Matt Connarton Unleashed 3-22-25 hour 3

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0:35 Speaker 3: Your life's gone by way too soon, which we can be going back in the bass.

0:42 Speaker 1: We live by the times.

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1:02 Speaker 2: I'm leaving to day.

1:05 Speaker 1: I call me back, sorry to leave.

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1:29 Speaker 6: Else alone with you having me shook it off and shake him.

1:33 Speaker 2: Don't know what to do.

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2:54 Speaker 4: Yay, I'm running away.

3:14 Speaker 9: That is Two Towns. That is called running Away. Welcome everybody, we are if you are listening live on Saturday, we have entered our number three new Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, and of course you can also stream the show from anywhere at mattconnorton dot com, slash Live. And Jenny is here of course at the news table, and we've got the two gentlemen from Two Towns. Welcome back, guys, very well, very well.

3:50 Speaker 9: So running Away was a track we had played the last time you were here. We're gonna play some new stuff though, because you've got this great new I want to talk about this uncovered and I listened to the whole thing and just really really good. I love the cover versions of these songs. But gentlemen, please each introduce yourselves and remind us who you are and what you do in Two Towns.

4:11 Speaker 10: So, yeah, I'm Zack. I'm the front man of Two Towns. And do you all like the vocals and like some backing guitar and piano and harmonica and all the fancy stuff.

4:20 Speaker 11: So okay, Yeah, I'm a James or j Money. I do the lead acoustic guitar, and I keep Zack in line.

4:27 Speaker 12: Yeah pretty much.

4:28 Speaker 9: Okay, very good, very good. Well, it's wonderful to have you guys back. Jenny looked it up. It was June the last time that that you guys were here, so it's really good to have you here. Tell us about tell us about the new project uncovered and why why did you decide to do this? And I'm curious too to know, you know, and we'll play some of them today, but I'm curious to know what went into choosing these songs to cover.

4:54 Speaker 12: So we changed the name of it.

4:55 Speaker 10: It's called Two Towns Covered Up and that's gonna be the album name. We're gonnaut it out oh April four. Yeah, we changed the name.

5:01 Speaker 12: We decided it would go with something else oh okay, but.

5:03 Speaker 10: Uh yeah, we're gonna put it out on April fourth, and we kind of just we wanted a mix of songs that we do live, that we truly feel has a connection with the audience when we play them, or just something that's less boring. We just wanted some stuff that, like, for example, like Atlantic City Bruce Springsteen, like the original it's great and all, but we just wanted to like kind of bring it up to more like modern times, especially with how audio engineering has changed and mixing and mastering has changed.

5:36 Speaker 10: So we kind of just wanted to bring it into the new era.

5:39 Speaker 12: I guess. Yeah, we did with a lot of the songs.

5:41 Speaker 9: So now that makes sense, you know, because you chose things that are not necessarily I mean, some of these I would imagine if you know, when you play them out, people don't necessarily know that they're covers, right, I mean, because you didn't go with like the obvious. You know, there's there's certain songs that when someone says, Okay, I'm gonna do a covers album, there's certain songs or certain artists who are just kind of obvious. But these are a little more I don't know if obscure is quite the right word, but but not not what one expects necessarily, right, Yeah.

6:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, we definitely tried to stay away from like really known stuff, like there's there's definitely some on there that are like, Okay, yeah, this is this is something I know, or this is something that my friends know. Yeah, but then we also tried to like do like cough Syrup in Atlantic City and like mash two luminier songs together just because we kind of could.

6:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, were there any of these that you found particularly challenging to learn or to kind of cause you're not and you're not just learning them, you're also kind of putting your own spin, on your own vibe on them.

6:45 Speaker 12: Yeah.

6:45 Speaker 9: Were there any of these that were kind of challenging?

6:47 Speaker 11: Uh, would you mind? I had never heard that song before the day of recording. Oh no, kidding, Yeah, so Zach kind of just threw it in front of me and was like, we're doing it. So I learned it and it turned out great.

6:56 Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, but yeah, so you never hear it before, so that that's a little extra challenging, right, Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Were there any of these that you decided to learn that were easier than you expected. That just kind of just came together like that.

7:12 Speaker 10: The way down was really easy, really yeah, Like I thought that was that one was gonna be way harder, but that was really easy, no kidding. That one just kind of came together and flowed. Yeah, that was one of the first ones we actually got done there.

7:24 Speaker 13: They didn't have to really change a bunch of it.

7:26 Speaker 9: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Are you playing these are you actively playing these out? Have these been?

7:31 Speaker 12: Okay?

7:31 Speaker 10: Yep, we're gonna start playing the live or booking shows as we speak. I think we're up to like forty five dates on the summer run, so we'll see.

7:39 Speaker 12: What's gonna happen. But yeah, okay, keep adding as we.

7:41 Speaker 9: Go, and you're playing them as Two Towns or yep? Okay, I remember last time I made the mistake. I kept I think I might have been because of Facebook or Instagram or something. I kept calling you as Two Towns band, but it's actually just Two Towns. Yeah, but is it always? Is it still always the two of you live or do you have other musicians who join you just the two of us? That must be nice because you know it's it's simpler, right, you don't have to check with three other, four other, five other people.

8:03 Speaker 9: When when did you go to book a show?

8:05 Speaker 12: Yep, I've done that whole band thing. No, thank you.

8:08 Speaker 10: It's just too it's too complicated. Everybody wants their own opinion and their own spin on things. With this, it's just two brains and it's just okay, we're gonna go do this, and there's usually no disagreement, and if there is, it's just easy to get past.

8:19 Speaker 9: Yeah, no, that's great, that's great. And on the album though, like what are is the album just all you guys are? Do you have some other do you have some guest musicians?

8:31 Speaker 12: We do have it.

8:32 Speaker 10: We had a guest musician do some electric guitar work, Tucker Tucker reene Art. He was great and he did. He's probably on like three or four songs on the album. And it's just like a few spots where we need an electric guitar and we're like, okay, we got a guy who knows how to do this, and yeah.

8:47 Speaker 11: Yeah, then Eric Eric is on base our producer. Yes, okay, Eric Eric from Blackheart. That was he did such a good Eric Solder of.

8:55 Speaker 9: Anyone who Records produces any of it engineers who is active in the scene. His name comes up more than anybody else.

9:03 Speaker 12: He is fantastic.

9:05 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, no he is. He's amazing, and we had him on the show. I don't know how long ago it was now, I was less than a year, but I remember. You know, Sandum, it's great to finally have Beyond because your name comes up on the show constantly. No, he is amazing at what he does. Absolutely, how did you come to work with him?

9:20 Speaker 10: So we were gonna work with There was another studio in match that had closed down. Oh I don't remember which one it is, but closed down to some building issues or something. But after that the name came up. They were like, oh, we're closing down, but this guy Eric at Blackhart, like he's the guy you want to go work with. Well while we're shut down, and then eventually they didn't open up again, so we're like, all right, guess we're gonna go work with Eric.

9:44 Speaker 9: Oh it was fate, probably worked out for the best.

9:47 Speaker 12: Yeah, it worked out great.

9:48 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Was the entire album recorded with him.

9:50 Speaker 10: Yep, entire album was recorded with Eric. We're actually going back in June for this album was recorded probably the span of like three days. I would say, and then we're gonna go back in June and we're doing a whole week with Eric and we're just gonna get a whole original album Mountain. Hopefully have that out by the fall.

10:07 Speaker 9: Oh fantastic, fantastic. Uh well, let's play something from from the new album. So it's called uncovered, covered up? Oh, covered up? Why do I keep saying uncovered? I'm sorry, covered up? What should we I mean, I'll let you guys pick. I mean, they're all great, but start from.

10:24 Speaker 12: I was hoping you'd say that this is my personal favorite. It was my favorite. Now yeah, I don't know what it.

10:30 Speaker 13: Was, Yeah I do.

10:32 Speaker 9: And who does this originally? Mountjoy Mount Okay, Yeah, this is This is an example of a song I was not familiar with, but I was listening to it and I, oh, this is so good. All right, check it out. This is astro van As covered by two towns.

11:01 Speaker 6: Angels smoking cigar at some on rooftip sinfishness in the mall with the room steal.

11:14 Speaker 8: He comes Jesus sitting a strong vein, rolling down.

11:19 Speaker 2: The street again his stone.

11:23 Speaker 1: Wild Jerry playing you see life thing never.

11:29 Speaker 2: What it seems.

11:30 Speaker 6: These streams are more than paper things. He saur and momy over a brain now people along the way. I don't want to see those teas again, you know, Jesus jobs na strove vein.

11:50 Speaker 2: Yes it does, he said.

12:07 Speaker 10: To my heart.

12:08 Speaker 1: There's a holy girl stripped, and none go from know, but dose who know the best ones? Delver come down.

12:21 Speaker 2: If I love that zip mat Oo's are.

12:24 Speaker 1: Reaching now who the Greeder known?

12:27 Speaker 6: Every day has their losion because life thing never what he seems, These dreams of all.

12:39 Speaker 1: And pavy things.

12:41 Speaker 6: It's our right, mommy or afraid now before a long way. I don't want to see those tears again, you know, Jesus, child's a nice strove And yes it does, I said,

13:07 Speaker 6: when I see those angels own fund no, I'm made it. When my to be smoking, Jesus puts my name upon his guest list, he said, you're famous in heaven, or maybe famous in heaven.

13:26 Speaker 1: Or maybe there is no heaven.

13:29 Speaker 6: H Maybe we'll all alone together now.

13:34 Speaker 8: And I don't want to see those tears again, your Lord Jesus trials and never strove.

13:43 Speaker 2: Yes he does.

14:06 Speaker 9: Oh that is so good. That is so good. That is Two Towns doing astro Van by Mountjoy. That's the original artist on there.

14:14 Speaker 12: Yep, oh, very very good. Good, good job.

14:17 Speaker 9: Do you guys have Do we each have favorites on this on this album uncovered, I.

14:23 Speaker 10: Keep changing mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like to change it every other day. Astra Van, Astravan's up there, Astravans in my top three. Yeah, No, Vacancy's up there. That one's definitely. That one was my favorite for the longest time. I was just like, yep, that's gonna be the best song on the album. Then I heard astra Van. I was like, oh, well, maybe it's that one. I had to come in with a third, probably be sleep on your ho Hey that one is? That one came out really well?

14:47 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah I did. I never you know, it's funny until I listened to it. Well, until I saw it and listened to it, I never knew that was the actual title of the song.

14:54 Speaker 10: That is not the actual title of the song. So what we did not No, we took one song by them and another song by them and just mashed them together.

15:02 Speaker 9: Oh I didn't even realize.

15:03 Speaker 10: Yeah, we play the first half of one of their songs, sleep on the floor, okay, and then we play the entirety of ho Hey oh, and we we do it live. We do it live during our shows, like we're like, okay, this song, that's second half boring. We you can't get through the whole thing. So we decided to put the first half of that song of Sleep on the floor and the interesting ho Hey, which is more upbeat and energetic, and just mash them together during our shows. And they're like, well, if we do it during the show, why not do it on the album.

15:34 Speaker 9: That kind of explains my confusion. Yep, But they obviously they go together well because I didn't even realize that as I was listening to it. It didn't occur to me that they were two different songs. It's like, oh, oh that's cool. Now what about what about you, James? Do you have favorites?

15:47 Speaker 13: Oh?

15:47 Speaker 11: Yeah, Mine are more of the like mellow would you mind ye sleep on your and then off thereh my favorite? Yeah that was my idea. He is not a fan, but oh no kidding.

15:59 Speaker 12: It came out good. It came out better than I thought. But like when we did it, we're like, oh.

16:02 Speaker 1: We're really going to do that one.

16:04 Speaker 9: Really?

16:04 Speaker 13: When we were drawing it up. That's the one that I wanted for sure to Yeah.

16:07 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, but you had to be talking into it, Zach, I mean a little bit the original is. I mean we're not we're both not huge fans of the original, but when we play it live, we like the more mellow toned down version of it. I think like the originals a little lot. It's got a lot going on, So taking it and stripping it down definitely made me like it more. Okay, So yeah, I'm glad we put it on.

16:28 Speaker 11: We did similar things with would you mind because the original is a big production, lots of stuff.

16:33 Speaker 13: Yep, we just got it pretty simple.

16:35 Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah. When you when you're recording these, do you record them with keeping mind like playing them live, how it's going to be to play them live. Do you keep that in mind? Or do you not worry about that part and say, we just want these to sound awesome and we'll figure the live part out later. Like what's kind of your approach to that? Do you think about that part or no?

16:58 Speaker 10: I mean, I think that's probably the way we go with it is just like we just want it to sound as good as we possibly can and then we'll just worry about playing it live after even if we have to play the stripped down versions live or whatever we got to do, or play with the backing track, then that's what we'll do.

17:12 Speaker 12: Yeah.

17:12 Speaker 9: Yeah, I was curious because you know, a lot of people I've interviewed over the years, I'll say, well, when we go into the studio or when we go to record, however we record, you know, we we think a lot about, you know, can we pull this off live what we do in the studio, because to some musicians it's really important to be able to duplicate that live. But I've always looked at it as like, like what you were describing, you know, if if live, if it's going to be more of a stripped down version because you can't replicate what you did in the studio exactly live, who cares?

17:40 Speaker 9: So it's a more stripped down version. That's cool too, write, you know, because I like when I go to see somebody live, I like hearing a different interpretation perhaps of you know, what they recorded, or if it's more raw and strip down. That's I like that, you know what I mean, Like it's like, okay, it's live, it should be you know, Sometimes that gives it a little extra energy, you know, or.

18:02 Speaker 10: Yeah, changes it up, and that's exactly why we did it. It's like, Okay, maybe people want to hear something different.

18:08 Speaker 9: Yep, yep. Absolutely. Are you guys playing a lot? Because I looked at from what I saw online, it looks like you're you're pretty active, right.

18:14 Speaker 10: We played I think last in the past year. I think we cleared like eighty five to one hundred and fifteen shows last year.

18:22 Speaker 9: Oh, that's really good.

18:23 Speaker 10: This year, we haven't started our like show runs yet, but we're going to start next month. We're gonna starting May. Actually we're starting in May over at Telly's. That's gonna be the first day. I think it's May fifteen.

18:35 Speaker 9: Oh cool.

18:35 Speaker 10: And then if yeah, it's just going to take off from there. I think we got like forty five dates so far and we're just going to keep adding them as we go.

18:41 Speaker 9: Excellent, excellent. Are you? Is there anybody that you're playing a lot of shows with? You know, sometimes bans team up or it happens organically with other.

18:51 Speaker 10: No, I don't know which one right, maybe, Yeah, we're working on some shows in Vermont and like doing am I like bigger stuff. Oh nice, but yeah, because I'm from Vermont and I we had like a pretty pretty strong following Vermont when we started out because that's where we originally started out, and then I moved down here and we just kind of like it's not like a restart, but it's like, oh, we.

19:16 Speaker 12: Gotta kind of got to build it up again.

19:19 Speaker 15: Yeah.

19:20 Speaker 12: So yeah, it's.

19:21 Speaker 10: Definitely it's easier to book shows in different places than it is other places. So we're really trying to break into bostoncas We play a few venues in Boston, but we definitely want to have it more be the like mainstream places.

19:34 Speaker 9: Yeah, that makes sense sense. Well, we should play another track from Uncovered. I'll let you guys pick, what do you what do you want to play next?

19:43 Speaker 12: Broken Window? Broken Window Serenade?

19:46 Speaker 9: Okay?

19:47 Speaker 12: And who does that?

19:47 Speaker 9: Originally Whiskey Myers. Whiskey Myers. Now that's somebody else. I'm not Who's Whiskey Myers. I'm not familiar with them.

19:53 Speaker 10: They're like the country southern rock, like yeah, like a southern ish country rock. They Yeah, they're kind of like not new to the scene, but like they're up and coming definitely in the past three years.

20:07 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I was gonna say, yeah, I hadn't heard of them, but but it's funny. With a name like Whiskey Myers, it it makes sense that they would be kind of like southern.

20:16 Speaker 10: Yeah, it like it's it's weird too because when we I was in my like high school original band, we played a higher ground. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was us in one side of the building and the other side of the building was Whiskey Myers, and we were like just kind of like having dinner with them and stuff. Oh kidding, yeah, it kind of It just kind of worked out that way that we ended up doing one of their songs.

20:35 Speaker 9: Do they know, Like, have you reached out to them and told them that you covered this song?

20:38 Speaker 12: We will, we will.

20:39 Speaker 10: Like this is the first place anybody's hearing this album, so yeah, we don't have this anywhere else other than we had an album released party last night that yeah, we got like all of our friends and family got to hear for the first time.

20:48 Speaker 9: Oh, very cool. Well, that's awesome that we get to share these share this on the radio. Very good, very good. Well, let's give this a listen. This is broken Window serenade as covered by two towns.

21:38 Speaker 1: Here a couple of party flowers. That's what I brought to.

21:43 Speaker 6: You when I saw you through a broken the window with a different point of view, you had signs of depression from a long line of save.

21:57 Speaker 7: The over face.

21:59 Speaker 6: Tells this story abound the please sees you have been.

22:03 Speaker 1: I loved the soul.

22:09 Speaker 4: A thorn.

22:10 Speaker 2: You should know.

22:17 Speaker 16: Any mudy waters flowing hesitating my hand, past the creek, down.

22:24 Speaker 2: By the holler, through your Tay's land.

22:29 Speaker 17: I could buy you a diamond, but I cannot change worm because I'm got no money and you'll never.

22:40 Speaker 7: Be my girl.

22:42 Speaker 2: Love your soul.

22:47 Speaker 4: A thorn.

22:48 Speaker 16: You should know. He's gonna be a singer in a big move.

23:13 Speaker 6: Is Starn But you can't catch no Brisbee and Hollywood his song.

23:20 Speaker 2: Now you are count out the time out.

23:24 Speaker 16: Of one fifty five beyond that savoyr dollar just trying to steal live.

23:33 Speaker 1: It hurts me sold.

23:39 Speaker 6: Song. No here you feed your addiction with your crystal left desire. Please for your life as it takes you to your death. You made it you with the devil, and your looks begin to fade us.

24:05 Speaker 1: Sound you lappy food tears, He.

24:09 Speaker 6: Slowly Sleep to way wants to Go a thogh you should know, Yeah, wants to Go.

24:30 Speaker 1: A though you should know. Mm hmmm.

24:37 Speaker 9: I like that. That is Broken Window Serenade as covered by Two Towns on the new album Uncovered, And uh that is that is really good Whiskey Myers. Of course I did that originally, as you explained. And does that, Zach, does that require a different mindset when you're singing something like that because you're the way you're singing it is, you know it fits knowing who as you explained earlier, knowing who does the song, and you know it's got that southern vibe to it. You know, you're you're singing it a little differently than you would sing a lot of your other material.

25:12 Speaker 10: It seems like, yeah, yeah, I definitely, I definitely adjust the vocals to what I feel this song requires, like based on like the just the emotion of the raw tone of it. I just like, especially with that song, that one came out like a little raspier than we usually have and I think it just it just matches the song, Yeah, matches what it needed to be.

25:34 Speaker 12: Yeah.

25:34 Speaker 9: Is there anything else that you sing that you kind of approach it that same way, or I.

25:39 Speaker 10: Think on covered Up there's something in the orange, something in the orange. Yeah, that was just like the same sort of feel like live. When I play it, it's more soft, it's more subtle. And then when we recorded for this, it just came out way raspier than I intended, but it sounded good, so we kept.

25:56 Speaker 13: It no vacancy too completely for good.

25:59 Speaker 10: Yeah, I like have a of a Southern draw on the vacancy, okay, and I just don't have one when I talk, Yeah.

26:05 Speaker 9: Right right, yeah, obviously, Now you're from Vermont originally, yep.

26:09 Speaker 13: And what about you, James Somerville, Mass. You're right out of Boss.

26:12 Speaker 9: Somerville, Mass. Okay, yeah, okay, And how did you guys? Obviously we talked about it last time, but for for newer listeners, how did you guys meet? How did you connect and end up doing this project together?

26:23 Speaker 10: So we like we were working at a like skiing marketing company together a couple of two years ago, year ago. Yeah, he still works for him. I don't work for him anymore, but we were working together at this company and my guitarist had just left the summer before that, he moved out west to go do something or moved out to the Midwest. I don't know what he's doing now, but yeah, so he left, and then I just went through like a string of random guitars. It's like, no, you're not gonna work, You're not gonna work, You're not gonna work.

26:52 Speaker 10: And then eventually James just brought a guitar to like one of the like business weekends or something, and then it's like, oh, you play guitar, and he's like kinda so, and then what just happened? Yeah, it just kind of happened. Yeah, He's like, I've been playing guitar for like three months now. I'm like, cool, You're now in a band, start playing live and recording albums? Like all right, yeah, we kind of got up to speed.

27:17 Speaker 13: Three months later we played our first show.

27:18 Speaker 9: Wow, that's amazing. Had you really only been playing for a few months.

27:21 Speaker 11: I got it like maybe a year before, but it had been like pick up play a little bit. I wasn't serious until he asked me to join it.

27:28 Speaker 9: No kidding, Wow, Oh that's awesome. That's awesome, Zach. At the time, did you feel like you were taking a risk it?

27:35 Speaker 10: Like no, no, yeah, yeah, he got it. It's it's playing guitar. It's not rocketside, right right, If you can play guitar like you can do it.

27:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, outstanding, outstanding. Do you guys when you when you play shows, are you like, like, how long is your set and do you do do you do covers when you play live?

27:58 Speaker 12: Yeah?

27:59 Speaker 9: Prior to prior to doing this album.

28:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, we do covers and originals. Usually our set spans. It depends really depends where we play. Our average time, i'd say is about two hours. Okay, so two hours breaks and whatever and just yeah, but yeah, about two hours. Then sometimes we'll play like three to four hours. That's when we really have to break out like extensive list of covers. Like we'll find us on a Thursday afternoon playing ninety songs in the span of four hours. So it's it's nice to just have that like little guitar tab thing there when you're just like, I don't know what to play anymore.

28:32 Speaker 9: Of course, I mean I would guess too, when you're playing a show that long, you can you can get away with repeating things, right, or maybe you don't. I don't know, because I'm just thinking too that crowd's turning over right, it's not the same people there three hours in? Who are there at the beginning? Necessarily?

28:47 Speaker 10: I did that one time I played a solo show. It was like two weeks after my guitarist had left. I played a solo show in Hampton. Yeah, and I repeated a song and this drunk lady just yells out.

28:57 Speaker 12: You already played that one, and I know doubt never did it again. Oh that's why I'll never repeat a song.

29:02 Speaker 10: And unless it was on accident, I've definitely played a song accident.

29:06 Speaker 9: Yeah that makes sense. Oh that's funny. That's funny. Uh, we should play another one. What do you guys want to play next? I love these These all sounds so good.

29:15 Speaker 12: Yeah, that one all right?

29:17 Speaker 9: And uh so your version is called the mash up of the two songs a sleep on your Hey, well a mashup isn't quite the right word, but you know what I mean, Yeah, putting putting these two together. Yeah, I really like this. I like how this came out. If you are just joining us, two towns is here with us and the new album? Is it uncovered or covered up?

29:35 Speaker 12: Covered up?

29:37 Speaker 9: I don't know why I keep saying uncovered.

29:39 Speaker 12: I think we changed the name.

29:40 Speaker 9: Oh that's why. Yeah, all right, I'm just it's confusing to me. Covered up. That's the name, right, yep, all right, I'm committing that to memory. No, but we're very happy to play these here today. These are really good. All right. Here's the next one. This is two towns. Sleep on your hoe, hey.

30:12 Speaker 18: Beck yourself a tooth, birsty, back yourself, your favy blows.

30:19 Speaker 1: Take it with drawn sleeve, take.

30:23 Speaker 2: Her love, your savings.

30:25 Speaker 18: Out, because if we don't leave this town, we might never make it out.

30:35 Speaker 19: And now I was not born too drawn, baby, come on,

30:47 Speaker 19: forget with.

30:48 Speaker 1: Father bread and said we were not born In said

30:55 Speaker 1: leaving no on your bed. Let your mother know, he.

31:00 Speaker 18: Say, in by the timesy wings, we live dreaming through this stay.

31:11 Speaker 20: We'll live dreaming through the night. Baby, come on, because.

31:23 Speaker 1: I've been trying to do it right.

31:27 Speaker 2: I've been living a lonely life.

31:30 Speaker 1: I haven't sleeping here.

31:31 Speaker 20: Instead, I haven't sleeping in my bed, sleeping in my bed.

31:47 Speaker 21: So show me family all the blooded iba blea.

31:54 Speaker 2: How do know I'm blong? I don't know if I'm.

32:01 Speaker 1: If I can write a song? Hey, I be along with you, you be alone with me?

32:09 Speaker 2: Being mind sweet nd.

32:13 Speaker 1: I've been alone with you. You be alone with me in my sweet home. I don't think you're out.

32:32 Speaker 22: For him, thinking what it might have been.

32:37 Speaker 1: If we took a bus to China Town. I'll be standing in knocking out.

32:45 Speaker 2: Him.

32:46 Speaker 1: By she'd be standing next me.

32:57 Speaker 7: Have been along with you, You've been alone with me, you man, sweet hand.

33:03 Speaker 6: Having along with you, you be alone with me?

33:06 Speaker 1: You must sweet hard.

33:10 Speaker 6: Elert Weed did now Liz Hurt.

33:20 Speaker 1: Folk song.

33:23 Speaker 2: G Sirt.

33:26 Speaker 6: Will blead now I being along with you, you being one with me?

33:33 Speaker 1: You must swee hold.

33:36 Speaker 2: I be along with you.

33:38 Speaker 1: You mean one me, you must swee hold.

33:55 Speaker 9: That is excellent. Two towns. They're here with us in studio, and you know, I was thinking, I was saying about this when the tambourine comes in. The mix is so perfect, and you know, credit to Eric Sotter for that. I mean, he's just you know, it's it's just so well done. The mix is just I mean it's just perfect, you know what I mean.

34:14 Speaker 10: Yeah, I definitely like when when we first like did the recording, we get the rough tracks, I'm like, ah, we made a mistake. This is gonna suck, Like, oh, it's gonna be bad, and then like it's like it's fine, Yeah, it's great, don't worry about it. Yeah, give it like a week and then a week late, I'm just like, ah, I don't know why I was freaking.

34:31 Speaker 9: Out right, Right, how long did it take to Uh? This would have been a lot of work, right, I would think it took a while to complete this, right, because it's it's ambitious. It's not like it's an EP. I mean, it's a full album.

34:42 Speaker 11: It's you know, two days, two eight hour days and then no, really, yeah, are you serious?

34:48 Speaker 10: Two eight hour days of recording extra Yeah, and then I went in like two times out of that and did like two or three hours at a time.

34:56 Speaker 9: Like I'm stunned. Wow, good for you guys, su.

35:00 Speaker 12: Twenty hours to record it.

35:01 Speaker 9: Okay, Wow, that's great. I mean obviously you went in very prepared.

35:05 Speaker 12: No, not one bit of no.

35:08 Speaker 10: I've no, yeah, never really yep. I'm the I'm the kind of person it's like, Okay, we're gonna show up and we're gonna learn it all.

35:15 Speaker 9: On the spot, no kidding, Well that works for you, apparently.

35:18 Speaker 12: I guess.

35:19 Speaker 10: So I've never had to play seven straight hours of acoustic guitar, but I never want to do it again.

35:24 Speaker 12: Really, it was.

35:26 Speaker 10: It was all the timing, because I mean I've before this, I've only recorded in someone's basement. Yeah yeah, and I am never recorded before other than on his phone or like me, I'm in the same boat. And then we get in there, it's like, oh we got to play a click track yep, which she's quite possibly the worst thing possible.

35:45 Speaker 13: That stuck in my head for like a week.

35:47 Speaker 9: No kidding, Yeah, but you did. I mean, it works for you guys. I mean I'm stunned at how quickly you did it, and with with little preparation. That's amazing. I mean obviously you knew the songs.

35:57 Speaker 12: Yeah, like we play them live, I mean other than would you mind? And that was just like trying to find the door. It's ridiculous.

36:05 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know. And obviously getting to work with someone like Eric I'm sure was a big help too.

36:10 Speaker 12: Yeah.

36:11 Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, no, that's that's amazing that you were able to do this so quickly. And then who did the mastering?

36:18 Speaker 23: Eric?

36:18 Speaker 12: He did all the masters did everything. Yep.

36:20 Speaker 9: Yeah, No, it's perfect, It's it's really really good. Are any of these so? Is it safe? To assume that these are all songs that you've you had played live prior to that or no, yeah, yeah, okay.

36:34 Speaker 13: There might be one or two that we didn't, but okay, that's when we just pulled from OURSELTL lists.

36:38 Speaker 12: Yep.

36:38 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's like what can we play, what can we play well? And then we took that into consideration, like what we play well or what we play the best. And then we also took in a consideration like we wanted to be very diverse. We want it like that's what I think we're all about, just two towns in general, is we want to play something for everybody. We don't want to cater to one genre or one age demographic or anything. I want to play stuff that like from kids to grandparents know, and just so there's something for everybody, and then naturally they'll be drawn to other genres by listening to our music.

37:10 Speaker 10: Because I mean me personally, I listen to everything. You'll catch me listening to edm and opera in the same car ride. And then it's just I think I want everyone else to have that same experience and not limit themselves to what they're listening to musically.

37:24 Speaker 9: Mm hmmmm, yeah, absolutely are you the same way, James?

37:27 Speaker 11: Pretty diverse, honestly, kind of ironic. The only music I don't listen to his Country, which is what we play, but I've warmed up to it.

37:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, there you go, There you go. Do you have I mean, do you intend to do this again? Or or is oh no, actually I think you did mention earlier. You've got an original album coming up right, or or an EP or something.

37:48 Speaker 10: We're gonna do a full full length album in June with Eric again and hopefully that comes out by the fall, and that's gonna be five days of us just locking ourselves in a studio.

37:58 Speaker 12: Yeah, are you?

38:00 Speaker 9: Are you intentionally kind of spreading it out this time over five days so it's not like yeah, because you mentioned how hard that was to.

38:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't want to have to go back in again, Like I want it to be done in the five days. Yeah, that makes sense and then not have to like go in and just be like, oh, here's another thing, here's another thing. Because then, especially with recording an original album, that's when ideas hit a wall. Oh yeah, especially when like you're like, oh if five days straight, like we're gonna get all this done the ideas are gonna flow and it's gonna be one big musical process. And then if I have to come back in a week later and be like scrap the whole thing, I hate it.

38:35 Speaker 12: Yeah.

38:36 Speaker 9: I don't want to do that, right right, Yeah, understandable. I always think it's funny. You see too, these uh documentaries of very famous, very successful artists who you know, you see a documentary about them working in the studio, you know, Pink Floyd or Fleewood Mac or somebody in there, and it's like, because they have all the money in the world, they can they can do this thing where you know, they're like writing songs in the studio. They're coming up with all these new ideas while they're while they're recording.

39:00 Speaker 9: But they you know, and they can do that. But it's like, you know, and then it ends up taking you know, eight months to complete an album. But they have the resources to do that. But you know, when you're when you're young and you're starting out and you know you've really got to be you know, hence the going in for two days, right and that for two days, it's just trying to do as much as he can. And yep, that was a lot yeah, yeah, but like I said, it worked out. I mean this this album covered up really really good.

39:26 Speaker 9: I love these We should play another one. What do you guys want to play?

39:30 Speaker 12: No Vacancy?

39:31 Speaker 9: No Vacancy?

39:31 Speaker 13: Okay?

39:32 Speaker 9: And who did this originally?

39:34 Speaker 12: Predio Revival.

39:38 Speaker 9: I don't think I know them.

39:39 Speaker 12: They they're they're new, They're like new new.

39:41 Speaker 9: Okay, Okay, why'd you choose this song?

39:45 Speaker 12: I we play it live and then I just love the way this song sounds. All of their songs. I like the way they write.

39:51 Speaker 10: I like the way their songs are mixed and recorded like they have a sense of like rashness to their music too.

39:58 Speaker 12: Okay, which I enjoy.

39:59 Speaker 23: Yeah.

39:59 Speaker 10: Yeah, they're just like I said, they're just starting out, and that's someone we'd want to work with in the future.

40:03 Speaker 9: Okay, all right, very cool. Let's give this suspend. This is No Vacancy as covered by two Towns.

40:21 Speaker 1: Seeing not a curve sound.

40:23 Speaker 5: You're in my cumb.

40:26 Speaker 1: We actually say it's goodbye and the phone hangs.

40:32 Speaker 8: Here, and it's kind of got me feeling some time way like a sin as seeing non Judgment Day. We empty bottles and motive rooms.

41:01 Speaker 6: Don't treat me quiet dans.

41:07 Speaker 7: And the coming in pain, don't treat me well, pain for a floor by prison cell. But she comes and she goes, and she always says goodbye, and I get many things to be.

41:27 Speaker 2: By her side.

41:30 Speaker 1: I got a bottle in the room at a motel, gave.

41:36 Speaker 6: And a broken holl alone vacancy, broken holling, no vacant, see hell no vacancy, said, she called me around happen and stage.

42:03 Speaker 1: Been a damn long day.

42:04 Speaker 2: Don't stay up today.

42:08 Speaker 16: He had him sit out the prisoner the sport walls, watching basic cable, taking our blue hall.

42:20 Speaker 1: Well, she comes as she goes.

42:22 Speaker 2: And she always says good bye, and I give.

42:27 Speaker 7: Betty Banks to be by her side.

42:32 Speaker 24: I got a.

42:32 Speaker 1: Bottle in the room and a motel.

42:38 Speaker 6: He had a broke in Howel Bacon Sea broke in our no vacancye.

42:46 Speaker 2: Hell no vacancy.

43:11 Speaker 1: Seeing on a curved side liquor and become.

43:16 Speaker 2: It says goodbye, and a phone up.

43:22 Speaker 5: Heah.

43:22 Speaker 8: It's kind of got me feeling sometime way like I can see her us sitting on judgment day.

43:33 Speaker 6: Well, but she comes and she goes, and she always says good bye, and I get any things to.

43:41 Speaker 7: Be by the shine.

43:45 Speaker 1: I got a bottle in the room, mini motail.

43:51 Speaker 6: And a broken Howling on Bacon, seeing broke in howing on Bacon.

43:57 Speaker 1: See, I don't know vacancy.

44:26 Speaker 9: Oh that is so good.

44:28 Speaker 12: That one came out really well.

44:29 Speaker 9: Yeah I did, Yeah I did. That is no Vacancy as covered by two Towns? And now who's that on guitar? Again? We had to we had to give him some some shine.

44:39 Speaker 12: That's uh, Tucker Reinhardt. He's a buddy of ours. He kind of just.

44:44 Speaker 10: Started coming and hanging out at the apartment and it was just like, oh, I play guitar too, Like cool. So then we would all just sit around, have a few drinks and then start playing together. And eventually studio time came and I'm like, well, I don't want to do this. He didn't want to do it.

44:58 Speaker 12: They're like, oh, we're just gonna I'll talker, He's going to do it.

45:01 Speaker 15: Yeah.

45:02 Speaker 9: It's fantastic. Yeah. I love what he plays in his tone, everything, everything that's perfect. Yeah, that's probably my favorite. I think I said earlier it might have been astro Van, but I think that's actually I think No Vacancy is my favorite. Yeah, that's so good. It's got a great vibe. And who's the original band on that? Again?

45:17 Speaker 12: That's a Treaty revival.

45:19 Speaker 9: Okay, Treaty Oak revival.

45:20 Speaker 12: And they're new, they're new, yeah, okay, okay, hitting the scene. Yeah, I got to look into them.

45:24 Speaker 9: Are they from? Where are they from? Do you know they're not from here?

45:26 Speaker 12: Are they?

45:26 Speaker 24: No?

45:26 Speaker 12: They're not from here? I don't think.

45:27 Speaker 10: I want to say out west somewhere? Okay, mid West maybe southern sounds like it. Yeah, yeah, No, that's that's really good. That's a really great song. And then now for the for the next project, because you've got as you we talked about earlier, you're gonna be doing an original album. Do you already have the material for that or are you still writing for that or got as Like, I mean, I've had stuff backlogged for a little bit now. But at the same time, I don't want it to be just me. Yeah, I also want it to be like us just getting in a room together and just figuring out kind of what's gonna go on it and how we're gonna do it.

46:06 Speaker 12: Yeah.

46:07 Speaker 10: Yeah, I definitely don't want everything to come from me. I want like James's creative input to kind of.

46:12 Speaker 13: Like this one.

46:14 Speaker 11: It's we have songs like astro Van and then we have songs like No Rival where they're just completely different as far as like the tone and our first original we kind of wanted to be the same where there's like heavier songs, lighter songs, and then after that we'll release more themed.

46:31 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, projects, will that be the first full album of original material that you guys.

46:36 Speaker 12: Have done or with me on the band with.

46:40 Speaker 13: City?

46:42 Speaker 10: Yeah, Shell was two years ago. Okay, that was with Hunter. That was the first, like oh Towns album with Shelle City, gotcha.

46:49 Speaker 9: So the track we played earlier at the top of the segment, that was from that. Yeah, okay, right right, okay, Yeah, it's starting to come back to me now. Yeah, because it was almost a year ago. Jenny looked it up. It was June the last time you got We're here. So yeah, and yeah, you guys have been busy with all the shows and recording this album and so, but you probably don't have an ETA right on the new one. It's gonna be When did you say, like fall by Fall?

47:13 Speaker 12: I want it to be.

47:14 Speaker 10: I want it to be like if we do the album in June, like we're planning on doing. Okay, then yeah, August September, hopefully towards the end of our show run. I think our shows are probably gonna wrap up around late August early so I know we have some shows in early September already, so right around there, kind of take the headwinds from touring and then just throw it right into the album coming out.

47:36 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, very good, very good. We're gonna play one more track in a moment to finish out. But I want to make sure our listeners know where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything you guys are doing. You're very busy. You've got you've got this, You've got the shows, you play play a lot. Where should people go to keep up?

47:54 Speaker 10: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok two Towns Yep, you can find us there and Spot five. Make sure to pre save the album. We'll be getting that on there for a pre save probably by the end of the weekend. And then yeah, April fourth is the hard launch date for the album.

48:10 Speaker 9: April fourth, great, congratulations on it. It sounds amazing, sounds amazing, absolutely before we run out of time too, Before we go Jenny do you want to plug your website because you've been very busy as always, it's busy beaver. Yes, I am. You can go to gen Coffee dot com, j E N N C O F f y dot com to.

48:27 Speaker 13: See what I am up to.

48:29 Speaker 9: Yes, very good, very good, guys. I'm gonna let you pick what should we close out with?

48:35 Speaker 12: From Atlantic City? From Covered Up? Yeah pick?

48:41 Speaker 9: I almost said the wrong name again. I almost said That's why I glitched. I was like, no, no, no, Atlantic City okay, and who's the original?

48:48 Speaker 1: Oh?

48:48 Speaker 9: This is the spring Steene yep. I hope our friend Rob Azevito is listening. I don't know if you guys know Rob. He has to show here called Granted State of Mind Fridays at six and he's a huge Springsteen fan.

49:01 Speaker 12: Yeah. This was a good This was a good one.

49:03 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, this is really good. So Rob, if you're listening, uh, well, I hope you're listening. If not, I'll make sure you know about this so you can check it out later. Atlantic City by uh as covered by two Towns and guys, thank you again so much. And if you missed any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit. At wmnhradio dot org, at my website Matt Connorton dot com. And we leave you with this. This is Atlantic City as covered by two towns.

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52:05 Speaker 1: She's away from home.

52:10 Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

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52:21 Speaker 16: She's losing battles the shadows and she's alone.

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52:52 Speaker 4: What you mind?

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