Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-24-25 hour 2

0:00 Speaker 1: W M N h rip the nobles.

0:08 Speaker 2: I've been cooped up in this minie Cooper, singing to myself,

0:13 Speaker 2: going through drive through, have to drive through looking for

0:18 Speaker 2: some help.

0:18 Speaker 3: I'll miss my family and my girl and my friends.

0:22 Speaker 1: There find my side.

0:24 Speaker 4: If you feel the beat and you're feeling me.

0:28 Speaker 2: Come on, let's ride.

0:29 Speaker 5: We need a bigger bus to get our friends, more windows.

0:33 Speaker 1: And more piles. Party in the d party in the back.

0:37 Speaker 1: We'll go sway inside to side, down the highway. Surrender,

0:43 Speaker 1: all wheels go around there riding.

0:45 Speaker 6: I'm gain all the bumper stickers from all the places

0:49 Speaker 6: that we found.

0:50 Speaker 1: Need a bigger bus. We need a bigger bus.

1:02 Speaker 3: You can bring your friends.

1:04 Speaker 1: They can sing too.

1:07 Speaker 3: You can even bring your mama as long as she

1:10 Speaker 3: can hold too. You can bring a dog and that

1:15 Speaker 3: does ease buy out no wind.

1:18 Speaker 1: They will pick up old in town and singing a game.

1:22 Speaker 1: We need a big up bus to.

1:23 Speaker 5: Get our friends on my windows and mouse.

1:27 Speaker 6: Party in the front, party in the back. We'll go

1:30 Speaker 6: sway inside to side, right down my way up, surrender,

1:36 Speaker 6: all wheels go around and by mumbo get all the

1:39 Speaker 6: mamba stickers from all places that we found.

1:43 Speaker 5: Need a bigger bus. We need a big up bus

1:54 Speaker 5: and I wanna fly or take the train and hears

1:57 Speaker 5: the road call in my.

1:58 Speaker 6: Neck when feels this good bod ship, get the mon

2:03 Speaker 6: singing on.

2:04 Speaker 5: We need a big bus to get our friends on

2:07 Speaker 5: my windows in.

2:10 Speaker 1: The front, in the.

2:12 Speaker 6: Back, well sways, side the side down where surrender.

2:18 Speaker 1: All wheels go out there and back. We just want

2:21 Speaker 1: big out of the family from all the base cities

2:24 Speaker 1: all the time. We need a big up bus.

2:29 Speaker 5: Do get our friends on my windows in one party

2:34 Speaker 5: in the front, party in the baby.

2:36 Speaker 1: We're gonna sways inside.

2:37 Speaker 6: To side, back down where.

2:40 Speaker 5: Surrender, all the wheels go around and by the bumbo,

2:44 Speaker 5: get all the bunker stickers from all places that we found.

2:49 Speaker 1: Need a bigger bus. We need a bigger buzz.

2:59 Speaker 7: We're gonna need a big up us.

3:13 Speaker 8: If you didn't catch yourself at any point singing along

3:15 Speaker 8: to that while you were hearing it, check your pulse,

3:17 Speaker 8: there might be something wrong with you. Hey, everybody, we

3:20 Speaker 8: have entered our number two New Marow dose of Matt

3:23 Speaker 8: Connorton unleashed, and we are live from the studios of

3:26 Speaker 8: w m NH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Manchester,

3:29 Speaker 8: New Hampshire. Today is Saturday, May twenty four, twenty twenty five.

3:34 Speaker 8: It is Memorial Day weekend, and we have joining us

3:37 Speaker 8: live in studio making his return to the show. Eli

3:40 Speaker 8: Levis here. Hello, Eli, Oh, I just realized. I apologize. Wait,

3:44 Speaker 8: I got a I've got you on a different mic

3:45 Speaker 8: because you're gonna be performing. Let's see if we can

3:49 Speaker 8: hear you. No, oh, I hear something. Oh I hear

3:54 Speaker 8: your voice. We got to turn this up. I apologize.

3:57 Speaker 8: Here we go, Here we go. I think I can

3:59 Speaker 8: hear you now. Oh good, Oh, there you are. Aha,

4:02 Speaker 8: I found you all right. Sorry about that. I'm gonna

4:06 Speaker 8: blame I was distracted by my crackling voice. I sound

4:10 Speaker 8: like Kirk Cameron on Growing Pains because my allergies have

4:13 Speaker 8: been so so we're talking. You told me something really

4:16 Speaker 8: interesting off air that I didn't know. That actually is

4:19 Speaker 8: not a huge shock to me when you told me.

4:20 Speaker 8: But this is the highest concentration of pollen in the world.

4:24 Speaker 3: Is the hotspot? Yeah, mid Atlantic?

4:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's it's brutal. I mean, my allergies are

4:30 Speaker 8: like the worst they've ever been this year. It's really bad.

4:33 Speaker 8: It's really bad. But I love that song we need

4:36 Speaker 8: a bigger bus. And you've been You've been traveling all

4:40 Speaker 8: over the place, right, Yeah, I've been.

4:42 Speaker 3: Just got back from a tour in Europe. I flew

4:45 Speaker 3: into Portugal and played shows in Portugal, Spain and Dora, France, Wow, Switzerland, Austria, Poland,

4:51 Speaker 3: Czech Republic, And then I flew to London and I

4:54 Speaker 3: played shows in the UK for another month. Yeah, and

4:57 Speaker 3: if that wasn't enough, then I jumped over to Ireland

5:00 Speaker 3: and played a few shows over there. So it's quite

5:02 Speaker 3: the epic journey over there, and it was really cool

5:05 Speaker 3: playing the new audiences and meeting new folks.

5:07 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean at this point, how many, Like,

5:12 Speaker 8: what do you think the ratio is? I don't know

5:13 Speaker 8: if you've done the math. Well, I know you're a

5:15 Speaker 8: numbers guy, a number you pay attention to this stuff.

5:18 Speaker 8: Have you ever done the math on what the ratio

5:20 Speaker 8: is of shows that you've played outside of the United

5:22 Speaker 8: States to shows domestically.

5:24 Speaker 9: Yeah.

5:24 Speaker 3: I think last year I played about two hund and

5:26 Speaker 3: fifty shows, and I think about fifty of those were

5:30 Speaker 3: outside the US.

5:31 Speaker 8: Oh, no, kidding.

5:31 Speaker 3: So last year was a big domestic year. This year,

5:34 Speaker 3: I mean all those shows, it is probably about probably

5:37 Speaker 3: played about sixty shows, no kidding, okay, because it was

5:41 Speaker 3: pretty much every evening. Yeah, so yeah, so far this

5:44 Speaker 3: year it's been a big international year.

5:46 Speaker 8: Yeah. I'm sure we talked about this last time, but

5:50 Speaker 8: it may have changed since then because you've continued to

5:52 Speaker 8: play play shows on other continents. Is there any place

5:56 Speaker 8: that's been particularly challenging as far as traveling or are

6:00 Speaker 8: just dealing with the logistics of playing a show in

6:02 Speaker 8: a place that you haven't been before.

6:04 Speaker 3: I mean other countries with different languages, you know, different

6:08 Speaker 3: laws and different you know stuff like that. That was

6:11 Speaker 3: you know, you're driving on the other side of the

6:13 Speaker 3: road in the UK, it was like, you know, I

6:15 Speaker 3: was driving a manual, so that was interesting. But you know,

6:20 Speaker 3: for example, like I'm in I'm in Portugal for a

6:22 Speaker 3: few days, so I learned just enough Portuguese to get by,

6:25 Speaker 3: and I'm in Spain. Yeah okay, I guess which is Spanish.

6:27 Speaker 3: And then I'm in Andorra so they're speaking Catalan. Then

6:30 Speaker 3: I'm in France, where it's like, okay, now I got

6:31 Speaker 3: to speak in French to folks, and Polish is not

6:36 Speaker 3: an easy language should pick up in a moment. So,

6:40 Speaker 3: you know, in Poland a lot of people spoke English too,

6:42 Speaker 3: but it's nice to know, hello, goodbye, thank you, my

6:45 Speaker 3: name is So I just kind of get that and

6:47 Speaker 3: people are really appreciative of that. So it's a little

6:50 Speaker 3: bit difficult being in a new country with a different

6:52 Speaker 3: language and a different culture. But you know, music is

6:55 Speaker 3: the universal language.

6:57 Speaker 8: Exactly. Do you use a translator app?

7:00 Speaker 3: I do? Yeah, Yeah, there's one that's really good and

7:02 Speaker 3: you can even like they can speak into it. They

7:04 Speaker 3: can tell you what it is, and I can speak

7:06 Speaker 3: into it and they give the language.

7:08 Speaker 8: Yeah. Are people generally pretty cool about that, like having

7:11 Speaker 8: the patience for that, you know, especially if you're handing

7:14 Speaker 8: your phone back and forth and having to do all that.

7:17 Speaker 3: People are generally pretty cool out there, Matt.

7:19 Speaker 8: Yeah.

7:20 Speaker 3: I would say about ninety ninety five percent of people

7:23 Speaker 3: are pretty cool.

7:24 Speaker 8: Yeah.

7:24 Speaker 3: You know, if you look at the screens around us,

7:26 Speaker 3: you wouldn't think it, right, you know what I mean?

7:28 Speaker 3: If you just consumed our media as humans, yes, you'd

7:32 Speaker 3: think we were probably some big old dirt bags, right,

7:34 Speaker 3: But we're not. We're very kind folks, and you know,

7:37 Speaker 3: I feel like that, uh, in person, interaction and that

7:40 Speaker 3: face to face interaction, Like even if I didn't know

7:42 Speaker 3: a language and I needed something, people would, people are helpful.

7:46 Speaker 8: Was it intimidating when you first started touring internationally? Was

7:49 Speaker 8: that intimidating at all? Or were you able to just

7:51 Speaker 8: kind of just go for it and not worry.

7:53 Speaker 3: So I've spent quite a bit of time overseas. I

7:56 Speaker 3: lived in a small country called Andorra.

7:59 Speaker 8: That's right, you're talking about there.

8:01 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I had a little bit of experience in Europe. Yeah,

8:03 Speaker 3: so I kind of knew a little bit of the

8:05 Speaker 3: lay of the land. I still went to a lot

8:06 Speaker 3: of new places this time around, but I had a

8:08 Speaker 3: general like context, so it wasn't like that too much

8:11 Speaker 3: out of my depth.

8:12 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Now where are you?

8:15 Speaker 8: Obviously at this point in the tour, you're you know,

8:18 Speaker 8: since you're you're coming through the area and it's it's

8:19 Speaker 8: so cool that we're able to do this again. Yeah,

8:22 Speaker 8: where are you?

8:23 Speaker 2: Well?

8:23 Speaker 8: Where did you play?

8:23 Speaker 10: Uh?

8:24 Speaker 8: Where was your last show? Assuming you had a show

8:25 Speaker 8: last night somewhere?

8:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, last show was in Biddeford. Okay, Yeah, I was

8:29 Speaker 3: in Maine quite a bit Maine was was awesome. I

8:32 Speaker 3: was up in a bar harbor.

8:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's up there, way up. That's up there.

8:37 Speaker 3: And then I've got a show in New Hampshire tomorrow

8:40 Speaker 3: the afternoon in Brookline.

8:41 Speaker 8: Excellent.

8:42 Speaker 3: That's at April House Vineyards and that's at one thirty. Okay,

8:46 Speaker 3: So I'll be a New Hampshire okay.

8:48 Speaker 8: And then where do you go from there?

8:50 Speaker 3: There? I'm going back down to d C. I have

8:52 Speaker 3: a pretty awesome show in Blues Alley. It's the longest

8:55 Speaker 3: running jazz club in the country.

8:57 Speaker 8: Oh, no kidding.

8:58 Speaker 3: So they're like putting a merging artists Mondays there. It's

9:01 Speaker 3: a legendary stage. Ella Fitzgerald, stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, they

9:05 Speaker 3: all played there.

9:06 Speaker 8: Oh wow.

9:07 Speaker 3: So I'll be there on Monday this Memorial Day.

9:09 Speaker 8: Oh fantastic. Wow. Good for you.

9:11 Speaker 3: Up and down and back and down, left and right

9:13 Speaker 3: and back again.

9:13 Speaker 8: That's fantastic. Have you released new music since since we

9:17 Speaker 8: had you on last I have.

9:18 Speaker 3: I got a couple of songs I love to share

9:19 Speaker 3: with you.

9:20 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, you're gonna play you play the live?

9:22 Speaker 9: Yeah?

9:22 Speaker 8: Oh beautiful. All right, Well let's do that. Let me

9:25 Speaker 8: get that mic up on the guitar. Don here you

9:27 Speaker 8: play live if you are just joining us? Eli lev

9:29 Speaker 8: Is here with us in studio, and uh, when were

9:31 Speaker 8: you on with us? I know it was it was

9:33 Speaker 8: less than a year ago, right, It wasn't that long ago.

9:35 Speaker 3: I think. So, Yeah, that is about a year ago.

9:36 Speaker 8: About a year. Yeah, And I'll tell you what. It

9:39 Speaker 8: all becomes a blur. It must for you too, I

9:45 Speaker 8: would imagine. I'd imagine that guitar sounds nice. Yeah, that

9:49 Speaker 8: sounds really good in madphones, all right. So I think

9:51 Speaker 8: we're a good whenever you're ready cool.

9:53 Speaker 3: This is a brand new single. This one's called No

9:55 Speaker 3: Wrong Turns All Right, and it's a co write that

9:58 Speaker 3: I did with my friend Aaron Michelle from Maryland. It's

10:02 Speaker 3: about how when you're you know, with someone you love

10:05 Speaker 3: or your bestie, when you're on a road trip, sometimes

10:08 Speaker 3: you just go. It doesn't matter if you stop or

10:10 Speaker 3: you start, or you go left or you go right,

10:13 Speaker 3: No wrong.

10:13 Speaker 8: Turns all right.

10:19 Speaker 3: I have this dream that week, jump in the car,

10:23 Speaker 3: we flip a coin. We'll follow the brightest star. Yeah,

10:29 Speaker 3: leave it all behind, pack a bag, ready, said go.

10:39 Speaker 3: We'll spend all day to see along to the radio.

10:45 Speaker 3: Matt Connerton unleashed. Yeah, no, I'll just follow your car.

10:55 Speaker 3: We found each other.

10:57 Speaker 1: We'll never get lost.

11:00 Speaker 10: They're a new.

11:03 Speaker 3: Long now that we get wrong turns, that's good, you'll

11:21 Speaker 3: miss the exit. I'll just laugh. You drive slow and

11:26 Speaker 3: I'll keep on talking fast, faster than yours can listen.

11:32 Speaker 3: Nothing out there that we're missing anyhow.

11:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll just follow your heart. Since we found each other,

11:41 Speaker 1: I'll never get lost.

11:45 Speaker 10: There are no.

11:47 Speaker 3: Wrong now that we do get living.

11:56 Speaker 10: Un God with you forever.

12:02 Speaker 3: Moll in life, so we know as long as there's

12:06 Speaker 3: love left to burn.

12:09 Speaker 4: Yeah, your phone asleep and this passenger seat with smelling

12:22 Speaker 4: your face, and I don't want to wake you to

12:25 Speaker 4: ask where we're going.

12:27 Speaker 3: So I'll just keep driving on night, sleeping, just thinking

12:36 Speaker 3: again and again how good.

12:38 Speaker 10: It feels to trust the wind in your hand.

12:42 Speaker 3: Your eyes are my compass without.

12:44 Speaker 1: Even knowing the way, I know we'll find it because

12:47 Speaker 1: with you, I know that I know.

12:51 Speaker 3: Wrong now that we're too gether them.

12:59 Speaker 10: Wrong.

13:02 Speaker 11: Ride with you forever, live in the moment, so we

13:08 Speaker 11: know living wrong now that we're twogether in the moment it, so.

13:19 Speaker 12: We know we've got all the time in.

13:23 Speaker 3: The world there are no wrong turn.

13:35 Speaker 8: Mm hmm, that's nice. That's really nice. Eli Lev live

13:38 Speaker 8: in studio with us here on Matt Connorton Unleashed and uh,

13:42 Speaker 8: that is very very cool. Have you had since we

13:46 Speaker 8: obviously you've released new music? Have you had a new

13:49 Speaker 8: album come out or an EP or what's what's kind

13:51 Speaker 8: of the I do situation there?

13:53 Speaker 6: Yeah?

13:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, So last time I seen us playing songs off

13:55 Speaker 3: of a Present Journey, so that's out now, oh yes,

13:58 Speaker 3: and then that was where we need bigger busses from.

14:01 Speaker 8: Yeah.

14:01 Speaker 3: And then I got a brand new album called Past

14:03 Speaker 3: Lives coming out this summer. So Present Journey, Past Lives

14:08 Speaker 3: and Future Myths coming next year are part of the

14:11 Speaker 3: Three Worlds project.

14:12 Speaker 8: Oh okay, So tell me more about that, the Three

14:15 Speaker 8: World's Project. What's kind of the concept beyond that?

14:17 Speaker 3: Yeah? So my first project was called Four Directions Okay,

14:20 Speaker 3: and the four Directions were from my time teaching on

14:23 Speaker 3: the Novel Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, Okay. So I

14:26 Speaker 3: learned about the Four Directions there. It was a four

14:28 Speaker 3: EP project took me about four years. All Roads East,

14:31 Speaker 3: Way Out, West, Deep South and True North Okay. So

14:33 Speaker 3: I completed that. It's amazing. It's south there. You can

14:35 Speaker 3: listen to it. It's one of my favorite things I

14:37 Speaker 3: ever done. And then I was like, well, what do

14:39 Speaker 3: I do next? Do I do like Sky above or

14:41 Speaker 3: Ground below or Northeast? I wasn't sure. Yeah, I thought,

14:44 Speaker 3: you know what, let's stay with like the number theme,

14:48 Speaker 3: and I thought, okay, four directions, three Worlds, two Friends,

14:54 Speaker 3: and one Road. Okay, so that's my entire musical discography

14:58 Speaker 3: that I'm working on now. Then after that it's Mike

15:01 Speaker 3: Drop I retire for real. Yeah why I don't know,

15:05 Speaker 3: because because I did the thing so right now I'm

15:09 Speaker 3: on three directions yeah, and uh sorry, three three worlds,

15:13 Speaker 3: and then two Friends will be a collaborative piece, and

15:16 Speaker 3: then one Road will be my final album. That's it.

15:19 Speaker 8: Are you serious though? Like you like that? That's gonna

15:21 Speaker 8: be it?

15:21 Speaker 9: That's it?

15:22 Speaker 8: Why you seem so certain about that? Yeah, you know

15:25 Speaker 8: you're gonna you know you're gonna change your mind.

15:26 Speaker 3: Well, people going to retirement, they go out of retire,

15:29 Speaker 3: what happens. We'll get there when we get there.

15:32 Speaker 8: But I'm really no, but I'm really curious about this,

15:34 Speaker 8: Like do you like do you just feel like that

15:35 Speaker 8: will kind of be Is that going to be something

15:38 Speaker 8: where there's nothing you can do beyond that that will

15:40 Speaker 8: top it? Is that? Is that kind of like like

15:42 Speaker 8: you feel like that's gonna be the the ultimate yeah

15:45 Speaker 8: expression artistically for you?

15:46 Speaker 3: Or Yeah, I think that'll be the story of Eli

15:49 Speaker 3: live a as a you know, as an artist, as

15:52 Speaker 3: a musician, as a music project really directions three worlds,

15:56 Speaker 3: two friends, one road.

15:57 Speaker 8: Okay, wow? And then but do you go back to

16:00 Speaker 8: playing a band because you were.

16:03 Speaker 3: I love playing band. It could be another project, it

16:06 Speaker 3: could be instrumental, it could be another artist, it could

16:09 Speaker 3: be a band.

16:10 Speaker 8: So it's not it's not like you're gonna be done

16:11 Speaker 8: with music.

16:12 Speaker 3: Right Probably not? Okay, that'll be the end. That'll be

16:15 Speaker 3: the El Love project.

16:16 Speaker 8: Oh that's really interesting though, that's really interesting. Do you so?

16:21 Speaker 8: So three what are the are there when you talk

16:24 Speaker 8: about three worlds? Like, what are the three worlds?

16:27 Speaker 2: So?

16:28 Speaker 3: I think it's interesting that you know, three worlds can

16:31 Speaker 3: be past, present, future, it could be three dimensions as well.

16:40 Speaker 3: It could be you know, the ground below the surface,

16:44 Speaker 3: in the sky above. There's lots of different ways to

16:46 Speaker 3: kind of like think about three worlds. And I kind

16:51 Speaker 3: of went the time route because I wanted to show

16:54 Speaker 3: that the past is here just as the present and

16:59 Speaker 3: the future is also here present. So Past Lives is

17:03 Speaker 3: a exploration of my ancestry. My mom's side comes from

17:07 Speaker 3: South Mississippi and my dad's side comes from Chicago, so

17:14 Speaker 3: I wanted to honor both of their kind of lineages,

17:18 Speaker 3: and Past Lives follows the story both of those ancestors.

17:23 Speaker 3: And you know, it actually uses the voices of my

17:30 Speaker 3: great grandmother Bubby Sarah from Poland, and it uses my

17:35 Speaker 3: great uncle from South Carolina and my great aunt as well.

17:40 Speaker 3: So these are characters that audio is being like within

17:44 Speaker 3: the songs. It is so cool, Matt, Like, it is

17:47 Speaker 3: just it's one of the most amazing things that I

17:48 Speaker 3: think that I've done as a as a creative. And

17:52 Speaker 3: because you're awesome, because you're so awesome at you have

17:55 Speaker 3: me back.

17:56 Speaker 8: Yes, I would.

17:57 Speaker 3: Love to perform the worldwide mirror of one of my

18:01 Speaker 3: upcoming songs for you. Okay, this has not been public.

18:06 Speaker 8: Oh okay, it's from Past.

18:07 Speaker 3: Lives And I'm just like kind of like in Clan

18:11 Speaker 3: desintely like a tuning my guitar right now.

18:13 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, but Is that cool?

18:16 Speaker 3: Can I do that?

18:17 Speaker 8: Absolutely?

18:19 Speaker 3: This wasn't a planned thing, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, but

18:23 Speaker 3: what's since we're talking about it?

18:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, I'm very curious to hear this.

18:26 Speaker 3: This song is from Past Lives. It's coming out this summer,

18:29 Speaker 3: my next single. Oh okay, so worldwide premiere here on

18:33 Speaker 3: Matt Connorton Unleashed. This song is called where We Come From?

18:37 Speaker 8: All right, ge't wait to hear this?

18:38 Speaker 9: Awesome.

18:53 Speaker 3: I to mom backpack off coming home from class, opened

18:57 Speaker 3: up my NOE book. I had to ask my mom and.

19:01 Speaker 4: Died, where are we come from?

19:06 Speaker 12: They sat me down and smiled at.

19:08 Speaker 3: Me and took out some old photos to let them

19:11 Speaker 3: breathe and say, this is who we are and all

19:15 Speaker 3: we've done. It's the story of where we come from.

19:22 Speaker 3: And my mom said, so, we come from a long

19:26 Speaker 3: line of workers. Most folks never heard of us. If

19:31 Speaker 3: I don't make us any less. We spawned the cotton.

19:35 Speaker 9: That most people for water.

19:37 Speaker 3: We built the fridges after the war. Life back then

19:41 Speaker 3: was a lot more work than fun. Yeah, that's where

19:47 Speaker 3: we come f.

19:53 Speaker 1: Working in the heat.

19:55 Speaker 3: The southern sun.

19:56 Speaker 1: We I swept to live.

19:57 Speaker 10: That's where we come from.

20:08 Speaker 3: My dad listened closely to my mom's reply and then

20:12 Speaker 3: took my hand and looked into my eyes and said, son,

20:17 Speaker 3: let me tell you about my side. He said, we

20:21 Speaker 3: come from a long line of survivors. We escaped the

20:26 Speaker 3: fires they're still burning around the world. We made the

20:31 Speaker 3: shoes at most people water. We built the city from

20:35 Speaker 3: a hardware store. Life back then was always on the run. Ooh,

20:42 Speaker 3: that's where we come.

20:45 Speaker 10: Far.

20:50 Speaker 12: Over the oceans, through the slums we had believe to live.

20:54 Speaker 12: That's a week come from.

21:00 Speaker 3: And then one day I'll look in my daughter's eyes

21:03 Speaker 3: as she asks the same to me, and I'll tell

21:07 Speaker 3: her about our family and each branch that made this tree,

21:13 Speaker 3: and I'll say, we come from a long line of workers.

21:19 Speaker 3: Most folks never heard of us about. Don't make us

21:23 Speaker 3: any less. We spawned the cotton that most people wore.

21:28 Speaker 3: We built the bridges after the water. Life back then

21:32 Speaker 3: was a lot more work than fun. Yeah, we come

21:39 Speaker 3: from survivors. We escaped the fires there still burning around

21:44 Speaker 3: the world. Oh, we made the shoes and most people wore.

21:51 Speaker 3: We built the city from.

21:52 Speaker 1: A hardware store.

21:53 Speaker 12: Life back then was on the run.

21:58 Speaker 3: Not my love is where we come.

22:06 Speaker 1: We call a.

22:07 Speaker 3: Part of a thread that we's the story of our family.

22:11 Speaker 3: In one day you'll have a little one too. I

22:17 Speaker 3: can only wish the best cool one day when you

22:23 Speaker 3: have child on your own, Here you can.

22:27 Speaker 12: Tell them stories.

22:29 Speaker 13: We sun here, you can tell where we come from.

22:41 Speaker 8: Oh, fantastic, fantastic. Eli Love is here with us live

22:46 Speaker 8: in studio. What's that called again? What's the name of

22:48 Speaker 8: that song?

22:49 Speaker 3: Where we come from?

22:50 Speaker 8: Where we come from? That is so good.

22:52 Speaker 3: I'm in this summer.

22:53 Speaker 8: I love that. I love that if you are just

22:55 Speaker 8: joining us, Eli Love is here with us in studio.

22:58 Speaker 8: Is it hard to when you've when you've created a

23:01 Speaker 8: song that's that's so good? Is it hard to sit

23:04 Speaker 8: on it for a while because you have to?

23:06 Speaker 3: It's not funny you ask that question.

23:08 Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's harder.

23:10 Speaker 3: Playing it easy to sit on it like it's mine,

23:13 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? No one knows it yet.

23:15 Speaker 3: I haven't put it out there. It's just it's like

23:17 Speaker 3: like my little baby, you know what I mean.

23:19 Speaker 8: That's interesting.

23:20 Speaker 3: And then it's like, oh my, is it time? Is

23:22 Speaker 3: it time to share it with the world? Like, yeah,

23:24 Speaker 3: is it ready for the for the vibration to be

23:26 Speaker 3: out there. Yeah, so it was actually like it's hard,

23:31 Speaker 3: It is kind of hard to sitting on these songs,

23:32 Speaker 3: but it's still kind of nice because it's like I

23:34 Speaker 3: can just listen to them whenever I want, right, and

23:37 Speaker 3: only I can hear it right right. But now I

23:39 Speaker 3: think it's I think it's ready.

23:40 Speaker 8: You're ready for the world. Yeah, Oh very cool. No,

23:43 Speaker 8: I love that.

23:43 Speaker 9: I love that.

23:44 Speaker 8: That's really good. On everything that you've been recording, is

23:47 Speaker 8: it is it still just is it you? Or do

23:49 Speaker 8: you have collaborators in the studio.

23:51 Speaker 3: Or Yeah, So I I go to work with different producers.

23:54 Speaker 3: So for Present Journey, I worked with Austin Bellow out

23:58 Speaker 3: of Virginia awesome so Bigger Bus and all those songs.

24:02 Speaker 3: And for this one, I worked with Taylor rig actually

24:06 Speaker 3: from Peak Skill, New York. So it's a different vibe,

24:11 Speaker 3: you know, it's a different studio, different sound, different equipment,

24:14 Speaker 3: and I really like that. So like working with different

24:16 Speaker 3: producers for different EPs to get a different kind of feel.

24:19 Speaker 3: So Past Lives and Present Journey are with different producers.

24:22 Speaker 3: And then I still have to find the producer for

24:24 Speaker 3: Future Myths. I don't know yet, it will be different.

24:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, what goes into that finding a producer, like

24:30 Speaker 8: what what do you look for it in terms of

24:33 Speaker 8: because different producers has so many different styles and yeah

24:36 Speaker 8: approaches and some are very hands on, some are like yeah,

24:39 Speaker 8: some are like yeah, just I'll tell you if it

24:41 Speaker 8: sounds good or not.

24:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah. For me, my search is pretty

24:46 Speaker 3: much like where what producer is making the sounds that

24:52 Speaker 3: I want to sound like? Okay, you know what I mean.

24:54 Speaker 3: They don't have to work with somebody famous, they don't

24:56 Speaker 3: have to have the best equipment. I don't really care

24:59 Speaker 3: how long they've doing it or not. But it's like,

25:01 Speaker 3: what is the sound that I'd like to enter into

25:04 Speaker 3: that project? And I've worked with Taylor rig before and

25:08 Speaker 3: his sound is very lush, very organic, very full. Okay,

25:12 Speaker 3: So for Past Lives, I wanted to work with him

25:16 Speaker 3: because that's the kind of sound and style that I

25:18 Speaker 3: wanted for the album.

25:19 Speaker 8: Okay.

25:20 Speaker 3: Austin Bellow is like, man, he makes hits, you know

25:23 Speaker 3: what I mean, He makes singles. They sound so good,

25:25 Speaker 3: so pristine, so fun and upbeat. So I want to

25:29 Speaker 3: work with him for Present Journey because they were big pop,

25:32 Speaker 3: fun songs. Yeah, So I go for the sound and

25:36 Speaker 3: then kind of try and match that to the project

25:38 Speaker 3: and match out to the producer.

25:39 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, so everyone you work with as someone who's

25:42 Speaker 8: done something that you've been able to hear and say,

25:44 Speaker 8: I connect with that, that's what I want to sound like.

25:47 Speaker 3: Okay, exactly, that's it.

25:48 Speaker 8: Yeah. Are you ever surprised? Like, do you ever? Have

25:51 Speaker 8: you ever worked with a producer where what ends up

25:56 Speaker 8: what you end up with sounds very different than what

25:59 Speaker 8: you can kind of had in mind, hopefully in a

26:01 Speaker 8: good way.

26:02 Speaker 9: Yeah.

26:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, I during the pandemic, you know, there was no

26:05 Speaker 3: we could go into studios, so there we did. I

26:08 Speaker 3: did a collaboration with my Silent Bravery and it was

26:12 Speaker 3: all online, all virtual kid, and I had never worked

26:16 Speaker 3: with the producer and I met him and I still

26:18 Speaker 3: haven't met that producer.

26:19 Speaker 9: Yeah.

26:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I sent in the vocals, I sent him

26:22 Speaker 3: the guitar, we sent in the scratch, and the producer

26:24 Speaker 3: did everything virtually. I worked together and kind of shaped

26:27 Speaker 3: the sound, but I had no idea what that song

26:29 Speaker 3: was going to sound like, which was great, you know,

26:31 Speaker 3: it was a surprise. I was like, oh, this is

26:32 Speaker 3: a cool, cool style. And it turns out this producer

26:35 Speaker 3: has worked with you know, so many big names from

26:37 Speaker 3: Springsteen to you know, Pearl Jam to just like the

26:39 Speaker 3: top names.

26:40 Speaker 8: You were you were in good hands.

26:43 Speaker 3: So that turned out great.

26:45 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome.

26:47 Speaker 9: Yeah.

26:47 Speaker 8: If you are just joining us, Eli Love is here

26:49 Speaker 8: with us in studio. You want to play another one? Yeah,

26:51 Speaker 8: let's do it down near another one?

26:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, This one's from Present Journey. It's called they say. Okay,

26:56 Speaker 3: this just won an award for a songwriting competition for

26:59 Speaker 3: the North East Folk Oh congratulation folk lines. Yeah, so uh,

27:04 Speaker 3: and it's I feel like it's a very special song.

27:06 Speaker 3: And I don't write songs for awards, but it's very

27:09 Speaker 3: nice when they happen. So yeah, here's a here's an

27:13 Speaker 3: award winning song for y'all. It's called they Say, And

27:16 Speaker 3: it's about all the advice that I got when I

27:18 Speaker 3: was young, and how it was.

27:19 Speaker 8: All wrong interesting interesting, Okay.

27:22 Speaker 3: Maybe not like totally wrong, just like not one hundred

27:25 Speaker 3: percent right understood, and I had to find my own

27:28 Speaker 3: my own kind of advice.

27:29 Speaker 9: All right, Very good, we go, they say, get.

27:41 Speaker 3: Rich so I can buy all that I want, but

27:46 Speaker 3: I've got all the smiles that I need.

27:50 Speaker 9: They say, get.

27:51 Speaker 3: Famous so everyone will know me. That sounds like a

27:57 Speaker 3: movie I don't want to see. They say, get smart.

28:03 Speaker 12: So I can.

28:04 Speaker 3: Solve any problem as if there.

28:09 Speaker 8: Go away.

28:11 Speaker 3: They say go hard, but I'm a softy deep inside,

28:17 Speaker 3: and I don't feel like hiding anymore. They say be nice,

28:27 Speaker 3: but I'd rather be kind.

28:30 Speaker 12: And be there for those who are any.

28:34 Speaker 3: They say, you got to think twice. Maybe we should

28:37 Speaker 3: think a little more about how we treat the world

28:42 Speaker 3: that we call home. They say, settle down, but I

28:48 Speaker 3: ain't one for settling, so I'll just keep on chasing

28:53 Speaker 3: my dreams. They say go up.

28:58 Speaker 1: As if to give them.

29:01 Speaker 3: But I ain't taking those pills anymore. And you gotta

29:16 Speaker 3: enjoy that's overflowing. They say, don't give it away, but

29:22 Speaker 3: I'll do it anyway. They say, it get real when

29:30 Speaker 3: the truth is in value.

29:33 Speaker 12: No one really knows.

29:35 Speaker 3: How f that's how it is, that, how it's always been?

29:43 Speaker 1: What about how.

29:45 Speaker 10: It could be?

29:48 Speaker 3: Nothing's enough? There's new voice is talking. Those are the

29:54 Speaker 3: ones that I want to hear. Get They say too much,

30:04 Speaker 3: but I know who I am, so I don't listen

30:08 Speaker 3: to them anymore.

30:14 Speaker 8: I like that. I think that's probably pretty relatable too

30:18 Speaker 8: for a lot of people.

30:20 Speaker 3: I got to find our own path, you know, make

30:21 Speaker 3: our own advice, let their own lessons.

30:23 Speaker 8: That's right. Eli Love is here with us in studio.

30:25 Speaker 8: They say, is what that's called? That's really good? That's

30:28 Speaker 8: really good. Do do you run into that? Where do

30:31 Speaker 8: you play shows and people come up to you and say,

30:33 Speaker 8: you know, that song really resonated with me. I feel

30:35 Speaker 8: like your songs just generally are very sort of relatable

30:39 Speaker 8: and tap into things that that most people probably experience

30:42 Speaker 8: at some point.

30:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Matt.

30:43 Speaker 10: Yeah.

30:44 Speaker 3: No, I get amazing messages online and at shows and emails,

30:50 Speaker 3: and I'm very connected with my fan base. The fan

30:53 Speaker 3: base are called the levitators. Eli Love levitators. Yes, so

30:59 Speaker 3: you know to me, they're kind of like family. Yeah,

31:02 Speaker 3: I do, you know, live streams every Friday.

31:04 Speaker 6: You know.

31:04 Speaker 3: My emails are not like newsletters, they're like conversations. Yeah,

31:10 Speaker 3: and you know, my social media presence is also like that.

31:13 Speaker 3: So I get to I get to get I get

31:15 Speaker 3: to get to know people, which is nice. And yeah,

31:20 Speaker 3: a lot of them, like you know, one one levitator

31:24 Speaker 3: sent me about that song. She's like, you know, I

31:25 Speaker 3: was in the hospital coming from surgery and that song

31:28 Speaker 3: got me through surgery. I've had levitators that are like

31:32 Speaker 3: I had a song called Move as You Do on

31:37 Speaker 3: on my pandemic EP and it's about living life on

31:41 Speaker 3: our own timelines. Yeah, and not being feeling rushed. And

31:45 Speaker 3: I had a levitator contact me and she says, Eli,

31:47 Speaker 3: I'm seventy six and I got married for the first time. Wow,

31:52 Speaker 3: and your song inspired me to do that. And I

31:56 Speaker 3: was just like, oh.

31:57 Speaker 8: My god, yeah, door, thank you.

32:01 Speaker 3: She's like, yeah, that was the that was the song

32:03 Speaker 3: that me and my husband had for my wedding and

32:05 Speaker 3: it's my first marriage, and thank you for the courage

32:08 Speaker 3: to do that.

32:09 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's incredible.

32:11 Speaker 3: Stuff like that happens.

32:13 Speaker 8: Yeah, is that is that? I mean that must be overwhelming.

32:16 Speaker 3: It is overwhelming.

32:16 Speaker 8: Obviously it's positive, but can't comprehend it when that first

32:20 Speaker 8: started happening. Was it was that kind of hard at first?

32:22 Speaker 8: Like like, did you feel overwhelmed by it? Like the

32:25 Speaker 8: first time someone said something like that to you?

32:27 Speaker 3: Well, I mean it started making sense. It's like, these

32:29 Speaker 3: songs literally save me, save my soul, so why wouldn't

32:34 Speaker 3: they also help other people in some similar situations. Yeah,

32:39 Speaker 3: and uh yeah, oh my gosh. There's just one story,

32:42 Speaker 3: maybe like four years back, and I was on Way

32:45 Speaker 3: Out West from Four Directions. I had this song called

32:47 Speaker 3: oh my Lord okay, and it's about you know, finding

32:50 Speaker 3: you know, divinity whatever that is for folks in nature

32:54 Speaker 3: and feeling kind of held by that. One of my

32:57 Speaker 3: fans was like, ELI, have to let you know that.

33:00 Speaker 3: I gave my friend your Way Out West CD and

33:03 Speaker 3: she put in her kind of like bedside CD thing

33:06 Speaker 3: and she's having a lot of trouble with her life

33:08 Speaker 3: and she wanted to end her life.

33:12 Speaker 8: Wow.

33:12 Speaker 3: And she was playing that CD and she had like

33:16 Speaker 3: this is wild to say this, but you know, she

33:18 Speaker 3: was about to do that.

33:19 Speaker 8: Wow.

33:20 Speaker 3: And she was playing that city and your song oh

33:22 Speaker 3: my Lord came on and she heard a voices said like,

33:26 Speaker 3: you know, don't do it. Yeah, thing like that.

33:28 Speaker 8: It's like, what Wow, that is wild? Wow. Yeah.

33:33 Speaker 3: And you actually know that like a song might have

33:38 Speaker 3: saved somebody's life. Yeah, you know what I mean.

33:41 Speaker 8: That's incredible.

33:42 Speaker 9: Wow.

33:42 Speaker 2: Yeah.

33:43 Speaker 3: And then I feel like there's like a there's a

33:45 Speaker 3: channel there that we can enter, and there's different lessons

33:50 Speaker 3: and different things for different folks listening to the song. Yeah,

33:53 Speaker 3: you know, I love that. I love how it can

33:55 Speaker 3: be different things for different people. So just powerful stuff.

33:58 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, by the way, you CDs, I'm curious. This

34:01 Speaker 8: is a subject that has come up a lot on

34:02 Speaker 8: the show recently, especially Yeah, physical media. Yeah, because I've

34:07 Speaker 8: been talking about how I don't know, maybe five six,

34:10 Speaker 8: seven years ago. It all becomes a blur. But there

34:12 Speaker 8: was a point, because I've been doing this a long time,

34:14 Speaker 8: there was a point where most of the guests, probably most,

34:17 Speaker 8: we're not doing CDs at all. There was a period

34:20 Speaker 8: where everybody was like, no, we're just you know, Spotify

34:23 Speaker 8: is it and and and other streaming services, and we're not,

34:27 Speaker 8: We're not doing CDs. And then recently especially it seems

34:31 Speaker 8: like there's a real commitment to physical media as well

34:34 Speaker 8: as streaming. Obviously streaming is still the number one thing

34:36 Speaker 8: that's the most important. But has that always been important

34:40 Speaker 8: to you to release physical media?

34:42 Speaker 3: It has been. It makes it feel more tangible. Yeah,

34:46 Speaker 3: And the way my physical media is set up is

34:48 Speaker 3: like each EP goes together. Okay, design the four directions

34:53 Speaker 3: all Rose East is Butterfly Flowers Deep South as Pine

34:55 Speaker 3: Needles Way, out west as finnel seeds true North of Sticks,

34:58 Speaker 3: and you put them all together and there's this mandala.

35:01 Speaker 8: Oh okay.

35:01 Speaker 3: So it's very important for me because it is actually

35:04 Speaker 3: part of the art, is the physical part and how

35:07 Speaker 3: they all work together, same thing for three worlds. When

35:09 Speaker 3: you put them all together, they create a design.

35:12 Speaker 8: Okay.

35:13 Speaker 3: And honestly, Matt like, tons of people still buy CDs

35:17 Speaker 3: and vinyl is one of my biggest sellers.

35:19 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, so you do vinyl.

35:21 Speaker 3: I do vinyl, I do CDs, I do streaming, I

35:23 Speaker 3: do band camp. It's like people have different modalities that

35:26 Speaker 3: they enjoy, so as an artist, I have to do

35:28 Speaker 3: all of them.

35:29 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, now that's for me. That's one of the

35:33 Speaker 8: really interesting things over time is seeing how technology changes

35:37 Speaker 8: and how you know, sometimes people predict technology that's going

35:41 Speaker 8: to go away that manages to hang around and in

35:43 Speaker 8: some instances even have a resurgence and and like vinyl,

35:48 Speaker 8: and I'll hear people say all the time too, oh

35:50 Speaker 8: vinyl it you know, vinyl went away, but it came back,

35:52 Speaker 8: and it's like, well, no, it never went away. There

35:54 Speaker 8: was never a point where at the very least at

35:56 Speaker 8: the minimum, major labels were still releasing music on vinyl, right,

36:00 Speaker 8: you know, very limited distribution obviously, But now I think

36:05 Speaker 8: it was either twenty two or twenty three. I read

36:07 Speaker 8: that it was the first year that vinyl actually outsold CDs. Wow,

36:12 Speaker 8: since CDs became the primary totally makes sense delivery mode

36:15 Speaker 8: because but my theory is too that most people and

36:18 Speaker 8: I haven't seen any statistic on this, and I never will,

36:20 Speaker 8: I'm sure, but I think most people who buy vinyl

36:22 Speaker 8: probably never actually play it because if you're really into

36:25 Speaker 8: an artist, if you're a big fan, you want the

36:27 Speaker 8: vinyl because you want to be able. Like Jenny has

36:30 Speaker 8: been decorating the office slash studio that we have set

36:33 Speaker 8: up at home with with vinyl because we have guests

36:36 Speaker 8: who occasionally will give us vinyl and then we you know,

36:38 Speaker 8: we mount the car on the wall. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

36:42 Speaker 8: I don't have a record player at home and I

36:44 Speaker 8: don't intend to buy one, although we have one. We

36:46 Speaker 8: actually have one here in studio. One of the other

36:49 Speaker 8: hosts brought one in and said, whoever wants to use

36:51 Speaker 8: it can, and we have a CD player here too,

36:53 Speaker 8: but I think I think the only one who uses

36:55 Speaker 8: it is Rob as a Vedo he has to show

36:56 Speaker 8: here called gran state of Mind. But but yeah, but

36:59 Speaker 8: I think you're right. You know, people like something tangible.

37:02 Speaker 9: Yeah.

37:02 Speaker 8: When I was growing up, it was always such a

37:04 Speaker 8: kick too. If I was really into an artist, I

37:06 Speaker 8: would look at the liner notes. Yeah, and if I

37:08 Speaker 8: was a big fan, I'd want to know everything, like

37:10 Speaker 8: even just like like the name of their management company

37:13 Speaker 8: and you know, just all that kind of stuff.

37:15 Speaker 3: Lyrics, the musicians, yeah, the production company.

37:18 Speaker 9: Yeah. I love.

37:19 Speaker 3: When I did the vinyl, I made sure to put

37:21 Speaker 3: all the lyrics and the liner notes and like this

37:23 Speaker 3: kind of like photo insert because I just love that.

37:25 Speaker 12: Yeah.

37:25 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely it's out there. Absolutely. You want

37:29 Speaker 8: to play another one? Sure to hear more. Yeah awesome

37:32 Speaker 8: if you're just joining us. ELI loves here with us

37:34 Speaker 8: live and studio. Is it weird singing this early?

37:39 Speaker 3: It would be if I didn't know what I was doing. Yeah,

37:42 Speaker 3: So every morning before I come to the studio, Yeah,

37:46 Speaker 3: got do a little run, Yeah, gotta drink a lot

37:48 Speaker 3: of water yep, to my vocal warm ups, yep, do

37:52 Speaker 3: some jumping jacks and get my voice formed up. Yeah,

37:56 Speaker 3: because otherwise it would not be as good as a

37:59 Speaker 3: show as is right now.

38:00 Speaker 8: Your voice would be cracking like minus.

38:03 Speaker 10: Yeah, you got it.

38:05 Speaker 3: Well, I love to sing a song. This is called

38:06 Speaker 3: that universal song. We're talking about music being the universal language.

38:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, I like this one a lot.

38:12 Speaker 3: This is from present journey.

38:13 Speaker 8: Okay, here we go.

38:17 Speaker 3: I was on a train in the middle of the city.

38:22 Speaker 3: Saw girls sitting on the floor with their headphones on.

38:26 Speaker 3: She was humming a tune, looking as happy as she

38:29 Speaker 3: could be, nodding the head and closing her eyes and

38:34 Speaker 3: singing the song she was singing, and the song came

38:40 Speaker 3: through the window. Now everyone's humming alone. No, no, no, no.

38:50 Speaker 10: She got everybody singing.

38:54 Speaker 12: That universal song.

39:02 Speaker 9: Here we go.

39:06 Speaker 3: I was on a cruise in the middle of the ocean.

39:11 Speaker 3: I was sitting alone at a table for two. The

39:16 Speaker 3: band was on a break because the singer he was late.

39:20 Speaker 3: But the second he got on stage started singing that

39:23 Speaker 3: same too. He was singing, and.

39:29 Speaker 12: Everyone got on the dance floor.

39:33 Speaker 3: They were shaking the hips, moving alone.

39:39 Speaker 1: You got everybody.

39:43 Speaker 3: Singing that universal song. Let's bring the aliens. We're about

39:50 Speaker 3: to get unleashed.

39:51 Speaker 10: Here here we go.

39:55 Speaker 3: Well, I read on the news today that they made

39:58 Speaker 3: contact without a space a transmission was coming in loud

40:03 Speaker 3: and clear, and all the scientists and linguists and astrophysicists

40:09 Speaker 3: try to decipher the sound that was coming into their ears,

40:14 Speaker 3: and all their.

40:15 Speaker 12: It was no, no, no, no no. And they started

40:19 Speaker 12: shaking their shoulders too. No no, no, no no.

40:23 Speaker 3: They all agree that that's what we should do, everybody

40:28 Speaker 3: in the world.

40:29 Speaker 1: And they got the hands up in the air.

40:36 Speaker 12: No none.

40:37 Speaker 14: Now, everybodies getting along because the bigbodies singing.

40:47 Speaker 3: That universal song.

40:51 Speaker 12: They're singing no no, no no, just like that. No

40:58 Speaker 12: no no, no, no.

40:59 Speaker 3: No one more time for the road.

41:01 Speaker 9: Here we go.

41:02 Speaker 1: No no, no no no.

41:11 Speaker 8: Mmmm I love it. I love that.

41:13 Speaker 1: One's fun.

41:15 Speaker 3: That is a funny one.

41:17 Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely. Eli Leve is here with us in studio.

41:20 Speaker 8: We should mention too, there's a cool video for that.

41:23 Speaker 9: There is.

41:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got a lyric video for that. And a

41:27 Speaker 3: lot of these videos, a lot of these songs have

41:28 Speaker 3: some awesome videos to them.

41:30 Speaker 8: That is that important from your perspective to lyric videos.

41:33 Speaker 8: I feel like that's a really strong tool as far

41:35 Speaker 8: as distributing music and marketing on especially on YouTube. Obviously.

41:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, what happens is there's a huge international audience, so

41:44 Speaker 3: you know, on Spotify, people listening to the music all

41:46 Speaker 3: over the world. Yeah, and let's say let's go to

41:49 Speaker 3: like India for example. So imagine you're a you know,

41:52 Speaker 3: twenty twenty one year old guy listening to Spotify. You

41:55 Speaker 3: hear this American you want to learn English, and you

41:58 Speaker 3: go to YouTube, yeah, and you find the lyric video

42:02 Speaker 3: of these songs. So, sure enough, my top songs on

42:05 Speaker 3: streaming are the top songs of the lyric videos because

42:09 Speaker 3: people online to YouTube, listen to the lyric videos learn English.

42:13 Speaker 8: That never occurred to me.

42:14 Speaker 3: And a massive international audience on YouTube for those Yep.

42:18 Speaker 8: I'll be damp. So that never never occurred to me.

42:21 Speaker 8: That's so interesting.

42:22 Speaker 3: You did it to me. Then I realized it's like,

42:23 Speaker 3: wait a second. Most of these folks are from Korea

42:26 Speaker 3: or India or Brazil or I mean, yeah, they're English

42:28 Speaker 3: speaking people who like lyric videos. Yeah, but a lot

42:31 Speaker 3: of it is folks outside of the US and the

42:34 Speaker 3: UK and even Australia who want to learn the song

42:38 Speaker 3: how to sing along.

42:39 Speaker 8: Oh that's cool. Do you think that's contributed to your success,

42:42 Speaker 8: your ability to be able to tour internationally.

42:46 Speaker 3: I think it has a little bit not as much

42:48 Speaker 3: as you'd think, you know, not as much as I

42:51 Speaker 3: would think, but I think that it has helped a

42:54 Speaker 3: lot to build an international audience. Yeah, and the fact that,

42:59 Speaker 3: like I, you know, on streaming, I really do concentrate

43:02 Speaker 3: on international audiences as well. Even though the US is

43:05 Speaker 3: like top listenership by far, it's still nice to have

43:09 Speaker 3: you know, people in Australia and South Africa and you know,

43:12 Speaker 3: Middle East, all over Europe and Germany, and that, you know,

43:16 Speaker 3: my levitator's community is very international, which is awesome.

43:19 Speaker 8: Yeah, that is that is that's really cool. Yeah, what

43:23 Speaker 8: is there? Is there anyone you've heard from who's particularly

43:26 Speaker 8: surprised you geographically like where you said, wow, I wouldn't

43:29 Speaker 8: have a fan. There really anyone who's surprised.

43:33 Speaker 3: See, like we we forget how interesting streaming is. But

43:37 Speaker 3: I will go on Spotify and you see your monthly listeners,

43:40 Speaker 3: and you go all the scroll all the way down,

43:42 Speaker 3: and you will I find countries that I just never

43:44 Speaker 3: heard of before, Like I didn't even know exist, these

43:47 Speaker 3: countries exist. There are people in these countries listening to

43:51 Speaker 3: this music. I mean, like you know, like far out

43:53 Speaker 3: places like you know, Tonga, Fiji, you know, Siberia, like

43:58 Speaker 3: just Monaco, you know, you name it, the Falcon Islands. Yeah,

44:03 Speaker 3: just like random stuff.

44:05 Speaker 8: Wow.

44:05 Speaker 3: And there's like, you know, okay, one or two or

44:07 Speaker 3: three listeners there Mongolia. Twenty people listen to my music

44:10 Speaker 3: in Mongolia.

44:12 Speaker 9: You know what is that?

44:13 Speaker 3: What is that scene?

44:14 Speaker 14: Yeah?

44:14 Speaker 3: Can you imagine what that scene would be? I can't, right, right,

44:18 Speaker 3: but it's amazing just to know that there are, you know,

44:20 Speaker 3: lots of lots of folks out there that are enjoying

44:22 Speaker 3: the music.

44:23 Speaker 8: Yeah, and there are probably people who are sharing it

44:25 Speaker 8: with like in the in the case of you know,

44:27 Speaker 8: twenty listeners in Mongolia, Yeah, you know, they're they're they

44:30 Speaker 8: probably all know each other and they're sharing you know, hey,

44:32 Speaker 8: check this out. Check this guy out. You know, I

44:34 Speaker 8: really like what he's doing. And that's so cool.

44:37 Speaker 3: That is that is say what you want about streaming,

44:39 Speaker 3: and I get it. You know, it's like, you know,

44:40 Speaker 3: it's it can be us. It's it's a big change. Yeah,

44:44 Speaker 3: but I consider streaming just as like a discovery tool. Yes, oh, absolutely,

44:50 Speaker 3: that's all it is.

44:51 Speaker 8: Absolutely somebody has been sharing out. I kind of wanted

44:56 Speaker 8: to this thing on social media about you know by

45:02 Speaker 8: physical media, you know, which we talked about earlier, in

45:04 Speaker 8: the importance of that to support these artists, And there's

45:07 Speaker 8: so much of if I if I knew a place

45:10 Speaker 8: where I could pull it up quickly, I would. But

45:12 Speaker 8: there's a bout maybe you've seen it. There's a bunch

45:14 Speaker 8: of stuff in there about how about how it's so

45:15 Speaker 8: important to support artists through by physical media. But then

45:21 Speaker 8: there's this thing at the end about you know, only

45:23 Speaker 8: by by physical product, don't don't stream stop streaming, And

45:28 Speaker 8: then it's like, oh, it had me all the way

45:29 Speaker 8: till you get to the end. But then when we

45:30 Speaker 8: get to the end, it's like, well, no, don't stop streaming.

45:33 Speaker 8: I mean, I'll tell you too, And I can appreciate

45:37 Speaker 8: because so I'm generation X. So my my generation is

45:40 Speaker 8: the last. We're the last people to grow up completely

45:44 Speaker 8: no Internet, right are you?

45:47 Speaker 3: So?

45:47 Speaker 8: I remember vividly, as I guess you do too, what

45:50 Speaker 8: it was like pre Internet. Different, And don't get me wrong,

45:54 Speaker 8: I have wonderful memories of going to music stores and

45:56 Speaker 8: flipping through finding vinyl, finding CDs, finding stuff. But I

46:01 Speaker 8: wouldn't trade what we have now to go back to

46:03 Speaker 8: that ever. I mean because now we live in a

46:05 Speaker 8: time where it's almost like it's almost even hard to

46:08 Speaker 8: believe that it used to be the way it was,

46:11 Speaker 8: because now you can hear anything at any time, anything

46:14 Speaker 8: you want to. I mean, we're so spoiled compared to

46:16 Speaker 8: what it was growing up.

46:18 Speaker 3: You know, you remember mixtapes, of course, you know.

46:21 Speaker 8: Oh, I vividly remember taping off of the.

46:24 Speaker 3: Radio, absolutely and taping other tapes on other tapes and

46:27 Speaker 3: writing all the names on the back, giving it to

46:29 Speaker 3: someone being like, this is so much I care about you.

46:32 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, speaking words, but I can share it in

46:34 Speaker 3: music all that stuff.

46:35 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, So I love the way it is now.

46:39 Speaker 8: I think it's better, and I understand people get nostalgic,

46:42 Speaker 8: and you know, I see people I call it old

46:44 Speaker 8: man syndrome. I see people online on social media all

46:47 Speaker 8: the time, my age and younger, you know, doing this

46:50 Speaker 8: thing like back in my day, we actually bought music

46:53 Speaker 8: instead of just streaming it. It's like, yeah, I know,

46:55 Speaker 8: but yeah, things evolve and it is better now.

46:58 Speaker 9: Yeah.

46:59 Speaker 3: I remember tape players. I remember the cassettes breaking and

47:03 Speaker 3: trying to take them together and winding them up with pencils,

47:06 Speaker 3: and I remember CDs when they didn't have the automatic

47:08 Speaker 3: skip function, so you had to like hold the CD

47:11 Speaker 3: player put it on. You couldn't move the skip, but

47:16 Speaker 3: CDs would scratch and it would very easily just break

47:19 Speaker 3: and not work. And like four months listening to a

47:23 Speaker 3: CDs like, oh, well there that goes. So it's interesting

47:26 Speaker 3: and you know, there is trade offs, but I think

47:30 Speaker 3: it's just you know, as an independent artist, it's important

47:33 Speaker 3: to just roll with it, you know, like roll with

47:35 Speaker 3: the times. Like, okay, streaming is there, people are going

47:38 Speaker 3: to stream. Let's use that as a discovery platform and

47:41 Speaker 3: then invite them into my community through the levitators, through

47:45 Speaker 3: live streaming, have CDs, have vinyl, have all the things,

47:49 Speaker 3: and actually go to their countries and perform for them

47:53 Speaker 3: so they get to you know, and they wouldn't never

47:55 Speaker 3: have known that I existed without streaming, exactly. It's interesting.

47:59 Speaker 8: Or the Internet, yeah, exactly. So I love the way

48:02 Speaker 8: it is now, and I think embracing just in a

48:05 Speaker 8: broader sense to embracing technology. You know, if you don't,

48:08 Speaker 8: you get left behind, you know, And that's fine.

48:11 Speaker 3: If you're cool with that, that's all right.

48:13 Speaker 9: You know.

48:13 Speaker 3: Some people are just like I don't want anything to

48:15 Speaker 3: do with it, and it's like that's great. Yeah, but

48:17 Speaker 3: like for me, it's like I would really want to

48:19 Speaker 3: utilize you know what I mean, what what the tools

48:21 Speaker 3: are available to connect with people?

48:23 Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to play one more,

48:26 Speaker 8: let's do it, all right? If you're just joining us.

48:28 Speaker 8: Eli Love is here with us in studio and.

48:32 Speaker 3: We were talking about cassette tapes. Yeah, and this song

48:35 Speaker 3: is about the good old days of mixtapes.

48:37 Speaker 8: Okay, okay.

48:38 Speaker 3: It's called singing Along for the First Time. And I

48:41 Speaker 3: got my first mixtape when I was in probably fourth grade,

48:44 Speaker 3: fifth grade. Yeah, and I had some very eclectic artists

48:47 Speaker 3: on it. You might you might remember some of these,

48:49 Speaker 3: you know. I had Bruce Springsteen, you two Fleetwood, Mac

48:52 Speaker 3: Johnny Cash, but it also had mc hammer. Oh new

48:57 Speaker 3: Kids on the Block.

49:00 Speaker 8: I giggle at mc hammer because that's a well, we

49:03 Speaker 8: won't get into it. There's a there's a long running

49:05 Speaker 8: radio bit. I'll just say this. If you go on

49:09 Speaker 8: YouTube and you type in Matt Connerton mc hammer, A

49:12 Speaker 8: whole bunch of stuff coming up.

49:13 Speaker 3: Really, Oh, I can't wait.

49:14 Speaker 8: I'll leave it at that, all right, A whole bunch

49:20 Speaker 8: of stuff comes up that's amazing.

49:21 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Chris Cross was on there. Oh yeah, so

49:25 Speaker 3: this is this is a song about my first mixtape.

49:27 Speaker 8: All right, excellent, Thanks for having me on.

49:34 Speaker 3: Y'all really appreciate the support, and thanks for giving original

49:38 Speaker 3: music a chance always. This one's called sing along for

49:44 Speaker 3: the first time. It was the age of eight when

49:49 Speaker 3: I played the tape and I heard a voice come

49:51 Speaker 3: through you singing loud and singing strong to the words.

49:57 Speaker 12: I was sanging known to the edge.

50:00 Speaker 3: The song, waking up all my senses.

50:04 Speaker 1: Untime.

50:05 Speaker 3: I'm singing along for the first time. Oh oh, Selem

50:26 Speaker 3: singing along for the first time.

50:28 Speaker 1: Shoo oo.

50:35 Speaker 3: Mm el was singing lodah. Now. I've been singing songs

50:50 Speaker 3: since I came along on radio and TV. This one's

50:54 Speaker 3: song win came on, felt like it it was just

50:59 Speaker 3: for me. Now I'm singing along for the first time.

51:04 Speaker 12: Oh oh oh.

51:13 Speaker 3: For the first time, Oh oh oh, singing along for

51:23 Speaker 3: the first time. It was Springsteen in the Street, Cash

51:27 Speaker 3: in the summer, heat, Willie on the Road, Cobaine in

51:33 Speaker 3: the cold, Steve in in my room, learning every line

51:38 Speaker 3: of that tune. When the chorus came, it was my

51:42 Speaker 3: chance to get up and start to dance away. What

51:49 Speaker 3: dance away?

51:55 Speaker 12: Why I'm sitting along for the first time.

52:09 Speaker 3: For the first time. On it was Springsteen in the Street,

52:18 Speaker 3: Cash in the summery Willie on the Road, Cobing and

52:24 Speaker 3: the Child Stevie in My Room.

52:28 Speaker 1: Then the Navy line of that too.

52:30 Speaker 3: When the corners came, it was my chance to you

52:34 Speaker 3: up and start to dance away, dance away.

52:53 Speaker 12: Now I'm sitting along for the first time.

52:56 Speaker 10: Oo ooh.

53:02 Speaker 3: Ooh, for the first time, I'm singing alone for the

53:16 Speaker 3: first time.

53:20 Speaker 8: Love it, love it, absolutely, absolutely that it's such a hit.

53:24 Speaker 15: That's such a such a hit you no one loves

53:26 Speaker 15: about your music is it just makes me feel happy?

53:28 Speaker 15: Oh thanks, love it and I need that, yes, good

53:34 Speaker 15: happy feelings.

53:35 Speaker 8: Absolutely for increasing my cortosol oh Well said absolutely absolutely. Eli.

53:41 Speaker 8: For those listening live on Saturday, we should remind people

53:43 Speaker 8: where you're gonna be tonight and tomorrow.

53:45 Speaker 9: And yeah, I'll.

53:46 Speaker 3: Be in Brookline, New Hampshire on Sunday at April House Vineyards.

53:51 Speaker 3: That starts at one thirty, okay, and then I've got

53:54 Speaker 3: some more shows up and down the East Coast. I'm touring,

53:57 Speaker 3: you know, most of the year I'll be back this

53:59 Speaker 3: way probably fall as well.

54:01 Speaker 8: Excellent.

54:01 Speaker 3: And then if people really like the music and want

54:03 Speaker 3: to connect with me online, they're invited to become a levitator.

54:07 Speaker 15: Yes, and you get great reminders when new stuff comes out.

54:10 Speaker 15: And how do I know that because I'm.

54:14 Speaker 8: I'm on there too.

54:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. Yeah, And so if you like to

54:17 Speaker 3: do that, you can just go to my website. Type

54:19 Speaker 3: in the Google machine ELI lev E L I L

54:23 Speaker 3: E V and you'll get to the website and on

54:25 Speaker 3: the bottom it says join the levitators.

54:27 Speaker 8: Excellent, excellent, outstanding. We should Uh, what do you want

54:31 Speaker 8: to end with? Well, we'll play one of the studio tracks.

54:34 Speaker 3: That's great.

54:34 Speaker 8: I don't know if you remember what you sent me.

54:36 Speaker 8: Do you have a preference?

54:38 Speaker 3: You can pick one, you can surprise me.

54:40 Speaker 8: Let's see what didn't Oh, honkey talk.

54:42 Speaker 3: True, that's a good one.

54:44 Speaker 8: That's a good one.

54:44 Speaker 3: We're gonna get done of honkeey talking, but let's see.

54:46 Speaker 8: Yeah, let's go download that. Yeah, very good, very good.

54:50 Speaker 8: And for those of you listening live on Saturday, we

54:53 Speaker 8: have Jack Lianos coming up from the Perimeter Jazz Ensemble.

54:56 Speaker 8: If I'm saying that correctly in the third hour, and

55:00 Speaker 8: we will close out this segment with this again. This

55:03 Speaker 8: is monkey talk truth. This is Eli left Eli, Thank

55:06 Speaker 8: you again, Thank you both.

55:11 Speaker 9: So far.

55:13 Speaker 1: It's been quite an adventure with you by my side.

55:28 Speaker 1: There's a part of me that goes on forever.

55:36 Speaker 10: And the willing.

55:39 Speaker 6: Two Lady shine, if I talk.

55:47 Speaker 16: Dude that we're just getting started, would you keep monkey

55:56 Speaker 16: keeping on with me?

56:01 Speaker 1: Because I try, try, try.

56:04 Speaker 16: To be opening hardy.

56:10 Speaker 1: I hope that's all right.

56:12 Speaker 3: Common And as I know, it's a long winding grow

56:23 Speaker 3: we pas and dangerous turns.

56:27 Speaker 1: The hardest part stay true. But I know when you

56:32 Speaker 1: know with me, that's all that I want to do.

56:39 Speaker 1: So far, we've built the Time Empire.

56:48 Speaker 3: In the middle.

56:50 Speaker 5: Of a wild and wondrous work.

56:56 Speaker 1: If we keep ongoing, lie, we're going with.

57:05 Speaker 3: There's no telling.

57:07 Speaker 6: How big ain I found this Couk. There's a sens

57:15 Speaker 6: my mind, laskin what's all happened?

57:22 Speaker 1: What you much to look at? Old time?

57:26 Speaker 6: Cause I'm knowing when you're with me?

57:28 Speaker 1: Up poor gone on me?

57:30 Speaker 3: All right, let's me saying our first song together. I

58:00 Speaker 3: knew that we'd be just fine.

58:08 Speaker 1: We're gonna keep on singing. Two starts.

58:16 Speaker 3: We'll stay on the run and keep on chasing daylight.

58:25 Speaker 1: It's a thing with perils and dangerous turns. The hardest

58:34 Speaker 1: bon staying at Bud. I'm know when you're with me.

58:40 Speaker 6: That's all that I want to do, all that I

58:45 Speaker 6: want to do