Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-19-25 hour 3

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0:36 Speaker 6: I'm gonna sell it hill so we can look.

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0:42 Speaker 8: And you rice.

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1:10 Speaker 4: You about the five men to see all in no,

1:13 Speaker 4: see all in no, see.

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1:18 Speaker 2: of him?

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1:46 Speaker 11: So he's got his sister that time.

1:49 Speaker 1: Man.

1:49 Speaker 7: He never gets to leave it.

1:51 Speaker 12: He's okay with it, and he's got a tube side.

1:54 Speaker 4: Noddy's everywhere he leaves here, well he leaves here. Well

1:59 Speaker 4: that's out in here.

2:03 Speaker 12: We look at your.

2:17 Speaker 10: Polish Polish, right, I love it.

2:37 Speaker 13: That is backwards down a hill and that is the

2:41 Speaker 13: Stiff Tones, and we have the Stiff Tones with us

2:43 Speaker 13: live in studio. We're going to talk with them in

2:45 Speaker 13: just a moment and they're gonna play. So really looking

2:47 Speaker 13: forward to this. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number

2:49 Speaker 13: three Newmarrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are

2:52 Speaker 13: live from the studios of w M n H ninety

2:56 Speaker 13: five point three f M and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

2:59 Speaker 13: Also so you can stream the show from anywhere, go

3:01 Speaker 13: to Matt connorton dot com, slash live and of course

3:05 Speaker 13: today is Saturday, July nineteen, twenty twenty five. Jenny is

3:09 Speaker 13: here of course at the news table. And by the way,

3:13 Speaker 13: Jenny and I are going to be later on this evening.

3:16 Speaker 13: Under the Horizon is playing at nine pm at Jewel

3:21 Speaker 13: Nightclub here in Manchester and we love Under the Horizon,

3:25 Speaker 13: So come down and say hello.

3:26 Speaker 10: It's going to be a gonna be a great show.

3:28 Speaker 10: Is that is tonight?

3:30 Speaker 13: That is tonight if you are listening live, Yeah, come

3:32 Speaker 13: say hello, come see under the horizon, and there's a

3:34 Speaker 13: bunch of Scarecrow Hill is going to be there tonight too.

3:37 Speaker 13: We've had them on the show. Another another great band.

3:41 Speaker 13: But right now, so we've got the stift Ons here

3:43 Speaker 13: with us in studio. Now, I'm going to bring these

3:45 Speaker 13: mics up. I'm using a little bit of a different

3:48 Speaker 13: microphone configuration than we usually use here, so we'll see,

3:53 Speaker 13: we'll see. Make sure I can hear everybody.

3:57 Speaker 8: Go ahead, and.

4:00 Speaker 10: Oh I can't hear you at all. I think I

4:02 Speaker 10: know why. I think I know why. Okay, let's try.

4:06 Speaker 10: Oh I hear something. I hear a lot of things.

4:09 Speaker 13: Now, okay, let's see get turned that one up, turn

4:15 Speaker 13: that one up. And oh, I wasn't strum that guitar

4:20 Speaker 13: a little bit. If you would please, actually you could both,

4:22 Speaker 13: Actually you should both strump.

4:26 Speaker 14: We came out, came out a little bit while I

4:28 Speaker 14: was sitting here.

4:29 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's okay.

4:29 Speaker 14: I think my guitar gets nervous as I am. Maybe

4:32 Speaker 14: perhaps all.

4:34 Speaker 13: Right, cool, let's do this. Let's have you, let's have

4:40 Speaker 13: you introduce yourselves. Please, Well, I guess, uh where the

4:45 Speaker 13: stiff tones.

4:46 Speaker 14: I'm sean. This is Rachel my wife, and uh, we're

4:49 Speaker 14: from I'm from southern Illinois, she's from New Hampshire. I

4:52 Speaker 14: like to joke that she exited her and exit her.

4:54 Speaker 14: It's just Dan go to jokes. We've been travel in

5:00 Speaker 14: the country for about five years, living in the back

5:03 Speaker 14: of our Cadillac hearse playing and singing for our supper

5:06 Speaker 14: and hundreds of towns all over the country.

5:09 Speaker 10: Yeah.

5:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, we quit being grown ups and I got away

5:13 Speaker 2: from Yeah, COVID trust is how I was a nurse,

5:15 Speaker 2: you know, and yeah, COVID stress, oh no doubt.

5:18 Speaker 10: Yeah.

5:19 Speaker 2: After that, we were like, what we have choices, Like,

5:21 Speaker 2: we don't have to have all this stuff.

5:24 Speaker 10: That's okay, we're on a delay. I caught it shipwreck.

5:26 Speaker 2: I was saying, ship we don't have to have all

5:32 Speaker 2: this stuff, and so yeah, whatever we can fit in

5:34 Speaker 2: the hurst, we can take with us. Yeah, so that's

5:37 Speaker 2: what we did.

5:37 Speaker 14: So that's what we did. We we kind of ran

5:39 Speaker 14: away with the proverbial circus. So we kind of call

5:43 Speaker 14: ourselves the rock and roll devible circus versus a revival. Okay,

5:47 Speaker 14: So that's basically where you take instead of just reviving something,

5:51 Speaker 14: you take the good parts of it. And you form

5:53 Speaker 14: something new with it.

5:54 Speaker 10: Okay.

5:56 Speaker 13: By the way, I just want our listeners to know too.

5:58 Speaker 13: I can confirm so the Hurst thing is not a gimmick.

6:01 Speaker 10: That is real. There's an actual hearse outside.

6:04 Speaker 2: Her name is Tanya.

6:05 Speaker 10: Oh yes, I noticed that on the license plate.

6:07 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, people think that Tanya and I'm not.

6:10 Speaker 10: I'm why, well, why is the Hurst Tanya? Why is it?

6:13 Speaker 14: Okay? So everybody, a lot of folks get a hearse

6:17 Speaker 14: and they immediately want to name it. You get Patty

6:20 Speaker 14: on the license plate.

6:20 Speaker 2: Either for this is our age showing like if you're older,

6:23 Speaker 2: then you know who Patty Hurst is.

6:26 Speaker 14: We're like, okay, well I get it. That's funny. But

6:28 Speaker 14: wouldn't it be even cooler if we got one and

6:31 Speaker 14: we switched it to her music people at Pillow name.

6:34 Speaker 3: Yeah.

6:34 Speaker 2: So when she when she was kidnapped and then she

6:36 Speaker 2: joined the People's Liberation Organization, she changed her name to Tanya.

6:39 Speaker 2: And one of our favorite bands happens to be a

6:42 Speaker 2: band named Camper van Beethoven, and they have an album

6:44 Speaker 2: called Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. On this album is a

6:48 Speaker 2: song called Tanya and it's so we have to I

6:52 Speaker 2: mean it was just meant to.

6:53 Speaker 14: Be because she used to be a funeral carriage, you know,

6:55 Speaker 14: and now she's a rock and roll rock.

6:57 Speaker 2: Now she's eleven rock and roll tor queen.

7:00 Speaker 14: Okay, okay, kind of a you know, that's kind of

7:01 Speaker 14: why that how that happened?

7:03 Speaker 10: Now?

7:03 Speaker 13: Do you so you travel all over the country. So

7:05 Speaker 13: do you have a show in the area and that's

7:06 Speaker 13: why you're you're here or how how does your tour

7:09 Speaker 13: routing work?

7:10 Speaker 2: So in July, So, I, like I said, I'm a

7:13 Speaker 2: New Hampshire native and my father and my wicked stepmother

7:17 Speaker 2: wicked being New England wicked, nobody else gets out of it.

7:19 Speaker 2: I'm like my wicked step I.

7:20 Speaker 8: Don't like her.

7:21 Speaker 2: I'm like, no, she's wicked.

7:22 Speaker 15: Good.

7:22 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, my wicked step mother. They live up here,

7:26 Speaker 2: and so we come up in July and split in

7:28 Speaker 2: stack wood and fill the woodshed and do some odds

7:30 Speaker 2: and ends and stuff to keep them, you know, going

7:32 Speaker 2: up on the hill while we're running around and okay, so,

7:35 Speaker 2: but he's from Illinois and that's where we So that's

7:37 Speaker 2: what we're up here. Yes, we do have actually a show.

7:40 Speaker 2: When we get done here, we head over to Leven

7:41 Speaker 2: in New Hampshire excellent, playing over the road house Mall,

7:45 Speaker 2: and then next week in we're over in Vermont and

7:47 Speaker 2: then then we head out.

7:48 Speaker 10: Okay, back on the road. Okay.

7:50 Speaker 13: Is it challenging that, I mean, this is an unconventional

7:53 Speaker 13: uh lifestyle, right, it.

7:58 Speaker 16: Is.

7:58 Speaker 14: It is difficult.

8:00 Speaker 2: But so it was paying a mortgage and so, you know,

8:02 Speaker 2: so just making sure the lights are turned on and

8:04 Speaker 2: raising children and you know, and just getting by and life.

8:08 Speaker 2: So it's just it's just different. It's just a different complicated.

8:11 Speaker 2: I mean, I've been just as broken, just as frustrated

8:14 Speaker 2: when I was a nurse, as a as I am

8:16 Speaker 2: as a rock goddess.

8:18 Speaker 10: That makes sense.

8:18 Speaker 2: But I you know, this today was the first time

8:20 Speaker 2: I've had to set an alarm clock.

8:21 Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, kind of.

8:25 Speaker 14: On a different time schedule now. Yeah, you play late

8:28 Speaker 14: a lot of times. Then you sleep in a little bit,

8:30 Speaker 14: you sleep until the sun warms, you up when.

8:33 Speaker 2: You want, and you wake up when you want. For

8:34 Speaker 2: the most part. Yeah, there's you know, there's also those

8:37 Speaker 2: fifteen hour drive days, you know, because you guys, you

8:39 Speaker 2: got to get there or you know the side of

8:40 Speaker 2: the road, you know, tire changes or you know, I

8:43 Speaker 2: mean there's but again, you know you have those, you

8:46 Speaker 2: have roof leaks, and you have you know things, life,

8:48 Speaker 2: life happens. We have five children between the two of us.

8:50 Speaker 2: They're grown. Yeah, so yeah, we're pretty well adapted to,

8:54 Speaker 2: you know, dealing with the litany of issues that can

8:56 Speaker 2: come up on the road.

8:57 Speaker 13: Yeah, and have you been doing this since because you

9:00 Speaker 13: said so, COVID was kind of your breaking point right

9:02 Speaker 13: as far as nursing.

9:04 Speaker 2: Well, my girlfriend passed away suddenly on me, and girlfriend

9:09 Speaker 2: like friend friend and passed away suddenly on me. And

9:13 Speaker 2: it was one of those moments where I was forty

9:15 Speaker 2: five and I was like, man, my life was already

9:16 Speaker 2: half over, and you know what am I gonna do?

9:18 Speaker 2: And so I started travel nursing and we did that

9:20 Speaker 2: for a while, trying to scratch that itch. And because

9:23 Speaker 2: I was a military brat, so I grew up moving

9:25 Speaker 2: around a lot, and I'd been stuck in Illinois for

9:27 Speaker 2: like thirty years, and so he agreed with me. Yeah,

9:34 Speaker 2: and then yeah, we started singing together because he was

9:37 Speaker 2: a musician. I met him at an open mic and

9:39 Speaker 2: I'm dominating this conversation, but anyway, and music has always

9:44 Speaker 2: been very therapeutic to me in a different kind of way.

9:46 Speaker 2: I was never a maker of music or creator. I

9:48 Speaker 2: was an appreciator. I knowsh long story, extremely long. We

9:55 Speaker 2: met an open mic and then we started playing together

9:59 Speaker 2: gosh what twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and he had to

10:02 Speaker 2: rule no girlfriends in the band, so we had to

10:05 Speaker 2: get married.

10:06 Speaker 14: If you're in a band, it's already like having three

10:07 Speaker 14: girlfriends at the same time.

10:09 Speaker 2: So we were together as friends with extraordinary benefits for

10:14 Speaker 2: the first seven years and we've been married for the

10:16 Speaker 2: last seven fourteen years together. But anyway, we had to

10:19 Speaker 2: get married so we could be the stiff tones starting

10:22 Speaker 2: to open mic thing and traveling around with the travel

10:24 Speaker 2: nursing and kind of getting you know, like a hey man,

10:27 Speaker 2: what are you doing here? Can't have a vibe and

10:29 Speaker 2: so we're like, yeah, we'll try it. And it's nothing

10:32 Speaker 2: like what we thought. And we were completely naive and

10:35 Speaker 2: we weren't that good and blessed everybody and curse everybody

10:38 Speaker 2: that really cursed. But what are you doing here? I think, Yeah,

10:41 Speaker 2: that's how you get gas money. You're either really good.

10:43 Speaker 14: Or really That was also one of our tactics later

10:45 Speaker 14: as a later as a band. I'll pass this out

10:48 Speaker 14: for any fledgling bands out there listening. Go out there

10:52 Speaker 14: and do it. And the reason for it is if

10:54 Speaker 14: you're even if you're awful like we were, eventually somebody

10:58 Speaker 14: will pay you to.

10:58 Speaker 2: Leave first, and perspective is everything and.

11:05 Speaker 14: Just start setting up camp and they'll just be like,

11:07 Speaker 14: all right, we're gonna pay you to get out of here.

11:10 Speaker 3: The toilet paper.

11:11 Speaker 10: That's right, right, very good.

11:16 Speaker 13: Well, I uh, it's it's it's gonna be hard to

11:18 Speaker 13: avoid these puns. I'm dying to hear you play, so

11:22 Speaker 13: I said to Jenny earlier. I was like, before before

11:25 Speaker 13: the sentence even made it out of my mouth, fully

11:28 Speaker 13: I started. I started to say I'm dying to see

11:30 Speaker 13: the hears. I got as far as I'm dying, and

11:33 Speaker 13: then I'm like, oh, I'm making a pun. You're very penny,

11:36 Speaker 13: but but yeah, there is a there is a legit

11:38 Speaker 13: hearse out there.

11:39 Speaker 14: Yeah.

11:40 Speaker 2: Yeah. And just for the record, the name the stiff

11:42 Speaker 2: Tones came before.

11:43 Speaker 10: The wondering about people.

11:46 Speaker 2: I just assumed, Okay, our last name is Steve, and

11:49 Speaker 2: well my mine is now adopted it okay, And so

11:52 Speaker 2: growing up his nickname was Stiffy. So the little town

11:54 Speaker 2: where we're from, everybody knows him as Stiffy. That's how

11:56 Speaker 2: I met him with true when we were when he

11:59 Speaker 2: would do the open circuit, they would call anybody you

12:01 Speaker 2: could get up there and they'd say it was Stiffy

12:03 Speaker 2: and the stiff Tones.

12:05 Speaker 14: I mean, as much as I love Tom Petty and

12:07 Speaker 14: I really do, but I don't want to be known

12:08 Speaker 14: as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I want to be

12:10 Speaker 14: like the Stones or something band, right, and it was

12:13 Speaker 14: just the two of us.

12:14 Speaker 2: So it can't be Stiffy and the stiff right, right,

12:17 Speaker 2: right right?

12:18 Speaker 3: Yeah.

12:18 Speaker 14: Very strange thing, wouldn't it.

12:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, yeah, that would be that would be yeah.

12:22 Speaker 10: Well very good. Okay, Well I I am.

12:24 Speaker 13: I'm eager to hear you play. You sound You sounded

12:28 Speaker 13: phenomenal during the soundcheck, so this is going to be

12:31 Speaker 13: killing me here.

12:32 Speaker 14: Ah, I want to play the song about a little hometown. Sure, Okay,

12:37 Speaker 14: So I guess we'll do a song for you about

12:39 Speaker 14: our little hometown. It's on our first album is about

12:41 Speaker 14: to come out in September, and it's kind of give

12:45 Speaker 14: you it's the meson scene of the album. Okay, it's

12:48 Speaker 14: kind of the just you know, it's a it's a

12:51 Speaker 14: little corner towns where it all started. There's trains, coal

12:55 Speaker 14: mines and uh industry that has gone kind of vibes.

12:58 Speaker 14: So anyways, we're this album starts. I think we'll start there.

13:01 Speaker 10: Okay.

13:02 Speaker 14: It's a song called Midwestern Town. It's just kind of

13:06 Speaker 14: a love song to your hometown kind of song.

13:08 Speaker 10: All right. The Stifftones Live in Studio.

13:36 Speaker 4: Has a story. They have to stay in in this town.

13:45 Speaker 4: Most were passing through here and faith.

13:49 Speaker 12: Had decided let them down.

13:58 Speaker 4: Have chat out to you?

14:01 Speaker 8: What time would do?

14:07 Speaker 4: God back my bags and say goodbye?

14:11 Speaker 11: Hand catch next train home?

14:13 Speaker 5: Do you.

14:15 Speaker 11: Home?

14:15 Speaker 3: To you?

14:19 Speaker 4: Mid Western Town?

14:21 Speaker 12: Western Down?

14:23 Speaker 3: Your lime? You're my home?

14:29 Speaker 4: Let me mid Western Town.

14:31 Speaker 12: In Western Town, don't let me go.

14:36 Speaker 3: You gotta let me go.

14:39 Speaker 8: Don't you let me go?

14:45 Speaker 4: You gotta let me go. This place is like a

14:54 Speaker 4: heaven on where trees they go today.

15:02 Speaker 17: I should have left you, ride away and never speak

15:07 Speaker 17: a single night.

15:10 Speaker 7: Single.

15:13 Speaker 17: But if I had half chance, I'll tell you what

15:18 Speaker 17: the time would do. Lad back my bags and say goodbye?

15:28 Speaker 11: Can catch next train home?

15:30 Speaker 1: Do you.

15:32 Speaker 11: Home?

15:32 Speaker 1: Do you.

15:36 Speaker 4: Midle Western Town.

15:37 Speaker 12: In Western Down?

15:40 Speaker 8: You're my home?

15:43 Speaker 4: You my home? Mid Western town, Western time down, you

15:51 Speaker 4: let me go, you gotta let me.

15:56 Speaker 11: Go, won't you let me go?

16:02 Speaker 4: Catalatica? Tell me baby, where it's that you usly.

16:53 Speaker 18: Tell me?

16:54 Speaker 4: Never make it out.

16:56 Speaker 7: But maybe we could share around dream share, oh dreams.

17:05 Speaker 4: Mid Western town.

17:09 Speaker 17: Down, Jumama, mod Western town.

17:20 Speaker 3: Down, let me go, you gotta let me go, let

17:26 Speaker 3: me go, you gotta let go.

17:42 Speaker 10: Oh that is so good, beautiful, that is so good.

17:46 Speaker 10: We've got the stiff tones here with us.

17:48 Speaker 13: Alive in studio, and uh, how many like, how many

17:54 Speaker 13: songs do you have? Probably quite a few at this

17:57 Speaker 13: point right in terms of original music, we do have

17:59 Speaker 13: a few.

18:01 Speaker 1: We do well.

18:02 Speaker 2: We're getting ready to release our debut album on September

18:05 Speaker 2: twenty first, hopefully.

18:07 Speaker 10: Oh I'm excellent, excellent, Yeah, And so there.

18:10 Speaker 2: There'll be nine original tracks on there in one cover.

18:14 Speaker 2: And then we have the good meat and potatoes of

18:18 Speaker 2: our second album already well in him on that largely

18:23 Speaker 2: so we've been Most of these songs that were that

18:26 Speaker 2: we're performing today and that are going to be on

18:29 Speaker 2: the album are all songs that were written either right

18:33 Speaker 2: well before Sewn and I met, or write as we met,

18:36 Speaker 2: or you know, after and so yeah, fourteen years, he

18:41 Speaker 2: and I have been kind of working on some of

18:42 Speaker 2: these same songs, but we didn't go into this with

18:45 Speaker 2: the idea that that's what we were doing, because again,

18:47 Speaker 2: I was a nurse and I was a mother, and

18:49 Speaker 2: that's what I you know. I sang with him and

18:51 Speaker 2: harmonized with him when he would practice and play because

18:53 Speaker 2: it was fun and I love to sing, you know,

18:55 Speaker 2: and I sang growing up and whatever.

18:56 Speaker 7: But like.

18:58 Speaker 2: Run away and join the circus. It's crazy now, I mean, like, yeah,

19:02 Speaker 2: I had my pH d and Karen, you know, like

19:04 Speaker 2: I had the hair cut for a while living in

19:07 Speaker 2: a hearse what no, right, Yeah, So.

19:11 Speaker 14: The one cover we do is a cover by a

19:13 Speaker 14: guy named Johnny Hickman. I want to mention that, so

19:17 Speaker 14: not all Heroes capes. So the reason it's on there

19:21 Speaker 14: is because it's it's our bat signal song and it's

19:26 Speaker 14: at the very very end of the album. So so anyways,

19:30 Speaker 14: that's kind of that was the first song. Okay, so

19:33 Speaker 14: the album actually was kind of written around the idea

19:35 Speaker 14: of putting that song at the end of the album.

19:38 Speaker 10: Yeah, why is that, like why it belong there?

19:43 Speaker 11: It's I don't know.

19:44 Speaker 14: For whatever reason. Well, Rachel probably tell you.

19:46 Speaker 2: One of the reasons is, you know, is a bad signal,

19:48 Speaker 2: you know. And when Shawn and I were first dating

19:51 Speaker 2: and becoming friends, anybody that knows us knows we know

19:53 Speaker 2: how to fight very very much. Yeah, we perfected it

19:56 Speaker 2: like it's very early on, and we'll get there's where's

20:00 Speaker 2: much brother and sister and a mother and son and

20:03 Speaker 2: and and it's like it's crazy. But when we would

20:09 Speaker 2: break up, and because we again we had five children

20:12 Speaker 2: between the two of us, it was just complicated and missing.

20:14 Speaker 2: We'd break up and he'd go home and he'd post

20:16 Speaker 2: this song on the internet because Facebook was new at

20:18 Speaker 2: the time. And I knew that I was the treacherous

20:21 Speaker 2: woman in that song. So even though he didn't write it,

20:24 Speaker 2: it was but so but I knew it was time

20:27 Speaker 2: for me to call him up because he was thinking and.

20:28 Speaker 14: Johnny, Johnny's my favorite guitar player. Without him having been

20:33 Speaker 14: a guitar player, he heard his work in the band Cracker,

20:35 Speaker 14: I would have never picked up a guitar.

20:38 Speaker 17: Yeah.

20:38 Speaker 2: I actually got to shake his hand and say it.

20:40 Speaker 2: And so he gave us his permission for this song

20:43 Speaker 2: to be or not that this song. We'ren't doing it

20:45 Speaker 2: right now, but that song to be at the end

20:47 Speaker 2: of the album. Oh okay, Yeah, and we re arranged

20:50 Speaker 2: it a little bit and but yeah, given us his permission.

20:53 Speaker 10: Very cool. Now where you might have mentioned it earlier,

20:56 Speaker 10: but where are you recording the album?

20:58 Speaker 14: Everywhere?

20:59 Speaker 10: Everywhere episode?

21:00 Speaker 14: We were as we were right in we were here

21:01 Speaker 14: listening to you guys talk about that on the show,

21:03 Speaker 14: and I was like, oh my goodness, way to the

21:04 Speaker 14: hear hear from us. So we're putting this album together

21:08 Speaker 14: in the most unconventional way you could possibly about imagine

21:11 Speaker 14: over the course of the last four years, being run

21:13 Speaker 14: around the country singing for our supper. So we started

21:17 Speaker 14: putting the album together like in different places. So part

21:22 Speaker 14: of the album, the first part of the end of

21:24 Speaker 14: the album.

21:25 Speaker 2: Firstly, we just recorded tracks of my dad's garage, of

21:28 Speaker 2: my dad's kitchen.

21:29 Speaker 14: Just the other night that we recorded for it would

21:32 Speaker 14: have happened.

21:33 Speaker 2: We we went all the way to California, southern California.

21:36 Speaker 14: To record the like the end of the album.

21:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where Backwards Down a Hill was recorded. Yeah,

21:43 Speaker 2: because when we first went out on twenty twenty one,

21:45 Speaker 2: we went out with the intention of recording this album,

21:48 Speaker 2: and at that time, Backwards Down a Hill was going

21:50 Speaker 2: to be maybe was going to be on the album.

21:52 Speaker 2: But the only thing we left that day with was

21:55 Speaker 2: Backwards Down a Hill. An education, that's right, Yeah, very good,

21:59 Speaker 2: very good education, and realization that we needed more education.

22:03 Speaker 14: And so so the back of the album is more

22:06 Speaker 14: like recorded in California. But then everything kind of goes

22:09 Speaker 14: like in a Quentin Tarantino style, everything goes backwards. After that,

22:12 Speaker 14: Backwards down a Hill, we just cursed ourselves and didn't

22:15 Speaker 14: even know it.

22:16 Speaker 3: We went in there.

22:17 Speaker 14: We recorded a version of the last song in the album,

22:21 Speaker 14: Father Winter, and it was awful.

22:23 Speaker 10: Really, Yeah, we did.

22:24 Speaker 14: The one thing that we were asked not to is

22:25 Speaker 14: to not not not ruin the song in the Chili,

22:29 Speaker 14: and so we did in the studio that it was

22:32 Speaker 14: originally recorded with the.

22:33 Speaker 2: Original engineer that recorded the original.

22:37 Speaker 11: We did.

22:37 Speaker 2: We could have fanned ourselves in front of them anymore situation.

22:43 Speaker 14: So we tucktail and we went all We drove all

22:45 Speaker 14: the way back to New Hampshire. In our hearse there's

22:47 Speaker 14: a story about paying the band the engineering change the

22:51 Speaker 14: story for a year older. But we get we make

22:55 Speaker 14: it back and then we get stranded on the mountain

22:57 Speaker 14: in the winter time.

22:58 Speaker 2: Uppear Oh my god.

23:00 Speaker 14: Yeah, So anyways we uh recomposed that song. Yeah, while

23:06 Speaker 14: we're living in a tent. Oh wow, side of the mountain.

23:09 Speaker 2: Would couldn't would stay warm?

23:12 Speaker 14: And then we went to uh, we went to uh.

23:14 Speaker 14: We recorded that with Chuck melching down.

23:16 Speaker 2: And in New Market where I got kicked out of

23:19 Speaker 2: the first grade.

23:20 Speaker 14: So Father Winter was recorded here in New Hampshire. It's

23:24 Speaker 14: the last last last track on the album. Okay, So

23:27 Speaker 14: I know it's a lot of discon convuluted story, but

23:29 Speaker 14: all ties into a big theme.

23:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're from a movie.

23:33 Speaker 14: Yeah there's a movie, or at least a really uh seedy,

23:37 Speaker 14: grainy YouTube video.

23:41 Speaker 10: Started you what your role is like?

23:46 Speaker 14: Man, I'm hovered on the button.

23:50 Speaker 2: Okay.

23:51 Speaker 10: Anyway, by the way, I do have to ask, why

23:53 Speaker 10: did you get kicked out of the first grade?

23:55 Speaker 14: Oh boy? This is glorious?

23:56 Speaker 10: Is Yeah?

23:57 Speaker 14: She was on an army brap. Go ahead, Rachel, tell

23:59 Speaker 14: the story.

23:59 Speaker 2: It's really it's not that good. So I was, I

24:02 Speaker 2: was in military, brought my birthdays in October when we

24:05 Speaker 2: moved to Germany and and they let you start kindergarten

24:09 Speaker 2: at like age four over there, yeah forgotten.

24:11 Speaker 10: Yeah, So I.

24:12 Speaker 2: Finished kindergarten where they originally originated it, and it came

24:16 Speaker 2: back to the US and they let me start the

24:19 Speaker 2: first grade. And then they realized I didn't meet the

24:21 Speaker 2: age requirement. They sent me home with a note pinned

24:24 Speaker 2: to my shirt telling me that I was not allowed

24:28 Speaker 2: to come back anymore.

24:28 Speaker 12: I was.

24:29 Speaker 2: I loved school.

24:30 Speaker 8: I was so mad.

24:31 Speaker 10: I was wow.

24:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, and then I was traumatized after that.

24:37 Speaker 10: Yeah, I can imagine.

24:40 Speaker 14: Wow.

24:40 Speaker 10: Well, on that note, we want to play another song?

24:43 Speaker 10: You want to hear you want to play another one.

24:45 Speaker 10: I'm not to hear another one, Okay, So I can't.

24:48 Speaker 10: I can't even help it. I literally just said it.

24:50 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, give me the second week, give it a

24:54 Speaker 14: little too.

24:55 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, we'll play one.

24:57 Speaker 14: Rachel can talk about this one if she wants. But

24:59 Speaker 14: this is we're gonna do called starting over. And if

25:01 Speaker 14: you're old, if you're you're old enough to have had

25:03 Speaker 14: to do this before.

25:05 Speaker 2: So I tell you this song is. We released it

25:08 Speaker 2: as a demo version on Backwards down Hill, so there

25:10 Speaker 2: is a B side out there. It's a demo and

25:13 Speaker 2: I recorded it in southern California, and the reason why

25:15 Speaker 2: we had to come to New Hampshire re recorded it

25:16 Speaker 2: is because when I recorded it and sounder in New Hampshire,

25:19 Speaker 2: I didn't realize till we got back here that was Stotova.

25:22 Speaker 2: I was like, what I'm like, I'm not. I haven't

25:25 Speaker 2: lived in New Hampshire since Ye, this is where I

25:27 Speaker 2: learned how to speak. But yeah, since so I had

25:28 Speaker 2: to come back to New Hampshire so I could re

25:30 Speaker 2: record it, Chuck Melchin, and so I could start over,

25:35 Speaker 2: starting over. But the one that's on the internet right now,

25:38 Speaker 2: I'm stott Ova.

25:41 Speaker 12: Yeah.

25:42 Speaker 2: So, and then the other side of this story song

25:45 Speaker 2: is the internet version is explicit. We won't do the explicit.

25:49 Speaker 10: Version today, thank you.

25:50 Speaker 2: But it's a beautiful song about starting over and if

25:54 Speaker 2: you're gonna, you know, do it, you might as well

25:57 Speaker 2: do it big. So the F word is all through it.

26:00 Speaker 10: I said, yeah, but not this time, but not this one.

26:02 Speaker 10: We're on an eight second to laugh your slip it happens.

26:05 Speaker 2: No, yeah, we got this one down.

26:07 Speaker 10: Okay, all right, thank you.

26:09 Speaker 14: She says that.

26:10 Speaker 10: All right. The Stiff Toones live in studio, so we're playing.

26:31 Speaker 12: Tell me to just see that.

26:35 Speaker 8: I couldn't look away.

26:39 Speaker 12: I don't know where I'm calling. It's a journey out

26:44 Speaker 12: of it and I don't know where. I'm cold.

26:50 Speaker 2: Just then, I can't stay.

26:53 Speaker 12: Now starting over, a starting over.

26:57 Speaker 16: Maybe this time I can get him starting over, I'm

27:02 Speaker 16: starting over.

27:04 Speaker 2: Maybe the time marking get here right.

27:07 Speaker 16: But I wouldn't play no list because I'm leaving with

27:12 Speaker 16: no regrance.

27:15 Speaker 12: No, I wouldn't hold children for me.

27:21 Speaker 6: Now for me, keep looking now for me, keep looking now?

27:33 Speaker 12: Tell me, did you feel that.

27:36 Speaker 16: Something's gone to change? It's been coming for so long? Honey,

27:45 Speaker 16: I can't wait.

27:47 Speaker 12: I don't know.

27:49 Speaker 8: I'll go.

27:51 Speaker 12: Just there.

27:52 Speaker 16: I can't stay and now starting over, starting over?

27:58 Speaker 17: Maybe the simmaking in it right, I'm starting over.

28:03 Speaker 12: I'm starting over. Maybe this time I can't get it right.

28:08 Speaker 16: But it's brooking, its time maybe, and it's desperate. It's

28:13 Speaker 16: hand May see, there's at least somewhere for you.

28:19 Speaker 15: Inform me, in for me, looking for me, traditional.

28:48 Speaker 12: Telling me that you hears it times taking away, come

28:55 Speaker 12: with me, hand mid because I'm living at it.

29:02 Speaker 16: I don't know I'm calling, just that I can't stay

29:09 Speaker 16: and now I'm starting over, starting over, maybe this time back,

29:14 Speaker 16: get here right. I'm starting over, starting over, maybe this sipping.

29:20 Speaker 8: Back and get it ride.

29:23 Speaker 16: But I wouldn't place opens because I'm living with no regrets. No,

29:30 Speaker 16: I wouldn't hold Joeldren for me, for me, for me,

29:47 Speaker 16: I'm starting over.

29:49 Speaker 12: I'm starting over, maybe this time back.

29:52 Speaker 8: And get here right.

29:54 Speaker 12: I'm starting over. I'm starting over, maybe this time back

29:59 Speaker 12: and right.

30:01 Speaker 16: But I wouldn't please movements because I've got no freaking regrets.

30:08 Speaker 4: No one wouldn't.

30:11 Speaker 7: For me.

30:30 Speaker 10: I love it. The Stiff Tones live in studio. That

30:33 Speaker 10: is so good. Rachel here with us. Oh, that's okay,

30:39 Speaker 10: no worries, no worries. No, you sound amazing. Is this

30:42 Speaker 10: some now? Is this the earliest in that Is this

30:45 Speaker 10: the earliest in the day that you've sung in a

30:47 Speaker 10: long time?

30:47 Speaker 14: Yeah?

30:48 Speaker 8: Probably?

30:48 Speaker 12: Yeah?

30:49 Speaker 10: Yeah? Is that is that different?

30:51 Speaker 1: Or?

30:52 Speaker 13: Because you know, sometimes somebody will will come in and

30:54 Speaker 13: they will perform and they'll say it's it's unusual, like

30:57 Speaker 13: they feel like they sound different or something, and and

30:59 Speaker 13: for a lot of people they don't notice any difference.

31:02 Speaker 2: But I think I'm a two packag day reform smoker.

31:06 Speaker 14: Yeah. Some days I get up and like, oh, I'm

31:10 Speaker 14: feeling I'm sound a rough track something yeah, and she's like, well,

31:16 Speaker 14: it's not sound like Rover on the recording.

31:21 Speaker 2: My biggest issue is just comfort.

31:23 Speaker 10: Yeah.

31:24 Speaker 2: They have really bad stage right, and then get in

31:26 Speaker 2: my head and then yeah, they'll start getting tight and pitchy,

31:29 Speaker 2: and then I start sweating and I'm like, I don't know.

31:31 Speaker 2: Whole thing is just like.

31:32 Speaker 14: If I get nervous on stage, it looks like I'm

31:34 Speaker 14: doing metaphetic means I start sweating, I'm going like really yeah, yeah,

31:38 Speaker 14: like speed racing through my songs.

31:39 Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, it's crazy doing except that you love

31:43 Speaker 2: so much but you're so scared to do.

31:44 Speaker 13: Like yeah, well, I used to play in bands, and

31:47 Speaker 13: you know, for me, the way it would always work

31:48 Speaker 13: is I'd be nervous right before, but then once I

31:51 Speaker 13: was on stage.

31:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get in it.

31:53 Speaker 10: Then then you're yeah, yeah, exactly.

31:55 Speaker 2: Like you're up there and you've got like one person

31:57 Speaker 2: just sitting there staring at you, and you're like, yeah,

32:00 Speaker 2: the whole or if it's somebody that you know.

32:01 Speaker 13: But there's value in that too, right, because on the

32:04 Speaker 13: one hand, yeah, it's you know, you feel that anxiety

32:07 Speaker 13: and whatnot. Sometimes in the moment, you might wish you

32:09 Speaker 13: didn't feel that, But then again, if that went away,

32:11 Speaker 13: wouldn't that also be kind of a bummer, because then you'd.

32:13 Speaker 10: Start to question, like, is this is this no longer exciting?

32:17 Speaker 2: That's what I learned about is tell yourself, it's not anxiety,

32:20 Speaker 2: this is this is not me being afraid. This is

32:22 Speaker 2: me being excited. And it's in that emotion you Other

32:26 Speaker 2: people tell you that that's that's fear that you're feeling

32:28 Speaker 2: that way, but they're not in your meat too, they

32:29 Speaker 2: don't actually know what you're feeling, right exactly. You get

32:32 Speaker 2: to say that this moment, I'm not afraid, I'm excited excited,

32:37 Speaker 2: ye And I'm I'm worried that I might do it wrong,

32:39 Speaker 2: but I'm gonna have so much fun that it's okay.

32:41 Speaker 2: Ye I'm gonna be have more fun than I'm gonna

32:44 Speaker 2: be scared.

32:44 Speaker 10: It's ultimately, it's a good kind of nervous, you know.

32:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, psych yourself, lie until you believe it.

32:50 Speaker 10: Right, Yeah, exactly, exactly yea.

32:53 Speaker 2: And that what they're teaching is now these days And you.

32:57 Speaker 10: Said, Rachel, you said you used to be a smoker. Yeah,

33:00 Speaker 10: how'd you quit. I'm curious because I'm a hypnotherapist.

33:02 Speaker 13: I help people quit smoking, So whenever someone tells me

33:04 Speaker 13: they used to be a smoker, I'm like, oh, how'd

33:05 Speaker 13: you quit?

33:07 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I was a nurse for eighteen years,

33:09 Speaker 2: and so there would be many and I was icey

33:11 Speaker 2: nurse and a dialysis nur, so there'd be many shifts

33:13 Speaker 2: that I would go twelve to eighteen hours without being

33:15 Speaker 2: able to smoke. So I've got some pretty good control

33:18 Speaker 2: over stuff when I have control, but I also have

33:21 Speaker 2: an inability or ability to have no control. Yeah, that

33:24 Speaker 2: being said, when we started doing running around the country,

33:28 Speaker 2: smoking as expensive and I smoked mentals and my throat

33:32 Speaker 2: started burning a lot. And then so we started smoking

33:35 Speaker 2: his cigarettes to save money, and we would share because

33:38 Speaker 2: I didn't smoke quite as much. And then we started

33:40 Speaker 2: smoking a loose leave and we were smoking out of

33:41 Speaker 2: a pipe because it was just even that cheaper. And

33:44 Speaker 2: it got down to the point where we were literally

33:46 Speaker 2: smoking the equivalent of three cigarettes a day between the

33:48 Speaker 2: two of us out of a pipe.

33:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's.

33:51 Speaker 2: Messy, it stinks only sometimes, but it wasn't nearly as

33:55 Speaker 2: pleasurable as we wanted it to be as we remembered

33:58 Speaker 2: it being when we first started SMA, and so you

34:00 Speaker 2: guys to the point that you were like you what

34:03 Speaker 2: we did is we went to we went to California.

34:04 Speaker 11: Yeah, and I bought an ounce.

34:06 Speaker 2: We for like forty dollars.

34:07 Speaker 14: We bought two three, And I thought, every time I'm

34:10 Speaker 14: gonna every time I crave a tobacco, I'm gonna have

34:13 Speaker 14: my pre roll up here and I'm just gonna smoke

34:16 Speaker 14: until I need to lay down there you go, And

34:18 Speaker 14: I did. About about a day into this process, I'm like,

34:21 Speaker 14: I'm pretty good.

34:22 Speaker 2: Yeah.

34:23 Speaker 14: Then you know, then I'm having crazy dreams occasionally.

34:26 Speaker 2: But you know, once a while, I'll be like somebody's

34:28 Speaker 2: near us and I'll take a job office because I

34:30 Speaker 2: still like that. You know, it's pretty much not enough

34:32 Speaker 2: to smoke against.

34:33 Speaker 14: Got over it.

34:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, if I lived a seventy five.

34:37 Speaker 14: Yeah, we're firing back time.

34:39 Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yea maybe that long seventy five.

34:41 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, make seventy five package.

34:45 Speaker 16: No.

34:45 Speaker 13: The thing is, though, like you were saying, once you

34:47 Speaker 13: get down now, like if you're smoking the equivalent of

34:49 Speaker 13: three cigarettes a day, it's like two of us.

34:52 Speaker 14: Like they were like what are you doing?

34:53 Speaker 7: Man?

34:54 Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, at that point it's like, yeah, you might

34:56 Speaker 10: as well just be done with it. Yeah yeah.

34:58 Speaker 13: Did you notice some like without smoking? Did it change

35:01 Speaker 13: your like for either of you? Did it to change

35:04 Speaker 13: your voices or gain twenty?

35:08 Speaker 10: Well?

35:08 Speaker 14: Yeah, so I feel I feel like my voice is

35:11 Speaker 14: husky now.

35:11 Speaker 4: That it needed to be.

35:12 Speaker 10: Oh really, I don't know for sure, but possibly. Oh

35:16 Speaker 10: that's interesting.

35:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't really noticed a difference.

35:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I'm most curious about that too. Yeah. Well,

35:23 Speaker 10: do you want to you want to play another one?

35:24 Speaker 8: Of course?

35:25 Speaker 11: Do the almost like these times?

35:28 Speaker 8: The sure?

35:31 Speaker 3: Sure?

35:31 Speaker 14: Yeah, because I mean we didn't have a game give

35:34 Speaker 14: you Yeah.

35:35 Speaker 10: Yeah, so it's good to keep it loose for this show.

35:37 Speaker 10: That's kind of how we do it anyway.

35:39 Speaker 2: We never run with a set list, we try.

35:41 Speaker 1: Yeah.

35:43 Speaker 13: Yeah, well, not not being chained to a set list

35:46 Speaker 13: that gives you some flexibility too, because you can kind

35:48 Speaker 13: of read the room and kind of figure out what

35:49 Speaker 13: you think people might want to hear and just what

35:51 Speaker 13: the vibe is, you know.

35:52 Speaker 10: Yeah.

35:53 Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately for him, I only knew a handful of

35:56 Speaker 2: songs because I was raised not allowed listening to secular music.

36:00 Speaker 2: So really, yeah, so there's a lot of songs like

36:03 Speaker 2: I have made it. I can sing, I can, but

36:05 Speaker 2: he's he's an encyclopedia of music.

36:07 Speaker 14: Yeah mm Hmmber curious, Lets do it. So this song

36:20 Speaker 14: is is kind of a song. I want to preface

36:22 Speaker 14: this with This song is about polarity, okay, and uh,

36:28 Speaker 14: getting the fear.

36:29 Speaker 2: Not picking, and it's about not picking. It's picking sides.

36:32 Speaker 14: Yeah, because but this in my world, this is a

36:35 Speaker 14: song about you can, I don't know, just love, try

36:41 Speaker 14: to love people, try to love.

36:42 Speaker 2: Your name, cushion show that kind of thing.

36:44 Speaker 14: Yeah, because it's kind of it's a friend language language.

36:49 Speaker 10: All right. Now, I look forward to it. I look

36:51 Speaker 10: forward to her in this one, just a little bit.

36:53 Speaker 10: No Worries.

36:53 Speaker 14: This is the last track that we have on the album.

36:56 Speaker 14: This is ours, and it's immediately followed by that Johnny

37:00 Speaker 14: Hickman's song.

37:00 Speaker 10: Okayed the whole album around okay.

37:03 Speaker 14: So yeah, the first song and then starting over is

37:06 Speaker 14: kind of the middle way point where you l over

37:09 Speaker 14: six track six instantly Okay. This is towards the end

37:12 Speaker 14: of the album.

37:13 Speaker 13: All right, song before I think at the doctor to

37:17 Speaker 13: be safe, no worri al right, at the sift ones

37:21 Speaker 13: live in studio.

38:13 Speaker 16: Times at all, understand these times at all.

38:18 Speaker 11: I don't understand these times at.

38:21 Speaker 12: All, Understand these times at all.

38:25 Speaker 11: One's offended, but everyone wants.

38:27 Speaker 8: To shut on.

38:29 Speaker 12: Understand there's times.

38:31 Speaker 11: At all one's offended, everyone wants.

38:34 Speaker 12: To shut on. Understand there's times at all.

38:38 Speaker 7: Look over there, don't say your fear.

38:42 Speaker 8: They're over there, they're coming here.

38:47 Speaker 4: I don't understand, just don't understand.

38:50 Speaker 8: I don't understand.

38:52 Speaker 11: I just don't understand every.

38:57 Speaker 7: Time, these times, these times.

39:07 Speaker 11: Little understand these times at.

39:10 Speaker 12: All, understand these times at all.

39:14 Speaker 11: Little understand these times at all.

39:18 Speaker 12: I don't understand these times at all.

39:21 Speaker 11: People needing forgiveness, People want to judge.

39:24 Speaker 12: I don't understand these times at all.

39:28 Speaker 11: People needing forgiveness, people want to judge.

39:31 Speaker 12: I don't understand the times at all.

39:34 Speaker 11: Look over there, don't think if they're over there, they're

39:39 Speaker 11: almost I just don't understand. I just don't understand.

39:52 Speaker 7: These times, these times, these times.

40:55 Speaker 11: I of understand these times at all.

40:58 Speaker 12: I don't understand in these times at all.

41:01 Speaker 11: Well I have understand these times at all.

41:05 Speaker 12: I don't understand these times at all.

41:08 Speaker 11: Yeah they got something, got something you want.

41:12 Speaker 12: I don't understand. There's times at all.

41:15 Speaker 11: Don't you got something that everyone wants?

41:19 Speaker 12: I don't understand theree times at all.

41:22 Speaker 14: Look in the mid don't seen here, They're always here,

41:27 Speaker 14: they're in the mid.

41:32 Speaker 11: I just don't understand. I just don't understand.

41:40 Speaker 7: There's times, there's times, these times.

41:47 Speaker 11: I have understand these times at all. I have understand

41:52 Speaker 11: these times at all.

41:54 Speaker 7: I understand these times at all.

41:57 Speaker 11: I haven't understand these times.

42:11 Speaker 10: Wow, awesome, that is so good. That's right, that's right.

42:18 Speaker 10: The stiff tones here with us live in studio sounding amazing.

42:22 Speaker 10: That was fantastic. That was fantastic.

42:24 Speaker 13: If you are just joining us, this is Matt Connorton

42:26 Speaker 13: Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w

42:29 Speaker 13: m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious a Manchester,

42:33 Speaker 13: New Hampshire. Of course you can stream us at Matt

42:35 Speaker 13: connorton dot com slash live and uh yeah, great song

42:39 Speaker 13: and yeah, very very appropriate, I would say, uh for

42:43 Speaker 13: the times that were in certainly I.

42:45 Speaker 2: Started writing that in twenty fifteen.

42:49 Speaker 14: Yeah, it was like, you know what they're gonna do always, Yeah,

42:51 Speaker 14: we're gonna get every one of us fighting each other

42:53 Speaker 14: for every damn.

42:54 Speaker 10: Yeah.

42:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So in twenty sixteen it kind of really

42:59 Speaker 2: ping got to pay and it was up here in

43:02 Speaker 2: twenty twenty when or during the COVID in twenty twenty

43:06 Speaker 2: when we really you know, you started really seeing the

43:08 Speaker 2: polarity in the country where you know, like in polarity

43:11 Speaker 2: being everything, if there's something for us to stand against

43:13 Speaker 2: each other as regular folks, all yeah, yeah, we keep

43:17 Speaker 2: picking the wrong Yeah, we keep picking the wrong person

43:19 Speaker 2: to fight with. But anyway, and so twenty twenty four

43:24 Speaker 2: is when we finally released that song and it was

43:26 Speaker 2: nominated for Song of the Year. Oh for josh for

43:29 Speaker 2: Joshua Joshua Tree, California, Oh Wow. It features Victor Krumanacher

43:34 Speaker 2: and Jonathan Tagle of Campra Van Beethoven's.

43:37 Speaker 14: Okay, so We're standing on shoulders of Giants.

43:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Kyle Mayor.

43:41 Speaker 2: Of September Morning is on the drums on that, and

43:44 Speaker 2: he also helped us do the mixing mix and then

43:45 Speaker 2: on the album, Victor and Jonathan are both on a

43:48 Speaker 2: couple of songs on that, and then we have our

43:50 Speaker 2: we have several friends and Kyle's on drums and he's

43:52 Speaker 2: helping us with the mixing in the final engineer.

43:54 Speaker 14: So we kind of went around the country getting all

43:56 Speaker 14: of our friends together to record all the different parts.

43:58 Speaker 2: The North Carolina favor it's on there. We have Illinois

44:01 Speaker 2: people on there. Yeah, anywhere we could.

44:04 Speaker 14: Be recording the garages and basements and caves and Tanya

44:07 Speaker 14: the car. Yes, it might be the first album ever

44:10 Speaker 14: have tracks recorded in Hurst. I don't know for sure,

44:12 Speaker 14: but because I mean it should be the stiff tones,

44:15 Speaker 14: I mean, I guess, yeah.

44:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there was enough Bruce sessions in there.

44:20 Speaker 2: Trying to right right anyway, how are we on time?

44:26 Speaker 3: We're good, We're good.

44:27 Speaker 10: We got probably probably do one more in a couple

44:30 Speaker 10: of minutes. I'm curious.

44:31 Speaker 13: So in terms of like I said, you know, because

44:33 Speaker 13: we talked about it a little bit earlier, this is

44:35 Speaker 13: such an unconventional approach, you know, travel in the country

44:37 Speaker 13: and rehearse and so forth and doing this. Is there

44:40 Speaker 13: anything that's really surprised you over these over these years,

44:44 Speaker 13: this news.

44:45 Speaker 14: Is a bunch of yeah, yes, that to answer your question, absolutely,

44:51 Speaker 14: you know, uh, I thought, my god, California is crazy

44:54 Speaker 14: and we're gonna get there and it's gonna be all

44:56 Speaker 14: this these things and can see on the news, right,

44:58 Speaker 14: it wasn't any of those things, right, thought the same

45:01 Speaker 14: thing about Texas. You know, oh god, Texas is going

45:03 Speaker 14: to be this way in South Kote. I can name

45:05 Speaker 14: every state that we have and every place that we've been,

45:08 Speaker 14: and you think it's going to be a way and

45:09 Speaker 14: you're like, wow, you know what, people are just people

45:12 Speaker 14: in here.

45:13 Speaker 2: So but then also the other thing though, was that

45:15 Speaker 2: each individual state really is so individuals. On the contrary line,

45:20 Speaker 2: it really like things, you know, the landscape shifts that

45:24 Speaker 2: the culture shifts, you know, And that's the other thing

45:26 Speaker 2: that is seeing all of the different cultural differences just

45:30 Speaker 2: in even traditional rural America, you know, where you don't

45:34 Speaker 2: think that you have that culture, and there's so much

45:40 Speaker 2: the eclectus melting pot of it, like the beauty, the true,

45:44 Speaker 2: true raw beauty of what America the beautiful is melting pipe. Yeah,

45:49 Speaker 2: that you can go anywhere everywhere here and see all

45:53 Speaker 2: the wonders of the world. I mean, we've been traveling

45:55 Speaker 2: for a couple of years now, we we scratch the surface.

45:59 Speaker 14: Yeah, But mostly the most surprising thing for me, as

46:01 Speaker 14: honestly is the fact that no matter how far you travel,

46:05 Speaker 14: where you go once and needs of people doesn't change.

46:08 Speaker 2: Right, right, the regular people like us, us people. Yeah, yeah,

46:12 Speaker 2: we're just regular people.

46:13 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good insight.

46:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautiful and it's good to know. There's so

46:18 Speaker 2: much fear that's created, like the sponsors, and there are

46:20 Speaker 2: there are they're legitimately bad people out there, yes, but

46:23 Speaker 2: there's legitimately good people out there. You seek, you will

46:27 Speaker 2: find what you seek. So look for the good. Be

46:29 Speaker 2: the good, Do the good, you know, And if you

46:31 Speaker 2: I mean or of being a whole, I don't care.

46:33 Speaker 8: You can be a whole.

46:33 Speaker 2: It's not up to me. Just if you want to

46:35 Speaker 2: be one over there, right, we have.

46:37 Speaker 14: We actually have a song for that too, but that's

46:39 Speaker 14: that's on the album.

46:42 Speaker 2: We wrote that up here and we actually wrote that

46:44 Speaker 2: Harley Jackson.

46:46 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. And do you have any

46:49 Speaker 10: advice for for people who not not necessarily want to

46:51 Speaker 10: buy hers, but just just for people who want to.

46:54 Speaker 15: Do what you do?

46:54 Speaker 10: You know a lot of young independent artists.

46:56 Speaker 5: I do.

46:57 Speaker 14: And I'll give you the first piece of advice that

46:59 Speaker 14: my friend Turk gave me right before we left the emotion.

47:03 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then he died and.

47:06 Speaker 14: He was young, he was all right, you know, I

47:07 Speaker 14: mean he's like he's dead. So yeah, So as your question, yeah, man,

47:19 Speaker 14: make it happen, make it happen, go for it. Do

47:22 Speaker 14: it now, not later than later.

47:25 Speaker 10: Right sure?

47:26 Speaker 8: Yeah?

47:27 Speaker 11: Man?

47:28 Speaker 10: Do you want to you want to play one more?

47:30 Speaker 14: Yeah, we'll play that one for you. So this is

47:32 Speaker 14: the end, the in the end of the album and

47:33 Speaker 14: this song okay, and this is.

47:38 Speaker 2: The name of the album. Is Existentialism on Main Street

47:40 Speaker 2: Follow you Do?

47:41 Speaker 10: Okay, it is.

47:44 Speaker 2: It's kind of we don't want to say it's a

47:46 Speaker 2: concept album, but it kind of is kind of we

47:49 Speaker 2: have to plan each song and how they're going to

47:51 Speaker 2: be in trock order and different things that they weren't

47:54 Speaker 2: written in secession or anything. But the plan is for

47:58 Speaker 2: you to put it on repeat all and when you

48:00 Speaker 2: get to the very last song, it should kick right

48:02 Speaker 2: back to the first song and you should feel like

48:05 Speaker 2: you just went on a journey that you can't want

48:06 Speaker 2: to go on again. Yeah, okay, that's that's kind of

48:10 Speaker 2: what our goal is.

48:11 Speaker 10: Okay. Nice The Stiff Tones and.

48:14 Speaker 2: I Forgot.

48:25 Speaker 1: H h.

48:38 Speaker 7: M hmm.

48:58 Speaker 14: Okay, you is our streaming up all the rich another

49:07 Speaker 14: years over.

49:08 Speaker 12: It's gone lunts that breach.

49:12 Speaker 17: I'm no here son, Well, I guess I've got friend, Well, yes,

49:22 Speaker 17: I do.

49:25 Speaker 12: Now five the winter is here and he's leaning hold me.

49:38 Speaker 6: I don't want your money and I don't want your power.

49:45 Speaker 11: I don't want your love.

49:48 Speaker 12: I ain't got time for night. I shot over unless

49:57 Speaker 12: it comes three.

50:00 Speaker 3: Mhm listen, indeed, no five.

50:06 Speaker 12: The winter is it and he's leaning call me. She

50:18 Speaker 12: steps Tom beggars for her.

50:22 Speaker 7: Yeah, she used it.

50:23 Speaker 12: Will shoot five of it tonight this soccer Lemmys five.

50:34 Speaker 12: Winter can't break your space.

50:43 Speaker 1: Mm hm hm hm.

51:22 Speaker 4: Love is a lesson. Love is a curse, depends on

51:30 Speaker 4: the lover has.

51:32 Speaker 12: A witch all his words through the seasons. I'm a

51:40 Speaker 12: sweet church. Holdy is indeed now five the winter is here.

51:52 Speaker 19: And he is leaning home mes leading.

52:04 Speaker 8: Me leaning, ho me, Well he's leaning.

52:25 Speaker 14: H h caodies scream and oh hurry.

52:44 Speaker 10: Oh that is so good. That is so good.

52:49 Speaker 13: The Sifftons live in studio here with us, uh Rachel

52:53 Speaker 13: and Shawn are here and that was amazing. Thank you

52:55 Speaker 13: so much for coming in and playing absolutely Now for

53:00 Speaker 13: our listeners who are tuning in live on Saturday, So

53:02 Speaker 13: where's your next show?

53:03 Speaker 10: Where are you off to? After this, we head to.

53:06 Speaker 2: The roadhouse, uh, powerhouse, mall yeah, over in Levin in

53:13 Speaker 2: New Hampshire four and then or two wish to four

53:17 Speaker 2: and then the following weekend we're at the Scutiny Festival

53:20 Speaker 2: over in Vermont, and then we head to New York

53:23 Speaker 2: and uh, yeah, it'll be probably next year before we

53:26 Speaker 2: back up here again, but we come. We do try

53:28 Speaker 2: to come up. Yeah, we were considering coming up for

53:30 Speaker 2: snow season and helping shovel and we did spend yeah, yeah,

53:35 Speaker 2: we spent a couple of winters up here. We did

53:36 Speaker 2: like five winters. Like when I was a travel nurse.

53:39 Speaker 2: We specifically took contracts up here so I could be

53:42 Speaker 2: you know, to help, you know with the shovel and

53:43 Speaker 2: my dad and my wicked my wickeds to that mother.

53:46 Speaker 2: I've had some you know, health issues and stuff and

53:49 Speaker 2: so dad like that flat land up Yeah, shovel snow

53:54 Speaker 2: for real.

53:56 Speaker 3: Welcome to the Mountain sun right right?

54:01 Speaker 10: Well, very good?

54:01 Speaker 13: And where should people go online to keep up with

54:03 Speaker 13: everything that you're doing. Where's the best place to go?

54:05 Speaker 2: The stiff Tones dot com. Yeah, and we're very heavily

54:09 Speaker 2: active on Facebook. Yeah, we're gen x and so that's

54:12 Speaker 2: kind of you know, that's where we fell after MySpace. Yeah,

54:15 Speaker 2: and that's where we're comfortable. Yeah, but I do we

54:19 Speaker 2: do have a website that I somewhat maintained, but our

54:21 Speaker 2: bands in Town link is on there. There's you can

54:23 Speaker 2: find links to everything, like if you're interested in your

54:25 Speaker 2: I G page and all that stuff.

54:26 Speaker 14: But you can also send hate mail at gmail dot com.

54:31 Speaker 2: Wept all hate mails.

54:34 Speaker 8: Very good.

54:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, I like my coffee suite and my male bitter

54:40 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah like that.

54:42 Speaker 10: Well, very good. Thank you so much. This has been

54:44 Speaker 10: wonderful and we are the time does go quickly.

54:48 Speaker 13: I do want to remind people too, if you are

54:50 Speaker 13: listening live on Saturday, coming up at so at nine

54:53 Speaker 13: pm tonight, Yeah, we're going to be at Jewel to

54:56 Speaker 13: see Under the Horizon and it's a it's a big event.

54:59 Speaker 10: Actually there's a three day event going on, but we're

55:01 Speaker 10: we're mainly going.

55:02 Speaker 13: To see uh see them, and that's why we're twins Today.

55:05 Speaker 13: We've got the matching Under the Horizon Shurts Uh and

55:09 Speaker 13: Uh and of course Uh Scarecrow Hill is going to

55:11 Speaker 13: be there to another great band we've had on the

55:12 Speaker 13: show and Uh, Jenny, do you want to mention your website.

55:16 Speaker 10: You've been up to a lot of stuff as usual.

55:18 Speaker 19: Man, the latest is up on the website, so go

55:21 Speaker 19: check it out at Jencoffee dot com.

55:23 Speaker 10: J E n n C O F f uy dot com.

55:26 Speaker 10: Let's see what kind of good trouble getting into good trouble? Yes, yes,

55:31 Speaker 10: and let's see.

55:32 Speaker 13: And of course, uh, if you miss any part of

55:34 Speaker 13: today's show, it will be up in just a little

55:36 Speaker 13: bit at w m n hradio dot org and at

55:38 Speaker 13: my website Matt Connerton dot com. And thank you everyone

55:41 Speaker 13: who joined us today, Lydia ready and uh Tony from

55:45 Speaker 13: Flair and again Rachel and Sean from the Stiff Tones,

55:47 Speaker 13: thank you both so much. Than this has been wonderful

55:50 Speaker 13: and that's gonna do it for us for now. We

55:52 Speaker 13: hope to see a jewel tonight.

55:53 Speaker 2: And uh go out enjoy live music.

55:56 Speaker 13: Absolutely, it's very very important and we'll we'll talk to

55:58 Speaker 13: you a little bit later by but.

56:10 Speaker 20: It's only started now. We're not at the end like

56:14 Speaker 20: you think you're gonna do it all again. We're getting

56:21 Speaker 20: older about our mind. It starts to shrink. He can

56:25 Speaker 20: just get his paper and a knife is pen. Someone

56:30 Speaker 20: finds out, so we stop to reassure them that.

56:35 Speaker 12: We haven't lost our minds. But they don't even know

56:41 Speaker 12: the half.

56:42 Speaker 2: Of what she'll do when they forget about the don't

56:48 Speaker 2: it's all a little secret ticky.

56:52 Speaker 4: It's not, it's all.

56:55 Speaker 3: And that I don't know read.

56:58 Speaker 12: Just exact till it's all scarce a.

57:05 Speaker 5: Hand again, hide so just get that high.

57:22 Speaker 2: We need to stop and think.

57:24 Speaker 4: We can't get caught this way.

57:27 Speaker 2: They'll say you're dumping the head.

57:31 Speaker 20: Don't go to your room, lock your doors and hide away,

57:36 Speaker 20: changing your skin from white to red.

57:41 Speaker 9: You got too far this time, no point did you

57:45 Speaker 9: give it up. You can't just leave it all be high,

57:51 Speaker 9: and if you try to move on.

57:53 Speaker 15: From the pat that you'll.

57:56 Speaker 7: Still have to play on the lead. It's a little

58:01 Speaker 7: secret ticking.

58:04 Speaker 5: So it's a scan and I don't know the region.

58:10 Speaker 5: Just give that exactly, it's all. It's all skin the

58:16 Speaker 5: only answer.

58:20 Speaker 10: So I just gave gout.

58:34 Speaker 8: Control.

58:34 Speaker 2: I'm so and stopped for water.

58:37 Speaker 20: Common pridle about my problem wasn't perfect for worth it.

58:40 Speaker 12: It might have been.

58:44 Speaker 8: Like I want to get him and just at.

58:49 Speaker 12: It's okay, noble guessing.

58:52 Speaker 6: The secret BETI.

58:55 Speaker 4: This st secrets K.

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