Caitlin Piper| Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: So we do have an exciting program for you today.

0:02 Speaker 1: But what we're gonna do right now, we're gonna go

0:04 Speaker 1: ahead and play the new single from Caitlin Piper. This

0:07 Speaker 1: is called moving On. And then when we come back

0:10 Speaker 1: from this, she should be on with us via teams.

0:13 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk, get to know Caitlin Piper a little bit,

0:16 Speaker 1: and then we'll play another song of hers a little

0:18 Speaker 1: bit later. But stick around. There's plenty of great stuff

0:21 Speaker 1: to come. But here it is. This is the newest

0:22 Speaker 1: single from Kaitlin Piper. This is called moving On.

0:27 Speaker 2: Miss the Mark mile long Shot.

0:32 Speaker 3: We're gonna get off course.

0:35 Speaker 4: Hug fun, but I need.

0:38 Speaker 5: To go.

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0:43 Speaker 4: Some one a lie, a brand new spare light out

0:58 Speaker 4: in and.

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1:10 Speaker 4: Will it fix this?

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1:39 Speaker 7: all the help you.

1:40 Speaker 2: Gave to me, and I was wrong about you.

1:46 Speaker 5: Now I'm moving on.

2:00 Speaker 4: I feel so foolish thinking that you were winning.

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4:42 Speaker 8: It's like now that's like now hum enough, there we go.

5:01 Speaker 1: That is moving on by Caitlin Piper. I love it.

5:03 Speaker 1: That is really really good And we have Caitlin with

5:06 Speaker 1: us via Microsoft teams. Good morning, Kaitlin, Good morning, how

5:10 Speaker 1: you doing good good, Welcome.

5:11 Speaker 4: To the show.

5:12 Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you your first time on

5:14 Speaker 1: the program. I really love that track. That's that's the

5:17 Speaker 1: newest single, correct it is?

5:19 Speaker 3: Yeah?

5:20 Speaker 1: How long is how long has that been out?

5:23 Speaker 3: That came out the end of January.

5:26 Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh wow, so that's very new. Excellent, excellent,

5:29 Speaker 1: And then and that you've got an album coming up

5:31 Speaker 1: in June full album.

5:32 Speaker 3: I do, yes.

5:34 Speaker 11: I have an album release concert planned for June twelfth

5:37 Speaker 11: at the press Room in Portsmith, so everything will be

5:40 Speaker 11: done and ready to go by then.

5:42 Speaker 1: Oh, outstanding, outstanding? Is this going to be your first

5:45 Speaker 1: full length album? Or because there's so many different ways

5:47 Speaker 1: to do this now, you know, if you want to

5:49 Speaker 1: do an album or an EP or a lot of

5:51 Speaker 1: artists just released singles, is this gonna be your first

5:53 Speaker 1: full length album?

5:54 Speaker 3: It will be.

5:55 Speaker 11: I did an RPM album in twenty twenty four, so

5:59 Speaker 11: you do the whole you know, the whole album in

6:01 Speaker 11: the month of February and you write it and record

6:04 Speaker 11: it and release it. But this is my first true

6:06 Speaker 11: album where it's more kind of planned out and including

6:11 Speaker 11: other musicians on it as well.

6:13 Speaker 1: So the RPM challenge that's come up before on the

6:16 Speaker 1: show actually many times over the years, but I haven't

6:18 Speaker 1: heard anyone mention it recently. So you did that in

6:21 Speaker 1: twenty four Just yes.

6:23 Speaker 11: Yep, And it is alive and well It used to

6:26 Speaker 11: be more of an in person get together piece where

6:30 Speaker 11: people would bring actual CDs and they would have listening parties.

6:33 Speaker 3: And now everything is online.

6:35 Speaker 11: But what's cool about that is that people from all

6:38 Speaker 11: over the world are listening to each other's music. So yeah,

6:41 Speaker 11: put a map out and you can click on like

6:43 Speaker 11: you can find your town or your state and see,

6:45 Speaker 11: you know, local music around and who's putting music out.

6:48 Speaker 11: So I have an RPM single that I'm kind of

6:51 Speaker 11: working with and a friend, oh a friend, you know,

6:53 Speaker 11: it's an a cappella song. So that's the first time

6:55 Speaker 11: I've ever done something like that. But yeah, we'll see,

7:00 Speaker 11: We'll see how that goes. But I'm focused on this

7:02 Speaker 11: album and putting it together and excited to get new

7:05 Speaker 11: music out. And I so appreciate you having me this morning.

7:09 Speaker 11: This is this is so nice to hear.

7:11 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, you're in chat chat it absolutely no,

7:17 Speaker 1: We're glad to have you on. Now you are you're

7:20 Speaker 1: in the Seacoast area, correct?

7:22 Speaker 11: Yes, Portsmouth is like my kind of home base it

7:25 Speaker 11: more more or less.

7:26 Speaker 1: Did you grow up there?

7:27 Speaker 3: No, I grew up in Western New York.

7:29 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, what what brought you to New Hampshire

7:34 Speaker 1: because you're in you know, obviously in the Portsmouth area.

7:37 Speaker 1: That's such a I mean, I think in terms of

7:40 Speaker 1: the music scene in the state, you know, like I'm

7:43 Speaker 1: in Manchester, and obviously there's a lot of tremendous talent here,

7:45 Speaker 1: this tremendous talent all over the state, all over the

7:47 Speaker 1: world really, but but I feel like Portsmouth is kind

7:50 Speaker 1: of the most interesting in terms of and maybe this

7:54 Speaker 1: kind of informs your sound a little bit too, because

7:56 Speaker 1: I hear a lot of different influences in your sound.

7:58 Speaker 1: But but you're in You're in such a great if

8:00 Speaker 1: you're going to be in New Hampshire, and Reportsmouth is

8:02 Speaker 1: a great place to be if you're a musician. But

8:04 Speaker 1: how did you how did you land there from? You said,

8:06 Speaker 1: Western New York Originally?

8:08 Speaker 11: Yeah, So I am a teacher and I teach French. Oh,

8:13 Speaker 11: and I went to go look for a job. It

8:16 Speaker 11: was harder to find French teaching positions in Western New York.

8:19 Speaker 11: And they had this program where you could click on

8:21 Speaker 11: any state you'd want to work at, and then town

8:25 Speaker 11: and you could send out your resume. So I ended

8:28 Speaker 11: up in southern Maine only because I had read an

8:32 Speaker 11: article about Acadia National Park and I thought New England

8:35 Speaker 11: was cool. I was in a musical called Carousel when

8:37 Speaker 11: I was a little girl, and it's all about New England.

8:41 Speaker 11: So I was like, I'll go there and try that,

8:44 Speaker 11: and it was the best thing I've ever done. So

8:46 Speaker 11: I ended up in Maine and I taught there for

8:48 Speaker 11: a couple of years, and I put music on hold completely.

8:51 Speaker 4: And then.

8:53 Speaker 11: After you know, a bunch of other life life achievements,

8:56 Speaker 11: having a family and things like that, I came back

8:59 Speaker 11: to music.

9:00 Speaker 3: And I think the only reason, the only.

9:02 Speaker 11: Way I was able to do that is really because

9:04 Speaker 11: of the Portsmouth music scene and the new music scene

9:07 Speaker 11: as a whole. Everybody is so receptive and kind and

9:12 Speaker 11: willing to collaborate, and they're just honest. Nobody is gatekeeping

9:16 Speaker 11: any any sort of gate circ or contacts. Everyone's oh,

9:20 Speaker 11: I'll help you get through that, like, oh, you want

9:22 Speaker 11: to play here? Like and now I feel like I'm

9:24 Speaker 11: established enough where I'm able to do that for some

9:26 Speaker 11: other people like oh you want to play there, here's

9:29 Speaker 11: their phone number, Like sure, we can make that happen.

9:31 Speaker 11: It just feels such a great collaborative community, and I'm

9:35 Speaker 11: just everything New England. I should stop talking because once

9:38 Speaker 11: I start talking about so much. I love the history

9:41 Speaker 11: and the aesthetic and the feel out here. It's just

9:44 Speaker 11: it's just the best place to be. I this will

9:46 Speaker 11: be my home, for my forever home for sure.

9:49 Speaker 1: Outstanding. No, that's good to hear. You did mention so

9:53 Speaker 1: you had kind of taken a break from music right

9:54 Speaker 1: to focus on other things. You mentioned a family and

9:57 Speaker 1: of course your career as an educator and so forth.

10:00 Speaker 1: Did you always know that you were going to come

10:04 Speaker 1: back to it, like, was that always kind of the

10:05 Speaker 1: plan or at least maybe in the back of your mind,

10:07 Speaker 1: or did you at any point think, you know, no,

10:11 Speaker 1: I've left that behind and I'm onto this other phase

10:14 Speaker 1: or what was kind of your thought process during that time?

10:18 Speaker 11: I guess I know I was always going to be singing.

10:21 Speaker 11: I kind of was born singing and it's in my blood.

10:23 Speaker 11: So there's no stopping that. There's no stopping the songwriting.

10:27 Speaker 11: Sometimes I will flat out communicate with other people just

10:30 Speaker 11: and I'll sing them a little too, and amazing back

10:32 Speaker 11: to me. Yeah, big songs up about everything. So that

10:36 Speaker 11: was never going to stop. I knew that, and I

10:39 Speaker 11: always knew as mother I wanted to pass on that

10:41 Speaker 11: musical piece to my children and definitely attend the attending

10:46 Speaker 11: concerts and shows.

10:47 Speaker 3: That never stopped. That's always been really strong.

10:50 Speaker 11: Yeah, But I think what was hard for me was

10:52 Speaker 11: to think of a teacher in kind of a public

10:55 Speaker 11: space also performing and can you do more than one thing?

10:58 Speaker 3: And is that okay to do?

11:00 Speaker 11: That's maybe what helped me help me back for a

11:03 Speaker 11: little bit, but it was it was the best thing

11:05 Speaker 11: to do because I spent several years just listening to music,

11:09 Speaker 11: watching other people perform really personal in private with my

11:13 Speaker 11: own music, and that felt that felt really right.

11:17 Speaker 3: I think a big change was.

11:20 Speaker 11: I lost my dad, and when after he passed away,

11:23 Speaker 11: it kind of realized, whoa, this is it, Like, this

11:25 Speaker 11: is life and.

11:25 Speaker 3: If you want to do something, you got it. What

11:27 Speaker 3: am I doing? I got to go do it if

11:29 Speaker 3: I want to get out there and do it.

11:31 Speaker 11: And so I slowly but surely tried a couple things,

11:35 Speaker 11: and like I said, everyone was so so receptive and

11:39 Speaker 11: it's just been a blast.

11:40 Speaker 3: I'm having the best time.

11:41 Speaker 1: This might be a little bit of a side street

11:43 Speaker 1: forgive me, but you mentioned losing your dad and and

11:47 Speaker 1: and you said something that I kind of connected with

11:50 Speaker 1: because so I lost my father recently actually in December,

11:54 Speaker 1: and and but you, you know, you mentioned losing your

11:58 Speaker 1: dad and then feeling like, well, you really got to

12:00 Speaker 1: you know, you really got to push forward with this.

12:02 Speaker 1: And I'm just curious. I don't know how deep you

12:04 Speaker 1: want to go with this, but I'm just curious, did

12:06 Speaker 1: you find that because I went through this thing, maybe

12:09 Speaker 1: I'm still going through it because it was relatively recent

12:11 Speaker 1: where it kind of losing a parent kind of forces

12:15 Speaker 1: you to confront your own mortality in a weird way,

12:18 Speaker 1: and then it kind of maybe is that part of

12:21 Speaker 1: what kind of pushed you because it sounds like losing

12:24 Speaker 1: your dad kind of pushed you forward a little bit

12:25 Speaker 1: to really really do what you felt driven to do.

12:30 Speaker 3: For sure, I think we need to make the most nothing.

12:33 Speaker 11: Time goes by so quickly, and there's so much that

12:37 Speaker 11: is as much as we like to think we're in

12:38 Speaker 11: control and in the driver's seat, there's so many components

12:41 Speaker 11: where we really you don't know what's going to happen.

12:43 Speaker 3: So if there's a.

12:43 Speaker 11: Window of time when you can follow your passion and

12:46 Speaker 11: put it out there and share it with other people.

12:48 Speaker 11: I think that's great. I'll also say I wrote some

12:50 Speaker 11: songs about my dad and found a way of kind

12:52 Speaker 11: of my grief was through that outreach and sharing some

12:56 Speaker 11: of that music with other people. Actually did a whole

12:59 Speaker 11: event a group called the Pre Dead Social Club, which

13:02 Speaker 11: and I'm so sorry about the passing of your dad

13:05 Speaker 11: might be connect with. But they bring people together all

13:09 Speaker 11: over the Sea Coast in New England and talk about

13:13 Speaker 11: you know, life and death and they help people get

13:16 Speaker 11: through those moments. And they actually had a concert in

13:19 Speaker 11: October and we got to come together. We each shared

13:23 Speaker 11: there were three different singer songwriters. We each shared songs

13:27 Speaker 11: about grief or things that we've been through, and then

13:29 Speaker 11: they assigned us somebody who had lost somebody and then

13:32 Speaker 11: we got to write a song for that person and

13:34 Speaker 11: present it. And it was just so powerful to put

13:36 Speaker 11: all of those feelings into into music.

13:40 Speaker 1: Now, that's that's excellent because something that a theme that

13:44 Speaker 1: comes up a lot on this program is you know,

13:47 Speaker 1: taking things that are negative, you know, like loss and

13:50 Speaker 1: you know, in this case, loss and grief and all

13:52 Speaker 1: of that and turning it into art. And then so

13:55 Speaker 1: you're taking something negative, you're creating something positive about it.

13:57 Speaker 1: And it's positive because not only does it help you

14:00 Speaker 1: when you create that art, not only is it you know,

14:02 Speaker 1: it's a great form of therapy, right to create something

14:05 Speaker 1: out of that, but also it helps other people who

14:08 Speaker 1: then connect with the art that you've created, other people

14:10 Speaker 1: who can relate to what you're going through. And I

14:14 Speaker 1: think that's outstanding. What is that called again, the pre Dead?

14:17 Speaker 11: What?

14:18 Speaker 3: Pre Dead Social Club?

14:19 Speaker 1: Pre Dead Social Club? I like that a lot.

14:22 Speaker 3: The first time I heard that name, I was like,

14:23 Speaker 3: what is this?

14:24 Speaker 5: I don't know what this is?

14:26 Speaker 11: And then I met Laura who runs who runs the organization,

14:30 Speaker 11: and she's just doing so much great work to bring

14:32 Speaker 11: people together. And because that was another thing, you know,

14:35 Speaker 11: you lose, you lose somebody that's so close to you,

14:38 Speaker 11: and then then what, like what do you do? People

14:40 Speaker 11: will bring over some cast roles and they say sorry, sorry,

14:42 Speaker 11: and and it's sad and everyone's trying to help you.

14:46 Speaker 11: But it's just to have somebody that really gets the

14:49 Speaker 11: whole process. It was was tremendous and instrumentous.

14:53 Speaker 3: Doing great work.

14:55 Speaker 11: Absolutely funny what you said about connecting through themes. There's

14:58 Speaker 11: some songs that I write that people will see, oh,

15:01 Speaker 11: I love that song that you wrote about this, and

15:03 Speaker 11: I'm like, oh, that's like, thank you. It's not necessarily

15:08 Speaker 11: what I wrote it about.

15:10 Speaker 3: I have a lot of songs.

15:11 Speaker 11: My big theme on my album is kind of setting

15:13 Speaker 11: limits and and like moving on. Right, So there's there's

15:17 Speaker 11: that song that you just heard, just saying enough, this

15:20 Speaker 11: is enough, and I'm choosing to go a different path.

15:22 Speaker 11: But it's interesting people's take on what they hear and

15:26 Speaker 11: how they interpret each each song.

15:29 Speaker 1: Well, it's another thing too about art, is you know

15:32 Speaker 1: you can obviously you can interpret it however you want

15:34 Speaker 1: to and however it connects with you in this case,

15:37 Speaker 1: in the case of songs, obviously how it connects with

15:39 Speaker 1: you as a listener. But it is interesting how sometimes yeah,

15:42 Speaker 1: people will this is this will sound random. But I

15:46 Speaker 1: just said this to a friend of mine the other

15:48 Speaker 1: day that when I was a kid, I was actually

15:50 Speaker 1: mad at Sammy Hagar for saying that Love Walks In

15:53 Speaker 1: was about aliens, because I didn't want it to be

15:54 Speaker 1: about that. But but it's just but it's always interest

16:00 Speaker 1: see to me too, when you know, I'll uh, I'll

16:02 Speaker 1: have a certain song or something or an album that

16:05 Speaker 1: it connects with me in a certain way. And then

16:07 Speaker 1: you know, I read an interview UH with the artists

16:10 Speaker 1: who wrote the song, and it turns out it's about

16:12 Speaker 1: something completely different than what I thought. And then there's

16:14 Speaker 1: that it's weird. You know, there's that little bit of Oh,

16:17 Speaker 1: I kind of wanted it to be about what I

16:18 Speaker 1: wanted it to be about, but that's just narcissistic.

16:20 Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, So there's.

16:23 Speaker 11: Some songs that I don't really share too much about

16:25 Speaker 11: what it is because sometimes it's much more literal than

16:28 Speaker 11: maybe what people.

16:31 Speaker 3: Assume.

16:31 Speaker 11: Yeah, some of it is pretty obvious, like there's yeah,

16:36 Speaker 11: but I like to see that takeaway.

16:39 Speaker 3: Everybody can get a piece of takeaway something different.

16:43 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely we should mention too. So you were the

16:47 Speaker 1: uh you won an award through the UH Sea Coast

16:50 Speaker 1: Community Choice Awards. Correct, I did.

16:52 Speaker 3: I did.

16:53 Speaker 11: I've got a strong UH support here of people you

16:57 Speaker 11: devote every day for that one, and my my friends

17:02 Speaker 11: and family and coworkers definitely showed up for me, and

17:05 Speaker 11: and that that was cool.

17:07 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so nonchalant about it.

17:10 Speaker 11: I it was the words were it was on my

17:12 Speaker 11: son's birthday, So I was like I was definitely going

17:14 Speaker 11: to miss my son's birthday. So I wrote to the people.

17:16 Speaker 11: I was like, oh, yeah, thanks, and I was like,

17:18 Speaker 11: that's not going to happen. And I had a friend

17:21 Speaker 11: that was was at the event and they're like, oh.

17:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, you did get it.

17:24 Speaker 1: So oh that's great.

17:26 Speaker 3: Cool.

17:26 Speaker 11: So it's published there right there with some of the

17:29 Speaker 11: best Seacoast businesses in town.

17:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, we should be specific too. It was the twenty

17:37 Speaker 1: twenty five Best Live Music Artists Group Band winner, so

17:40 Speaker 1: very good. Congratulations.

17:43 Speaker 3: Oh that it was. That was very cool. For the

17:44 Speaker 3: amount of time that I've been performing here, that that was.

17:48 Speaker 3: That was a neat one.

17:49 Speaker 1: So yeah, how long have you been performing here? I

17:51 Speaker 1: forgot to ask you, uh kind of the timeline, how

17:54 Speaker 1: how long have you been here doing this?

17:56 Speaker 3: I've been performing out I think since like it's it's

18:01 Speaker 3: been like a year and a half.

18:05 Speaker 1: Oh not that long then, Okay, yeah, not that long.

18:10 Speaker 1: So that's that's well, that's excellent. Then, so you're off

18:12 Speaker 1: to uh you're off to a great start.

18:15 Speaker 11: Yes, for sure, little projects easing up to it, but

18:20 Speaker 11: like really being out after the RPM thing, I was like,

18:22 Speaker 11: you know, I really want to share these songs that

18:24 Speaker 11: I'm writing, and I performed at a little cafe and

18:28 Speaker 11: in Portsmouth.

18:29 Speaker 3: It's no longer open at that location. That's fine.

18:33 Speaker 11: It was just so special and I got kind of

18:34 Speaker 11: hooked on it, and I realized, well, I can do

18:36 Speaker 11: this by myself. So then I did a whole series

18:38 Speaker 11: of performing independently, and then I really thought I need

18:42 Speaker 11: a band. I'd love to have that full band sound

18:45 Speaker 11: behind me. So I did a couple of band shows

18:47 Speaker 11: and now I'm doing solo band and then sometimes I'm

18:51 Speaker 11: performing as a duo, which is really really nice to

18:53 Speaker 11: carry the kind of guitar load of each each piece.

18:57 Speaker 11: And it also I think anytime I have somebody performing me,

19:00 Speaker 11: it gives the audience a break from my vocals, because

19:03 Speaker 11: I think it's a lot to hear somebody's kind of

19:06 Speaker 11: belting for two hours when they start booking for me

19:09 Speaker 11: for three hours plus.

19:11 Speaker 3: I definitely like to have somebody else with me.

19:15 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it's nice too that you're able to do

19:17 Speaker 1: that in different configurations when when you've got the full band,

19:22 Speaker 1: what what does that? What does that entail like?

19:25 Speaker 2: Is it? Is it?

19:26 Speaker 1: Yeah? Tell me about that?

19:28 Speaker 11: Yes, So I'm calling it Caitlin Piper and that's not

19:31 Speaker 11: because I'm.

19:34 Speaker 3: Into my own name or anything, but it's just it's

19:37 Speaker 3: steady for me.

19:38 Speaker 11: So I'm performing originals and covers in this band setting,

19:43 Speaker 11: and I kind of have a rotation or almost like

19:45 Speaker 11: a bench of performers that join me, and they are

19:49 Speaker 11: some they are the best performers in the Sea Coast

19:52 Speaker 11: and because of that, their schedules aren't always but that's

19:57 Speaker 11: why there's there's like a whole little crew. So you know,

20:01 Speaker 11: you think of the gate, you think of the setting,

20:03 Speaker 11: you think of the time and and all the different elements,

20:06 Speaker 11: and think who would be the best combo for the

20:08 Speaker 11: first try, and you see if they can make it,

20:10 Speaker 11: and then if they can't, then you pivot. And I've

20:13 Speaker 11: had the opportunity to work with people that are just

20:16 Speaker 11: absolutely outstanding. So yeah, I'm very proud of that and

20:20 Speaker 11: totally honored that they're willing to take on my original

20:23 Speaker 11: original songs and songs they wrote you know, in my

20:26 Speaker 11: room or something or after like a very small emotional moment,

20:30 Speaker 11: I write this song and now it's on the stage

20:32 Speaker 11: in front of all these people. It's it's really cool.

20:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fantastic. I'm also curious about your influences because obviously,

20:39 Speaker 1: you know, you listen to a song like moving On,

20:41 Speaker 1: and I think I even said coming out of the song,

20:43 Speaker 1: you can hear a mix of a mix of influences there.

20:48 Speaker 1: So I'm curious. I'm curious about what you listen to

20:50 Speaker 1: growing up and what kind of informs your your music

20:54 Speaker 1: and your your style today.

20:57 Speaker 11: Well, I would love to hear the influences that that

21:00 Speaker 11: you hear in that song. I'm always curious to see

21:03 Speaker 11: because trying to define a genre is really difficult. You know,

21:06 Speaker 11: you you communicate with different venues and they have to

21:09 Speaker 11: fill out all this information and to really find tune

21:13 Speaker 11: what I'm doing has been a little bit difficult.

21:15 Speaker 3: Somebody told me the other day.

21:16 Speaker 11: I think they're like, I think you're the only one

21:17 Speaker 11: kind of having this sound in our in our area,

21:19 Speaker 11: which was a huge compliment.

21:21 Speaker 3: But I'm calling it soul pop more or less.

21:24 Speaker 1: I think I think that's a good term, soul pop, yes,

21:28 Speaker 1: which puts.

21:29 Speaker 11: Me in the same realm as like and not to

21:33 Speaker 11: say I'm at the level of these people, but I'm

21:35 Speaker 11: in the same field as Lake Street Dive is a

21:38 Speaker 11: huge influence. Not everybody knows Lake Street dive, so like

21:43 Speaker 11: Stevie Wonder, Amy Winehouse, the soulful pop music, and I

21:48 Speaker 11: think what I apply to it that's a little bit

21:50 Speaker 11: different and makes it harder to define, is like really

21:52 Speaker 11: cool guitar parts.

21:54 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so that.

21:56 Speaker 11: Like that doesn't always fit with what those those other

21:59 Speaker 11: bands might be or groups might be doing. So growing up,

22:02 Speaker 11: I've listened to absolutely everything I've had. You know, my

22:05 Speaker 11: dad brought in the Beatles into my life, and my

22:08 Speaker 11: mom was a piano major in college and brought in

22:12 Speaker 11: all of this musical theater in classical music, just gorgeous,

22:16 Speaker 11: gorgeous music.

22:18 Speaker 3: And once I could get a cassette tape.

22:21 Speaker 11: And aging myself here CD player, I'll go with. I

22:27 Speaker 11: just listen to music NonStop. And I got a karaoke

22:30 Speaker 11: machine when I was really little, and I'm like, my

22:32 Speaker 11: mom got me like Sinatra.

22:34 Speaker 3: So I was like third grade making my own radio show.

22:37 Speaker 11: And I would not the words down to the songs,

22:40 Speaker 11: or I would take like the backing checks and change

22:42 Speaker 11: the melodies and record it and then listen to it back.

22:44 Speaker 3: Oh wow, I think that was a huge, a huge part.

22:48 Speaker 11: But yeah, serious, I know everybody says they're eclectic and

22:50 Speaker 11: they listen to everything, but jazz is a huge part

22:53 Speaker 11: of what I listened to. Ela Fitzgerald's my favorite, my

22:57 Speaker 11: all time favorite vocalist, and so I spend a lot

23:01 Speaker 11: of time listening to jazz and a lot of musicals,

23:06 Speaker 11: which I know is could be perceived as nerdy, but

23:09 Speaker 11: I don't care. I'm proud of I'm proud of that

23:12 Speaker 11: and that the harmony's piece really comes through through that.

23:16 Speaker 11: And then I just seek like music of the times.

23:18 Speaker 11: I was in market yesterday and they were playing an

23:21 Speaker 11: n Sync song and some of the harmonies. I was like, Oh,

23:24 Speaker 11: my goodness, is this where I'm getting what I'm trying

23:26 Speaker 11: to do? And my music like is this is this

23:30 Speaker 11: my aim? Is this maybe where it's seeped in from.

23:33 Speaker 11: So truly a little bit of a little bit of everything.

23:36 Speaker 11: But Lake Street Dive is a big, big band that

23:39 Speaker 11: I love. Couch is another band that.

23:43 Speaker 3: I listened to. So I'm getting a little bit obscured.

23:45 Speaker 1: But do you know, do you know Cosmic Blossom they're

23:48 Speaker 1: from the area, I don't know. They kind of remind

23:53 Speaker 1: me a little bit of them. They've they've got kind

23:54 Speaker 1: of that vibe. I mean, you know, they're I mean,

23:56 Speaker 1: they're pretty eclectic themselves. But you know, if you listen

23:58 Speaker 1: to one Cosmic Blossom song, it's not going to sound

24:00 Speaker 1: like like the next one necessarily. But but it kind

24:03 Speaker 1: of kind of reminded me of that a little bit too.

24:05 Speaker 1: But I think that I think that you know what

24:07 Speaker 1: you're doing because it mixes different things. I would imagine

24:12 Speaker 1: that it kind of really you know, you mentioned the

24:16 Speaker 1: challenge of trying to kind of pigeonhole it well while

24:18 Speaker 1: you're explaining to someone what you sound like if they

24:20 Speaker 1: haven't heard you yet. But but I would imagine it

24:23 Speaker 1: it does kind of open you up, though, to being

24:25 Speaker 1: able to play a lot of different kinds of venues,

24:27 Speaker 1: especially where you can do it in different configurations. I

24:31 Speaker 1: was looking at, Uh, where's that list? You've you've played

24:34 Speaker 1: some interesting places like the like the Strawberry Bank Museum,

24:40 Speaker 1: for example. I mean that, you know, that's that's that's

24:43 Speaker 1: pretty cool. I remember going there when I was a kid,

24:45 Speaker 1: to the Strawberry Bank Museum.

24:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, I did a big run of their shows.

24:50 Speaker 11: Of their shows, I did like some Christmas songs for

24:52 Speaker 11: them on some holiday music for their Candle Light Stroll.

24:55 Speaker 3: And then they have an event called Tuesdays on the Terrace.

24:59 Speaker 11: So last we got to perform in front of all

25:01 Speaker 11: of these historic homes and everyone comes and they sit

25:04 Speaker 11: in their chairs out in this field.

25:05 Speaker 3: And it was great. I absolutely love Strawberry Bank.

25:08 Speaker 11: I love Strawberry Bank so much that somehow, when I

25:10 Speaker 11: won that award that we were talking about, they had

25:13 Speaker 11: to listen address, and I don't know how that was

25:15 Speaker 11: my address, but I am listed as that's where I live.

25:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's my it's my home base.

25:21 Speaker 11: But I will be back at Strawberry Bank with a

25:23 Speaker 11: full band August fourth for their Tuesdays on the Terrorists series,

25:26 Speaker 11: which will be really fun. But yeah, the different genres

25:30 Speaker 11: of not not having something totally claimed has been interesting.

25:34 Speaker 11: I was able to fill in with the Stray Horses

25:37 Speaker 11: for their last Waltz concert last November, and I sang

25:41 Speaker 11: Joni Mitchell songs. I was at the press room in

25:44 Speaker 11: August with a full band opening for Maggie Baugh, who

25:48 Speaker 11: was Keith Urban's lead guitarist. Okay, so I was kind

25:52 Speaker 11: of like a country esque piece, and I can lean

25:55 Speaker 11: that way for sure.

25:57 Speaker 3: It's it kind of just is what I'm in the

26:00 Speaker 3: mood for. I guess, but it's been cool.

26:04 Speaker 1: Yeah.

26:04 Speaker 11: I think because I like so many different types of music,

26:06 Speaker 11: it's been I've been able to bounce around nicely and

26:10 Speaker 11: it doesn't feel totally.

26:13 Speaker 3: Foreign or or out of sorts.

26:15 Speaker 4: Yeah.

26:15 Speaker 1: I also think too, and again kind of circling back

26:18 Speaker 1: to where you are, you know, that that area I think, uh,

26:22 Speaker 1: I think really lends itself to to that kind of flexibility.

26:28 Speaker 1: I also just to excuse me, just to circle back

26:31 Speaker 1: to to you know, because you are an educator, I mean,

26:34 Speaker 1: does that do you feel that the teaching in any

26:36 Speaker 1: way influences or or informs your songwriting or performing or

26:43 Speaker 1: I mean, is there any any anything in there that

26:45 Speaker 1: sort of crosses over in terms of being a teacher.

26:51 Speaker 3: And I feel like every time I've interviewed this a

26:53 Speaker 3: is all I do.

26:54 Speaker 11: And I'm not trying to stuck up by any means,

26:56 Speaker 11: but I have the most principle at my school and

27:01 Speaker 11: she's part of the reason why I'm out playing again

27:03 Speaker 11: because she really said, like, you know, if this is

27:05 Speaker 11: something you love, do it and just had me bring

27:07 Speaker 11: it into the school with the kids. I wrote a

27:11 Speaker 11: school kind of theme song that we do every fall,

27:14 Speaker 11: and we have a school band called the Riptide Rhythms.

27:17 Speaker 11: We were under Hampshire Chronicle, which is fun. So our

27:22 Speaker 11: superintendent and our assistant superintendent, we're all in this band

27:25 Speaker 11: and we perform for the kids sometimes, but that's just

27:29 Speaker 11: a nice piece. So I feel really comfortable combining both.

27:32 Speaker 11: I do a lot of singing with my students, for sure.

27:34 Speaker 11: But something that my principal does with us before meeting

27:38 Speaker 11: is she goes over these social norms of how we

27:40 Speaker 11: need to go into the mindset we should have before

27:43 Speaker 11: we interact, and she talks about assuming positive intent and

27:48 Speaker 11: that's really been life changing. And so I have a

27:50 Speaker 11: song that I just flat out say, like, I'm going

27:53 Speaker 11: to assume positive intent from you. So already coming into something,

27:57 Speaker 11: I know everyone's doing the best they can. Nothing's edgy,

28:01 Speaker 11: it's all going to feel good. So yeah, I think

28:03 Speaker 11: I think those, especially because right now I'm teaching elementary school,

28:07 Speaker 11: those kind of feel good themes come can come through

28:11 Speaker 11: quite a bit, and big social themes too. You know,

28:13 Speaker 11: when you see something happening in your adult life just

28:16 Speaker 11: I don't know, it's like a whole wave of.

28:19 Speaker 3: Kind of the times.

28:20 Speaker 1: Sure, sure, absolutely absolutely, So what tell us again? So

28:26 Speaker 1: the album. The album's out June twenty twenty six. How

28:29 Speaker 1: many how many tracks are on it?

28:32 Speaker 3: That's the question, Matt, that's oh so.

28:35 Speaker 1: This is still a work in progress.

28:37 Speaker 3: I well, there's where's one song. I'm like, do I am?

28:42 Speaker 3: I'm either going to put it on. I'm there's one

28:45 Speaker 3: song that's on. It might be cut. I don't know.

28:47 Speaker 8: Oh okay, I'm thinking I'm thinking.

28:49 Speaker 11: Ten songs, and maybe I should just make it ten

28:52 Speaker 11: and not do the eleventh one. Yeah, going back to

28:54 Speaker 11: forth about this song. It's all done, it's all I

28:59 Speaker 11: just don't know if it That's another thing I'm battling

29:01 Speaker 11: with the genre piece, like.

29:05 Speaker 3: Does it all fit together?

29:06 Speaker 11: And is this a cohesive model of what's happening or

29:10 Speaker 11: do I just go with like a genre and push

29:12 Speaker 11: that out. I think what's going to end up happening

29:15 Speaker 11: is I'm just going to release this and then maybe

29:18 Speaker 11: here I go, I'm going to start committing to things.

29:22 Speaker 11: I think next year I would do like a jazz

29:26 Speaker 11: acoustic guitar focus kind of mellow album. I mean, yeah, okay,

29:33 Speaker 11: whole songs like that that I don't think will fit

29:36 Speaker 11: on on this as much, because you could hear from

29:39 Speaker 11: that last song like Ian's guitar, Ian Sleeper's playing the guitar,

29:43 Speaker 11: and that he did so much for that song, and he's.

29:45 Speaker 3: Just it's really cool. It's it's borderline like rock, right.

29:50 Speaker 1: Oh, it's really good.

29:51 Speaker 3: Yeah.

29:51 Speaker 1: I really like that solo a lot.

29:53 Speaker 11: Yeah, he's awesome, and he's on a bunch of different

29:57 Speaker 11: tracks and such a dream to work with, just so easy,

30:01 Speaker 11: easy going in kind.

30:03 Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm thinking everything will kind of be that same,

30:06 Speaker 3: in that same mood of that song. But we'll see.

30:10 Speaker 3: I have to make my decision, I think this week.

30:12 Speaker 1: So I always feel like everybody out there.

30:16 Speaker 3: Wants to reach out and be listening heres. Uh, let

30:19 Speaker 3: me know.

30:20 Speaker 1: I always feel like, if you're gonna do that, if

30:22 Speaker 1: you have something that doesn't necessarily fit the vibe of

30:24 Speaker 1: the rest of the album, put it at the end

30:26 Speaker 1: because because yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to think of

30:30 Speaker 1: another example, and nothing's coming to me. But I feel

30:34 Speaker 1: like I feel like that's kind of how it goes,

30:37 Speaker 1: like if you I wish I could think of a

30:39 Speaker 1: specific example, but I'm drying a blank. But if you

30:41 Speaker 1: have something that's kind of a surprise, you know, it's

30:44 Speaker 1: got to go at the end of the album. If

30:46 Speaker 1: you put it anywhere else, it's gonna be weird. And

30:48 Speaker 1: you certainly don't want to put it at the beginning

30:49 Speaker 1: because it's then it sets you up for wait, what

30:52 Speaker 1: was that? But if you put it, but if you

30:54 Speaker 1: put it at the end, it's almost then it almost

30:56 Speaker 1: becomes sort of like by default, like a bonus track.

31:00 Speaker 1: I don't like that.

31:01 Speaker 11: Yeah, somebody was saying, you know, you could always do

31:03 Speaker 11: it as a single, but the song is about it.

31:05 Speaker 11: It turns out the song is really truly pop country,

31:09 Speaker 11: which is not the rest of the album. But it's

31:12 Speaker 11: a song about kind of coming back into your own

31:14 Speaker 11: and it's a song I wrote about coming into coming

31:16 Speaker 11: back to music. And so I think that's a beautiful

31:18 Speaker 11: thing to on your first album of just saying like

31:21 Speaker 11: here I am, I'm back and thank you. It's a

31:23 Speaker 11: kind of a thank you song to the sea ghost. Yeah,

31:26 Speaker 11: about just being out there again and I'm not afraid

31:29 Speaker 11: and I'm just going to do it. So that might

31:31 Speaker 11: be a really nice way to end the album. Or

31:33 Speaker 11: if anyone listens that far, they might say, huh, that's different,

31:37 Speaker 11: or you know, I don't know, put it all out there.

31:40 Speaker 1: Whoops, sorry, Oh that's okay, well, very good, very good.

31:44 Speaker 1: Oh where do you record? By the way, because I

31:46 Speaker 1: always like to give you know, I don't know if

31:48 Speaker 1: you go to a studio or whatever you do, but

31:49 Speaker 1: in so many different ways to record now, but I

31:51 Speaker 1: always like to make sure that there's a lot of

31:54 Speaker 1: great recording studios out there, so I want to make

31:56 Speaker 1: sure we give everybody their shine and that song sound

32:00 Speaker 1: it's fantastic. Moving on, Yeah, where do you record?

32:04 Speaker 11: That song was recorded in a bunch of different places,

32:10 Speaker 11: so that that was a kind of a mash up situation.

32:14 Speaker 3: But Duncan Watt did the.

32:17 Speaker 11: Mixing and he was very very patient with me. So

32:24 Speaker 11: I work with him sometimes and I went to his

32:27 Speaker 11: to do that. And uh, the Electric Cave in Portsmouth

32:33 Speaker 11: is another location that I've been recording at.

32:37 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding.

32:39 Speaker 11: It's more on the people unless the that's the location,

32:42 Speaker 11: I guess, but I should I should know, I should

32:44 Speaker 11: be more.

32:46 Speaker 12: On it.

32:47 Speaker 1: No, No, but it's it's good to you know, it's

32:49 Speaker 1: good to mention the people who are doing this because,

32:51 Speaker 1: like I said, yeah, moving on.

32:54 Speaker 11: Has Ian Sleeper on guitar Joe Harding is playing the bass, okay,

33:00 Speaker 11: and he's in He's in so many great they both

33:02 Speaker 11: are there. They're phenomenal. And then I had Duncan Watt

33:06 Speaker 11: do all of the mixing and editing to that.

33:10 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding in a moment. So we're gonna We're

33:15 Speaker 1: gonna wrap up in just a couple of minutes, Caitlin.

33:17 Speaker 1: But I do want to end the segment with another

33:19 Speaker 1: one of your songs. I really like this song speechless.

33:23 Speaker 1: Is this going to be on the album as well?

33:25 Speaker 1: Or is this strictly a single?

33:27 Speaker 11: It is going to be on the album, And that

33:31 Speaker 11: one is one too word almost it's getting out of

33:34 Speaker 11: the genre of piece.

33:36 Speaker 1: But yeah, that song is.

33:40 Speaker 11: I was listening some of my friend was like, oh,

33:42 Speaker 11: this is so good and putting this on again, like

33:44 Speaker 11: I was like, okay, the other day kind of brought

33:47 Speaker 11: it back up and it's definitely a song that's that's

33:50 Speaker 11: grown on me.

33:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, Guy Capa Silatro, which I really hope I'm seeing

33:53 Speaker 3: his Oh yeah, I know, ye last name he's gonna He's.

33:59 Speaker 11: The one I'm doing the RPM a cappella song.

34:02 Speaker 3: With right now.

34:04 Speaker 11: Capasilat my Western New York accent just takes everything that's

34:09 Speaker 11: beautiful in the English language and and really tears it up.

34:12 Speaker 1: Well. The other thing. The other thing too is that's

34:13 Speaker 1: a lot of syllables in one name, to be fair.

34:18 Speaker 11: The third he took this song and he added in

34:22 Speaker 11: the cool guitar part in the beginning, which I really like.

34:25 Speaker 11: My friend Bill Dirling is on the keys, Joe Harding

34:30 Speaker 11: is doing the bass, and I hope I've named everybody

34:35 Speaker 11: that's that's on that song, but it's it's a neat one.

34:40 Speaker 11: And then oh yes, no, I have to tell you

34:43 Speaker 11: about this person. Tony Inland did the drums and he

34:48 Speaker 11: did all of the mixing for the song too. And

34:51 Speaker 11: Tony works at the he's the manager at the drum

34:54 Speaker 11: Center in it's either Hampton or Northampton, you know, the

34:58 Speaker 11: biggest drum store built.

35:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, recorded.

35:07 Speaker 11: The drums for that song on a drum kit that

35:11 Speaker 11: may possibly have been used with.

35:16 Speaker 3: Michael Jackson recording.

35:17 Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh interesting interesting by.

35:21 Speaker 3: And the name escapes me. Uh Jay, the drummer is

35:27 Speaker 3: j R.

35:29 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have it either. That's okay, this.

35:33 Speaker 11: Would be if I was in person, I would have

35:35 Speaker 11: my John J. R. Robinson or Michael Jackson and Stevie

35:40 Speaker 11: Wonder and and so Tony had the drum kit from

35:44 Speaker 11: his work. Oh cool, Yeah, that's the scenes fact about speechless.

35:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, outstanding, outstanding. So we'll hit that track in

35:53 Speaker 1: a moment. But Caitlin Piper, thank you so much. Where

35:57 Speaker 1: should people go online? Where's the best place to go

35:59 Speaker 1: online to keep up with everything that you're doing?

36:01 Speaker 11: Kaitlinpipermusic dot com and my Instagram at Caitlinpiper Music. And

36:06 Speaker 11: here's the catch, Caitlyn c A I T L I N.

36:13 Speaker 11: There's another Caitlin Piper out there that keeps getting tagged

36:15 Speaker 11: and all my stuff, Oh I'm the I N and

36:21 Speaker 11: and all the music stuff pops up when you put

36:23 Speaker 11: my name in there. So yeah, I would love to

36:25 Speaker 11: you know, Instagram is usually the best way to follow me.

36:27 Speaker 11: I'm on Facebook and I have a nice little website

36:31 Speaker 11: with a nice schedule of shows and I'm always looking

36:34 Speaker 11: for people to join my email list if if they

36:37 Speaker 11: want to.

36:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. This is

36:41 Speaker 3: so much fun to chat and.

36:44 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh absolutely no, We're glad to have you, Caitlin,

36:47 Speaker 1: and we will definitely do this again. In the future,

36:49 Speaker 1: especially as you're releasing new music, and uh we will.

36:52 Speaker 1: We will absolutely do this again. Count on that.

36:54 Speaker 11: But I'll get there in person. I'll bring my guitar

36:57 Speaker 11: and I'll sing and it'll be it'll be great.

36:59 Speaker 1: Oh even better. Well in that case, we'll have you

37:01 Speaker 1: back even sooner because that would be that would be wonderful.

37:03 Speaker 1: We'll definitely do that. We're gonna go ahead hit this

37:05 Speaker 1: track Speechless, so we will let you go. But again, Caitlin,

37:09 Speaker 1: thank you so much, and I'm sure we'll talk to

37:11 Speaker 1: you soon. Thank you, take care, you got it, Bye bye,

37:15 Speaker 1: all right. That is Caitlin Piper her new single moving On.

37:18 Speaker 1: We played at the beginning of the segment. Of course,

37:22 Speaker 1: if you missed it, it will be on the podcast.

37:24 Speaker 1: But let's go ahead and hit this is another great

37:26 Speaker 1: track or previous single. This is called Speechless, and this

37:29 Speaker 1: is Caitlin Piper.

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37:54 Speaker 3: Thank you on face. This beholding onto this.

38:00 Speaker 5: It's my baby only card.

38:03 Speaker 1: I have lived to please.

38:07 Speaker 3: You've got it bigger out. How I should go?

38:13 Speaker 6: Ben share him my feelings.

38:18 Speaker 5: Don't you know that at chance have.

38:20 Speaker 9: So much for being.

38:24 Speaker 3: He believes were so carelously.

38:33 Speaker 12: S quoted and for gun all inside we deserve something

38:44 Speaker 12: less temporary, the letters pushed together, and by.

38:59 Speaker 9: The slowly his laughter and moration.

39:03 Speaker 6: Love is kind, loves understanding another perception of times.

39:17 Speaker 5: Love is classes.

39:19 Speaker 6: Several chances in giving it your best to love

39:28 Speaker 3: Speechless