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Speaker 2: Today's help my brother?
Speaker 1: It's been too long, you know, it's been too long,
been too long, man, Outside of creating music, What have
you been up to?
Speaker 2: Man? You know, I'm just doing to do right grinding.
Speaker 1: That's that's the fun part about life. When you can
say been doing it. That means you're in control. You're
the one signing the stage. That's got to be quite fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the deal with Sony and all that
when we talked last time. So I decided to just
start my own little label and release it myself and
just kind of do my own gig.
Speaker 1: You know, I do love that. See see, that's to
me is what it's all about, because you know, you
walk and talk with the everyday average person and you
live that life. Now here comes this record company and
they don't walk your life. How are they supposed to
understand what you're doing?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: And I've now that you're in control saying yes, I
feel it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I finally got my master's and my publishing back,
and so I've been releasing a lot of new stuff
as well as uh, well you remember.
Speaker 2: Covid hit when we were doing Boxcard Junkie. Yes, Sony
was in control of So no, it's it's nice to
have that power back.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's you know, I mean, it's still challenging
as independent now because you don't have the funding from
the labels. But at the same time, it's cool that
you know that you have creative control and all that.
Speaker 1: So then what was it like to sit down and
start bringing to life Hobo Nation?
Speaker 2: Oh man? That started a long time ago.
Speaker 3: It just been a passion of mine because there was
a time that I was I was out there, you know,
I write about that, sing about that, and met a
lot of great people out there. So I just wanted
to get this vision going, you know, and still working
on it. But yeah, man, I think good things are
going to come.
Speaker 1: Well, there's there's a great vibration that comes from it
in the way that not only have I always been
inspired by the Hobo, but the thing is is that
that you you speak the language and then so that
we can all understand what their lifestyle is and that
for men, any many of them, it is a choice
to be doing what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Right, and uh, you know, I always say, the way
things are going, there's not a lot of us that
aren't one pay check away, you know, you know, so
it's a real thing, and it's you know, for a
lot of them, it's it's surely not a choice, you know,
and people should you know, uh, you know, speak for them,
I think.
Speaker 1: See, and that to me that you're calling because when
you listen to any of your music, you can feel
something from it. I mean, I mean, for instance, like
you just recently posted a quote here and it says,
when your soul outgrows the situation, the universe creates an
exit that speaks, and that that also says a lot
about your music. It speaks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's true, but yeahhere.
Speaker 1: Does it come from is it? Are you are you meditating?
Are you? Are you taking long walks? Where does music
start with you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Man, three o'clock in the morning, keeping me awake?
Speaker 3: You know, you got to have a no, no pad
but by the dresser.
Speaker 2: But no, but seriously, Uh, you know, it's just always
been in me and uh.
Speaker 3: Ever since I was a kid. And but yeah, I
mean I try to you know, I try to keep grounding.
Speaker 2: You know. Living by the ocean helps.
Speaker 1: I love that kind of a sound the ocean each night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very, very blessed in that sense for sure.
Speaker 1: One of the songs that's coming out is Still. I Know.
What I love about this song is the strong roll
in and then it eases right into you know, the blues.
I can feel some blues and stuff in there, but
you're really bringing a theatrical vibe to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it's because it's an emotional song, you know, and
it should it should convey that. I think, you know,
because there's a lot of heartfelt lyrics and a lot
of a lot of sleepless nights and a lot of
empty mornings that came into that song. You know, I
write everything I live. I just don't write songs, right,
you know, Nashville or whatever, and nothing against them, but
you know, I just don't sit down and write a song.
It's it's truly channeling or from the heart or spirit
or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: You know, please do that move. There's more with Brandon
Reid Allen coming up next. The name of the EP
is Hobonation. The name of the song still I know
you are back with Brandon Reid Allen. Do you think
songs sometimes, when when you write like that, are really
like short stories because or would we call it this
short short story? Because a song like can be over
with in two minutes and forty five seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: I think the art of it is is simplicity, which
is harder than.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: You hear certain bands that just go crazy with our
pigios and all this stuff, and it's great, it's complex
and it's you know, masterful, But I think simplicity, honestly
is one of the most difficult things to put.
Speaker 2: In a couple of.
Speaker 3: Minutes, you know, a few minutes, you know, and tell
the whole story, you know, like for instance, shadow Man, that's.
Speaker 2: That's a whole life in two minutes. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: See I always look at things like that and go, oh,
that's our way of just hitting repeats, and then we
hit repeating and live it all over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when when you're putting together the music are you
are you engineering it as well? And if so, does
that make you a more of a perfectionist now that
you're in one hundred percent control?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm perfectionists to to default, and I think most
most musicians are.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. Well, I would hope, you know.
Speaker 3: But but a lot of times, and I've said this before,
I'm a writer downer. I just hear it. And sometimes
a song can take thirty minutes. You just hear it
in the middle of you know, three o'clock in the
morning or something like empty Chair and that's how that came.
And then but then other ones like hey mama, that
took nine months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's just I always wait for it
to come.
Speaker 3: I don't rush the song, you know, I don't you
know how a lot of people you got to finish
the song, you got to do this, you got to
do that really quick, and I let it finish yourself.
And sometimes I've noticed songs I've written years ago will
end up being in my bridge in a new song
and just writtle you know.
Speaker 1: I love that stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you just don't know, you know, like I
just wrote one called Home.
Speaker 2: And that bridge was five years old.
Speaker 3: Wow, you know, but I never knew, you know, I
didn't know what to do with it, and it worked
out perfectly, you know with the song. Wow.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that song, Hey Mama, that video for that,
I'd like to know where you film those wide open
fields because I got a vibe that it was somewhere
near Montana, maybe Wyoming, Texas, Texas. I'll give you that, Okay,
I'll give you that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the Texas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's wide open country though, dude.
Speaker 3: Oh I know, I know, which is funny because it
was Houston, which is nothing but pavement, you know, but
you go a little you know, outside of town and
then it's it's all open country. Just it's beautiful, you know,
big skies and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And you also included, as you know,
acoustic guitar in the bar. I thought that was very
level head. It didn't very real when it comes to
authentic musicians that it does start in those bars.
Speaker 2: Oh man, you want to know. The funny party about
that was in the video. You see the.
Speaker 3: Little dog, yeah, in the car, so nobody knew. They
thought I was busking. They didn't know I was filming
a video. So no, this is the cool part. So
what happened was We're like, so we want to do
the open field, but we got to get down to
the city. So I said, hey, take me to a bypass,
you know, and somebody, some little sweet lady even gave
me a dollar.
Speaker 2: Oh god, because they didn't.
Speaker 3: Really see the cameras. They didn't know that, you know,
I was filming a video. They just thought that I
was busking, you know. And it was super cool. And
then I went into that little place you're talking about,
and that's how I got to know all the employees
and let me go back and that's cool the kitchen
and flip burgers with them and sing songs.
Speaker 2: For them and you know, and they just loved it.
It was really super cool. It was a very community
kind of thing. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Wow. See right there. It brings us to that point of,
you know, every music project brings you something brand new
to discover. So even that story right there is something
brand new to discover and you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was super cool, man, it was you know.
And then you just see kindness and it wasn't stage.
Speaker 3: That little lady gave me, you know, that little and
she was like eighty, She rolled her rounded down and
gave me a dollar.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, it just shows human kindness.
Speaker 3: And then how they let me in their venues to
film and let me cook and stuff and just listen
to the music.
Speaker 2: And it was, you know, just like I said, very
very cool.
Speaker 1: Wow. Where can people go to find out more about you,
more about Hobo Nation and everything else that you're doing.
Speaker 3: Oh, they just google me Brandon Reid, Alan ri E
I d Alan or Facebook or I'm not really huge
on TikTok stuff. I know that's the thing. I'm working
on that. But and I've got an imaging agent by
the way, Rachel Ryder, and she's, uh, she's handled a
lot of stuff for me. So I was blessed to
meet her in Florida because I was in Nashville a
year ago and then I decided to go to Florida
and to go up the coast, and uh, now I'm
in North Carolina just you know, doing that thing beach.
Speaker 1: Now now what part of North Carolina are you in.
Speaker 2: I'm on an island which is chippy.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, I'm north Top Cell Beach, Wilmington, you know
whommy Yeah yeah, okay, so I'm just about an hour
north of Wilmington. And uh, it's a cool little island.
Speaker 2: But you get you know, you got one bridge to
you to get.
Speaker 1: Over North Carolina. That's North Carolina. That's usome.
Speaker 3: Oh man, the weather's crazy. Yeah, it's beautiful then and
a but it's really cool scene.
Speaker 1: You know. Wow, Well, man, you got to come back
to this show anytime in the future. The door is
always going to be open for you.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: And I want to give a shout out to Beach
Star Entertainment too for hooking this up and hooking up
the gigs. And you know, she's got a lot of
great artists.
Speaker 2: You make sure you check her out.
Speaker 1: Excellent man, be brilliant today.
Speaker 2: Okay, sir, you too, Brother,