Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-23-24 hour 1

0:14 Speaker 1: Poets say love is gonna save us. Most of the time,

0:30 Speaker 1: I don't feel like.

0:32 Speaker 2: I'm worth saved and just a dum screwed up kid.

0:41 Speaker 3: You gave me hope.

0:44 Speaker 4: You spoken to my darkness, and you showed me the light.

0:55 Speaker 4: In your glow, I'm seeing for the first time.

1:03 Speaker 3: There's still food on the fire. There's a fire burning in.

1:11 Speaker 2: Mych helping me to see the truth.

1:22 Speaker 5: In spite of all my anxious feeds.

1:29 Speaker 2: This love has made me rist.

1:33 Speaker 6: Keep it burning, war to keep it burning.

1:50 Speaker 2: I am alive and nothing's gonna change that.

2:03 Speaker 7: A living fear of showing who I really am and

2:12 Speaker 7: fall in apart.

2:17 Speaker 3: Like a spy. You slip past my defense is.

2:25 Speaker 2: And you found me out.

2:31 Speaker 3: Piece by piece. You're taking off this army. I don't

2:39 Speaker 3: need it now.

2:44 Speaker 2: There's a fire burning the matches, and.

2:51 Speaker 3: You're the one that put it there.

2:58 Speaker 2: It wasn't lit by anyone, because.

3:05 Speaker 8: No one has loved me with that.

3:08 Speaker 6: But Kate, you keeping burning, w.

3:16 Speaker 8: You keep it burning.

3:20 Speaker 3: More.

3:25 Speaker 2: There's a fire burning in my chest, helping me to

3:34 Speaker 2: see the truth in spite of all my anxious fees.

3:46 Speaker 2: Just love has made be rezled.

3:50 Speaker 3: Keeping burning.

3:54 Speaker 6: Oh you keeping burning?

4:22 Speaker 9: What a great way to open up this week's Matt

4:23 Speaker 9: Connorton Unleashed. That is Keep It Burning Matt Litzinger, who

4:27 Speaker 9: is here with us in studio and we are going

4:29 Speaker 9: to be introducing him in just a couple of moments.

4:32 Speaker 9: He brought his guitar. He's gonna play live. Can't wait,

4:35 Speaker 9: but yeah, what a great track. Keep It Burning by

4:37 Speaker 9: Matt Litzinger. Welcome. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed. Today is Saturday,

4:41 Speaker 9: November twenty third, twenty twenty four. We are live from

4:46 Speaker 9: the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM

4:50 Speaker 9: and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And I am not alone.

5:00 Speaker 9: J Kenny is here at the news tableted for Yes, Yes,

5:09 Speaker 9: welcome and uh. We have a few events to mention

5:12 Speaker 9: before we really get rolling, and I think we should

5:15 Speaker 9: probably do these chronologically because there's a lot going on.

5:19 Speaker 9: But tomorrow, so this is it. This is the big

5:21 Speaker 9: weekend tomorrow we have Tomorrow we have Spelthy Fests live

5:27 Speaker 9: at Jewel which is right across the street actually from

5:30 Speaker 9: where we are, not from where we not from where

5:32 Speaker 9: we live, but from where we are literally right now.

5:35 Speaker 9: You're in w M and H it's it's yes, we can, yes,

5:40 Speaker 9: but yeah, so that will be uh doors open at

5:44 Speaker 9: one and then it's all day. Tons of great bands

5:48 Speaker 9: are going to be there. You are opening right with

5:51 Speaker 9: your your giving a talk.

5:52 Speaker 10: I'm giving a quick talk about our st s A

5:54 Speaker 10: Reflex Sympathetic distric Association, which is the national organization here

6:00 Speaker 10: in the United States that helps support, educate, and advocate

6:05 Speaker 10: for CRPS patients Complex regional pain syndrome. Yes, so Spelthy

6:10 Speaker 10: Fest is actually giving proceeds to r s CSA. So

6:13 Speaker 10: I really do hope that you come down. But we're

6:15 Speaker 10: celebrating Spelthy's birthday. That's the second anniversary of our fortyeth

6:20 Speaker 10: third birthday.

6:21 Speaker 9: Hence the hence the Spelthy Fest.

6:23 Speaker 10: Yes, yes, yes, yes, And there's gonna be an a

6:25 Speaker 10: crazy amount of musicians. It's twenty different acts going on.

6:28 Speaker 10: There's a visual artist going on, There's going to be

6:31 Speaker 10: stuff that you can buy, lots of wares and things

6:34 Speaker 10: being sold there. It's gonna be insanely cool. And you

6:37 Speaker 10: are doing a hypnosis presentation.

6:39 Speaker 9: Yes i am, and hopefully Spelthy will let me hypnotizer

6:42 Speaker 9: in front of everyone. And and I'm also going to

6:45 Speaker 9: MC some of the part of the event. I'll be

6:47 Speaker 9: introducing some of the bands as.

6:48 Speaker 10: Well, Solutely and Spelfy Fest is sp E l FI

6:53 Speaker 10: e F E s T. And if you can't find that,

6:56 Speaker 10: just contact matter I or take a look at matt

6:59 Speaker 10: Connatona Leached on Facebook and you'll find more information there.

7:02 Speaker 9: And you can get tickets and see the full band listing.

7:05 Speaker 9: There's too many to mension. It's a full day of music.

7:08 Speaker 9: It's going to be amazing. But Midnight Creatives Collective dot

7:10 Speaker 9: com is the website. You can get your tickets there

7:13 Speaker 9: and see the full full itinerary. So that's one thing

7:17 Speaker 9: we've got coming up. And then let's see November thirtieth.

7:20 Speaker 9: Our amazing sponsors, the Sister Which Company of their next event,

7:25 Speaker 9: the Magical Market Small Business Psychic Fair. Come join us

7:29 Speaker 9: on Small Business Saturday from eleven thirty am to six

7:32 Speaker 9: pm where you will find some of the most amazing

7:35 Speaker 9: vendors and they're handsome items and art. This will be

7:38 Speaker 9: packed full, one floor only event with a separate room

7:41 Speaker 9: dedicated to our readers and healers. This is the time

7:44 Speaker 9: of year where small businesses need you more than any

7:46 Speaker 9: big box store, as I always like to remind people

7:49 Speaker 9: Walmart doesn't need your money, so support your small businesses.

7:52 Speaker 9: Come out, meet us and watch us light up when

7:55 Speaker 9: we make a sale. This is being held at the

7:57 Speaker 9: Manchester Masonic Temple at fifteen to oh five Elm Street,

7:59 Speaker 9: so that is November thirtieth yees. And then one other

8:03 Speaker 9: big event. We could talk about events for the whole show.

8:07 Speaker 9: There's so much going on, but very important of course,

8:09 Speaker 9: as happens every year every year the Miracle on Elm

8:12 Speaker 9: Street year five, yes, Yes, Miracle on Elm Street twenty

8:17 Speaker 9: twenty four Toy Drive to benefit Manchester's kids through the

8:21 Speaker 9: Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority. And of course you are

8:28 Speaker 9: donating an item. I'm going to donate something as well, but.

8:31 Speaker 10: I'm donating one of my Macromay art pieces. It's actually

8:35 Speaker 10: a tree, pretty cool, lots of color. Because there's going

8:38 Speaker 10: to be a grand event, a live telethon at the

8:41 Speaker 10: Bonfire Yeah on December fifth.

8:43 Speaker 9: Yeah fourth, December fourth, yep, yept of teleth on December fourth.

8:48 Speaker 10: So there's going to be a raffle there and that's

8:50 Speaker 10: where the tree is going to be, along with lots

8:51 Speaker 10: of other great prizes so you can come support that raffle, hangout,

8:56 Speaker 10: meet people. Peter's going to be there, see the whole

8:58 Speaker 10: Morning crew. Maddie will be there.

9:00 Speaker 9: Yep. Absolutely, And for more information on that, you can

9:02 Speaker 9: contact Matt Kushane and his email is Matt at Hope

9:07 Speaker 9: NDH dot org. So I'm sure it'll be another successful

9:11 Speaker 9: year for that. So, so a lot's going on, and

9:14 Speaker 9: I'm gonna go ahead and bring his MIC's up here

9:18 Speaker 9: because we have Matt Litzinger here with us live in studio. Oh, actually,

9:22 Speaker 9: let me make sure this one is up here. We go. Hey, Matt,

9:25 Speaker 9: how you doing.

9:25 Speaker 11: Hello, I'm great.

9:27 Speaker 9: Let me bring you up a little more here. I'm

9:28 Speaker 9: having trouble here and you know, we just got to

9:31 Speaker 9: boost you a little more. There we go. I think

9:32 Speaker 9: we got you.

9:33 Speaker 11: Ye, good morning, good morning here.

9:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, so I love by the way, thank you

9:37 Speaker 9: for bringing us, and I'm gonna for people watching online.

9:39 Speaker 9: I'm gonna hold up the CD. There we go, this

9:43 Speaker 9: CD you brought us, Keep it Burning. And that was

9:45 Speaker 9: the title track, of course, that we opened the show with.

9:48 Speaker 9: Where did you record this?

9:49 Speaker 11: So yeah, one of the cool things about this project.

9:51 Speaker 11: I recorded it at my home studio. I really enjoy

9:56 Speaker 11: the process of, like watching the songs evolve. Yeah, sometimes

9:58 Speaker 11: studio time doesn't really like work well with that because

10:02 Speaker 11: you're kind of locked in. You know, you've got these

10:03 Speaker 11: hours of these days, right, and so these songs have

10:05 Speaker 11: kind of evolved over the past six nine months as

10:08 Speaker 11: I've worked on different demos for them leading up to it,

10:11 Speaker 11: and working at home just helps to make that a

10:12 Speaker 11: little easier.

10:13 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's cool to have that freedom and flexibility to

10:16 Speaker 9: do it that way. Have you always recorded that way

10:20 Speaker 9: or have you ever have?

10:21 Speaker 2: Yeah?

10:21 Speaker 11: Most of you just said a necessity with this project.

10:24 Speaker 11: I did raise money on Kickstarter to help fund it. Yeah,

10:27 Speaker 11: and so I thought about, like do I want to

10:28 Speaker 11: get studio time involved with that? And I really like

10:31 Speaker 11: the process of, you know, wearing the different hats all

10:34 Speaker 11: the way down the process. So yeah, writing the songs,

10:36 Speaker 11: engineering it, mixing it all the way through.

10:38 Speaker 9: So that's an advantage too, that you enjoy doing all

10:41 Speaker 9: that part, because a lot of musicians don't like doing

10:43 Speaker 9: that part, right.

10:44 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:44 Speaker 11: Yeah, my brain like, I like, you have to kind

10:46 Speaker 11: of turn off the right side left side thing, but

10:48 Speaker 11: I like to eventually turn that off and move into

10:50 Speaker 11: more of the engineering, you know, make it sound good

10:52 Speaker 11: side of things.

10:53 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Is this the first full length album

10:56 Speaker 9: that you've released is.

10:57 Speaker 11: Yeah, so that's that's a big one for me. It's

10:59 Speaker 11: been like EPs and singles up until this point.

11:02 Speaker 9: What made you decide to do a full length? Did

11:05 Speaker 9: it just seem like time.

11:06 Speaker 11: Or yeah, time would be the easiest way to say it.

11:08 Speaker 11: So I had I'd had two kids over the past

11:12 Speaker 11: like six eight years, and so it's been just bandwidth

11:16 Speaker 11: has been Okay, we can do a single, we can

11:17 Speaker 11: do a little project here or there. But some of

11:20 Speaker 11: those songs have stacked up and I'm happy with a

11:21 Speaker 11: lot of those. So I sat down in February wrote

11:24 Speaker 11: a couple more songs that I was happy with, and

11:25 Speaker 11: then I had a collection of them and I was like,

11:27 Speaker 11: it just makes sense. Sure I can carve out time

11:29 Speaker 11: this year to work on a whole project.

11:31 Speaker 9: And who else is on the album with you? Or

11:33 Speaker 9: is it all you?

11:34 Speaker 11: So this is all me except for on Gather Me Up.

11:37 Speaker 11: My wife plays violin. Oh a big thing because she's

11:40 Speaker 11: really great violinist but hardly played so it takes a

11:43 Speaker 11: lot of convincing. So it's great to get her on

11:45 Speaker 11: that track.

11:45 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Do you play out a lot?

11:47 Speaker 11: Do you do a lot off too, Yeah yeah, so

11:49 Speaker 11: not anything like ticketed, but I play bars and stuff

11:52 Speaker 11: around town quite a bit.

11:53 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah. The great thing about you know, what you do,

11:56 Speaker 9: you know, just you and a guitar, is obviously that

11:58 Speaker 9: opens up a lot of opportunity for where you can play.

12:01 Speaker 9: And so yeah, you know, so someone in your position,

12:03 Speaker 9: you've always got options as far as venues and so forth,

12:06 Speaker 9: whereas you know, like in the third hour today we

12:08 Speaker 9: have vigil coming in. I don't know if you know them,

12:10 Speaker 9: but they're loud and they're heavy, and you know, so

12:11 Speaker 9: of course for for someone in their position, you know,

12:14 Speaker 9: they've only got so many options as far as venues.

12:17 Speaker 9: But you can probably play anywhere. And I bet you've

12:19 Speaker 9: played some interesting place so for sure.

12:21 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I mean in town, Like I'm thinking small

12:24 Speaker 11: rooms where it's just like you know, you're kind of

12:26 Speaker 11: in a corner or a bigger venues. But yeah, I

12:29 Speaker 11: played everything from like kind of college level arena areas

12:33 Speaker 11: now all the way down to like small bar gigs.

12:35 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah. If you do, you stick to New England

12:38 Speaker 9: or have you gotten out of Yeah, and.

12:40 Speaker 11: Just mostly southern New Hampshire right now. So originally from Pennsylvania,

12:43 Speaker 11: went to school in Indiana and then have lived here

12:45 Speaker 11: for the past like ten years. Oh okay, and so yeah,

12:48 Speaker 11: southern New Hampshire, mostly Manchester. I play them out towards

12:50 Speaker 11: the Sea coast a little bit like when Sawbelly was

12:53 Speaker 11: out there. I'd go out and play out that way.

12:54 Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, yeah, what brought you to New Hampshire?

12:56 Speaker 11: My wife, Yeah, so she's from Chester. We met in

12:59 Speaker 11: uh in.

13:00 Speaker 9: School, oh, in Indiana, came back here here. Oh cool, cool, excellent, excellent.

13:04 Speaker 9: Well I'm dining here. You play live? You want to

13:05 Speaker 9: play something.

13:06 Speaker 11: For yeah, yeah, so I'll start out. This first song

13:09 Speaker 11: is called Restless Wings. There's a song about I tend

13:12 Speaker 11: to be kind of a homebody, and so this song

13:16 Speaker 11: is about watching somebody who you love need to go

13:19 Speaker 11: off and like travel a world. You know, some people

13:21 Speaker 11: really enjoy that, and trying to come to grips with

13:24 Speaker 11: the fact that like they still love you when they're

13:25 Speaker 11: out there, even though like you don't hear from them

13:27 Speaker 11: as often. And so this song just kind of reflects

13:29 Speaker 11: some of those ideas.

13:30 Speaker 9: All right, very good. Matt Litzinger live in studio with us.

13:50 Speaker 2: We are again saying ah goodbyes, and then and now

13:55 Speaker 2: you will be far above the clouds. I've been looking

14:00 Speaker 2: at the stars the night, wondering how.

14:03 Speaker 8: Long till you come back around.

14:14 Speaker 2: It's a mystery to a man like me, how you

14:19 Speaker 2: set your sights on distant shores.

14:22 Speaker 8: Each time you return.

14:24 Speaker 2: I see your fires burned, and it's not long before

14:28 Speaker 2: you're calling.

14:28 Speaker 8: Out for more.

14:31 Speaker 2: Your restless weeks get lighter.

14:35 Speaker 8: Look in that the sky. It's when you roll home.

14:42 Speaker 2: That's when you're most alive, My grounded hard it wishes

14:50 Speaker 2: you could stay. I wondered, dude, you miss me when

15:00 Speaker 2: you fly way, And as I wait for you to

15:13 Speaker 2: return to me, I wonder if you feel pull of.

15:16 Speaker 8: My heart on yours.

15:19 Speaker 2: As a lion bed, thoughts are a mess entering you

15:23 Speaker 2: walking back.

15:24 Speaker 3: Through my door.

15:27 Speaker 2: My bristless ways get lighter.

15:32 Speaker 8: Look in that the sky.

15:35 Speaker 2: It's when you obness, when you're most.

15:41 Speaker 8: Allahah, my grounded hard.

15:45 Speaker 2: It wishes you could stay. I wondered, dude, you miss me.

15:56 Speaker 8: When you fly.

15:59 Speaker 7: Away.

16:08 Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to stay with me here.

16:16 Speaker 8: I just want to know this love story. When you're

16:21 Speaker 8: out there.

16:26 Speaker 2: Your restless weeks get lighter. Look in that the sky

16:34 Speaker 2: because when you roll mess when you're most alive, grounded, hardy,

16:45 Speaker 2: wish miss you, chuld stay, I wander due you miss

16:54 Speaker 2: me when you fly away?

17:09 Speaker 9: Beautiful. That was gorgeous.

17:11 Speaker 11: Oh, thanks so much.

17:12 Speaker 10: Oh that was gorgeous. If you are, you're getting love

17:14 Speaker 10: in the chat room already loving this song. Can't wait

17:17 Speaker 10: to hear more.

17:18 Speaker 9: Says Jay. Excellent, excellent. Yes, if you are just joining us,

17:22 Speaker 9: we have a Matt Litzinger with us alive in studio

17:24 Speaker 9: this morning. Oh yeah, Jay Bellow of course from the

17:27 Speaker 9: band Chasing the Devil and uh but they're doing some

17:30 Speaker 9: big things, so very very proud of them. We've played

17:35 Speaker 9: a bunch of their music on the show, absolutely and

17:37 Speaker 9: Jay has always been very supportive of the show too,

17:39 Speaker 9: so we appreciate that. But yes, Matt Litzinger is here

17:42 Speaker 9: with us in studio. And is that I assume that

17:45 Speaker 9: song is on the album round there, Yeah it is? Yeah, excellent, excellent.

17:50 Speaker 9: Do you play when you play out? Do you do

17:52 Speaker 9: long shows? You probably know a lot of songs. I

17:54 Speaker 9: assume you can do like three hour shows.

17:56 Speaker 11: Yeah, three hours is kind of my well four hours

17:59 Speaker 11: is now my max, but three Yeah, I played a

18:01 Speaker 11: couple of Farmers Market gigs that were four hours. Yeah,

18:04 Speaker 11: it's kind of like like, so I run too, and

18:07 Speaker 11: so it's kind of like that where you start out

18:08 Speaker 11: and you're like, I don't know if I could ever

18:09 Speaker 11: do three miles, and like you do that and you're like,

18:11 Speaker 11: I don't know if I could ever do six That

18:13 Speaker 11: sounds crazy. And I feel like playing gigs is kind

18:15 Speaker 11: of the same. You're like, the first three hour gigs sucks,

18:18 Speaker 11: and then like you play a bunch more and you're like,

18:19 Speaker 11: this is this is doable, and then you play a

18:21 Speaker 11: four hour on You're like, that's not that much different

18:23 Speaker 11: than three interesting.

18:24 Speaker 9: Yeah, do you find that running helps you with your

18:27 Speaker 9: singing in terms of your breath and.

18:31 Speaker 11: Yeah, I've never really actually thought about that part of it,

18:33 Speaker 11: but I'm sure it does. Like just like that, the

18:35 Speaker 11: fitness element of it helps too, and like some level

18:38 Speaker 11: of physical fitness. I broke a rib a long time ago.

18:40 Speaker 11: Oh no, fung capacity isn't what it used to be. Really,

18:43 Speaker 11: hopefully that helps keep that up a little bit.

18:45 Speaker 8: Yeah.

18:46 Speaker 11: The big thing with running is like it's just an

18:47 Speaker 11: idea generator because like similar to being in the shower,

18:50 Speaker 11: Like a lot of my ideas hit me on a

18:52 Speaker 11: run for a song or for like a part that

18:54 Speaker 11: I'm just stuck on.

18:55 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, you know you get the blood pumping

18:58 Speaker 9: and you know, the ghost to your brain. Oh yeah,

19:00 Speaker 9: get those neurons fire and yeah, absolutely absolutely do you play.

19:05 Speaker 9: You must play some covers too, I would imagine, because

19:07 Speaker 9: you don't have enough music to fill.

19:08 Speaker 11: Yeah, to find a balance. Yeah, yeah, it's like, you know,

19:11 Speaker 11: there's you gotta figure out what hat you're wearing. So like,

19:14 Speaker 11: if you're in a listening room, you want to play

19:15 Speaker 11: a lot of your stuff. People are there to sit

19:17 Speaker 11: and listen to you, right if you're in a bar

19:18 Speaker 11: a restaurant, like, people want to be entertained, and so

19:21 Speaker 11: some of the time that's just like, oh, I want

19:22 Speaker 11: to hear a song that they're like, oh, that's a cool,

19:23 Speaker 11: interesting version of that song. I know, Like I know

19:25 Speaker 11: this one, so yeah, try to mix it up.

19:28 Speaker 9: You've got a great voice, are you? Are you? Did

19:30 Speaker 9: you take any kind of lessons? Are you? Self taught?

19:33 Speaker 11: Mostly self taught. I took some voice lessons from this

19:37 Speaker 11: Ukrainian guy when I was in high school for about

19:40 Speaker 11: probably like six months or so.

19:41 Speaker 9: Oh no kidding, Yeah, yeah, so very formal.

19:44 Speaker 11: I'm not even sure if I consciously do anything that

19:47 Speaker 11: I was trained to do.

19:48 Speaker 9: But right, right, well, but I'm sure subconsciously, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

19:52 Speaker 9: And what about guitar.

19:54 Speaker 11: Guitar is all self taught. Okay, So my kind of

19:56 Speaker 11: music journey with instrumentation is I started playing piano for

20:00 Speaker 11: nine years. Yeah, hated it, but like my parents made

20:02 Speaker 11: me stick with it.

20:03 Speaker 9: Yeah.

20:03 Speaker 11: I picked up drums on my own, loved playing drums,

20:07 Speaker 11: started to learn to play by music, and then picked

20:09 Speaker 11: up guitar and bass on my own after that. Yeah, yeah,

20:13 Speaker 11: And somehow in that transition from piano to drums, I

20:16 Speaker 11: just took it and made it my own. And I

20:17 Speaker 11: was just like I love this, like I loved playing,

20:18 Speaker 11: so I like, I want to figure how to play

20:20 Speaker 11: more stuff.

20:21 Speaker 9: Do you think learning the piano helped you to learn

20:24 Speaker 9: other instruments more quickly? Because something I hear a lot

20:27 Speaker 9: of people say, so, I'm a musician myself. I'm a

20:29 Speaker 9: bass player, but I never learned you know, I would, well,

20:33 Speaker 9: I would kind of noodle around a little bit on

20:35 Speaker 9: the keyboard when I was a kid, but I never

20:36 Speaker 9: really learned to play. But I've heard a lot of

20:38 Speaker 9: music instructors say that everybody should, no matter what instrument

20:44 Speaker 9: they play, everybody should start out on the keyboard some

20:48 Speaker 9: sort of keyboard, because that's such a great way to

20:51 Speaker 9: kind of, you know, kind of build your well a

20:55 Speaker 9: lot of things in terms of, you know, making sure

20:58 Speaker 9: you have a good ear and also just know it's

21:00 Speaker 9: a good building block for whatever instrument you're going to play.

21:03 Speaker 9: So I'm curious in your case, because you know, they

21:05 Speaker 9: made you didn't like it the piano, but you did

21:08 Speaker 9: it for nine years, so I assume I assume having

21:11 Speaker 9: done that, learning other instruments probably came pretty quickly to you.

21:14 Speaker 2: Yeah.

21:15 Speaker 11: Yeah, And I think there's a couple of things wrapped

21:16 Speaker 11: up in that. For me, it's like the piano has

21:19 Speaker 11: a higher learning curve than some instruments. Like you can

21:21 Speaker 11: sit and figure out a chord shape on a guitar souer, right,

21:24 Speaker 11: But sometimes at the piano, if you want something more

21:26 Speaker 11: than just one note melodies, right, learning from some you know, book,

21:30 Speaker 11: it can it can be difficult to feel like you're

21:32 Speaker 11: making momentum with that. Yeah, But things like chord structure

21:36 Speaker 11: and even just visualizing the way the notes work on keyboards,

21:39 Speaker 11: like the best way to conceptualize that. Yeah, so I

21:43 Speaker 11: think a lot of things that I now lean on

21:45 Speaker 11: with chord structure I learned from piano and now transferred

21:48 Speaker 11: to different instruments.

21:49 Speaker 9: That makes sense, Yeah, I wish that I had done that.

21:51 Speaker 9: You know, I always had a keyboard too, I just

21:53 Speaker 9: never Yeah, I just I don't know. I guest I

21:56 Speaker 9: was kind of a lazy kid though too. I was

21:58 Speaker 9: one of those kids there if I was good at

22:00 Speaker 9: something right away, I would just kind of that.

22:03 Speaker 10: You sink I wanted to learn how to play piano

22:06 Speaker 10: so bad. Yeah, I put my kid in it and

22:09 Speaker 10: he hated it, and I, not being your parents.

22:12 Speaker 9: Went Yeah.

22:14 Speaker 10: I always said I wasn't going to force him because

22:16 Speaker 10: I wanted him to do music because he wanted to

22:18 Speaker 10: and he's a self taught guitar. But I kind of

22:21 Speaker 10: wish I had made him do it because I know

22:23 Speaker 10: that he would have been able to read music and

22:24 Speaker 10: stuff I had made him. So I don't know, kind

22:27 Speaker 10: of on the fence on that one.

22:28 Speaker 11: And I wish there was a better way to, like

22:30 Speaker 11: tell kids you don't have to stick with piano, like

22:33 Speaker 11: just stick with this for now, right, because they look

22:35 Speaker 11: at you know, people shredding on guitar, like killing the

22:38 Speaker 11: drums exactly, and I want to do that. Yeah you

22:41 Speaker 11: can do that, but start here because like you'll be

22:43 Speaker 11: so much better at that thing when you get there.

22:45 Speaker 9: Yeah right, yeah, yeah, but I know what you mean too,

22:49 Speaker 9: Like it's like if you pick up a guitar and

22:51 Speaker 9: you just you know, if you learn power chords, you

22:53 Speaker 9: can go join a punk band or pretty quickly.

22:56 Speaker 11: So yeah, it doesn't take much.

22:58 Speaker 9: In my case, the reason ided up playing bass was

23:01 Speaker 9: so I started on guitar and I took guitar lessons

23:04 Speaker 9: for a couple of years, but I wasn't but again,

23:07 Speaker 9: I you know, I would get frustrated. I would get

23:09 Speaker 9: impatient with myself. And then in high school I picked

23:12 Speaker 9: up a bass. And I know other bass players hate

23:15 Speaker 9: when I say this, but it's just the truth. I

23:18 Speaker 9: picked up a bass and I was like, oh, two

23:20 Speaker 9: fewer strings and I don't have to know any chords. Yeah,

23:23 Speaker 9: I think I can do this. And then I ended up.

23:25 Speaker 9: You know, I went on to play in a bunch

23:26 Speaker 9: of bands playing bass because but but I do think

23:29 Speaker 9: in my case, though, learning some things on guitar to

23:33 Speaker 9: the limited extent that I did, helped make me a

23:35 Speaker 9: better bass player, even though the way that I got

23:38 Speaker 9: to playing bass was again my my own laziness kind

23:41 Speaker 9: of came into play.

23:43 Speaker 6: Yeah.

23:43 Speaker 11: And although like, yeah, I think people like to crap

23:47 Speaker 11: on bass players a lot, but in my experience, the

23:49 Speaker 11: bass players I've played with sometimes their musical knowledge like

23:52 Speaker 11: blows me away. Oh yeah, for being a simple instrument

23:55 Speaker 11: so to speak, with only having four strings, Like yeah,

23:57 Speaker 11: their conceptualization of chords and like what changes and like

24:00 Speaker 11: what note they're playing in the root and stuff. I'm

24:02 Speaker 11: just like, dang, like they know more than I do

24:04 Speaker 11: about this stuff. For sure.

24:05 Speaker 9: We have Aaron Billido coming in second hour. I don't

24:07 Speaker 9: know if you know Aaron, but he's a bass player

24:09 Speaker 9: and he's amazing. Like I watch his fingers and it's like,

24:12 Speaker 9: oh my god, what he can do at that bass.

24:14 Speaker 9: You know, But yeah, I never got that far with it.

24:18 Speaker 9: But so so on your so like you said so

24:21 Speaker 9: on your album, so you play everything except you mentioned

24:24 Speaker 9: your wife plays violin, but you do everything else.

24:26 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, And I kept it pretty simple, like I

24:29 Speaker 11: wanted to go for kind of an old country kind

24:31 Speaker 11: of like Zach Bryany kind of sounds. Yeah, and so

24:34 Speaker 11: it's guitar, bass, drums, a little bit of mandolin on

24:37 Speaker 11: a couple of songs.

24:38 Speaker 9: Okay.

24:38 Speaker 11: Outside of that, that's that's really it for instrumentation.

24:40 Speaker 9: Is the mandolin? Did you find that difficult to learn or.

24:44 Speaker 11: So I don't play it super well? Yeah? I play

24:47 Speaker 11: like just chords on it, so it's easy to figure out, like, Okay,

24:49 Speaker 11: what's the chord shape for this chord and then kind

24:52 Speaker 11: of do little chunking us on it. I don't do

24:55 Speaker 11: a whole lot of melody work on.

24:56 Speaker 9: The on the mandolin, okay, okay.

24:58 Speaker 11: Yeah, it is hard with big fingers, which is funny

25:00 Speaker 11: because you look at the best mandolin players, like these

25:02 Speaker 11: guys have giant, you know, fingers, and how do they

25:05 Speaker 11: play this thing?

25:06 Speaker 9: That's well, that's the thing that's That's one of the

25:08 Speaker 9: things that makes me so curious about it because some

25:09 Speaker 9: of these instruments, like the mandolin, I just I've always

25:13 Speaker 9: wondered about that. It looks like it's difficult to you know,

25:16 Speaker 9: it's hard enough when you're learning to play guitar, you know,

25:18 Speaker 9: to make sure that your fingers are going in the

25:20 Speaker 9: right places and then on something like the mandolin, Yeah,

25:22 Speaker 9: you're right, like like if you have big fingers, you know,

25:24 Speaker 9: how do you do that and be able to really

25:27 Speaker 9: really uh you know, not be not be sloppy with it.

25:31 Speaker 9: So it's very It's very impressive to me. Do you

25:35 Speaker 9: want to you want to play another live one for us?

25:37 Speaker 2: Sure?

25:38 Speaker 9: Dying to hear more?

25:39 Speaker 2: Sure?

25:39 Speaker 9: Yeah.

25:39 Speaker 11: So the next one I have is so it is

25:43 Speaker 11: one of the songs I mentioned. I wrote some songs

25:44 Speaker 11: in February. There's this thing called FOM, which is February

25:47 Speaker 11: Album Writing Month. It's like a challenge, you try to

25:49 Speaker 11: write fourteen songs oh the February.

25:51 Speaker 9: It sounds like kind of like the RPM challenge.

25:53 Speaker 11: Very much like that. Okay, yeah, except I think the

25:55 Speaker 11: end goal is not to have like a produced thing

25:57 Speaker 11: at the end of it. It's just like you have

25:58 Speaker 11: a collection of songs and you can do whatever with them.

26:00 Speaker 11: Is cohesive album?

26:02 Speaker 9: Oh cool? But okay.

26:03 Speaker 11: One of the songs that came out of that. There

26:04 Speaker 11: was a news story right around that time, I think

26:07 Speaker 11: from the Washington Post about scientists ad measure that the

26:10 Speaker 11: moon is starting to shrink, and so I was like, man,

26:12 Speaker 11: this is like the perfect jumping off point for a song.

26:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, so I.

26:16 Speaker 11: Tried to dream up this world of like, Okay, if

26:18 Speaker 11: the moon's shrinking, what's that mean for like our tide

26:21 Speaker 11: patterns on the earth, Like, what's that look like if

26:23 Speaker 11: I draw that out to this post apocalyptic picture. Then

26:26 Speaker 11: I tried to turn that into a love song of

26:27 Speaker 11: like what's it look like for love to sustain something

26:30 Speaker 11: as tragic and difficult as like the world coming to

26:32 Speaker 11: an end? So there's a song called Moonquakes that's about

26:36 Speaker 11: that just stemmed from that story.

26:38 Speaker 9: Interesting, all right, totally fictitious. Matt Litzinger live in studio

26:41 Speaker 9: with us. I'm looking forward to this one. This one

26:44 Speaker 9: sounds pretty interesting. Although worry someone wants so we have

26:48 Speaker 9: climate change story about now we got to worry about

26:50 Speaker 9: the moon shrinking too.

26:51 Speaker 11: Yeah, hopefully it's a it's a very slow process.

26:54 Speaker 9: I would assume, Matt Litzinger, Live in studio.

27:08 Speaker 8: The moon is shrinking. That's what the experts says.

27:20 Speaker 2: It's getting smaller everything gold Day.

27:33 Speaker 8: Don't be alarmed.

27:36 Speaker 12: That's what the man on TV says.

27:45 Speaker 2: It feels like everything is hanging by threads.

28:04 Speaker 13: Last night, I was for above the ground, and I

28:17 Speaker 13: could see four.

28:19 Speaker 12: Miles and miles of round. When the lights went out, I.

28:32 Speaker 6: Felt the darkness around.

28:41 Speaker 2: This might be the end. But I'm finding hope.

28:46 Speaker 8: In your green nights.

28:54 Speaker 2: And if the ground beneath our feet ray won't lead

29:01 Speaker 2: you astray, and if the sea should over bond their bound,

29:13 Speaker 2: I'll hold back the way.

29:17 Speaker 8: There's the way of this lug. It's bare. This world

29:26 Speaker 8: could bad. Wave of this slug. It's more than this

29:37 Speaker 8: world could bad.

30:02 Speaker 2: Mmm.

30:03 Speaker 9: Wow, let me get that Mike on Jenny, Sorry, do

30:06 Speaker 9: that to meet every Saturday. He does. He turns me down.

30:10 Speaker 9: I do, I do? Uh No, that is great, that

30:15 Speaker 9: is great. Matt listener here with us live in studio.

30:18 Speaker 9: H Ryan LeMay is in the I see in the

30:20 Speaker 9: chat room, says, well done. Ryan is a very obviously

30:22 Speaker 9: I'm sure you know Ryan. He's a very very talented musician. I.

30:26 Speaker 11: Oh, you don't know Ryan.

30:27 Speaker 9: Okay, you'll probably uh, you'll probably meet at some point. Also,

30:30 Speaker 9: Eric manroon if I'm saying that correctly, says I all,

30:33 Speaker 9: bellow Eric in the chat room, if you are just

30:36 Speaker 9: joining us, we do have Matt Litzinger with us live

30:38 Speaker 9: in studio. Uh, he's got this great album, keep it Burning,

30:41 Speaker 9: really really good? Do you are you already working on

30:46 Speaker 9: the next one? So you know where's you record at home,

30:49 Speaker 9: and you know you can kind of take your time

30:50 Speaker 9: with it. I would imagine you're already working on new stuff.

30:52 Speaker 11: Yeah, So it's kind of funny. I'm actually taking a

30:54 Speaker 11: little bit of a well not a break, but just

30:56 Speaker 11: scaling things back a little bit.

30:57 Speaker 9: Yeah.

30:58 Speaker 11: I had a lot of songs written for this project,

31:00 Speaker 11: and so I had the benefit of being able to

31:03 Speaker 11: pick just the ones I liked the best or that

31:05 Speaker 11: worked most cohesively for this theme. And so I had

31:08 Speaker 11: some extra songs that I didn't do anything with yet,

31:10 Speaker 11: so those are kind of in the hopper. I played

31:12 Speaker 11: those live out just trying to like get feelers for

31:15 Speaker 11: how to fine tune them. I had to tendency the

31:17 Speaker 11: right really long songs, so I'm always on the mission

31:19 Speaker 11: of figure out how do I tighten this stuff up. Yeah,

31:22 Speaker 11: So like one of those songs is like seven minutes long,

31:24 Speaker 11: and so it's like, okay, that's too long even for

31:27 Speaker 11: a singer songwriter. Ballad trying to figure ou how to

31:29 Speaker 11: tighten it up. But yeah, right now, it's just kind

31:31 Speaker 11: of scaling back a little bit. Like I said, I

31:33 Speaker 11: have a young family, so and this isn't my full

31:35 Speaker 11: time gig too, so just trying to figure out how

31:37 Speaker 11: do I keep this in his right place right right?

31:39 Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of time management skills that can

31:41 Speaker 9: go into that. Do you remember the first song you

31:45 Speaker 9: ever wrote?

31:46 Speaker 11: I do, yeah, yeah, So I started writing songs in

31:50 Speaker 11: high school just as kind of a cathartic thing, and

31:52 Speaker 11: it was a just really bubblegum poppy love song like

31:56 Speaker 11: you and Me.

31:57 Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah, did it survive?

31:59 Speaker 11: Do not survive? I don't know that I could even

32:01 Speaker 11: play it if I had to, really.

32:03 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:03 Speaker 11: I don't even think it got recorded. I think it

32:05 Speaker 11: just got played to the girlfriend at the time.

32:07 Speaker 9: Oh okay, I don't remember who it was, but we

32:10 Speaker 9: had a guest on who really surprised me there. They

32:12 Speaker 9: could remember like the first song they wrote when they

32:14 Speaker 9: were like ten years old and they still play it.

32:16 Speaker 9: It might it might have been Kenny Troon and Kenny

32:19 Speaker 9: if you're listening and I'm wrong, I apologize, but I

32:21 Speaker 9: feel like it was Kenny Truon. He said, yeah, I

32:24 Speaker 9: still play it.

32:24 Speaker 11: My first song is like wow, man. Yeah, always jealous

32:27 Speaker 11: of those guys.

32:28 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:28 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, you can go back to your back cattle

32:30 Speaker 11: I and still have just the muscle memory to pull

32:32 Speaker 11: back out right right.

32:34 Speaker 9: Who can you tell me about influences? Like in terms

32:38 Speaker 9: of songwriting, who who influences you?

32:42 Speaker 11: Yeah? So I like a lot of singer songwriter stuff.

32:45 Speaker 11: It has more of a Maricana kind of rock uh

32:48 Speaker 11: background to it. Yeah, Like modern influences will probably be

32:51 Speaker 11: like Jason Isbel's a big one.

32:54 Speaker 1: Uh uh.

32:56 Speaker 11: Storgel Simpson is probably a big one. Going back further,

32:58 Speaker 11: I love John Denver like I just keep coming back.

33:01 Speaker 11: He's just such a great songwriter. Yeah. My grandparents, my

33:05 Speaker 11: grandma in particularly on my mom's side, really loved him,

33:07 Speaker 11: and so like playing country roads is always a big

33:10 Speaker 11: favorite for me, or like leaving on a jet plane. Yeah, yeah,

33:13 Speaker 11: his stuff's great. I love coming back to his music.

33:17 Speaker 9: Yeah. Well, what about in terms of your approach vocally?

33:20 Speaker 9: Is there anyone you Is there anyone you've ever really

33:23 Speaker 9: you have a unique voice. I can't think of anyone

33:26 Speaker 9: off the top of my head who I feel like

33:28 Speaker 9: you sound like? Yeah exactly, but I don't know, I mean,

33:31 Speaker 9: is there anyone who's influenced you as far as your vocals.

33:35 Speaker 11: I mean, I think a lot of people over time,

33:37 Speaker 11: and I get compared to some people, so like Evan

33:40 Speaker 11: Stevens Hall from Pine Grove, they're like an indie rock band.

33:47 Speaker 11: The guy from the Decembris, who I'm blanking on his

33:49 Speaker 11: name right now.

33:50 Speaker 9: Yeah, I can't remember either, but I know, I mean, yeah, yeah.

33:53 Speaker 11: Yeah, but yeah, I think I pull from different things.

33:56 Speaker 11: I hear in vocal performances and I'm like.

33:59 Speaker 14: I like that.

33:59 Speaker 11: Yeah, I try to emulate that a little bit. And

34:01 Speaker 11: then it's just still trying to figure out, like how

34:02 Speaker 11: do I do that and not make it sound like

34:04 Speaker 11: I'm trying to sound like like you know, I have

34:06 Speaker 11: a certain signature to my voice and I want to

34:08 Speaker 11: keep that right. But it is interesting, like listening back

34:11 Speaker 11: to material from like ten years ago to now, it's

34:14 Speaker 11: crazy how your voice changes over time. And I even

34:17 Speaker 11: listen to other artists like that happens so much too,

34:19 Speaker 11: mm hmm. But it's it's really interesting to see, and

34:22 Speaker 11: it's very much a subconscious thing because yeah, I didn't

34:24 Speaker 11: decide I'm gonna sit down and record this song so

34:26 Speaker 11: that it sounds.

34:27 Speaker 9: Like this Yeah, I've always been kind of fascinated by

34:30 Speaker 9: that with vocalists. How some some people's voices do change

34:34 Speaker 9: over time as they get older, their voice gets deeper.

34:37 Speaker 9: But some people it seems like it you know, you

34:39 Speaker 9: hear something they record very you know, like they might

34:44 Speaker 9: be a sixty year old guy who sounds just like

34:47 Speaker 9: he did when he was twenty, and it's like or

34:49 Speaker 9: at least at least in the studio. Yeah, maybe maybe

34:51 Speaker 9: not live. But you know, it's interesting how how some

34:54 Speaker 9: people their voice really changes and some doesn't. I imagine too.

34:58 Speaker 9: Part of that comes from a lot of musicians. You know,

35:01 Speaker 9: drink and smoke and that, you know, that'll change your

35:03 Speaker 9: voice certainly. But but I think for a lot of

35:05 Speaker 9: people too, you know, their voices just kind of get

35:08 Speaker 9: deeper naturally as they get older. But yeah, some people

35:10 Speaker 9: just sound sound the same. It's it's weird. I think.

35:15 Speaker 9: I think Billy Joel is an example of that.

35:17 Speaker 11: It's true.

35:18 Speaker 9: Like if you if you go on YouTube and you

35:20 Speaker 9: pull up a Billy Joel video of him performing live

35:22 Speaker 9: in recent years, he kind of sounds the same as

35:26 Speaker 9: he did when you know, when that first album came out.

35:29 Speaker 9: It's it's it's weird. But do you want to? Uh,

35:33 Speaker 9: the time goes so fast you want to play another

35:35 Speaker 9: one for us?

35:35 Speaker 2: Sure?

35:36 Speaker 9: I want to. I want to get at least one

35:37 Speaker 9: more live one in before we run out of time.

35:39 Speaker 9: If you are just joining us. Matt Litzinger is here

35:41 Speaker 9: with us, alive in studio, and I did confirm with him.

35:44 Speaker 9: I am saying his name right because I wasn't sure

35:45 Speaker 9: if it was everybody. Yeah, anybody ever get it wrong

35:50 Speaker 9: like on a poster or something.

35:52 Speaker 11: Not in a poster, but yeah, quite a bit.

35:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, Matt Litzinger is here with us in studio.

35:59 Speaker 9: What do you what are you going to play for us? Yes?

36:00 Speaker 11: So this next one is called I Don't Know much.

36:02 Speaker 11: It's on the record as well. It's a song. I

36:05 Speaker 11: have two young kids and they ask a ton of questions. Yeah,

36:08 Speaker 11: And I've gone through this phase of like in my twenties,

36:10 Speaker 11: I felt like I had to have the answered everything

36:12 Speaker 11: all the time, And in my thirties, I'm really kind

36:15 Speaker 11: of okay with it. It's okay to just say I.

36:16 Speaker 9: Don't know, right.

36:18 Speaker 11: I'm more and more aware of the sense like when

36:20 Speaker 11: people try to tell you they do have all the

36:22 Speaker 11: answers everything to be highly skeptical of that. Yes, and

36:25 Speaker 11: so this song is about just being able to go

36:27 Speaker 11: through life and being okay with not having answered everything.

36:29 Speaker 9: Oh, I like it all right.

36:41 Speaker 8: It seems like this life is.

36:45 Speaker 2: Getting hard about the day, people trying to figure out how.

36:53 Speaker 8: It got to.

36:54 Speaker 2: Be this way, because in the Sage of Amation the

37:01 Speaker 2: facts seems so pass. I'm standing with my mouth a

37:09 Speaker 2: gape can find those words to say. So I don't

37:16 Speaker 2: know much and that's okay. I'm just hoping it's.

37:20 Speaker 8: Enough to give me through the day.

37:23 Speaker 2: Some pass lead back where they begin, go in circles.

37:29 Speaker 2: It can drive you mad. There's a few things I

37:34 Speaker 2: know for sure. The rest I'm still searching for the sun.

37:41 Speaker 2: It's gonna rise each day.

37:45 Speaker 8: And your love for me will never face. You love

37:55 Speaker 8: for me will never face. And I've got a few

38:07 Speaker 8: friends who.

38:10 Speaker 2: Have carried me on this road and they couldn't give

38:15 Speaker 2: a rip about the stuff I think I know because

38:22 Speaker 2: we're all just grown up kids trying to figure this

38:27 Speaker 2: life out and being honest about the madness of Clara

38:35 Speaker 2: Fire our downs. I don't know much and that's okay.

38:43 Speaker 8: I'm just hoping it's enough.

38:45 Speaker 2: To give me through the day. Some pass league back

38:49 Speaker 2: where they begin, When circles, it can drive you mad.

38:56 Speaker 2: There's a few things I know for s or the

39:02 Speaker 2: rest I'm still searching for. The sun is gonna rise

39:07 Speaker 2: each day, and you love for me will never face.

39:18 Speaker 2: You laugh for me will never face. I don't know,

39:31 Speaker 2: but sham, that's okay.

39:33 Speaker 8: I'm just hoping it enough to give it through the day.

39:37 Speaker 2: Some pass lead back where they begin, go in circles.

39:44 Speaker 8: It can drive you mad.

39:46 Speaker 3: There's a few things I.

39:48 Speaker 8: Know for sure.

39:51 Speaker 2: And the rest I'm still searching for. The sun is

39:56 Speaker 2: gonna rise each day, and your love for me will

40:01 Speaker 2: never fit. You love for me will never fade.

40:12 Speaker 9: Oh, I love that. I love that. What a great song.

40:14 Speaker 9: If you're just joining us, Matt Litzinger is here with

40:16 Speaker 9: us live and studio. What's that one called again?

40:19 Speaker 11: I don't know much.

40:19 Speaker 9: I don't know much. Great great song, great song. You're

40:22 Speaker 9: getting some love in the chat room. To Tom Russo,

40:24 Speaker 9: who's been on the show a few times, very very

40:27 Speaker 9: talented musician, says sounds great, nice lyrics, great voice and song.

40:31 Speaker 9: Thanks absolutely, And by the way, Tom, I owe you

40:34 Speaker 9: an email and I will get back to you, I promise.

40:36 Speaker 9: DJ Steve, also in the chat room, says, good morning

40:38 Speaker 9: Matt and Jenny. I am really enjoying this. Thank you sir,

40:41 Speaker 9: thank you Dj Steve. Uh. Let's see. Yes, we do

40:44 Speaker 9: have Matt Litzinger live in studio with us, and we've

40:46 Speaker 9: been he's been playing some songs from that one's on

40:48 Speaker 9: the album too, I assume, right. Let me for those

40:51 Speaker 9: watching online the video component of the show, let me

40:55 Speaker 9: hold this up again for everybody. This is the album

40:58 Speaker 9: Keep It Burning, full length album from Matt Litzinger. This

41:02 Speaker 9: is all This is all online too, right. People can

41:04 Speaker 9: get this.

41:05 Speaker 11: One all the streaming services.

41:06 Speaker 9: Excellent, excellent. And what went into the decision to make

41:10 Speaker 9: physical copies too? Because not everyone does. Although it seems

41:13 Speaker 9: like lately most of the guests that we have are

41:16 Speaker 9: are doing CDs, there was a period of time where

41:20 Speaker 9: it seemed like no one was doing CDs and then

41:23 Speaker 9: now everyone is, which is great, great to see if

41:25 Speaker 9: some people are even releasing vinyl. But what went into

41:28 Speaker 9: the decision to release a physical copy?

41:30 Speaker 11: Yeah, so part of it was that I did a

41:32 Speaker 11: Kickstarter campaign and so just having some type of physical

41:34 Speaker 11: reward for it felt important. Yeah, and people took me

41:38 Speaker 11: up on that quite a bit too. Just kind of

41:39 Speaker 11: have like as signed, even if it's just memorabilia, and

41:41 Speaker 11: you never like open the cellophane to it, right, just

41:44 Speaker 11: having that people really like that. And at live shows too,

41:47 Speaker 11: like being able to go away, like I like this

41:48 Speaker 11: experience and I want to take something home with me

41:50 Speaker 11: from it.

41:51 Speaker 9: Right.

41:51 Speaker 11: I don't even know how many people really have CD players,

41:53 Speaker 11: Like my vehicle doesn't have a CD player in it, Yeah,

41:56 Speaker 11: truck does. My old it's like a two thousand and six,

41:58 Speaker 11: but like my newer card and have a CD player right.

42:01 Speaker 9: Right, way back when people were predicting the total death

42:06 Speaker 9: of CDs, I think what kind of kept CDs going

42:09 Speaker 9: was to a large degree, just you know, people still

42:11 Speaker 9: having CD players in their cars, and of course new

42:14 Speaker 9: cars now don't have them. But I think you're right too.

42:16 Speaker 9: People like having a physical copy, you know, especially if

42:20 Speaker 9: you're a big fan of somebody, and yeah, most of

42:22 Speaker 9: them probably you know, they may not ever open it.

42:25 Speaker 9: They just want to have it to support you and

42:26 Speaker 9: to support your work. And that's my theory with Vinyl too,

42:29 Speaker 9: because I think even fewer people have record players, but

42:32 Speaker 9: Vinyl is still I think I think twenty twenty, it

42:36 Speaker 9: was either twenty two or twenty three, was the first

42:38 Speaker 9: year that vinyl it actually outsold CDs that Yeah. Yeah,

42:44 Speaker 9: And I'm convinced that most people who purchase vinyl never

42:47 Speaker 9: open it, you know, they just if you're really a

42:49 Speaker 9: fan of an artist, you know, because you know who

42:52 Speaker 9: has a I mean, some people have record players obviously,

42:54 Speaker 9: but I think most people, yeah, they purchase it and

42:56 Speaker 9: they don't open it. They just want to have it.

42:57 Speaker 9: And if you're really a big fan of somebody, it

42:59 Speaker 9: makes sense to do that.

43:00 Speaker 11: Certainly for a part of it might be self serving too,

43:03 Speaker 11: because like I've always liked listening to full records. Yeah,

43:05 Speaker 11: and like I think that just goes back to like

43:08 Speaker 11: was your only way to listen to things before before

43:10 Speaker 11: Spotify would recommend things after you listen to a track,

43:13 Speaker 11: So I like sitting especially from a songwriter perspective, how'd

43:16 Speaker 11: you sequence this? Like how do these songs tell a

43:19 Speaker 11: story together? I love that, And then being able to

43:21 Speaker 11: like look at the liner notes, especially yes, like we

43:23 Speaker 11: all miss out on that.

43:24 Speaker 9: Now oh yeah, yeah, especially when Yeah, when I was

43:26 Speaker 9: a kid, I used to love listening to I mean

43:28 Speaker 9: looking at liner notes when I'd get a new CD. Yeah,

43:31 Speaker 9: just you know, seeing what information, you know, pre internet,

43:34 Speaker 9: just seeing what what information I could glean from just

43:37 Speaker 9: from the liner notes, you know, which usually wasn't much.

43:40 Speaker 9: But if I was a really big fan of somebody,

43:42 Speaker 9: just anybody, I could you know, oh who was the

43:44 Speaker 9: uh engineer on on this? You know, you know, just

43:47 Speaker 9: any little bit of information, you know. But I'm a

43:49 Speaker 9: very curious person anyway, so anything I could learn from

43:52 Speaker 9: liner notes was great. But uh, yeah, so that's excellent.

43:56 Speaker 9: Is this your first? Is this your first physical release?

43:59 Speaker 6: This?

43:59 Speaker 2: Uh?

44:00 Speaker 11: Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, so this would be the first.

44:03 Speaker 11: I made some like, you know, very homemade copies of

44:06 Speaker 11: early stuff, but this would be the first like professional release.

44:09 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, no, that's excellent. You know. It's funny back

44:12 Speaker 9: when I first so there was a span of time

44:14 Speaker 9: when I first started interviewing musicians on radio shows and podcasts.

44:21 Speaker 9: There was a span of time where, like I said,

44:23 Speaker 9: nobody was really releasing CDs, and but people would still

44:28 Speaker 9: give me. People would actually give me music on their

44:30 Speaker 9: CD instead of doing it like now where you just

44:32 Speaker 9: email your music to somebody. People would actually give me

44:35 Speaker 9: music for the show on a CD that wouldn't be

44:37 Speaker 9: that would not be professionally produced, and it would. I

44:40 Speaker 9: couldn't even count the number of times someone would hand

44:42 Speaker 9: me a CD on their finger, you know what I mean,

44:45 Speaker 9: like like no case, no case. That would happen a lot,

44:49 Speaker 9: and it was always like, really, this is how you're

44:53 Speaker 9: giving this to me? You know. They'd write on it

44:55 Speaker 9: with the sharpie what it was, and then hand you know,

44:57 Speaker 9: here's a CD for the you know you need this

44:59 Speaker 9: for the show, right, It's like, yeah, thanks, We actually

45:03 Speaker 9: have a CD player here. I think Rob is uh yeah,

45:06 Speaker 9: Rob has a veto from grandited state of mind. I

45:07 Speaker 9: think he's the only one who actually uses it. I've

45:09 Speaker 9: never used it, but we do have a functioning CD

45:12 Speaker 9: player here. But no, it's I think it's cool that

45:15 Speaker 9: you're doing that, and I like, now you mentioned too,

45:16 Speaker 9: I think this was off air you mentioned this. Your

45:18 Speaker 9: wife is a graphic artist. She is, yeah, so does

45:21 Speaker 9: she do all the artwork?

45:22 Speaker 6: So?

45:22 Speaker 13: Yeah?

45:22 Speaker 11: I had a my friend who's a photographer, Rebecca Scatting,

45:25 Speaker 11: did all the photography inside and out, and then my

45:27 Speaker 11: wife did the layout and all the design work.

45:29 Speaker 9: Okay, excellent, Yeah, yeah, No, that's great. That's great. And

45:32 Speaker 9: you brought us a couple of stickers too, which is good.

45:34 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you mentioned your wife made those. Jenny loves stickers,

45:38 Speaker 9: as you can see from the back of her computer.

45:41 Speaker 9: That's right, that's right. We have time. You want to

45:45 Speaker 9: play one more?

45:45 Speaker 11: I'd love to.

45:46 Speaker 9: Okay, awesome if you're just joining us. We have Matt

45:48 Speaker 9: Litzing or here with us, live in studio and really

45:51 Speaker 9: enjoying this. Coming up second hour we have Aaron Billodoh

45:54 Speaker 9: and friends, and then third hour of the band Vigil.

45:57 Speaker 9: We'll be here with us. But Matt Litzing was gonna

46:00 Speaker 9: play one more for us. What are you gonna play? Yeah?

46:02 Speaker 11: So this is an older one. It's not on the album.

46:04 Speaker 11: It's called time Turner. So there's an old family story

46:08 Speaker 11: of playing board games and somebody asking someone to turn

46:10 Speaker 11: that little sand timer. It started this song idea in

46:14 Speaker 11: my head of like man, time slips away, and we've

46:16 Speaker 11: got a lot of songs about that, but how do

46:17 Speaker 11: I write it from this like appealing to a higher

46:19 Speaker 11: power to say, like, hey, can I just get a

46:20 Speaker 11: little bit more time? Can you slow this down a

46:22 Speaker 11: little bit? So it's a song about that all right.

46:41 Speaker 2: Time turn along. She turned the time a little more slowly.

46:46 Speaker 2: I've been wasting all my time today. Oh please, won't

46:51 Speaker 2: she have just a little pity because I could?

46:56 Speaker 8: It was a little time my way and time turner.

47:08 Speaker 8: Won't you lend me your ear for a moment.

47:11 Speaker 2: That's why I can plead my case to you. Seems

47:16 Speaker 2: like I'm always running in circles a burden. It's heavy

47:22 Speaker 2: in my moments a fume.

47:40 Speaker 8: Time Turner one, you tell me when.

47:42 Speaker 2: My time is over, maybe I can still leave my mark.

47:48 Speaker 2: Greatest fear is wasting all my time before my life

47:55 Speaker 2: fades into dark in time Turnoon't you turn the time

48:24 Speaker 2: a little most slowly? I've been wasting on my time today.

48:36 Speaker 9: I think that one's my favorite.

48:38 Speaker 11: Oh thank you.

48:39 Speaker 9: Very relatable, too, very relatable. I love it. I love it.

48:42 Speaker 9: Matt Listener here with us alive in studio. That's uh,

48:46 Speaker 9: when when did you write that that? You said that

48:48 Speaker 9: one an early one?

48:49 Speaker 11: Yeah, that one's been probably back in twenty twelve.

48:51 Speaker 9: Okay, oh wow, wow, yeah, very good, very good. Have

48:55 Speaker 9: you ever recorded that one?

48:56 Speaker 11: Yeah, it's on an EP called Up in the Woods EP.

48:58 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, outstanding. What do you have this weekend. Do

49:02 Speaker 9: you have any shows this weekend?

49:03 Speaker 11: Nope? Next one I have is in December and Planet

49:06 Speaker 11: two share, Oh very good. At end of the month.

49:08 Speaker 11: I think it's a twenty seventh Okay, yeah, it's I'm taking.

49:11 Speaker 9: A little break. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why not do you

49:15 Speaker 9: during the winter, do you kind of hibernate a little

49:18 Speaker 9: bit too and focus on writing and recording or do

49:20 Speaker 9: you still.

49:20 Speaker 11: Play especially I try to do that February project where

49:22 Speaker 11: I do a songwriting project. Oh yeah, February because it's

49:25 Speaker 11: just the darkest, like depressing part of the year's I

49:27 Speaker 11: might as well produce.

49:28 Speaker 9: Something out of it, you know, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah,

49:31 Speaker 9: I notice a lot of people kind of plus, you know,

49:34 Speaker 9: going and playing shows in the winter is hard because

49:37 Speaker 9: you never know what the weather's going to do, and

49:39 Speaker 9: a lot of things experience here. It's cold and flu season,

49:44 Speaker 9: all of it, all of it. Yeah, it's summer kind

49:46 Speaker 9: of your busiest time as far as playing.

49:48 Speaker 6: Yeah.

49:48 Speaker 9: Yeah.

49:48 Speaker 11: And it's just seeing people seem to have fun this

49:50 Speaker 11: summer too, you know, they enjoy live music more. Yeah,

49:52 Speaker 11: like it seems like it.

49:53 Speaker 9: So yeah, absolutely absolutely so we while speaking the time,

49:58 Speaker 9: I'm thinking about closing segment with this year another one

50:02 Speaker 9: of your great studio tracks that you sent us. So

50:04 Speaker 9: it seems appropriate since you just seems like it might

50:08 Speaker 9: relate in some way to the song you just played. So,

50:11 Speaker 9: but what should people know about? Where to find you online,

50:14 Speaker 9: how to keep up with everything that you're doing?

50:16 Speaker 11: Yeah? Sure, so I get a profile on Spotify, just

50:19 Speaker 11: mattlet Singer, and then my website matletsinger music dot com

50:23 Speaker 11: is where I usually try to put everything. Yeah, redesigning it.

50:25 Speaker 11: So it should be redesigned in the next week or so.

50:27 Speaker 11: It's very very close to being done.

50:29 Speaker 8: Oh cool.

50:29 Speaker 11: I think the last time it was redone was twenty ten.

50:31 Speaker 9: Oh really yeah? Oh wow? Do you do the all

50:33 Speaker 9: at yourself?

50:34 Speaker 11: I do yes as my day job. I'm a web developer.

50:36 Speaker 9: Oh no kidding?

50:37 Speaker 2: Yeah?

50:37 Speaker 9: Oh very good, Yeah, excellent, excellent. So we will uh,

50:41 Speaker 9: we'll close out. Oh you should spell your last name too, sure?

50:44 Speaker 11: Yeah, So last name l t z I n G

50:47 Speaker 11: e er.

50:48 Speaker 9: That's actually well, you know, it's funny. It's it's obviously

50:51 Speaker 9: not a common last name, but it is spelled pretty

50:54 Speaker 9: much the way you would expect it.

50:55 Speaker 11: To day, which is I think so people struggle.

50:58 Speaker 9: With my last name all the time. Connorton is very

51:00 Speaker 9: unusual and uh people people misspell it.

51:02 Speaker 11: But a lot of mats though, a lot of mats.

51:05 Speaker 11: Never a minister in area where there's not another match?

51:07 Speaker 9: Are there a lot of litz singers?

51:09 Speaker 11: You know, I've met hardly any? Yeah, which is funny

51:11 Speaker 11: because online I compete with two other mattless singers. One's

51:14 Speaker 11: a real litter and one's in like creative ad buying.

51:17 Speaker 9: Oh no kidding, yeah, so like it.

51:19 Speaker 11: Tries to se o value. There's some out there, but

51:20 Speaker 11: I've never met a lot in real life.

51:22 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, definitely, Uh, definitely a rare name, but that's good.

51:26 Speaker 9: A rare name, you have less chance of somebody popping

51:29 Speaker 9: up and saying, hey, I'm also a musician with this

51:31 Speaker 9: name and I was doing it before you and you

51:32 Speaker 9: know and everything that goes with that. So so that's

51:35 Speaker 9: that's definitely an advantage. So we will we'll close out

51:38 Speaker 9: uh with this track this year. If you're listening live,

51:41 Speaker 9: coming up second hour, we have Aaron Bildeo here and

51:43 Speaker 9: I assume hue the Gecko is with him as.

51:45 Speaker 8: Well, negative ghost writer.

51:46 Speaker 9: We have other friends. Oh no, Huey the Gecko though

51:49 Speaker 9: that's no, okay, all right, uh, that's okay next time,

51:53 Speaker 9: but no, but Aaron is amazing, so really looking forward

51:56 Speaker 9: to this. And we're gonna play some of his studio

51:57 Speaker 9: tracks and he's going to perform live for us too.

51:59 Speaker 9: So we have an action packed Saturday morning, but we

52:03 Speaker 9: will close out with this great track. This is called

52:05 Speaker 9: This Year from Matt Litzinger and Matt thank you again.

52:09 Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

52:10 Speaker 9: You got it.

52:19 Speaker 3: I'm looking up.

52:20 Speaker 2: I'm looking up head, swip the mosses out from under

52:26 Speaker 2: my bed.

52:27 Speaker 3: I'm moving on from it might have been.

52:31 Speaker 5: I'm getting ready to shift this skin.

52:36 Speaker 3: All this time that I've wasted.

52:40 Speaker 5: It's given me a reason to say this.

52:45 Speaker 2: Year, I'm gonna do things different.

52:48 Speaker 5: I'm gonna see the hard things too.

52:52 Speaker 2: My gaze has said, and I'm not gonnaway.

52:57 Speaker 3: I'll be standing here.

52:58 Speaker 8: It's true.

53:01 Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do it better this year. Just

53:13 Speaker 3: wait and see. I'll take you by surprise. This new

53:18 Speaker 3: me is more than just THEO.

53:20 Speaker 2: Guys you told me once, give yourself some graties, if

53:26 Speaker 2: not for some of your mistakes.

53:30 Speaker 5: Each year's a brand news story. It's given me a

53:36 Speaker 5: reason to say.

53:39 Speaker 2: This year, I'm gonna do things different, gonna see the

53:44 Speaker 2: hard things go, my Jesus said, and I'm not gonna

53:49 Speaker 2: waver I'll be stand and hear it's true. This year,

53:56 Speaker 2: I'm done with the excuses, but let me shackle for

54:01 Speaker 2: too long.

54:03 Speaker 8: I'll reached a point where I.

54:05 Speaker 2: Was down for the count, but I'll live to see

54:08 Speaker 2: a new day, Dawn.

54:12 Speaker 7: I'm gonna try to do it better this year.

54:25 Speaker 14: This cold weather in store for the Northeast, i might

54:34 Speaker 14: not see the sun.

54:37 Speaker 3: For a couple of weeks. Maybe I won't do all

54:45 Speaker 3: the things.

54:46 Speaker 2: I set out to do, but I'll.

54:50 Speaker 3: Take a few steps and I'll go a little too,

55:00 Speaker 3: Because this year I'm gonna do things different. I'm gonna

55:04 Speaker 3: see the hard things through. My Cazeus said, and I'm

55:10 Speaker 3: not gonna wait. I'll be standing here.

55:14 Speaker 8: It's true.

55:17 Speaker 3: This year, I'm done with the excuses. They kept me

55:21 Speaker 3: shackle for too long. I reached a point where I.

55:26 Speaker 2: Was down for the count, but I lived to see

55:30 Speaker 2: a new day, Dawn.

55:33 Speaker 7: I'm gonna try to do it better. Lord, I hope

55:38 Speaker 7: I do better this year.

55:45 Speaker 15: This year, You're a hurricane, wild and free, like a

56:23 Speaker 15: force of nature on a rage and see.

56:31 Speaker 3: I'm a freight train running strong on a long way track.

56:37 Speaker 3: You can't steer me rhall. Some people say this landing sorrow.

56:56 Speaker 3: I'd rather say we tried than just head go. Because

57:05 Speaker 3: we'rement for each other.

57:07 Speaker 2: I know it's true to forces this strong people.

57:12 Speaker 3: We could do.

57:17 Speaker 2: Because we could defy the cynics, we could take on

57:24 Speaker 2: impossible things. We'd be so much stronger than we ever

57:33 Speaker 2: could have been.

57:34 Speaker 8: Apart.

57:35 Speaker 2: Pulling in the same direction, Pulling in the same direction,

57:51 Speaker 2: You and I could never tagged along, been going our

57:57 Speaker 2: own way, befar to a whole.

58:04 Speaker 3: Well, love his patient, and love is kind. Let's fight

58:09 Speaker 3: for a love that's more.

58:17 Speaker 2: Because we could defy the synics, we could take on

58:23 Speaker 2: impossible things.

58:26 Speaker 8: We'd be so much stronger than we ever could have been.

58:33 Speaker 2: A part, one in the same direction, one in the

58:39 Speaker 2: same direction. Because we could defy the cynics, we could

59:05 Speaker 2: take on impossible things.

59:08 Speaker 8: We'd be so much.

59:10 Speaker 6: Stronger than we ever could have been apart.

59:16 Speaker 2: Pull in the same direction, pull in the same direction,