Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-14-24 hour 2

0:03 Speaker 1: Wh in this Minnie Cooper singing to myself, going through

0:11 Speaker 1: drive through after drive through, looking for some help.

0:15 Speaker 2: I'll miss my family and my girl.

0:19 Speaker 3: My friends are by my side. If you feel the

0:22 Speaker 3: beat and you're feeling men.

0:25 Speaker 2: Come on, let's ride.

0:26 Speaker 4: We need a bigger bus to get our friends on.

0:29 Speaker 4: More windows and more highs.

0:32 Speaker 5: Party in the d party in the back.

0:34 Speaker 4: We'll go sway inside to side down the highway, surrender,

0:40 Speaker 4: all wheels, go.

0:41 Speaker 5: Around and ridd I get all.

0:43 Speaker 4: The bumper stickers from all the places that we found.

0:47 Speaker 5: Need a bigger bus. We need a bigger bus.

0:59 Speaker 2: You can bring your friends. They can sing too. You

1:04 Speaker 2: can even bring your mama as long as she can

1:07 Speaker 2: hold the too. You can bring a dog and that

1:12 Speaker 2: does ease by out no wind, they will pick up

1:16 Speaker 2: theld ain't down and singing a game.

1:19 Speaker 5: We need a bigger bus to get our friends on

1:22 Speaker 5: my wind.

1:23 Speaker 4: Josh, party in the front, party in the back. We'll

1:27 Speaker 4: go sway inside to side, side down my way to

1:31 Speaker 4: the surrender. All we us go around and un mumble,

1:35 Speaker 4: get all the bumper stickers from all places that we found.

1:40 Speaker 5: Need a bigger bus. We need a big up bus,

1:51 Speaker 5: and I don't wanna fid or take the train, and

1:53 Speaker 5: she has a road call in my neck.

1:56 Speaker 2: Winter feels this good.

1:58 Speaker 6: Mona shed love, get the ball want singing a little.

2:01 Speaker 4: We need a big up bus. Do get our friends

2:04 Speaker 4: a windows in.

2:07 Speaker 7: The front, in the back.

2:09 Speaker 4: We'll go sway side to side, down where surrender all.

2:15 Speaker 5: Wheels, go out there and back home.

2:17 Speaker 4: We're just fund big out of the family.

2:20 Speaker 5: From all the big cities, all the little time. We

2:25 Speaker 5: need a big up bus.

2:26 Speaker 4: Do get our friends on them, all windows and one

2:30 Speaker 4: body in the front, body in the back.

2:33 Speaker 2: We're gonna sway inside to.

2:35 Speaker 4: Side, ride down wheels, surrenders, all wheels, go around and

2:40 Speaker 4: bid mumbo.

2:41 Speaker 5: Get all the buncle.

2:43 Speaker 8: Stickers from all places that we found.

2:46 Speaker 4: Need a big up bus. We need a big up buzz.

2:56 Speaker 5: We're gonna need a big up bus.

3:07 Speaker 9: We need a bus that is catchy as hell. That

3:11 Speaker 9: is bigger bus. We need a bigger bus. Eli lev

3:14 Speaker 9: who are going to be speaking with me in just

3:16 Speaker 9: a moment.

3:17 Speaker 7: What's up?

3:17 Speaker 9: I need a giant canvas.

3:18 Speaker 7: That's a well. Seriously, I want to go paint to that.

3:21 Speaker 7: That's so much fun. I love that great great song.

3:24 Speaker 9: This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from

3:27 Speaker 9: the studios of w m n H ninety five point

3:30 Speaker 9: three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you

3:33 Speaker 9: can stream the show at Matt connorton dot com.

3:35 Speaker 7: Slash Live.

3:36 Speaker 9: Today is Saturday, September fourteen, twenty twenty four.

3:41 Speaker 7: And let me get that mic up there.

3:43 Speaker 9: We have Eli lev with us live in studio.

3:45 Speaker 7: Hello, he yo yo yo.

3:47 Speaker 9: Sounds good, sounds good. Yeah, I love that song. This

3:50 Speaker 9: just came out relatively recently, right, President Journey the EP.

3:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, just a couple months ago. We are on the

3:55 Speaker 2: present journey right now it's happening.

3:57 Speaker 7: Yeah. You're on a big tour, right yep? How many dates?

4:01 Speaker 2: Well, really, this whole year has been a big, long tour,

4:04 Speaker 2: but this, this particular one is a fall tour, going

4:07 Speaker 2: up to Canada and back. It's about us six weeks.

4:10 Speaker 9: Okay, excellent, excellent. Now where do you Where do you

4:14 Speaker 9: go from here?

4:15 Speaker 7: Yeah?

4:15 Speaker 2: From here, I'm going to Lawrence, Massachusetts, then up to

4:19 Speaker 2: Maine and then up to Quebec, then back down be

4:23 Speaker 2: in New Hampshire again, coming back down Vermont, and I

4:27 Speaker 2: got to play in Rhode Island. I've never been I

4:30 Speaker 2: never been to Rode Island. That was last state that

4:31 Speaker 2: I had never played in. So that was pretty cool.

4:34 Speaker 7: Well it's so tiny, it's easy to miss.

4:35 Speaker 2: It's so tiny.

4:36 Speaker 9: Yeah, the last state you hadn't played in.

4:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, I've played in all US states except Rhode Island.

4:42 Speaker 7: Stop it.

4:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the That was the last one.

4:46 Speaker 9: Usually you think the last one is gonna be like

4:47 Speaker 9: Hawaii or like Alaska.

4:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, no, really, Rhode Island.

4:52 Speaker 2: Crazy good on you to be able to do that. Yeah,

4:56 Speaker 2: we live in a beautiful country. It's absolutely incredible. Being

4:59 Speaker 2: able to really get the sense of like the consciousness

5:02 Speaker 2: of folks, you know, north south east West, and been

5:05 Speaker 2: able to play tunes and and share and share moments

5:08 Speaker 2: with them. It's been cool.

5:09 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's awesome. You've been at this a while, I assume, right.

5:12 Speaker 2: No, actually, I'm a former middle school teacher.

5:15 Speaker 7: No kidding.

5:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I just I started picking up the guitar

5:19 Speaker 2: and doing this full time about six years ago.

5:21 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, yeah, I was watching I was watching another

5:26 Speaker 9: interview that you had been on a podcast. You had

5:29 Speaker 9: been on an My impression is that you're really a

5:31 Speaker 9: business minded guy and that it's important to you and

5:34 Speaker 9: I bring this up because it's a subject that we

5:36 Speaker 9: talk about a lot on the show. You know, we

5:38 Speaker 9: interview obviously a lot of musicians and other people in

5:40 Speaker 9: the industry, and something that we talk about a lot

5:42 Speaker 9: is the importance of really being kind of business minded

5:45 Speaker 9: about your career.

5:46 Speaker 2: Yeah.

5:46 Speaker 7: You know, obviously the creative.

5:48 Speaker 9: Part of it is the most important thing, and without

5:50 Speaker 9: that there is nothing else to do really with it.

5:53 Speaker 9: But but if you're not business minded about it, you're

5:56 Speaker 9: gonna have a short career or you know, you could

5:58 Speaker 9: play music all your life. But yeah, you know, if

6:01 Speaker 9: your goal is to get out on tour like you're doing, yeah,

6:03 Speaker 9: you've got to really kind of pay attention to the

6:06 Speaker 9: business side of it. And it seems like you've really

6:08 Speaker 9: got to handle on that.

6:09 Speaker 2: You brought up spreadsheets when I came in. You're like, bro,

6:12 Speaker 2: I love your attention to spreadsheets. I'm like, yes, we're

6:15 Speaker 2: going to get along just fine. Yeah. So, yeah, my

6:18 Speaker 2: spreadsheet database is insane. Like if you looked in there

6:20 Speaker 2: on my Google Drive, you'd be like, what is this

6:22 Speaker 2: guy like an astronomer? Is it taking all this information from?

6:27 Speaker 2: But yeah, I really enjoyed it.

6:28 Speaker 9: I enjoy that part was that your approach right from

6:30 Speaker 9: the beginning, when you decided to take the plunge and

6:33 Speaker 9: do this and leave being a middle school teacher behind

6:35 Speaker 9: and everything.

6:36 Speaker 2: No, but I realized very quickly that I needed it. Yeah,

6:39 Speaker 2: you know, I would even argue that in today's musical landscape,

6:43 Speaker 2: probably that side of it is more important than the

6:46 Speaker 2: creativity aspect of it. Strangely enough, interesting because there are

6:49 Speaker 2: so many talented folks out there, But how many of

6:52 Speaker 2: those talented folks are really going to like put in

6:55 Speaker 2: the time to like make a business out of it,

6:58 Speaker 2: make it organized, you know, follow up, be professional with folks?

7:02 Speaker 2: Not very many. So if if any creative can do that,

7:05 Speaker 2: you've already got this gigantic leg up, you know what

7:08 Speaker 2: I mean. And that really helped kind of like jump start, yeah,

7:12 Speaker 2: jump start my career in the Maryland area.

7:14 Speaker 7: Yeah.

7:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, Because if you don't approach it that way, it's like,

7:17 Speaker 9: you know, if the tree falls in the forest, you know,

7:19 Speaker 9: if you don't, if you don't do that part of it,

7:21 Speaker 9: then if nobody hears your music.

7:23 Speaker 2: Nobody hears it. Yeah, it's exactly it.

7:25 Speaker 9: It's funny too, because there's always people who will tell

7:27 Speaker 9: you well, I don't really care that much. I'm doing

7:30 Speaker 9: this for me. I'm not doing cool for other people.

7:32 Speaker 9: That's great, but I'm all it is.

7:33 Speaker 7: But I'm also.

7:34 Speaker 9: Always a little skeptical when I hear someone say that.

7:36 Speaker 9: It's like, really, you kind of do want people to

7:38 Speaker 9: hear what you're doing, don't you.

7:40 Speaker 10: Yeah?

7:40 Speaker 7: No, absolutely.

7:41 Speaker 2: I think music can be you know, a variety of things.

7:43 Speaker 2: Like for some folks they just like writing songs, you

7:45 Speaker 2: know what I mean. It's like a form of therapy.

7:47 Speaker 11: You know.

7:47 Speaker 2: Some folks just want to share shilly songs with friends

7:50 Speaker 2: and family. That's great. Yeah, And some folks like want

7:53 Speaker 2: to do the thing, you know what I mean. And

7:54 Speaker 2: if you want to do the thing, then it's just

7:57 Speaker 2: it's all in. Yeah, I mean, go for it.

7:59 Speaker 7: Yeah.

8:00 Speaker 9: What what was the Was there a particular moment where

8:04 Speaker 9: you made that decision to do this full time instead

8:09 Speaker 9: of continuing with your career as an educator, or was

8:11 Speaker 9: it something that you were thinking about over time, or

8:13 Speaker 9: was there was there something that kind of pushed you

8:15 Speaker 9: to say, no, I'm going to do this.

8:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna get a little spiritual.

8:19 Speaker 7: Okay, cool, that's fine.

8:20 Speaker 2: We're getting there. We're good with everything on there, all right,

8:23 Speaker 2: So come with me, Matt a beach on the west

8:26 Speaker 2: coast of Mexico, north of a town called Salulita, Okay.

8:30 Speaker 2: And it was my last semester of grad school from

8:32 Speaker 2: Masters in English, and I had a two week winter

8:36 Speaker 2: vacation and I went on Google Maps and I picked

8:38 Speaker 2: a beach in Mexican, like, I'm gonna go there for

8:40 Speaker 2: two weeks and just camp out, bring my guitar. So

8:43 Speaker 2: that's what I did. And I started playing songs, and

8:47 Speaker 2: you know, the waves started listening. You know, the trees

8:50 Speaker 2: were kind of like vibing with me. The sand was

8:52 Speaker 2: like kind of happy, and I kind of like just

8:56 Speaker 2: took a moment and I was like, hey, thanks for

8:58 Speaker 2: a great life. This has been amazing, you know, creator

9:00 Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call it. Uh, the rest

9:04 Speaker 2: is in your hands. I'm good. So you let me

9:07 Speaker 2: know what's next and I will let go and go

9:10 Speaker 2: all in on whenever that is. And you know, as

9:14 Speaker 2: things were kind of listening and getting viby, they were like,

9:17 Speaker 2: you should try this music thing, you know, try to

9:19 Speaker 2: try to sing some songs, record them and see what

9:22 Speaker 2: people think. And I recorded my first demo in Indiana

9:26 Speaker 2: six months after that, and I've been following the breadcrumbs

9:29 Speaker 2: ever since.

9:30 Speaker 7: No kidding, no kidding, that's awesome. Yeah, good for you. Yeah.

9:34 Speaker 2: So it was like a moment, you know what I mean,

9:35 Speaker 2: I was like, okay, like is this gonna happen? Yeah,

9:37 Speaker 2: let's let's be up for it. And then you know,

9:40 Speaker 2: music kind of just has shown the rest of the

9:42 Speaker 2: way excellent.

9:43 Speaker 9: You ever have any doubts along the way, like when

9:45 Speaker 9: when you when you kind of took the plunge, did

9:47 Speaker 9: you ever have moments.

9:47 Speaker 2: Where you really like, you know, when you get into it,

9:52 Speaker 2: it's like you gotta be ready to play shows to nobody.

9:55 Speaker 2: You gotta be ready to think your hit song is

9:59 Speaker 2: going to be a hit but nobody likes it. But

10:01 Speaker 2: the song that you didn't think that no one would

10:02 Speaker 2: like would be your hit song. You gotta be ready

10:05 Speaker 2: to you know, just you know, bust, bust your bottom

10:10 Speaker 2: and getting tickets sold to a show, and you know,

10:12 Speaker 2: maybe the band that you wanted didn't come or like,

10:14 Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe like it just didn't you know,

10:17 Speaker 2: every song didn't work out exactly as you want. So yeah,

10:20 Speaker 2: one hundred percent along the way, and there's imposture syndrome

10:22 Speaker 2: as as you're entering into a new identity. But that's

10:25 Speaker 2: that's with everything. So yeah, yeah, but the music's been

10:28 Speaker 2: carrying me, which has been.

10:29 Speaker 9: Great, outstanding, and you've recorded quite a bit right in

10:32 Speaker 9: that relatively.

10:33 Speaker 2: Short time, courd to almost forty songs.

10:35 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's a lot.

10:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, released, that's a lot.

10:37 Speaker 9: Yeah, so excellent, and that the one that we played.

10:40 Speaker 9: We need a bigger bust from Present Journey. That's when

10:42 Speaker 9: did that come out?

10:43 Speaker 7: In June? That's relatively new.

10:44 Speaker 2: Right, very new? Yeah, ye yeah yeah. So my first

10:47 Speaker 2: project was four directions based on my time as a

10:50 Speaker 2: teacher on the Navajo Nation arizonaid yep. And then this

10:54 Speaker 2: project is three worlds, so Present Journey will be one,

10:58 Speaker 2: then Past Lives and then Future Myths. Oh cool, thinking

11:00 Speaker 2: the thematic units. Yeah, a teacher of course.

11:04 Speaker 7: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's very cool.

11:07 Speaker 9: Uh well, I'm gotting to hear you play if you

11:10 Speaker 9: want to do it, play something for us, and uh

11:12 Speaker 9: I'll kind of off to ride the faders a little

11:14 Speaker 9: bit as we actually go ahead, strum a little, let's

11:17 Speaker 9: make sure we gotta.

11:24 Speaker 7: Well, there we go, there we go.

11:25 Speaker 12: Nice.

11:27 Speaker 2: So Matt, do you remember cassette tapes vividly? Do you

11:32 Speaker 2: remember very much?

11:34 Speaker 8: So?

11:34 Speaker 7: One, what do you how to use the pencil.

11:36 Speaker 2: And and how to rotate the Oh? Yeah, so we're

11:41 Speaker 2: going back to the days of cassette tapes and pencil

11:43 Speaker 2: sharpeners for this song. And do you remember like the

11:47 Speaker 2: first like mixtapes where you recorded the radio and recorded

11:52 Speaker 2: other tapes onto tape, you wrote the song names on

11:54 Speaker 2: the back and you gave it to someone you know,

11:57 Speaker 2: a friend, and you know your relationship would last at

11:59 Speaker 2: least another week or two yep, at least. And you know,

12:04 Speaker 2: I remember my first mixtapes, and I bet if you

12:07 Speaker 2: go back, if you could find your first mixtapes and

12:09 Speaker 2: listen to them, it would probably take you back exactly

12:13 Speaker 2: to that emotional mindset that you were at at that age.

12:16 Speaker 7: Right.

12:16 Speaker 2: Music has that power kind.

12:17 Speaker 7: Of thing, absolutely.

12:19 Speaker 2: So I'm going to tell you my first mixtape and

12:22 Speaker 2: just a list of some of these bands. You remember them.

12:24 Speaker 2: So my first mixtape was it was Johnny Cash and

12:27 Speaker 2: Fleetwood Mac, but also Bruce Springsteen YouTube and mc hammer, YEP,

12:33 Speaker 2: New Kids on the Block, Chris Cross and Duran. Duran

12:40 Speaker 2: was also yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was I think

12:44 Speaker 2: flock of Seagulls there as well. So just a wild

12:48 Speaker 2: range of songs. And I'll remember that tape forever because

12:53 Speaker 2: I put it in my tape recorder and I just

12:54 Speaker 2: listened to it over and over and over and over again,

12:57 Speaker 2: listening and catching the words to all of a sudd Yeah.

13:00 Speaker 2: So this song is called singing Along for the first Time, Okay,

13:04 Speaker 2: and it's about that first mixtape.

13:06 Speaker 7: All right, wonderful here we go.

13:27 Speaker 2: It was the age of eight when I played in

13:29 Speaker 2: the tape and I heard a voice going through you

13:32 Speaker 2: was singing loud and singing strong to the words. I

13:35 Speaker 2: barely knew. I was hanging on to the edge of

13:39 Speaker 2: the song, waking up all my senses.

13:43 Speaker 12: Hunt time.

13:44 Speaker 2: I'm singing along for the first time.

13:47 Speaker 5: Oh.

13:55 Speaker 2: For the first time.

13:57 Speaker 5: Oh Oh, I'm singing alone for the first time.

14:12 Speaker 7: Yaya.

14:26 Speaker 2: Well, I've been hearing songs since I came along on

14:29 Speaker 2: radio and TV, but this one song when it came off,

14:34 Speaker 2: felt like it just for me. Now I'm singing alone.

14:40 Speaker 12: For the first time. Oh for the first time. Oh Yeah.

15:00 Speaker 8: And it was Springsteen in the Street, Cash in Summer.

15:05 Speaker 2: Heat, Willie on the Road, the Cobaine in the coal,

15:11 Speaker 2: Stevie in my room, and in every line of that tune.

15:16 Speaker 2: When the chorus came, it was my chance to get

15:19 Speaker 2: up and start to dancer.

15:22 Speaker 13: Wait where.

15:32 Speaker 5: Weak here we go.

15:38 Speaker 2: I'll sing alone for the first time now.

15:45 Speaker 5: For the first time. Yeah, it was.

15:51 Speaker 10: Springsteen in the Street, Cash and summary Willie on the Road,

15:59 Speaker 10: the Cobain in the co Steedie in my room, let

16:04 Speaker 10: every line of that tune, and when the chorus came,

16:07 Speaker 10: it was my chance.

16:08 Speaker 3: I'm singing alone for the first time. For the first time,

16:29 Speaker 3: I'm singing along for.

16:30 Speaker 7: The first time. Oh fantastic, fantastic.

16:39 Speaker 5: That is uh.

16:40 Speaker 9: Eli love is here with us live in studio if

16:43 Speaker 9: you are just joining us and playing some playing some

16:47 Speaker 9: live tunes for us.

16:48 Speaker 7: And do you remember the first song you ever wrote?

16:51 Speaker 11: I do?

16:52 Speaker 7: How old were you?

16:54 Speaker 2: I was thirteen? Yeah, it's from middle school talent show

16:58 Speaker 2: and it was called My White under kidd it and

17:03 Speaker 2: I performed it in front of an entire auditorium that

17:08 Speaker 2: had my grandparents in it. Yeah, and it mostly consisted

17:11 Speaker 2: of me just screaming into my wad underwear over and

17:15 Speaker 2: over again. Yeah, huge hit. Yeah, I've been trying to

17:18 Speaker 2: get back to that moment ever since, right right, Yeah,

17:21 Speaker 2: that's what started my career in music.

17:23 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's awesome, that's awesome. How many songs have you

17:26 Speaker 9: written do you think? I know you said you've recorded

17:28 Speaker 9: about forty Wow.

17:30 Speaker 2: That's interesting. Yeah, let's go back. How many songs do

17:32 Speaker 2: you think I've written? I think probably finished songs, probably

17:35 Speaker 2: about two hundred. Okay, I think maybe like half finished,

17:37 Speaker 2: probably like three hundred. Yeah, and I think like ideas

17:40 Speaker 2: probably about a thousand.

17:42 Speaker 9: No kidding, yeah, just out there. Yeah, you seem like

17:44 Speaker 9: someone who would be pretty prolific. Yeah, were you when

17:48 Speaker 9: you were still teaching? Were you already writing a lot?

17:51 Speaker 14: Or I was?

17:52 Speaker 2: You know, songwriting has always been like that friend, that's

17:56 Speaker 2: just right there.

17:56 Speaker 7: You know.

17:57 Speaker 2: The guitar has just been like kind of like a

17:59 Speaker 2: some of the a conversation with Yeah, I meantimes are great,

18:02 Speaker 2: times not so great, and all in between. So you know,

18:06 Speaker 2: it's just you know, I think back, it's like, yeah,

18:08 Speaker 2: probably about like more than a thousand times. There's been

18:11 Speaker 2: like some voice memo that I've taken of, you know,

18:13 Speaker 2: some idea or a title or like an emotion or anything.

18:17 Speaker 2: So quite the uh yeah, quite the body of work,

18:21 Speaker 2: but not like you know, half finished work right right?

18:24 Speaker 9: And when and when you play is it? Is it

18:27 Speaker 9: always just you and the guitar? Do you ever have

18:29 Speaker 9: other musicians with you?

18:30 Speaker 2: Yeah? I started, I did a full band Maryland. It

18:34 Speaker 2: was Eli Lev and the Fortunes found the First Iteration,

18:38 Speaker 2: and then it was the Eli Lev Collective and it

18:40 Speaker 2: was Eli Lev Band, and then it'll be something else,

18:43 Speaker 2: I'm sure. But I love performing with other musicians. There's

18:46 Speaker 2: nothing like it, you know, just being on stage and

18:48 Speaker 2: kind of like creating that musical space with folks. But

18:51 Speaker 2: on tour, I just kind of do the solo thing

18:53 Speaker 2: keeps a little easy.

18:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot easier really, right, because you know, it

18:57 Speaker 9: kind of opens up places you can play when you

18:58 Speaker 9: don't have a full band. And of course, you know,

19:00 Speaker 9: I've been in bands, and I know that the pain

19:02 Speaker 9: of dealing with everyone's schedules and all of that.

19:05 Speaker 2: I mean, tell me if I'm wrong, But like, being

19:07 Speaker 2: a band is like kind of being in like five relationships,

19:10 Speaker 2: and those five relationships also being in five different relationships

19:14 Speaker 2: at the same time. So you know, there's this wonderful

19:16 Speaker 2: family atmosphere, but there's everything that goes along with being

19:18 Speaker 2: in a family.

19:19 Speaker 9: You know, that's that's a great way, but that's absolutely absolutely.

19:25 Speaker 2: So, yeah, I get I love it though, I love

19:26 Speaker 2: I love performing with other musicians.

19:28 Speaker 9: The songs that that you had in these bands, I

19:31 Speaker 9: assume those those have survived and you still play those

19:34 Speaker 9: today or some of them.

19:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, All the songs are pretty much the

19:37 Speaker 2: ones that I recorded. Just maybe I'll play them with

19:40 Speaker 2: a band or solo or duo.

19:42 Speaker 7: Yeah.

19:42 Speaker 2: What instrument did you play in the band?

19:44 Speaker 7: Bass?

19:44 Speaker 2: Bass? Okay, see, bass is the smartest instrument ever. Everybody

19:48 Speaker 2: goes and learns guitar wants to be the lead singer.

19:51 Speaker 2: But if you can play a bass, you'll get work

19:53 Speaker 2: the rest of your life. Oh yeah, and you want it.

19:57 Speaker 9: Like yeah, when I was, when I was really act

20:00 Speaker 9: to have playing I don't play currently.

20:01 Speaker 2: But okay, you know I was.

20:02 Speaker 7: I was kind of sod after in the scenes.

20:05 Speaker 9: But it wasn't because I was a great base I mean,

20:06 Speaker 9: you know, I'm very objective about, you know, my own assessing,

20:10 Speaker 9: my own musical ability.

20:11 Speaker 7: It was average.

20:11 Speaker 9: I was an average bass player, but I was a

20:14 Speaker 9: bass player.

20:16 Speaker 2: That is a hot commodity, exactly exactly.

20:19 Speaker 7: I think I think.

20:20 Speaker 9: Drummers are the most in demand because you know, we

20:23 Speaker 9: we interview a lot of bands on the show, and

20:25 Speaker 9: the drummer is always in ten different bands because there's

20:28 Speaker 9: no drummers.

20:29 Speaker 2: Right right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no basic drums. Yeah,

20:33 Speaker 2: remember that, kiddos, you want to make a career music.

20:39 Speaker 9: Do you play on on what you've recorded? Do you

20:42 Speaker 9: play anything other than guitar? Do you stick to guitar

20:44 Speaker 9: and have other musicians.

20:45 Speaker 2: Or I do, yeah, play guitar, I play piano. I

20:48 Speaker 2: play a native flute from Arizona. I do harmonica, mandolin,

20:54 Speaker 2: make percussion, noises, strange sounds of my mouth like whistling

20:58 Speaker 2: and who knows what, but I love making sounds.

21:01 Speaker 7: O kidding? Yeah yeah do you uh so? Do you

21:03 Speaker 7: do everything on the albums.

21:05 Speaker 2: Or I work with different producers on the albums, So

21:08 Speaker 2: I like collaborate with folks in the studio. They'll do

21:10 Speaker 2: some instruments, I'll do some instruments. We'll bring in some

21:13 Speaker 2: other you know, uh kind of hired guns to rock

21:15 Speaker 2: the rest and so it's a nice kind of a mix.

21:17 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, but it's nice when you have the ability

21:20 Speaker 9: to play multiple things. And I mean that gives you

21:22 Speaker 9: a level of control that wouldn't otherwise necessarily have.

21:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's you're almost like a conductor, like

21:27 Speaker 2: of an orchestra. Yeah, what I mean, like you get

21:29 Speaker 2: to really kind of imagine melody lines and different sounds

21:33 Speaker 2: and different instruments. So h it's really it's really awesome.

21:36 Speaker 2: I love the process of kind of putting sounds together

21:38 Speaker 2: for a song.

21:39 Speaker 7: You enjoy being in the studio? I do, because I

21:41 Speaker 7: know a lot of musicians.

21:42 Speaker 9: A lot of musicians just want to play live and

21:44 Speaker 9: they hate the studio or they're ambivalent about it. But yeah,

21:46 Speaker 9: if you actually enjoyed the process, that's goods.

21:49 Speaker 2: Now, I love it. Yeah, and like the different takes,

21:51 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, oh, which take were

21:53 Speaker 2: you going to go with? Yeah, it's it's a really

21:55 Speaker 2: wonderful process. I don't I'm not personally a producer, but

21:58 Speaker 2: I love working with and collab.

22:00 Speaker 9: Are you ever surprised because you're working with producers? Are

22:04 Speaker 9: you ever surprised at what comes out?

22:05 Speaker 2: Like?

22:06 Speaker 9: Do you ever have an idea for a song and

22:08 Speaker 9: you've written it, and you you know what you want,

22:10 Speaker 9: you know what it's supposed to sound like, and then

22:11 Speaker 9: it ends up coming out very different and hopefully you're

22:14 Speaker 9: pleasantly surprised when that happens.

22:16 Speaker 7: But do you ever have that happen?

22:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, That's why I like to work with different producers

22:19 Speaker 2: because they bring different sounds and different ideas. And you know,

22:23 Speaker 2: when I come up with a song, it's usually vocals

22:25 Speaker 2: and guitar or just vocals and piano. So watching it

22:29 Speaker 2: develop and bloom and blossom, like for example, like two

22:32 Speaker 2: days ago, you know, you record a song and then

22:35 Speaker 2: you get back a mix, you know, so it's like

22:37 Speaker 2: the first time you really hear what you recorded with

22:40 Speaker 2: all the instrumentation and Bro, I was listening to this

22:44 Speaker 2: first track of my upcoming album, Past Lives. It's called Echo,

22:47 Speaker 2: and it's about like hearing the echoes of our ancestors,

22:50 Speaker 2: like kind of coming in and you know, living with

22:53 Speaker 2: that knowledge. And I was like laughing and crying at

22:58 Speaker 2: the same time hearing a song come to life like that. Yeah,

23:03 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just like, oh yeah, this is amazing.

23:08 Speaker 2: So like having those visceral emotional reactions is like, is

23:12 Speaker 2: really cool. And you know, only the only people who

23:16 Speaker 2: heard that was my producer in me. Yeah, so having

23:18 Speaker 2: that special moment of like really being there like on

23:21 Speaker 2: this like creation is just awesome. So I love the studio.

23:24 Speaker 2: I love the process of creating songs too.

23:26 Speaker 7: It's really fun.

23:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, and you've made some videos, right, I saw I

23:29 Speaker 9: watched the Universal song, yeah, which is really cool.

23:32 Speaker 7: I love the song and the video is great.

23:34 Speaker 9: And that's you know, we were kind of talking earlier about,

23:37 Speaker 9: you know, the music side of I mean the business

23:38 Speaker 9: side of it.

23:40 Speaker 7: That's important, right, making videos.

23:42 Speaker 15: Yeah.

23:42 Speaker 2: So what I did in the pandemic when everything shut

23:44 Speaker 2: down and all my tours were canceled is I went

23:47 Speaker 2: online and started live streaming. Yeah, and that's where the

23:49 Speaker 2: levitator's community came and people were just looking for things

23:52 Speaker 2: to do. So we did participatory music videos.

23:55 Speaker 7: Okay, So people.

23:56 Speaker 2: Would video themselves. For example, I had a song called

23:59 Speaker 2: Dance and on the Lawn, so they would go outside

24:02 Speaker 2: and take a video of themselves dancing on the lawn essentially,

24:05 Speaker 2: and the music video is levitators from around the world,

24:09 Speaker 2: We're talking Europe, Australia, Africa, Canada, South America sending in

24:13 Speaker 2: videos of them dancing on the lawn, all spiced together.

24:16 Speaker 7: Okay.

24:17 Speaker 2: So I did a participatory video with chasing Daylight with

24:20 Speaker 2: another one anywhere we can go, and I think I

24:23 Speaker 2: should do one with we need a bigger bus. You

24:25 Speaker 2: should like get like get like rent a school bus,

24:29 Speaker 2: you know, I mean, and go around and pick folks

24:30 Speaker 2: up and just kind of like, you know, like film

24:33 Speaker 2: this party happening on a bus.

24:35 Speaker 7: That's a great idea.

24:36 Speaker 2: So it's really important because especially today and like we

24:39 Speaker 2: live in a visual kind of content world. So anytime

24:43 Speaker 2: that people can see your music, yes, you know what

24:45 Speaker 2: I mean, is important.

24:46 Speaker 7: Yeah.

24:47 Speaker 9: So yep, it's funny because there was a time when well,

24:50 Speaker 9: you know, some people still think today even I'll hear

24:53 Speaker 9: people say, oh, you know, I miss the days of

24:55 Speaker 9: music videos, you know, because they're thinking of it in

24:57 Speaker 9: the context of MTV. Yeah, it's like and some people

25:01 Speaker 9: just don't realize, you know, because they're maybe not paying

25:02 Speaker 9: attention that there's actually more music videos than ever.

25:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, there are, we just don't see them.

25:07 Speaker 9: They're they're on YouTube, they're not they're not on the table.

25:14 Speaker 9: But something we also talk about a lot on the

25:16 Speaker 9: show is, you know, with the pandemic, terrible experience for

25:20 Speaker 9: us all, but we have to find the silver linings

25:22 Speaker 9: where we can and you know, you're a great example

25:25 Speaker 9: what you did, you know, trying to you know, innovate

25:27 Speaker 9: and and come up with ideas, you know, to keep

25:29 Speaker 9: people involved and keep people engaged.

25:31 Speaker 7: Yep.

25:31 Speaker 9: Yeah, so that's really cool. Yeah, I'm dying to hear

25:35 Speaker 9: you play another one. You want to play another song.

25:36 Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's do that universal song when you're

25:38 Speaker 2: talking with the music video.

25:40 Speaker 9: Wonderful and if you are just joining us, Eli Love

25:43 Speaker 9: is here with us live in studio and I do

25:45 Speaker 9: love this song.

25:45 Speaker 7: So yeah, whenever you're ready.

25:48 Speaker 2: Let's do it right, all right. So imagine like Eurovision

25:54 Speaker 2: was not just for Europe, that it was like for

25:58 Speaker 2: the whole galaxy, Like they're like a Milky Way Eurovision,

26:03 Speaker 2: And then.

26:03 Speaker 9: Imagine there was like a.

26:07 Speaker 2: Universal song contest where the Milky Way would send in

26:11 Speaker 2: their entry and the Andromeda Galaxy who's sending theirs? And

26:17 Speaker 2: what that song would sound like. So this song kind

26:20 Speaker 2: of explores that possibility. I was on a train in

26:27 Speaker 2: the middle of the city, saw girls sitting.

26:32 Speaker 16: On the floor with their headphones on.

26:35 Speaker 3: She was homing a tube, looking as happy.

26:37 Speaker 2: As as she could be, nodding ahead and closing her

26:42 Speaker 2: eyes and singing and the song she was singing, Na,

26:48 Speaker 2: and the sun broke through the window. Now everyone's homing alone.

26:58 Speaker 2: She got every byey singing that Uni Verso song. Yeah,

27:08 Speaker 2: singing it all day long.

27:15 Speaker 3: I was on a cruise in the middle of the ocean.

27:20 Speaker 2: I was sitting alone out the table for two The

27:25 Speaker 2: band was on a break because the singer he was late.

27:29 Speaker 2: But the second he got on stage started singing that

27:32 Speaker 2: sing too. He was singing nine no, no, no, and

27:38 Speaker 2: everyone got out of the dance floor. They were shaking

27:43 Speaker 2: their hips.

27:44 Speaker 5: Nine n no no.

27:48 Speaker 2: You got everybody singing that Uni Verso song. All right,

27:57 Speaker 2: let's bring the aliens for the fifth dinute beings, whatever

28:00 Speaker 2: you prefer.

28:04 Speaker 4: Well.

28:04 Speaker 2: I heard on the news today that they made contact

28:08 Speaker 2: with outer space. The transmission was coming in loud and clear,

28:14 Speaker 2: and all the scientists and linguists and astrophysicists try to

28:19 Speaker 2: decipher the sound that was coming into their ears.

28:23 Speaker 10: But all the air it was not.

28:27 Speaker 8: And they started shaking their shoulders to they all agree

28:33 Speaker 8: that that's what we should do. Everybody in the world singing.

28:41 Speaker 2: They got the hands up in the air.

28:48 Speaker 4: Nowvic baties getting along.

28:55 Speaker 2: Body ass seeing that universa so goes like this no

29:06 Speaker 2: no no.

29:08 Speaker 3: No no no no no no.

29:18 Speaker 7: I love it. That's awesome. The universal song that is

29:22 Speaker 7: Eli love.

29:23 Speaker 9: He is here with us alive in studio on this

29:26 Speaker 9: Saturday morning, and that is great and I do encourage

29:30 Speaker 9: people to check out the video.

29:32 Speaker 7: Video is really cool, really cool.

29:35 Speaker 9: So how is.

29:37 Speaker 7: How's the tour been going?

29:39 Speaker 9: Any any interesting uh stories, any big surprises or or

29:43 Speaker 9: has it been has everything been been smooth? Or I

29:46 Speaker 9: love roads stories if you if you have any, and

29:49 Speaker 9: if you don't have any, that's actually a good thing.

29:51 Speaker 9: That means that means everything's going well generally.

29:54 Speaker 2: But plenty of stories.

29:57 Speaker 15: Yeah.

29:57 Speaker 2: Yeah. So I play every night pretty much, Yeah, and

29:59 Speaker 2: every night's different, Like sometimes it'll be like last night,

30:02 Speaker 2: I was at the basement of a church playing the

30:04 Speaker 2: opening set of an open mic, and the night before that,

30:07 Speaker 2: I was at this like amazing fancy schmancy listening room

30:11 Speaker 2: winery thing whereas like professional sound, you know, table service

30:15 Speaker 2: and all that jazz, and you know, the night before that,

30:19 Speaker 2: I was playing at this vegan restaurant in Vermont and

30:23 Speaker 2: Burlington and it was like a Thursday and it was

30:26 Speaker 2: a nice night out. So you never know, what's going

30:29 Speaker 2: to happen you show up. It could be ten, twenty fifty,

30:32 Speaker 2: who knows. But that night there was just a couple,

30:36 Speaker 2: oh no kidding, and they were out on a date.

30:39 Speaker 2: They came in and they're like, table for two please,

30:41 Speaker 2: I could tell you what I mean. They were in

30:44 Speaker 2: for the experience and it was just me and this

30:47 Speaker 2: couple and this waitress. And I was like, well, y'all,

30:50 Speaker 2: it's just us, so let's have some fun with this,

30:55 Speaker 2: you know. So we were chatting, we were making up

30:59 Speaker 2: songs together, you know, having a great old time. And

31:02 Speaker 2: then you know, they were a younger couple and they're like,

31:05 Speaker 2: can you play a slow dance song? And I was like, yes,

31:08 Speaker 2: I can play a slow dance song for you. So

31:09 Speaker 2: I played Van Morrison's Crazy Crazy Love She gave Me Love, Love,

31:18 Speaker 2: Love Love, Crazy Love. And they got up and danced

31:24 Speaker 2: and they they were not good dancers, and they knew it,

31:29 Speaker 2: and they were just having the time of their lives.

31:31 Speaker 2: It was just them in this empty restaurant with me

31:35 Speaker 2: and the waitress, and they danced the entire song. Wow,

31:39 Speaker 2: you know, just you know, missing steps and kind of

31:41 Speaker 2: fumbling and trying to do twisty things and like kind

31:44 Speaker 2: of knocking over little flower things whatever. But they just

31:48 Speaker 2: had a blast and it was just a wonderful reminder

31:50 Speaker 2: that you know, it doesn't necessarily really matter what we

31:54 Speaker 2: look like or sound like or seem like on the outside.

31:58 Speaker 2: It's like how we feel the space, you know what

32:02 Speaker 2: I mean that moment and it was beautiful, Like I

32:05 Speaker 2: was like really emotional afforts. I was like, yeah, that

32:08 Speaker 2: is so sweet. Y'all the biggest sweeties and me and

32:10 Speaker 2: the Wagers gave him a big, you know, round of applause.

32:13 Speaker 2: They had an absolute blast. Yeah, you know, got some merch.

32:16 Speaker 2: I had a great tip. I made more e merch

32:18 Speaker 2: and tip that night with two people than sometimes I

32:21 Speaker 2: will with like thirty or forty, you know what I mean.

32:23 Speaker 2: So it just depends on getting into the experience, really

32:26 Speaker 2: holding it to being aware. So that happened just a

32:29 Speaker 2: few nights ago. I will always remember that. And they

32:31 Speaker 2: made my night VIP night too.

32:33 Speaker 7: Yeah.

32:34 Speaker 9: Well that's awesome. Well that's a positive roads story. That's

32:37 Speaker 9: absolutely I don't hear many of those.

32:38 Speaker 2: Okay.

32:39 Speaker 9: Usually it's like usually it's like broke down, Yeah, the

32:42 Speaker 9: van broke down, or we got to the place and

32:45 Speaker 9: toilet didn't work, and.

32:48 Speaker 2: You know, you know what I mean. We lost our

32:50 Speaker 2: band member. We drove away from the gas station and

32:53 Speaker 2: we realized two hours later, you're missing her drummer.

32:56 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you're all kinds of terrible things. So it's good.

32:59 Speaker 9: Here a positive story like that. That's awesome. That's awesome.

33:04 Speaker 7: You want to play another one?

33:05 Speaker 1: Yeah?

33:05 Speaker 2: Happy too? Do you want one more?

33:06 Speaker 17: Teen?

33:07 Speaker 2: This is from Present Journey as well. Okay, I also

33:11 Speaker 2: played this song for the couple. This one's called Love

33:13 Speaker 2: in the Middle Ages.

33:15 Speaker 7: Oh yes, this is I listened. I like this one.

33:17 Speaker 2: Do you like this one?

33:18 Speaker 7: I like this one a lot.

33:19 Speaker 2: I like this one too.

33:19 Speaker 7: This is really good.

33:20 Speaker 2: Awesome, here we go. When I was in my early age,

33:36 Speaker 2: I heard him talk about Tula, so I started looking

33:41 Speaker 2: for where it could be. I ran from kisses in

33:46 Speaker 2: the third grade. DI did a girl in middle school

33:49 Speaker 2: for ten days. I thought it would never come out,

33:55 Speaker 2: But I found love middle Ages. It ain't always fireworks

34:03 Speaker 2: and comes in stages, and it takes courage and trust

34:09 Speaker 2: in each other.

34:11 Speaker 15: I know.

34:11 Speaker 5: I found.

34:14 Speaker 2: What you love is.

34:16 Speaker 3: It's love in the Middle Ages.

34:22 Speaker 1: Love in the Middle Age.

34:29 Speaker 3: I chased love across the ocean.

34:34 Speaker 2: But I never knew what it was like to stay,

34:39 Speaker 2: what it took to really listen, how to compromise.

34:46 Speaker 3: And how to sing the sing.

34:50 Speaker 2: Now I'm oldly enough to see I found love.

34:58 Speaker 7: Middle Ages.

35:00 Speaker 2: It ain't always fire worms, and it comes instages. It

35:06 Speaker 2: takes courage, trusting each other.

35:11 Speaker 5: I know I found.

35:14 Speaker 2: What you love is. It's love in the Middle Age.

35:20 Speaker 14: It love in the.

35:23 Speaker 2: Middle Age, and it's a trip to Duncan in the morning.

35:34 Speaker 2: It's knowing exactly what she's gonna say. It's getting cozy

35:41 Speaker 2: on the couch after a long hard day. It's growing

35:46 Speaker 2: old together, figuring it out along the way. Because I

35:52 Speaker 2: found love the Middle Ages. It's not just fate or

36:00 Speaker 2: even the promise. It's something deeper, something stronger. I put

36:08 Speaker 2: down my sword and took off my armor because I.

36:13 Speaker 3: Found loving.

36:16 Speaker 7: The Middle Ages.

36:18 Speaker 2: It ain't always fireworks, and it comes in stages. It

36:24 Speaker 2: takes courage, trust in each other.

36:29 Speaker 5: I know I found it.

36:32 Speaker 3: What you love it's love in the Middle Ages.

36:36 Speaker 6: Jes love in the Middle Age.

36:45 Speaker 2: It's loving the Middle Age, loving the middle lady.

36:55 Speaker 7: M m m, that is beautiful. That is beautiful.

37:06 Speaker 2: Some sauce on it.

37:08 Speaker 9: Eli love is with us here live in studio on

37:11 Speaker 9: this Saturday morning on Matt Connerton unleashed and planning some

37:16 Speaker 9: tunes live for us, and yeah, that's that's great. By

37:19 Speaker 9: the way, you in terms of your vocals, have you

37:23 Speaker 9: did you get formal vocal training or are you self taught.

37:27 Speaker 2: Or I did not?

37:28 Speaker 9: Yeah, I uh.

37:32 Speaker 2: Vocal I found out. I found out at the beginning

37:34 Speaker 2: of my career that your vocal cords are like muscles.

37:38 Speaker 7: Yeah, and you can train them.

37:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get better. I did not have like

37:43 Speaker 2: an American idol. I still don't have an American ile voice.

37:46 Speaker 2: But it wasn't like people who heard me sing and

37:47 Speaker 2: were like, whoa, yeah, you should be famous. Never you

37:52 Speaker 2: know what I mean? Never in the thing. But after

37:54 Speaker 2: singing for almost every day for the last six or

37:57 Speaker 2: seven years, really developing into it, getting to the character

38:00 Speaker 2: and kind of like feeling in you know, what I

38:02 Speaker 2: really also found is just like just being unique, you know,

38:06 Speaker 2: not necessarily sounding like someone else, but just like whatever

38:08 Speaker 2: the true voice is kind of like letting that out, yeah,

38:11 Speaker 2: really kind of leaning into that.

38:12 Speaker 9: Yeah, do you do you do things to take care

38:14 Speaker 9: of your voice, like you know, Lemon and all that Yeah.

38:18 Speaker 2: So so my tours, Matt, Like, I know, like there's

38:21 Speaker 2: this image of tours being like wild and crazy stand

38:25 Speaker 2: up and partying and stuff, but I'm an indiful singer songwriter. Yeah,

38:29 Speaker 2: so that's not usually the case. So, you know, it's

38:32 Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of hydration. I'm drinking a

38:35 Speaker 2: lot of water, I'm drinking smoothies. I'm sleeping as much

38:38 Speaker 2: as I can. I'm going to plant fitness in the morning,

38:40 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I'm doing vocal warm ups,

38:42 Speaker 2: I'm doing vocal cool downs. I'm like, you know, like

38:45 Speaker 2: doing the throat coat tea and kind of like you know,

38:47 Speaker 2: massogyn all that kind of stuff because it makes me

38:50 Speaker 2: feel better, it makes me have better performances, and it

38:53 Speaker 2: keeps my voice. It's like what I'm doing is kind

38:55 Speaker 2: of like an ultra marathon. Yeah, two hundred twenty five

39:00 Speaker 2: days on the road. You can't mess around, right, you

39:03 Speaker 2: know what I mean. So, and I've had times where

39:05 Speaker 2: I've lost my voice. Really it's been tough. Yeah, so

39:08 Speaker 2: I don't want to do that again. So you're absolutely

39:11 Speaker 2: right on that. It's like it's a very conscious effort

39:13 Speaker 2: to keep things going.

39:14 Speaker 7: Yeah, when you're singing every day like that. Yeah, no doubt,

39:17 Speaker 7: no doubt.

39:19 Speaker 9: Is it literally every Like do you ever have a

39:21 Speaker 9: day off on your tour?

39:23 Speaker 2: Sometimes maybe like once a week, once every two weeks, yeah,

39:26 Speaker 2: but usually it's pretty packed.

39:27 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's good.

39:29 Speaker 2: It is good.

39:29 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's really good.

39:31 Speaker 2: Yeah.

39:32 Speaker 9: By the way, I'm also curious about your influences in

39:35 Speaker 9: terms of songwriting, because everything that you write.

39:37 Speaker 7: It's all it's so catchy.

39:40 Speaker 17: It really is.

39:43 Speaker 9: Exactly exactly like any who influences you as far as songwriting.

39:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I I kind of like was formed

39:51 Speaker 2: by you know, Cat Stevens, Bob Doing, Joni Mitchell growing up,

39:56 Speaker 2: like when I was really young. Yeah, you know, John

39:58 Speaker 2: Denver all like all that kind of good stuff. But

40:01 Speaker 2: then you know, it's funny, Matt, because like I grew

40:04 Speaker 2: up in the grunge era. Yeah, like Stone Table, Pilots, Nirvana, Radiohead,

40:09 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, read at Chili Peppers like

40:12 Speaker 2: that was my music And here I'm playing becausic guitar right,

40:15 Speaker 2: which is hilarious. But yeah, so that really influenced me too.

40:19 Speaker 2: In college, I got into underground hip hop. When I

40:22 Speaker 2: was living in Europe for a few years, I got

40:24 Speaker 2: into like dance beats, electronic music. When I came back,

40:28 Speaker 2: I got into modern day songwriters like you know, Noah Khan,

40:33 Speaker 2: you know boy Genius, you know, just kind of like

40:37 Speaker 2: these very straightforward kind of singing songwriters, Jason Morez, you know,

40:43 Speaker 2: Jack Johnson, you know Ed Sheer and that that stuff

40:46 Speaker 2: as well. But also, you know, I got a little

40:48 Speaker 2: countryside yeah, you know, Jason Izbel, Tyler Childers. I like

40:52 Speaker 2: this singer songer named Hardy. He's really cool. So all

40:55 Speaker 2: that kind of comes together.

40:56 Speaker 7: Yeah.

40:57 Speaker 9: Yeah, do you try to do you approach like trying?

41:00 Speaker 9: It sounds like you probably don't necessarily try to have

41:03 Speaker 9: a particular sound, but what comes out is what comes out.

41:06 Speaker 7: I assume.

41:07 Speaker 2: Yes, I know that's wrong. I know I'm not supposed

41:09 Speaker 2: to do that.

41:09 Speaker 7: But I think it's great.

41:11 Speaker 9: I think that's I think that's the best way to

41:13 Speaker 9: do it. Don't don't overthink it, just be that's the

41:16 Speaker 9: best way to be authentic. Just to not overthink it,

41:19 Speaker 9: not to say I want to sound like this, but

41:22 Speaker 9: just sound like what you sound.

41:23 Speaker 2: Like, right, And I'm I'm not in the industry, I'm

41:26 Speaker 2: like industry adjacent, you know what I mean. It's like

41:28 Speaker 2: I'm like the DIY independent scene, so I don't have

41:31 Speaker 2: a manager that says you need to sound like this, right,

41:34 Speaker 2: So it's fun because I can just sound like whatever

41:37 Speaker 2: I feel like that day. Right. I'm enjoying that. So

41:40 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.

41:42 Speaker 7: And is everything?

41:43 Speaker 9: Is everything self released? Or are you on any kind

41:45 Speaker 9: of a label or you just do it all yourself?

41:47 Speaker 9: Is that the best way to do it in your opinion,

41:49 Speaker 9: if you were to give advice to somebody who's aspiring

41:52 Speaker 9: to do what you do.

41:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, So record contracts actually have never been like the

41:59 Speaker 2: thing that guarantees success, right, they can be, you know,

42:04 Speaker 2: for the one percent of artists that you know, record

42:07 Speaker 2: contract is a really good thing for right, But for

42:09 Speaker 2: the other however, many percent of it, you know what

42:11 Speaker 2: I mean, All sorts of things can happen. You can

42:13 Speaker 2: get shelved, the label can have another band that sounds

42:17 Speaker 2: just like you and they signed you so that they

42:19 Speaker 2: could push the other band and not you. They could

42:22 Speaker 2: drop you after an album, they could keep you for

42:24 Speaker 2: ten albums and never release you. So it just didn't

42:27 Speaker 2: sound like something that would fit my vibe. So I

42:30 Speaker 2: kind of went on my own route. Now that's not

42:32 Speaker 2: saying that if the right record contract comes along, you

42:35 Speaker 2: know what I mean that I wouldn't I would like

42:36 Speaker 2: reject it necessarily. But you know, I've found that it's

42:40 Speaker 2: best to like do your own thing, make your own business,

42:42 Speaker 2: and then if that happens, great, but not to like

42:44 Speaker 2: bank on it.

42:45 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, and we're fortunate to live

42:47 Speaker 9: in an era where you really can do it all. Yeah,

42:49 Speaker 9: you know, because of the Internet, you can. You know,

42:51 Speaker 9: I'm old enough to remember when your only shot really

42:54 Speaker 9: was if you you know, you record a demo and

42:57 Speaker 9: then you send it to record.

42:58 Speaker 2: That was it because they had the equipment. There was

43:00 Speaker 2: no other way to record your music besides getting a

43:03 Speaker 2: record contract. So that would make sense because at least

43:05 Speaker 2: you have your music recorded.

43:06 Speaker 7: Yeah.

43:07 Speaker 2: But now, yeah, it's very accessible, which has pauses and

43:10 Speaker 2: negatives because everybody can do it, so you have to

43:12 Speaker 2: kind of like be inventive a little bit, right, So yeah,

43:15 Speaker 2: it now it's like kind of about being creative, I think.

43:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely well, I think so as we as we

43:21 Speaker 9: approach the top of the hour singing, I'll play another

43:24 Speaker 9: studio track, the honky Tonk Truth.

43:26 Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that one.

43:28 Speaker 7: I think it would be a great way to a

43:30 Speaker 7: great way to end the segment.

43:32 Speaker 9: But yeah, but before we do that, I want to

43:34 Speaker 9: make sure that our listeners know where they should go

43:36 Speaker 9: online to keep up with everything that you're doing, and

43:38 Speaker 9: of course plug your next show too. You know, we're

43:40 Speaker 9: in Manchester, but we do have a lot of people

43:42 Speaker 9: who listen online, so we want to make sure everybody knows.

43:44 Speaker 7: Where to find you.

43:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome. So my name is Eli Love. It's E

43:48 Speaker 2: L I space and then L E V as in Victory.

43:51 Speaker 2: You can type that into the Google machine and my

43:54 Speaker 2: website will pop up. All my website is all my

43:57 Speaker 2: music that's just freely available to stream with lyrics, and

44:00 Speaker 2: also my tour schedule. So I'll be in New England,

44:04 Speaker 2: in Canada and a bunch of shows all over the world.

44:07 Speaker 2: Actually in February March, I'll be in the UK and

44:10 Speaker 2: you're oh, no kidding, good show. Yeah, folks are listening

44:12 Speaker 2: over there. I'll see you. I'll see you next year.

44:16 Speaker 2: And also on my website is a little button at

44:18 Speaker 2: the bottom that says join the Levitators. Yes, so you

44:22 Speaker 2: are welcome to join. It's just like a you know,

44:24 Speaker 2: an email texting list, but I send out songs and

44:27 Speaker 2: good vibes and keep people going and we do live

44:29 Speaker 2: streams together. I do full Fridays. Is a great way

44:32 Speaker 2: to stay connected to a worldwide community of music lovers.

44:35 Speaker 9: Excellent, excellent, that is outstanding. Have you played overseas? But

44:40 Speaker 9: you mentioned you lived in Europe? Did you have you

44:42 Speaker 9: played over there before?

44:43 Speaker 2: I've played shorter tours. I lived in a country called

44:46 Speaker 2: Andra between Spain and France over there, so I've played

44:49 Speaker 2: shorter tours, like a week in France or a week

44:51 Speaker 2: in Spain. But this is the first like full on,

44:55 Speaker 2: two month like show every day kind.

44:57 Speaker 7: Of wow, very cool. Yeah, good for you. Yeah no,

45:00 Speaker 7: that's that's that's exciting.

45:01 Speaker 9: Uh So we'll we'll close out the segment with the

45:04 Speaker 9: Honkey Talk Truth another great song.

45:06 Speaker 7: But I like all of these, They're all really good.

45:08 Speaker 9: But Eli Lev, thank you so much for joining us,

45:10 Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on.

45:11 Speaker 7: This has been amazing.

45:12 Speaker 9: Now we'll have to do it again in the future

45:13 Speaker 9: next time you're next time you're on tour through the area,

45:15 Speaker 9: we'll definitely we'll have you back. But uh and if

45:18 Speaker 9: you are listening live on Saturday, sick Around coming up

45:20 Speaker 9: in the third hour, we have the rightful heirs joining

45:23 Speaker 9: us in studio.

45:24 Speaker 8: But here it is.

45:24 Speaker 9: This is the honkey talk Truth from Present Journey by

45:27 Speaker 9: Eli Lev.

45:33 Speaker 2: So far it's been quite an adventure.

45:41 Speaker 7: With there's a part of.

45:53 Speaker 12: That goes on forever.

45:58 Speaker 1: And to leasy shine.

46:06 Speaker 5: If my time.

46:09 Speaker 4: Do that, we're just skinning starting.

46:15 Speaker 5: What you keep on keeping on with me.

46:23 Speaker 6: Because I try, try, try to be opening hardy.

46:31 Speaker 10: I hope that's all right.

46:34 Speaker 4: I'm learning as I go.

46:40 Speaker 6: It's a long winding road with ps and dangerous turns.

46:48 Speaker 6: The hardest part staying true.

46:52 Speaker 8: But I know when you're with me, that's all that

46:56 Speaker 8: I want to do.

47:01 Speaker 16: So far, we've built the time empie in the middle

47:12 Speaker 16: of a wild and wondrous work.

47:18 Speaker 5: If we keep.

47:20 Speaker 10: Going, lie, we'll go with.

47:26 Speaker 5: There's no telling how big ain I FuMB this could.

47:35 Speaker 5: There's a send my mine.

47:39 Speaker 1: Lascar of what's uh happened?

47:43 Speaker 10: But too much to look at old time, cause I'm

47:48 Speaker 10: knowing when you're with me, up, Bob.

47:50 Speaker 5: Gone on me you alright.

48:13 Speaker 16: Since we sing our first song together, I knew.

48:23 Speaker 15: That we be just fine.

48:29 Speaker 7: We're going to keep on singing.

48:33 Speaker 2: To start, We'll stay on the run and keep on

48:42 Speaker 2: chasing daylight.

48:46 Speaker 5: It's one thing.

48:51 Speaker 6: With parrols and dangerous turns.

48:54 Speaker 5: God's bond stay up, but I'm not.

49:00 Speaker 2: When you win me, that's all that I want to do.

49:06 Speaker 5: That I want to do.

49:20 Speaker 6: I guess the smoking gun was always after.

49:23 Speaker 18: The sun set.

49:25 Speaker 17: Looked at our shoes all coming mun sat in the

49:29 Speaker 17: park way after dark.

49:31 Speaker 5: We will never cold. That's off to the city, leaving

49:37 Speaker 5: the south side.

49:39 Speaker 2: They were giving us no place to hide.

49:42 Speaker 5: What if I just to run? What if we be

49:47 Speaker 5: come run? I'm seeking feet like a spare park.

49:53 Speaker 13: The special moy Trybys house.

49:57 Speaker 5: I never wonderful. I'm blest gully. I was bof to

50:02 Speaker 5: apple from the base.

50:06 Speaker 13: Stay steady, but I guess I couldn't hold my love.

50:10 Speaker 5: It's such a funny and a bailey.

50:12 Speaker 13: Every hurdle of showing bmies all the body.

50:17 Speaker 5: It seems everyone that gets about me impost the can

50:22 Speaker 5: feel like stample this person mo. They try to raver

50:26 Speaker 5: ony gas ponder for old day on body killing. I

50:32 Speaker 5: was bof theapple from the base hard it reserves behind

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