where I've lost my voice. Really it's

669
00:35:57,519 --> 00:35:59,360
been tough, so I don't want to do that again.

670
00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:02,960
So you're absolutely right on that. It's like it's a

671
00:36:03,039 --> 00:36:04,880
very conscious effort to keep things going.

672
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're singing every day like that, yeah, no doubt,

673
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,880
no doubt. Yeah, is it literally every Like do you

674
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,159
ever have a day off on your tour?

675
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,519
Speaker 3: Sometimes maybe like once a week, once every two weeks, yeah,

676
00:36:16,519 --> 00:36:17,719
but usually it's pretty packed.

677
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,119
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's good.

678
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 3: It is good.

679
00:36:20,119 --> 00:36:23,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. By the way, I'm also

680
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,360
curious about your influences in terms of songwriting, because everything

681
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,519
that you write, it's all it's so catchy. It really

682
00:36:31,599 --> 00:36:37,800
is exactly exactly like any who influences you as far

683
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:38,760
as songwriting.

684
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I kind of like was formed by

685
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,280
you know, Cat Stevens, Bob Doing, Joni Mitchell growing up

686
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,800
like when I was really young. Yeah, you know, John

687
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,039
Denver all that, all that kind of good stuff. But

688
00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:55,000
then you know, it's funny, Matt, because like I grew

689
00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:59,880
up in the grunge era. Yeah, like Stone Table, Pilots, Nirvana, Radiohead,

690
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,599
you know what I mean. Read a chili Pepper is,

691
00:37:02,639 --> 00:37:05,039
like that was my music, and here I'm playing becausic

692
00:37:05,079 --> 00:37:08,800
guitar right, which is hilarious. But yeah, so that really

693
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,280
influenced me too. In college, I got into underground hip hop.

694
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,599
When I was living in Europe for a few years,

695
00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:18,480
I got into like dance beats, electronic music. When I

696
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:21,719
came back, I got into modern day songwriters like you know,

697
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,920
Noah Khan, you know boy Genius, you know, just kind

698
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:32,960
of like these very straightforward kind of singing songwriters Jason Morez,

699
00:37:33,159 --> 00:37:36,039
you know, Jack Johnson, you know Ed Sheer and that

700
00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:38,119
that stuff as well. But also, you know, I got

701
00:37:38,159 --> 00:37:41,679
a little countryside yeah, you know, Jason Izbel, Tyler Childers,

702
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,119
I like this singer song er named Hardy. He's really cool.

703
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:46,760
So all that kind of comes together.

704
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Do you try to do you approach it

705
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,039
like trying? It sounds like you probably don't necessarily try

706
00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:55,960
to have a particular sound, But what comes out is

707
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,039
what comes out. I assume.

708
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 3: Yes, I know that's wrong. I know I'm not supposed

709
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to do that, but I think it's great.

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's the best way to

711
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:07,039
do it. Don't don't overthink it, just be that's the

712
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,480
best way to be authentic, just to not overthink it,

713
00:38:09,559 --> 00:38:12,239
not to say I want to sound like this, but

714
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just sound like what you sound.

715
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Speaker 3: Like, right. And I'm I'm not in the industry, I'm

716
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,960
like industry adjacent, you know what I mean. It's like

717
00:38:19,039 --> 00:38:21,880
I'm like the DIY independent scene. So I don't have

718
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,679
a manager that says you need to sound like this, right.

719
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,719
So it's fun because I can just sound like whatever

720
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I feel like that day. I'm enjoying that. So I'm

721
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just gonna keep rolling with it.

722
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Speaker 1: And is everything? Is everything self released or are you

723
00:38:35,679 --> 00:38:36,960
on any kind of a label or you just do

724
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it all yourself? Is that the best way to do

725
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,280
it in your opinion, if you were to give advice

726
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,679
to somebody who's aspiring to do what you do.

727
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, record contracts actually have never been like the

728
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,280
thing that guarantees success, right. They can be you know,

729
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,880
for the one percent of artists that you know, record

730
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:01,199
contract is a really good thing for For the other however,

731
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,840
many percent of it, you know what I mean, All

732
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,159
sorts of things can happen. You can get shelved, the

733
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,480
label can have another band that sounds just like you,

734
00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:10,599
and they signed you so that they could push the

735
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:13,320
other band and not you. They could drop you after

736
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,440
an album, they could keep you for ten albums and

737
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never release you. So it just didn't sound like something

738
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,199
that would fit my vibe. So I kind of went

739
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,280
on my own route. Now that's not saying that if

740
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,679
the right record contract comes along, you know what I

741
00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:28,159
mean that I wouldn't I would like reject it necessarily.

742
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,039
But you know, I've found that it's best to like

743
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,000
do your own thing, make your own business, and then

744
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:35,239
if that happens, great, but not to like bank on it.

745
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, and we're fortunate to live

746
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,239
in an era where you really can do it all. Yeah,

747
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,079
you know, because of the Internet, you can. You know,

748
00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:44,760
I'm old enough to remember when your only shot really

749
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,480
was if you you know, you record a demo and

750
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then you send it to record.

751
00:39:48,599 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 3: That was it because they had the equipment. There was

752
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,920
no other way to record your music besides getting a

753
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,960
record contract. So that would make sense because at least

754
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,719
you have your music recorded. Yeah, But now, yeah, it's

755
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,360
very accessible, which has pauses and negatives because everybody can

756
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,960
do it, so you have to kind of like be inventive.

757
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,559
A little bit right, So yeah it now it's like

758
00:40:06,599 --> 00:40:07,719
kind of about being creative.

759
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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, absolutely well, I think so as we

760
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as we approach the top of the hour singing, I'll

761
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play another studio track, the Honky Talk Truth.

762
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that one.

763
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Speaker 1: I think it would be a great way to a

764
00:40:21,039 --> 00:40:23,519
great way to end the segment. But yeah, but before

765
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we do that, I want to make sure that our

766
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listeners know where they should go online to keep up

767
00:40:27,079 --> 00:40:29,880
with everything that you're doing, and of course plug your

768
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,039
next show too. You know, we're in Manchester, but we

769
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:33,519
do have a lot of people who listen online, so

770
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we want to make sure everybody knows where to find you.

771
00:40:35,679 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome. So my name is Eli Love. It's E

772
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L I Space and then L E V as in Victory.

773
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You can type that into the Google machine and my

774
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:47,360
website will pop up. All my website is all my

775
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,760
music that's just freely available to stream with lyrics, and

776
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,719
also my tour schedule. So I'll be in New England

777
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,519
and Canada and a bunch of shows all over the world.

778
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Actually in February March, I'll be in the You and.

779
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: You're oh no kidding good?

780
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, folks, were listening over there. I'll see you. I

781
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,039
see you next year. And also on my website is

782
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,800
a little button at the bottom that says join the Levitators. Yes,

783
00:41:12,119 --> 00:41:14,239
so you are welcome to join. It's just like a

784
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,039
you know, an email texting list, but I send out

785
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:19,199
songs and good vibes and keep people going and we

786
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,079
do live streams together. I do folk Fridays. This is

787
00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:24,800
a great way to stay connected to a worldwide community

788
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,000
of music lovers.

789
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Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, that is outstanding. Have you played overseas? But

790
00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:32,639
you mentioned you lived in Europe? Did you have you

791
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:33,599
played over there before?

792
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 3: I've played shorter tours. I lived in a country called

793
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,800
and Dora between Spain and France over there, so I've

794
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,920
played shorter tours like a week in France or a

795
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:42,599
week in Spain.

796
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: Wow.

797
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,079
Speaker 3: But this is the first like full on, two month

798
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,760
like show every day kind of cheat.

799
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 7: Wow.

800
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Speaker 1: Very cool. Yeah, good for you. Yeah, that's that's exciting.

801
00:41:52,679 --> 00:41:55,039
So we'll we'll close out the segment with the Honkey

802
00:41:55,079 --> 00:41:57,400
Talk Truth another great song. But I like all of these,

803
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,800
They're all really good. But Eli lev thank you so

804
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:00,559
much for joining us.

805
00:42:00,559 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 3: He having super fun.

806
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:03,599
Speaker 1: This has been amazing. Now we'll have to do it

807
00:42:03,639 --> 00:42:05,320
again in the future. Next time you're next time you're

808
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,880
on tour through the area, we'll definitely we'll have you back.

809
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,239
But uh and if you are listening live on Saturday,

810
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:11,960
sick Aground coming up in the third hour, we have

811
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the rightful heirs joining us in studio. But here it is.

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This is the Honky Talk Truth from Present Journey by

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00:42:18,159 --> 00:42:18,840
Eli Lev