Matt Connarton Unleashed: Brooks Young 4-13-24

There we go, Brooks youngest here. Hello Brooks, Hey, good morning,

good morning, welcome, and uh, we're excited to have you because

uh obviously we're we're fans of yours and we enjoy having a here. But

also you, uh you brought your guitar. Oh that's a beautiful. Now

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

thank you. We will take uh we will take pictures while you're playing.

That's uh wow, yeah, thank you. That's really nice. Yeah,

it's my love of guitars has drove well. And so this is a Gibson

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

Good tour. Yeah, as well as my electrics when I Saturday played with

tour. Got this right before I left on tour, and uh, guitars

beautiful ghost with me everywhere. So it's gorgeous, it really is. Yeah,

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

I left on tour, and so I've only had it for a few months

and oh really I haven't even recorded or done anything like that with it.

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

Yeah, oh wow, very cool, very cool works. I'm downa here.

You play sure and let me let me get that other mic up,

so there we are. While you're doing that'll tell a little story about this

song real quick. Yeah, go f So funny thing is is, uh

this song is called I Believe And you know, me and the guys in

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

was at home. I had a day off. And if anyone's followed the

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

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

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

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

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

hundredth wins. Oh really moment in the episode and Jeff Gordon's up there,

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

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

my songs, and no it wasn't It was in the Netflix documentary for Nascar.

Yeah, this big moment and Jeff Gordon's on the screen and this is

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

is so. I'm on the phone. I'm like calling everybody and're like hey,

you know, And it was just a really cool moment because I grew

up as a NASCAR fan and like, Jeff Gordon was my favorite driver,

and to have one of our songs in this big moment on this NASCAR documentary

on Netflix and it just came out. It's very hot shot. Everyone is

watching it and it's just I like I had to sit back for him,

and I was like, wow, this is great, and yeah, so

I'll play it for you. It's a song called I Believe. Seeing that

we just played Restless, something new, I'll play something a little uh yeah,

yeah, I've got a got that other mic up. So Brook's youngest

with us. I believe, all right, I believe that some things aren't

true. It's just me that you're gonna try and talk to The closer you

get, the harder I fall. I would do anything, any thing,

adds An. I would swim across the ocean, fly to the moon.

I would walk a thousand miles just get to you. Would walk a thousand

miles just to get to your am relieved to hear your name, the same

up stories. Nothing else has changed, a pigging love. Well we left

eye. It seems like forever since we've been up the barn. I would

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

just get to you. I would balk thousand miles just get to you.

I would walk thousand masks just I'll be with you. But I would walk

thousand masks just to be with you. Very nice, Thank you. I

love it. I love it. Thank you. Brook's youngest here with us

live in studio. And by the way, to go back to that what

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

this. So you had no idea. That was a total surprise. I

had no clue. I probably would never have known. I didn't follow NASCAR.

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

say, like a royalty statement or something like that, right, you

know, alert me. But supposedly this is gonna be a good one though,

So I'm waiting for it. Yeah. Yeah, usually I get paid

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

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

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

yeah, no doubt. Yeah. So tell us again about so you

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

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

the show, I think it was like thirteen or fourteen dates. And it

was a blast. We went to Pennsylvania, which was great, and I

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

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

my home area. Yeah. And a funny story is is I felt more

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

whole life compared to I do at home, No kidding. Yeah, it's

very interesting. Like, so I arrived at Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania at the theater

and there's these two guys outside like the backstage door, and like they knew

who I was. They like want to take pictures and sign stuff like I've

never been there in my whole life. Yeah, and you know, and

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

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

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

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

to meet me and sign stuff and take pictures. And I have a fun

picture of that call yeah, and it was just it was really nice and

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

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

House and the same thing there. I after the show, I walked out

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

and just they were like, hey, you know, we take a picture,

say helloah, and so it was it was really nice and uh everyone

was very welcoming and uh yeah. So I would go up on stage and

I would play a whole set acoustic solo, open up for George, and

then the last song of the night, I would go up on stage with

my electric guitar with George Throw and the Destroyers nice. Yeah, it was

great. And uh, I remember it was the first night when we were

in Pennsylvania and George was like, hey, I like like for you to

come up and play with us, and yeah, and and then I hear

it over the radio because we all have radio. It's big production, you

know, yeah, yeah, of course, you know, tractor trailer truck,

tour buses and everything. And Kip Brooks is guitar ready for you know,

play with George, and we had great guitar tech and uh called rev

and uh he was a great guy and took care of me and my guitars

and and and it was a blast. And I remember that first night in

Pennsylvania being on stage with George and was it kind of surreal, like wow,

I can't yea. And because so George was at Hampton Beach Casino not

too long before I went on tour. I wasn't part of that part of

the tour and but he invited me and I went there, and uh,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

hotel really. Yeah. One of the shows, Yeah, I don't remember

where where it was, but yeah, I had no clo I was just

I was by myself in the hotel. I'm like, well, you know,

very lonely, Like a lot of it is very lonely. Yeah,

that's what people say. Yeah, like I was. I was in Florida

for days because there was this tour kicked off and we did like two maybe

three shows, and then there was like a week off and I went to

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

wife for a few days. And and that's where I got to hang out

and meet Patrick Swayzee's wife, Lisa Sways. Oh yeah, that was great,

and got to see a lot of horses and go around for a few

days. But it was nice to see him because he lives up here,

so it kind of was a little bit of home while I was down there.

And you know, I would you know, FaceTime, you know,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

had you toured with him before? I didn't tour with him, but I

did open for him a few times on separate occasions. Okay o, Yeah,

so I was familiar with George, but I didn't get to spend much

time with him on that year though, but you know, on this tour,

you know, we were hanging out all the time. Yeah, yeah,

and George was George is the only other person who's played this guitar.

Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. I told him the story and I took

it out and I got a great picture of George playing it, and uh

yeah, yeah, he loved it. He's a Gibson guy Gibson, So

yeah, it was. I had a blast. And you know, just

to go out there and have the crew and everybody just really take care of

you and you walk out on the stage, you know, and just the

cheering. And there's actually a live album on my Spotify. It's Brooks Young's

Live and it's the whole acoustic set oh wow, from those shows I did

with George. Oh okay, And there are different songs from different venues that

were taken and they were all recorded professionally right from the board and nice and

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

Stone, oh no kidding. Yeah, I got the whole crowd to sing,

you know, the very cool and you know, to hear you know,

four to six thousand people do that, you know, and we might

have to play that at the end of the segment. It's great. Yeah,

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

Spotify. I'll find it and we'll play it. Yeah, because I'm really

curious now, very cool. Yeah, So you know, now I'm back

home in New Hampshire and uh, I'm kind of itching to get back into

the recording studio, maybe do something. I've been doing a few like solo

things where I go out and play at a few places, which is really

different. When I first came back from on tour and I was doing that,

it was a really weird feeling for me. Really why, I guess,

I don't know. This might sound weird, but I had to set

my own stuff. Oh I'm sorry, sorry, that's sorry, We're we're

on a delay. I caught it. I had to, you know,

set all my own stuff up. And uh so I just got used to,

you know, and then like the audience, you know, like people

when you're on stage at a show like that and the people are there listening

compared to say, you go play whatever restaurant or whatever, you're more like

wallpaper kind of music, right right. And when I first got back,

it was like a really strange feeling about that. Usually you kind of finished

the song, people were like, you know, yeah, and there's no

you know, plates and silverware when you're on stage click him in your ear.

But so it took me a little while to like, Okay, we're

back home. Now here we go. And but next week we're about to

announce a big show for people who are listening. I really can't say too

much about it yet, but there's a theater in New Hampshire. It will

be a New Hampshire show and I myself and the guys in the band will

be headlining this beautiful venue. Cool if you yeah, stay posted. I

think it's next Wednesday, gets announced the next Friday tickets go on sale,

and so we'll be doing that. My longtime, my best buddy Jeff le

Roy, who plays keys in the band in Him and Oregon, he's probably

listening right now. Cool, and so we're really excited. He just went

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

like the whole thing, and we played a couple of shows with it,

and it's just so cool to have and so we're gonna bring it to this

show. And yeah, and I'm really looking forward to it and a fun

thing too about the show coming up. So I started a band playing music

when I was much younger, you know, I was sixteen or so,

but like in middle school, high school. My buddy Jonathan and Josh I

got a guitar once for Christmas, and I was like, hey, guys,

get some instruments, we'll start a band. Yeah. We drove Jonathan's

mother crazy. We had a little tiny room upstairs in the house and the

drum set imagine like a room like a quarter of the size of this,

and you had three of our drum sets. I had like a Martin electric

guitar, a little like Yamaha, I don't know, maybe ten amp or

it didn't even cut through the drums. I was just up there. But

we started a band and the bass player was a great friend of mine lived

down the street, Josh, And uh, he's actually moved back here and

so he's gonna be coming back into the fold of playing some shows nice and

he'll be doing that with us, and so I'm really excited about that.

Oh, very cool. So yeah, it's a weird moment, like everything

comes full circle, like I haven't seen him since we were kids. Yeah,

to see him as a grown adult, that'll be surreal. I was

thinking that the other day and uh yeah, so it's it's been a lot

of fun. The tour was a lot of fun. Back home now thinking

about doing some playing, uh, doing some recording. I'd like to record

up at Mojo Studio up in the White Mountains, yeah, the beautiful place.

Yeah, and did a lot of work with them. I did my

last blues album with them, And that track, that track Restless that we

heard, was that recorded there? No, that was not recorded there.

So I've kind of I've really been taking a lot of time learning the other

end of the music industry, the whole streaming and how things are released now.

Yeah. So those were tracks that we actually recorded a few years years

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

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

shuffle. You imagine how many albums are out there now that people just didn't

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

now, there's a whole Spotify algorithm and releasing things as singles. Well,

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

it was you know, bands would release, or soul artists or whomever would

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

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

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

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

on the show there there's they talk about their strategy is to just release singles

and then eventually those singles become either an EP or an album. Yeah,

so it's it's just kind of flipped on it said. Yeah, so I've

been listening to like a lot of audio books about it, reading a lot

of things, and like, for instance, Restless just came out, I

don't know, a few weeks ago. I think it has almost twelve thousand

streams on it. It had like ten thousand or so like the first couple

of days that was released. And usually when you released like an album,

you're lucky if you get that on something. So it just brought more attention

to those songs. Yeah, and you know, the more I think about

it, I'm like, geez, I have a bunch of albums you know

that it just kind of you know, toss something in here and there.

You know that really did well when we released it, but just didn't have

that spotlight on it, yeah, because it was released within an album.

Right. So Jeff and I the keyboard player, we've been talking about that.

So we're itching to record a little bit and we might go up to

Mojo's studio. We were thinking about. There's another new location down in darry

there's a recording studio down there, so we'll see. Yeah, what we

do. I gotta work on I've been writing a lot doing that and uh,

just kind of living life a little bit. Yeah, yeah, you

want to play another you want to play another live one? Yeah, sure,

let's do it, all right. Let me get that other mike up

and Brook's youngest here with us. If you're just joining us, he's live

in studio with us. He's uh, I'm gonna play another live song,

and uh, while you do that, I'm gonna find miss you. I

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

H This song here is called we were Young? All right, we

will young? Wow? Remember you still be all? I know it's all

out of see you can't let me it's something that you still be Falling down

can be so hard? Would you catch me? Look at my phone?

All I know, it's all I see. Check me back. It's something

that yous to be here falling down can please so hard? Would you catch

me? Leave my father? Falling down be so hard? Would you catch

me? Beautiful Brooks Young is here with us live in studio. So in

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

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

for another another tour? Like, uh, do you have anybody you're obviously

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

reveal it, but I'm just curious if you if you do have anything in

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

good good, Yeah. So uh and then a few other things in the

works. I uh really just been focusing on doing some writing and just kind

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

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

no, yeah, yeah, and then the whole crew and everyone did too,

like the last two shows and I just, I mean just recently,

like got better. I was sick for months. Oh my god, it

was, it was, it was really bad. Was some type of I

don't know if it was a flu type thing or some long COVID thing or

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

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

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

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

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

like I did a few shows because I had to. When I first

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

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

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

back, like I felt like just drained and and being on the road like

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

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

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

get through? Yeah, the last the last two were and you know,

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

I'd go on, and I had to be careful because once you're up there,

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

you know. Yeah, you're up there and you either hold it and

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

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

and just I was taking some other medicine and stuff towards agaend. You know,

you could hear it in my voice really yeah. Yeah. And then

during the day, you know, when I was you know, off on

the shows, you know, I drink a lot of you know tea as

well, throat coat tea, yeah, and all that, and yeah,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like I'm feeling good, and then like two or three days would go by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, it just I didn't have the energy too. And I just

got a great guitar, just got an endorsement deal with PRS Guitars. Oh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh no kidding, Yeah, oh wow. And so they said they looked

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

got back to me. He said, yeah, we'd love to have you

part of PRS. Very cool. And yeah, he's like what color would

you want? You know? And I my girlfriend and I we just got

a Sphinx cat, a hairless cat. Really, her name is Rose.

Well, they had a PRS and a rose like color. It was like

a winish rose. It was called Midnight Rose. And I was like,

oh, that would be cool, and she's like, yeah, you should

get that one. And they had one at the factory and they found like

it had like a slight defect and like, we don't want you to have

this. We're going to give you this new one that's just barely out that

Porsche one. Wow. So yeah, like a few days later, a

week later, it showed up on the doorstep and yeah, so I can't

wait to go on stage and play it, no doubt. So the guitar

matches the cat No, so so our cat Rose. She's deaf. She's

a sphinx and she's like she's six months old, and but she loves when

I play guitar really like. Yeah, So when I took the guitar out

the other day, I was just telling you, she comes up and she

sits on my lap and she's like, paw, I have great video of

it. And cat people. Yeah, yeah, we have two cats.

We love them. Yeah, So it's very interest because she's deaf, but

sometimes I think maybe she's not deaft, so it probably probably feels the vibrations.

Yeah, the vibrations, and she loves it. So it's really hard

for me sometimes to practice, yeah, because if I'm there sitting, she

wants to be part of it. She's like, yeah, I'm playing exactly,

So get her a little mini guitar I know, right, probably playing

yeah yeah, but yeah, she loves this guitar. And so yeah,

so I got sick. I finally got over it, and you know,

I got my voice back a bit and uh, which is great. So

I'm just really looking forward to getting together with my bandmates and doing some show.

We've got a couple of stuff, a couple of things lined up with

the full group, and it's just great to play with my friends. And

yeah, you know, it comes to point where you know, you're playing

with the people that you've known for years and it's kind of like just friends

getting together. Yeah, so I really love that. And and and Jeff

Leroy, if I keep bringing up the keys player, him and I have

been together playing for I think about eighteen years now, wow, and we

were much better looking back then. He would come over to the house,

I remember, and and uh, we were just play music together and write

stuff and then we're like, hey, we get the band going, and

then boom, we got a phone call. Hey bb King would like you

to open up for him. Yeah, you know, and we we weren't

really ready for anything like that, you know. Yeah, I remember you

told that story last time you're here, and yeah, that's that's wild.

And that right there, doing that like open the doors for so much.

Yeah, and so you never know, Yeah that's true, you really don't.

You never know? That's true. Well, so much of it is

being being ready for those opportunities when they are when they arise, because yeah,

you might you might not think you're ready for something. Yeah, and

you might really not be ready for something, but when opportunity knocks, you

got to open the door, whether you're ready or not. Yeah, and

sees that opportunity. So I always have gone by this quote I heard from

h is it is it Richard Branson who owned Virgin Mobile and they yeah,

yeah, he he always said to apply for a job, where if someone

asks you for a job that's way above your head that you can't do,

never say no, right, always say yes, then figure it out right

right. Yeah. Yeah, So I've always kind of went by that.

Yeah. Yeah, and uh, because we were in no shape or form

to you know, go play with me. We didn't even I don't even

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

song Insomnia that I've played on the show. That's the Jinks yet and that

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

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

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

were offered a show at un H at a dorm party at un H,

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

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

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

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

we're not going to have much time to practice at all, but uh,

what do you think? And I remember thinking, and I hadn't even picked

up my bass in a really long time, because I'm I'm very I'm kind

of ashamed of this, but I'm a very practical person in the sense that

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

and and you know, if you're a musician, you should always play,

whether they have a reason or not, but I don't. But anyway,

so I hadn't picked up my bass in a long time. So I'm thinking,

oh, this is nuts. And the shows in like two weeks and

we're gonna have barely any time to practice, and uh, you know,

I haven't played in a while anyway, so I'm rusty. So so I

had convinced myself it was a terrible idea, and then I called him.

But the other thing is, I'm also I don't like to disappoint somebody,

so and Troy is such a great guy, and if you ever meet him,

you know he's he's one of these people you just he's so nice.

He's such a nice guy that you you don't want to disappoint him. So

I'd said, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna call him. I'm just

gonna tell him, dude, i don't think this is gonna work. And

I call him, and just almost as though I wasn't even in control of

what I was doing, just out of my mouth comes, yeah, that

sounds great, let's do it. But we weren't ready, and we were

probably terrible, but we played anyway, we did the show and it went

great. You know, we got a great reaction and that and from that,

a whole lot of other things happened From me being in that band.

I might not be doing this radio show today had I not been in that

band, because you know, it's one of those things you go back and

you think about and you realize all the things that flowed from that one moment

of me saying yes to something that I was sure I wasn't ready for,

that they weren't ready for. That was a crazy idea and we were all

going to be humiliated and embarrassed. I was so sure of it, but

I said yes anyway, and all kinds of stuff came from it. So,

yeah, that's great. That's a good story. Yeah, yeah,

it's something I remind myself when i'm you know, when i'm thinking, when

I'm feeling like, oh, I have this I want to do that I

want to do, but I probably can't, you know, I'm going to

fail out it even attempt, and then I think about that to that that

story with the Jinkst But yeah, so good, good advice for people listening

totally. So yeah, you never know, like, just give it a

shot and say yes. Sometimes yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. It's it's

safer to say no, but then you might regret it later, you know.

Yeah. The worst thing is you know, thinking back and wondering,

I really wanted to do that, but I don't know, I talk myself

out of it. What if I had done it? You know. Yeah,

I could say the same thing about like going on that tour, Like

I was asked to do it, and there was a small part of me

I was like, yeah, you know, gonna be away from home for

a while, you know, and I it was a lot because I was

far. I was a long ways away. Yeah, like I was far

yea, And there was no like just come home, you know. Once

I was gone right right, and you know, I did get a little

homesick, you know. And you know, my girlfriend Kendrick, you know,

she's a huge part of my life and like to be away and and

not you know, And that was a real big moment for me because you

know, of being gone and I had to I had I was able to

look forward to her coming out to some of the shows, you know.

And but that was the first time like I was like just kind of by

myself. Like my tour manager he came out with me, and he was

there for a majority of the tour and helped with things and thank god,

you know. But towards the end of the tour, the last few shows,

I was kind of on my own. Yeah, and yeah, Georgia.

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

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

went to the Hank Williams Museum. Yeah, yeah, it was really nice.

And that was a really great venue there and a funny thing and funny

story I went into when I'm downtime. You know, this is this was

my first like larger tour, and you know, I just have I have

a rolling stone suitcase that I travel along with it all their logo all over.

Oh nice, And I pull into I had to do laundry. Yeah,

yeah, you know, I have an off day. So I went

to a laundry mat and uh, you know, I it was so welcoming.

I went in there and so why I was watching There was a guitar

center across the street. You know, I'm like, well, you know,

go to the guitar store. And I walked in there and uh,

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

the venue was down the street. You're you're with George Thorough good, aren't

you? And I said yeah, yeah, I am, and they're like,

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

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

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

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

so I went in and grabbed it and they were like, no, you're

all set, thank you for coming in here. And and then I walked

back out to go to the laundrymat and some guy came up to me and

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

didn't want to ask you in the store, would you mind? He like

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

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

and my wife and and it was just really cool, and you just you

never know. And I ate at a Mexican restaurant by the Hank Williams Museum

and sat there and all those folks like new and the lady who owned the

place wanted to take a picture and sign stuff. Yea, and yeah,

it was just it was really interesting, you know, and you do that

and play down there and then you come up here and play it. It

was just so different New Hampshire, so different compared to down South. Yeah,

it really is. There's a lot of great people up here. I

find the venues are a bit different up here, like the programming of what

goes on at venues is definitely different. And we're very lucky in you after

here we have some gorgeous venues. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah,

And so you know I love that. But yeah, I'm feeling better

now and I'm good. I'm gonna do something now. Yeah, I feel

better. Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent, The time goes, the

time goes quickly, Brooks. But before we before we wrap up and I

am going to play at the end of the segment from your So that's a

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

I don't know how I forget. But you were talking about earlier you

covered miss You by the Stones. Yeah, so looking forward to hearing that's

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

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

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

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

com. Yes, Instagram at Brooks Young under brooks Underscore Young Underscore Music and

it's me with this guitar here the little blue check mark. So yeah,

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

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

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

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

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

Wow, And finally it was It took an act of God to get Instagram

to remove the account, and let me tell you, it was not easy.

Really. Yeah. The only the only way that they will remove something

is if the account is asking for money from oh Oka, remember that.

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

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

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

and they finally But that happens a lot on Facebook too, Like I'm sure,

it's happened all of us. You know, you get a message from

somebody that you're already friends with, yeah, like and there, and they're

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

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

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

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

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

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

yeah, anyways, but but the hub is Brooks youong dot com. Yeah,

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

to see your Brooks side man. Congratulations again on the to ears. Let's

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

Yeah. My favorite part of it is when you can hear the audience sing

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

like, you know what, Hey, all right, let's uh, let's

check this out. I've been holding ex long. I been sleeping all alone.

Well a mission we I've been holding ex long and I've been sleeping long

lone that I won't tis you that sh that happen had a sleep. You've

been stung in my dreams. People think I were lad you walking in the

hall lid, you waiting on your clock with the fall. Just friend about

a six, we start a man. We're gonna go around swell and support

of nicky gals. We just dang to meet you. We're gonna friend of

the sway. We're gonna heart to lap the jack, you know lap,

I say, do it? But he day why he waits so loud over

here while you waiting so loud, and watch ball. I been singing after

job, people say, young price and I shugar and shoes and I looked

so so much the bens lay watch not moll w llow right away so loud?

Why way the sun the boy come on and round lacause I lie to

myself and you know, moment and men shoe Oh if guys tell me y'all

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