Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-4-25 hour 1

0:04 Speaker 1: You're listening to Mattconnorton Unleashed wm n H ninety five

0:09 Speaker 1: point three right now, the world radio premiere of the

0:14 Speaker 1: new single from Barron Kismo.

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3:09 Speaker 5: This is Mark Winters out on the Good Vibes Highway Tour,

3:13 Speaker 5: hanging out in Manchester, New Hampshire with Matt Connerton ninety

3:18 Speaker 5: five point three FM w m n H having a

3:22 Speaker 5: blast and hanging out.

3:40 Speaker 6: Welcome everybody, here we go.

3:42 Speaker 1: It is that time again Matt Connorton Unleashed and we

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4:01 Speaker 1: show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is a Saturday,

4:07 Speaker 1: October fourth. Wow, already well into October, well a few

4:10 Speaker 1: days in. But time goes quick as we plunge into fall.

4:14 Speaker 6: But I am not alone. Good morning, Jenny is here

4:28 Speaker 6: at the news table. I am president account for and

4:30 Speaker 6: I'm looking at a blue screen.

4:32 Speaker 1: Oh no, your computer is giving you trouble. Uh well,

4:36 Speaker 1: all right, I am present, yes, yes, and joining us

4:42 Speaker 1: live in studio today. Let me get that mic up.

4:47 Speaker 6: Singer songwriter Mark Winters this year.

4:49 Speaker 7: Hello, Mark, what's shaking?

4:51 Speaker 3: Matt?

4:52 Speaker 6: Welcome to the program.

4:53 Speaker 7: Oh I'm loving it here.

4:54 Speaker 5: It's so beautiful in the area. And I have to

4:57 Speaker 5: say I really love the tagline for your show. That's

5:01 Speaker 5: pretty awesome. It's got a biggest story behind that.

5:03 Speaker 6: Well yeah, I don't, oh you know what it was?

5:05 Speaker 1: So when back when I started, because I started it

5:08 Speaker 1: as a podcast in twenty eleven and then in twenty seventeen,

5:11 Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to bring the show here to

5:14 Speaker 1: wmn H been here ever since. But originally it was

5:17 Speaker 1: just I called it unleashed because I was used to

5:19 Speaker 1: being a co host on other people's shows and now

5:21 Speaker 1: is starting my own show. So it's going to be

5:24 Speaker 1: where I'm just gonna do, you know whatever, say whatever

5:26 Speaker 1: opinions I have, et cetera, and people can like it

5:29 Speaker 1: or lump it.

5:29 Speaker 6: You know, I'm going to be truly unleashed.

5:32 Speaker 5: I love that unleashed. Yeah, that's I feel like sometimes

5:38 Speaker 5: I'm in the same boat. I'm all about the positive vibes. Yes,

5:41 Speaker 5: most singer songwriters are a little more moody than I am. Yeah,

5:45 Speaker 5: I have to control how much I unleash all my

5:48 Speaker 5: positive energy.

5:49 Speaker 1: You know, right right, you're currently on You're on a

5:53 Speaker 1: How how long is your tour? You're going all over

5:56 Speaker 1: the place.

5:57 Speaker 5: I had sixty five days of awesomeness. Okay, good vibes

6:00 Speaker 5: Highway tour headed east out of Houston, Texas, down the

6:04 Speaker 5: Gulf Coast and then up the Eastern Seaboard up into

6:08 Speaker 5: Canada and then back down through the central US.

6:11 Speaker 7: To to Texas. Okay, wow, where do you live based

6:15 Speaker 7: in Houston.

6:15 Speaker 1: Town, based in Houston. Okay, yeah, is this your first

6:18 Speaker 1: big tour like going as far as you are?

6:21 Speaker 7: My second?

6:22 Speaker 5: So spring of this year I did a West Coast tour,

6:27 Speaker 5: first time going out that direction as well, and kind

6:30 Speaker 5: of learned the whole tour culture and how to be

6:33 Speaker 5: on an extended tour. And this is the second one

6:38 Speaker 5: that I'm doing here in the fall, and I loving

6:41 Speaker 5: loving being out on the road, loving sharing the energy

6:44 Speaker 5: with everyone that I meet. It's it's an amazing way

6:46 Speaker 5: to see the United States.

6:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. We're glad you're here.

6:49 Speaker 1: Well, so you've got your guitar and you're gonna play

6:51 Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. But I think we're gonna

6:53 Speaker 1: play this. This is the new single right, Man in

6:55 Speaker 1: the Sky.

6:56 Speaker 7: Man in the Sky. Yes, it's uh.

6:58 Speaker 5: It's about one of my daily rituals. I wake up

7:01 Speaker 5: in the morning with a cuff of coffee. I love

7:03 Speaker 5: to watch the sunrise. I love to be out camping

7:06 Speaker 5: and nature. It helps me set my mind right for

7:10 Speaker 5: the day before I turn my TV on or before

7:12 Speaker 5: I watch my phone or anything else. And I get

7:16 Speaker 5: a certain pep I pick me up in my step

7:19 Speaker 5: if I start my day that way. And the track

7:22 Speaker 5: and the vibes and the lyrics are all about just

7:25 Speaker 5: enjoying that fresh moment, you know.

7:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, outstanding, all right, So let's play this. This is

7:30 Speaker 1: called Man in the Sky and this is Mark Winters.

7:43 Speaker 8: Woke up this morning and this guy is my God

7:46 Speaker 8: main ish FASTI in my mind somewhere in the car.

7:54 Speaker 4: Calling, look up, looking, look.

7:59 Speaker 8: Up, the journeys all around, even when the clouds.

8:08 Speaker 4: Are passing by, talking to the plane of in the sky.

8:27 Speaker 8: In the meadow, green soul, bast answer read were daisy

8:32 Speaker 8: is bloom and the air so clean, standing on around.

8:38 Speaker 9: Getting ready take a walk, look up, looking, look out.

8:45 Speaker 8: The journey's all around, even when the clouds are passing bars.

8:59 Speaker 10: Talking to the man of in the sky, talking to

9:05 Speaker 10: the man of in the sky, feeling like a song on.

9:12 Speaker 4: The oro.

9:30 Speaker 8: Oh either in the clouds of pers in fo.

9:40 Speaker 4: Talking to the mana in the sky, talking to the

9:47 Speaker 4: man of in the sky, This like song of the

9:53 Speaker 4: old bro.

10:06 Speaker 1: That is Man in the Sky and that is Mark Winters.

10:09 Speaker 1: And we have Mark Winters here with us alive in

10:12 Speaker 1: studio on this Saturday. Great track, very very catchy, I

10:15 Speaker 1: love all the music you sent us. And we have

10:18 Speaker 1: another song too that we're going to play at the

10:19 Speaker 1: end of our segment today, another great studio track. But

10:21 Speaker 1: before we go any further too, for those who are

10:23 Speaker 1: watching online on your platform of choice, whether it be

10:27 Speaker 1: Facebook or YouTube or even we even stream on LinkedIn.

10:31 Speaker 1: But I want to show off for the camera. This

10:35 Speaker 1: this rubber bracelet or what's the term. It's a risk

10:38 Speaker 1: band wristband.

10:39 Speaker 6: Thank you.

10:39 Speaker 1: I was blanking on the name, So tell us about

10:42 Speaker 1: this so that it says think like a proton, always positive,

10:46 Speaker 1: which I really like. And it's got your it's got

10:49 Speaker 1: your name on it, of course, Mark Winter. Good good branding.

10:51 Speaker 6: But but but yeah, tell us about that.

10:53 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm you know, I'm my undergraduate degrees in aerospace engineering.

10:59 Speaker 5: I took a a left turn at Albuquerque and became

11:01 Speaker 5: an artist instead. But I did practice for a little bit,

11:05 Speaker 5: and my brain has always lived in both the world

11:09 Speaker 5: of poetry and science. And so when I think about,

11:14 Speaker 5: you know, the world, a lot of times I think,

11:18 Speaker 5: you know through those both of those lenses, And when

11:20 Speaker 5: I rolled out.

11:21 Speaker 7: The glass was always like half full.

11:24 Speaker 3: For me.

11:25 Speaker 5: I always see the world in a positive way. When

11:28 Speaker 5: I meet people, I look for the good in them.

11:30 Speaker 5: When I sit in a songwriting circle, I look for

11:32 Speaker 5: the best of everyone to try and combine it together.

11:35 Speaker 5: I've always had that sort of positive view of the world,

11:39 Speaker 5: and it's hard.

11:40 Speaker 7: For me not to put it in my lyrics.

11:43 Speaker 5: And so when I show up to play a show somewhere,

11:46 Speaker 5: my goal is to create more positive energy for everyone

11:50 Speaker 5: who's attending a show for me. And if I've done that,

11:52 Speaker 5: then I've had a great day and I feel like

11:56 Speaker 5: I've contributed to the universe.

11:58 Speaker 7: And my Grandma would be proud of me for for

12:00 Speaker 7: making the world a little writer.

12:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's outstanding. Can you tell us you a little

12:04 Speaker 1: bit more about your background? And by the way, so

12:07 Speaker 1: I am someone who you know. Jenny was talking earlier

12:09 Speaker 1: about how she's not good at things like math and science.

12:11 Speaker 1: I'm the same way, although Jenny's better at math than

12:14 Speaker 1: she realizes because she does that amazing macrima.

12:17 Speaker 6: And I always say, what's that? It is math? It

12:20 Speaker 6: is math, it's it's me. It's geometry, Am I right?

12:23 Speaker 7: Geometry? It's applied physics?

12:25 Speaker 1: Yes it is yes, see, So there you go, there

12:28 Speaker 1: you go. An expert is is master. Yes, so so

12:32 Speaker 1: she's and she's incredible at doing that. But like I can't,

12:35 Speaker 1: you know, I was always math and science were always

12:37 Speaker 1: very hard for me in school.

12:39 Speaker 11: You know.

12:39 Speaker 1: I excelled more with with reading, comprehension and writing and

12:43 Speaker 1: things like that, and history I was good at. But

12:44 Speaker 1: math and science I was always terrible at.

12:47 Speaker 4: But what what is it that?

12:48 Speaker 1: So obviously you're you know, really good at those things,

12:52 Speaker 1: but what is it that that brought you into into music?

12:55 Speaker 1: And because you're you're doing this as your full time

12:57 Speaker 1: career now.

12:58 Speaker 7: Right, it's my it's my thing. Yeah, it's my vibe.

13:01 Speaker 5: So in twenty eleven, I wanted to do something musical

13:05 Speaker 5: and never had done anything artistically. My grandmother, when I

13:09 Speaker 5: was five, had taught me to write poetry. So my

13:12 Speaker 5: whole life I've been writing poetry, which is amazing. I

13:16 Speaker 5: think that created the sort of juxtaposition in my brain

13:20 Speaker 5: of all these thoughts because I started with her. My

13:23 Speaker 5: inclination was math and science, and so in twenty eleven

13:28 Speaker 5: I put it on the list, I'm going to do it.

13:29 Speaker 5: I bought a guitar from a local guitar shop and

13:33 Speaker 5: on the sly I learned to play a song for

13:36 Speaker 5: my wife for anniversary, okay, And I thought, oh, three months,

13:39 Speaker 5: there's plenty of time to do. Go from nothing like

13:43 Speaker 5: no musical experience to performing a song for my wife,

13:47 Speaker 5: which was quite a bit to bite off. I buy

13:49 Speaker 5: out later. But the guitar shop guy was really cool.

13:54 Speaker 5: And I used to get my daughter to sit in

13:56 Speaker 5: the fourier with me and practice while my life was

14:00 Speaker 5: out working to get ready for the performance. And then

14:04 Speaker 5: we went out to dinner at our favorite place for

14:06 Speaker 5: our anniversary, and I said, I forgot something in the car,

14:09 Speaker 5: and I went back and got my guitar, and she's like.

14:11 Speaker 4: What are you doing?

14:12 Speaker 5: So she had no idea, had no idea, I had

14:14 Speaker 5: a guitar. I had nothing. It was all all, you know,

14:17 Speaker 5: right on the spot, a nice little intimate place. Everybody,

14:21 Speaker 5: the whole crowd that was there, pulled their chairs around,

14:24 Speaker 5: made a little audience. And I had a giant anniversary

14:27 Speaker 5: card because I couldn't remember the lyrics and the chords

14:30 Speaker 5: all at the same time, and my daughter had helped

14:32 Speaker 5: me bidazzle it. And so, you know, a long winded

14:34 Speaker 5: way to say when I when I performed that song

14:37 Speaker 5: for her, it was so amazing, so emotional, the connection.

14:43 Speaker 5: I want to write poems for someone it's personal, and

14:46 Speaker 5: I read it to them it's more personal. When I

14:49 Speaker 5: sang it was like, this is what I meant to do.

14:52 Speaker 5: And so from that moment forward, I became obsessed. My

14:56 Speaker 5: wife would say, was teaching myself music. So I bought

14:59 Speaker 5: a bunch of online music courses online, taught myself to

15:02 Speaker 5: write music and read music and compose, and along the way,

15:08 Speaker 5: I put a cover band together and I found I

15:11 Speaker 5: guess I didn't write at first the cover band. I

15:14 Speaker 5: just wanted to play some shows with them, and I

15:16 Speaker 5: found as I was singing, singing other people's words, they

15:19 Speaker 5: wouldn't say what I wanted to say. I started changing

15:23 Speaker 5: the lyrics kidding, and my wife was like, you can't

15:26 Speaker 5: change the lyrics.

15:27 Speaker 7: I'm like, well, that's what I want to say.

15:29 Speaker 5: That led me to writing my own stuff in twenty

15:31 Speaker 5: eighteen and put my first album out in twenty nineteen,

15:37 Speaker 5: started touring behind that, and of course COVID, like everyone else,

15:41 Speaker 5: kind of interrupted that whole experience. And so when COVID

15:45 Speaker 5: was happening, I went online because I wrote a four

15:49 Speaker 5: piece rock band format for my first album Soft Rock.

15:54 Speaker 7: And when I went online and started doing.

15:57 Speaker 5: Charity fundraisers Zoom ticketed, cheer Aready fundraisers to learn how

16:01 Speaker 5: to be a singer songwriter proper, yeah, and rearranged all

16:04 Speaker 5: my music and started writing in that lane. And and

16:06 Speaker 5: I haven't looked back. It's been amazing. I just love

16:10 Speaker 5: the journey that I'm on and the people I get

16:12 Speaker 5: to meet.

16:12 Speaker 2: You know, it's music theory must have been pretty easy

16:15 Speaker 2: for you, right.

16:16 Speaker 6: You know it was.

16:16 Speaker 5: It's very mathematical, That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah, there's

16:19 Speaker 5: a very math mathematical element. But part, believe it or not,

16:23 Speaker 5: the instrumental part, uh, was fairly. I'm pretty dexterous and

16:28 Speaker 5: so I play sports and whatever else. And so between

16:30 Speaker 5: the math and and the hand eye coordination, the the

16:34 Speaker 5: instrument part was was much easier. Yeah, the vocal part

16:39 Speaker 5: I had no reference and so I didn't even sing

16:43 Speaker 5: in choir right, really right, and so, uh, just learning

16:47 Speaker 5: to control your voice is such a whole other experience,

16:53 Speaker 5: and that was the hardest journey.

16:54 Speaker 7: And I started.

16:55 Speaker 5: I got a vocal coach in Houston, and that that

16:57 Speaker 5: helped me a ton. It's really much easier to learn

17:01 Speaker 5: from someone else.

17:02 Speaker 6: Yeah.

17:03 Speaker 1: Yeah, you vocals, Yeah, vocals, you know, your voice. That's

17:06 Speaker 1: the one instrument where some people, for whatever reason, they

17:10 Speaker 1: just they just can do it without even you know,

17:13 Speaker 1: I've met so many people who just it's like, oh,

17:15 Speaker 1: did you take lessons, and they say no, they just

17:17 Speaker 1: they're just able to do it, you know what I mean.

17:19 Speaker 1: It's it's uh, I've always been been very jealous. I'm

17:22 Speaker 1: a bass player and I can I can sing like

17:24 Speaker 1: I'm not a bad harmony singer. I can kind of

17:25 Speaker 1: find the octave and lock in. But on my own

17:27 Speaker 1: I get lost. And I went through three different vocal

17:29 Speaker 1: coaches and nobody, nobody could get me to where I wanted.

17:32 Speaker 6: To be with it.

17:33 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a it's a it's its own journey.

17:35 Speaker 5: And I found, uh, you know, you got to put

17:38 Speaker 5: your ten thousand steps in and so you know, if

17:40 Speaker 5: you didn't grow up singing in church and choir and whatever,

17:45 Speaker 5: then you got to you got to put that time in.

17:47 Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.

17:48 Speaker 5: And so as I've become, you know, more experienced as

17:51 Speaker 5: a vocalist, it's much more intuitive now for me. I

17:56 Speaker 5: sing in a trio back home, and I saw harmonies

17:59 Speaker 5: and so you know, and the lady asking with is

18:02 Speaker 5: very well trained and very precise, and so all the

18:04 Speaker 5: people around you start pushing you to develop your skill.

18:07 Speaker 6: Yep.

18:08 Speaker 5: And I'd say, now it's a lot more intuitive when

18:11 Speaker 5: I pick up a song, to pick up a guitar

18:13 Speaker 5: to write a song, it's very easy for me to

18:15 Speaker 5: sort of craft a melody now on the fly, where

18:18 Speaker 5: you know, two years.

18:18 Speaker 7: Ago it was much more difficult. Really, it's becoming intuitive.

18:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellent. Yeah, that's great. Well, I'm dying to

18:24 Speaker 1: hear you play live. You want to play something live, Let's.

18:26 Speaker 7: Let's do it.

18:27 Speaker 5: Let's talk about one of those science meets philosophy juxtapositions. Okay,

18:32 Speaker 5: I'm going to break through some boundaries with you guys

18:36 Speaker 5: with a song called boundary Layer. Computational fluid dynamics has

18:41 Speaker 5: boundary layer theory in it and particle theory. Particles approaching

18:46 Speaker 5: an object in a fluid slow down when they get

18:49 Speaker 5: near the object, and then they accelerate in a new direction,

18:52 Speaker 5: kind of like the philosophy of breaking through.

18:54 Speaker 7: A boundary in your own life. So let's rock and

18:58 Speaker 7: roll with some boundary layer.

19:00 Speaker 6: Alright, Mark Winter is live in studio.

19:15 Speaker 4: Pushing that SuperSonics peed. I can see what I need.

19:22 Speaker 4: I'm soaring faster and higher, breaking through. I belief in me.

19:28 Speaker 5: We find our limits when we're young, slowing down before

19:33 Speaker 5: we've becne They tell me I'm too small to play

19:38 Speaker 5: and that I don't look like them at all. Or

19:42 Speaker 5: can I find the strengthen me to break my boundaries

19:46 Speaker 5: and make me see pushing that SuperSonics peed.

19:52 Speaker 4: I can see what I need. I'm soaring faster and

19:57 Speaker 4: nye breaking through our believe in me.

20:01 Speaker 6: Here we go.

20:01 Speaker 9: Now, get a job and find a life. Listen to

20:19 Speaker 9: everyone's advice. They tell me I'm too old the change

20:24 Speaker 9: that I need to rearrange my mind. Where can I

20:29 Speaker 9: find the strength in me to break my boundaries and

20:33 Speaker 9: make me see pushing at.

20:35 Speaker 4: The supersonic speed. I can see what I need. I'm

20:41 Speaker 4: soaring caster and I breaking through. I belief in me.

20:47 Speaker 9: Here we go, Bring some love along the way, Keep

21:02 Speaker 9: my humble minded play bound to lay us are just

21:04 Speaker 9: to test.

21:05 Speaker 7: To give the strength to be my best.

21:08 Speaker 9: Bring my circle up with me. Feel the love and loyalty.

21:12 Speaker 9: Boundary to lay us are just to test to give

21:14 Speaker 9: the strength to be my best. Pushing not the supersonic speed.

21:22 Speaker 9: I can see what I need.

21:25 Speaker 4: I'm soaring faster and I breaking through. I believe in

21:30 Speaker 4: me pushing, not the supersonic speed. I can see what

21:36 Speaker 4: I need. I'm soaring caster and ie breaking through. I believe.

21:45 Speaker 6: In Very nice, very nice.

21:51 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have Mark Winter is

21:53 Speaker 1: here with us, alive in studio. He's on a tour

21:56 Speaker 1: and he is in the area.

21:58 Speaker 7: And that's what is that song called again, It's called

22:00 Speaker 7: Boundary Layer.

22:01 Speaker 1: Boundary Layer, very good. So now where are you in

22:05 Speaker 1: your tour in terms of like what did you play

22:08 Speaker 1: last night?

22:08 Speaker 6: Somewhere I did?

22:09 Speaker 5: I did played down in Pennsylvania last night, and then

22:16 Speaker 5: the night before I was in New York some in

22:20 Speaker 5: week number four four, Yeah, week number four of a

22:24 Speaker 5: sixty five day tour, having a great time, like a

22:28 Speaker 5: little inch worm about you know, three hundred miles a day.

22:33 Speaker 5: I drive and then I dropped my trailer International Park

22:36 Speaker 5: or State Forest, and uh, you know, play a show

22:39 Speaker 5: and come back and get up in the morning and

22:41 Speaker 5: do the thing again.

22:41 Speaker 7: You know, it's it's amazing.

22:43 Speaker 6: And then where do you go after here?

22:44 Speaker 5: Where's your Yeah, I'm headed to Maynard I'm playing at

22:46 Speaker 5: a festival this afternoon.

22:48 Speaker 6: Excellent.

22:49 Speaker 5: And then from there I go to Maine for a

22:53 Speaker 5: two day break to visit my dad. He lives in

22:56 Speaker 5: o Gunquit, Okay. So I'm gonna hang out and walk

22:59 Speaker 5: the margin in a way, and then you know, recharge

23:02 Speaker 5: a little bit, and then I'm up off into Canada.

23:06 Speaker 6: Oh nice, How many dates you have up there?

23:08 Speaker 7: I have five five shows in Canada outstanding?

23:12 Speaker 6: Wow. Oh that's great. That's great.

23:15 Speaker 1: So what's been like has anything been a surprise to

23:18 Speaker 1: you doing that? Because you said, this is the first

23:20 Speaker 1: story that you've done of this size, right, this many dates?

23:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, so spring I did the same number of days, okay,

23:25 Speaker 5: and so it kind of learned a little bit of

23:27 Speaker 5: the tour culture, you know. I think for me it's

23:32 Speaker 5: been so amazing to get out of the echo chamber

23:36 Speaker 5: of Houston. Yeah, you're you kind of you get stuck

23:39 Speaker 5: in a situation and an environment, and your brain I

23:43 Speaker 5: think stops growing and thinking.

23:46 Speaker 4: Uh.

23:47 Speaker 5: And so I think getting out on the West Coast

23:49 Speaker 5: was was amazing for me. And you don't really know

23:53 Speaker 5: how your music is landing with people. I mean all

23:57 Speaker 5: the streaming and TikTok and YouTube tube, and you know,

24:00 Speaker 5: the interaction you get, you know, is not as rich.

24:05 Speaker 5: And what I found when I was on the West

24:07 Speaker 5: Coast was, first of all, there's a lot of people

24:09 Speaker 5: who are science nerds, closet closet science nerds who really

24:13 Speaker 5: are viving with my music, which is really cool, excellent.

24:16 Speaker 5: And then I found this the whole positive energy element.

24:20 Speaker 5: There were so many people who came out to see

24:22 Speaker 5: a show for the positive energy experience and they heard

24:28 Speaker 5: me on the radio like on your show. They came

24:29 Speaker 5: out to a show for me.

24:32 Speaker 7: I remember. The first time that happened to me was

24:34 Speaker 7: in New Mexico. I was in Ridoso. It was a

24:37 Speaker 7: beautiful city, and a couple drove three hours. They heard

24:42 Speaker 7: me on the radio. They drove three hours.

24:43 Speaker 5: They're like, we got a lot of bad stuff going

24:45 Speaker 5: on in our life right now, and we wanted an

24:48 Speaker 5: evening of positive energy.

24:50 Speaker 7: And I was so touched.

24:54 Speaker 5: Three or four of the couple's heard me on the

24:55 Speaker 5: same radio station and came out for that same experience.

24:58 Speaker 5: And it was ten days into my tour on the

25:01 Speaker 5: West Coast. Yeah, and it told me I'm in the

25:04 Speaker 5: right place and doing what I need to be doing

25:07 Speaker 5: right in this world.

25:08 Speaker 7: And I've still got.

25:10 Speaker 5: Goosebumps because I had so many experiences like that along

25:12 Speaker 5: my West Coast tour.

25:14 Speaker 7: Yeah, I was just on fire the whole time.

25:17 Speaker 5: Yeah, my wife asked me, She's like, she comes out

25:19 Speaker 5: a week out of each month that tour, and she says,

25:24 Speaker 5: you know, this is a lot, a lot.

25:27 Speaker 7: You're up every day early.

25:29 Speaker 5: You got a lot of stuff going on, you got

25:30 Speaker 5: all this stuff in email everything else. It's a lot,

25:33 Speaker 5: she said, how do you do it? I'm like, I'm

25:36 Speaker 5: so so fulfilled by the people I meet and the

25:40 Speaker 5: experiences I'm having and the fact that my music is

25:43 Speaker 5: really making a difference in the world. Yes, you know,

25:46 Speaker 5: it's no effort.

25:48 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's worth it.

25:49 Speaker 7: It's worth every effort, you know.

25:50 Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely.

25:53 Speaker 1: Is there anything that's really kind of surprised you or

25:55 Speaker 1: challenges that maybe you didn't expect that you've run into,

25:58 Speaker 1: you know, because it's not easy what you're doing. It's

26:00 Speaker 1: like your wife said, it is a lot, and it's

26:02 Speaker 1: it's fulfilling. So it's a lot in a good way, right,

26:05 Speaker 1: in a positive way, But it.

26:06 Speaker 6: Is a lot.

26:07 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

26:09 Speaker 5: So I had never pulled the trailer before, and so

26:12 Speaker 5: there was the I rented a few and tried it

26:15 Speaker 5: out and kind of got my the sizing and everything

26:18 Speaker 5: the way I wanted it in whatever. But I had

26:19 Speaker 5: never been out in the snow and mountains and whatever.

26:23 Speaker 5: So there was a whole lot to learn about being

26:27 Speaker 5: cold in Canada or in the Northern United States in

26:31 Speaker 5: the mountains that I didn't know how to. I didn't

26:34 Speaker 5: even bring warm clothes with me on the tour. Whop

26:37 Speaker 5: at Walmart and buy some sweatshirts and whatever. And then

26:42 Speaker 5: as a musician, you don't really know your music until

26:49 Speaker 5: you've been in so many rooms where the sound is

26:53 Speaker 5: just off. They've got the EQ on the monitor, weird,

26:56 Speaker 5: you got all these all these weird things happen. You

26:58 Speaker 5: can't hear yourself, Yeah, I can't hear anything. I remember

27:02 Speaker 5: I played a rock venue they're trying to develop a

27:05 Speaker 5: songwriter night, and they had the vocals compressed so much.

27:11 Speaker 5: There was no dynamics, and they had the frequencies super tight.

27:15 Speaker 5: You couldn't hear your overtones or anything. There was like nothing,

27:18 Speaker 5: And so I found I was very challenged to hear

27:22 Speaker 5: myself right, and you and you really have to learn

27:26 Speaker 5: you're in a big crowd, it's super noisy. How do

27:29 Speaker 5: you continue to hear yourself properly as a musician?

27:32 Speaker 6: Yep?

27:32 Speaker 11: Right?

27:33 Speaker 7: That was That was a heart lesson.

27:35 Speaker 5: It took me about maybe four weeks into my West

27:38 Speaker 5: Coast two or before I had played enough rooms that

27:41 Speaker 5: I'd learned the thing. Yeah, and then something I'm still learning,

27:48 Speaker 5: how do you read a room? So a friend of

27:51 Speaker 5: mine is a brilliant songwriter from the Houston area, Ken Gaines.

27:57 Speaker 5: When I first started off as as a songwriter or

28:00 Speaker 5: I asked if I could just follow him around for

28:01 Speaker 5: a few of his shows, very regionally successful, and just

28:05 Speaker 5: watch what he does. And he took me under his

28:07 Speaker 5: wing for three shows and he told me his set

28:10 Speaker 5: list in advance, and he said, but I'm going to

28:12 Speaker 5: change it, and I'm going to change the intro and

28:14 Speaker 5: the outro and the story based on the room.

28:18 Speaker 6: How do you do that? Oh? Wow?

28:20 Speaker 11: Right?

28:21 Speaker 5: And so he's playing the show and then he would

28:24 Speaker 5: stop in the show and he say, Mark, this is

28:26 Speaker 5: for you, and he would make a change. He wouldn't

28:29 Speaker 5: tell anybody else what he was doing for you, And

28:31 Speaker 5: I knew what he was doing, right, And I'm like, Okay,

28:33 Speaker 5: I got to know my music that well right to

28:37 Speaker 5: be professional, you know, to be accomplished, And so I'm

28:41 Speaker 5: still learning how to do that, you know. I think

28:44 Speaker 5: it's just a journey you know that I'll probably be

28:47 Speaker 5: on forever just learning how to read a room and

28:49 Speaker 5: land the story and the music in a way that's

28:51 Speaker 5: gonna that's going to serve the room and the song

28:54 Speaker 5: the best.

28:54 Speaker 3: Yeah.

28:54 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that makes sense.

28:58 Speaker 1: And yeah, that is something you kind of that's not

29:01 Speaker 1: something anyone can It's not something you can read in

29:04 Speaker 1: a book how to do that, you know.

29:05 Speaker 6: It's the only way you.

29:06 Speaker 7: Wish you could, man, I wish you could in a book.

29:09 Speaker 6: Yeah, the only way. Yeah. Really, the only way you

29:11 Speaker 6: can learn is by by doing. And uh, it can

29:13 Speaker 6: be tricky.

29:14 Speaker 7: Yeah, I wish it was a journeyman process.

29:16 Speaker 3: You know.

29:16 Speaker 5: That would be great if I could like just tack

29:18 Speaker 5: on to a touring guy who's you know, a gray beard,

29:22 Speaker 5: who could show me around, yeah, and teach me some

29:25 Speaker 5: of those things. But that's just not a part of

29:27 Speaker 5: a music program that I'm aware of anyway.

29:30 Speaker 3: You know.

29:30 Speaker 1: I think that aspect is especially challenging when you're you know,

29:34 Speaker 1: a solo act, right, just you and a guitar, because

29:37 Speaker 1: if you're in a band, like if you're in a band,

29:38 Speaker 1: there's a certain comfort to that and a safety in that,

29:41 Speaker 1: you know, safety in numbers. You know, no matter what

29:43 Speaker 1: the room is, you're up there with three other guys

29:45 Speaker 1: or four other guys or whatever the configuration is, right, yes,

29:48 Speaker 1: but when it's just you, you're vulnerable. Right, it's just

29:52 Speaker 1: you with the guitar, and you've got to figure out

29:54 Speaker 1: how to read that room. When you're in a band,

29:55 Speaker 1: you kind of don't care. It's like, yeah, we do

29:57 Speaker 1: what we do, right, But when it's just you, there's

29:59 Speaker 1: that added press. Sure of you really got to sell this.

30:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.

30:03 Speaker 5: And another thing I had to learn, Like I love,

30:06 Speaker 5: I'm all about positive energy and I can share a

30:09 Speaker 5: million stories, touching stories, but I have a few songs

30:13 Speaker 5: that are very personal and I'm not used to like

30:19 Speaker 5: being super vulnerable when I'm performing. And so another thing

30:25 Speaker 5: that I've had to learn, you know, is stories are

30:28 Speaker 5: meant to be shared. I have a song my grandmother,

30:30 Speaker 5: my my poetry pal who's no longer with me but

30:34 Speaker 5: super influential in my life. I wrote a song because

30:37 Speaker 5: I continue to hear her voice talking to me and

30:41 Speaker 5: encouraging me, and it's it's original, real, it's her telling

30:46 Speaker 5: me things. I'm not sure where she's coming from, but

30:50 Speaker 5: you know, I get so emotional when I sing that

30:53 Speaker 5: song and I tell the story, and it touches so

30:56 Speaker 5: many people in the crowd when I do that, and

30:59 Speaker 5: they come up afterwards and tell me, Hey, that that

31:01 Speaker 5: song your voice. I can hear someone from my life

31:05 Speaker 5: that's no longer with me, And so learning how to

31:07 Speaker 5: be vulnerable is something I'm learning still. I have some

31:12 Speaker 5: more personal songs. I'm scared to play them live. They're

31:15 Speaker 5: going to come out on an album that's that's coming

31:17 Speaker 5: up next year, but I'm scared to play them live

31:21 Speaker 5: because they're sort of raw emotions. Yea, And yeah, if

31:27 Speaker 5: I got to learn, I've got to learn.

31:28 Speaker 8: To do that.

31:28 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, do you want to play another live one

31:31 Speaker 6: for us? I will.

31:32 Speaker 7: I will do that. So this song is a it's

31:37 Speaker 7: a song called Signal. It's all about being aware.

31:42 Speaker 5: Of the energy that you're putting out in the world

31:45 Speaker 5: and the energy that you're taking in from other people.

31:47 Speaker 7: Like we're all little radio station, you know, And I

31:53 Speaker 7: like to.

31:53 Speaker 5: Think about my channel being sort of the positive energy channel,

31:57 Speaker 5: and have friends who live on both ends of the

31:59 Speaker 5: spec which helped me write the song right. Because no

32:04 Speaker 5: matter how good or bad you are, other people's signals

32:08 Speaker 5: affect you and your perspective on life for that day

32:11 Speaker 5: and in that moment the single.

32:13 Speaker 7: This is called signal.

32:36 Speaker 9: Waves washing out from me, sending around my inner geez,

32:44 Speaker 9: sometimes bright and shimmering, sometimes dark and stifling, crashing into

32:52 Speaker 9: the walls.

32:53 Speaker 4: And floors, seeping in the minds and more. Should I

32:59 Speaker 4: keep viewing random feelings? No, I should focus my mind.

33:04 Speaker 4: Don't feeling I'm taking it in and putting it out.

33:13 Speaker 4: I should cure up any lingering.

33:16 Speaker 9: Die. So I'm going up, dial in my signal and

33:24 Speaker 9: make it a dream. Make it my positive screen.

33:35 Speaker 12: Dial in my signal, Hey, make it a dream, make.

33:42 Speaker 4: It my positive screen. Changing my mind to create a

33:58 Speaker 4: layer intense Ity's fine.

34:00 Speaker 9: If your heart is there radiating the thoughts you want

34:05 Speaker 9: the most.

34:06 Speaker 4: It is a powerful, purpose, cool piece of cruse.

34:10 Speaker 9: Reading the vibes back from with him. I can tell

34:14 Speaker 9: the quote I'm pulling out, you get back in, not

34:18 Speaker 9: accidentious in the Nagati, bring out the best and share

34:23 Speaker 9: that narrity.

34:28 Speaker 4: I'm taking it in and putting it out.

34:32 Speaker 9: I should clear up any lingering die. So I'm going

34:39 Speaker 9: up nyling my signal and.

34:43 Speaker 4: Making it a dream.

34:46 Speaker 9: Make it my positive screen. Dialing my signal and making

34:57 Speaker 9: it a dream, make it my positive screet.

35:07 Speaker 4: Do you feel the vibes from those around you?

35:11 Speaker 8: Are you catching the meaning in your mind? Is it

35:15 Speaker 8: helping you live and smile?

35:17 Speaker 4: Or do you need to turn that dial. I'm gonna

35:35 Speaker 4: dial in my signal land.

35:39 Speaker 9: Make it a dream, make it my positive screeen.

35:49 Speaker 12: Dial in that signal and make it a dream.

35:56 Speaker 4: Make it my positive street.

36:21 Speaker 6: Outstanding. Mark Winters is here with us live in studio.

36:25 Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, it is Matt Connorton

36:28 Speaker 1: Unleashed and if you are listening live of course, today

36:30 Speaker 1: is Saturday, October fourth, twenty twenty five. As we are

36:34 Speaker 1: in our first hour and starting out with some great

36:37 Speaker 1: positivity from Mark Winters. So excellent, excellent. So when you

36:42 Speaker 1: when you do this, when you play live, do you

36:44 Speaker 1: ever have anyone join you or.

36:45 Speaker 6: Is it always? Is it always you?

36:47 Speaker 1: Or because yeah, because you mentioned back in Houston, there's

36:50 Speaker 1: someone you perform with, right, yeah, yeah.

36:51 Speaker 5: So I have I've been on an amazing musical journey

36:55 Speaker 5: and I've I've met so many amazing people in production

37:00 Speaker 5: of my albums and such. And I met a really

37:04 Speaker 5: good friend of mine now mister Michael Shanks, about a

37:07 Speaker 5: year and a half ago, and he was just coming

37:10 Speaker 5: back in from Spain.

37:11 Speaker 3: He was.

37:13 Speaker 5: There studying at Berkeley. He's an amazing guitar player and

37:18 Speaker 5: just an amazing human being. He and I were talking

37:22 Speaker 5: with a producer that was working on a song for me,

37:24 Speaker 5: and so he and I started playing when he was there.

37:27 Speaker 5: I just loved his energy, and I said, hey, you know,

37:29 Speaker 5: when you're actually back in town, you want to hang

37:31 Speaker 5: out together, maybe play a few songs. Next thing, you know,

37:35 Speaker 5: we struck up a great friendship. I started inviting him

37:38 Speaker 5: out to play at shows with me.

37:39 Speaker 11: We have this.

37:41 Speaker 5: You know, I'm competent on the guitar. I played lead guitar,

37:45 Speaker 5: but you know, I'm just sort of competent. Sure, he's phenomenal, okay,

37:50 Speaker 5: And the fact that he can do it on an

37:52 Speaker 5: acoustic guitar, which is what I was looking for, creates

37:56 Speaker 5: great energy.

37:56 Speaker 7: And so we started playing together.

37:58 Speaker 5: We play percussion back and forth on the guitars, and

38:01 Speaker 5: lead and rhythm and everything. It's really amazing. And then

38:04 Speaker 5: my vocal instructor I was telling you about earlier, you know,

38:07 Speaker 5: he I told him I'm looking for someone to sing

38:10 Speaker 5: harmonies with, and he said, hey, I've got just the lady.

38:13 Speaker 5: She's looking for someone to do the same. She doesn't

38:16 Speaker 5: play out a lot, and so she and I had

38:18 Speaker 5: coffee and then I invited her to sing with me

38:21 Speaker 5: at a show of mine that I had coming up.

38:23 Speaker 5: And if Lady Gaga and Adele had a baby, that's

38:27 Speaker 5: her voice. It's just meso soprano, richness and amazing. And

38:33 Speaker 5: if you tracked her, she's like like perfect when she's

38:39 Speaker 5: tracking her vocals or just like or like right down

38:42 Speaker 5: the middle. And so we started hanging out playing singing

38:46 Speaker 5: duets together and so that became my trio. Okay, and

38:51 Speaker 5: we're really tight. I love working with those guys. I'm

38:55 Speaker 5: teaching her how to write songs. So we've written four

38:58 Speaker 5: songs together now, wrote the first one just for her.

39:00 Speaker 5: There have been harmonies or duo work for us, and

39:04 Speaker 5: so we play out a lot around town. But she

39:07 Speaker 5: has kids that are in middle school and isn't portable

39:12 Speaker 5: to be out on the road, and she is still

39:14 Speaker 5: developing herself as an artist, independent artists new and so

39:19 Speaker 5: I'm hopeful to have her and Michael both out on

39:21 Speaker 5: the road as I get back through the area here,

39:25 Speaker 5: maybe next year. I'm still developing a following that makes

39:29 Speaker 5: it worthwhile for everyone to come out. You know, if

39:32 Speaker 5: you don't sell enough tickets, it doesn't work for people

39:34 Speaker 5: who have families to feed. So so I'm working on

39:38 Speaker 5: developing us as a trio more. And you'll hear her

39:43 Speaker 5: singing harmonies and background vocals on some of the songs

39:48 Speaker 5: in my Acoustic Me album. Okay, that's the that's the

39:51 Speaker 5: live sound between the three of us, that's what I capture,

39:54 Speaker 5: that is all three of us performing, and that on

39:57 Speaker 5: that Acoustic Me album.

39:58 Speaker 6: Oh cool, very nice, very nice. So how many? How

40:01 Speaker 6: many albums have you recorded at this point?

40:04 Speaker 5: So there are three albums that are out ye. The

40:07 Speaker 5: first one is called Slipstream, which is a scientific principle

40:12 Speaker 5: of being like tucked behind someone like a duck. The

40:16 Speaker 5: person up front's working harder than the people behind them.

40:19 Speaker 7: Okay, And I felt like I was sort of.

40:22 Speaker 5: Drafting off of a lot of amazing musicians who are

40:25 Speaker 5: helping me create that album. Yeah, and so that's the

40:28 Speaker 5: first album I put out kind of a four piece

40:31 Speaker 5: light rock band format.

40:32 Speaker 7: And then I put out.

40:35 Speaker 5: Boundary Layer, which was my album on the other side

40:39 Speaker 5: of COVID, still four piece rock, light rock. And then

40:43 Speaker 5: I started leaning more heavily into the singer songwriter mode,

40:47 Speaker 5: and so I rearranged a lot of my music to

40:50 Speaker 5: be singer songwriter formatted acoustic. Me album I was telling

40:54 Speaker 5: you about is sort of Reimagine. It's got a few

40:57 Speaker 5: new songs on it.

40:58 Speaker 6: Yeah.

40:59 Speaker 5: And then I just put out Equal Sims Squared, which

41:02 Speaker 5: is my latest batch of songs that a friend of mine,

41:07 Speaker 5: John Edward Ross, helped me produce. And I'm working slowly

41:13 Speaker 5: with these two new singles that I've just put out,

41:16 Speaker 5: Fake Gravity and Man in the Sky are part of

41:19 Speaker 5: an album that's going to release next year called The

41:22 Speaker 5: Science in Me. Okay, and so that would before into

41:25 Speaker 5: when that album comes out, that'll be the fourth album.

41:28 Speaker 6: Okay. So where do you record?

41:31 Speaker 7: You know, it's a I've I've recorded my very first album.

41:35 Speaker 7: I met a guy.

41:37 Speaker 5: I went looking for a producer. I'm pretty thorough guy.

41:39 Speaker 5: So I interviewed a bunch of producers and told him, look, I'm.

41:42 Speaker 7: The new guy. I don't know anything.

41:43 Speaker 5: I'm gonna be annoying to work with because I'm gonna

41:45 Speaker 5: want to be in the middle of everything because I'm learning. Yeah, right,

41:48 Speaker 5: And so I look for a producer who was friendly

41:49 Speaker 5: for that, and Mark Townsend showed that his studio was

41:54 Speaker 5: in Houston, and so he and I were talking. He

41:58 Speaker 5: had a Houston number or whatever. Well, he had just

42:00 Speaker 5: located to LA six months or earlier. Oh like, okay, well,

42:04 Speaker 5: how do we do this? And he's like, well, you know,

42:06 Speaker 5: why don't we just have a he has a bunch

42:08 Speaker 5: of contacts. I said, why don't we? He said, why

42:10 Speaker 5: don't we just meet in Nashville and record your first album,

42:13 Speaker 5: the Bones of It there, Yeah, and then we'll come

42:15 Speaker 5: out to LA do the vocals. And so he did

42:18 Speaker 5: pre production in Houston with me, and then we did

42:20 Speaker 5: the Bones in Nashville at the House of Blue studio there,

42:26 Speaker 5: and then did the vocals out in California. So the

42:29 Speaker 5: first one I did with him, and then I learned

42:32 Speaker 5: a ton he was. He was such a great mentor

42:35 Speaker 5: and he's so musically gifted. He helped me a ton

42:37 Speaker 5: to grow and learn and then I was looking for

42:40 Speaker 5: someone more local for the second album, and so I

42:43 Speaker 5: worked with Derrek Haymes in Houston and sugar Land actually

42:49 Speaker 5: and did my second album. It was a bit the

42:51 Speaker 5: process for that one was was much more difficult for

42:56 Speaker 5: me because he's kind of a live sound person. Okay,

43:00 Speaker 5: so he wanted me to show up, do the thing

43:03 Speaker 5: live and then okay, you know, he'll clean up some

43:06 Speaker 5: stuff and you're done, which is not how I'm wired.

43:11 Speaker 5: And so I found another guy in town in Houston,

43:16 Speaker 5: john nyberd Ross, and he and I have been working together,

43:19 Speaker 5: and Michael Shanks, my guitarist, is a producer as well,

43:22 Speaker 5: and so that there there are the two that really

43:26 Speaker 5: are the people who get me the best. And so

43:31 Speaker 5: we're on a journey together and we've written this where

43:34 Speaker 5: we produced this whole next album together that's coming out.

43:38 Speaker 5: And so I like people, you know, I like someone

43:41 Speaker 5: I can sit down and talk to you, like you like, Okay,

43:43 Speaker 5: let's work on this together, right that sense of collaboration.

43:47 Speaker 5: It's much more difficult to be the sort of remote

43:50 Speaker 5: you know, send me your vocals and send me the

43:52 Speaker 5: guitar part and put it all together remotely.

43:56 Speaker 7: I don't get the energy out of that.

43:57 Speaker 6: Sure, sure, yeah, it's funny.

43:59 Speaker 1: Uh, there was a time when when people just generally

44:02 Speaker 1: were kind of turned off to that idea, and then COVID.

44:04 Speaker 1: COVID forced a lot of people to work that way.

44:07 Speaker 1: But then, you know, and a lot of people still

44:10 Speaker 1: a lot of people still work that way. But I

44:11 Speaker 1: would imagine it, I understand your perspective in that, I

44:15 Speaker 1: would imagine it would be challenging to work that. Like obviously,

44:18 Speaker 1: we have the technology to you know, send tracks back

44:20 Speaker 1: and forth with Dropbox or you know, or one drive

44:23 Speaker 1: or whatever service you want to use.

44:25 Speaker 6: And it's sometimes some of the guests we have on

44:28 Speaker 6: the show.

44:28 Speaker 1: You know, these bands come in and they've got they've

44:31 Speaker 1: got music that sounds like it was all recorded together.

44:34 Speaker 1: You know, it sounds like a live band in the studio,

44:36 Speaker 1: you know, and then you find out no, they they've

44:39 Speaker 1: used a lot of technology in different studios and sending

44:42 Speaker 1: tracks back and forth and whatnot.

44:43 Speaker 3: But but.

44:46 Speaker 1: The way, the way of doing it, the kind of

44:48 Speaker 1: the old school way, which is what you're doing, it

44:52 Speaker 1: sounds easier in a lot of ways because you're you're

44:55 Speaker 1: able to get that energy of directly collaborating with people, right, Yeah.

45:00 Speaker 6: It sounds. It just sounds. That's how I mean.

45:04 Speaker 1: I'm a musician and I've recorded some stuff, but I've

45:06 Speaker 1: never not not to the extent that you have. And

45:08 Speaker 1: I would rather do it the way you're doing it,

45:10 Speaker 1: I think, than the way that some other people are

45:12 Speaker 1: doing it.

45:12 Speaker 7: If that makes sense, Yeah to me, I think there's Uh,

45:15 Speaker 7: it's kind of like it's like co writing.

45:17 Speaker 5: I started co writing two and a half years ago,

45:21 Speaker 5: never done it before, And there's a certain level of

45:24 Speaker 5: competence that you need to have to co write and

45:26 Speaker 5: to correcte well. And if I show up in the

45:30 Speaker 5: right room, my co writing sessions produce a completed song

45:36 Speaker 5: in three hours. Okay, So all I need is either

45:40 Speaker 5: me instrumentally or someone else on an instrument and you

45:45 Speaker 5: know two people.

45:47 Speaker 6: Ish.

45:47 Speaker 5: If you pair me with a person who's used to

45:50 Speaker 5: writing melody, especially, then I can do everything else. So

45:55 Speaker 5: we can really produce a song really well, and there's

45:57 Speaker 5: an organic element to it. Yeah, I'm good. I've written

46:01 Speaker 5: co written with a lot of people and I'm good

46:03 Speaker 5: at it. And I can remotely work on Zoom with someone.

46:08 Speaker 6: Nine.

46:11 Speaker 7: Because of the transport.

46:12 Speaker 5: Lag, I can't play a thing with you in the room, right,

46:17 Speaker 5: And so I have the same problem with production. I've

46:20 Speaker 5: done it enough that I can do it. I've done

46:22 Speaker 5: a track. I did a Christmas track with a remote producer.

46:25 Speaker 5: It was all back and forth remote, and so I

46:27 Speaker 5: know how to do it, and I do my own

46:29 Speaker 5: vocal track and get home.

46:30 Speaker 7: I have a studio for that. But when you're creating

46:35 Speaker 7: an arrangement and you're listening to something, listening to a

46:40 Speaker 7: mix for the first time and trying to get everything

46:41 Speaker 7: dialed in, it's so difficult because of the lagginess of it.

46:46 Speaker 11: Right.

46:46 Speaker 5: I find it the most difficult when I'm writing, and

46:50 Speaker 5: the second most difficult when I'm in the final production

46:53 Speaker 5: phase and I'm trying to hear like the producers like

46:56 Speaker 5: let me turn the base up or the bass down

46:58 Speaker 5: or this or that way you're not in the.

47:01 Speaker 4: Room with them.

47:02 Speaker 7: It's so hard.

47:02 Speaker 6: Oh yeah.

47:03 Speaker 5: So my process with John Edward is we can do

47:05 Speaker 5: certain amount of things. We do the arrangement live, me

47:10 Speaker 5: and him and Michael in the room, and we do

47:12 Speaker 5: the thing and we get it the way we want

47:14 Speaker 5: it and the way it's the structure, and and so

47:16 Speaker 5: we've got the genesis of the idea is now done

47:18 Speaker 5: and it's down and we we've got that, and then

47:21 Speaker 5: we we do the parts. We can put them all,

47:24 Speaker 5: you know, Frankenstein it together the parts around that arrangement,

47:28 Speaker 5: and then when we get back to when I put

47:31 Speaker 5: my first set of vocals in, okay, we need to

47:34 Speaker 5: sit down and listen to that live, and then we

47:36 Speaker 5: do the final mix.

47:37 Speaker 7: We need to do the live.

47:37 Speaker 5: So I think there's there's moments in the song's genesis

47:41 Speaker 5: that you really need to be live to give it

47:44 Speaker 5: its best effort, and then after that you can be

47:48 Speaker 5: you know, sort of remote.

47:49 Speaker 7: That's just my personal experience.

47:51 Speaker 6: Absolutely. Well, you want to play one more live one?

47:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, let's let's let's do it.

47:57 Speaker 6: Okay.

47:58 Speaker 7: So this next tune I'm going to.

48:00 Speaker 5: Play for you is all about me getting out of

48:05 Speaker 5: a bad mood.

48:06 Speaker 6: Okay.

48:06 Speaker 5: So even when I'm writing about a bad mood, I

48:08 Speaker 5: have to put a little positive spin on it.

48:11 Speaker 7: I was in a bad mood about it two years ago.

48:13 Speaker 5: And you know, I have a lot of crazy hobbies,

48:16 Speaker 5: you know, surfing and rollerblading and motorcycle racing and whatever,

48:20 Speaker 5: anything that my hair is on fire for.

48:22 Speaker 7: Yeah, and that usually gets me out of any funk

48:25 Speaker 7: i'm in. H Usually just a run does.

48:28 Speaker 5: But I got in a bad mood that I couldn't

48:29 Speaker 5: get out of it, and I said, you know you're

48:31 Speaker 5: a songwriter.

48:33 Speaker 7: You should write a song about it.

48:34 Speaker 5: At least share the fact that you're in a bad mood,

48:36 Speaker 5: and ultimately ended up helping me get out of the

48:39 Speaker 5: bad mood. It's called seven Deadly moods.

48:43 Speaker 6: All right, Mark Winter is live in studio.

49:00 Speaker 9: I've got these bad moods living in my head, snapping

49:09 Speaker 9: and biting name, putting me on edge. It's like a

49:16 Speaker 9: hydra spitting with seven hairs, sneaking around and trying to

49:22 Speaker 9: spread ran Sadness got a hold on me.

49:27 Speaker 4: What's it gonna take to make you leave? My mind's

49:31 Speaker 4: tied up in a funky moods got me on edge?

49:36 Speaker 4: Why do I do? I said, I'm mooding.

49:39 Speaker 9: I need muffings around me with dance on nights, set

49:43 Speaker 9: up very feet singing our songs.

49:47 Speaker 4: Gonna change my tone? Seven deadly moons, gonna turn to go.

49:58 Speaker 7: Here comes those bad moods?

50:00 Speaker 4: Who's creeping back in?

50:02 Speaker 9: It's lonely and quite just sitting on my cow. No

50:09 Speaker 9: one's around, they help me out, shameful, depressing and mercid thoughts,

50:20 Speaker 9: constricting and squeezing.

50:21 Speaker 4: I'm hit it south, anger and sadness, SO saiding, what's

50:27 Speaker 4: it gonna take to make you leave? My mind's side

50:32 Speaker 4: up in a punker moods? It's coming on it? Why

50:37 Speaker 4: do I do?

50:38 Speaker 9: I said, I'm mooding, handing my pons around me with

50:42 Speaker 9: dance on. I said, our word street singing.

50:46 Speaker 4: Our songs, gonna change my tone. Seven deadly moves gonna

50:51 Speaker 4: turn to go, I said, turning, turning, turning to go.

51:14 Speaker 12: Seven deadly moods sitting in my head.

51:18 Speaker 13: H I S S I n G love and light

51:22 Speaker 13: and camarader read if I guess yes, I in G

51:28 Speaker 13: take those moods.

51:29 Speaker 12: And loosen their whole k I S S I G.

51:35 Speaker 12: Seven deadly moods gonna.

51:37 Speaker 4: Turn to go, I said, turn it, turn it, turn

51:41 Speaker 4: into go. I said the mood. I need muffins around me.

51:46 Speaker 4: We dance song and I said a retreat, singing up songs,

51:51 Speaker 4: gonna change my tone. Seven deadly moves gonna turn to go,

51:56 Speaker 4: I said, turn it, turn it, turn into gold.

52:07 Speaker 1: Wonderful. Mark Winter is live in studio. Mark, thank you

52:10 Speaker 1: so much. This has been wonderful. Where are you gonna

52:13 Speaker 1: be next? You know we're in Manchester, but we have

52:15 Speaker 1: listeners online all over the place. Where's your next show?

52:17 Speaker 3: Yeah?

52:17 Speaker 5: I'm headed up to Maine to hang out with my

52:19 Speaker 5: dad for a couple of days along the Marginal Way, Okay,

52:23 Speaker 5: and then I'm headed into New Brunswick, so that's next

52:27 Speaker 5: on the list. And then I'm looping around from there

52:31 Speaker 5: west and then back south towards Texas.

52:34 Speaker 7: So come catch me.

52:36 Speaker 5: On the Positive Vibe Highway, surfing along with me and

52:40 Speaker 5: my trailer.

52:41 Speaker 1: Outstanding, Outstanding? And where should people go online to keep

52:43 Speaker 1: up with everything that you're doing? Where's the best place

52:45 Speaker 1: to go?

52:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, Mark Wintersmusic dot com is the place to join

52:49 Speaker 5: the Positive Vibe tribe. Hop on that email list and

52:54 Speaker 5: keep track of all the places I'm visiting and maybe

52:57 Speaker 5: catch a show live and pick up some positive energy

53:01 Speaker 5: in your life, you know.

53:02 Speaker 1: Outstanding. So to close out this segment, we're gonna play

53:06 Speaker 1: this track strong. What should we know about this before

53:09 Speaker 1: we play it? Anything you want to tell.

53:10 Speaker 6: Us about this?

53:11 Speaker 4: Yes?

53:13 Speaker 5: So I'm I'm extremely competitive in athletics, So if you're

53:17 Speaker 5: out running a race together, Matt, and I saw the

53:19 Speaker 5: finish line and you're standing next to me running. I'm like, Matt,

53:22 Speaker 5: I'm about to beat you coming across that finish line.

53:25 Speaker 6: Huh.

53:26 Speaker 5: And so anything athletics, I'm like that guy, super competitive,

53:31 Speaker 5: but in other parts of my life not so much.

53:35 Speaker 5: And so I wrote a song to remind myself and

53:37 Speaker 5: my children both to be aware that finishing strong can

53:44 Speaker 5: have a big impact in your life. And so the

53:46 Speaker 5: song is all about finishing the strong.

53:49 Speaker 6: Baby, all right, very good.

53:51 Speaker 1: So we're gonna play this, and if you are listening

53:53 Speaker 1: live on Saturday, sick around coming up in the second hour,

53:55 Speaker 1: we have the Gray Curtain in studio, but we're gonna

53:59 Speaker 1: close out this hour with this. This is Strong by

54:02 Speaker 1: Mark Winters and Mark, thank you again.

54:04 Speaker 7: Thanks mat.

54:30 Speaker 8: Well.

54:30 Speaker 9: Baby life has a twist sentns times when you're feeling down.

54:38 Speaker 4: And when you want to give her and throw it

54:42 Speaker 4: to the gownd. I been baby cold.

54:49 Speaker 9: Lord only knows it's true. Gave up a few times myself.

54:57 Speaker 4: And didn't pull it through. Looking back is clearing now

55:03 Speaker 4: that happined? Who makes a great road sand for you?

55:08 Speaker 4: Hold up your head down, Baby, hold up.

55:12 Speaker 3: Your head now, eyes on the press, get across at

55:16 Speaker 3: finish line? Strong?

55:31 Speaker 12: Yeah?

55:38 Speaker 4: When I watch you grow.

55:42 Speaker 9: Trying not to find your week, bowling down and looking around?

55:50 Speaker 4: What should I see? Looking back? Is clearing? Now? All

55:56 Speaker 4: that happens through makes a great road sid for.

56:02 Speaker 14: Now baby, Now that pri get across that finish line?

56:12 Speaker 4: Strong? What should I do? Be strong? What should I do?

56:21 Speaker 7: Make it tough for no reason?

56:23 Speaker 4: What should I do? Be strong?

56:27 Speaker 12: What should I do say if you first give you easy?

56:30 Speaker 4: How should I do be strong?

56:35 Speaker 3: What should I do?

56:36 Speaker 4: Show the way? Cast a shadow? What should I do

56:40 Speaker 4: be strong? What should I do?

56:44 Speaker 3: Make strong?

56:48 Speaker 4: Back? It's clearer now.

56:51 Speaker 14: That I've been too makes a great road, Sam for you?

56:56 Speaker 14: I heard now, baby, d are the ride at that

57:04 Speaker 14: Venny's line.

57:07 Speaker 4: St now be rid line?

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