Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-26-24 hour 3
Game Plan
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Speaker 2: Did you do this to us? I? I gave you
Speaker 2: a mas riised?
Speaker 3: Do you remember when you said I've never hurt you
Speaker 3: like it?
Speaker 4: Did?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: You? I?
Speaker 2: I I again.
Speaker 1: And I'll say I'm okay, but I.
Speaker 5: Always feel this way, and I'll say.
Speaker 6: I'm all right, but I'll always wonder why I can
Speaker 6: give them all my half food?
Speaker 3: It's never enough?
Speaker 7: Did she harmony give them a missing something?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Why would you tell me I'm the one.
Speaker 3: Just for you.
Speaker 1: To go and tear this whole thing up?
Speaker 8: I know I wasn't perfect, but I loved you with
Speaker 8: my best Oh yes side.
Speaker 5: And I'll say I'm okay, but I'll always feel this way,
Speaker 5: and I'll say.
Speaker 1: I'm all right, but I'll always.
Speaker 7: Wonder why I can give them a half boo. It's
Speaker 7: never enough to treat her morning? Give them a missing
Speaker 7: some bad.
Speaker 3: Sudden a thing. God'll never be good enough? The same
Speaker 3: old story escape ugh.
Speaker 5: And I'll say I'm okay, but I'll always feel this way,
Speaker 5: and I'll.
Speaker 7: Say I'm all right, but I'll always wonder I can
Speaker 7: eat them on half food. It's never enough? Did she
Speaker 7: her morning give him a missing something?
Speaker 1: What's wrong?
Speaker 3: With my love?
Speaker 9: What's wrong with my love?
Speaker 3: Will I ever be?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 11: Oh? That is beautiful?
Speaker 12: Am I missing something? That is Rebecca Turmel and this
Speaker 12: is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are well into our third
Speaker 12: hour New Marrow Trace here on this Saturday, October twenty six,
Speaker 12: twenty twenty four. Almost forgot what yeah of the month
Speaker 12: it was, Jenny. That's weird of.
Speaker 11: Me considering it's your part.
Speaker 12: I know, I know, but we we are live, We
Speaker 12: are live here and thank you again, of course you
Speaker 12: are October sun.
Speaker 11: Is great to see those guys in the second hour.
Speaker 12: In the first hour we had Plague Dad and now
Speaker 12: joining us alive in studio here for the third hour
Speaker 12: we have Rebecca Turmel.
Speaker 11: Hello, welcome, Well, I can't hear you. Why can't I
Speaker 11: hear you? Let's try that. Oh gorgeous there there she is. Okay,
Speaker 11: I can hear you now. Hi, Welcome to the show, Rebecca.
Speaker 9: Thank you, thank you for having me. It's it's awesome
Speaker 9: to be here. Yes, talk music.
Speaker 11: And no, wonderful, wonderful to have you.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's that's a beautiful song you had mentioned, uh
Speaker 12: off air, I think something about is that the first
Speaker 12: song you recorded.
Speaker 9: Yes, So that's the first song that I went into
Speaker 9: the studio with. I was terrified. My guitar had never
Speaker 9: been in a recording studio. Yeah, that was a little
Speaker 9: over two years ago. Now I released that and Jil
Speaker 9: of twenty twenty two, so it's it's been a bit
Speaker 9: and it's been a journey so far.
Speaker 11: Where did you record that?
Speaker 9: I record that at the Underground in Randolph, Vermont with Vincent.
Speaker 9: He's incredible and such a great space over there.
Speaker 12: Now, how did you How did you come to record there?
Speaker 12: Because you know, you've got so many options as far
Speaker 12: as studios or or even home recording or there's so
Speaker 12: many different ways now to record.
Speaker 11: What led you to record there?
Speaker 9: I well, first of all, I know absolutely nothing about
Speaker 9: recording any of that fun stuff. So a good friend
Speaker 9: of mine who I brought the song to, Jim Yeager.
Speaker 9: He's been in the music industry for well over forty
Speaker 9: years now. He recommended Vinnie because I just needed a
Speaker 9: place where I could feel comfortable because I was so
Speaker 9: frightened to get into the studio for the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so he's like, get us to the other ground. It's
Speaker 9: a great spot and they have a great acoustic sound.
Speaker 9: So I'm like, all right, let's do it. And I
Speaker 9: ended up falling in love with the space and I'm
Speaker 9: really glad with that choice that I made to go
Speaker 9: to the Underground.
Speaker 12: Yeah, now, did you because you sent us a couple
Speaker 12: other songs? Who were these all recorded there?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 9: Actually, I actually I've had the privilege of getting I
Speaker 9: got to record at Blackbird's studio in Nashville. But I
Speaker 9: also have recorded up Squam Sound with Randy Ruse. I've
Speaker 9: kind of tried a few different spaces and actually just
Speaker 9: this week I was at the Studio Portland in Portland,
Speaker 9: Main Oh, no kidding, So I just I like to
Speaker 9: try a new space with mostly each song, but wish
Speaker 9: you well. I also recorded at the Underground as well.
Speaker 12: The studio in Portland was that because John MacArthur. I
Speaker 12: think that's how we met. We met you through John, Yes, yes?
Speaker 12: Is that the studio where it's him and his son?
Speaker 9: I think yes, yes. Oh, the Sam MacArthur and John
Speaker 9: and his wife Weaver are also the co owners of
Speaker 9: that studio. Okay, but they do a great monthly event
Speaker 9: for singer songwriters in duo acts. You can go in
Speaker 9: and get a video live video and a live recording
Speaker 9: on one take in one night. But it's also an
Speaker 9: in studio audience in there too, so you get like this,
Speaker 9: it's awesome.
Speaker 11: Is it intimidating to do that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's a very small space.
Speaker 11: Right right, Yeah, but it.
Speaker 9: Was really cool because you got to just live in
Speaker 9: the moment with the music, but capture it as well
Speaker 9: and like with that professional sound in that professional video.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So you get a little bit of everything, which is nice,
Speaker 9: and especially when I'm a working a full time working
Speaker 9: musician need a lot of content, video content and stuff
Speaker 9: for my ePK. It was great to do.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, no doubt now you So I read your bio.
Speaker 12: Did you start out doing covers and then started doing originals?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I've been. Actually I just hit my seven
Speaker 9: year anniversary of playing out.
Speaker 11: Oh congratulations.
Speaker 9: I started off as a cover artist, a giga musician.
Speaker 9: My first gig was in my hometown at this Irish
Speaker 9: plub I worked at. It was Kathleen's now it's Kathleen's
Speaker 9: Irish Pub and I just I did that for a while.
Speaker 9: I would take songs that I loved, songs that were
Speaker 9: meaningful to me, and tried to make them my own, yeah,
Speaker 9: make performance with it. And I finally decided, Okay, I
Speaker 9: need to try writing my own stuff and seeing how
Speaker 9: that feels like. And it's definitely an entirely different experience.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's interesting because for a lot of singer songwriters,
Speaker 12: you know, a lot of people we talked to on
Speaker 12: the show, they start out with original music and then
Speaker 12: they wind up doing covers live because they kind of
Speaker 12: have to because it helps, you know, as far as
Speaker 12: getting gigs, and that's what a lot of venues want.
Speaker 12: So it's interesting for you it kind of went the
Speaker 12: other way. I mean, was it always your plan to
Speaker 12: ultimately do your own material or not?
Speaker 9: Really? It honestly wasn't even my plan to do music
Speaker 9: to begin with. I usually started off in the theater. Okay,
Speaker 9: so when I was a little girl at my first show,
Speaker 9: I think I was like nine years old, but I
Speaker 9: fell in love with performing, being on stage and in call.
Speaker 9: I dabbled with my guitar in high school, but I
Speaker 9: didn't really do much with it. I picked it back
Speaker 9: up and started playing songs and went to some open
Speaker 9: mics with some friends, some other theater kids, and because
Speaker 9: it's just fun, to do that stuff. Yeah, then I
Speaker 9: was getting gig opportunities. People asked me to play at
Speaker 9: their bars and restaurants, and it's just flourished into this
Speaker 9: whole journey, not only musical discovery but self discovery as well.
Speaker 12: And to be able to do that full time. It
Speaker 12: seems like this is because the other thing I was
Speaker 12: surprised reading your bio, it seems like, in the grand
Speaker 12: scheme of things, you haven't been at this that long,
Speaker 12: but it seems like you've been able to really, you know,
Speaker 12: have a lot of success very quickly with it, which
Speaker 12: is great.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I feel extremely fortunate that the opportunities that have
Speaker 9: come my way. It's it's just astounding to think of
Speaker 9: how far I have come because I've only been doing
Speaker 9: it full time for about two years now. Yeah, but
Speaker 9: I have a really great support system. I've had some
Speaker 9: wonderful mentors in my life that have really guided me
Speaker 9: and helped me so far, and I think helps with
Speaker 9: that trajectory to get yeah further along a little bit faster. Yeah,
Speaker 9: of course, I'm always nos on the grindstone, just yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Like like in terms of mentors, like like I
Speaker 12: assume John MacArthur is one.
Speaker 9: Right, Oh yeah, and brad Myrick as well. I actually
Speaker 9: am a self taught guitarist and I just recently decided, okay,
Speaker 9: it's time I really understand what I'm doing, and I've
Speaker 9: been diving into some guitar lessons as well.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But my my first mentor was also previously my manager,
Speaker 9: was Jimmy Aeger, and he was a blessing to have
Speaker 9: at the beginning because I've always like been so I'm
Speaker 9: so nervous about everything all the time. I don't need
Speaker 9: to be, but I am. It's just a trade of
Speaker 9: mind I can't seem to get rid of. But he
Speaker 9: did a really good job keeping me level headed and
Speaker 9: just and being honest with me. So it's been nice
Speaker 9: to have just people who are genuinely there and who care,
Speaker 9: and it's just it's I'm so grateful for everyone I've had.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, how do you find how do you
Speaker 12: find those people? Because I hear a lot of especially
Speaker 12: young musicians, say it's hard to find mentors or people
Speaker 12: they can really trust, Like have you just been fortunate
Speaker 12: or do you have some kind of you know, are
Speaker 12: you intuitive in a way where you know, Okay, this
Speaker 12: person I think is going to help me in their
Speaker 12: genuine and they, you know.
Speaker 11: Because there's a lot of I don't know sharks. I
Speaker 11: don't know how else to put it.
Speaker 9: You know what I mean, I know exactly what you mean.
Speaker 9: I think it's just been a mix of both just
Speaker 9: being fortunate and also I just I really love being
Speaker 9: a part of our music community, and I play a lot,
Speaker 9: but when I'm not playing, I really try to get
Speaker 9: out and see what else everyone else is doing, especially
Speaker 9: the full timers, because it's hard. So I love to
Speaker 9: show support. And with that, that's everyone that I've met
Speaker 9: who's going to my life that has really been through,
Speaker 9: like mutual music friends who have known them previously. So
Speaker 9: that's how I ran into Jim. And I was performing
Speaker 9: with a friend of mine. Uh, and he's just the
Speaker 9: friendliest person there is. So he goes around and talks
Speaker 9: to everybody, and yeah, I'm so glad that he introduced
Speaker 9: himself to me, and I wanted to with him. I'm
Speaker 9: missing something. I wanted an unbiased opinion, and I didn't
Speaker 9: really know Jim that well at that point. Yeah, so
Speaker 9: I sent him that song and he's like, don't release this.
Speaker 9: Can I meet with you and I'm like, what do
Speaker 9: you mean? And and he was just telling me how
Speaker 9: he wanted to help and he didn't want like he
Speaker 9: wished he had someone when he started out to not
Speaker 9: make the same mistakes that he did, and having the
Speaker 9: understanding of the industry, which is has changed so much,
Speaker 9: it's constantly changing. Yeah, but someone just has the understanding.
Speaker 9: So I've gotten lucky with meeting those people. It's just
Speaker 9: so funny you meet one person and then someone else
Speaker 9: comes into the picture. You can learn something from everyone,
Speaker 9: Oh really can?
Speaker 11: Yeah? Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 12: I think I think so much of being successful is
Speaker 12: is you know, putting out the right energy and attracting
Speaker 12: people into your you know, into your career and into
Speaker 12: your life, just generally who are also positive and uh
Speaker 12: you know, and and you know, like you said, you know,
Speaker 12: you meet one person and that leads to meeting another
Speaker 12: person and another person and it sounds like you've you've
Speaker 12: been able to meet uh people who are you know,
Speaker 12: like I said, genuine and and kind of build that
Speaker 12: support system. And like John MacArthur, we had him on
Speaker 12: the show. It was a few months ago now, and
Speaker 12: uh yeah he was great and just you know, just
Speaker 12: so positive and you know, because there is a lot
Speaker 12: of negativity too, in the sense that especially for for
Speaker 12: people who've been around a while, like like I have,
Speaker 12: the industry has changed a lot, you know, as technology
Speaker 12: has changed, the industry has changed, and you know, and
Speaker 12: there there is a lot of there's a lot of negativity.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of frustration, and and I think it's
Speaker 12: easy to get jaded, which a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 12: a lot of people do. Meanwhile, they're not sharks, they're
Speaker 12: just jaded, you know what I mean. So, so to
Speaker 12: be able to surround yourself with with positive people who
Speaker 12: want what's best for you and who want want what's
Speaker 12: best for the sea and really kind of see it
Speaker 12: as a community, I think is really important.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree with you. There there's if we're not
Speaker 9: connected with each other. To me, it's nothing is ever
Speaker 9: a competition either, and everyone has something to offer as
Speaker 9: a musician, and I really respect and admire anybody who
Speaker 9: just does this in any way, shape or form. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so I always I have I feel like I do
Speaker 9: have a good sense of just like understanding people and
Speaker 9: where they're coming from. Like you were saying, it is
Speaker 9: really hard to to not get take things personally, especially
Speaker 9: if someone doesn't like your music or your sound. Sure sure, so,
Speaker 9: Like you said, surrounding yourself with like a positive group
Speaker 9: of people who are going after the same thing, or
Speaker 9: I try to surround myself with people who are in
Speaker 9: a place that I want to be or a level
Speaker 9: that I'm not at yet. I just love I love
Speaker 9: I love learning. I just want to learn from everyone.
Speaker 12: You just said something very important because what a lot
Speaker 12: of people don't understand, and this this supplies not just
Speaker 12: in music, but in so many things. People get frustrated,
Speaker 12: People get envious of people who are doing better than
Speaker 12: they are, and so I think people will often miss
Speaker 12: an opportunity to learn from someone because they're frustrated that
Speaker 12: they're not where that person is, where they think they
Speaker 12: should be. And it's important to you know, the way
Speaker 12: I tend to think of it, as you know, I mean,
Speaker 12: there are people who are you know, I do a
Speaker 12: few different things, and there are people who are far
Speaker 12: more successful at these things than I am. But I
Speaker 12: look at those people and I try to take inspiration,
Speaker 12: try to learn from them. But also if they can
Speaker 12: do it, then that's proof of concept, you know, because
Speaker 12: none of it it's nothing is a zero sum game.
Speaker 12: Life is not a zero sum game. The music industry
Speaker 12: is not a zero some game. Just because somebody is
Speaker 12: doing better doesn't mean you're automatically doing worse. Really, it's
Speaker 12: an opportunity for you to learn from them and to
Speaker 12: kind of maybe try to model what they do or
Speaker 12: follow their example whatever it is, you know, or just
Speaker 12: you see them succeed and it's like, Okay, well if
Speaker 12: they can do it, I can do it, you know,
Speaker 12: And to really and to really kind of remember that
Speaker 12: and keep that in mind.
Speaker 9: Oh definitely.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And everyone has their own path in this industry in particular,
Speaker 9: it's different for everyone. And what I'm learning too is
Speaker 9: success for everyone is different. We define success differently, So
Speaker 9: I'm really trying to figure figure it right now what
Speaker 9: what successful means to me and and kind of let
Speaker 9: that guide me as well, because what's working for someone
Speaker 9: else may actually may not work for me. So I
Speaker 9: think it's just in terms two of thinking what a
Speaker 9: success to you? And right now, if I could pay
Speaker 9: my bills with my music, that is success. I'm so
Speaker 9: fortunate for that. I count my blessings because you also
Speaker 9: don't know how.
Speaker 11: Long it's gonna last sure, sure, Yeah.
Speaker 9: It's all unknown. Every day is unknown, which makes it
Speaker 9: exciting but also terrifying.
Speaker 11: What has surprised you?
Speaker 12: Are there things that have surprised you just in terms
Speaker 12: of are there things about about your career where you
Speaker 12: kind of go, Okay, I didn't think this would be
Speaker 12: like this.
Speaker 11: I didn't think, Uh, I don't know. I didn't.
Speaker 12: I didn't think that, you know, whatever it is, it
Speaker 12: could even be something negative, like I didn't think, you know,
Speaker 12: Spotify would pay so poorly or whatever it is. Like,
Speaker 12: are there things even counter that have really been a
Speaker 12: surprise to you?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean there's always surprises around every corner. Yeah,
Speaker 9: but with this, I think I've just been really surprising
Speaker 9: my myself. I haven't really I didn't really realize what
Speaker 9: I've I was capable of, because I've I'm always such
Speaker 9: like a nervous and shy person. I'm I look at
Speaker 9: myself as like an introverted extrovert, Like I actually have
Speaker 9: a really hard time with performing, which has always surprised
Speaker 9: me because I loved the theater of being on stage. Yeah,
Speaker 9: but that was that was down that I think about
Speaker 9: it Probably the first most kind of like shock factor
Speaker 9: for me. When I got on stage for the first time,
Speaker 9: I was my guitar. I'm like, oh, I'm not a character.
Speaker 9: I'm not playing somebody interesting. This is me, and you
Speaker 9: can't I mean, you can't act unless you want to
Speaker 9: try to be a different persona. But it's it's a
Speaker 9: goal of mine to always be as authentic and just
Speaker 9: be myself and and hope that's enough. But that was
Speaker 9: that was really shocking to me to just be like,
Speaker 9: whoa this is. It's a completely different game than I
Speaker 9: thought it was performance wise, But there's there's just been
Speaker 9: a lot of different experiences that I have that have
Speaker 9: been surprising, Like like Jim challenged me, he was like
Speaker 9: got me down to Blackbird Studio in Nashville, and thinking,
Speaker 9: like I had so many thoughts of what that experience
Speaker 9: was going to be like and how those people, uh,
Speaker 9: what they were going to be like all my session
Speaker 9: musicians and my producer, and I did get to meet
Speaker 9: John McBride too, which was really cool. But I was
Speaker 9: just shocked at how down to earth and humble all
Speaker 9: those guys were and inviting and warm and welcoming. I
Speaker 9: was so scared for absolutely no reason. Yeah, I was
Speaker 9: treated with respect, which is refreshing in an industry where
Speaker 9: people always you never know, right, like we were talking
Speaker 9: about earlier. But I think it's there's just been so
Speaker 9: many surprises, but beautiful surprises too.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and just again it goes back to discovering myself.
Speaker 9: I don't really I'm still finding myself. I just turned
Speaker 9: twenty seven, so I still feel like I'm I'm still
Speaker 9: a kid, right, No, it's better starting to figure it out.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: The Nashville perspective is interesting. We've we've had a lot
Speaker 12: of guests on the show who you know, they talk
Speaker 12: about going to Nashville and how intimidating it is, you know,
Speaker 12: because it's Nashville, but you know, they find people who
Speaker 12: or they have you know, usually if someone has some
Speaker 12: sort of a connection already in Nashville, you know, it's
Speaker 12: it's hopefully it's going to be a positive experience, and
Speaker 12: it usually turns out to be. But it's you know,
Speaker 12: that's that's pretty intimidating. You know, it sounds really scary
Speaker 12: to me. Is like those songwriting circles, and I'm sure
Speaker 12: those happen. I know they happened in New York City too,
Speaker 12: But but Nash. I mean that sounds like really intense pressure.
Speaker 12: I don't know if you had an opportunity to do
Speaker 12: that when.
Speaker 11: You were there.
Speaker 9: No, I did not perform when I was down there.
Speaker 9: I was just in the studio and I'm glad I
Speaker 9: didn't because I definitely am not ready for the Yeah,
Speaker 9: it's like you said, it's intimidating.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Those are some of the best people in the game.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but then again I come up here in New
Speaker 9: Hampshire and we also have the talent is in my
Speaker 9: opinion at at some of the same level. Yeah, it's
Speaker 9: not directed to one location, but it was cool to
Speaker 9: go experience it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I agree with you though. It's like,
Speaker 12: you know, any anywhere. I mean, we have an incredible
Speaker 12: music scene here, but I would also say that's probably
Speaker 12: the case anywhere, Like any anywhere in the world, there's people,
Speaker 12: you know, That's the thing. We're fortunate to live in
Speaker 12: an era where, because of the Internet, you know, you
Speaker 12: can find music for anywhere in the world and find
Speaker 12: something you like. You know, there's we live in an
Speaker 12: amazing time in that sense, because like Jenny and I
Speaker 12: are old enough to remember when you know, you go
Speaker 12: to the you go to the record store, and you
Speaker 12: flip through and you find stuff, and you know, now
Speaker 12: you can just go online find anything you want. You know,
Speaker 12: I mean literally, you know any genre and you know
Speaker 12: you want to hear some Norwegian speed metal, well you can.
Speaker 12: You can go online and google that and find some
Speaker 12: and you might find something you like. You know, it's
Speaker 12: it's it's really a remarkable time that way. I feel
Speaker 12: like too. In music, people are just generally musicians creative
Speaker 12: types are just generally more supportive. I often draw a
Speaker 12: contrast with stand up comedy. Now, I have no experience
Speaker 12: in stand up comedy. I'm not a comic, but I
Speaker 12: some of the podcasts that I've fallen into listening to
Speaker 12: over the years are hosted by comics. And my impression
Speaker 12: of stand up comedy is that it's very cutthroat and
Speaker 12: everyone kind of secretly hates each other and sometimes it
Speaker 12: spills out into the open and it's But with music,
Speaker 12: I feel like all genres too. I feel like like
Speaker 12: people are just generally more supportive and want to see
Speaker 12: other people succeed and and want to want to help
Speaker 12: each other, and there's much more of a sense of community.
Speaker 9: Definitely, And that was honestly a big reason too why
Speaker 9: I made that transition from theater to the music, because
Speaker 9: I felt more of a warm and welcoming community. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it's it's hard with professional theater. It's it's very competitive
Speaker 9: and like everything matters like inside and out, like and
Speaker 9: you've got to be a triple threat. And I've never
Speaker 9: just been into competition. Yeah, just so when I was
Speaker 9: started out and playing out live and the the amount
Speaker 9: of support that I got despite not being that good
Speaker 9: when I first started, I look back at somebody was like,
Speaker 9: oh my gosh, but we all get to start somewhere.
Speaker 11: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 9: So, Yeah, it's just that when people are warm and
Speaker 9: welcoming it it helps everybody in the long run. We
Speaker 9: all need to support each other and be a part
Speaker 9: of it together because they can be isolating. We're all
Speaker 9: on the road by ourselves, so when you can get
Speaker 9: together or watch someone else, it's so important to make
Speaker 9: those connections.
Speaker 12: By the way you use the term triple threat, I
Speaker 12: think I've heard that before apply to theater. Is that
Speaker 12: let me let me see if I if I have
Speaker 12: it right?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 11: You got to be able to sing, dance, and act,
Speaker 11: you got it.
Speaker 9: I could not do the dance part.
Speaker 11: Did you do theater for a long time?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I actually I was in the theater program up
Speaker 9: in Plmoth State University and I did some shows at
Speaker 9: like in the Interlake Summer Theater. There was a professional
Speaker 9: theater out of like the Tilt and prep school. So
Speaker 9: I was in both like community and professional stage shows. Yeah,
Speaker 9: which was really cool. And again, like those difference in
Speaker 9: communities in the support system. Community theater is in my opinion,
Speaker 9: so important Yeah, ef fort to have in every every city,
Speaker 9: every town that it was just so important to my
Speaker 9: development growing up. Yeah, and just having the.
Speaker 11: Arts, Yeah, you need them absolutely.
Speaker 12: So without that experience, you might not be doing what
Speaker 12: you're doing now, I would assume, Yeah.
Speaker 9: I probably wouldn't. I don't think i'd have the ability to.
Speaker 9: It's hard to step on stage.
Speaker 11: Sure, sure does that work for it? So I don't
Speaker 11: do it anymore.
Speaker 12: I used to play in bands, and for me, it
Speaker 12: was always because I'm an introvert. But which is surprises
Speaker 12: some people when they hear me say that because I
Speaker 12: do this, But it's like, yeah, but if you really understand,
Speaker 12: because extroverts don't understand what being an introvert really is
Speaker 12: in some ways. But but for me, it was always
Speaker 12: with playing out. It was like I would be very
Speaker 12: anxious right up to the moment of getting on stage.
Speaker 12: Once I was on stage, I just all that fell away.
Speaker 12: Although I never did what you so. I always played
Speaker 12: in bands, So when you're a dude and a band
Speaker 12: with a bunch of dudes.
Speaker 11: It's a little different, you know what. It's safer, you
Speaker 11: know what I mean.
Speaker 12: I was the bass, Like, if I'm a bass player
Speaker 12: in a rock band, there's you know, and other bass
Speaker 12: players might not like when I say this, but there's
Speaker 12: not a lot of pressure really because the attention is
Speaker 12: not on me when I'm on stage well doing what
Speaker 12: you do, the attention is all on you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's scary, especially being by yourself. Yeah, and I've
Speaker 9: really had to work on being confident with my guitar,
Speaker 9: being self taught, yeah, and trying to figure that out too.
Speaker 9: But it's I think, no matter what, it's just a
Speaker 9: step foot on stage on any type of stage, no
Speaker 9: matter if it's twenty people, one hundred and fifty people.
Speaker 9: To me, it's always scary, like you're saying, I still
Speaker 9: get that, like I despite seven years up until like
Speaker 9: I'm on stage, it takes me a little bit to
Speaker 9: settle in. But then once I do and get comfortable, yeah,
Speaker 9: it kind of fades away. Yeah yeah, but I'm also
Speaker 9: a perfectionist. I nip everything, so I try. I got
Speaker 9: to like find a way to escape and get out
Speaker 9: of my head. And it's so fure because the music
Speaker 9: does that for me. Yeah, I garret of those I'm
Speaker 9: just okay, what's the music that I'm playing? What's the
Speaker 9: story I'm telling?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 12: You kind of want to be a little anxious, right,
Speaker 12: Like in a way, it's you know, it might not
Speaker 12: be the most pleasant thing to feel that nervousness, but
Speaker 12: if it went away, wouldn't you kind of miss it?
Speaker 12: Because then it's like, because any you might start wondering,
Speaker 12: I don't know, is this exciting to me still? Or
Speaker 12: am I am I getting complacent?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 9: You make a good point there, ya Does the nerves
Speaker 9: tell us that we care and it's important to us.
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: And maybe that's why I haven't lost it because every
Speaker 9: day I don't, this just gets more meaningful to me
Speaker 9: because I've been doing it for so long now and
Speaker 9: chasing something kind of not really still not knowing what
Speaker 9: I'm chasing. Yeah, and just all I know is I
Speaker 9: want to have a career in music, right, But you
Speaker 9: could do so much with that, right, But yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I because I had moments.
Speaker 12: I remember, you know, there were a couple of shows
Speaker 12: along the way where I I wasn't nervous before, but
Speaker 12: I look back and I realized, well, that's because there
Speaker 12: were shows where maybe there was hardly anyone there. So
Speaker 12: it's like, well, I kind of takes the pressure off
Speaker 12: when you're playing to an empty room. It's like there's
Speaker 12: nobody here, but you know, but then we'd play a
Speaker 12: show where there were people, and I'd get nervous again,
Speaker 12: and it's like, okay, good good, it's still there. But yeah,
Speaker 12: I'd like I'm I'm very much an introvert. But for me,
Speaker 12: it's like I'm much more comfortable being on stage or
Speaker 12: any kind of performance element.
Speaker 11: That's where I feel the safest. You know, whether it's.
Speaker 12: Being on stage, playing in a band, or being behind
Speaker 12: a microphone doing a radio show, or public speaking doesn't
Speaker 12: phaze me at all, actually enjoy it. I'm I feel
Speaker 12: more comfortable speaking in public than I do just having
Speaker 12: a conversation with.
Speaker 11: Somebody, and I mean, I'm you know I can do.
Speaker 12: I used to be very socially awkward, but I dealt
Speaker 12: with that. But but but ultimately, like this is where
Speaker 12: I feel the safest behind this microphone.
Speaker 11: You know what I mean? Does that make sense?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 9: Sure does. I know exactly what you mean and it
Speaker 9: and people don't understand it that don't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 9: You're scared to get there? You're or you sing so well,
Speaker 9: or you you've been doing this for so long, And
Speaker 9: I'm like I it doesn't matter every time. I'm still
Speaker 9: just so terrifying, right right. I actually had the first
Speaker 9: opportunity to open for someone thanks to the New Hampshire
Speaker 9: Music Collective. Yeah, John MacArthur. I got to open up
Speaker 9: for John Gorka the Bank and Ham and it was incredible.
Speaker 9: And I really didn't think I was. I was trying
Speaker 9: to keep myself congcous. I knew I was gonna be nervous. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and I got up there. All I had to do
Speaker 9: was play for twenty minutes. I play for three hours
Speaker 9: almost every day. All of a sudden, Yeah, but I
Speaker 9: got so incredibly nervous. I had to run off stage
Speaker 9: and immediately throw up. I will how much I was
Speaker 9: worked up. Thank god nobody could tell.
Speaker 11: You you mean at the end of the site.
Speaker 9: Wow, and thank god I have run around the Yeah,
Speaker 9: And in my head, I'm like, why it's so scared
Speaker 9: Because I have been doing this so long and it
Speaker 9: was my own I'm wondering if it was with my
Speaker 9: own music. But I'm just finding that maybe it's just
Speaker 9: for me. But I don't think it's going to go away.
Speaker 9: Those nerves are always going to be there. But I
Speaker 9: just I care so deeply, and I also just want
Speaker 9: to create an experience for anyone that's at one of
Speaker 9: my shows, even if it's just to escape or or
Speaker 9: to get out whatever you're feeling that heartbreak they just
Speaker 9: went through. Sometimes you just need to hear that sad
Speaker 9: song or something. But yeah, I think I will forever
Speaker 9: be nervous.
Speaker 12: Unfortunately, Have you gotten an open for for anybody else
Speaker 12: like that, like John Gorka?
Speaker 9: No, that's that's it so far. I hope too. That's
Speaker 9: my goin in the future to do more of that.
Speaker 9: I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 11: Do you have like a kind of a dream idea
Speaker 11: of who you'd really like to open for. Is there
Speaker 11: someone you just think would be.
Speaker 9: Would love to open up for? Liz Longly So she's
Speaker 9: one of my favorite singer songwriters.
Speaker 11: Not familiar with her.
Speaker 9: She I think she's from Pennsylvania, but she's in Nashville.
Speaker 9: It's kind of like an Americana artist, but she does
Speaker 9: a little bit of everything. But I saw her live
Speaker 9: at the Tupelou Music Hall. I just wanted to go
Speaker 9: to a show. I had the night off. I never
Speaker 9: get Fridays or Saturdays off. I think this was like
Speaker 9: that's probably four years ago now. Yeah, and I saw
Speaker 9: it was a female artist, and if I get a chance,
Speaker 9: like I always try to find someone that I can
Speaker 9: just go for inspiration or just to see what someone
Speaker 9: else is doing. Yeah, And I absolutely fell in love
Speaker 9: with her in the way that she told her stories
Speaker 9: and her songs just had a great sound. But I
Speaker 9: absolutely adore her and her one of her songs is
Speaker 9: actually what inspired me to write my own And am
Speaker 9: I missing something? So if I could open up for
Speaker 9: her one day that I think I could fit well
Speaker 9: into into like her sound too, like we'd pair well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 9: Maybe one day.
Speaker 12: If you're just joining us. Rebecca Turmelo is here with
Speaker 12: us live in studio. Have you is anyone reached out
Speaker 12: to her like to try to, you know, like maybe
Speaker 12: John or somebody like just kind of.
Speaker 9: I would like to, but I think I'd be too
Speaker 9: scared to do it right now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: But it's Liz Longley. I need to be ready because
Speaker 9: actually so I'm in a duo partner with I'm So Lucky,
Speaker 9: My my, my boyfriend, and musical genius all in one.
Speaker 9: We played together all the time. Oh, we saw her
Speaker 9: when she came to The Flying Monkey at the beginning.
Speaker 9: It was March I think this year, and he's like,
Speaker 9: you have to go talk to her. She came out
Speaker 9: after the show. Oh really, I my first experience with
Speaker 9: like getting starstruck. Yeah, yeah, like is this what it
Speaker 9: feels like? But she he told her that we always
Speaker 9: play her song Camaro's. This song is incredible in terms
Speaker 9: of like the lyrics and the story's story I can
Speaker 9: relate to. And she's like, oh, send me a video
Speaker 9: when you get the chance. So every time we play it.
Speaker 9: Now I've been taking a video and I'm like, when
Speaker 9: it's right, maybe we'll send it over to her see
Speaker 9: what happens, and maybe that could be the opportunity.
Speaker 12: That could be No, that could very well, that could
Speaker 12: very well be an n So. Now, so how often
Speaker 12: do you play as a duo?
Speaker 9: Not too often, probably about like two or three times
Speaker 9: a month. But we just played actually last night, we
Speaker 9: played a thirtieth birthday party for a good friend of ours.
Speaker 9: But we we've been writing some music together and that's
Speaker 9: been another great experience lately, is working and writing with
Speaker 9: someone else and we we end to Actually it was
Speaker 9: the two of us that recorded the Studio Portland, so
Speaker 9: I'm really hoping we got some good takes because it
Speaker 9: was nerve wracking. Oh really, yeah, So I hope to
Speaker 9: have some of our music out soon because we performed
Speaker 9: a duet that we wrote together there.
Speaker 11: Excellent. Does he also play guitar?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, Okay, he is the most talented guitarist that
Speaker 9: I know. But he also is a singer songwriter. He
Speaker 9: produces great with all the recording, so I'm actually learning
Speaker 9: a lot from him in that sense. Brendan Gill Gill
Speaker 9: and he just actually released his first single are You Here?
Speaker 9: And self produced that and mixed it on his own
Speaker 9: And I'm the quality of it. It just came out great,
Speaker 9: and I'm like, I wish, I wish I would have
Speaker 9: put a little bit more time into my first song.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm proud of how it came out, but
Speaker 9: it's nice to see, uh, like because he put a
Speaker 9: lot of time and years into it versus I just
Speaker 9: kind of had of ripped that band aid off. I'm
Speaker 9: just gonna get in there. Whatever happens, happens, we'll capture it.
Speaker 9: I can always re record it, right, right, So I
Speaker 9: it's it's it's it's cool to like meet somebody else
Speaker 9: who has a different perspective and a different way of
Speaker 9: doing things because I'm learning from that. I'm not stuck
Speaker 9: in my ways. I'm seeing how something else works with
Speaker 9: a different approach.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 9: So I'm lucky too, Like I just I get to
Speaker 9: spend all my time with him doing what I love,
Speaker 9: with the person I love it. There's nothing that beats that.
Speaker 12: That's awesome, excellent, excellent. Well we should, uh we'll play
Speaker 12: another track. What should we play next? I'll let you pick,
Speaker 12: We've got the road song or wish you Well.
Speaker 9: Let's do wish you Well? Because that was that's kind
Speaker 9: of like part two that am I missing something?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 12: Okay, perfect, and then we'll play we'll play road song
Speaker 12: at the end of the segment. But if you are
Speaker 12: just doing your nest. Rebecca Turmael is with us here
Speaker 12: in studio. Oh which studio was this one recorded?
Speaker 9: Also the underground?
Speaker 11: Okay? Gotcha? And Vermont?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I said, okay, very good, All right, this is wish
Speaker 11: you well.
Speaker 3: I did everything.
Speaker 8: Do you would try and page, but that's not who I.
Speaker 1: Have ever sees.
Speaker 5: Even after those things you didn't sit.
Speaker 3: Don't wanna old them against you. Wish you well instead.
Speaker 13: I was sure if I could tell you two.
Speaker 1: This one, I will wish you invent fill Oh, I
Speaker 1: wish you.
Speaker 5: I've found this snull point, your turn fromb.
Speaker 1: And men, letting go of it all. Yup. I hope
Speaker 1: you here you can be free from all your pay.
Speaker 3: It may not work it down, but I'll never be
Speaker 3: a ship. As If I could.
Speaker 13: Tell you two in.
Speaker 3: Your face, here's my I'd say, Afraid.
Speaker 14: To love is.
Speaker 1: Sound, It's true a ship.
Speaker 3: I wish you.
Speaker 15: If I could tell you to your faces walking ahead.
Speaker 1: Say abraid to yourself it's okay.
Speaker 3: A small huh.
Speaker 13: Sell to your face us saying with you ju ju is.
Speaker 11: Oh, that's nice. I wish you well.
Speaker 12: Rebecca Turmal is here with us live in studio on
Speaker 12: this Saturday morning here on Matt connorton Unleashed, and yeah,
Speaker 12: we were. We were kind of talking off air about
Speaker 12: the song and how great the mix is and and
Speaker 12: how how nice those guitars sound, and as you pointed
Speaker 12: out to the drums sound really good. And and he's
Speaker 12: a he's a what's his name, Vinnie?
Speaker 1: Is that yeah?
Speaker 9: Vincent Freeman.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he's a drummer. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Now that's a lot of the stuff that comes out
Speaker 12: in Nashville too. I always say this, I'm curious if
Speaker 12: you agree with me in terms of production. I mean,
Speaker 12: the production on that is phenomenal. I feel like I'm
Speaker 12: not a I'm not a big country guy, but I
Speaker 12: feel like the best produced because I have a somewhat
Speaker 12: of a background in audio production, the best produced music
Speaker 12: to me, but you just here on the radio on
Speaker 12: commercial radio is coming out of Nashville in terms of
Speaker 12: how the guitars sound and how the drums sound like.
Speaker 12: I feel like Nashville's really got it down right now,
Speaker 12: you know. But I'm picky as hell. Too, like, especially
Speaker 12: about how drums sound. You know, like something went somewhere
Speaker 12: along the line with uh. I think it probably started
Speaker 12: in the nineties, like with rock music, something to me
Speaker 12: went wrong with the way guitars are recorded. They they
Speaker 12: don't sound right to me. And and a lot of
Speaker 12: a lot with drums too, you know. But I feel like,
Speaker 12: but anything that comes out of Nashville, it's like they've
Speaker 12: really nailed it, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And that's a big reason why I made the
Speaker 9: decision to go down there. I would have sent you
Speaker 9: that song, but I didn't have a radio edit. And
Speaker 9: I say, one bed word, no, it's not really that bad.
Speaker 9: But I wrote this song with Jim called Girls on
Speaker 9: Fire my female empowerment anthem. But that was something I
Speaker 9: noticed too when I was down there or listening back
Speaker 9: to just like the first take, Yeah, like is this real?
Speaker 9: So good? They haven't even touched it yet. Yeah, but
Speaker 9: they had one of those I just I don't have
Speaker 9: too much knowledge on it yet. I'm learning more about it,
Speaker 9: like one of the original Neve consoles. Does that sound correct?
Speaker 9: And but the drums sound that came out of that
Speaker 9: was really really impressive. And that was the first time too,
Speaker 9: when I was in that studio, noticing and starting to
Speaker 9: listen and hear the difference in sounds and instruments and
Speaker 9: even my vocals and background vocals. Yeah, and that's why
Speaker 9: I kind of had been experimenting with jumping around at
Speaker 9: different studios so I can learn and hear it and
Speaker 9: know what I like, because I don't. I don't know
Speaker 9: that yet. I only recorded a handful of songs so far.
Speaker 11: All the backing vocals. That's all you I assume on.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I wish you well yep. And then am I
Speaker 9: missing stuff they too?
Speaker 11: Yeah? Okay, yeah? Yeah? Is that?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 11: Is that challenging to to do?
Speaker 12: Like those layered vocals where you're kind of harmonizing with
Speaker 12: yourself or does that come easy?
Speaker 9: It can be. That's something I noticed too and growing
Speaker 9: up in the theater and I did. Course, Yeah, I
Speaker 9: was a kid too, so that helps me in terms
Speaker 9: of being able to hear it. But yeah, when it's
Speaker 9: your own voice and and it's it's kind of funky, uh.
Speaker 9: So that it was nice. When I was down at Blackbird,
Speaker 9: I was able to hire a background vocalist and she
Speaker 9: came in and I swear it only took her like
Speaker 9: five minutes and it's not an easy song to sing.
Speaker 9: I'm in there all day, like, oh am, I gonna
Speaker 9: do this. And then her name was Marcia, and she
Speaker 9: was just just like just this beautiful, bright, bubbly energy
Speaker 9: that I needed day. But she just sang was that.
Speaker 9: I'll never forget what she said too. She's like, wow, girl,
Speaker 9: this is a barn burner.
Speaker 11: Oh that's school. That's cool.
Speaker 9: I will never forget that. Yeah, but it was nice
Speaker 9: to hear that difference too, And it's it. I would
Speaker 9: like to like it's I can do it myself, but
Speaker 9: I feel like it adds a different element and a
Speaker 9: different sound and gives it more of a quality to
Speaker 9: it when you have a contrasting tone or what it's
Speaker 9: kind of similar.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 12: Now are these all on an album that's available or what?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 9: No, I actually have been releasing single by single, okay,
Speaker 9: because I really being new to it and just not
Speaker 9: sure of where it was going or what I wanted
Speaker 9: to do. I wanted to just like give each song
Speaker 9: sole focus. Yeah so far, But actually I just recently
Speaker 9: finished recording. It still needs to be mixed and master
Speaker 9: and all that. My first collection of songs in a
Speaker 9: three song EP, okay, and that was that was interesting
Speaker 9: to do because I haven't done that yet, working on
Speaker 9: a collection of music and keeping like a similar sound, yeah,
Speaker 9: and stories and such. But yeah, the song by song
Speaker 9: I think was a good choice for me, just being
Speaker 9: not knowing who I was as an artist yet.
Speaker 11: That makes sense.
Speaker 12: Yeah, And you know, we again, we live in a
Speaker 12: time where you know, you've got different options in terms
Speaker 12: of like when I was growing up, it was, you know,
Speaker 12: somebody would put out an album and usually there would
Speaker 12: be a single for the album that would go to radio,
Speaker 12: usually six eight weeks before the album was coming out,
Speaker 12: and then the album would come out, and then subsequent
Speaker 12: singles would come out. And that was just the standard
Speaker 12: way of doing it. Whereas now you know, you can
Speaker 12: do it any way you want to, like a lot
Speaker 12: of a lot of guests that we have on the show,
Speaker 12: do it the way you're doing it, where you know,
Speaker 12: you have a series of singles and maybe eventually those
Speaker 12: singles become an EP or an album or maybe not.
Speaker 9: But yeah, there was something interesting actually that Bennie told
Speaker 9: me from the underground. He's like, have you ever heard
Speaker 9: of the Waterfall release?
Speaker 11: The Waterfall effect.
Speaker 12: Yeah, oh, Temple Mountain. You know, he was on last
Speaker 12: week and he was talking about that because that that's
Speaker 12: been his approach to Yeah, and.
Speaker 9: It seems to work for people. But in our constantly
Speaker 9: changing music industry and especially with the way people consume
Speaker 9: their music, I think to releasing song by song it
Speaker 9: gives more life to each to each song and and
Speaker 9: not something for people to look forward to and stay
Speaker 9: stay connected with. You release all those songs at once,
Speaker 9: like that moment's over. You can kind of acceend that
Speaker 9: that's true when you release song by song. Yeah, because
Speaker 9: especially as as someone like me who's also writing music
Speaker 9: and trying to become a recording artist as well, building
Speaker 9: that community and keeping those my followers and my fans
Speaker 9: engaged and just and wanting to hear more. So I
Speaker 9: think it's been it's been working so far. But I'm
Speaker 9: really intrigued by that Waterfall release and here I might
Speaker 9: utilize that.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. The time goes so fast.
Speaker 12: So what's what's kind of your uh what do you
Speaker 12: see as sort of the long term trajectory or do
Speaker 12: you know, like do you have kind of a plan
Speaker 12: in terms of uh, are you are you going to
Speaker 12: or maybe I don't know if you're done a national.
Speaker 1: Tour or no.
Speaker 9: But I would love even I it's it's just around
Speaker 9: New England, just to go out perform some shows singer
Speaker 9: songwriter style, just me and my guitar and tell my stories.
Speaker 9: But my my alsomate goal, Like I I just I
Speaker 9: just love being in the studio and created and I've
Speaker 9: always wanted to look into what it would be like
Speaker 9: to write for other people as well, because I just
Speaker 9: love writing and creating and being in that process, like
Speaker 9: being in the spotlight is not really what I want necessarily.
Speaker 9: I just want to create the music and create something meaningful. Okay,
Speaker 9: So because it's it's so funny and it feels weird
Speaker 9: to say this, but if I didn't have to perform again,
Speaker 9: I'd be okay with that. But as long as I
Speaker 9: have my studio and I can write my music and
Speaker 9: just play my guitar, happy because it's what we were
Speaker 9: talking about. It's so nerve wracking and like, but for
Speaker 9: some reason, I have to keep doing it. It's like
Speaker 9: a calling and I can't. I can't be a songwriter
Speaker 9: without performing. So it's like kind of you gotta do
Speaker 9: it's hand in hand.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, and it's working for you. It's
Speaker 12: it's uh, it's definitely working. Have you You mentioned earlier too,
Speaker 12: because you know our audience, we know this industry, people
Speaker 12: who listen. There's also a lot of musicians who are,
Speaker 12: you know, trying to make their way. Do you have
Speaker 12: any advice for someone because you've been able to really
Speaker 12: make some leaps and bounds in a short time, do
Speaker 12: you have any advice for someone who's maybe starting out,
Speaker 12: maybe a singer songwriter starting out.
Speaker 9: The worst thing you can do is compare yourself to
Speaker 9: those around you. Like we were saying earlier, it's not
Speaker 9: a comparison. Use it as a learning experience. You are
Speaker 9: your own person. You have your own perspective in your
Speaker 9: own voice, So trust that that's enough. I didn't at first,
Speaker 9: and it's hard to ignore all the noise, so to
Speaker 9: say sure, but also just forcing yourself to do it.
Speaker 9: If you're scared of something, you should probably go and
Speaker 9: do that thing because that's going to bring you further.
Speaker 9: I remember I couldn't even keep my hands still when
Speaker 9: I was playing my guitar. But I'm like, I'm doing
Speaker 9: it because you cannot get better if you don't do it.
Speaker 9: So I think the biggest thing that helped me was
Speaker 9: just forcing myself into those difficult situations, figuring it out
Speaker 9: in the moment. And although I may not have believed
Speaker 9: in myself, just at least trying to find a little
Speaker 9: bit belief. So do the hard things and and just
Speaker 9: do the best you can at the end of the day,
Speaker 9: that's all you can do. Just do something, move the goalpost,
Speaker 9: even if it's just a little bit.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I think that's great advice. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 12: And where should people go online to keep up with
Speaker 12: everything that you're doing?
Speaker 9: So I have a website Rebecca Turmel dot com, but
Speaker 9: you can find me on Facebook and Instagram and if
Speaker 9: you want to see me before my mom bands intown too, so,
Speaker 9: which is a great website. Alert see in your area.
Speaker 11: I love that absolutely.
Speaker 9: But I'm all around. I'm actually we'll be at an
Speaker 9: Oddball brewing tonight in Pembrooke or Suncook for the first time.
Speaker 11: Okay, So I'm all over.
Speaker 9: I try I play. I play a lot in New Hampshire,
Speaker 9: but I'm in mass in Vermont sometimes as well. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I'll go where old they'll let me sing with my guitar.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, where's the furthest you've gone as far as
Speaker 12: playing shows.
Speaker 9: I mean I've played down in Florida that was moartest
Speaker 9: because on vacation, but in this area by Portland's probably
Speaker 9: the farthest. Yeah, actually, because now I've been Killington that's
Speaker 9: pretty part. That's pretty far too in terms of where
Speaker 9: I'm located. Yeah, but probably the farthest I've driven is
Speaker 9: three hours for a show.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think that's something too that that helps
Speaker 9: me get a little bit farther. Is I just I
Speaker 9: didn't care how long I had to drive where I
Speaker 9: had to go, So if I had the gig opportunity
Speaker 9: again getting that experience, that helped me out tremendously. Am
Speaker 9: I I'll take it, I'll drive, I can do it.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 12: That reminds me of what, you know, we had a
Speaker 12: Frank Allagher played a Plague Dad rather on with us
Speaker 12: during the first hour. You know, he's from Portland and
Speaker 12: he was saying, uh, yeah, I just you know, play
Speaker 12: out as much as possible, which is which is interesting
Speaker 12: too because some some people it tends to be more
Speaker 12: so people in bands, people in like four piece rock
Speaker 12: bands who say yeah, you actually don't want to play
Speaker 12: out too much because you oversaturating. But but I I
Speaker 12: always when I used to play, I always just wanted
Speaker 12: to play as much as I possibly could, you know,
Speaker 12: that was my That was my kind of ethos about it.
Speaker 12: Just just get out there and play as much as
Speaker 12: you can. I mean, I think you know, if you're
Speaker 12: playing the same if you're playing the same bar every
Speaker 12: single week or something, you can oversaturate. But yeah, but
Speaker 12: you also want the experience and and you know, and
Speaker 12: and seize every opportunity to uh, you know, to get
Speaker 12: out there. And and because it's not the other thing
Speaker 12: too that I think some people miss is it's not
Speaker 12: just about being in front of audiences. It's also about
Speaker 12: making those connections.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 12: You might go play to a room where there's only
Speaker 12: a couple of people there, but one of those couple
Speaker 12: of people might also be a musician, and they might
Speaker 12: also they might be interested in what you're doing, or
Speaker 12: they might do something else in the scene, you know,
Speaker 12: and they want to connect with you. And so there's
Speaker 12: always opportunities, and you know, you miss all those opportunities
Speaker 12: if you don't take them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you you never know who's going to be
Speaker 9: in the crowd yep, I never if there is a
Speaker 9: venue that reach I always tried to play each place
Speaker 9: that reaches out to me, despite like maybe other judgments
Speaker 9: people have, like about the room or whatever. I always
Speaker 9: try to get my own opinion. I think everybody it
Speaker 9: deserves the benefit of the doubt. But it you just
Speaker 9: you never know who's going to be there. Actually, this
Speaker 9: past summer I was playing at Shopper's Pub in Manchester
Speaker 9: and Godsmack's guitar tech and manager we're eating dinner. I
Speaker 9: was playing and he ended up giving me VIP passes
Speaker 9: to go see the show and I'm just as pub
Speaker 9: is so cool.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you just never know. You just never know. Well, Rebecca,
Speaker 12: thank you so much. Rebecca Turmel here with us in
Speaker 12: studio this morning. This has been wonderful. In a moment,
Speaker 12: we'll uh, we'll we'll close out with the road song,
Speaker 12: But thank you and Jenny. Do you want to plug
Speaker 12: your website and anything else you want to mention?
Speaker 16: Absolutely, you can come check me out at Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 16: J E N N C O F f uy dot com.
Speaker 16: We don't forget to check out the Mosaic are collective
Speaker 16: here in the Queens City. The Spellbound Yes is still
Speaker 16: up and the announcement will come tomorrow on who's going
Speaker 16: to be in the many miniatures. All the art coming
Speaker 16: up in the next show is below a twelve times
Speaker 16: twelve by twelve size.
Speaker 11: Well it's little little, little little little pieces.
Speaker 16: Yeah, masterpieces. Yeah, I'm excited to see what that brings.
Speaker 11: Yes, Yes, all right, very good, very good. So thank
Speaker 11: you to everybody who joined us today.
Speaker 12: If you miss any part of today's show, it will
Speaker 12: be up in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot
Speaker 12: orgon on my website Matt Connerton dot com.
Speaker 11: And we will leave you with the Road song and
Speaker 11: anything we should know about this one before we play it.
Speaker 9: Rebecca, So this song, it's fitting we're ending on it,
Speaker 9: especially after everything we talked about. This is like my
Speaker 9: homage to all my other full time musicians out there.
Speaker 11: Oh cool.
Speaker 9: And this is a song that I wrote with Jimmyeger
Speaker 9: and probably the one I'm most proud of so far.
Speaker 9: We actually have Jackson Brown's guitarist b McCollum on this track,
Speaker 9: Oh Vermont, and I said it just captured the essence
Speaker 9: of the Road and he sure did so.
Speaker 12: Oh, very cool, very cool, perfect way to end all
Speaker 12: right here it is Rebecca Turmel.
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Speaker 15: killed the lights.
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Speaker 14: Where does the time go down?
Speaker 8: All the dead.
Speaker 4: Dead in turn.
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Speaker 10: Night down all the dead dirt ride dash for lights.
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