Matt Axton | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: From the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

0:05 Speaker 2: And Matt Axton is going to becoming a.

0:07 Speaker 1: Manchester on September twenty fourth at the Rex Theater.

0:11 Speaker 2: But uh, let's see if we have them on the line. Matt, are you.

0:13 Speaker 3: There, Yes, sir? Right here?

0:15 Speaker 1: Hey, welcome, So you are you are calling from the road. Correct, you're out on tour right now? Where where are you calling us from?

0:22 Speaker 3: We're out in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. We played at the guth three Center last night out here, the Rlogut Tree Center.

0:29 Speaker 2: Oh, very nice, very nice.

0:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're touring. Let's see, so you started this month and then you're touring into October as well. Correct, you're out for uh, you're out on the road for a couple months.

0:40 Speaker 3: Absolutely. This is the longest tour to date from US. We came all away from Los Angeles, California, started out in Oklahoma, I went down south and I've just been hitting our first ever Eastern Seaboard Northeast run of our of our existence, and we're very excited.

0:57 Speaker 2: Oh very cool.

0:57 Speaker 1: Well, welcome to New England. And I know you're gonna be h you're gonna be right here in Manchester on the twenty fourth. I want to so I want to start here because I so I played that song Crazy City you sent you send us a bunch of tracks to choose from. I opened with that one because selfishly, that is my favorite, and I want to tell you what I love about it, you know, because you sort of you sort of blend genres a little bit, you know you, I know it kind of falls under the Americana genre, a category of what you do.

1:30 Speaker 1: But but that but that tends to be a mix of things. Americana is kind of a broad term. It tends to be a mix of things. What I love about Crazy City is, you know, it's got that Americana, that folk sort of touch of country vibe, not not too countries. It's not overly twangy, but it's you know, just it's such a great song. But then you get to that point in the song too, where it kind of gets a little bit funky and a little bit of soul to it, And I really like the way you slip that into the song. It kind of changes a little bit, but it also fits in so seamlessly.

2:00 Speaker 1: But I noticed it the first time I listened to it when it gets to that part and you know the part of the song, I mean, obviously, I'm like, oh, I really like that. So I think that is such a great tune. That is my personal favorite of the ones that I listened to. And but you do you kind of you kind of blend genres a little bit, and I really like that, and I love that song. I wanted to tell you that right up front. I think that's such a great track.

2:23 Speaker 3: Oh well, thank you for mentioning that and listening. I'm glad that one struck you like that, because yeah, absolutely, you mentioned sort of Americana as a catch all term in the industry, and you know, some people think of that maybe, you know, sometimes it can be too broad of a genre. But I think that is its strength to me, is that you can mix, like you said, a little bit of country, a little a little folk, a little rock and roll. Sometimes you can get a little bluegrass, a little soul in there.

2:50 Speaker 3: And I come from, you know, legacy, My dad, Hoyd Axton, really never fit in one genre. He hopped all over. He just believed in writing a good song, no matter what kind it was, and I fell under that as well. I couldn't help but escape, you know, but embrace that mentality around songwriting. So in a show, we're gonna sort of take you on American a journey, is what I say. At the beginning of the show. We're going to mix it up a little bit and tell some good legacy stories and in the end, I just want you to tap your foot, get your mind moving a little bit, and give you a little escape if we can.

3:21 Speaker 1: So I'm curious to ask you about this, is is there a certain I've heard musicians who who have, you know, famous families, or that they have a famous mom or a famous dad, or talk about how there can be a certain weight to that. There's a certain pressure that comes with that, and I'm curious if that's how it is for you. Obviously you're very proud of your legacy. You embrace it, but you don't. But but you don't You embrace it, but you don't you know, kind of you have your own identity, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

3:55 Speaker 1: Like you are Matt Axton, and you have original music that you've created. You know you're not doing You're not doing a show that where you just go out and play your dad's music, for example. Maybe you have done that in the past.

4:05 Speaker 2: I don't know.

4:06 Speaker 1: But you have your own music, you have your own vibe, you have your own sound. But you also have this incredible legacy that you have to of your family that you have to carry around with you. Is there any kind of pressure with that or do you take that in stride or are you are you very comfortable with it or how do you how do you deal with that?

4:22 Speaker 2: I'm really curious about that.

4:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, well, you know, I don't think of it as a pressure much. I think of it more as an honor. Yeah, they're both. My grandmother was an amazing you know, songwriter and curator of community through art, and she started a lot of musicians in the industry, mainly in Nashville in the in the sixties through the nineties, and so you know, it's an amazing legacy to keep alive. And it's so like the communal touch, so many different genres, different generations of musicians, and I feel like I'm more walking with them then, you know.

5:01 Speaker 3: It's like to have them on my shoulders weighing anything down. And I'm lucky in one way too that the legacy I get to keep alive is pretty dang fun. You know, my dad's biggest song was Joy to the World, and that was really his mantra around life is the joy of art and community that you can create through that. So, you know, every once in a while we'll do a white dedicated show. You know, I'll get grab his band and we'll do some some very very history leaden stuff. But for me, like I mentioned earlier, my dad was so eclectic.

5:31 Speaker 3: I can really mix in his songs in any way that we can, and that's a real challenge and a fun thing for me is to sort of like sort of weave in all the legacy stuff into our original songs as well. And then I have the accent curse of just way, way too many songs, hundreds of them. They keep pouring out of my brain all the time. It's a curse, like I said, but it's also a really fun adventure every time. And one other thing that's different with my legacy too is a lot of legacy kids have one parent who's the creative and then one parent who sort of stays home and keeps everything balanced.

6:06 Speaker 3: And sure I did not have that aspect. My mom was my dad's piano player and band manager and tour manager. So when it was time to go on the road, it was a musical. You know, we all went, the whole family. So I was just always sort of, you know, in wrapped in this this lifestyle growing up in.

6:22 Speaker 2: A family like that.

6:24 Speaker 1: Was it just kind of a foregone conclusion that this is what you were going to be doing? I mean, was there any was there or a moment growing up where you thought, you know, I might I might do this for a career, I might do that, I might do something else, or was it just always was this always the obvious path for you?

6:39 Speaker 3: I mean, truthfully, no, no it wasn't. I mean music was always around. Like people ask like, oh, you know, did you did you like it? Were you going to do it? And I'm like, well, it just was always there. It was just a thing that was constantly happening. But I know I was I was supposed to go. I got a scholarship to go play football at University of Oklahoma oh High school, and that was that was sort of my you know, my main direction. I was going to go do sports. And then I ended up hurting my knee really bad and had to get surgery, and as I was laid up for a few months, playing on the couch.

7:08 Speaker 3: I grabbed the guitar and I'll started drum and I was like, wow, this is sort of easy. Let me see if I can write a tune. Okay, that was fun, Let's keep going. And what the rest of history haven't put it down since you know, I'll be damned.

7:18 Speaker 2: That's wild.

7:18 Speaker 1: So if you hadn't gotten hurt, you know, you you you might have gone on to the NFL. Who knows, right, But but it's interesting, so and so obviously getting injured that's a terrible thing, but you know you took it, and you you did something positive with it, using that time to really, uh, to effectively start your music career right at that moment, you know, as your own, as your own entity, on your own path.

7:41 Speaker 2: That's that's fantastic, and uh, that's wild.

7:44 Speaker 1: Do you ever look back and think, I mean, do you still have thoughts about what would have happened if you had if you had been able to just continue to play football without the interruption of that injury? Do you ever do you ever have fantasies about playing in the NFL or anything like that?

7:58 Speaker 3: Or oh absolutely, especially when I go look at my bank statements and my guess, you know, like, what's wrong with me? No, But but you know, it's one of those things. Everybody has those moments in our life right where it's the fork in the road and you're like, hey, if I would have chose this, what would have happened? What would my life be like? And then that and the reality is, you know, as much fun as it would have been to do that and live that lifestyle, I love that. I actually coached high school basketball for ten years after that when I was still you know, I was still an active musician up in northern California where I'm from and was able to coach in sort of the slow seasons, and so I've always been able to stay active in sports that way.

8:37 Speaker 3: Yeah. But I think, you know, music is, like you mentioned, it's such a connector. It's an amazing thing. You know, It's the only the closest thing to magic I think we have in the world, like art and music in particular, and cross languages and oceans and generations, and the night people has done well and really inspire people if it's it's needed. I just think, you know, there's nothing more powerful than a really good good song sometimes, So that's that's an honor. And the up boy every shows that my soul is very full.

9:09 Speaker 3: It's just my wallet and gas tank empty.

9:13 Speaker 1: Understandable, Matt. I don't I don't know if something shifted on your end all of a sudden. The phone line is a little bit choppy. I don't know if you if you went to a different room or something.

9:24 Speaker 2: Something.

9:25 Speaker 3: I'm still here. I have not moved in the corner of this little room here.

9:28 Speaker 2: Okay.

9:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, it just sounds like that's okay, we'll we'll, we'll work with it though. And then so, uh, when you you said this, this is the longest store that you've been on so far, coming out, coming all the way out to the east coast.

9:43 Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. So we usually go out to Nashville about every six months and sort of zig zag back to California and add some markets, and this is the first time we have decided to go east out of Nashville. We were there for Americana Fessor for about a week and we got this gig up here in Great Barrington at the gut three Center, and we wanted to build a tour around it. So my mom is actually from upstate New York. So I've spent a little time going, you know, as a kid coming out here, but we wanted to go full force and bring our music to new ears and hopefully make a bunch of new friends.

10:16 Speaker 2: Oh outstanding.

10:17 Speaker 1: By the way, whatever was wrong with the phone cleared up, so it's just probably something some kind of external issue.

10:22 Speaker 2: I can hear you great now.

10:23 Speaker 1: So, which is good because I'm I'm enjoying talking with you. You mentioned too, you've got a lot of songs. Did I read this correctly? You've have you recorded over three hundred songs already? Is that number correct?

10:36 Speaker 3: I've written over three hundred songs. I'm all recorded about thirty or forty. But like I said, it's a continual process, I think for the rest of my existence.

10:46 Speaker 1: So when you go to record an album or you're gonna be going into the studio, is it hard to pick? I mean, it's a good problem to have, I guess, right, to have so much material, But is it hard to make those decisions about what you're gonna record and what you're gonna maybe put on the back burner knowing that you some songs you might never get a chance to record, right because you've written so many. I mean, is that is that difficult to narrow that down?

11:10 Speaker 3: I mean a little bit. And like I said, it's a good problem to have a problem on the left. Yeah, And what I try to do, I always try to do one one Hoight cover song every album, you know, always pay homage to one of his tunes. Yeah, and so so that's going to add in, you know, a little bit more time to that process. But you know, right now, the group I'm bringing on tour, my main group, it's called you know, Mad Accident and Bad Moon, is sort of a more country leaning Americana outfit. Yeah, and we do a lot of we lean I tell for fans of Hoite.

11:43 Speaker 3: Accident and the Almond Brothers is basically what we meet. So there's a lot of what we call guitar mini's. There's two guitars sort of you know, singing together a lot, which brings you know, that that element of Almend Brothers, Grateful Dead, you know, the southern rock element to it with So when we started playing a couple of years ago, naturally my songwriting style will start adjusting to that. I'll go dig into the vault and I'm like, oh, I wrote this song a long time ago that would fit really well.

12:10 Speaker 3: So it's constantly sort of you know, unearthing stuff and then adding new things and adjusting. So it's like I said, it's a it's a challenge, but it's something that you know, I will run at full force.

12:22 Speaker 1: Have you always played with a full band or did you ever do solo shows just you on a guitar on a stool or anything like that, or is it always a full band?

12:30 Speaker 3: No? Absolutely, We sort of mix it up all the time.

12:33 Speaker 1: I do.

12:34 Speaker 3: I do a lot of solo you know, folks singer songwriter stuff. That's how my dad, you know, cut his teeth. He just grabbed a guitar and jumped in the car and travel over the country in the early sixties and went to every music mecca he could find and just absorbed as much as he could, you know, went up to New York, went to Chicago, went down south to the blues mecchas, and that really, you know, set them up on the path. Like I said, of me, hyper eclectic and just really wanting to write a good song.

13:00 Speaker 3: I couldn't help, but you know, sort of follow that path and there's something, you know, it's a different connection with just you and a guitar on the stage. There's nowhere to hide. With the band you can have, you know, there's much higher hives. You know, you can just get so much more sound. But I enjoy both the truthfully. You know, when I grew when I was born, my dad was I'm my dad's youngest kid, so he was a lot more settled and had a very consistent band by the time I came around. But what he would do every show, if he would start it with the full band and they'd send him off in the middle and he'd just come out with the guitar and do a lot of his early folk stuff.

13:34 Speaker 3: And that was always the moment that people sort of resonated with the most sort that resonated with them. And you know, so there's there's there's just something raw and really intimate about doing that, and I love it. I mean I write all my songs that way. Yeah, you know, just me and a guitar sort of. I was born and raised up in Lake Tahoe, California, up in the heis here in Nevada Mountains, and you know, I just go sit out there on the porch and stare out into the into nature and try and get inspired whenever I can.

13:59 Speaker 3: And now I live in Los Angeles and now I stare at traffic and get inspired.

14:03 Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun, a lot of traffic there, that's for sure. So you mentioned it.

14:08 Speaker 1: So you're the youngest, you said, you're the youngest child.

14:11 Speaker 2: Of your dad. Yeah, yeah, did your siblings.

14:14 Speaker 1: I don't know how many siblings you have, but have any of them also taken this path or just you in terms of, you know, your dad's legacy, following that is and becoming a musician and doing all that that you're doing.

14:26 Speaker 2: Are you the only one or.

14:29 Speaker 3: I'm the only one left doing it as a full time thing. All my siblings tried in some sort of form. My sister April tried to do She went more of the acting side of things. My oldest brother Mark went to the production side. He was the smart one, oh and stuff behind the scenes.

14:43 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:44 Speaker 3: And then my middle brother Michael was tried to do the sort of the traveling troubadour thing. So they all they all gave it a good shot and all talented in their own right. But now it's you know, it's fallen on me. Like I said, I have They had a different mother. My mom is the one who sort of like sort of balanced everything out. I tell people, Oh, my mom is a classical piano master, like you know, maestro. Yeah, and my dad is a country bumpkin. So I land somewhere right in the.

15:09 Speaker 2: Middle of it too, I try so.

15:12 Speaker 1: Now, I'm not sure. You know, you mentioned you're the youngest. I'm not sure when exactly your dad passed away. But did he ever get to see you on a stage plane or I'm not sure the timeline.

15:24 Speaker 3: No, yeah, so he passed away actually in nineteen ninety nine. Oh that millennium. Wow, you know when I was sixteen years old when he did. So, you know, we we we connected enough to have some good moments. But no, that was he passed before I was ever ever able to find my own voice. Really okay, but what he would do, you know when we were on tour, he'd bring the kids up. Every show, he picked songs to bring the kids up. We always do joy the world as a big family group at the end. So well, I got to be on stage with him and share some musical moments, but never got to show him, you know, show him my own.

15:59 Speaker 1: Voice, like I said, Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Though that you got to be on stage with them, that's uh. And to do that, that's that's great. And and what about your mother is she Is she still with.

16:08 Speaker 2: Us or.

16:09 Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely? She actually came out for the show last night. On very special occasions they get to bring her out and she still plays in the band. And she's absolutely the highlight of the best person on the stage every time. And when I go back up to Lake Tahoe, I run a couple music festivals and nonprofit music, you know, music nonprofits up in my hometown, and she sort of leads that and we jump in, she jumps in the band, and I get to jump in her band all the time. So that part's still magical, keeping played alive with people.

16:41 Speaker 1: Oh, in his band, that's that's fantastic. That must be so much fun. That is so cool that you get to do that. And I'm sure she's very very proud of you. And that's that's great. That's that's awesome.

16:54 Speaker 3: And and you know, and she's really good too. That's the fun part. It's not just being like, oh, here's my mom. It's always do something amazing and she does it.

17:01 Speaker 2: Oh, that's outstanding.

17:03 Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, so the tour. So I was reading the tour is called Beast Goes East. Now, obviously the East I get because you're living on the West coast and we're on the East coast.

17:12 Speaker 2: But why beast Well, so one of the.

17:18 Speaker 3: People cannot tell from us talking about football and all that kind of good stuff. I'm a larger human being, okay. And one of our mascots, you'd say, is that people call me the last California and Grizzly. So there's a lot of bear influences and a lot of our artwork and all that kind of stuff. So it's more, you know, the beastly Bear is finally treading East type thing, and just rhymes, you know, as musicians like rhymes.

17:44 Speaker 2: Right right, that's true. Yeah.

17:46 Speaker 1: I'm looking at a picture on your website of you and three other guys who I assume are in your band, and you are kind of how tall are you because in this picture?

17:55 Speaker 2: But you can't tell from a picture.

17:57 Speaker 1: I mean, you could be standing on something I don't know, but it looks like you're towering over everybody else.

18:02 Speaker 3: Well, I make them do that, that's the ego thing. No, But so I'm about six four, Oh, you're a good day.

18:12 Speaker 2: Okay, you're a big guy.

18:13 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, and you know, two hundred and sixty pounds, but getting a little bigger every day on tour. I'll tell you what. But it's you know, Also, it's funny because I have a pretty tall band too, just to happen that way, and so most people don't notice until I get off stage, you know, then I start talking to like, oh my god, They're like, what happens, pecially with the cowboy boots on? Bang near eight feet tall?

18:37 Speaker 2: Right, you know?

18:37 Speaker 3: So, but yeah, that's the best the beef sleep part.

18:41 Speaker 1: Like I said, where does your height come from? Was your father tall?

18:45 Speaker 3: You know, he was about six feet tall, but he was he was as wide as the Mississippi type of thing, and he always wore cowboy boots and a big cowboy hat. So he just had one of those larger than life sort of personalities and statues. My mom's tall. My mom's six ft one. So oh, I think six one pus six feet equals six to four. That's just math.

19:03 Speaker 1: I think, Well, that's definitely yeah, there's definitely something genetic on your mom's side, because six to one that's very tall for a woman.

19:09 Speaker 2: That's very tall. Yeah right, oh yeah, that would that would that would definitely explain it.

19:13 Speaker 1: Whow So you're gonna be So what's your for our listeners who are in the area. Of course, you know online we have listeners all over, but for our local listeners who listen on FM here in Manchester, what what should they? What should they expect? Again, you're going to be at the Rex Theater on September twenty fourth. Looks like a shows at seven point thirty. Do you have a do you have an opener with you? Or or is it? Is it just you and your band or how does that? How does that work?

19:39 Speaker 3: No, this one is just us in our band. You know, when we were reaching out trying to figure out how to set this tour up, you know, the Palace Theater and the Rex Theater are like, hey, let's just give it a shot. Just come out here and see if we can, you know, give you a good a good spotlight to bring your music. And yeah, very grateful for that. Like I said, it's our first time in all these markets and we would love to sort of make this a routine. We've had a great tour so far, just like I said, meeting good people and telling good stories, and we sort of adjust the show to every different venue.

20:08 Speaker 3: You know, on this tour, we've done a couple of festivals. We do some late night hockey talks, some fun little divy bars, and we really changed the show to every place. And I know, like last night at the gut Wee Center, we did a little more intimate, a little a lot more history and storytelling and explaining the ins and outs and the whys of the artistic lifestyle and all that fun stuff. So the RECs will be similar to that. But at the same time, we like to we like to rock out and groove out and get people to sort of tap their feet and have a good time.

20:37 Speaker 3: So it's going to be a good mix of those. And that's my job is to figure out exactly how to give you guys the best experience for the people in the room.

20:46 Speaker 1: I'm curious, Sue, do you know do you know ahead of time before you arrive at the venue, do you know enough about that particular venue where you've already planned out what the show is or or are you going into that are you kind of reading the room? Like do you arrive at the venue and you kind of check the place out? And you think, Okay, now that I'm here, now that I'm physically here, and I can take this all in. Uh now I kind of know what the show is going to be tonight. I mean, is it Is it that spontaneous or do you already know before you arrive at the venue.

21:16 Speaker 3: No, it's a good mix, you know, especially for for new markets and new venues, right you sort of you know, we know this is more of a seated theater, so we'll treat that a little differently than we will, like a couple of days ago, we played at this you know, rockous honky Tonk in New York City, so we're gonna we know, we're going to treat those a little differently in general, right, but you know, we also adjust when we get in there. We want to fill the I mean this sounds so hippie dippy artists, but we're gonna like sort of fill the energy and yep and talk to the staff and talk to you know, see who's coming and showing up and sort of working around that.

21:47 Speaker 3: And it's really the challenge, but it's a really fun one and something that we're working really hard on and very proud of the ability to do that.

21:55 Speaker 2: And as I said, you play the style that you play.

21:59 Speaker 1: And the configuration of your band and everything that gives you some flexibility to kind of change that on the fly if you need to, which is which I'm sure is very nice.

22:06 Speaker 2: I'm always kind of jealous of that.

22:08 Speaker 1: I'm a musician and I've played in some bands, but none of the bands that I ever played in were the kind of band where we could show up at a venue and say, oh.

22:15 Speaker 2: Let's change the vibe a little bit, you know what I mean.

22:18 Speaker 1: It's like if you're playing in a you know, a hardcore metal band or something. It's, you know what, you're doing the same thing no matter where you're playing. But I've always been kind of envious of musicians who have that a scenario where they can kind of switch it up if they need to. But no, that's really cool. So that's gonna be uh yeah, September twenty fourth at the Seventh at seven thirty pm at the at the Rex Theater right in downtown Manchester and by the way too for our local listeners.

22:46 Speaker 1: If you've never been to the Rex, it's really beautiful, so you should definitely check it out. And this sounds like it's going to be a great show. So Matt, before we let you go, and we are going to play another track at the end of our conversation. I think I'm gonna play same Old Story because that's another one that I really like a lot. I think that's really cool. But anything else too. We should know about how people should find you online. Where's the best place to go to follow everything that you're doing.

23:09 Speaker 1: I know you've got a You've got a huge social media following, which is fantastic and such an important part too of you know, the times that we live in. Having that social media following, that's something your dad never had to worry about, certainly, but in twenty twenty five got to you gotta work with social media. But where's the best place for people to go online to follow everything that you're doing?

23:31 Speaker 3: Yes, or main site and a number one I cannot agree more. Like we just live in a digital social world now, and so that's what it's all about, right, I Mean, the power is in the independent artist's hands, and I'm fiercely, proudly independent when it comes to that stuff. So every every clap and every click really matters a lot to people in our in our realm yep. But so Mattaccident dot com is the main site, very simple, and then Matt acts and music on all the social media platforms on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all those things.

24:01 Speaker 3: And you know, it's something that social media is amazing because you can really connect with people that you wouldn't really have got any chance to in the past. It can be daunting and crazy at times, but in the end, it's that's what it's about with connecting with people. So please come say hi on any sort of way. Obviously in person is the best, so they can I can bilk you for all your all your bitcoins or whatever

24:24 Speaker 3: you know. But in the end, I said, it's just about connecting with people and spreading a little bit of joy.

24:29 Speaker 2: That's our job absolutely.

24:31 Speaker 1: And before before we let you go, and we're gonna play this track, same old story. Anything we should know about this song. I really like this song a lot too, Anything we should know about it?

24:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, So this is one I was talking about earlier where I've had it for quite a while. And when I got this band together, I've had my right hand man guitar player Taylor Kropp Slash Almond Brothers proteget sort of playing with him for about three years, two and a half years. He's the main other player in the band. Once he joined the band, I was like, Oh, I'm gonna go dig into my archives and pull this song on. It's become sort of a staple. It's the last single we just released. It's the one we're turning around right now.

25:09 Speaker 3: Very proud, very proud of it. And it's just a good old fashioned like sort of outlaw country vibe, but with the you know, the the the story of some common things, you know, some some some money, some heartbreak, some life experiences that we all sort of connect with at the end with a little uplift at the end, saying hey man, we can all, we can all figure this out. It's just the same old story. Let's go.

25:32 Speaker 2: Yeah.

25:32 Speaker 1: I love it, absolutely love it, very good. So we're gonna we're gonna end with that. So we'll let you go so we can hit that track. But Matt Axson, thank you so much. Have a great show, have a We'll have a great Where are you playing tonight, by the way.

25:45 Speaker 3: We're playing out in New Jersey somewhere. Oh, I don't even know where I what day.

25:49 Speaker 1: Is somewhere on these cost people can go to the website to find it. But so I have a great show tonight in New Jersey and and of course, uh sounds like the tour is going well. So we wish you could continued success with that and look forward to having you in Manchester on September twenty fourth. And thank you so much for joining us today. I really enjoyed the conversation. You've been generous with your time. It's great to speak with you and be safe on the road.

26:14 Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for letting me talk. And you know a great name, by the way, mattsw Nite.

26:22 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, absolutely, Matt's to night. I like it.

26:27 Speaker 3: All right, thank you again, and yeah, thanks for playing our music out there.

26:30 Speaker 2: You got it, you got it, all right, Matt, Thank you, take care all right?

26:33 Speaker 3: Bye?

26:34 Speaker 2: All right. That was the great Matt Axton.

26:36 Speaker 1: And again he will be in Manchester at the Rex Theater on September twenty fourth, seven thirty pm. But let's play this again. I really really like this song a lot. This is called Same Old Story, and this is Matt Axton