Caitlin Piper| Matt Connarton Unleashed

Speaker 1: So we do have an exciting program for you today. But what we're gonna do right now, we're gonna go ahead and play the new single from Caitlin Piper. This is called moving On. And then when we come back from this, she should be on with us via teams. We're gonna talk, get to know Caitlin Piper a little bit, and then we'll play another song of hers a little bit later. But stick around. There's plenty of great stuff to come. But here it is. This is the newest single from Kaitlin Piper. This is called moving On.

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Speaker 1: That is moving on by Caitlin Piper. I love it. That is really really good And we have Caitlin with us via Microsoft teams. Good morning, Kaitlin, Good morning, how you doing good good, Welcome.

Speaker 4: To the show.

Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you your first time on the program. I really love that track. That's that's the newest single, correct it is?

Speaker 3: Yeah?

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

Speaker 3: That came out the end of January.

Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh wow, so that's very new. Excellent, excellent, And then and that you've got an album coming up in June full album.

Speaker 3: I do, yes.

Speaker 11: I have an album release concert planned for June twelfth at the press Room in Portsmith, so everything will be done and ready to go by then.

Speaker 1: Oh, outstanding, outstanding? Is this going to be your first full length album? Or because there's so many different ways to do this now, you know, if you want to do an album or an EP or a lot of artists just released singles, is this gonna be your first full length album?

Speaker 3: It will be.

Speaker 11: I did an RPM album in twenty twenty four, so you do the whole you know, the whole album in the month of February and you write it and record it and release it. But this is my first true album where it's more kind of planned out and including other musicians on it as well.

Speaker 1: So the RPM challenge that's come up before on the show actually many times over the years, but I haven't heard anyone mention it recently. So you did that in twenty four Just yes.

Speaker 11: Yep, And it is alive and well It used to be more of an in person get together piece where people would bring actual CDs and they would have listening parties.

Speaker 3: And now everything is online.

Speaker 11: But what's cool about that is that people from all over the world are listening to each other's music. So yeah, put a map out and you can click on like you can find your town or your state and see, you know, local music around and who's putting music out. So I have an RPM single that I'm kind of working with and a friend, oh a friend, you know, it's an a cappella song. So that's the first time I've ever done something like that. But yeah, we'll see, We'll see how that goes. But I'm focused on this album and putting it together and excited to get new music out.

Speaker 11: And I so appreciate you having me this morning. This is this is so nice to hear.

Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, you're in chat chat it absolutely no, We're glad to have you on. Now you are you're in the Seacoast area, correct?

Speaker 11: Yes, Portsmouth is like my kind of home base it more more or less.

Speaker 1: Did you grow up there?

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

Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, what what brought you to New Hampshire because you're in you know, obviously in the Portsmouth area. That's such a I mean, I think in terms of the music scene in the state, you know, like I'm in Manchester, and obviously there's a lot of tremendous talent here, this tremendous talent all over the state, all over the world really, but but I feel like Portsmouth is kind of the most interesting in terms of and maybe this kind of informs your sound a little bit too, because I hear a lot of different influences in your sound.

Speaker 1: But but you're in You're in such a great if you're going to be in New Hampshire, and Reportsmouth is a great place to be if you're a musician. But how did you how did you land there from? You said, Western New York Originally?

Speaker 11: Yeah, So I am a teacher and I teach French. Oh, and I went to go look for a job. It was harder to find French teaching positions in Western New York. And they had this program where you could click on any state you'd want to work at, and then town and you could send out your resume. So I ended up in southern Maine only because I had read an article about Acadia National Park and I thought New England was cool. I was in a musical called Carousel when I was a little girl, and it's all about New England.

Speaker 11: So I was like, I'll go there and try that, and it was the best thing I've ever done. So I ended up in Maine and I taught there for a couple of years, and I put music on hold completely.

Speaker 4: And then.

Speaker 11: After you know, a bunch of other life life achievements, having a family and things like that, I came back to music.

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

Speaker 11: Way I was able to do that is really because of the Portsmouth music scene and the new music scene as a whole. Everybody is so receptive and kind and willing to collaborate, and they're just honest. Nobody is gatekeeping any any sort of gate circ or contacts. Everyone's oh, I'll help you get through that, like, oh, you want to play here? Like and now I feel like I'm established enough where I'm able to do that for some other people like oh you want to play there, here's their phone number, Like sure, we can make that happen.

Speaker 11: It just feels such a great collaborative community, and I'm just everything New England. I should stop talking because once I start talking about so much. I love the history and the aesthetic and the feel out here. It's just it's just the best place to be. I this will be my home, for my forever home for sure.

Speaker 1: Outstanding. No, that's good to hear. You did mention so you had kind of taken a break from music right to focus on other things. You mentioned a family and of course your career as an educator and so forth. Did you always know that you were going to come back to it, like, was that always kind of the plan or at least maybe in the back of your mind, or did you at any point think, you know, no, I've left that behind and I'm onto this other phase or what was kind of your thought process during that time?

Speaker 11: I guess I know I was always going to be singing. I kind of was born singing and it's in my blood. So there's no stopping that. There's no stopping the songwriting. Sometimes I will flat out communicate with other people just and I'll sing them a little too, and amazing back to me. Yeah, big songs up about everything. So that was never going to stop. I knew that, and I always knew as mother I wanted to pass on that musical piece to my children and definitely attend the attending concerts and shows.

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

Speaker 11: Yeah, But I think what was hard for me was to think of a teacher in kind of a public space also performing and can you do more than one thing?

Speaker 3: And is that okay to do?

Speaker 11: That's maybe what helped me help me back for a little bit, but it was it was the best thing to do because I spent several years just listening to music, watching other people perform really personal in private with my own music, and that felt that felt really right.

Speaker 3: I think a big change was.

Speaker 11: I lost my dad, and when after he passed away, it kind of realized, whoa, this is it, Like, this is life and.

Speaker 3: If you want to do something, you got it. What am I doing? I got to go do it if I want to get out there and do it.

Speaker 11: And so I slowly but surely tried a couple things, and like I said, everyone was so so receptive and it's just been a blast.

Speaker 3: I'm having the best time.

Speaker 1: This might be a little bit of a side street forgive me, but you mentioned losing your dad and and and you said something that I kind of connected with because so I lost my father recently actually in December, and and but you, you know, you mentioned losing your dad and then feeling like, well, you really got to you know, you really got to push forward with this. And I'm just curious. I don't know how deep you want to go with this, but I'm just curious, did you find that because I went through this thing, maybe I'm still going through it because it was relatively recent where it kind of losing a parent kind of forces you to confront your own mortality in a weird way, and then it kind of maybe is that part of what kind of pushed you because it sounds like losing your dad kind of pushed you forward a little bit to really really do what you felt driven to do.

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

Speaker 11: Time goes by so quickly, and there's so much that is as much as we like to think we're in control and in the driver's seat, there's so many components where we really you don't know what's going to happen.

Speaker 3: So if there's a.

Speaker 11: Window of time when you can follow your passion and put it out there and share it with other people. I think that's great. I'll also say I wrote some songs about my dad and found a way of kind of my grief was through that outreach and sharing some of that music with other people. Actually did a whole event a group called the Pre Dead Social Club, which and I'm so sorry about the passing of your dad might be connect with. But they bring people together all over the Sea Coast in New England and talk about you know, life and death and they help people get through those moments.

Speaker 11: And they actually had a concert in October and we got to come together. We each shared there were three different singer songwriters. We each shared songs about grief or things that we've been through, and then they assigned us somebody who had lost somebody and then we got to write a song for that person and present it. And it was just so powerful to put all of those feelings into into music.

Speaker 1: Now, that's that's excellent because something that a theme that comes up a lot on this program is you know, taking things that are negative, you know, like loss and you know, in this case, loss and grief and all of that and turning it into art. And then so you're taking something negative, you're creating something positive about it. And it's positive because not only does it help you when you create that art, not only is it you know, it's a great form of therapy, right to create something out of that, but also it helps other people who then connect with the art that you've created, other people who can relate to what you're going through.

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

Speaker 11: What?

Speaker 3: Pre Dead Social Club?

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

Speaker 3: The first time I heard that name, I was like, what is this?

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

Speaker 11: And then I met Laura who runs who runs the organization, and she's just doing so much great work to bring people together. And because that was another thing, you know, you lose, you lose somebody that's so close to you, and then then what, like what do you do? People will bring over some cast roles and they say sorry, sorry, and and it's sad and everyone's trying to help you. But it's just to have somebody that really gets the whole process. It was was tremendous and instrumentous.

Speaker 3: Doing great work.

Speaker 11: Absolutely funny what you said about connecting through themes. There's some songs that I write that people will see, oh, I love that song that you wrote about this, and I'm like, oh, that's like, thank you. It's not necessarily what I wrote it about.

Speaker 3: I have a lot of songs.

Speaker 11: My big theme on my album is kind of setting limits and and like moving on. Right, So there's there's that song that you just heard, just saying enough, this is enough, and I'm choosing to go a different path. But it's interesting people's take on what they hear and how they interpret each each song.

Speaker 1: Well, it's another thing too about art, is you know you can obviously you can interpret it however you want to and however it connects with you in this case, in the case of songs, obviously how it connects with you as a listener. But it is interesting how sometimes yeah, people will this is this will sound random. But I just said this to a friend of mine the other day that when I was a kid, I was actually mad at Sammy Hagar for saying that Love Walks In was about aliens, because I didn't want it to be about that.

Speaker 1: But but it's just but it's always interest see to me too, when you know, I'll uh, I'll have a certain song or something or an album that it connects with me in a certain way. And then you know, I read an interview UH with the artists who wrote the song, and it turns out it's about something completely different than what I thought. And then there's that it's weird. You know, there's that little bit of Oh, I kind of wanted it to be about what I wanted it to be about, but that's just narcissistic.

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

Speaker 11: Some songs that I don't really share too much about what it is because sometimes it's much more literal than maybe what people.

Speaker 3: Assume.

Speaker 11: Yeah, some of it is pretty obvious, like there's yeah, but I like to see that takeaway.

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

Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely we should mention too. So you were the uh you won an award through the UH Sea Coast Community Choice Awards. Correct, I did.

Speaker 3: I did.

Speaker 11: I've got a strong UH support here of people you devote every day for that one, and my my friends and family and coworkers definitely showed up for me, and and that that was cool.

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

Speaker 11: I it was the words were it was on my son's birthday, So I was like I was definitely going to miss my son's birthday. So I wrote to the people. I was like, oh, yeah, thanks, and I was like, that's not going to happen. And I had a friend that was was at the event and they're like, oh.

Speaker 3: Yeah, you did get it.

Speaker 1: So oh that's great.

Speaker 3: Cool.

Speaker 11: So it's published there right there with some of the best Seacoast businesses in town.

Speaker 1: Yeah, we should be specific too. It was the twenty twenty five Best Live Music Artists Group Band winner, so very good. Congratulations.

Speaker 3: Oh that it was. That was very cool. For the amount of time that I've been performing here, that that was. That was a neat one.

Speaker 1: So yeah, how long have you been performing here? I forgot to ask you, uh kind of the timeline, how how long have you been here doing this?

Speaker 3: I've been performing out I think since like it's it's been like a year and a half.

Speaker 1: Oh not that long then, Okay, yeah, not that long. So that's that's well, that's excellent. Then, so you're off to uh you're off to a great start.

Speaker 11: Yes, for sure, little projects easing up to it, but like really being out after the RPM thing, I was like, you know, I really want to share these songs that I'm writing, and I performed at a little cafe and in Portsmouth.

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

Speaker 11: It was just so special and I got kind of hooked on it, and I realized, well, I can do this by myself. So then I did a whole series of performing independently, and then I really thought I need a band. I'd love to have that full band sound behind me. So I did a couple of band shows and now I'm doing solo band and then sometimes I'm performing as a duo, which is really really nice to carry the kind of guitar load of each each piece. And it also I think anytime I have somebody performing me, it gives the audience a break from my vocals, because I think it's a lot to hear somebody's kind of belting for two hours when they start booking for me for three hours plus.

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

Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it's nice too that you're able to do that in different configurations when when you've got the full band, what what does that? What does that entail like?

Speaker 2: Is it? Is it?

Speaker 1: Yeah? Tell me about that?

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

Speaker 3: Into my own name or anything, but it's just it's steady for me.

Speaker 11: So I'm performing originals and covers in this band setting, and I kind of have a rotation or almost like a bench of performers that join me, and they are some they are the best performers in the Sea Coast and because of that, their schedules aren't always but that's why there's there's like a whole little crew. So you know, you think of the gate, you think of the setting, you think of the time and and all the different elements, and think who would be the best combo for the first try, and you see if they can make it, and then if they can't, then you pivot.

Speaker 11: And I've had the opportunity to work with people that are just absolutely outstanding. So yeah, I'm very proud of that and totally honored that they're willing to take on my original original songs and songs they wrote you know, in my room or something or after like a very small emotional moment, I write this song and now it's on the stage in front of all these people. It's it's really cool.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fantastic. I'm also curious about your influences because obviously, you know, you listen to a song like moving On, and I think I even said coming out of the song, you can hear a mix of a mix of influences there. So I'm curious. I'm curious about what you listen to growing up and what kind of informs your your music and your your style today.

Speaker 11: Well, I would love to hear the influences that that you hear in that song. I'm always curious to see because trying to define a genre is really difficult. You know, you you communicate with different venues and they have to fill out all this information and to really find tune what I'm doing has been a little bit difficult.

Speaker 3: Somebody told me the other day.

Speaker 11: I think they're like, I think you're the only one kind of having this sound in our in our area, which was a huge compliment.

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

Speaker 1: I think I think that's a good term, soul pop, yes, which puts.

Speaker 11: Me in the same realm as like and not to say I'm at the level of these people, but I'm in the same field as Lake Street Dive is a huge influence. Not everybody knows Lake Street dive, so like Stevie Wonder, Amy Winehouse, the soulful pop music, and I think what I apply to it that's a little bit different and makes it harder to define, is like really cool guitar parts.

Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so that.

Speaker 11: Like that doesn't always fit with what those those other bands might be or groups might be doing. So growing up, I've listened to absolutely everything I've had. You know, my dad brought in the Beatles into my life, and my mom was a piano major in college and brought in all of this musical theater in classical music, just gorgeous, gorgeous music.

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

Speaker 11: And aging myself here CD player, I'll go with. I just listen to music NonStop. And I got a karaoke machine when I was really little, and I'm like, my mom got me like Sinatra.

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

Speaker 11: And I would not the words down to the songs, or I would take like the backing checks and change the melodies and record it and then listen to it back.

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

Speaker 11: But yeah, serious, I know everybody says they're eclectic and they listen to everything, but jazz is a huge part of what I listened to. Ela Fitzgerald's my favorite, my all time favorite vocalist, and so I spend a lot of time listening to jazz and a lot of musicals, which I know is could be perceived as nerdy, but I don't care. I'm proud of I'm proud of that and that the harmony's piece really comes through through that. And then I just seek like music of the times. I was in market yesterday and they were playing an n Sync song and some of the harmonies.

Speaker 11: I was like, Oh, my goodness, is this where I'm getting what I'm trying to do? And my music like is this is this my aim? Is this maybe where it's seeped in from. So truly a little bit of a little bit of everything. But Lake Street Dive is a big, big band that I love. Couch is another band that.

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

Speaker 1: But do you know, do you know Cosmic Blossom they're from the area, I don't know. They kind of remind me a little bit of them. They've they've got kind of that vibe. I mean, you know, they're I mean, they're pretty eclectic themselves. But you know, if you listen to one Cosmic Blossom song, it's not going to sound like like the next one necessarily. But but it kind of kind of reminded me of that a little bit too. But I think that I think that you know what you're doing because it mixes different things.

Speaker 1: I would imagine that it kind of really you know, you mentioned the challenge of trying to kind of pigeonhole it well while you're explaining to someone what you sound like if they haven't heard you yet. But but I would imagine it it does kind of open you up, though, to being able to play a lot of different kinds of venues, especially where you can do it in different configurations. I was looking at, Uh, where's that list? You've you've played some interesting places like the like the Strawberry Bank Museum, for example.

Speaker 1: I mean that, you know, that's that's that's pretty cool. I remember going there when I was a kid, to the Strawberry Bank Museum.

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

Speaker 11: Of their shows, I did like some Christmas songs for them on some holiday music for their Candle Light Stroll.

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

Speaker 11: So last we got to perform in front of all of these historic homes and everyone comes and they sit in their chairs out in this field.

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

Speaker 11: I love Strawberry Bank so much that somehow, when I won that award that we were talking about, they had to listen address, and I don't know how that was my address, but I am listed as that's where I live.

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

Speaker 11: But I will be back at Strawberry Bank with a full band August fourth for their Tuesdays on the Terrorists series, which will be really fun. But yeah, the different genres of not not having something totally claimed has been interesting. I was able to fill in with the Stray Horses for their last Waltz concert last November, and I sang Joni Mitchell songs. I was at the press room in August with a full band opening for Maggie Baugh, who was Keith Urban's lead guitarist. Okay, so I was kind of like a country esque piece, and I can lean that way for sure.

Speaker 3: It's it kind of just is what I'm in the mood for. I guess, but it's been cool.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 11: I think because I like so many different types of music, it's been I've been able to bounce around nicely and it doesn't feel totally.

Speaker 3: Foreign or or out of sorts.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 1: I also think too, and again kind of circling back to where you are, you know, that that area I think, uh, I think really lends itself to to that kind of flexibility.

Speaker 1: I also just to excuse me, just to circle back to to you know, because you are an educator, I mean, does that do you feel that the teaching in any way influences or or informs your songwriting or performing or I mean, is there any any anything in there that sort of crosses over in terms of being a teacher.

Speaker 3: And I feel like every time I've interviewed this a is all I do.

Speaker 11: And I'm not trying to stuck up by any means, but I have the most principle at my school and she's part of the reason why I'm out playing again because she really said, like, you know, if this is something you love, do it and just had me bring it into the school with the kids. I wrote a school kind of theme song that we do every fall, and we have a school band called the Riptide Rhythms. We were under Hampshire Chronicle, which is fun. So our superintendent and our assistant superintendent, we're all in this band and we perform for the kids sometimes, but that's just a nice piece.

Speaker 11: So I feel really comfortable combining both. I do a lot of singing with my students, for sure. But something that my principal does with us before meeting is she goes over these social norms of how we need to go into the mindset we should have before we interact, and she talks about assuming positive intent and that's really been life changing. And so I have a song that I just flat out say, like, I'm going to assume positive intent from you. So already coming into something, I know everyone's doing the best they can.

Speaker 11: Nothing's edgy, it's all going to feel good. So yeah, I think I think those, especially because right now I'm teaching elementary school, those kind of feel good themes come can come through quite a bit, and big social themes too. You know, when you see something happening in your adult life just I don't know, it's like a whole wave of.

Speaker 3: Kind of the times.

Speaker 1: Sure, sure, absolutely absolutely, So what tell us again? So the album. The album's out June twenty twenty six. How many how many tracks are on it?

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

Speaker 1: This is still a work in progress.

Speaker 3: I well, there's where's one song. I'm like, do I am? I'm either going to put it on. I'm there's one song that's on. It might be cut. I don't know.

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

Speaker 11: Ten songs, and maybe I should just make it ten and not do the eleventh one. Yeah, going back to forth about this song. It's all done, it's all I just don't know if it That's another thing I'm battling with the genre piece, like.

Speaker 3: Does it all fit together?

Speaker 11: And is this a cohesive model of what's happening or do I just go with like a genre and push that out. I think what's going to end up happening is I'm just going to release this and then maybe here I go, I'm going to start committing to things.

Speaker 11: I think next year I would do like a jazz acoustic guitar focus kind of mellow album. I mean, yeah, okay, whole songs like that that I don't think will fit on on this as much, because you could hear from that last song like Ian's guitar, Ian Sleeper's playing the guitar, and that he did so much for that song, and he's.

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

Speaker 1: Oh, it's really good.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 1: I really like that solo a lot.

Speaker 11: Yeah, he's awesome, and he's on a bunch of different tracks and such a dream to work with, just so easy, easy going in kind.

Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm thinking everything will kind of be that same, in that same mood of that song. But we'll see. I have to make my decision, I think this week.

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

Speaker 3: Wants to reach out and be listening heres. Uh, let me know.

Speaker 1: I always feel like, if you're gonna do that, if you have something that doesn't necessarily fit the vibe of the rest of the album, put it at the end because because yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to think of another example, and nothing's coming to me. But I feel like I feel like that's kind of how it goes, like if you I wish I could think of a specific example, but I'm drying a blank. But if you have something that's kind of a surprise, you know, it's got to go at the end of the album. If you put it anywhere else, it's gonna be weird.

Speaker 1: And you certainly don't want to put it at the beginning because it's then it sets you up for wait, what was that? But if you put it, but if you put it at the end, it's almost then it almost becomes sort of like by default, like a bonus track. I don't like that.

Speaker 11: Yeah, somebody was saying, you know, you could always do it as a single, but the song is about it. It turns out the song is really truly pop country, which is not the rest of the album. But it's a song about kind of coming back into your own and it's a song I wrote about coming into coming back to music. And so I think that's a beautiful thing to on your first album of just saying like here I am, I'm back and thank you. It's a kind of a thank you song to the sea ghost. Yeah, about just being out there again and I'm not afraid and I'm just going to do it.

Speaker 11: So that might be a really nice way to end the album. Or if anyone listens that far, they might say, huh, that's different, or you know, I don't know, put it all out there.

Speaker 1: Whoops, sorry, Oh that's okay, well, very good, very good. Oh where do you record? By the way, because I always like to give you know, I don't know if you go to a studio or whatever you do, but in so many different ways to record now, but I always like to make sure that there's a lot of great recording studios out there, so I want to make sure we give everybody their shine and that song sound it's fantastic. Moving on, Yeah, where do you record?

Speaker 11: That song was recorded in a bunch of different places, so that that was a kind of a mash up situation.

Speaker 3: But Duncan Watt did the.

Speaker 11: Mixing and he was very very patient with me. So I work with him sometimes and I went to his to do that. And uh, the Electric Cave in Portsmouth is another location that I've been recording at.

Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding.

Speaker 11: It's more on the people unless the that's the location, I guess, but I should I should know, I should be more.

Speaker 12: On it.

Speaker 1: No, No, but it's it's good to you know, it's good to mention the people who are doing this because, like I said, yeah, moving on.

Speaker 11: Has Ian Sleeper on guitar Joe Harding is playing the bass, okay, and he's in He's in so many great they both are there. They're phenomenal. And then I had Duncan Watt do all of the mixing and editing to that.

Speaker 1: Okay, okay, outstanding in a moment. So we're gonna We're gonna wrap up in just a couple of minutes, Caitlin. But I do want to end the segment with another one of your songs. I really like this song speechless. Is this going to be on the album as well? Or is this strictly a single?

Speaker 11: It is going to be on the album, And that one is one too word almost it's getting out of the genre of piece.

Speaker 1: But yeah, that song is.

Speaker 11: I was listening some of my friend was like, oh, this is so good and putting this on again, like I was like, okay, the other day kind of brought it back up and it's definitely a song that's that's grown on me.

Speaker 3: Yeah, Guy Capa Silatro, which I really hope I'm seeing his Oh yeah, I know, ye last name he's gonna He's.

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

Speaker 3: With right now.

Speaker 11: Capasilat my Western New York accent just takes everything that's beautiful in the English language and and really tears it up.

Speaker 1: Well. The other thing. The other thing too is that's a lot of syllables in one name, to be fair.

Speaker 11: The third he took this song and he added in the cool guitar part in the beginning, which I really like. My friend Bill Dirling is on the keys, Joe Harding is doing the bass, and I hope I've named everybody that's that's on that song, but it's it's a neat one. And then oh yes, no, I have to tell you about this person. Tony Inland did the drums and he did all of the mixing for the song too. And Tony works at the he's the manager at the drum Center in it's either Hampton or Northampton, you know, the biggest drum store built.

Speaker 3: Yeah, recorded.

Speaker 11: The drums for that song on a drum kit that may possibly have been used with.

Speaker 3: Michael Jackson recording.

Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh interesting interesting by.

Speaker 3: And the name escapes me. Uh Jay, the drummer is j R.

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

Speaker 11: Would be if I was in person, I would have my John J. R. Robinson or Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and and so Tony had the drum kit from his work. Oh cool, Yeah, that's the scenes fact about speechless.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, outstanding, outstanding. So we'll hit that track in a moment. But Caitlin Piper, thank you so much. Where should people go online? Where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing?

Speaker 11: Kaitlinpipermusic dot com and my Instagram at Caitlinpiper Music. And here's the catch, Caitlyn c A I T L I N. There's another Caitlin Piper out there that keeps getting tagged and all my stuff, Oh I'm the I N and and all the music stuff pops up when you put my name in there. So yeah, I would love to you know, Instagram is usually the best way to follow me. I'm on Facebook and I have a nice little website with a nice schedule of shows and I'm always looking for people to join my email list if if they want to.

Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. This is so much fun to chat and.

Speaker 1: Yeah, oh absolutely no, We're glad to have you, Caitlin, and we will definitely do this again. In the future, especially as you're releasing new music, and uh we will. We will absolutely do this again. Count on that.

Speaker 11: But I'll get there in person. I'll bring my guitar and I'll sing and it'll be it'll be great.

Speaker 1: Oh even better. Well in that case, we'll have you back even sooner because that would be that would be wonderful. We'll definitely do that. We're gonna go ahead hit this track Speechless, so we will let you go. But again, Caitlin, thank you so much, and I'm sure we'll talk to you soon. Thank you, take care, you got it, Bye bye, all right. That is Caitlin Piper her new single moving On. We played at the beginning of the segment. Of course, if you missed it, it will be on the podcast. But let's go ahead and hit this is another great track or previous single.