Matt Connarton Unleashed: Kevin Horan

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3:47 Speaker 7: That is called Drift. That is a new single from Kevin Horn, and Kevin is here with us. We're gonna speak with him in just a moment really looking forward to this and let me get that mic up. Kevin Horn is here with us live. Hello sir, Hello, Hello. Let me turn you up a little bit here, it gets you a little louder.

4:03 Speaker 5: There we go.

4:04 Speaker 7: Hello, welcome.

4:06 Speaker 5: This is your u.

4:06 Speaker 7: This is your first time at the new Digs.

4:09 Speaker 5: Yes it is yep.

4:10 Speaker 8: Last time I was with you guys, was over on Elm Street up on that building upstairs.

4:16 Speaker 7: Yeah, isn't this nicer?

4:18 Speaker 9: It is?

4:18 Speaker 5: It's very cool.

4:19 Speaker 7: Everything's new and clean and you can tell, like when you look at the outside of the building, you know what's inside it.

4:25 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's very it's I mean, it's so. This was an old bus station.

4:29 Speaker 7: This used to be the bus station. Yeah, yeah, cool, Yeah, it's cool.

4:32 Speaker 5: Now we love it here.

4:33 Speaker 7: What's nice to us? You know because the old station. You know, I mentioned the name being on the building because at the old location, at the same station, the old location. I should be more precise. You wouldn't know, like if you were if you were on Elm Street looking up, you'd never know there was a radio station in the building.

4:48 Speaker 5: It was Margaritas.

4:49 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, there're floor Margarite.

4:51 Speaker 2: Right.

4:51 Speaker 8: One thing I liked about that was that I remember I came on one time and it was like a nice beautiful summer evening or something day or something, and the windows were open or so you could just hear all the action outside.

5:01 Speaker 5: It was kind of cool. That part I kind of missed. Yeah, yeah, but everything else is it's just so much nicer here. So I just drank from a water fountain for the first time, and like since I was twelve.

5:12 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I love that single drift that just did that just come out? Is that brand new or how new was that?

5:20 Speaker 5: It came out a couple of weeks ago.

5:21 Speaker 8: It's actually the title track off the upcoming album Okay, my first ever solo album.

5:27 Speaker 7: Oh congratulations, thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. When you were on the show before?

5:31 Speaker 6: How many times been?

5:32 Speaker 5: Is this your third time or second time on the show. I feel like it's your third? It was it would have been three, It would have been three.

5:38 Speaker 7: Oh do you want to tell the story of.

5:40 Speaker 8: I have to I have an apology to make as I'm sitting right here before you both. So, I think it was about a year and a half ago. I was I was booked, I was supposed to be on and my wife and I had actually just moved to our house and conquered and I remember that specifically because the house was you know how it is when you move.

5:58 Speaker 5: It's chaos.

5:58 Speaker 8: There's boxes all over the place, and you know, as musicians tend to do, we're running late. So I got up that morning, I'm like, oh, you know, all frenzied looking for my I'm not the type of guy. I'm a lot of things, but I'm not the type of guy that usually loses my keys. For whatever reason, this morning that I'm supposed to be on a radio show, can't find my keys.

6:18 Speaker 5: I'm looking through all the boxes and tearing them apart.

6:20 Speaker 8: And my neighbors, I don't think, talk to us for six months because they probably heard the psycho wow going crazy like. And then I'm like, well, I definitely wouldn't have locked them in my car. And then I go out to the driveway and there they are sitting right on the front passenger seat of my car, and I'm thinking, Okay, at this point, I know I got to cancel.

6:43 Speaker 5: Yeah, what lie do I come up with to tell them to avoid telling them that I locked that.

6:49 Speaker 8: You know, It's like, hey, Frank, I can't be unto work because I locked Oh yeah, no big deal. But like, hey, I can't be on your radio show because I'm an idiot. So anyway, so yes, I locked my Jen was lovely about it. But I locked my keys in my car and had to miss being on a radiohow oh yeah.

7:06 Speaker 7: But but but so you realize they were in your car after you'd already h torn everything else apart looking for him.

7:11 Speaker 5: So the whole house is torn apart.

7:13 Speaker 8: My neighbors think I'm crazy, And then uh yeah, and then there they are sitting on the passenger seat of my car.

7:18 Speaker 5: Oh wow, triple a to come open my door? Like, oh, no kidding, Yeah, you have a spare key anywhere? No, you know, a grown adult is your spare keys?

7:26 Speaker 9: You know?

7:26 Speaker 5: No big deal, That's what I'm saying. Like, how do I call this one in?

7:29 Speaker 7: Oh, that's funny, that's funny. I have a I have a quick key story. I once threw a set of car keys into a dumpster by a mistake.

7:36 Speaker 5: Yeah, I was Uh.

7:38 Speaker 7: I was living in an apartment complex and conquered at the time, and I was on my way out the door, and I was in a big hurry and i'd left. I was running late. It's always running late, right, Yeah. So I had a bag of garbage next to the door that I was going to take to the dumpster on my way out. So so I'm in a hurry. So I grabbed my car keys, and my house keys are all in one key ring. I grab them with my right hand, and I'm in a big hurry. I'm running out the door. I'm like, oh, I gotta grab that bag of garbage.

8:01 Speaker 7: And with the same hand I grabbed the back of garbage. And I was in such a hurry that somehow, once I got outside on my way to my car, I was like, oh, I gotta throw this back of garbage away, and I managed to forget that. In the same hand, I'm also holding my keys, and I remember hurling the garbage bag into the dumpster and just kind of it was like everything was moving in slow motion for a moment, because it's like I'm watching the garbage bag sail into the dumpster, and I'm also watching my keys sailing into that dumpster, and it's like it's like.

8:35 Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, sure enough. Yeah.

8:37 Speaker 7: So there was one lucky thing about it, though, believe it or not, there was actually a lucky thing in the story. The dumpster had been emptied that morning. The truck had come to empty of the dumpster. So when I ran over and I looked in, I could see the garbage bag and my keys were sitting right on top of the garbage bag. I had just thrown into it.

8:52 Speaker 5: That's lucky.

8:52 Speaker 7: Still, i'd climb in and get the keys, but at least to dive everybody's garbage. That would have been That would have been horrible. That would have been horrible. But uh no, But anyway, we're very happy that you're here. I listened to the tracks that you sent. I love them all.

9:06 Speaker 5: Thank you.

9:06 Speaker 7: Drift fantastic single. You said it's coming out on the new album Come Yes.

9:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, Yep, that's on the new album. It's actually the title of the album is Okay Okay?

9:16 Speaker 7: And when is that?

9:17 Speaker 8: That comes out streaming everywhere Friday, June twenty seventh. Okay, So that comes out the twenty seventh, and then we're doing a big show at B and H Stage and Conquered the next night on June twenty eighth, to celebrate excellent. Yeah, so you can get your tickets online. I think it's the conquered Capital Center for the arts website. Okay, and the my my Facebook all that's I'm always advertising.

9:40 Speaker 7: So is that the show Cosmic Blossom is on with you?

9:43 Speaker 8: Yes, I'm sorry, Yes, you just played the world premiere of the Cosmic Blossom song. Yes, that's my friends there. They're uh, they're gonna they're gonna join us. Actually, a couple guys from Cosmic Blossom are gonna play with me as well. So Gary Smith, who's the bass player, Uh, he's gonna play bass with us. U to Palmas playing guitar with us. Excellent, And then we got a few other guys joining us.

10:04 Speaker 7: That's really cool, I would say about Gary. He's one of the most talented and busiest musicians. Yeah.

10:10 Speaker 8: I always you know, I think I'm busy, and then I look at that guy's schedule. He's just always out. He's always out doing it.

10:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really cool. He's in. Like those guys are all in like, oh yeah, ten bands. Oh yeah, yeah, of course, of course. No, that's great.

10:26 Speaker 7: Now, so why is this why now to do an album? You mentioned this is your first solo album.

10:31 Speaker 9: It is.

10:31 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a that's a great question. I had been in a band, the Stone Road Band. We were a band.

10:38 Speaker 7: Well, yeah, we played, uh, I used to when we were on afternoons. I used to always play a breakdown. I love that.

10:44 Speaker 5: Yeah, cool, thanks man. Yeah, that's that's actually that was one of our favorites.

10:48 Speaker 9: Yeah.

10:49 Speaker 8: I used to live down in Providence, Rhode Island, and we started the band down there, and we were together a few years, and we put out a couple of things and and then you know, like everybody the world shut down and COVID and kind of and then we were all kind of scattered at that point, and it was kind of harder and harder to get together, and eventually we just got to the point where we disbanded on good terms. But I kept going, and then I decided to become a musician for a living, and I guess it just got to a.

11:18 Speaker 5: Point where I was I was out playing.

11:20 Speaker 8: I play all the time, almost every week on I'm out playing somewhere, and you know, I got my sign with my scan code on it, and you're trying to promote yourself, and I kept At this point, it had been a couple of years since we had even been a bandoned. I had no music with my name on it, and it was just like, you know, I wrote the Stone Road Band songs, but you know, I'm telling people like, hey, scan this code, go look up the Stone Road Band, Who's not a band anymore?

11:44 Speaker 5: And blah blah blah.

11:45 Speaker 8: So it really it just kind of started from the the feeling of needing something with my name on it. So it was just going to start as like a four or five song EP that I was just going to record in my attic. And then I started working with Uh, the producer that I was working with, and we put together the first single. I I mean, I thought this thing was gonna be out like a year ago, yeah, because I thought it was gonna be like an EP. And so I released the first single anything Uh February. It was like the week before my daughter was born.

12:17 Speaker 5: Oh wow, I wanted it to come out.

12:19 Speaker 8: But but when he sent that song back to me, I'd started recording on all the other ones, but when he sent me that one, I was like, holy moly. I couldn't believe what he had done with it, and and it sounded really good. So I just thought, you know, maybe I could keep going with that. I mean, I recorded this in my attic and he made it sound like that.

12:35 Speaker 5: Yeah.

12:35 Speaker 8: I just started adding songs and adding songs and it became a full blown h It was supposed to be twelve but now ten song record.

12:42 Speaker 7: Oh wow, yeah, okay, okay, very good.

12:44 Speaker 5: Very good. That was the longest answer ever. I'm sorry.

12:48 Speaker 7: No, no, that's great. No, No, we have the time, and I'm I'm I'm very interested.

12:52 Speaker 9: Yeah.

12:53 Speaker 7: Do you find do you find it more satisfying?

12:57 Speaker 5: Now?

12:57 Speaker 7: You know, because you mentioned, you know, you talked about the Stone Road Band, is it? Is it more satisfying being a solo artist? I miss those guys. I always want one of them. Is your brother, right, your brother, my cousin, cousin, he may as well be the guitar player. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike, because I remember talking about him because his solo on Breakdown. So it makes a song, it's so good.

13:18 Speaker 5: So luckily they all show up on the record. Cool.

13:22 Speaker 7: Oh, that's awesome.

13:23 Speaker 8: So we had actually the first song on the album is called Friend of the Fire, and that's one of my favorite songs I've ever written. We had recorded a live album which that landed on but it was live and I always wanted like that, proper studio, you know, what I heard in my head to Come Alive, and we had done originally wasn't going to be on the album, but I was looking to feel a little bit more space and and uh and kind of the album actually tells a story from start to finish, and and that landed as a great start.

13:53 Speaker 8: And anyway, I was kind of listening on my my iPhone and on shuffle, and this old demo that we had done of the song and came up. I'm like, man, I know what my producer is capable of. I wonder if it is then a Deanna Fielding in the Coop Studios in New York. I was like, I wonder if I sent this to her, if she could kind of clean it up a little bit and do something with it. So, actually the first song on the album is the Stone road Band. And then there's a song called Brutus.

14:21 Speaker 6: Oh.

14:21 Speaker 7: I remember playing that one on the radio too.

14:24 Speaker 8: That that was again another one that we had done live but we never recorded in the studio. And so my cousin he's on that one, and then our bass player Phills on that one. Cool I played the drums, but so yeah, so there's a little bit of Stone road Band action on on the album and like little nods to that kind of stuff.

14:43 Speaker 7: Yeah, you mentioned too, you're playing out a lot, You're you're pretty busy. What what like are you are you playing these songs like that are on the album or are these the songs you're playing live? Or do you mix in covers or like what what's the live situation?

14:56 Speaker 3: Like?

14:57 Speaker 8: I do a lot of breweries and restaurants, yeah, things like that. So yeah, I mean I'm lucky. And I think what's amazing about the brewery scene is that they're looking for something different and and really encourage artists like myself to come in and do our thing. And and uh, so I I do you know, I know where I'm playing, So I I I do a lot of covers, but I do try to mix in some of these songs as I go. And and uh, it's a great community around here. Everybody's always very super supportive. And oh it's really cool to hear original music.

15:29 Speaker 8: And uh, you know all my friends at like Great North and and and and uh I looked over at Jen because her son Jesse works at Great North and he's a talented musician and his own also a talented great singer and uh, and I have to shout Jesse out.

15:48 Speaker 5: I play all over southern New Hampshire. I play in Maine, playing in Vermont, mass you know, all over New England. No place do I play.

15:58 Speaker 8: That's that Jeff Jesse is always standing like at this point, he's like standing at the door when I get there. Yeah, he's always there to help me bring my stuff in.

16:07 Speaker 5: No place I go. Does anybody do that?

16:09 Speaker 8: He always Hey, man, he doesn't even ask anymore. He just meets me at the door insteads bringing all my stuff.

16:15 Speaker 7: Oh that's cool. Yeah, I love hearing that.

16:17 Speaker 10: Yeah.

16:18 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little story about your boy.

16:20 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's awesome.

16:21 Speaker 1: Good guy.

16:22 Speaker 7: Yeah, he's great. He's great, absolutely absolutely. Where have you been?

16:26 Speaker 5: Uh?

16:26 Speaker 7: Do you get out of the area A lot for shows? Have you been?

16:29 Speaker 5: I go up to Maine every now and then. There's a great distillery called Wild Bevy Distillery up in Wells, Maine that I play.

16:35 Speaker 8: Yeah, every couple of months or so. A lot of New Hampshire these days, I do.

16:42 Speaker 7: It seems like there's enough venues here now totally that that you don't need to necessarily go far right, Yeah, to stay busy, you can exactly.

16:50 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's I mean, there's how many breweries are there around the area. I mean it's there, there's one. Like it's like Dunkin Donuts.

16:57 Speaker 7: Now, Yeah, I know it wasn't like that years ago, was it.

17:00 Speaker 4: No, it was not.

17:01 Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think that's it's I think it's actually made it. It's a really nice thing for guys like myself, who I'm forty three. You know, you wouldn't think that. I used to work in like corporate America did all that stuff, and yeah, almost forty years old, I decided to stop and do this. Yeah, and I got to say, if the brewery scene and all that wasn't in existence, I don't know, because I can play on a Saturday four in the afternoon and you know, be home, you know, my my my wife, my family, my daughter comes out.

17:31 Speaker 5: Yep, you know. So it's nice. It's it's not like I have to be out.

17:35 Speaker 8: Until two three in the morning playing for five dollars at this scummy bar, you know, right.

17:41 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's great. Yeah, No, that's really cool. Well, I think we should play another studio track.

17:48 Speaker 5: Yeah, that'd be awesome.

17:49 Speaker 7: I'll let you choose which one we play next. What do we got so we got you sent me a turning points, small talk, Strange Places and of course I drift.

17:59 Speaker 5: We already played let's do Let's do Strange Places.

18:03 Speaker 7: Okay, So what I'm thinking is we'll play this and while this is playing, if you want to grab your guitar and sure, we'll come back chat a little bit and maybe you can play something live for us if that sounds good.

18:14 Speaker 5: Awesome, all right, very good.

18:16 Speaker 7: So if you're just joining us, we have Kevin Horan here with us in studio and we're gonna give this a spend. This is another track from his upcoming album, and the album.

18:24 Speaker 5: Is called Drift. Correct correct, Okay.

18:26 Speaker 7: This is from the upcoming album Drift, and this is called Strange Places.

18:50 Speaker 5: Catching buy you, Pam, hold it it feels right, make.

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19:03 Speaker 1: Him now what's all gone wrong?

19:13 Speaker 6: Let's take the fall.

19:16 Speaker 1: It's time to break.

19:18 Speaker 5: Out all our secrets. Yell now, we'll see ourselves as drawn some of the dots between the lights. It seems when no life changes, the state stays save me.

19:36 Speaker 1: And the cover of the space stay live. So when the bike can hate a super worst cam tapers where the broken lecor break goes in. Oh ti hat you gonna get you right now you have to up the person.

19:57 Speaker 5: Making out light old own home somehow.

20:03 Speaker 9: The reason to believe that we copy came down the strangers pass.

20:09 Speaker 4: Being siding out, coming down, Calm.

20:16 Speaker 6: Down now.

20:32 Speaker 5: We breathe together because of the rush.

20:37 Speaker 1: Now sending you out a rescue. Will someone let's just take the call.

20:46 Speaker 5: Because of things like sometimes some real use control.

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21:02 Speaker 6: All oh time?

21:08 Speaker 4: God, right now you.

21:11 Speaker 1: Have just just a passion make you feel away.

21:15 Speaker 4: Oh no, hold so.

21:19 Speaker 1: There's ways of jupid even we breaking.

21:22 Speaker 11: Now the strangest place of things, way out, come down.

21:30 Speaker 4: No cop down down right.

22:04 Speaker 7: Oh that is so good. I love that Strange places. That is Kevin Horan and he is here with us, alive in studio Strange Places of course from the upcoming album Drift. And Kevin has his uh, he's got his guitar in his hand. Oh, let me get that mic back on there. Let's see and let me turn up that guitar a little bit here. Oh that sounds nice, that sounds nice. Kevin's gonna play something live for us? What are you? What are you gonna play?

22:32 Speaker 5: So This is a song called Turning Point. It will also be on the album Okay, right good, yeah, sounds good. All right, see if I remember the words, I gotta learn the words to my songs at some point. Pardon me. I just lost you to something else that some mama high yesterday built the same little low sir to the end of the hid. If you won't, you can wait and see how come man, what's too far high?

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23:42 Speaker 5: Now mall will go well, here your my.

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24:01 Speaker 6: You can't get up.

24:03 Speaker 1: Him up and down in and now let.

24:08 Speaker 5: Speakin go ahead and let him get ready to give it a way. Now let yourself faith. It's sound gonna chair head breathing deep, hold it still as you lead, I get it, and maybe you should rest for oh,

24:47 Speaker 5: if he was awake, all it takes easton bed and no has some mow wits on your side high. There's no faith worse than up to the poison that burns it way through your my hide just too waited the turning for now when your poor.

25:13 Speaker 12: Man for aurah hide anyway you want to, will I take you round and round.

25:26 Speaker 6: Her again, kick it out.

25:31 Speaker 1: If you'll never call in no royala up and down in and now let's be again.

25:40 Speaker 5: Oh, go ahead, settle in and give wity to give it war. Now let your selfhae, it's.

25:50 Speaker 1: All gonna chair.

25:53 Speaker 13: Yeah, anyway the ju want spin, Well, now take you round and round again.

26:15 Speaker 5: Well, can't get out if you never go in umping down in and now let's be again. Go ahead, settling in and get ready to give it away. Let yourselphee, it's all gonna change.

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26:42 Speaker 7: Bravo, bravo. Kevin Oran is here with us alive in studio. That sounded fantastic. That's called turning point. Yes, all right, very very cool. We're also talking about talking about playing this track Cecilia. Maybe we'll give this a spend, Yeah, and then we'll come back and talk some more. You want to tell us about this?

27:00 Speaker 8: So my daughter who is fifteen months old this week, Sure, her name is Cecilia. And we did not do that on purpose because of the song, but obviously there's a pretty well known song that she shares that name with. So anytime we mentioned it, all we heard throwing back at Cecilaya.

27:22 Speaker 5: But the first night that we that we were home.

27:25 Speaker 8: My wife was upstairs sleeping and getting some much needed rest, and I was downstairs holding her like this wonderful moment of like, oh my gosh, I'm a dad, this is my baby girl, and and I'm like, all right, here's the moment. I'm gonna singer Cecilia for the first time. I'll try to get her to sleep, and I start singing it. I'm like getting all watery eyed and teary eyed. And then I got to the first verse, making love in the afternoon to Cecilia, and I'm like, what right, my boy, I can't sing that to my kid.

27:54 Speaker 7: That's awkward, though.

27:55 Speaker 8: Yeah, so I read as as she fell asleep, I grabbed a pen and started rewriting the lyrics to Cecilia.

28:03 Speaker 5: So this is my version that we sing to her at our house.

28:06 Speaker 7: All right, very good. This is Cecilia.

28:08 Speaker 14: Kevin Horn, mhm, Cecilia taking my heart?

28:41 Speaker 5: Do it up the comedy?

28:45 Speaker 6: What se see?

28:48 Speaker 5: Take my heart sick, giving me all that I eat?

28:54 Speaker 1: And I'm hoping I feel love.

28:59 Speaker 5: I can see it's from you, and you're hearing my arms, my heart birth through the room and would tell me you love to Faith seem aw to song me in not.

29:13 Speaker 15: So you web seea taking my heart building my carpets dead? What's seea think my heart sake?

29:29 Speaker 4: Give me all that I need?

29:32 Speaker 1: Isn't that?

29:37 Speaker 6: Oh?

29:39 Speaker 4: What the.

29:41 Speaker 10: What the wa?

30:00 Speaker 6: Shun dancing?

30:03 Speaker 1: We'll say, dance and we'll.

30:13 Speaker 7: Say, oh, that's cool, that's cool. Out of Cecilia.

30:43 Speaker 5: Baby girl just made her radio debut. That's her at the end.

30:47 Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Kevin and Cecilia Horn Very nice, very nice if you are just joining us. Kevin Horrn is here with us live in studio. And no, that's that's really cool. Is that gonna be on the album or no?

31:01 Speaker 8: No, I just put that out as a one off single a few months ago for fun. We actually I included a link with it to try to raise a little money for March of Dimes.

31:11 Speaker 7: Oh cool, Yeah, yeah, that's excellent. You also mentioned too, Gary Smith. You were mentioning off air. Gary Smith is on bas on that.

31:17 Speaker 5: He's playing bass on that.

31:20 Speaker 8: That song I recorded in my basement and a lot of it I recorded the night before we actually went into the studio with it. Yeah, and it sounded like chicken scratch. And then so Gary set me up with Pete Pelliquin.

31:32 Speaker 5: He's out in Brookline.

31:34 Speaker 7: That's a name that comes up on the show a lot.

31:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, he was awesome. We just spent an afternoon over there. Really cool studio. I think Cosmic Blossom has done a bunch of stuff with Gary's other band, Fox in the Flamingos that I've done some stuff with them.

31:48 Speaker 5: He didn't amaze. I mean, if you listened to what that sounded like driving to his studio, I was like, oh my god, this is gonna be awful.

31:55 Speaker 8: Really yeah, just like he made it sound fantastic. But yeah, I'm pretty proud that one's.

32:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really fun to do. That's really cool.

32:04 Speaker 7: In terms of your voice, I mean, do you get compared to like you remind me of Kat Stevens.

32:10 Speaker 5: I've heard that a couple of times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear a few things once in a while.

32:13 Speaker 7: Yeah, because you know, you have an unusual voice. There's not many people who sound like you. Thank you, you know, yeah, oh absolutely, thanks? Like who else is there anyone else other people kind of compare you to? Or is there anyone you think you sound like.

32:28 Speaker 8: I'm a huge Dave Matthews fan, So I think I think at the very least guitar style gets compared.

32:34 Speaker 7: Oh okay, because I was gonna say, you're a much better singer than he is. Not not a knock on him, good enough singer, but you're a much better singer than he is.

32:41 Speaker 5: Thank you.

32:43 Speaker 8: I'm I'm a drummer originally, so his percussive guitar style really connects with me.

32:49 Speaker 7: That makes sense, I can hear that. Yeah, but yes, so I think in.

32:53 Speaker 8: The early days maybe I got a little of that, but I kind of worked my way further, you know, tried to further myself from that. But I've heard the guy from Kings Leon yeah, every now and then. Yeah, Cat Stevens a couple of times.

33:08 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I I don't know who else. Maybe I don't know who I sound like.

33:13 Speaker 7: Yeah, myself. That's a good thing. Yeah, that's a good thing. Yeah, definitely. So what remind us of the album comes out?

33:22 Speaker 5: Is it in June Friday, June twenty seventh, and then so it'll be on all the streaming platforms obviously. Are you also doing physical CDs? I'm working on that. I really really really wanted to do the vinyl thing, no kidding, but it's just like the reck. It just it's expensive for one thing. That and it's just like the production took a little longer to get it right. I want I wanted it to sound as perfect as it possibly could. I don't know, I might never ever do this again, so yeah, you know, I wanted to get it right.

33:51 Speaker 5: So we took a lot of time. I mean we just wrapped on production of the album about a week ago.

33:57 Speaker 7: Okay, Oh wow, I just.

33:58 Speaker 5: Got all the final mixes like a week or so ago.

34:00 Speaker 8: So it's it's official. It's done, So it'll be on streaming platforms. I think for the record release party, I call them a record, but probably at least have some CDs.

34:10 Speaker 5: Okay. Yeah.

34:12 Speaker 7: It's a subject that's come up a lot on the show, especially lately as physical media and how you know. I always say, like, if you go back seven or eight years, I've been doing this a long time, But if you go back seven or eight years, maybe even a little longer, there was a period where like no one was doing CDs, Like no one that we had on the show.

34:29 Speaker 5: It was all about Spotify and everything, and no one was bothering. It was like the attitude was CDs are dead and then but over the past several years there's kind of been a resurgence there with physical media. It seems that way.

34:43 Speaker 8: I always looked at it as so when the Stone Roll Band was still rocking, our first album we put on CD. Yeah, and that was about I think that was twenty nineteen, okay, and I we had that, we kind of had that war of like should we do it?

34:57 Speaker 5: Should we even?

34:58 Speaker 9: You know?

34:59 Speaker 8: But like again, as I went off on my own, I just brought those CDs with me. I mean, those people drop ten bucks, five bucks, whatever, I didn't care, just take them. But yeah, I looked at them as like, whether you have a CD player or not, you've got all my information, you get all the songs, right. It's like to me, it's like a business card, right, Yeah. But I love physical media.

35:16 Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, and with vinyl. And actually we're talking about this was with one of our guests on the show today earlier that the guys from the band The Forensics. We were talking about how, you know, most people who buy vinyl probably don't even ever open it, you know, like if you're really a fan of an artist, yeah, you know, you're just buying it to support them and it's cool to have or maybe you open it but you mount the artwork on the wall or something.

35:41 Speaker 4: You know.

35:41 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I'm I really wanted to do vinyl because like so, I have three brothers.

35:47 Speaker 5: We're all vinyl guys. We do like exchanges at Christmas and stuff.

35:51 Speaker 7: Oh nice.

35:52 Speaker 8: And I actually I got a lot of friends that have really gotten into that trend of the vinyl thing, and we're really into it at our house.

35:59 Speaker 5: And but yeah, it's just you know, you do.

36:01 Speaker 8: I mean, I recorded most of this record and album by myself, so I'm just trying to be like, you know, at least I did that.

36:07 Speaker 7: Yeah, I got it done. Yeah, No, everything sounds great, thank you. So are all the tracks on the album where they all you recorded on your own and then took them to Pete Plickuin or.

36:20 Speaker 8: So Pete did that one song that was I had no intention of doing anything with Cecilia. That was just something I thought maybe I'd record for her birthday or that, and then it just kind of like and then Gary and I he helped me, Like I said, he's playing with us at the record release, so you know, we've kind of buddied up.

36:39 Speaker 5: And he was like, hey, if you ever need any help. I got this guy Pete, and I was.

36:42 Speaker 8: Like, well, I have this one song that I've been kind of touling with and it's you know, it's a cover but sort of a cover, and it'd be kind of cool to have that out there for my daughter one day to go back and listen to. But no, it's so like I said when I started doing this, I just wanted to do like a little four track, five track EP.

36:58 Speaker 5: Yeah.

36:59 Speaker 8: When I was in this own road band, we had done an EP in our bass player who was in a band with some guys out of New York and Connecticut. One of those guys has a studio called the Koop Studio in Irvington, New York, and he worked on our final EP. And when I went to go do this because we recorded all that from our house during COVID, Yeah, and he made that sound great, So he's the yeah, So I reached out to him. He did the first single anything, and then his schedule just got crammed, and so he turned me over to somebody that worked in his studio, Deanna Fielding, OK, And she did basically most of the record.

37:40 Speaker 8: Gary Smith did do the last song okay called everything. He mixed and mastered that song.

37:46 Speaker 5: He played on it.

37:47 Speaker 8: He played some keys and electric guitar, but Deanna did all the other tracks, mastered him. She helped me produce it. Yeah, she actually sang strange places. That's her doing the background vocals. Another song will play in a little while, it's called small Talk. That's her doing the lead female vocal on which like ripped. I was like blown away when I heard her vocal take on it. But so yeah, So it was all done me here in New Hampshire recording and then her in Irvington, New York. Just I'd send her files.

38:19 Speaker 8: She do all the stuff to send it back to me. I had some help some from some friends on that last song. Zach Sweetser plays keys. Like I said, Gary Smith made an appearance, The Stone Roll Band made an appearance. Deanna helped out, and then my friend Paul Nelson, who's a local guy. He helped me record the vocals to Drift, and I think the acoustic guitar.

38:42 Speaker 5: A couple of things. So it was a little kit of you know.

38:45 Speaker 8: But yeah, I'd say like eighty percent of it I did in my attic and then before my daughter was born, and then I moved to the basement after.

38:53 Speaker 5: My daughter was born.

38:54 Speaker 7: Oh okay, why the move from the attict of.

38:56 Speaker 5: The basis the addicts directly above her bedroom? Gotcha? I thought that might be the case. Yeah, that you got to keep that baby sleeping.

39:03 Speaker 7: Do you want to play? You want to play one more live one and then we'll uh.

39:07 Speaker 8: Yeah, let's so, I have a very special song to sing today, okay, and I think they're listening out there.

39:16 Speaker 7: Oh, actually, before you go any further, we do have some people in the chat room. I so this might answer that question. Yeah, let's see. I see Carrie Gemini.

39:25 Speaker 5: That's oh my gosh, that's my cousin.

39:26 Speaker 7: Okay, Carrie says, Mike Horn so much a cousin talent, So there you go.

39:32 Speaker 5: Is he is?

39:33 Speaker 7: Also Sandy Walsh is in there and says so cool.

39:36 Speaker 8: Oh that's cool. Hey, Sandy, I see you always sharing my stuff. Sandy's awesome. I used to work with her, I mentioned Jenn and I were talking earlier. I used to work at Master Coola Elementary School down in Merrimac, and she and.

39:48 Speaker 5: I worked together there.

39:49 Speaker 7: Oh okay, oh, very cool, very cool. Let's see. Oh, sunset Radio in the chat room they are in Ireland. Oh and supporters of Sluntdown. Yeah yeah, oh, absolutely cool, Absolutely love Ireland.

40:04 Speaker 5: All right, I interrupted your story. I just wanted to Yeah, go ahead, go go go ahead.

40:08 Speaker 8: I'm very interrupt me anytime you need to, man, I know, I'm I'm winded, dude. I do have a very special song to perform today for two very special guys. After when I leave here today, I gotta go celebrate my nephews, Rory who's three, and Tyler, who's five. They're brothers. They're my brother Shawn's boys, and their birthdays are close. So we're having a little duel birthday today.

40:35 Speaker 5: Quick story. So, Tyler who's five.

40:38 Speaker 7: Who is listening, by the way, sorry to interrupt you again, Sean Timothy Sean Timothy Horn in the chat room says, we are listening to the live stream and Tyler is listening.

40:47 Speaker 5: Sean Sean, who's always always in my corner. Uh, Tyler. So, Tyler, who is five, has a very serious girlfriend.

40:56 Speaker 7: Oh okay, he's five.

40:59 Speaker 8: They've been together for two years. Wow, he's five and and and they have like kind of a benefit situation going on. It's a very serious relationship. I think I just dated myself with that reference, but I mentioned that because recently he my brother was sharing with us about how Tyler came up to him and said, Daddy, you know as kids asked funny questions, Daddy, when you grow up, do you want to be a singer like Uncle keV Ah after my heart? And my brother said, well, no, but do you want to be a singer when.

41:35 Speaker 5: You grow up? And he said no, I am going to be an astronaut because my girlfriend is going to be a star and I have to fly to out of space to see her. He's five. Wow.

41:48 Speaker 8: I'm like, I've been writing songs for years. I don't think I could write a line that good. So I kind of jokingly said, hey, the next song I write is going to be called rocket Ship, and then then sing.

42:00 Speaker 5: I knew. I spent the whole weekend looking up pulsars and quasars and constellations and all sorts of fun space stuff, and I had a blast write in this song.

42:07 Speaker 8: So this song is called rocket Ship, as promised. And I got to look at the words here because I'm still learning it. That's only a couple of weeks old.

42:15 Speaker 5: Okay, hot off the press hot off the press. We'll do this all right. So this is for This is Tyler, as I promised you, buddy, this is rocket ship. Can I start that over? That was horrible. I'm so sorry. I've never done that before. That's okay, it sounded good to me, but but I've never heard that record. Okay, it's eleven thirty in the morning, man, take two. If I could blast off in my rocket ship to bring me next to you, a favorite star against the black will love, fly out past the moon, a universe expanding, always bigger than before.

43:10 Speaker 5: I'll be your favorite astronom, blast away and go explode with you, old with you. The space between these planets could never be enough. All the energy between us starts with particles and dust. Night you try to do their best to keep us far away. Boot Every night I'm looking up and filling time between the day you will. I'm lost and out space with you, never coming back. The view was just fine from here, and no one can tell last. Work two to with every gal Let's see we find it's clear I'm a disaster with consolations, polls out.

44:02 Speaker 1: As waving, radiation, nothing.

44:04 Speaker 5: Both the two of us support my rocket ship, just me yain, just me y you no gravity to keep us down out here, we feel secure. There's all the space in front of us that no one's seen before. Let's tail out cross the universe on ready given day and tie ourselves together and arrive the solar waves.

44:34 Speaker 1: So I'm losting out in space with you, never coming back.

44:42 Speaker 5: Oh, I'm staying here, so much out there, lot of we can do with all the space and time. It's clear, supernose Luma speels. I'm way beyond my atmosphere. Nothing both to us support my rocket ship three two one left off.

45:04 Speaker 6: Let's go, hey.

45:07 Speaker 1: Houston, and I'm never.

45:08 Speaker 6: Coming home, going father, can you know?

45:14 Speaker 5: Discovery worre beyond my own no more communication now here in my own space station. I'm lost in our space with you, all my features in the stars and now I'm here. There's so much how there we can do? Oh, if I have a galaxy you we find It's clear comments asked, Joys consolation and s craze our busars radiation. So the novis doumospheres way beyond my atmospheres and all the space and all this time, nothing left out here and find because it's just the two of us able in my rocket ship.

45:59 Speaker 2: Just me just be.

46:19 Speaker 7: Oh, fantastic, thank you very much. So that's called rocket ship.

46:23 Speaker 5: That is called rocket ship rockets, so awesome. Thank you.

46:26 Speaker 8: I've I've fallen in love with that song quite a bit. And I actually get kind of teary eyed because I'm picturing my sweet five year old nephew out and outer space in a spacesuit with his little buddy.

46:37 Speaker 4: Yeah.

46:38 Speaker 5: Oh that's fantastic. Happy birthday, Rory and Tyler. I love you guys.

46:43 Speaker 7: Sandy Watson, the chat room says, ideas come from everywhere.

46:46 Speaker 5: Yes they do, even from outer space. Yes, no, that is that is very cool. Thanks very much.

46:51 Speaker 7: If you are just joining us. Kevin Horn is here with us live in studio, and yeah, what a great song.

46:57 Speaker 5: Thank you.

46:58 Speaker 7: Where are you uh for people listening live on Saturday? Where are you playing this weekend? Do you have shows this weekend?

47:04 Speaker 5: I actually have the weekend off.

47:05 Speaker 2: You do?

47:06 Speaker 5: Yeah?

47:06 Speaker 7: Oh okay, just today?

47:07 Speaker 9: This is it?

47:08 Speaker 5: Yeah you're seeing it?

47:10 Speaker 7: Oh wow?

47:11 Speaker 5: Where my what is next week? I'm at?

47:16 Speaker 9: You know?

47:16 Speaker 5: I think I'm at the bookery. Oh okay on Elm Street.

47:19 Speaker 7: Cool.

47:19 Speaker 8: They're doing something new there, so I think I'm there next Saturday. But really the big one that I got to keep pluying is that big show at BNH Stage on Saturday, June twenty eighth, to celebrate the album release. Tickets are available. They're eighteen bucks eighteen whole dollars.

47:38 Speaker 7: Very good, very good.

47:39 Speaker 1: We have time to do.

47:40 Speaker 7: Let's play another studio trap. Oh we didn't play small talk yet, didn't we.

47:44 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's like I said. That's the producer on the record. Deanna sings on this track, and it's I think she sings quite beautifully.

47:53 Speaker 7: Yeah. I really like this one a lot too. And then so we'll give this to spend and then we'll come back and talk a little more. But yes, Kevin Horran is here with us, live in studio, sounding amazing small talk Kevin horn here we go.

48:19 Speaker 10: I could see who lives too. And it hurts when they anyway that you want me. I do woting to.

48:42 Speaker 5: Keep me in mind when you cry hurt that you feel this from mind? Keep ten dim bo WoT does that boo.

49:04 Speaker 1: Deg load off him? Feel yourself safe.

49:07 Speaker 6: You with me, fight you with it and all that you kid.

49:20 Speaker 1: Never the same body.

49:22 Speaker 6: It's all that I am.

49:26 Speaker 1: Here just to be what you want you some done, best that you got it?

49:37 Speaker 6: Who God ever seen them?

49:39 Speaker 4: Come in?

49:43 Speaker 1: There's a partner's delight that.

49:45 Speaker 6: Everyone's gonna see.

49:46 Speaker 1: Somehow she didn't pass.

49:49 Speaker 11: Keep from running, taking a rest the last thing, week,

50:01 Speaker 11: do it all over again.

50:05 Speaker 4: Of goo.

50:08 Speaker 6: Of loop, I down now him and though you die in life, say olcome that I guess lost? Oh don't, Oh, I am.

50:43 Speaker 16: The same things we one we can share, heard that you steel comes from mine.

50:54 Speaker 4: Keep me and my mind.

51:00 Speaker 6: About over saying that coming. It's hard. It's the life that everyone's gonna see.

51:09 Speaker 16: Someone jam pass to get wrong running taking MOI is the last thing NA see it coming.

51:51 Speaker 9: There's a part of the life that everyone's going to see. So jam passed, keep from running, take the last thing.

52:09 Speaker 1: Let's do it all over again. Just do it all over him, then st it over again.

52:35 Speaker 7: That is small talk. That is Kevin Horn from The Upcoming.

52:39 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, there's an airplane. Oh there's an airplane. So

52:46 Speaker 5: I got I got to send you a radio edit.

52:50 Speaker 7: Oh that's okay.

52:51 Speaker 5: I will, I will, I will say this.

52:53 Speaker 8: This album, like I said, it started as like kind of just like a generic sort of EP to put some songs out there. And it just kind of sploited into this creative idea of telling us story. So yeah, the first song all the way to the end. If he it's forty minutes.

53:08 Speaker 5: If you got it.

53:09 Speaker 8: Once it comes out, it goes straight through and it tells the story. So yeah, there's a reason for that airplane in there. But oh, okay, I'm out of context.

53:16 Speaker 5: You just think wiser.

53:20 Speaker 8: Now that's cool. And uh, what's her name again? Deanna Deanna Fielding. She's out of the Coop Studios in Irvington, New York. I can tell you when she sent me that track back, I like bawled my eyes out.

53:33 Speaker 5: Yeah. I couldn't believe how beautiful yeah sounded. She did a great job. Yeah, no, that is a that is a great song. Absolutely, thank you.

53:40 Speaker 7: By the way, somebody named Phil Smith is in.

53:41 Speaker 5: The chat room.

53:42 Speaker 8: That's my bass player from my former band, the Stone Road Band.

53:46 Speaker 5: Oh very cool, Hey buddy.

53:48 Speaker 7: Very cool. So Kevin, where should yeah, we should remind people too?

53:53 Speaker 5: Well?

53:54 Speaker 7: First of all, where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing?

53:58 Speaker 5: Well, I'm always on Instagram and face book of course. My Instagram is Kevin Underscore Horran Underscore Music.

54:05 Speaker 7: And Horan is that we should tell people to h O R A M.

54:07 Speaker 8: Yes, yep, h O R A N. I'm Kevinhorn Music dot com. You can always check out, of course, Spotify. I'm on Spotify. I got a few tunes up there right now. Yeah, and then I have the Are you familiar with link tree?

54:22 Speaker 5: Oh?

54:22 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, link Tree that's got just it links you to essentially it's the easiest way to find me.

54:27 Speaker 5: Yeah, all my stuff, it's got everything up there. Yeah.

54:30 Speaker 7: You give lessons too.

54:32 Speaker 5: Right I do. I run my own studio down in Merrimac.

54:37 Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, we should mention that.

54:38 Speaker 8: Yeah, we call it rock band Camp. I work with some really amazing students. I don't know if she's listening, but my friend Sophia I meant to say, she listens. I was told by her mom the other day that she listens to my my version of Cecilia every day.

54:55 Speaker 5: On the way to school. Oh, okay, is really cool. And then and all my students are really cool.

54:59 Speaker 8: They're always excited when they hear I'm gonna be on the radio, or or they listen to the you know, they listened to the Stone Road Band.

55:06 Speaker 5: They listen to all that stuff.

55:07 Speaker 8: So yeah, but yeah, so I teach private music instruction and guitar, I teach drums, I do a little bit of performance training, and then we do the rock Band program, which is where the kids group up and actually create their own bands. We are gearing up, actually, I can't believe it's almost summer, but we're gearing up for our third annual summer concert in Merrimack in August. So the summer program starts the week after fourth of July. So if you've got kids out there that are looking to join a band and play in our summer concert, they still have time to register.

55:46 Speaker 8: That is at rock band NH dot com. Okay, go there and get all that information. I'm sorry, rock band camp NH dot com. Okay, but yeah. We just did a winter show for the first time at Shaskine in February, which was a huge success.

56:02 Speaker 7: Nice.

56:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a lot of fun so it's.

56:05 Speaker 8: Got I got a fun job, man, running around playing music and working with really amazing kids from like eight to.

56:13 Speaker 5: You know, I have some adult students as well.

56:15 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Oh that's amazing, fantastic, And let's remind people too about the big show coming up.

56:21 Speaker 8: Big Show BNH stage Saturday, June twenty eighth and Conquered New Hampshire celebrating the release of my first solo record, Drift. As it turns out, it's actually if you're familiar with Market Days up and Conquered Big Music Festival and Conquered Just so happens, it's the last night of Market Days, so we'll be you know, sort of closing down Market Days at BNH stage. Yeah, that night with my with my friend's Cosmic Blossom, Cosmic Blossom, Cosmic Blossom.

56:50 Speaker 7: Yeah, we love Cosmic Blossom absolutely. So I think we got to close out with a song and I was thinking, this isn't one of the ones you sent. We played those, but what about what if I spin anything to close?

57:00 Speaker 5: Absolutely? Yeah? That was the first single.

57:02 Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's uh, we'll go with that and we'll close out with this. This is anything from Kevin Horn.

57:17 Speaker 6: Take a little hit?

57:20 Speaker 2: Can that release and jol of the Tripod have a little.

57:25 Speaker 1: Moment, little while to sit. I will sit through the memories. That makes sense of everything?

57:33 Speaker 6: Is everything what it seems?

57:50 Speaker 5: It's all a little.

57:51 Speaker 1: Wild poke around the corn while a hide. You gotta get another beauty and I try stick sitting stones and follow me. I've become my more sending me but mine and he lets me see it. I know what're gonna get high on the thing there. I know why I can't say you upon my way. I know we've gotta get bad or me say with everything.

58:23 Speaker 5: I can't you rup not getting bad to you or anything I've got bad too.

58:37 Speaker 1: Take another hitch. There's a reason here for me to quit put my hands all block away in a trip backwards through the life by fear and everything that I won't to hear, and that things will you see. I know we're gonna get high.

58:58 Speaker 6: On the thing.

59:00 Speaker 1: I know why I can't stay your bout me. I know you're gonna get by a door.

59:08 Speaker 12: So I'm with everything I count you run about getting back tore everything.

59:14 Speaker 3: I mean I got that to.

59:19 Speaker 4: Well not.

59:36 Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna get by people.

59:40 Speaker 4: I know why you would stay your.

59:45 Speaker 5: I know it's gonna get by door saying everything I count rubbing I'm getting back more.

59:54 Speaker 1: I mean I got back to.

59:58 Speaker 4: Y.

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