Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-11-25 hour 3

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3:13 Speaker 5: Still Morrow's gone, just not ustay. Are you low.

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3:42 Speaker 7: You've been all my mind? You know mine? Be on

3:49 Speaker 7: my mind.

4:17 Speaker 3: That's good stuff that is called on my mind. The

4:19 Speaker 3: band is Modern Fools, and we got a couple of

4:21 Speaker 3: the guys from the band here with us. We're going

4:23 Speaker 3: to speak with them in just a moment, but welcome everybody.

4:27 Speaker 3: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we have entered our

4:30 Speaker 3: third hour New Marrow Trace on this snowy Saturday. For

4:34 Speaker 3: those of you listening live today is Saturday, January eleventh,

4:37 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, and we, of course are coming to

4:40 Speaker 3: you from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester,

4:45 Speaker 3: New Hampshire. And yeah, that's a great track. Let's get

4:49 Speaker 3: right into it. So we've got two of the guys

4:50 Speaker 3: from the band here. Welcome gentlemen. If you could each

4:54 Speaker 3: introduce yourselves and tell us, tell us who you are

4:57 Speaker 3: and what you do in the band.

4:58 Speaker 13: Hello, I'm Josh. I played guitar and sing and yeah.

5:04 Speaker 3: All right, very good. Welcome Josh, and you, sir.

5:06 Speaker 14: I'm John Brought. I also played guitar and sing, but

5:10 Speaker 14: not as much singing.

5:11 Speaker 3: Oh okay, yep, very good, very good. So and Josh,

5:16 Speaker 3: so I interviewed you. We were talking off air back

5:19 Speaker 3: in Oh my God twenty eleven. Is that right, twenty eleven. Yeah,

5:22 Speaker 3: you were in a band called the Ghost Dinner Band.

5:24 Speaker 13: That's right.

5:25 Speaker 3: And I interviewed you on another show that I do

5:27 Speaker 3: called Local Outbreak and uh wow yeah so and you

5:30 Speaker 3: you mentioned too, So you actually went back and listened

5:33 Speaker 3: to that.

5:33 Speaker 13: I did. Yeah, I found the archives I was. I

5:34 Speaker 13: was listening back as funny.

5:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, I yeah, I remember, I remember the Ghost Dinner

5:40 Speaker 3: Band and whatever ended up happening to that.

5:44 Speaker 13: I mean, we we had a good run of it,

5:45 Speaker 13: and things just kind of fizzled out. You know, we

5:47 Speaker 13: all we were like a high school sweetheart band. You know,

5:50 Speaker 13: we have been playing together since high school. Yeah, just

5:53 Speaker 13: you know, we all just kind of went our separate ways.

5:54 Speaker 13: But everybody's still playing in different bands, and yeah for

5:57 Speaker 13: the most part.

5:58 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. And the song that we just played,

6:01 Speaker 3: so is that the current single that that on my mind?

6:04 Speaker 3: Featuring Rachel Sumner?

6:06 Speaker 13: Yep, that's it. That's it. And Rachel Sumner is an

6:08 Speaker 13: incredible songwriter from Boston area. She's just amazing. Yeah.

6:13 Speaker 14: She had a giant TikTok moment last year really yeah

6:17 Speaker 14: with a song called Radium Girls, right yeah, yeah, yeah,

6:22 Speaker 14: they went really viral.

6:24 Speaker 3: It's a great song. You should check it out. Oh

6:26 Speaker 3: I well, yeah, I thought her name was familiar. Maybe

6:29 Speaker 3: that's why I know it. Yeah, how did you guys

6:31 Speaker 3: get connected with her to do this track?

6:33 Speaker 13: So we just we knew her, like, you know, acquaintances

6:36 Speaker 13: and friends in the scene, and when writing the song,

6:38 Speaker 13: we just knew that it needed a female voice. Yeah,

6:41 Speaker 13: kind of do that duet classic thing. And yeah, she

6:44 Speaker 13: came to mind. So we reached out and she was

6:47 Speaker 13: into it, and yeah, she just nailed it. We sent

6:50 Speaker 13: her the tracks and she kind of sent like, hey,

6:52 Speaker 13: is this what you're looking for? And we were like absolutely, like,

6:55 Speaker 13: just knocked it out of the park.

6:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, well very cool. Yeah I like that song a lot.

6:59 Speaker 3: It's got got kind of a little bit of a balance,

7:02 Speaker 3: a little bit of a swing to it. But yeah,

7:04 Speaker 3: very cool. Now the album or album, I guess are

7:09 Speaker 3: you calling it an EP? It's seven tracks.

7:10 Speaker 13: It's kind of in that, right, It's it's seven it's

7:12 Speaker 13: seven So yeah, it's an EP, but it's like, you know,

7:14 Speaker 13: it's somewhere between.

7:15 Speaker 3: It's in that weird gray zone between EP and album

7:19 Speaker 3: and is that already out or is that coming out soon?

7:21 Speaker 13: It's coming out on the seventeenth O next week.

7:23 Speaker 3: Oh, very good, very good. So this is this is

7:26 Speaker 3: like a world premiere, world premiere, excellent, excellent. Yeah, and

7:31 Speaker 3: it makes sense for that to be, you know, because

7:33 Speaker 3: of Rachel. It makes sense that that would be the

7:35 Speaker 3: first uh, the first single. But you guys have released

7:38 Speaker 3: other things before this, right, yep. Yes, this is our

7:41 Speaker 3: third album, and this is actually the third single from

7:44 Speaker 3: from the album. So we've we've dropped a few singles.

7:46 Speaker 3: We've been trickling them out a little bit. Oh okay, Yeah,

7:48 Speaker 3: that's interesting. That's something that comes up a lot on

7:50 Speaker 3: the show is you know, we live in a time

7:52 Speaker 3: where you can use all these different strategies in terms

7:55 Speaker 3: of of how you release things, and it it I've

7:58 Speaker 3: noticed that, you know, because I'm old to remember that,

8:00 Speaker 3: you know, every band would release an album, the first

8:03 Speaker 3: single would go to radio maybe six eight weeks before

8:06 Speaker 3: the album, you know, and then the album comes out,

8:09 Speaker 3: and then the second single, and then the third single

8:10 Speaker 3: and so forth. But now, you know, because of the

8:13 Speaker 3: Internet and the way things have changed over the years,

8:15 Speaker 3: there's so many different things you can do. You can

8:17 Speaker 3: release an EP, you can release an album, you can

8:19 Speaker 3: release a series of singles that eventually become an album.

8:21 Speaker 3: You can you know, release you know, a few singles

8:25 Speaker 3: ahead of an EP. What what decisions? Why did you

8:29 Speaker 3: guys decide to use the strategy that you're using for

8:31 Speaker 3: this release or or did it just and there may

8:34 Speaker 3: may not be a reason, It may just feel organically

8:36 Speaker 3: right to do it this scort, but yeah.

8:39 Speaker 14: We're guessing at what works. You know, we've seen a

8:44 Speaker 14: lot of like strategic how you do all this stuff,

8:48 Speaker 14: but also like albums in collections of songs aren't really

8:52 Speaker 14: something that that gets a lot of shine these days.

8:56 Speaker 14: You know, a lot of there's a lot of singles

8:57 Speaker 14: and stuff like that, and like there's a real reason

9:01 Speaker 14: to do that, but there's there's a level of we'd

9:04 Speaker 14: like to get together and work on six seven eight

9:07 Speaker 14: songs in the studio at a time.

9:09 Speaker 13: So right, well, yeah, it is sad because albums as

9:13 Speaker 13: a whole aren't being consumed as they used to be.

9:15 Speaker 13: Still people still do listen to them, and yeah, but

9:18 Speaker 13: you know it is a single culture for that matter.

9:21 Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean we follow the what is the

9:24 Speaker 13: the waterfall releases what they call it, where you kind

9:27 Speaker 13: of tickling the algorithm before the album comes out.

9:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. By the way, we have received an

9:32 Speaker 3: instant message from deb Blair, says Josh's mom listening live

9:38 Speaker 3: from Phoenix, Arizona. Well, hello Mom, there we go, so

9:41 Speaker 3: very nice, nice, very nice. By the way, we can

9:44 Speaker 3: I forget to mention this to our listeners. But if

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10:02 Speaker 3: stuff and all of it. So but uh yeah, so

10:05 Speaker 3: this is where where did you guys record? Where do

10:08 Speaker 3: you record it? Because everything sounds fantastic.

10:11 Speaker 13: Thanks. Yeah, we have a kind of a home studio, Yeah,

10:14 Speaker 13: in Peterborn, Hampshire, and uh yeah, it's it's it's where

10:18 Speaker 13: we rehearse and it's kind of like our project studio

10:21 Speaker 13: and yeah, do everything there.

10:22 Speaker 12: Yeah.

10:23 Speaker 3: That's another thing that's kind of changed over the years

10:25 Speaker 3: is you know, we live in a time where you

10:26 Speaker 3: can there's so many different options for how to record,

10:29 Speaker 3: and you can you know, obviously there's a lot of

10:31 Speaker 3: great studios around, but you can also do you know,

10:35 Speaker 3: do most of it at home or all of it

10:36 Speaker 3: at home, and you know, you can email tracks back

10:40 Speaker 3: and forth if you want to. There's so many ways

10:41 Speaker 3: to do it, and you can you can actually produce

10:43 Speaker 3: something that sounds like it was recorded in a million

10:46 Speaker 3: dollar studio totally.

10:48 Speaker 13: Yeah.

10:48 Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm I'm always reminded that that first Billie Eilish

10:53 Speaker 14: album I think was recorded fully in her bedroom with

10:56 Speaker 14: your brother. Yeah, you know, like, I'm not a pop guy,

10:59 Speaker 14: but that's impressive that you can do that and then

11:01 Speaker 14: blow up like that.

11:03 Speaker 15: It is.

11:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. How do you, guys, how do you

11:08 Speaker 3: just describe your sound? I was looking at the website

11:10 Speaker 3: and I saw some pretty interesting verbiage. But somebody who

11:16 Speaker 3: was it somebody recently, because you're the name Modern Fools

11:20 Speaker 3: has come up on the show more than once. So

11:21 Speaker 3: there's a lot of other artists in the area who

11:24 Speaker 3: are are big fans of you guys. And somebody described

11:26 Speaker 3: you as cosmic country. Yeah, yeah, I think that's kind

11:29 Speaker 3: of what we've been rolling with. Lately, And I know

11:32 Speaker 3: that gets a lot of ties to Daniel Donado, who's

11:36 Speaker 3: a younger artist now who has put it in his name,

11:40 Speaker 3: But it really goes back to like Grand Parsons is

11:43 Speaker 3: really the founder, I would say, the godfather of cosmic country,

11:46 Speaker 3: which is sort of just a blend of you know, country.

11:49 Speaker 13: Rock, which is he's responsible for that. Yeah, yeah, cool.

11:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly doesn't sound like what you hear on

11:55 Speaker 3: the radio.

11:56 Speaker 13: Sure, it's not bud Light country. We're more of a

12:01 Speaker 13: Miller high life. I had not heard that term here

12:05 Speaker 13: to describe modern country. I've heard the term bro country. Yeah,

12:08 Speaker 13: that works.

12:09 Speaker 3: I've heard that a lot.

12:10 Speaker 13: Yeah, We've been working on figuring out like I think

12:13 Speaker 13: that beer is a just a good description for country

12:16 Speaker 13: in general. So there's lots of different varieties of country.

12:19 Speaker 13: Obviously Corona country, Yeah, Corona country. That that'd be more

12:23 Speaker 13: like the Jimmy Buffett era of country.

12:26 Speaker 15: You know.

12:26 Speaker 14: Don't get me wrong, I still like Corona country sometimes.

12:29 Speaker 13: Yeah. Sure, say that's just you know, whatever you're whatever

12:32 Speaker 13: you're drinking is kind of you know, it defines you

12:35 Speaker 13: in the country real.

12:38 Speaker 3: Well, are so we live with us or he lives

12:41 Speaker 3: with us? Really DJ Reckless. I don't know if you

12:43 Speaker 3: has no DJ Reckless, but he's he works at ninety

12:45 Speaker 3: six five Now Live Free Country, Yeah, Live Free Country.

12:51 Speaker 3: I keep wanting to still call it the Mill, even

12:53 Speaker 3: though it hasn't been that in at least a year.

12:55 Speaker 3: But but uh, you know, I'll turn that station on

12:59 Speaker 3: and and some of what I hear it it doesn't

13:02 Speaker 3: even sound like like it's country. It's got just enough

13:07 Speaker 3: twang in it to be country, some of the modern stuff,

13:10 Speaker 3: but but some of it like just barely enough, you

13:12 Speaker 3: know what I mean.

13:13 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's basically just pop music, right, And some of it, yeah,

13:15 Speaker 13: have a banjo in the back and like a pedal

13:17 Speaker 13: steel and then yeah.

13:18 Speaker 14: Well the Nashville thing has really been homogenized at this point.

13:23 Speaker 14: And it's not it's not bad. Those guys are incredibly

13:25 Speaker 14: talented players. But you go to Nashville to make a

13:28 Speaker 14: certain type of music and and it comes out being

13:34 Speaker 14: in that vein and it it's not the same kind

13:37 Speaker 14: of classic country that that were turned on too. It's

13:39 Speaker 14: definitely a derivative of that thing. But yeah, you know,

13:46 Speaker 14: there's there's there's merit in in in anything you're making

13:49 Speaker 14: for us. We when we think of country, we're thinking

13:53 Speaker 14: you know, Christofferson, cash Parton, you know, the Graham Parsons,

13:58 Speaker 14: the Flying Burrito brother Yeah. I could probably name them

14:02 Speaker 14: for for longer than they should. And we go back

14:04 Speaker 14: to an era where it really feels like it was

14:09 Speaker 14: like it was an outsider art form.

14:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, interesting. What about Are there any modern country

14:17 Speaker 3: artists who who you guys kind.

14:19 Speaker 14: Of relate to a bunch?

14:21 Speaker 3: Are there?

14:21 Speaker 13: I would say that right now is probably like the

14:23 Speaker 13: healthiest time for uh, what I'm gonna coin is good

14:27 Speaker 13: country for lack of a better term. But yeah, I

14:31 Speaker 13: mean like there's there's a lot of just bands that

14:33 Speaker 13: are like, you know, like Charlie Crockett maybe being like

14:36 Speaker 13: one of the bigger artists right now. But yep, that's

14:39 Speaker 13: you know, like going back to that roots stuff and

14:42 Speaker 13: it's you know, it's very much not but light driven.

14:46 Speaker 3: I still love that. That's funny. The name that comes

14:50 Speaker 3: up really consistently on the show is Chris Stapleton, Like

14:54 Speaker 3: especially with the not just with bands, but singer songwriters,

14:58 Speaker 3: just guys coming in with just an acoustic guitar like

15:00 Speaker 3: Chris Stapleson's name. Chris Stapleton's name comes up all the time.

15:05 Speaker 13: Definitely, he's he's doing he's doing it right for sure.

15:07 Speaker 14: I think he's one of those few guys that's still

15:09 Speaker 14: like like keeping that whole art form pure. It's cool

15:13 Speaker 14: to see a guy that's doing that still maintaining that

15:17 Speaker 14: level of popularity too.

15:19 Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, well he's uh yeah, he's a hell of

15:22 Speaker 3: a songwriter. I think, great voice. And and as far

15:26 Speaker 3: as Nashville goes too, I feel like, uh, I always

15:29 Speaker 3: say this from a just from a production standpoint, Nashville

15:32 Speaker 3: really has it down. Like I think that just sonically

15:37 Speaker 3: in terms of production. Like I'm I'm really picky about

15:40 Speaker 3: drums when I listen to a song and I think,

15:42 Speaker 3: you know, the drum sounds coming out of those Nashville

15:45 Speaker 3: studios just are I think it sounds absolutely perfect. And

15:49 Speaker 3: and I think a lot of things, you know, a

15:52 Speaker 3: lot of I listen to a lot of metal, but

15:56 Speaker 3: a lot of modern metal. Something went wrong where like

16:00 Speaker 3: the guitars don't sound right to me. They sound small,

16:03 Speaker 3: if that makes sense, Whereas when I was growing up,

16:06 Speaker 3: metal sounded you know, the guitars sounded nice and crunchy.

16:09 Speaker 3: So I have complaints about how modern metal is produced

16:13 Speaker 3: and now, and I can you know, I have a

16:14 Speaker 3: little bit of an audio engineering background, so I can

16:16 Speaker 3: pick up part a lot of things. But when I

16:18 Speaker 3: listen to anything coming out of Nashville, it's like just

16:20 Speaker 3: from a production stamp, whether I like the song or not,

16:23 Speaker 3: just from an audio production standpoint, it's like, wow, like

16:25 Speaker 3: they've got it.

16:26 Speaker 15: You know.

16:27 Speaker 14: That's Have you ever been down Music Row in Nashville.

16:31 Speaker 15: I have not.

16:31 Speaker 3: I've never been to Nashville, So, I mean.

16:34 Speaker 14: Given it was it was probably three or four years

16:35 Speaker 14: ago now, but my wife and I were down there

16:38 Speaker 14: and we're walking through and we're seeing like big machine

16:41 Speaker 14: and you know, all the all the giant labels, and

16:44 Speaker 14: I had that same thought. But that, I mean, like

16:46 Speaker 14: I'm a music nerd, right, how could you not be

16:49 Speaker 14: being you know, our age still releasing singles to But like,

16:54 Speaker 14: for for us, like that emanates from like the late

16:57 Speaker 14: sixties and the seventies when you had guys like Bob

17:01 Speaker 14: Dylan going in to record with a what's the name

17:04 Speaker 14: Billy the Nashville producer. I'm I'm not gonna go, but

17:09 Speaker 14: you know who I'm talking about. So he went in

17:11 Speaker 14: there and then Neil Young goes in there ten years

17:13 Speaker 14: later and the sound like it's the Nashville thing. They

17:17 Speaker 14: went there to record and lay down those kind of tracks.

17:20 Speaker 14: It's really cool. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

17:24 Speaker 3: Do you guys, everything that you've recorded, have you've done

17:26 Speaker 3: it the same way in terms of how you produce it?

17:29 Speaker 15: No?

17:30 Speaker 13: No, we changed it up. This record. We did almost

17:34 Speaker 13: exclusively live. Oh it's very live in this Oh cool.

17:37 Speaker 13: This record was kind of like a concept album to

17:39 Speaker 13: some regards anyway, with moving into the honky Tonk realm.

17:43 Speaker 13: That's not really what we typically do. There's always kind

17:47 Speaker 13: of a tinge of country in there, but this is

17:48 Speaker 13: like full on country. And the whole thing actually stemmed

17:52 Speaker 13: from On the album cover, there's a sign that says

17:55 Speaker 13: clearly country, which I found at a yard sale and

17:58 Speaker 13: I had seen it in the day time and I

18:01 Speaker 13: just couldn't stop thinking about it. I didn't buy it. Yeah,

18:04 Speaker 13: I don't know why. I just had to go. I

18:06 Speaker 13: had to go buy it. So I went back and

18:07 Speaker 13: bought it, and I didn't really know why at the time,

18:09 Speaker 13: but it sort of sparked this inspiration. It was like,

18:13 Speaker 13: that's an album cover, yep, honky Tonk record.

18:15 Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's great, it's very cool. It's very cool.

18:19 Speaker 3: Has the lineup been the same over the course of

18:21 Speaker 3: the band or has that changed at all?

18:24 Speaker 13: So it's actually changed. So the band formed originally in

18:27 Speaker 13: twenty fourteen, okay, so, and I was the only original

18:32 Speaker 13: member from that lineup. We kind of fizzled out in

18:34 Speaker 13: probably twenty sixteen or seventeen. We never actually did a record.

18:38 Speaker 13: We did a bunch of local shows well, and by

18:41 Speaker 13: fizzled out.

18:42 Speaker 14: That was about when I joined the band and we

18:43 Speaker 14: became a different band entirely sure, called the Flood. And

18:48 Speaker 14: I don't know if you know eight A m or

18:49 Speaker 14: Adam in the Flood, but we used to play in

18:53 Speaker 14: his band and did a little little move in with him,

18:57 Speaker 14: and then COVID happened.

19:00 Speaker 13: Yeah, the pandemic time is we just kind of like

19:02 Speaker 13: got it all together and started recording.

19:04 Speaker 14: And so he was traveling all throughout the US writing

19:08 Speaker 14: songs and sending us demos back here. You know, some

19:12 Speaker 14: of our favorite came from your time in Joshua Tree

19:15 Speaker 14: in California. And then Justin and I the drummer, would

19:22 Speaker 14: get these demos and we were kind of pouring over them.

19:25 Speaker 14: These are great. So our first album was largely recorded distance. Okay, now,

19:32 Speaker 14: not all while you were on the road, but because

19:35 Speaker 14: of COVID, like none of us knew what was going on,

19:37 Speaker 14: we weren't getting together. So so we were sending tracks

19:40 Speaker 14: left and right in that first album, see or we

19:42 Speaker 14: did probably about ninety percent separated from each other.

19:45 Speaker 13: For sure.

19:47 Speaker 3: Was it hard doing it that way? Or because one

19:49 Speaker 3: of the things, you know, the pandemic comes up a

19:52 Speaker 3: lot on the show because it's it's a very very

19:54 Speaker 3: common tale. You know, we we were doing this, we

19:56 Speaker 3: were doing that. We had all these plans and then

19:58 Speaker 3: the plague. But and as awful as it was, you know,

20:03 Speaker 3: I always say, we have to find these silver linings

20:05 Speaker 3: where we can, and I feel like one of the

20:06 Speaker 3: few silver linings of it was it kind of forced

20:08 Speaker 3: people to be creative in ways that maybe they hadn't

20:10 Speaker 3: previously considered and getting comfortable with things like sending tracks

20:15 Speaker 3: back and forth and doing all that.

20:16 Speaker 14: Sure, so I think for us we in various iterations. Right,

20:21 Speaker 14: New Hampshire is a small state, right, and we're a

20:23 Speaker 14: small music scene. Josh and I have known each other

20:28 Speaker 14: twenty some odd years now, you know, we started playing

20:32 Speaker 14: music together about ten years ago in real capacity. But like,

20:36 Speaker 14: you know, our stories are very intertwined, and so there

20:40 Speaker 14: was a level of we've played with these guys, all

20:43 Speaker 14: of them for a minimum of five six years at

20:45 Speaker 14: that point, or various like ins and outs.

20:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, how do we.

20:48 Speaker 14: Take that relationship and how do we do it in

20:51 Speaker 14: a different sort of way. So, like, it probably would

20:55 Speaker 14: have been a lot harder to try to get the

20:57 Speaker 14: whole thing going like like like fresh. Yeah, but you

21:00 Speaker 14: got a bunch of guys that are gonna eat nachos

21:02 Speaker 14: with each other any day anyway. You know what difference

21:05 Speaker 14: is it if you're sending texts in everything?

21:07 Speaker 3: That makes sense? Yeah, that makes sense. Definitely we should. Uh,

21:11 Speaker 3: let's play another track.

21:12 Speaker 15: What do you guys?

21:13 Speaker 3: Uh, I'll let you I'll let you all pick. I

21:15 Speaker 3: listened to the you know, obviously I listened to the

21:17 Speaker 3: ones you suggested, but I also listen to the rest

21:19 Speaker 3: of the album too, or ep. The whole thing is great.

21:22 Speaker 3: I love it, but uh, whatever whatever you want to go.

21:26 Speaker 13: With next, Let's do something that we haven't released yet.

21:29 Speaker 13: My side, My side will be like a world premiere

21:32 Speaker 13: right here.

21:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, world, We like the I don't know if you

21:35 Speaker 3: know this. We really like the World Radio premieres here.

21:37 Speaker 14: This one goes out to all the Steel Guitar fans

21:40 Speaker 14: out there.

21:41 Speaker 13: Yes, yes, into all the ex wives.

21:45 Speaker 3: You guys ever play with You must know them regals?

21:48 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we haven't played with them, but

21:50 Speaker 13: we've been chatting with them and talking about doing some shows.

21:52 Speaker 14: Yeah, familiarly. We would love to. We would love to

21:55 Speaker 14: have them out to Keen and come out to Manchester

21:57 Speaker 14: do a show.

21:57 Speaker 13: Oh yeah, they off with them.

21:58 Speaker 3: They're fantastic. Actually, I think they're one of the I

22:01 Speaker 3: think they mentioned you guys because I think they're one

22:03 Speaker 3: of the bands we had on that mentioned you because,

22:05 Speaker 3: like I said, the name Modern Fools has come up

22:07 Speaker 3: a few times, but you know when you mentioned Steel

22:10 Speaker 3: Guitar made me think of that love it. Yeah, those

22:12 Speaker 3: guys they came to played live to you know, just

22:14 Speaker 3: two of them and it was amazing. But let's give

22:16 Speaker 3: this a spin. So this is yes, the World Radio premiere.

22:19 Speaker 3: This is my side and the band is Modern Fools.

22:32 Speaker 7: This emd.

22:38 Speaker 5: Outside inside you're so.

22:48 Speaker 7: No food.

22:50 Speaker 4: And blues.

22:54 Speaker 5: Nobody he's waiting.

22:57 Speaker 2: Bad like turns in to.

23:07 Speaker 7: Country, So.

23:10 Speaker 5: Stop inside you're.

23:15 Speaker 7: Why am I still sleeping.

23:20 Speaker 10: My side of.

23:27 Speaker 7: This high? Any think.

23:34 Speaker 6: Drinking locks laches.

23:43 Speaker 5: Lucky when she said doing luck dragon hard gravel and ask.

23:53 Speaker 10: Him for the lord.

23:58 Speaker 5: My don't you saw still inside of you?

24:10 Speaker 7: Whoy I still sleep.

24:16 Speaker 5: Outside?

24:48 Speaker 7: Hard song? Why like don't stop.

24:56 Speaker 11: Five skip bambo sends you go when when go from

25:14 Speaker 11: the drink.

25:16 Speaker 5: Sad forget?

25:20 Speaker 7: Why by.

25:26 Speaker 6: My side of.

25:32 Speaker 5: Why cons you son.

25:39 Speaker 7: Stuck inside of? Why by my side of the thing?

25:53 Speaker 7: Why by you'll see my side of.

26:16 Speaker 13: That is my side.

26:17 Speaker 3: The band is Modern Fools, and we have two of

26:20 Speaker 3: the guys here. Do we have fifty per Is it

26:22 Speaker 3: a four piece or a five piece?

26:24 Speaker 13: It's a fluctuating five piece.

26:26 Speaker 3: Okay. We weren't sure because your bio says force them

26:30 Speaker 3: on the website. But then there's a picture on Facebook

26:33 Speaker 3: with five people.

26:34 Speaker 14: We can do shows with four. We like to do

26:36 Speaker 14: him with as many people as possible. Gotcha.

26:38 Speaker 13: We have a keyboard player that he's there sometimes he's there.

26:41 Speaker 3: Not Okay, I suspected it might be something like that

26:44 Speaker 3: because obviously the style of music that you do, the

26:46 Speaker 3: vibe and everything, you know, you've got that flexibility you

26:49 Speaker 3: can kind of you know, kind of do that. I've

26:52 Speaker 3: always been I've always been a little envious of that. Actually,

26:54 Speaker 3: you know, I used to play. I don't play anymore.

26:56 Speaker 3: I used to play a bunch of bands, But I

26:57 Speaker 3: was never in a project where we had that kind

26:59 Speaker 3: of thing where you know, you could you could, you

27:02 Speaker 3: could vary it and and still make it work no

27:05 Speaker 3: matter what, you know, and bring guest musicians on stage.

27:09 Speaker 14: And yeah, that's really the thing we got.

27:11 Speaker 15: We got.

27:12 Speaker 14: I mean, you don't say the four core because Nicky

27:15 Speaker 14: is Nicky's five, but but four of us can pull

27:20 Speaker 14: it off. We got steel players we can bring in.

27:22 Speaker 14: We have a great time, a couple of auxiliary vocalists

27:25 Speaker 14: and yeah, this yeah, fun thing to do.

27:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's cool to be able to do

27:30 Speaker 3: it that way. Are you guys playing out a lot?

27:32 Speaker 3: Are you doing a lot of shows?

27:33 Speaker 13: Uh, yeah, we're This is actually probably a good time

27:35 Speaker 13: to plug our next next week on the release date,

27:39 Speaker 13: the seventeenth, we're also doing a release show at the

27:41 Speaker 13: Bank of an h Stage conquered excellent. Yeah, and uh

27:45 Speaker 13: yeah that's with Slim Volume, as you know.

27:47 Speaker 3: Oh yes, they were on with us last week and

27:49 Speaker 3: they were talking about that.

27:50 Speaker 14: Yeah, they're amazing. Absolutely love those boys.

27:53 Speaker 13: Yeah, and then we got Rachel Berlin from Conquered Area.

27:55 Speaker 13: She's opening the show. It's gonna be amazing.

27:58 Speaker 3: I interviewed her a long time ago.

28:01 Speaker 13: I think still at it. Yeah, she's great.

28:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, I interviewed I interviewed her on the same show.

28:06 Speaker 3: I interviewed you on Oh yeah yah Center Band, but yeah,

28:09 Speaker 3: probably around that same time period. Actually wow, okay, well

28:13 Speaker 3: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, oh very cool, very cool. Do

28:17 Speaker 3: you guys play everything from the from the EP? Do

28:19 Speaker 3: you do all the songs?

28:20 Speaker 13: Oh yeah, we will so, and we'll have the full band.

28:23 Speaker 13: We've got keys and pedal steel, and our friend Jocelyn

28:26 Speaker 13: is gonna be singing with us that night too, so

28:28 Speaker 13: where we've got the whole old lineup and it's uh yeah,

28:31 Speaker 13: it's gonna be a good night excellent.

28:33 Speaker 3: Is that an NH Music Collective show? It is, oh,

28:35 Speaker 3: very cool.

28:36 Speaker 13: Yeah.

28:36 Speaker 3: Yeah. We had John MacArthur on the show and uh boy,

28:39 Speaker 3: he that guy's busy.

28:41 Speaker 14: Huh yeah, give me it moving absolutely absolutely.

28:46 Speaker 3: Do you guys do any covers when you play out

28:48 Speaker 3: or a couple?

28:49 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, well we'll throw some covers in, especially like

28:51 Speaker 13: if it's a longer night. You know, we'll add some

28:53 Speaker 13: some covers and stuff. What do you guys do for covers?

28:56 Speaker 14: Well, Josh has has the cover edict of if if

28:59 Speaker 14: you can hear my dad playing with his band, we're

29:02 Speaker 14: not allowed.

29:03 Speaker 13: To cover it. That's true.

29:07 Speaker 14: I don't know. I I feel like it's uh no,

29:09 Speaker 14: we gotta We got a luxury liner by the International

29:14 Speaker 14: Submarine Band, which is the cosmic country stuff.

29:16 Speaker 3: Okay, Graham Parsons, you know the band Big Star is

29:19 Speaker 3: that I know of them. I don't think I've ever

29:21 Speaker 3: listened to it.

29:22 Speaker 6: So we do.

29:22 Speaker 14: Uh we do in the Street, which is also that

29:25 Speaker 14: seventies show. Uh opener, Oh cheap Trick does the opener.

29:30 Speaker 14: But Big Star wrote the song. Oh we got that one.

29:33 Speaker 14: We did a share song for a little bit.

29:35 Speaker 3: Yeah we really Yeah what what share song?

29:37 Speaker 13: Believe?

29:39 Speaker 3: Really interesting?

29:41 Speaker 14: Put Josh through an auto tune and.

29:43 Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. We mix it up. We

29:47 Speaker 13: tried to changes seasonally.

29:50 Speaker 15: Yeah.

29:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, I just realized you've got your your water bottle.

29:53 Speaker 3: It says clearly country on it. Do Yeah, that's the sticker,

29:57 Speaker 3: that's the sign. Oh okay, if you haven't seen the cover,

29:59 Speaker 3: that's the I did I did see the cover. Yeah,

30:02 Speaker 3: oh that's cool.

30:02 Speaker 14: Josh's mantra is always be selling.

30:05 Speaker 3: Yep, so you can you can put that sticker on

30:07 Speaker 3: anything really and uh, and then you've got branded merch.

30:11 Speaker 13: I love that.

30:12 Speaker 14: Also, come get stickers and brand your own merch.

30:14 Speaker 3: There you go. Ye, Now are there hard copies available

30:18 Speaker 3: of the Are you doing CDs or is it strictly digital.

30:20 Speaker 13: Or yeah, we're doing CDs. I think we will do

30:22 Speaker 13: vinyl eventually. It's just that it takes a little while

30:25 Speaker 13: to get the vinyl in your hands these days. Yeah,

30:28 Speaker 13: but yeah, we got CDs and we're actually tomorrow we're

30:31 Speaker 13: actually going to be over at the Music Connection to Manchester. Okay,

30:35 Speaker 13: we're doing like a little in store performance thing, so

30:39 Speaker 13: it's worth worth mentioned if you're in the Manchester area

30:41 Speaker 13: two pm, two pm. Gonna play a few songs and uh,

30:45 Speaker 13: we're giving away a pair of tickets to the show,

30:47 Speaker 13: and I think they're going to add in some other.

30:49 Speaker 14: Yeah, we've been told it'll be a cool little event

30:51 Speaker 14: by John over there.

30:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. Where is I haven't been in there

30:57 Speaker 3: and I feel like a very like I don't even

30:59 Speaker 3: remember where it is.

31:00 Speaker 13: Exactly. I've never been.

31:02 Speaker 14: Yeah, so we're not we're not Manchester local, right, I

31:04 Speaker 14: mean you're Peterburger. I've been in Music Connection a couple times.

31:07 Speaker 14: And he's also got a Turner's Fall store, which is cool.

31:10 Speaker 13: Oh, I'll look up the address, why not, might as

31:14 Speaker 13: well put it Yeah, put it up there.

31:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, let me do that so I know it's not

31:17 Speaker 3: on ELM. I'm just trying to think. I think I've

31:20 Speaker 3: been there. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I haven't.

31:23 Speaker 14: I mean, it's it's a cool store, it's it's it's

31:26 Speaker 14: very much stuck in that like we are a record shop.

31:29 Speaker 7: Yeah.

31:29 Speaker 14: We love being a record shop mentality, and I love that.

31:33 Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, it's super great. We'll be there. We'll have

31:36 Speaker 13: some hard copies of the CDs, which is kind of

31:38 Speaker 13: funny because I don't think people are going there to

31:40 Speaker 13: buy CDs. But right right, maybe.

31:44 Speaker 14: Seventeen eleven South Willow across from the mall, New Him

31:48 Speaker 14: or oh okay, Music Connection.

31:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, I have been in there. I remember going in

31:53 Speaker 3: there now. Yeah, because I can now you said the address,

31:56 Speaker 3: I can picture it right right across from the mall. Yeah,

31:58 Speaker 3: that's very cool and it's great that there's still places

32:01 Speaker 3: around that.

32:02 Speaker 13: Do that, you know, definitely.

32:04 Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people probably don't even

32:06 Speaker 3: realize that there's still places around to do that. So

32:08 Speaker 3: that's awesome, dude.

32:09 Speaker 14: I still pull up all those old Wilco in store

32:12 Speaker 14: performances to watch back. Those are some of the greatest

32:14 Speaker 14: ones really.

32:15 Speaker 8: Yeah.

32:15 Speaker 14: Yeah, they're so neat.

32:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, very cool? Are those on those?

32:19 Speaker 14: You can find them on YouTube? Yeah, they hear in

32:22 Speaker 14: a band do a stripped down thing. Yeah, it's fun.

32:24 Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely absolutely. You guys want to pick another one?

32:28 Speaker 3: We should play another one?

32:29 Speaker 13: Yeah, John, why do you pick one?

32:31 Speaker 14: I already told you what I want to pick.

32:33 Speaker 13: Well, it's your turn, all right.

32:34 Speaker 14: So I wanted to give a shine to the other

32:37 Speaker 14: two guys who couldn't be here today, Justin who's a

32:41 Speaker 14: great drummer, and hopefully we'd play Ballroom because that's an

32:44 Speaker 14: unbelievable drum drum track. But Ian did the lead off

32:48 Speaker 14: on this one, which is Don't Let Your Love Run Cold,

32:51 Speaker 14: so Josh wrote it. But Ian, who is our bassist,

32:55 Speaker 14: is just an unbelievable vocal ranger.

32:59 Speaker 8: So this is it.

33:00 Speaker 14: Yeah, this is a not a long song, but it's

33:03 Speaker 14: always fun to give shine to the guys that can

33:05 Speaker 14: do stuff that's incredible.

33:06 Speaker 13: It's uh, you didn't even say the song I didn't

33:09 Speaker 13: run it Run Cold, Run Cold? The first track there,

33:12 Speaker 13: it is. It's a it's kind of a funny one

33:13 Speaker 13: to play on the radio. It's all vocal arrangement.

33:16 Speaker 3: Yeah, it is short. It's it's only a minute and

33:18 Speaker 3: a half. But uh yeah, and it opens the album

33:20 Speaker 3: opens the album. Yeah, very cool. All right, let's give

33:22 Speaker 3: this a listen. This is Ron Cold. The band is

33:25 Speaker 3: Modern Fools.

33:26 Speaker 2: Don't let your run Cold, keep your heart.

33:36 Speaker 10: Turn five to cold, Don't let you run cold.

33:46 Speaker 2: It's this lives.

33:52 Speaker 16: You hell mine, stay by your se.

34:02 Speaker 2: Is this live a lie?

34:07 Speaker 10: If food?

34:12 Speaker 7: Who hell are you love?

34:18 Speaker 14: We are groups.

34:22 Speaker 5: Involving food.

34:27 Speaker 17: Don't let you love from Cold, keep your heart of cold, turning.

34:38 Speaker 5: Fire to cold, Don't let you love roum Cold.

34:50 Speaker 3: That is Run Cold. That is Modern Fools. And we've

34:52 Speaker 3: got Josh and John from the band Modern Fools with

34:55 Speaker 3: us here in studio. That's nice. I like the I

34:59 Speaker 3: do like the vocal. So it was a little bit

35:00 Speaker 3: although it's not all vocals, there was a little bit

35:02 Speaker 3: of guitar.

35:02 Speaker 14: A little guitar in there.

35:03 Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like in the back room sounding

35:06 Speaker 13: Yeah yeah.

35:07 Speaker 14: That one we intentionally recorded huddled around in old microphone.

35:11 Speaker 14: Oh no, if it sounded like it, it does, I

35:14 Speaker 14: can I can picture it. I can definitely picture it.

35:17 Speaker 3: No, that's cool. Have you guys done any Yeah, you

35:20 Speaker 3: could do some interesting visuals with that. Have you guys

35:22 Speaker 3: done any videos for any of these or not? For these?

35:25 Speaker 13: We have done some interesting music videos in the past.

35:28 Speaker 13: We've had some fun with that, but uh yeah. We

35:31 Speaker 13: recently did a like a live session. We took over

35:34 Speaker 13: the Hancock Depot, which is in Hancock, New Hampshire. Yeah,

35:37 Speaker 13: it's an old train depot and they have like a

35:39 Speaker 13: it's a really cool little cabaret style venue. They have

35:42 Speaker 13: a stage, but we took over like basically like the

35:44 Speaker 13: living room there, which is like this turn of the

35:46 Speaker 13: century looking railroad station. It's like all this old stuff

35:51 Speaker 13: in there, and we uh yeah. We brought in some

35:54 Speaker 13: friends and film crew and recorded the whole thing. So

35:56 Speaker 13: we're starting to release that and they'll be sort of

35:59 Speaker 13: a like a full band live video shoot. That's we're

36:02 Speaker 13: gonna slowly start putting out.

36:04 Speaker 14: Oh okay, So to recap. We recorded the album live

36:08 Speaker 14: and then we re recorded the album live to release

36:12 Speaker 14: a video of it.

36:14 Speaker 3: No, that's cool though. How many songs did you record

36:17 Speaker 3: for the video?

36:18 Speaker 13: I think we did all We did eight because we

36:20 Speaker 13: added a cover in there, did the full album, and

36:23 Speaker 13: then we did an extra song.

36:24 Speaker 3: So are you going to release a full video at

36:26 Speaker 3: once or are you going to split that up?

36:28 Speaker 13: We'll split it up to you. We already released one. Yeah.

36:31 Speaker 13: We did a version of Ballroom Bender Blues, which is

36:33 Speaker 13: which is really cool. It's just that oh, very cool

36:36 Speaker 13: visual and it was just a fun experience.

36:38 Speaker 15: It was.

36:38 Speaker 13: Yeah, we have a little content to keep the content

36:42 Speaker 13: train rolling after the fact.

36:43 Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, well that's important. Absolutely, it's very important

36:46 Speaker 3: to do that, do you guys? I ask everybody this question,

36:49 Speaker 3: but I'm always curious. Are there any other bands in

36:52 Speaker 3: the area that you kind of you know, it often

36:55 Speaker 3: happens organically, but anybody you've kind of teamed up with

36:57 Speaker 3: that you happen to play a lot of shows with it.

37:00 Speaker 13: Well, we started playing with our friends Coyote Smoke, who

37:04 Speaker 13: are a newer band from the Sea Coast.

37:06 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't know them. Yeah, great cool name.

37:08 Speaker 13: Yeah, they're brand new, and they they're also like playing

37:12 Speaker 13: with the regals as well, so like we're all kind

37:15 Speaker 13: of tied in in that regard and sort of creating

37:18 Speaker 13: this this new scene hopefully, like this interesting kind of

37:21 Speaker 13: old country thing that's that's forming.

37:24 Speaker 14: There's Slim Volume, who we love those guys. There's the

37:28 Speaker 14: Rear Defrosters. They're out of Vermont, but they are I mean,

37:36 Speaker 14: they're kind of like the spiritual country grandfathers of the area.

37:41 Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, I mean, like we're we're getting on the

37:44 Speaker 14: the old uncle territory. But but these guys were doing

37:49 Speaker 14: this kind of stuff like you know, the early two

37:51 Speaker 14: thousands and now actually one of them owns one of

37:56 Speaker 14: the venues in Keene called Nova Arts. I don't know

37:58 Speaker 14: if you've been there. It's great play.

38:00 Speaker 3: I've heard about it. I've not been there, but.

38:02 Speaker 14: If you like that, And because New Hampshire is so small,

38:06 Speaker 14: once a month there's actually a honky tonk Night by

38:08 Speaker 14: the Rear Defrosters over there. Worth a trip over for sure.

38:12 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Vermont.

38:14 Speaker 14: They are Brattleborough Putney, Okay, you know the hill people.

38:18 Speaker 13: Yeah, no, that's cool.

38:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't heard of them either. I'll have to

38:22 Speaker 3: look them up. That's cool. Do you do you ever

38:26 Speaker 3: play shows with bands that you don't necessarily fit like.

38:30 Speaker 13: It's happened for sure.

38:31 Speaker 7: Yeah.

38:32 Speaker 13: You know, sometimes venues will just put together a show

38:34 Speaker 13: and yeah, but for the most part, people are pretty

38:37 Speaker 13: in tune with like trying to get us, you know,

38:41 Speaker 13: onto like like similar bills. We we did a thing

38:45 Speaker 13: with say z U Zoo on Stone Church where those

38:49 Speaker 13: guys are great.

38:49 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.

38:51 Speaker 13: All country legends in New Hampshire basically and yeah, yeah,

38:55 Speaker 13: so hopefully we'll do some more stuff with them this

38:57 Speaker 13: summer and yeah, and John Nolan's Eye Project band as well.

39:01 Speaker 14: Okay, yeah, I think probably the weirdest ones that we've

39:05 Speaker 14: been paired up to are those ones were supporting like

39:09 Speaker 14: major national acts coming through. But you know those are

39:13 Speaker 14: just like we're we're happy to be on the stage.

39:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like, what what are some nationals you've you've

39:20 Speaker 3: gotten open for?

39:21 Speaker 14: Well, I mean this one's not weird, but Steve Earl

39:23 Speaker 14: was a fun one to that was very cool.

39:28 Speaker 13: Ryan Montlu Yeah.

39:30 Speaker 14: He's he's a Boston guy. We did last year Fogerty

39:35 Speaker 14: and thorough Good.

39:37 Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a meadow Brook.

39:38 Speaker 14: It was a Meadow Brooks So we were on the

39:40 Speaker 14: hazy stage at that one. But that one was a

39:42 Speaker 14: lot of fun.

39:42 Speaker 3: That's pretty good.

39:43 Speaker 14: Yeah, we we left pretty bad to the bone.

39:45 Speaker 13: On that day, John and I did a duo set

39:48 Speaker 13: opening for Charlie Parr. Are you familiar with Charlie park

39:51 Speaker 13: I don't think he's amazing.

39:53 Speaker 14: Oh man, resonator, guitar champion of the world.

39:58 Speaker 13: Oh yeah, what what? What was it?

40:02 Speaker 14: So, so there's there's only a few guys like this

40:04 Speaker 14: out there, but he's been a folk musician for so long,

40:07 Speaker 14: and I'm gonna tell his story. I know I shouldn't,

40:10 Speaker 14: but whatever, He's not coming on here in the next

40:12 Speaker 14: month or two, so we're safe. Yeah, but we're So

40:14 Speaker 14: We're sitting in the green room in the back of

40:15 Speaker 14: a venue in Lowell with him and he's like, you know,

40:18 Speaker 14: I did a two hundred and fifty dates last year,

40:21 Speaker 14: and I was like, that's a lot, man. He goes, yeah,

40:23 Speaker 14: I call it the divorce here because when I got home,

40:27 Speaker 14: my wife handed me the keys and said her boyfriend

40:29 Speaker 14: moved in.

40:30 Speaker 3: Oh my god.

40:31 Speaker 14: But like like the kind of like the kind of

40:33 Speaker 14: life that leads to those stories comes out in his

40:36 Speaker 14: music and and like there's a lot of fun guys, right,

40:39 Speaker 14: you know here here in Bad to the Bone is fun.

40:41 Speaker 14: But when you hear a guy that's you know, playing

40:43 Speaker 14: the two hundred and fifty people and has him captivated

40:45 Speaker 14: with a resonator guitar, like there's something special about what

40:50 Speaker 14: Charlie's doing.

40:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll follok him up.

40:52 Speaker 14: Charlie Park, Charlie Park.

40:53 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yeah, I'll fook him up. Very cool,

40:56 Speaker 3: very cool. If you're just joining us. We've got two

40:58 Speaker 3: of the guys from Modern Fools, Josh and John are

41:01 Speaker 3: here with us in studio, and we got time. Let's

41:05 Speaker 3: play another one? Should we? You mentioned ballroom blender blues?

41:08 Speaker 3: Should we play that? Yeah?

41:09 Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a good one.

41:10 Speaker 3: We'll do that one next this one. I seem to

41:13 Speaker 3: recall this one standing out? And where should people go

41:17 Speaker 3: while I'm loading that up? Where's the best place for

41:19 Speaker 3: people to go online to keep up with everything you

41:20 Speaker 3: guys are doing?

41:21 Speaker 13: If you ask Jeeves about us, well, I mean we're

41:26 Speaker 13: on Spotify, in Apple Music or you know all the

41:29 Speaker 13: places you can listen.

41:30 Speaker 14: But yeah, we're doing it like most bands, Instagram and Facebook.

41:33 Speaker 14: If you want news about us and Spotify and Apple.

41:35 Speaker 14: If you want to listen to our stuff band camp,

41:38 Speaker 14: if you actually want to send us money instead of

41:40 Speaker 14: sending it to.

41:40 Speaker 3: Spotify, there you go, There you go, which is not

41:43 Speaker 3: a bad idea.

41:43 Speaker 14: We love it and merch too, that's always cool.

41:47 Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's give this a listen. This is

41:49 Speaker 3: called Ballroom Bender Blues and the band is Modern Fools.

42:10 Speaker 8: Some lock booze at the end of the day. Some

42:17 Speaker 8: lock booze, take pain away. Some folks drinking ride last away.

42:30 Speaker 18: Trembling hands will start to shake, shaky hands.

42:38 Speaker 7: Don't do no chores.

42:43 Speaker 8: Got me a friend that liquor store. Jack, be nimble

42:52 Speaker 8: jack bee quay squid and be really does trip showers.

43:03 Speaker 10: Well me the strong pull of your dan, not that.

43:14 Speaker 7: The dance round chicken for the broom loning like my

43:24 Speaker 7: shop got to ball room bat.

43:48 Speaker 19: Have tools, raise your glass, pour it on the ground

43:56 Speaker 19: for your brands, avants, round the rocks.

44:03 Speaker 7: Strong man.

44:08 Speaker 5: Brow comes gum boots.

44:10 Speaker 13: Games so.

44:14 Speaker 10: Fully and a strong.

44:19 Speaker 16: Your pads and shoes numbers das lamp shaking for the

44:29 Speaker 16: booze loading like my shadow.

44:36 Speaker 7: Down those ball roomman boots.

44:44 Speaker 11: Don't be no Truster, lack of still bides and door.

44:51 Speaker 1: Lost myles, games, stummy, some food, pull me in the strong,

45:19 Speaker 1: you love your dancing shoes number to the dance you

45:29 Speaker 1: lock shaking, boof.

45:35 Speaker 5: Loading lock my shot.

45:37 Speaker 7: Guns got both body man.

45:43 Speaker 16: Loading lock my shotguse got those bay.

45:52 Speaker 20: Man, I love it Ballroom Bender Blues.

46:06 Speaker 3: The band is Modern Fools, and we've got Josh and

46:09 Speaker 3: John from the band here with us in studio on

46:12 Speaker 3: this Saturday morning here on Matt Connorton Unleashed and now

46:16 Speaker 3: it's definitely got that live vibe. Well, especially at the

46:19 Speaker 3: end of course when you hear live people.

46:21 Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah. We wanted to be like those old

46:24 Speaker 13: like Hank Williams records where you got a hoot and

46:26 Speaker 13: holler and yeah, it's like all his buddies are in

46:29 Speaker 13: the room.

46:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's very cool. You definitely you definitely captured that. Hey,

46:33 Speaker 3: by the way, where does the name come from? Modern Fools?

46:35 Speaker 3: What's the meaning?

46:36 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's not very deep really. The original logo that

46:42 Speaker 13: we had was the waffle house logo, you know, like

46:45 Speaker 13: the sign is just like the big sign with the letters,

46:47 Speaker 13: and I don't know, initially it was just I knew

46:51 Speaker 13: I wanted that sign to be the logo, so I

46:53 Speaker 13: was figuring out different letters that fit within that sign. Okay,

46:57 Speaker 13: that's that's pretty much it.

46:58 Speaker 14: Oh okay, And then over the last few years we've

47:00 Speaker 14: really grown into the name.

47:02 Speaker 3: So really absolutely for sure, there you go, there you go.

47:07 Speaker 3: Are you guys already obviously you know this this EP

47:10 Speaker 3: is just about to come out, But are you already

47:12 Speaker 3: working on new stuff? You strike me as guys, you

47:14 Speaker 3: probably have a lot of ideas.

47:16 Speaker 13: Definitely, there's there's some stuff in the works. I think

47:18 Speaker 13: we're gonna start putting their nose at the grindstone very soon.

47:21 Speaker 13: And yep, that's the next thing we've got.

47:25 Speaker 14: We've got hopefully some covers that we're gonna be dropping

47:28 Speaker 14: over the over the next few months. Josh has had

47:32 Speaker 14: a tumultuous twenty twenty four that that led to some

47:36 Speaker 14: songs coming out, so uh so we're gonna be working

47:39 Speaker 14: on some demos of that too, hopefully hopefully some new

47:42 Speaker 14: music coming out in the fallish.

47:43 Speaker 13: Ye, we're doing a Midwestern emo kind of thing for sure.

47:46 Speaker 14: Oh my god, just kidding, but we just do like

47:52 Speaker 14: full switch arounds every time you're do an album.

47:55 Speaker 13: I don't mind that though. I like, there's some bands

47:57 Speaker 13: out there that do that. There's just like one album

48:00 Speaker 13: like a punk album for no reason, and the next

48:02 Speaker 13: one is a country album.

48:03 Speaker 14: You oh yeah, like you're long for the Red.

48:06 Speaker 13: Daniel Romano is one of those.

48:09 Speaker 14: Yeah.

48:10 Speaker 3: Well even you know, last week we had Slim Volume,

48:12 Speaker 3: and you know, we're talking about the difference and the

48:14 Speaker 3: two EPs that they released, and you know, even they

48:17 Speaker 3: kind of went for a different not drastically different, you know,

48:20 Speaker 3: but kind of different vibes with each EP.

48:24 Speaker 14: I mean, at the end of the day, it's still

48:25 Speaker 14: the same guys playing the same instruments, right Like, so, yeah,

48:29 Speaker 14: you only get so much variation, right.

48:33 Speaker 13: Well, we all we thought we'd jump on the train

48:35 Speaker 13: with Post Malone and Beyonce doing country albums. So here

48:38 Speaker 13: you go. Why can't wait?

48:39 Speaker 3: That's your real inspiration, right post Malone and beyond That's it.

48:45 Speaker 3: We should remind people before we run out of time

48:48 Speaker 3: about the the EP release officially and of course the

48:53 Speaker 3: event coming up at Music Connection and all that.

48:56 Speaker 13: Yeah, So just to plug everything real quick, tomorrow we're

48:59 Speaker 13: going to be at the news It Connection in Manchester

49:01 Speaker 13: across the street from the mall down by the mall

49:03 Speaker 13: down by the mall, and yeah, we're gonna be giving

49:06 Speaker 13: away We're gonna be playing some songs. We're gonna give

49:09 Speaker 13: away some tickets to our January seventeenth release show, which

49:13 Speaker 13: is in Concord, Hampshire at the Bank of NH Stage

49:15 Speaker 13: with Slim Volume Rachel Berlin. It's gonna be a killer

49:20 Speaker 13: show and the actual physical album will be out everywhere

49:24 Speaker 13: and you can steal it wherever you steal music from.

49:27 Speaker 3: Oh excellent, very good, very good. And of course you

49:31 Speaker 3: guys are easy to find online and everything is on

49:34 Speaker 3: all the major streaming platforms and so forth.

49:37 Speaker 13: As long as you can spell modern fools, you're in

49:39 Speaker 13: for a tree.

49:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, very good. Well, guys, I want to thank you

49:43 Speaker 3: so much for coming in, Thanks for having us. This

49:45 Speaker 3: is absolutely we will do it again in the future.

49:48 Speaker 3: And what should we end the segment with. We've got

49:50 Speaker 3: a couple we haven't played yet. I love all these,

49:53 Speaker 3: Like I said, I listened to the Holy p It's great.

49:55 Speaker 13: Yeah, I guess maybe we close out with She's No Saint.

49:59 Speaker 3: Yeah on that.

50:00 Speaker 13: It's it's an interesting uh, maybe a spiteful song that

50:04 Speaker 13: I wrote about a conversation I had with my high

50:07 Speaker 13: school sweetheart who broke my heart, and I told her

50:11 Speaker 13: mother that her daughter was the devil.

50:13 Speaker 14: Oh, like I said, twenty twenty four has been hard

50:15 Speaker 14: for josh heart. Yeah, a long time ago, but I

50:19 Speaker 14: still feel it. So all right, very good, So we'll

50:22 Speaker 14: we'll end with that in a moment. And Jenny, you

50:24 Speaker 14: want to plug your website. You've got You've got a

50:27 Speaker 14: lot going on, as our regular listeners know.

50:29 Speaker 3: Yes I do. You can check out more about me

50:31 Speaker 3: at gencoffee dot com.

50:33 Speaker 2: J E n n c O F f e y

50:35 Speaker 2: dot com.

50:36 Speaker 3: And uh, last week at this time we were talking

50:38 Speaker 3: about your interview, which you've done now for status kup yep,

50:41 Speaker 3: that's up and on YouTube. Yes, check it out. Jordan

50:45 Speaker 3: is an excellent, excellent host and I watch them regularly. Yeah, yeah,

50:49 Speaker 3: it's really good. So if you haven't seen it or

50:50 Speaker 3: listen to it, you should definitely definitely check it out.

50:53 Speaker 3: All right, Modern fools guys, thank you again, and uh

50:57 Speaker 3: we will close out today. Oh and if, of course,

51:00 Speaker 3: if you miss any part of today's show'll be up

51:02 Speaker 3: in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot orgon on

51:06 Speaker 3: my website Mattconnorton dot com but we will.

51:08 Speaker 13: Close with this.

51:09 Speaker 3: This is called She's no saying bye modern fools, Oh

51:26 Speaker 3: love of mine.

51:28 Speaker 2: Where have have you been?

51:33 Speaker 5: Swelclock not closing?

51:40 Speaker 2: Call your name?

51:42 Speaker 5: Thees came?

51:49 Speaker 13: Where have it.

51:54 Speaker 7: Under?

51:56 Speaker 6: Chective join door line still gone before.

52:07 Speaker 5: My balance, tie the woods.

52:11 Speaker 12: It's gone away forest.

52:22 Speaker 6: Daughter has a devil in the ride, wicked hearts store apart.

52:31 Speaker 8: My life.

52:35 Speaker 10: Excu still be.

52:37 Speaker 15: The sweetest scale I know. Daughter is still full. Download

53:03 Speaker 15: cigar tweets linen.

53:10 Speaker 2: Can't pregat.

53:13 Speaker 7: Man within.

53:17 Speaker 18: Soon, Remain from the hilly do cheating hard life next

53:27 Speaker 18: to you.

53:31 Speaker 6: Daughter half devil in the ride, cheating hard store?

53:40 Speaker 7: Are my life?

53:44 Speaker 10: You still me?

53:46 Speaker 5: Sweetish gab?

53:47 Speaker 15: I know.

53:51 Speaker 5: Daughter is double down. Don't call me the mornings because.

54:01 Speaker 2: I'm crying in my bed.

54:07 Speaker 5: Left with final mornings and I'd rather receive.

54:16 Speaker 7: Red hair.

54:17 Speaker 2: Shoot took me.

54:19 Speaker 7: She never was my friend.

54:24 Speaker 9: Devils and details, hell fis.

54:29 Speaker 8: And devils and details, all the five came in in

54:51 Speaker 8: my life for us, Such a strange time.

54:56 Speaker 5: My stranger.

55:00 Speaker 8: Came locker song that has never been written, melody such

55:11 Speaker 8: waking up in the hotel, fall across the pall.

55:20 Speaker 5: Seven weeks, I'll travel sticking me while I'm going.

55:29 Speaker 7: Into the room.

55:30 Speaker 5: Yo, the first thing.

55:31 Speaker 8: I noticed lighting up to the room. Life hast ways

55:40 Speaker 8: teaching this lessons.

55:43 Speaker 5: Teach me something.

55:48 Speaker 8: Dreaming and feel clover dreaming all light. Now, I'm not

55:57 Speaker 8: asking you to be true sickly wild we men knew

56:25 Speaker 8: my life.

56:26 Speaker 5: They are such a strange time you stretching me. I'd

56:33 Speaker 5: write you a song.

56:35 Speaker 7: But you've had every damn.

56:37 Speaker 5: Life with harmony sus.

56:43 Speaker 8: Waking up in a different country, waking up band doll,

56:52 Speaker 8: four weeks.

56:53 Speaker 5: Till on Eastern standing, sickly gone.

57:03 Speaker 2: Sticking the while.

57:08 Speaker 21: Sticky the love sick while well, I could sleep the

57:37 Speaker 21: dream up the place since I have been, And I

57:43 Speaker 21: can't hear.

57:46 Speaker 9: Called my name, but i'll hear voice. It's just the same.

57:57 Speaker 9: I'm the owl, the town.

58:00 Speaker 5: Stranger in my home, wonder rounders.

58:08 Speaker 4: M ride.

58:11 Speaker 13: Yeah, so.

58:15 Speaker 12: I'll not sundos down. It's food in time, it's feed.

58:42 Speaker 12: You only think that's on my mind.

58:47 Speaker 5: Passive blue, ain't.

58:51 Speaker 6: No surprise, howl land deep down inside.

59:01 Speaker 8: On the out of town.

59:05 Speaker 2: Stranger and marvel wall surround.

59:12 Speaker 7: Rib r y s now that travele lock it s

59:26 Speaker 7: TI just came make a sound.

59:32 Speaker 5: Son s e spot just came Send it down on

59:38 Speaker 5: the out time stranger and novel

59:45 Speaker 7: Lon River