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H ninety four Come in, guys, don't guess Mattzlthy welcome everybody, Good

morning, Here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connorton unleashed

and we are live from these studios of w m n H ninety five point

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Saturday, April thirteen, twenty twenty four. And I am not alone.

Jenny is here at the news table. Good morning, sunshine, good morning,

thank you, doing very well, very well. I was happy to

unveil officially on the air, the world radio premiere, as we like to

say, of the new ad for Morgan Self Storage, our newest sponsor here.

Well done too. I like that out. It's sounding great. Oh,

thank you, thank you. I came in, congratulations. I came

in the other night and I I think I recorded and re recorded it probably

thirty times well, trying to trying to get it exactly the way that I

wanted it. So, yes, very good. We've got an exciting show

for you today. And our first guest is here. Let me uh,

let me get that mike up. Let's see there we go, Brooks youngest

here. Hello, Brooks, Hey, good morning, good morning, welcome

and uh we're excited to have you because uh obviously we're we're fans of yours

and we enjoy having a here. But also you, uh you brought your

guitar. Oh that's a beautiful Now I'm bummed our video is not working because

that's a beautiful guitar. But we thank you. We will take uh we

will take pictures while you're playing that's uh wow, thank you, that's really

nice. Yeah. My love of guitars has row. So this is a

Gibson J two hundred. Yeah, and I used this guitar on the George

Thorough gu tour. Yeah, as well as my electric as I Saturn and

playing tour. Got this right before he left on four and h the guitars

beautiful ghost looking everywhere. So it's gorgeous. It earlier. Yeah, it's

fairly new to me. I I just picked it up right before I left

on four and so I've only had it for a few months. And oh

really yeah, I haven't even recorded or done anything like that with it yet,

so this is its first like not on stage performance. Yeah, yeah,

oh wow, very cool, very cool. If you are listening live

on Saturday morning, if you have any questions or feedback or anything at all

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I just started following Brooks Young on social media. Can't wait to learn

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UH works, I'm down to here. You play sure and let me let

me get that other mic up here. Let's see make sure this mixer is

we We're gonna make sure this mixer is O and UH let's see here.

So there we are. While you're doing that, I'll tell a little story

about this song real quick, yeah go for so. Funny thing is is

uh. This song is called I Believe And you know, me and the

guys in the band we wrote this song fourteen years ago and just recently I

was at home, I had a day off. Fan. If anyone's followed

the band over the years, you know, I'm a big NASCAR fan,

you know, and we've performed for Nascar to track many times the band.

So on Netflix, there's a new NASCAR documentary and I'm a huge fan of

Hendrick Motorsports Nascar. I'm on Netflix. I'm sitting on the couch eating some

lunch, and I'm watching this big moment where Hendrick Motorsports gets their three hundredth

wins, a really big moment in the episode, and Jeff Gordon's up there,

and all of a sudden, I'm hearing a song that I'm like,

geez, I must have left a speaker on or my phone's on playing one

of my songs, and no, it wasn't. It was in the Netflix

documentary for NASCAR. Yeah, this big moment and Jeff Gordon's on the screen

and this is just recently, and I was like no, I was like,

wow, this is so. I'm on the phone. I'm like calling

everybody and I'm like hey, you know, and it was just a really

cool moment because I grew up as a NASCAR man. Yeah, Gordon was

my favorite driver and and to have one of our songs in this big moment

on this NASCAR documentary on Netflix and it just came out, it's very hot

shot. Everyone is watching it. And it's just I like I had to

sit back from him. I was like, wow, this is great and

uh yeah, So I'll play it for you. It's a song called I

Believe. Uh. Seeing that we just played restless something new, I'll play

something a little Uh yeah, yeah, I've got a got that other mic

up. So Brooks Young is with us live. I believe, all right,

believe some things out. It's just me that you tryon's chalk, the

closer gap, the harder ie fire. I would do anything, any thing

aside. I would swim across the ocean, fly to the moon. I

would walk a thousand miles just gets you you. I would walk a thousand

miles just to get to you, the amorals, to hear your name,

the same old stories. Nothing else has changed. A piggin love we left

up. It seems lack forever a sense with being up, Barn. I

would swim across the ocean, fly to the moon. I would walk thousand

masks just gets to you. I would balk thous mass just get to you.

I would walk thousand masks just to be with you. I would walk

thousand mass just to be with you. Very nice, thank you. I

love it. I love it. Brooks Young is here with us live in

studio. And by the way, to go back to that what you were

talking about the song being in that documentary. So I'm fascinated by this.

So you had no idea there was a little surprise. I had no clue.

I probably would never have known. I didn't follow NASCAR. Yeah,

I would know, like once I get like a you know, say,

like a royalty statement or something like that, right, you know, alert

me. But supposedly this is gonna be a good one though, So I'm

waiting for it. Yeah. Yeah. Usually I get paid on things like

that like six months to a year because it's so it's a big, a

big thing. It's not like just streams or something like that. Right,

It's a little bit different that end of the business. Yeah, yeah,

no doubt. Yeah. So tell us again about so you you were how

many dates did you do with George thorowgood, because that's that's what you were

about to do. Yeah, the last time that you were on the show,

I think it was like thirteen or fourteen dates and it was a blast.

We went to uh, Pennsylvania, which was great, and I really

loved that it was called it was the Palace Theater in Pennsylvania. Yeah,

and really cool things. It was interesting for me to be out of my

home area. Yea. And a funny story is is I felt more support

and more welcomed in states and venues that I have never been in my whole

life compared to I do at home, no kidding. Yeah, it's very

interesting. Like so I arrived at Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania at the theater and there's

these two guys outside like the backstage door, and like they knew who I

was. They like want to take pictures and sign stuff, like I've never

been there in my whole life. Yeah, and you know, and then

that was like at every venue. And then we went down to we were

in North Carolina, I think by the NASCAR Hall of Fame. We played

a gorgeous venue there and after the show, I go out the back door

and there's I don't know ten twelve people out there with signs and wanting to

meet me and sign stuff and take pictures and I have a fun picture of

Blackball. Yeah, and it was just it was really nice and it was

just it really reassured me that Okay, you know, this is this is

great. And then we were in Lexington, Kentucky at the Lexington Opera House

and the same thing. There After the show, I walked out and there

were all kinds of people like that came up like out of nowhere and just

they were like, hey, you know, we take a picture, say

hello, and so it was. It was really nice and everyone was very

welcoming and yeah. So I would go up on stage and I would play

a whole set acoustic solo, open up for George, and then the last

song of the night, I would go up on stage with my electric guitar

with George throw get in the Destroyers. Nice. Yeah, it was great.

And I remember it was the first night when we were in Pennsylvania and

George was like hey, like like for you to come up and play with

us, and yeah, and and then I hear it over the radio because

we all have radio. It's big production, you know, yeah, yeah,

of course, yeah know, tractor trailer truck, tour buses and everything

and Yip Brooks's guitar ready for you know, play with George. And we

had great guitar tech and h called Rev and he was a great guy and

took care of me and my guitars and and and it was a blast.

And I remember that first night in Pennsylvania being on stage or George Thoroughgood and

the guys, and was it kind of surreal? Like, yeah, it

really was. And because so George was at Hampton Beach Casino not too long

before I went on tour, I wasn't part of that part of the tour,

and but he invited me and I went there, and uh, it

was It was very interesting because I'm watching it and I'm like, oh,

I'm about to be on this boy, you know, I'm about to go

do this, And that was a different angle for me. And but he

was great in the in the whole crew, they were just so welcoming and

took great care of me. And let me tell you, I still have

nightmares of pushing a hotel cart down hallway. Yeah, there's a lot of

stuff. You're you're more not on stage than on stage, right right.

Yeah. I saw so many hotels. I could tell you which hotels to

go to, which ones not to go to. Yeah. It was just

really interesting and it was the first time I've ever done laundry at a hotel.

Really. Yeah. One of the shows, yeah, I don't remember

where where it was but yeah, I had no clouds. I was by

myself in the hotel. I'm like, well, you know, it's very

lonely, Like a lot of it is very lonely. Yeah, that's what

people say. Yeah, like I was. I was in Florida for days

because there was the tour kicked off and we did like two maybe three shows

and then there was like a week off. Oh wow. And I went

to my friend Charlie's house in Oakalla, Florida, and stayed with him and

his wife for a few days. Yeah. And that's where I got to

hang out and meet Patrick Swayze's wife, Lisa sway Oh yeah, Yeah,

that was great and got to see a lot of horses and go around for

a few days. But it was nice to see him because he lives up

here, so it kind of was a little bit of home while I was

down there. Yeah, and you know, I would you know, FaceTime

you know with my girlfriend here and there and yeah, you know, and

and do that, and it was nice. She came out to Kentucky for

a couple of the shows down there, and we got to go around and

see stuff. So yeah, yeah, well how many was it thirteen total?

Thirteen? Yeah, or something like that. Yeah, and I think

all the dates and stuff. If you go to my website you can see

all the venues. Yeah. Yeah, it was just a blast and I

got to kind of get to know George a bit more every night and hang

out in the dressing room and just talk music, guitars life and had you

toured with him before? I didn't tour with him, but I did open

for him a few times on separate occasions. Okay, Okayah, I was

familiar with George, but I didn't get to spend much time with him on

that year. So but you know on this tour, you know, we

were hanging out all the time. Yeah. Yeah, and George was George

is the only other person who's played this guitar. That's awesome. Yeah.

I told him the story and I took it out and I got a great

picture of George playing it, and uh yeah, yeah, he loved it.

He's a Gibson guy, so Gibson. So yeah, it was I

had a blast. And you know, just to go out there and have

the crew and everybody just really take care of you and you walk out on

the stage, you know, and just the cheering and there's actually a live

album on my Spotify it's Brooks Young's Live and it's the whole acoustic set wow,

from those shows I did with George and there are different songs from different

venues that were taken and they were all recorded professionally right from the board and

so and you can hear the audience and yeah, I didn't miss you by

the Rolling Stone, oh no kidding. Yeah, And I got the whole

crowd to sing, you know, theo oh. Very cool and you know

to hear you know, that's four to six thousand people do that, you

know, and we might have to play that at the end of the segment.

It's great. Yeah, yeah, and uh it's on Spotify. Yeah,

yeah, it's on Spotify. I'll find it and we'll play it.

Yeah, because I'm really curious now. Very cool. Yeah, So you

know, now I'm back home in New Hampshire and uh, I'm kind of

itching to get back into the recording studio maybe do something. Yeah. I've

been doing a few like solo things where I go out and play at a

few places, which is really different. When I first came back from on

tour and I was doing that, it was a really weird feeling for me

really why, I guess I don't know. This might sound weird, but

I had to set my own ship up. Oh I'm sorry, sorry,

that's all right, We're we're on a delay. I caught it. I

had to, you know, set all my own stuff up, and so

I just got used to, you know, and then like the audience,

you know, like people when you're on stage at a show like that and

the people are there listening, compared to say, you go play whatever restaurant

or whatever, you're more like wallpaper kind of music. And when I first

got back, it was like a really strange feeling about that. Usually you

kind of finish the song. People were like, you know, you know,

and there's no you know, plates and silverware when you're on stage clicking

in your ear. But so it took me a little while to like,

okay, we're back home. Now here we go. And but next week

we're about to announce a big show for people who are listening. I really

can't say too much about it yet, but there's a theater in New Hampshire.

It will be a New Hampshire show and I, myself and the guy

in the band will be headlining this beautiful venue. Cool if you, yeah,

stay posted. I think it's next Wednesday gets announced. The next Friday

tickets go on sale, and so we'll be doing that. My longtime my

best buddy Jeff Larroy who plays keys in the band and him and organ,

he's probably listening right now. Cool, and so we're really excited. He

just went out and he purchased an old him and organ and had all refurbished,

like the whole thing. Yeah, and we played a couple of shows

with it, and it's just so cool to have, Okay, and so

we're going to bring it to this show and yeah, and I'm really looking

forward to it. And a fun thing too about the show coming up.

So I started a band playing music when I was much younger, you know,

I was sixteen or so, but like in middle school, high school.

My buddy Jonathan and Josh I got a guitar once for Christmas and I

was like, hey, guys, get some instruments, we'll start a band.

Yeah. We drove Jonathan's mother crazy. We had a little tiny room

upstairs in the house and the drum set imagine like a room like a quarter

of the size of this and you had three of our drum set. I

had like a Martin electric guitar, a little like Yama, I don't know,

maybe ten amp or it didn't even cut through the drums. I was

just up there. But we started a band and the bass player was a

great friend of mine, lived down the street, Josh, And Uh,

he's actually moved back here, and so he's gonna be coming back into the

fold of playing some shows nice and he'll be doing that with us, and

so I'm really excited about that. Oh, very cool. So yeah,

it's a weird moment, like everything comes full circle. Like I haven't seen

him since we were kids. Yeah, to see him as a grown adult,

that'll be surreal. I was sticking that the other day and yeah,

So it's it's been a lot of fun. The tour was a lot of

fun. Back home now thinking about doing some playing, Uh, doing some

recording. I'd like to record up at Mojo Studio up in the White Mountains,

Yeah, the beautiful place. Yeah. And did a lot of work

with them. I did my last blues album with them, and that track

Restless that we heard, was that recorded there. No, that was not

recorded there. So I've kind of I've really been taking a lot of time

learning the other end of the music industry, the whole streaming and how things

are released now. So those were tracks that we actually recorded a few years

years ago, Oh okay, yeah, and released as an EP before the

whole everyone was releasing singles. Yeah, you know, kind of lost in

the shuffle. You imagine how many albums are out there now that people just

didn't hear or weren't you know, because it wasn't marketed. How things are

marketed now, there's a whole Spotify algorithm and recent things single well, yeah,

things have kind of inverted too, because you know, growing up,

it was you know, bands would release or soul artists or room ever would

release an album, and you know, the single would usually come out,

the first single would come out before the album. It would go to raw

before the album. Then the album comes out, then you get the follow

up singles, whereas now it's so many of the guests that we have on

the show there they talk about their strategy is to just release singles and then

eventually those singles become either an EP or an album. Yeah, so it's

just kind of flipped on it said, Yeah, so I've been listening to

like a lot of audio books about it, reading a lot of things,

and like, for instance, Restless just came out, I don't know,

a few weeks ago. I think it has almost twelve thousand streams on it.

It had, yeah, it had like ten thousand or so like the

first couple of days that was released. And usually when you released like an

album, you're lucky if you get that on something, right, So it

just brought more attention to those songs. Yeah, And you know, the

more I think about it, I'm like, geez, I have a bunch

of albums, you know that, right, It just kind of you know,

toss something in here and there. You know, that really did well

when we released it, but just didn't have that on it, yeah,

because it was released within an album. Right. So Jeff and I the

keyboard player, we've been talking about that. So we're itching to record a

little bit and we might go up to Mojo Studio. We were thinking about.

There's another new location down in darry there's a recording studio down there,

so we're we'll see. Yeah, yeah, what we do. I gotta

work on I've been writing a lot doing that and uh, just kind of

living life a little bit. Yeah, Yeah, you want to play another.

You want to play another live one? Yeah, sure, let's do

it, all right, let me get that other mic up, and Brooks

the Youngest here with us if you're just joining us. He's live in studio

with us. He's a gonna play another live song. And uh, while

you do that, I'm gonna find miss you. Yeah, I want I

want to play that later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go.

H This song here is called we Were Young? All right? We

were young, wild and free remembered. Well you still be all? I

know, it's all I see. You can't let me to something that you

stoopid? Be here falling down? Can please? So hard? Would you

catch me? Look? If I fall all I know it's all I see,

chake me back. It's something that used to be here. Falling down?

Can please? So? Would you catch me? Folly down? Be

so? Would you catch me? You fat fool? Beautiful? All right,

beautiful beautiful Brooks Young is here with us, live in studio if you're

just joining us on this Saturday morning, and Jenny is here of course,

and we've got the studio line open six oh three two five o six oh

seven. If you have any questions for Brooks or comments or any anything at

all six three, two, five, six seven, and so what's uh

so in the short term, so you're thinking about recording some more, Yeah,

you talked about that. And then, uh, do you have long

term plans for another another tour? Like, uh, do you have anybody

You're obviously you can't if if you've got something in the pipeline, I'm sure

you can't reveal it, but I'm just curious if you if you do have

anything in terms of uh oh, there'll definitely be some more stuff with George

come yeah, good good Yeah, so uh and then a few other things

in the works. I really just been focusing on doing some writing and just

kind of being home and playing some stuff around here at the moment. And

yeah, I uh, I got really sick when I was on tour.

Oh no, really yeah yeah, and then the whole crew and everyone did

too, like the last two shows, and oh, I just I mean

just recently like gott oh no, I was, Oh my god, it

was it was. It was really bad. Was some type of I don't

know if it was a flu type thing or some long COVID thing or whatever,

but yeah, you know, I was I was talking to a doctor

every week almost I would, you know, do the web whatever on the

phone. Oh yeah, and you know I was taking all the things they

gave me and and nothing didn't help. Oh my god, I just now

can sing, like I just recently, like a couple of days ago,

Like I did a few shows because I had to. When I first came

home, I had something lined up. I forget what. Yeah, I

was like, oh jeez, I just barely could get through some of the

things that I did. Wow, But I finally have like the energy back,

like I felt like just drained and uh and being on the road like

that, it takes a lot out of you. Oh yeah, yeah,

yeah, it short does. And uh I got really sick and luckily I

was home for a while. And were those last couple of shows hard to

get through? Yeah, the last the last two were. And you know,

I was drinking throat coat tea, like, I mean a lot of

it before i'd go on. And I had to be careful because once you're

up there, you know, there's no excuse me, I gotta go to

the bathroom. You know you're up there, and you either hold it and

you know, you got four thousand people are more staring at you. Yeah,

and you know, so I had to be really cautious with that,

and just I was taking some other medicine and stuff, yeah, towards again.

You know you could hear it in my voice really yeah. Yeah.

And then during the day, you know, when I was you know,

off on the shows, you know, I drink a lot of you know

tea as well, throat coat tea, yeah and all that. Yeah,

it was. It was great. But when I came home it got worse.

Like this, it actually worse. Wow, yeah, no idea what

it was not a clue. I I did like the COVID test or whatever.

It was negative and it was like a nasally like I had a really

bad sinus infection. Oh bad bad. Those can last a long time.

Oh, let me tell you a lot. Yeah, I mean it was

months. Yeah. I was on all of the stuff the doctor gave me,

take this and that, and finally like all right, it's better,

Like I'm feeling good. And then like two or three days would go by

and it'd be back really and I couldn't I couldn't sing, I didn't have

the energy. I was just worn out. Yeah. Yeah, and uh,

just the other night at home in the kitchen. I surprised myself when

I took my guitar out and started playing and singing. And I haven't done

that for a while. Oh wow. I just didn't have it in me,

you know. And you know, usually when I'm at home, like

I'd like to pick up and strum here and there or maybe work on something.

And I just didn't have the energy. It wasn't that I didn't want

to. Yeah, I didn't have the energy to. And I just got

a great guitar. Just got an endorsement deal with PRS Guitars. Oh congratulations.

Yes. So my friend Tomo Fajita and Boston, he taught John Mayer

how to play okay, And so him and John Mayer are like very close

friends. And Tomo saw one of the videos of me playing with George and

stuff, and I always liked PRS guitars. John Mayer has a model out

now called the Silver Sky Gorgeous guitar, and they just came out with a

new one Pienna blue. It's an old nineteen eighties Porsche paint color. Oh

no kidding, yeah, oh wow. And so they said they looked at

my stuff and Tomo sent it to him and the artist relations guy got back

to me. He said, yeah, we'd love to have you part of

PRS. Very cool. And yeah, he's like what color would you want?

You know? And I my h girlfriend and I we just got a

sphinx cat, a hairless cat. Her name is Rose. Well, they

had a PRS and a rose like color. It was like a winish rose.

It was called Midnight Rose. And I was like, oh, that

would be cool, and she's like, yeah, you should get that one.

And they had one at the factory and they found like it had like

a slight defect and like, we don't want you to have this. We're

gonna give you this new one that's just barely out. That one. Wow.

So yeah, like a few days later, a week later, it

showed up on the doorstep and yeah, So I can't wait to go on

stage and play it, no doubt. So the guitar matches the cat.

No so so our cat Rose. She's deaf, she's a sphinx and she's

like she's six months old. But she loves when I played guitar really like,

yeah, so when I took the guitar route the other day, I

was just telling you, she comes up and she sits on my lap and

she's like, paw, I have great video of it. And cat people.

Yeah, yeah, we have two cats. We love them. Yeah,

So it's very interest because she's deaf, but sometimes I think maybe she's

not deaft, so it's probably probably feels the vibrations. Yeah, the vibrations,

and she loves it. So it's really hard for me sometimes to practice,

yeah, because if I'm there sitting, she wants to be part of

it. She's like, yeah, exactly, So get her a little mini

guitar I know, right, Yeah, probably play your own guitar while you

playing. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, she loves this guitar. And

so yeah, so I got sick. I finally got over it, and

you know, I got my voice back a bit, and uh, which

is great. So I'm just really looking forward to getting together with my bandmates

and doing some shows. We've got a couple of stuff, a couple of

things lined up with the full group, and it's just great to play with

my friends. And yeah, you know, it comes to point where you

know, you're playing with the people that you've known for years and it's kind

of like just friends getting together. Yeah, So I really love that and

and and Jeff Leroy. Uh if I keep bringing up the keys player.

Him and I have been together playing for I think about eighteen years now,

wow, and we were much better looking back then. He would come over

to the house, I remember, and uh and uh. We were just

play music together and read stuff and then we're like, hey, we get

the band going and then boom we get a phone call. Hey, bb

King would like you to open up for him. Yeah, you know,

and we we weren't really ready for anything like that, you know. Yeah,

I remember you told that story last time you're here, and yeah,

that's that's wild. And and that right there, doing that like open the

doors for so much. Yeah, and so you never know, Yeah,

that's true. You really don't. You never know. That's true. Well,

so much of it is being being ready for those opportunities when they're when

they arrived, because yeah, you might you might not think you're ready for

something. Yeah, and you might really not be ready for something, But

when opportunity knocks, you got to open the door, whether you're ready or

not, yeah, and seize that opportunity. So I always have gone by

this quote I heard from it is it Richard Branson, who owned Virgin Mobile

and they yeah. Yeah. He he always said to apply for a job

where if someone asks you for a job that's way above your head that you

can't do, never say no, right, always say yes, then figure

it out right right. Yeah. Yeah, So I've always kind of went

by that. Yeah. And because we were in no shape or form to

you know, go play with me, we didn't even I don't even think

we played a bar at that point in our career or whatever. Yeah,

but you know, and then we started doing more things with him, and

then you know, and you just you never know, just say yes and

do it. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, I had a similar the

first band I was I played. I'd been in bands in high school and

stuff, but the first band ever played in that actually went out and played

shows was a band called the Jinx. And Jenny's heard me play like that

song Insomnia that I've played on the show that's the Jinks yet. And when

that band was starting up, the two guys who are kind of the nucleus

of the band, they'd already recorded a bunch of stuff, but it never

played out with it, and they knew that I played bass, and they

were offered a show at un h at a dorm party at un H and

wanted me to play bass for it. And I remember Troy, the guitar

player, leaving me a voicemail and telling me that it was going to be

in like two weeks, and he's like, I know, you're very busy,

and we're very busy, and everyone's schedules are very busy, so we're

not going to have much time to practice at all. But what do you

think? And I remember thinking, and I hadn't even picked up my bass

in a really long time, because I'm very I'm kind of ashamed of this,

but I'm a very practical person in the sense that if i'd I don't

have a reason to play, I don't play. So I and and you

know, if you're a musician, you should always play, whether they have

a reason or not. But I don't. But anyway, so I hadn't

picked up my base in a long time, so I'm thinking, oh,

this is nuts. And the shows in like two weeks and we're gonna have

barely any time to practice, and uh, you know, I haven't played

in a while anyway, so I'm rusty. So so I had convinced myself

it was a terrible idea and then I called him. But the other thing

is, I'm also I don't like to disappoint somebody. So and Troy is

such a great guy, and if you ever meet him, you know,

he's one of these people you just he's so nice. He's such a nice

guy that you you don't want to disappoint him. So I'd said, all

right, I'm gonna I'm gonna call him. I'm just gonna tell him,

dude, I don't think this is gonna work. And I call him and

just almost as though I wasn't even in control of what I was doing,

just out of my mouth comes, yeah, that sounds great, let's do

it. But we weren't ready, and we were probably terrible, but we

played anyway. We did the show and great, you know, we got

a great reaction and and that, and from that, a whole lot of

other things happened from me being in that band. I might not be doing

this radio show today had I not been in that band, because you know,

it's one of those things you go back and you think about it and

you realize all the things that flowed from that one moment of me saying yes

to something that I was sure I wasn't ready for that. They weren't ready

for that was a crazy idea and we were all going to be humiliated and

embarrassed. I was so sure of it, but I said yes anyway,

and all kinds of stuff came from it. So, yeah, that's great.

That's a good story. Yeah, yeah, it's It's something I remind

myself when i'm you know, when i'm thinking, when I'm feeling like,

oh, I have this I want to do that I want to do,

but I probably can't. You know, I'm going to fail out it if

I even attempt and then I think about that to that that story with the

jinst But yeah, so good, good advice for people listening totally. So

yeah, you never know, like just give it a shot and say yes

sometimes yeah yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. It's safer to say no,

but then you might regret it later, you know. Yeah. The worst

thing is, you know, thinking back and wondering, I really wanted to

do that, but I don't know, I talk myself out of it.

What if I had done it? You know? Yeah, I could say

the same thing about like going on that tour, Like I was asked to

do it and there was a small part of me. I was like,

yeah, you're gonna be away from home for a while, you know.

And I it was a lot because I was far. I was a long

ways away. Yeah, Like I was far. Yeah, and there was

no like just come home you know. Once I was gone, right right,

and you know, I did get a little homesick, you know.

And you know, my girlfriend Kendrick, you know, she's a huge part

of my life and like to be away and not you know, And that

was a real big moment for me because you know, of being gone.

Yeah, and I had to I had I was able to look forward to

her coming out to some of the shows, ye know. And but that

was the first time like I was like just kind of by myself. Like

my tour manager he came out with me, and he was there for a

majority of the tour. Yeah, and helped with things and thank god,

you know. But uh, towards the end of the tour, the last

few shows, I was kind of on my own. Yeah. And yeah,

Georgia, I love Georgia. If you haven't been the Georgia, go

to Georgia. Yeah. I had a great time in Georgia. Was great.

I went to the Hank Williams Museum. Yeah. Yeah, it was

really nice. Yeah, and that was a really great venue there and a

funny thing and funny story I went into when I'm downtime, you know,

this was this was my first like larger tour. Yeah. And you know,

I just have I have a rolling stone suitcase that I travel along with

it all their logo all over Oh Nice, and I pull into I had

to do laundry. Yeah, yeah, you know, I had an off

day, so I went to a laundry mat and you know, it was

so welcoming. I went in there, and so why I was watching There

was a guitar center across the street. You know, I'm like, well,

you know, go to the guitar store. And I walked in there

and the guy like they knew who I was, like, you're in town

because the venue was down the street. You're you're with George thorough Good,

aren't you. And I said, yeah, yeah I am. And they're

like, yeah, we were watching some of your videos because you know,

if you hashtag George or this or that or whatever. They came across and

they saw one of the clips of George and I playing together when I sit

in Nice and I needed a guitar stand because mine disappeared at the last venue,

so I went in there and grabbed it and they were like, no,

you're all set, thank you for coming in here. And and then

I walked back out to go to the laundrymat and some guy came up to

me and he's like, hey, do you mind taking a selfie with me?

I didn't want to ask you in the store, would you mind you

like knocked on the window. Yeah, yeah, that's cool, and he

said, yeah, man, that's so awesome. We're actually going to the

show me and my wife and and it was just really cool. Yeah,

and you just you never know. And I ate at a Mexican restaurant by

the Hank Williams Museum and sat there and all those folks like new and the

lady who owned the place wanted to take a picture and sign stuff. Yeah,

and yeah, it was just it was really interesting, you know.

And you do that and play down there and then you come up here and

play it. It was just so different New Hampshire, so different compared to

down South. Yeah, it really is. There's a lot of great people

up here. I find the venues are a bit different up here, like

the programming of what goes on at venues is definitely different, and we're very

lucky in New Hampshire here we have some gorgeous venues. Oh yeah, yeah,

absolutely, yeah, and so you know I love that. But yeah,

I'm feeling better now and I'm good. I'm gonna do something now.

Yeah I feel better. Yeah yeah, excellent, excellent, The time goes

the time goes quickly, Brooks. But before we before we wrap up,

and I am going to play at the end of the segment from your So

that's a live VP or a live for full live album that I think it's

the EP. I don't know how I forget, but you were talking about

earlier you covered miss You by the Stones, so looking forward to hearing that's

actually one of my favorite Stones songs. Same here, Yeah, yeah,

I love that song. What should people know about where to find you online?

Where they should go to keep up with everything that you're doing. Well,

if people even visit websites anymore, you can go to Brooks Young dot

com, Yes, Instagram, uh at Brooks Young under Brooks Underscore Young,

Underscore music and it's me with this guitar here the little blue check mark.

So yeah, that is a beautiful guitar. I encourage people thank you,

yes, and so yeah, that's where you can find me and make sure

you follow the right person. I did have someone decide that they were going

to be me on Instagram and they got like a Brooks Young fan account and

they were messaging people. And this was like a couple of months ago.

Oh wow, And finally it was. It took an act of God to

get Instagram to remove the account, and let me tell you, it was

not easy really. Yeah. The only the only way that they will remove

something is if the account is asking for money from oh okaunt remember that.

Yeah, And that was the only way, and they did. They messaged

a friend and they asked for five hundred euro or something like that. Yeah,

they were able to screenshot and save it and I sent it to Instagram

and they finally removed it. But that happens a lot on Facebook too,

Like I'm sure it's having all of us. You know, you get a

message from somebody that you're already friends with, Yeah, like and there and

they're they're speaking to you in a tone via via Facebook that's different than what

you're used to, and it's like, I don't think you're the person I

know. Yeah, they have like one person in common with you if any

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's been weird. Like the past year or

two of my life has been very interesting. People are very interested in my

personal life and what I do. I don't know why, but yeah,

anyways, but but the hub is brooks youong dot com. Yeah, that's

the hub, and that will lead you to everything. Absolutely wonderful to see

you, brooks Side. Congratulations again on the tour. That is amazing,

and uh, stick around everybody. Coming up. In the second hour,

we have grim Rock skyping in from Pennsylvania. But uh, let's play this.

I'm dying to hear this. So this is miss you. Yeah.

My favorite part of it is when you can hear the audience sing along with

me okay, and then you hear the end where everyone's just like, you

know what, Hey, all right, let's uh, let's check this out.

I've been holding that s long the I've been sleeping all long well,

I misson we I've been holding that S long and I've been sleeping all longer.

And I won't to tiss you my ship, but I been all the

sleep You've been sung in my dreams. People think got Christ when I've been

walking in the hall and I and wait on your cut it the fall.

Just friend about it a sex na start a man. We're gonna go around

swell and some crony girls. He just dan meet you. We're gonna friend

this wild. We're gonna part slap jack. You know last I say,

there we go for day. Why do you wait so loud? Dare?

Why you waiting so lo? And come home? I can watch the ball.

I been singing after dog. People say I and I shook up the

shoes and I looked saw so much and be as lazy watching the ball.

You know? Why a way so loud? Why you wait? Come around

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