Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Kat Ivy
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Speaker 1: they would say. They put on the games, those on stair,
Speaker 1: colored trees, head on the stone.
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Speaker 1: the play.
Speaker 2: Sweeper was now long for.
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Speaker 2: Holy twenty three, say goodbye.
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Speaker 1: balls place quite the trace somewhere.
Speaker 2: And know it's to speak good thing I would say and.
Speaker 6: Drove down off.
Speaker 2: Oh never, that's why I don't know how a boy speak.
Speaker 2: Love fair.
Speaker 7: What a beautiful song. That is kat Ivy, who is
Speaker 7: with us in studio and we're gonna speak with just
Speaker 7: a moment. Welcome everybody. This is our number two New
Speaker 7: Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we are live
Speaker 7: from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three
Speaker 7: FM on this glorious Saturday, February fifteen, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7: Jenny is here as well, of course, at the news
Speaker 7: table and joining us in studio. Kat Ivy is here
Speaker 7: with us.
Speaker 8: Good morning morning.
Speaker 7: Hi, are you very well? Very well? You were saying
Speaker 7: off air? Excuse me, I have my winter voice as
Speaker 7: many of us do. Oh yeah, so you were saying
Speaker 7: off air. So this is your your first time doing
Speaker 7: a radio interview.
Speaker 8: It is, yeah, baby's first radio interview.
Speaker 7: Oh very cool, very cool. Well, welcome and is that
Speaker 7: the first Excuse me? What it's not the first thing
Speaker 7: that you've had on YouTube, obviously, but this is a
Speaker 7: brand new single, right, this is relatively Yes, this.
Speaker 9: Was I released it back in November. Actually, I released
Speaker 9: this on my birthday, November twenty eighth this past which
Speaker 9: is also Thanksgiving this year.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, yeah, very cool. How long have you been?
Speaker 7: How long have you been active as a singer songwriter
Speaker 7: in the area?
Speaker 8: In the area.
Speaker 9: So, honestly, it's funny because I started when I was eighteen,
Speaker 9: playing music around like the New England area. Yeah, and
Speaker 9: for about like maybe two years I did it, and
Speaker 9: then I took a hiatus and traveled and got married
Speaker 9: and moved to Hawaii, lived there for a little bit
Speaker 9: and then wow, yeah.
Speaker 8: And then twenty twenty three I kind of started to
Speaker 8: back up again.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I've been doing this, I guess now is
Speaker 9: like trying to be a full time career around New
Speaker 9: England since then.
Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent. How did we How did we meet you?
Speaker 10: Did?
Speaker 7: Did you come to us through Eric?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: Come out? Yes, I thought so.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's been on the show a bunch of times
Speaker 7: and he's amazing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's great, he's great. I'm actually going to play
Speaker 8: a show with him.
Speaker 7: So oh no, that's okay, what's that he sends me
Speaker 7: the most amazing artists, and your voice is just incredibly
Speaker 7: beautiful to listen to.
Speaker 8: I really love you, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely. Where was that recorded, by the way, So.
Speaker 9: That's actually recorded in my home studio, which is just
Speaker 9: my house. And I worked with a producer in Nashville.
Speaker 9: Her name is Abby Lauren and worked on this with me,
Speaker 9: and she recorded the instruments for me at her home studio.
Speaker 9: Oh no, kidding, Yeah, So we collabed online. It was
Speaker 9: just all online.
Speaker 7: So did you do You did the vocals and guitar,
Speaker 7: I assume, yeah, and then she did everything else.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, It's really cool and I would imagine too. I mean,
Speaker 7: with just the vocals and guitar, it would sound great,
Speaker 7: you know if it were you know, a little bit
Speaker 7: stripped down. But the but what she added to it,
Speaker 7: the texture, is really cool, especially since when the song starts,
Speaker 7: this is just my obsor I overanalyze these things, but
Speaker 7: when the song starts, you don't necessarily expect to hear
Speaker 7: those additional elements, So then when they kind of come in,
Speaker 7: it's like, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, and it sort of
Speaker 7: elevates the song as it goes, So that's really nice. Now,
Speaker 7: how Abby Lauren that's her name? Yes, okay, and how
Speaker 7: did you come to work with her?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 9: Actually, I found her on a website called sound Better,
Speaker 9: and I was just trying to look for a producer
Speaker 9: for that song because that song is very obviously, very
Speaker 9: personal to me, and for my other songs, I actually
Speaker 9: work with my dad, but this one was a little
Speaker 9: bit personal. So I wanted to get a little bit
Speaker 9: of an outside perspective on it, and so I went, yeah,
Speaker 9: I went on the website sound Better, and I found
Speaker 9: her on there, and I messaged her to work with her,
Speaker 9: and she accepted, and we've collapsed and we're actually clabbing
Speaker 9: on a new song coming up hopefully soon the next
Speaker 9: couple of months right now.
Speaker 8: So I'm excited. She's been great to work with.
Speaker 7: Oh excellent, Now sound Better. I feel like I've heard
Speaker 7: of sites like that, but I don't think i've heard
Speaker 7: of that one exactly. So is it is it a
Speaker 7: situation where like you go on there and you present
Speaker 7: your music and different producers can kind.
Speaker 9: Of yeah, yeah, So it's kind of like, oh my god,
Speaker 9: I can't think of the other website that I want
Speaker 9: to think of right now.
Speaker 7: I can't because I know the one I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's if.
Speaker 9: It's kind of like also if you try to artists
Speaker 9: to do work for you. It's kind of something like that.
Speaker 9: And I had just came across it. I just typed
Speaker 9: in on Google, like producers near me in Boston, and
Speaker 9: that website came up and I was like, oh, let
Speaker 9: me check it out, and then her picture was one
Speaker 9: of the first ones I came up. And I was
Speaker 9: looking at other ones, but I really was drawn to
Speaker 9: her and her energy, so you know, I was like,
Speaker 9: you know what, I'm gonna reach out to her and
Speaker 9: send her my demo and yeah, so if they accept it,
Speaker 9: they'll let you know, and you kind of have to just.
Speaker 8: Work through the website.
Speaker 9: Okay, so that way, like you know, if anything weird happens,
Speaker 9: like there's some liability there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, yeah that makes sense. So you're gonna
Speaker 7: work with her on the next one as well?
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, yes, I'm currently doing that right now.
Speaker 2: Oh you are? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Is it is?
Speaker 7: It kind of a similar process where you're doing the
Speaker 7: vocals and guitar and then she's going to add elements.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 9: We'd go on a zoom call beforehand and we kind
Speaker 9: of talk about, you know, go through the song and
Speaker 9: talk about like what we want in it and what
Speaker 9: how do you think it would sound.
Speaker 7: And yeah, all that so outstanding. Yeah, you mentioned working
Speaker 7: with your dad, So dad also recorded some of your
Speaker 7: your previous songs.
Speaker 9: Yes, so my songs Indiana Jones and Memory Lane that
Speaker 9: I have out as well. He was the one that
Speaker 9: produced with me on those songs. So he used to
Speaker 9: be a musician himself. His band in the eighties was
Speaker 9: called Explicit.
Speaker 7: Okay, and I that name has come up on the
Speaker 7: show before.
Speaker 12: Oh really, it's like Explicit, Yeah, okay, there's somebody who
Speaker 12: has been on the show who either either was in
Speaker 12: that band or had a probably more.
Speaker 7: Likely had a parent. Yeah, yeah, okay, because I swear
Speaker 7: that name has come up before. That's interesting.
Speaker 8: That's so funny.
Speaker 9: That would be fun I mean, I know that some
Speaker 9: of the band members do live around here, so I'm
Speaker 9: not surprised that did come up.
Speaker 7: It makes sense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, so he used to be in that band,
Speaker 9: and then you know, I kind of came along and
Speaker 9: he'd stopped music for a while to you know, support
Speaker 9: the family, and when I, like, I had some interest
Speaker 9: in doing music, he was obviously super excited and he
Speaker 9: started working on these songs with me as well. And
Speaker 9: he also plays like the instruments and stuff too, and yeah,
Speaker 9: so it's been a learning process.
Speaker 8: With us both for that as well.
Speaker 7: What he does, he play guitar, he.
Speaker 9: Does, he plays guitar, He does a lot of like keyboards.
Speaker 9: I was I think his main instrument was keyboard.
Speaker 8: He was in the band.
Speaker 9: He doesn't do any of the singing, so I didn't
Speaker 9: get that from him. I did get that from my mom.
Speaker 9: Who's I think listening right now, So shout out to
Speaker 9: my mom. Okay, but yeah I got my singing from
Speaker 9: her and the instruments from him.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, coming from a musical family, yeah, it was
Speaker 7: bound to you.
Speaker 8: Know that you would, it was bound to stick at
Speaker 8: some point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, that's cool. Did he teach you how to
Speaker 7: play guitar or did you take lessons or did you
Speaker 7: learn on your own?
Speaker 9: So he bought me my first guitar when I was
Speaker 9: five years old. There's some videos of me like trying
Speaker 9: to play, obviously not doing it very well, like an
Speaker 9: electric little mini red Fender guitar. Yeah, and then around
Speaker 9: twelve years old, since I was still expressing really interest
Speaker 9: in wanting to learn, they put me in some lessons.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. Do you like when did you
Speaker 7: start writing your own songs? Do you know? Around what
Speaker 7: age you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So around also twelve years old is when I started
Speaker 9: writing lyrics to songs. I was going through a lot
Speaker 9: of you know, just stuff in my home life and
Speaker 9: you know, in my personal life and everything, and I
Speaker 9: didn't really know how to express my feelings. So actually
Speaker 9: I learned from my favorite band, whose Life House, And
Speaker 9: they've been my favorite band for a long time. The
Speaker 9: singer would say that his therapy was writing music. Okay,
Speaker 9: so because they were such an idol to me, that
Speaker 9: was like, all right, let me try that. So I
Speaker 9: started writing lyrics just to kind of get my feelings
Speaker 9: out of like you know, home stuff, personal stuff, and
Speaker 9: then maybe like boys or whatever, you know, just like
Speaker 9: small twelve year old things. And I kind of grew
Speaker 9: with me as I got older, and it's now a
Speaker 9: therapy to me. I don't think I could live without
Speaker 9: doing it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 9: I actually, the first song I ever wrote with music
Speaker 9: attached to it because I for a long time I
Speaker 9: just wrote lyrics and like, maybe someday I'll go back
Speaker 9: to those. But yeah, I think the first song I
Speaker 9: ever wrote with music was about a boy that I
Speaker 9: liked in eighth grade.
Speaker 8: And there's still a video of me, Like I didn't
Speaker 8: post it anywhere.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's still a video I have of me on
Speaker 9: my computer singing that song because I was gonna try
Speaker 9: and be brave, but I'm kind of glad I didn't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm trying to remember now, Life House, what was
Speaker 7: their big breakout hit? When when they because I remember
Speaker 7: a Life House or yeah, I can't, but I'm drying
Speaker 7: a blank on Uh what they what? When? When did
Speaker 7: they get big? Like early two thousands?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it was like the like two thousand, like
Speaker 9: two thousand and two thousand and one. Their first hit
Speaker 9: was Hanging by a Moment.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah it was it was
Speaker 7: in it was in there, but I couldn't quite recall. Okay,
Speaker 7: So that was their big breakout, but they had they
Speaker 7: had other hits.
Speaker 9: Right, yeah they You and Me another huge hit for
Speaker 9: them back in like two thousand and five. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: first time was a big hit.
Speaker 7: Yep, I remember that one now yeah yeah, so very.
Speaker 9: Much like in the two thousand, between two thousand and
Speaker 9: twenty ten, like they had their like prime yeahs.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah. Are they still together?
Speaker 9: No, I don't think they're like they never said they
Speaker 9: broke up per se. But I know the lead singer,
Speaker 9: Jason Wade, does do solo shows right now. I actually
Speaker 9: just went to his solo show back in November. I
Speaker 9: think he played in was its Massachusetts somewhere I forget
Speaker 9: exactly where it was, but it was awesome.
Speaker 8: Honestly.
Speaker 9: It was such an intimate show too, Like he just
Speaker 9: had him and his guitar and his other bandmate and
Speaker 9: his guitar and just oh.
Speaker 8: Cool saying songs that we knew, and it was really awesome.
Speaker 7: Do they do Just Life House?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: And then he has his own solo stuff as well
Speaker 8: that he's been doing.
Speaker 7: So did you get to meet him?
Speaker 8: I've met him a few times actually, yeah.
Speaker 9: I have been able to tell him that he's been
Speaker 9: an inspiration to me and his songs have been, you know,
Speaker 9: helpful for me going through my life.
Speaker 8: So that's an awesome one. And he's so nice, super nice.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's cool, and that's such an inspiration to me
Speaker 9: as well as being a musician myself, you know, like
Speaker 9: having those experiences and meeting your idols as musicians, because
Speaker 9: sometimes you know, it's not good to meet your idols,
Speaker 9: but I thankfully had such a great experience with them
Speaker 9: that it's shaped me for sure.
Speaker 7: No, that's really good. Yeah, because they you know, they
Speaker 7: always say, don't meet your heroes. Yeah, but but sometimes
Speaker 7: it actually does turn out well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so far I've had some good experiences, so hopefully
Speaker 9: that keeps going.
Speaker 7: That's awesome. Now do you play, So you play guitar?
Speaker 7: Do you play anything in addition to guitar?
Speaker 9: No, right now, just guitar. I am learning piano. I
Speaker 9: do wish I was better at piano. I kicked myself
Speaker 9: sometimes for not learning earlier. But yeah, yeah, so kind
Speaker 9: of just guitar, singing, writing, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And when you play out, is it always just you?
Speaker 7: Or do you have does anyone join you?
Speaker 8: No, it's it's just me. Yeah, even like bringing my
Speaker 8: own equipment inside.
Speaker 9: Actually, I had some really nice people last night who
Speaker 9: I played at the Steelheel Resort at their Tova tavern,
Speaker 9: the Little bar area.
Speaker 8: It's like up near Laconia.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I had this really awesome group of people help
Speaker 9: me bring my equipment outside after the show. Because usually
Speaker 9: it's just me carrying all my heavy stuff. I'm just like,
Speaker 9: all right, yeah, I'm to go now, you know. But
Speaker 9: they were like, we can't watch you bring these out
Speaker 9: by yourself.
Speaker 8: We're going to help you. And I loved That's so
Speaker 8: so nice. I just I'm so thankful for people like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is really cool. How much How many songs
Speaker 7: do you have in terms of original material, like when
Speaker 7: you go to play live, how many do you have
Speaker 7: to play?
Speaker 8: I've quite a bit. I'd say I have probably like
Speaker 8: twelve ready.
Speaker 9: Obviously I don't have that many out right now as
Speaker 9: I'm like currently working on the process of recording those.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but yeah, i'd say about twelve thirteen.
Speaker 7: Maybe do you do you must do some covers you
Speaker 7: would imagine, Oh, of course, yeah.
Speaker 9: I do definitely mostly covers, just because you know, it's
Speaker 9: good to play what people know. Yeah, and then I
Speaker 9: try to put in at least like three or four
Speaker 9: of my original songs in there as well.
Speaker 7: What do you do for covers? I'm always curious because
Speaker 7: I've always my theory has always been you can kind
Speaker 7: of learn a lot about someone's influences by the covers
Speaker 7: that they play.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 9: I'd say it's a range, but definitely early two thousands,
Speaker 9: kind of like you know, the lifehouse type genre, you know,
Speaker 9: like stuff that was popular like Coldplay, Lifehouse, Nickelback, which
Speaker 9: I know people have some mixed feelings on Niccleback.
Speaker 8: I personally thought they were a great band.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Taylor Swift obviously, and like you know, some of
Speaker 9: the new stuff from like Sabrina Carpenter and all that,
Speaker 9: and then some country in there as well. I try
Speaker 9: to really do a good mix, but a lot of
Speaker 9: popular songs that people will be like, oh, I forgot
Speaker 9: about this one.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. Nickelback does get a lot of hate, and
Speaker 7: yeah they have for a long time. And it's but
Speaker 7: it's almost like it's it's almost like it's not real,
Speaker 7: like like at a certain point it just became cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Nickelback, it was a Vandwagon thing for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah. It's like, uh, but sometimes too, these things kind
Speaker 7: of come around, Like I remember, not not that long go,
Speaker 7: when it was cool to hate to hate Limp Biscuit yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: and now it's like cool to like limp biscuits.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It's kind of like.
Speaker 9: The trends, right, like the clothing trends too, where something
Speaker 9: was cool back in the day and then people made
Speaker 9: fun of it and then it starts to get become
Speaker 9: cool again. It's in thrift soars and you know, everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 9: I need that new thing right right?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Now, what are your kind of your your long term
Speaker 7: plans and goals have you? Do you plan to tour?
Speaker 7: Do you plan to find that?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm curious and I don't know if you've thought
Speaker 7: that far. I mean sometimes when you're you know, when
Speaker 7: you're working as a musician, sometimes you almost can't plan
Speaker 7: too far ahead because things are so unpredictable.
Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, honestly I do try to think about it,
Speaker 9: but then I also try not to think about it
Speaker 9: too much, yeah, because then I'll get in my own
Speaker 9: head if like maybe a timeline thing didn't happen quite yet.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but of course I would love to tour.
Speaker 9: That's like my big goal is to tour on my
Speaker 9: original music and to have an audience for my original music.
Speaker 9: That's always been my goal since I started doing music. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so that would be awesome and amazing for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Who is kind of your your dream like national
Speaker 7: act to tour with? Like do you have do you
Speaker 7: have somebody in mind who you'd really love to open for?
Speaker 8: NOA Kon? For sure?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure who that is.
Speaker 8: Oh, he's from Vermont and New Hampshire.
Speaker 9: Actually he grew up in oh, I think Upward, New Hampshire,
Speaker 9: I forget the town. But then he moved to Vermont
Speaker 9: and his newest album is called Sixth Season and it's
Speaker 9: talking about basically living in New England and living in
Speaker 9: Vermont and stuff.
Speaker 7: And oh, we gotta get him on the show NOA
Speaker 7: Kon I.
Speaker 9: Mean, yeah, he's gotten pretty big recently. He actually played
Speaker 9: at Fenway last year. Yeah, and it was an amazing show.
Speaker 8: I went to that. But yeah, oh my god, if
Speaker 8: I could open for NOA Kon that would be great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: Any anybody else you kind of have in mind who
Speaker 7: you'd like to open for?
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I mean obviously there's some amazing you know, musicians around
Speaker 9: New Hampshire as well, Like I would love to play
Speaker 9: a show like re Becca Termol. Yeah, you know, I'm
Speaker 9: gonna be I think playing a show with Katie Dobbins
Speaker 9: because I know she's awesome too.
Speaker 7: Oh, very cool. Yeah, she's she's been so I haven't
Speaker 7: seen her in probably two or three years, but she's
Speaker 7: she's been on the show a couple of times. And
Speaker 7: Rebecca Turmel she was on maybe six months ago, okay,
Speaker 7: and she's yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think I'm playing a show in April
Speaker 9: Aprily Teeth. I want to say with Temple Mountain too,
Speaker 9: so I'll be opening for an activist, so that'll be cool.
Speaker 9: But any like national Ones, I don't know. I feel
Speaker 9: like I like a lot of people that are really big.
Speaker 9: I guess I could dream big, but you know, sometimes
Speaker 9: like I don't know, but I know there's this artist
Speaker 9: in uh I think based in Los Angeles. Her name
Speaker 9: is Blue Eyes, okay, and I get a lot of
Speaker 9: my inspiration from her music too, And I you know,
Speaker 9: she was doing some tour with Hunter Hayes. I want
Speaker 9: to say opening for him, so, I mean that would
Speaker 9: be really cool because I love her stuff too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you do play out, do you are you
Speaker 7: able to like, do you get out of New England
Speaker 7: at all?
Speaker 8: Or are you not yet I will.
Speaker 9: I've been looking actually recently in like obviously Nashville to
Speaker 9: see if there's like some things I could try and
Speaker 9: you know, kind of dip my toes in in there.
Speaker 8: I know it's a huge, big world over there. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but I would love to go down in Nashville.
Speaker 7: Yeah. A lot of our guests have done that, and
Speaker 7: and the stories and the experiences they have are generally positive,
Speaker 7: because I would imagine it would be intimidating, you know, yeah,
Speaker 7: oh yeah, but uh, but most people seem to find
Speaker 7: it pretty more welcoming than they necessarily expect and out good. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the producer that that that you're you've been working.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, what name Lauren?
Speaker 7: Abby? Lauren?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 7: Has she has? She talked to you about that, like
Speaker 7: trying to get you to go down there a little bit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean she's definitely.
Speaker 9: I asked her some advice, you know, and she said that, I,
Speaker 9: you know, to do a lot more like singer Songwriter
Speaker 9: Nights and a lot more of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: And yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Haven't asked her the exact places, but I probably should, Yeah,
Speaker 9: to see like if she recommend anywhere I can try.
Speaker 7: Yeah, got to go yeah, yeah, no doubt, I think
Speaker 7: we should play. So you've got more, You've got a
Speaker 7: couple of other songs online, and I think we should
Speaker 7: play this because partly because I'm curious to ask you
Speaker 7: about it. Sure, Indiana Jones, Yeah, tell us about this
Speaker 7: song because obviously, you know, people know Indiana Jones before
Speaker 7: the movie. And yeah, you know, I'm old enough to remember.
Speaker 7: When I was a kid, my dad took me to
Speaker 7: see the original Indiana Jones movie Lot of Stark. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: but tell us about this song.
Speaker 9: So, yeah, Indiana Jones. Well, you know the name is
Speaker 9: has the movie involved. It is not really about the movie,
Speaker 9: but it did take inspiration from the movie. Okay, So
Speaker 9: the the part of the movie, which is the most
Speaker 9: popular part where you know, Indy goes into the tomb
Speaker 9: and he takes the artifact and he replaces it with
Speaker 9: the bag of sand yep. I kind of related that
Speaker 9: to how time takes things from people in your life
Speaker 9: and tries to kind of replace it with something else,
Speaker 9: but nothing could ever truly fill that void.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 9: It's like if someone passes from your life, right and
Speaker 9: maybe like a friend or something, and maybe you meet
Speaker 9: another friend later on in life.
Speaker 8: They kind of remind you of that friend.
Speaker 9: They kind of start feeling that not they feeling the place,
Speaker 9: but you know, kind of reminding you of how that
Speaker 9: friend made you feel.
Speaker 8: But it's never going to truly feel that void.
Speaker 9: And I feel like time does that with a lot
Speaker 9: of things, where it takes things from you and a
Speaker 9: lot of things change.
Speaker 8: And during that I thought that it's always.
Speaker 9: Nice to kind of think of things that say the same,
Speaker 9: like it's always going to rain, the sun's always going
Speaker 9: to come out in the same way. The song that
Speaker 9: you heard back in nineteen ninety nine still sounds the
Speaker 9: same to this day, you know, so you kind of
Speaker 9: have to pick out the things that are saying the
Speaker 9: same to help you go through the change in your life.
Speaker 8: Yeah, kind of what that's about.
Speaker 7: No, And that's very relatable. And I think too, you know,
Speaker 7: you mentioned like a song you heard back in ninety nine.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's very relatable for people. I think
Speaker 7: that's a big part of why. I mean, it's funny.
Speaker 7: I was saying to somebody just recently, there are some
Speaker 7: things I'll hear that I liked a lot long time ago,
Speaker 7: and some things I'll hear that I liked a long
Speaker 7: time ago, and I'll go, wow, I used to like that, really,
Speaker 7: but yeah, but then there's other things you know that
Speaker 7: I'll hear that I liked a long time ago, that
Speaker 7: I'll hear them now and I love them as much
Speaker 7: as the first time I heard them, Right, And I
Speaker 7: think that, and I think that's kind of part of
Speaker 7: what what you're Oh, yeah exactly, Yeah, I think, And
Speaker 7: I think music is probably the single greatest example of that.
Speaker 7: You know, you hear, you hear something you love from
Speaker 7: a long time ago, and it's it's there's almost a comfort.
Speaker 9: To it, Yeah exactly, And that's kind of what that's about.
Speaker 9: Just kind of find comfort in that.
Speaker 7: Very cool, very cool. All right, So let's give this
Speaker 7: a spin. So this is called Indiana Jones and if
Speaker 7: you are just joining us, kat Ivy is here with
Speaker 7: us live in studio, and uh, let's give this a listen.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say where.
Speaker 2: Begging and stiffy.
Speaker 7: Jo and that is kat Ivy who is here with
Speaker 7: us in studio on this Saturday morning, And yeah, very
Speaker 7: cool song. Are people able to.
Speaker 11: Do?
Speaker 7: People ever talk to you about the song and kind
Speaker 7: of know without you explaining it.
Speaker 4: What the.
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 2: I don't really know.
Speaker 9: I do when I play out, I like to kind
Speaker 9: of give a little brief of you know, what I'm singing,
Speaker 9: especially since people don't know my music mostly and I
Speaker 9: want to give away for them to connec to it,
Speaker 9: you know, especially if they're hearing it.
Speaker 8: For the first time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I also love to leave it up to interpretation,
Speaker 9: you know. I would love to have someone listen to
Speaker 9: my song and maybe put it into their own life,
Speaker 9: even if it's not at all what I wrote it about,
Speaker 9: if they can relate to it in any way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's my you know, that's my dream.
Speaker 7: No, that's cool. I've always thought when uh, you know,
Speaker 7: if I really if I really love a song and
Speaker 7: it means something to me, and then I hear I
Speaker 7: don't know if this has ever happened to you, but
Speaker 7: when I hear, then I hear the person who wrote
Speaker 7: it explain it, and it turns out that what they
Speaker 7: had in mind was something completely different from what it
Speaker 7: means to me. There's that there's that weird sensation of
Speaker 7: oh right, you know, and then and it shouldn't be
Speaker 7: like that because it doesn't matter, because art is subjective
Speaker 7: anyway exactly. Everything is whatever it means to you. That's
Speaker 7: what it means to you, exactly. But I but I've
Speaker 7: always kind of had that since I was a kid,
Speaker 7: like on the and it's not like it happens much,
Speaker 7: but on those rare occasions where someone explains the song
Speaker 7: and it's like, oh.
Speaker 8: Really, yeah, you're like, wait a minute, that it wasn't
Speaker 8: at all what I thought that was.
Speaker 9: And you know, it does, I feel, as much as
Speaker 9: you don't want it to, it does kind of tarnish
Speaker 9: it a little bit for you, you know, and you
Speaker 9: know that's not what I want to do, but you know,
Speaker 9: being such a smaller artist right now, I think it's
Speaker 9: important to kind of try and make those connections with
Speaker 9: people explaining where I'm coming from, yea, and hoping that
Speaker 9: you know, I don't have to do it so much soon.
Speaker 7: Right right, right exactly. So you're working on so do
Speaker 7: you have plans to I know, because you're already working
Speaker 7: on the that's in progress right the next song that
Speaker 7: you're doing with why I have a mental bloby lord
Speaker 7: Abby Lauren have this mental black with her name. Do
Speaker 7: you have what's kind of the long term plan as
Speaker 7: far as releasing music? Do you plan to do an
Speaker 7: album or are you gonna keep doing singles?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So, actually I'm hoping to you know, the songs that
Speaker 9: I have Indiana Jones, Memory Lane and autumn and then
Speaker 9: the songs I'm currently working on. I'm hoping to create
Speaker 9: an EP called Nostalgia, Okay, and I have about I
Speaker 9: think two more songs, so I'm working on one with
Speaker 9: her and I'm working on one with my dad currently,
Speaker 9: so I'm working on two right now. Yeah, and those
Speaker 9: two are going to complete the EP called Nostalgia, which
Speaker 9: you know, nostalgia has been a huge part of my life,
Speaker 9: like growing up, especially being in your twenties. It's kind
Speaker 9: of that weird transition from being a younger kid to adulthood,
Speaker 9: so you're like, what do I do now, you know,
Speaker 9: and you have a lot of like, oh, I miss
Speaker 9: those times when I was a kid. Things were easier,
Speaker 9: you know, especially in the world right now. Sometimes it's
Speaker 9: like you go to a nostalgia for a comfort a lot,
Speaker 9: and I feel like that happened to me. So that's
Speaker 9: why I am naming this one nostalgia.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, yeah, no, that's cool. Do you are you
Speaker 7: also planning to continue to do the solo acoustic performances
Speaker 7: or do you ever think about maybe having some sort
Speaker 7: of backup band or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Or yeah, I mean, of course, you know, solo is
Speaker 8: where I do thrive. But I would love to have
Speaker 8: a backup band. I would love to, especially like going
Speaker 8: on a tour or something.
Speaker 9: I would love to have a little bit of extra
Speaker 9: support and you know, to be able to kind of
Speaker 9: put on a show, because you do get a little
Speaker 9: limited when it's just you right right, And I think
Speaker 9: that would be so fun.
Speaker 8: I would love to have a band to go on
Speaker 8: tour with.
Speaker 7: But it looks like too, it's liberating in a way
Speaker 7: at the same time when it's just you because you
Speaker 7: don't have to worry about anybody else's schedule.
Speaker 8: Right, and all that right to you, and it is
Speaker 8: just relying on yourself.
Speaker 7: I've always wondered what that would be like because I
Speaker 7: used to you know, like you know, your dad played
Speaker 7: in a band. I used to play in a lot
Speaker 7: of bands, but I never I was never in a
Speaker 7: situation where I just did a solo thing. So I've
Speaker 7: never experienced what it's like when you're just kind of
Speaker 7: when when you you know, not having to check with
Speaker 7: you know, okay, is this person available for this show?
Speaker 7: All that, and you know, and of course too, when
Speaker 7: it's just you, it opens up I think more places
Speaker 7: that you can play because obviously a lot of places
Speaker 7: you can't have a full.
Speaker 8: Band, of course.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And you know, obviously, being in yourself, you make
Speaker 9: the decisions, and you know, it's like if something goes bad,
Speaker 9: it's on you, you know, or something goes great, it's
Speaker 9: on you too, And you know. But I would also
Speaker 9: sometimes going into performances or anything like that, sometimes like,
Speaker 9: oh I kind of wish I had like a partner, yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, just to be like if I'm nervous, at
Speaker 9: least I have a little bit of like a support
Speaker 9: or someone there.
Speaker 8: But I think it feels character to do it by yourself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. When you uh, do you do
Speaker 7: long like three hour shows, when you do a lot
Speaker 7: a lot of covers, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's that's mostly.
Speaker 7: That's mostly what you're doing.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, that's good though. It's good experience and it's yeah,
Speaker 7: you make some good money doing that, so that's that's excellent.
Speaker 7: Do you do you ever have an opportunity to do
Speaker 7: shows where it's more like almost like a listening room
Speaker 7: type thing where you're able to just focus on the
Speaker 7: original music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so that's what I'm doing with Temple Mountain on
Speaker 9: April eighteenth, we're doing I think the Prayers of Nature
Speaker 9: Listening Room.
Speaker 7: Fantastic they were they were here last week.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, that's awesome. Yeah, we're doing that on April eighteen,
Speaker 9: so that'll be exciting.
Speaker 7: Excellent.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and then some maybe singer songwriter things come in
Speaker 9: the way. You know that it hasn't been announced yet,
Speaker 9: so I don't want to say it pretymature, okay, okay,
Speaker 9: but some good stuff coming, yeah, I'm hoping.
Speaker 7: So yeah, excellent, excellent. Where should people go online to
Speaker 7: keep up with everything that you're doing?
Speaker 9: So I'm on all the socials cat Ivy Music with
Speaker 9: a K. I like to do you know, some daily
Speaker 9: v logs too. When I play gigs, I like to
Speaker 9: kind of show my like day in the life of
Speaker 9: singer songwriter in New Hampshire.
Speaker 8: You know, those are fun to do.
Speaker 9: And then you know on Facebook, I have my own
Speaker 9: website cativy music dot com as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Excellent, excellent. Do you have anything this weekend that
Speaker 7: you're playing that that we should.
Speaker 8: Plug or I don't this weekend, but I do next Saturday.
Speaker 9: I'm playing at Twin Barnes Brewery in north Woodstock in
Speaker 9: New Hampshire. So I'll be up by the mountains. Oh yeah,
Speaker 9: I'll be playing there. I leave it's five clock five
Speaker 9: to eight five.
Speaker 7: I have to check. Oh okay, and what is the
Speaker 7: name of the place again.
Speaker 8: Twin Barnes Brewery.
Speaker 9: They have two locations, ones of Meredith and this one's
Speaker 9: in north Woodstock And there got that from New Hampshire
Speaker 9: Music Collective.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, very good. Now do you work with the
Speaker 7: Music Collective?
Speaker 8: Yes, excellent, just started this year.
Speaker 7: Oh very good. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's excellent. That's
Speaker 7: we had on John. I'm having trouble with names this morning.
Speaker 8: It happens.
Speaker 7: What's his name, John from the Music Collective?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, Oh my god, don't ask me because
Speaker 9: now my brain's like I forgot everything I've ever known.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 7: It's I blame the weather. John MacArthur. Yes, yeah. We
Speaker 7: had John on the show a while ago, and you know,
Speaker 7: talking all about the collective and everything, and wow, that
Speaker 7: guy's busy. Like when he was going on, oh yeah,
Speaker 7: when he was talking about the number of events that
Speaker 7: he like that he himself has to run over the
Speaker 7: course of a year.
Speaker 8: We we're like, wow, yeah, And I think they just
Speaker 8: got some more too recently, so he's been a busy guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're doing great stuff. Yeah, New Hampshire Music Collective.
Speaker 7: Absolutely we support them. And yeah, we got to get
Speaker 7: him back on because I'm sure he has a ton
Speaker 7: of new stuff to talk about.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you can get him going.
Speaker 8: I'm sure.
Speaker 7: No, that's great that you're working with them. That's fantastic.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're awesome, you know, John and Reva, they're great.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely, Well, I think we should, uh, we'll close
Speaker 7: out the segment with another song here, memory Lane. Anything
Speaker 7: we should know about.
Speaker 9: This or that you want to well, I mean, memory
Speaker 9: Lane does kind of say what it is in its title.
Speaker 9: You know, it is about going down memory lane and
Speaker 9: kind of having all of the good and the bad
Speaker 9: things in your life create you to who you are,
Speaker 9: whether you like it or not, you know, and underlyingly,
Speaker 9: I did write it about how me and my husband
Speaker 9: met in my own memory lane and how I've gone
Speaker 9: down that a lot and my life from those moments.
Speaker 8: And you're living those really happy, fun moments when.
Speaker 9: You need to.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, very cool, very cool, very positive, excellent, excellent, So
Speaker 7: we will we will end the segment with this and
Speaker 7: if you are listening live on Saturday, of course we
Speaker 7: have the two's coming up next, but we'll give this
Speaker 7: a spin and kat Ivy, thank you again so much.
Speaker 8: Thank you for having me absolutely much fun.
Speaker 7: Absolutely we'll do this again in the future as you
Speaker 7: have new music coming out and we'll definitely have you back.
Speaker 7: And so we'll wrap up this segment with this. This
Speaker 7: is called memory Lane.
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Speaker 14: that me and I come bot it to first.
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