Matt Connarton Unleashed: Remembering Brooks Young

0:00 Speaker 1: W m N ChRI the nomos see me but please don't it by me?

0:29 Speaker 2: When's time? Quass Jones love you always Chris Jones.

0:44 Speaker 1: Is their lasting love down the floor sup that form.

0:58 Speaker 3: The it's always what losing It's always what.

1:15 Speaker 4: Peacecing requietly waiting, head lights up the drive.

1:32 Speaker 1: Take me we please job me good bye.

1:43 Speaker 5: When it's time, this is out the floor still be back forward.

1:57 Speaker 1: Losing game.

1:58 Speaker 6: It always what she bla me saying it's waye what she.

2:46 Speaker 1: This is how so sping f f.

2:54 Speaker 7: The no saying it's aways what you the music game just aways?

3:06 Speaker 5: What se.

3:19 Speaker 1: Musing game? It's aways? What the music games? Aways? What sees?

4:00 Speaker 8: That is losing game. That is from twenty twenty.

4:03 Speaker 9: That is Brooks Young and that song is a personal favorite of mine of his. We are going to spend this hour devoted to Brooks Young, remembering Brooks Young. If you don't know, Brooks Young was fatally killed in a car accident in Alton on Route eleven, I believe earlier this week. I was quite shocked when I saw the news, and Brooks is someone who had been on the show quite a number of times over the years. I had the honor of interviewing him, and what I would like to do with this hour, So a couple things that I want to share some of his music, of course, in memory of Brooks and such a talented musician and just a really, really good person to just such a great guy.

4:48 Speaker 9: So you know, we'll play some of his music and I might even I have it queued up. The last interview that I did with Brooks, the last time that he was on not too many months ago.

5:00 Speaker 8: Actually might we might revisit some of that too.

5:04 Speaker 9: I did hear from a lot of people over the course of the week, so I know people are tuned in, and I know people are grieving.

5:10 Speaker 8: So I I'll just tell you I.

5:13 Speaker 9: First interviewed Brooks quite a few years ago. The first time that I interviewed him, it was not on this show. It was on another show that I do that aris elsewhere, but it was my first time meeting him, and I actually went to I brought a portable setup with me and I went to Strings and Things and conquered because Brooks was actually working there at the time, so, you know, while pursuing his uh you know, you know, very early in his career, but his quickly it was accelerating fast his music career.

5:46 Speaker 9: It was taken off. I think he had just played with BB King when I interviewed him. I think that had just happened. That either just happened or it was about to happen, but I feel like it had just happened. And so, you know, he had plenty to talk about, but even just meeting him that first day, going to strings and things to meet him, and he just, you know, right away, he just had such a positive attitude. As well he should have, you know, some wonderful things were happening, but he just he was positive and very humble.

6:19 Speaker 9: He obviously enormously talented, that was apparent and clear, hell of a guitar player, and a great voice too, kind of a unique voice. I can't think of anyone who sounds quite like him. But it was such a pleasure to just sit and talk with him. And I was thinking about this yesterday actually, as I was kind of in my mind just sort of mentally preparing for today, I was thinking about how when when we lose somebody who is a musicians, it's, at least in my experience, it's interesting how you don't necessarily have to have known them that well personally to feel such a connection with him.

7:05 Speaker 9: So when I first realized it was actually uh Mike from uh Mike g from Strings and Things, when he had posted on Facebook what had happened, that was when I first became aware of it, And you know, I just felt like I'd been punched in the gut.

7:20 Speaker 8: It was.

7:21 Speaker 9: It was such a terrible feeling. It was just such a shock to see that Brooks had passed away, and at that point there wasn't a lot of information other than it was a car accident. But it's interesting how so I never I didn't really get to know Brooks other than professionally, in the sense that I'd never spent any time with him socially. I'd seen him play live, of course, and I got to interview him a number of times through the years.

7:49 Speaker 8: But but.

7:52 Speaker 9: When you are a fan of someone's music, you feel connected to them in a way that transcends sort of traditional friendship, if that makes sense. That's why, For example, if you're a big fan, you know, if it's someone you know really famous, and Brooks had a lot of success, But if it's you know, a famous musician or a famous actor or a famous author, anyone who's created any kind of art. If their art connects with you in some way and makes you feel something, then you also feel something for that person, even if you've never met them, and you never will meet them because they're famous and they're sort of out.

8:30 Speaker 8: Of reach, but you feel a connection.

8:32 Speaker 9: And then if they pass away, you go, oh, no, I feel a sense of loss, even though it's someone you may have never met. And I think that with Brooks. Obviously I had met him because I'd interviewed him quite a few times, but again, i'd never spend any time with him socially, not really but being a fan of his music, but also over the course of interviewing him, And this is something I was thinking about. I was thinking about this yesterday and I never really quite thought of it this way before, but on Brooks when and I assume this is true for other people too who do this, Where you interview people, it's sort of like it's a form of getting to know someone.

9:13 Speaker 9: So like I said, I never spent any time with them socially, But when I'm interviewing someone and I'm trying to learn, it's like getting to know someone, but in a very compressed period of time.

9:25 Speaker 8: If that makes sense.

9:27 Speaker 9: If I sit down with someone and I do a one hour segment where we're going to play some of their music, and I'm going to ask them a lot of questions because I'm curious. I want to I want to know about their music, but I also want to know about them as a person. I want to learn, and I have a natural curiosity which helps to do this right. I want to learn as much about that person as I can and try to get as much of a sense of that person as I can. So it's kind of like a different version of getting to know someone over the course of years socially, because you get to know them personally.

10:08 Speaker 9: But what I'm doing, I'm also getting to know them, but in a very compressed period of time because I'm asking them questions about things that I'm specifically curious about, and I'm trying to learn as much about that individual as possible. And I think that that's part of why, even though I didn't know Brooks that well outside of all of this, I think that's part of why it was such a shock when I saw that he had passed away, because again being a fan of his music, that's part of it, but also just having sat down with him and having those conversations where I'm trying to learn as much about him as a person as possible.

10:49 Speaker 9: I think that contributes to that sense of loss, where it's like, I feel like I just lost a good friend, even though I didn't know him that well socially, and I'd never quite it was you know, there are other people I've interviewed who've left us, and there's of course, you know, people I've been fans of who you know passed away and they say, oh, that's terrible. I'm a fan of their work. But I'd never really thought of it that way in terms of, you know, getting to know someone over the course of an interview.

11:22 Speaker 9: I'd never thought about it in quite this context until this week, until I was thinking about Brooks and kind of analyzing that sense of terrible loss that I'm feeling, and that I know many of you who are listening are feeling as well. And you didn't have to be around him very long to be drawn to him anyway. I strongly suspect that most people who met Brooks young liked him very much immediately and were drawn in by his positivity and his charisma, And of course it's immense talent. So it was quite a shock to me.

12:07 Speaker 9: But I'm gonna play a song in the meantime. I'm gonna play another Brooks Young song, and this one seems appropriate. This is from twenty fifteen. This is called silver Wings.

12:21 Speaker 1: Silver we.

12:26 Speaker 10: Shinning in the sun lights, rowing Jones.

12:35 Speaker 1: It's so well flight they're taking you and leaving me loose,

12:50 Speaker 1: silv we stolid faded out of sight.

13:00 Speaker 10: A joy, I cried, don't take that a blue round, but.

13:10 Speaker 11: You loved me out of your mind.

13:15 Speaker 1: And left me stand behind, silver shining in the sunlight

13:31 Speaker 1: road in Jones.

13:35 Speaker 11: It is so well in the flame.

13:40 Speaker 1: They're taking you away, leaving me lord me.

13:49 Speaker 12: A sill way, slowly fanning out of sight.

14:38 Speaker 1: Jo I cried, don't.

14:44 Speaker 10: Take that a blame rime, but you loves me out of your mad.

14:53 Speaker 1: Lifting, steading me behind the wee.

15:02 Speaker 7: Shining in the sun lighting, ruving guns.

15:13 Speaker 1: Heading somewhere in flying they're taking you away. I believe in me, old.

15:28 Speaker 12: Still away, slowly fading outside, still me to always slowly.

15:42 Speaker 1: Fain out of sight. We all little, young, wow and free.

16:23 Speaker 10: But now I'm doing a way, lady, You're still of me.

16:39 Speaker 1: Oh lie, Now.

16:44 Speaker 13: It's outlying, No, it's all I see. You can't let the gold something that you don't know.

17:03 Speaker 1: W Yeah, falling down him be so hard? Would you catch me?

17:19 Speaker 14: Get that phone, take the bag.

17:39 Speaker 1: Just one long time. You can't let you just something that you don't know. Falling down you can be? He's so hard? Would you don't catch me? Then?

18:09 Speaker 15: If that father.

18:16 Speaker 1: Falling time be so hard?

18:26 Speaker 13: Would you don't catch men?

18:29 Speaker 14: If that father fall.

18:38 Speaker 1: Old that?

18:39 Speaker 6: Now?

18:43 Speaker 7: Oh, wait, take my back, take me back, take me back, take my back on.

18:53 Speaker 1: You wanna take me back, take my back, take me back.

18:57 Speaker 14: Take my back to that.

19:02 Speaker 13: Yeah, falling town be so hard?

19:15 Speaker 1: Would you catch men?

19:17 Speaker 14: It's that found.

19:24 Speaker 1: Falling down again? Be so hard?

19:32 Speaker 11: Sorry?

19:34 Speaker 1: Would you catch me?

19:37 Speaker 14: It's that found?

19:38 Speaker 16: Fo Yeah, don't blake me in the moment.

20:39 Speaker 1: Don't believe me at.

20:43 Speaker 7: Last when the day comes in the out said, who have been making that?

20:54 Speaker 11: Loh?

20:54 Speaker 1: Mad? I saw you'll know on the tea.

21:01 Speaker 7: What y'all keys, it's on the floor.

21:11 Speaker 6: What if I want to walk away?

21:14 Speaker 1: Baby?

21:14 Speaker 7: What if I what to go? We can make it, we can make it, we can make it, we can make.

21:34 Speaker 6: It a good last?

21:45 Speaker 1: Who ass listen? Out of live way?

21:49 Speaker 7: Wait till on your car a holiday.

21:58 Speaker 1: This is why I feel.

22:01 Speaker 6: The ratchet.

22:08 Speaker 1: I saw your note.

22:09 Speaker 17: On the table, your keys, I saw the store. What the fact you want to walk away? Maybe what if that word store?

22:32 Speaker 1: We can we can make it.

22:38 Speaker 7: We can't make it, we can't make it.

23:30 Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. Let me can't. My cat, my cat let mage like you could do that.

24:04 Speaker 9: Oh, that's such a great track. That is restless. That is Brooks Young. And if you are just joining us this hour, we are remembering our departed friend, A Brooks Young, enormously talented musician and a spectacular human being, who just passed away in a car accident earlier this week. And I think what I'm gonna do now, actually is I'm going to play. I'm gonna share a little bit with you. Not the whole thing, obviously, because we won't have time and I do want to get some more songs into. But I'm gonna share a little bit with you of Brook's final appearance on the show, the last time that I interviewed him.

24:41 Speaker 9: So here it is. This is from earlier this year, and we enjoy having a year. But also you you brought your guitar. Oh that's a beautiful.

24:50 Speaker 8: Now I'm bummed our video is not working because that's a beautiful guitar.

24:53 Speaker 9: But we we will take we will take pictures while you're playing.

24:56 Speaker 8: That's wow, that's really nice.

24:58 Speaker 18: Yeah, it's my love of guitars has drove over. And so this is a Gibson J two hundred.

25:07 Speaker 8: Yeah.

25:07 Speaker 18: And I used this guitar on the George thorough Good tour.

25:12 Speaker 8: Yeah, as well as.

25:13 Speaker 18: My electric when I sat and played with George. Got this right before I left on tour, and guitars beautiful ghost with me everywhere.

25:21 Speaker 1: So it's gorgeously.

25:24 Speaker 18: Yeah, it's fairly new to me. I I just picked it up right before I left on four 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 yet. So this is its first like on stage performance.

25:40 Speaker 1: Yeah.

25:40 Speaker 8: Yeah, oh wow, very cool, very cool works. I'm downa here.

25:43 Speaker 9: You play, sure and let me let me get that other mic up, so there we are.

25:50 Speaker 18: While you're doing that, 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.

26:27 Speaker 18: 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, a really big 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.

26:52 Speaker 8: Nod Yeah, this big.

26:54 Speaker 18: Moment and Jeff Gordon's on the screen and this is just recently, and I was like no, I was like, wow, this is some I'm on the phone. I'm like calling everybody and I'm like hey, you know, and it was just a really cool moment because I grew up as a NASCAR fan and like, yeah, Gordon was my favorite driver, and 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 out. I like I had to sit back from him.

27:25 Speaker 18: I was like, wow, this is great, and uh yeah, so I'll play it for you. It's a song called I Believe. Uh, seeing that we just played restless, something new, I'll play something a little uh yeah, yeah.

27:35 Speaker 8: I've got ah got that other mic up. So what's youngest with us live? I believe all right.

27:59 Speaker 19: Something all true. It's just me that you're gonna try and talk to you. The closer you get, the harder I fill.

28:16 Speaker 10: I would do anything, any thing, adds side. I would swim across the ocean.

28:25 Speaker 1: Fly to the moon.

28:28 Speaker 10: I would walk a thousand miles just or get you.

28:35 Speaker 10: I would walk a thousand miles just to get to you,

28:55 Speaker 10: the amorsim to hear your name, the same up stories. Nothing else has changed a piggin now, well we left eye.

29:13 Speaker 1: It seems like forever.

29:16 Speaker 10: Since we've been up Barn. I would swim across the ocean, fly to the moon.

29:26 Speaker 1: I would walk.

29:27 Speaker 10: Thousand masks just to get to you. I would balk thousand masks just get to you. I would walk thousand masks just be with you. Yeah, I would walk thousand miles just to be with you.

29:55 Speaker 1: So there you have it.

29:56 Speaker 8: That is uh.

29:57 Speaker 9: That is from the final appearance of Brooks Young on the show, when I got to interview him and he played live.

30:04 Speaker 8: Of course, the entire thing is available online if you want to hear it.

30:07 Speaker 9: But if you are just joining us today, we are remembering Brooks Young, and I think I'm gonna play this is another personal favorite of mine.

30:17 Speaker 8: Great great track.

30:18 Speaker 9: We'll play a couple more here, a couple more studio tracks. This is called Ventilator by the great Brooks Young.

30:40 Speaker 20: When spell this tract, hell, shake.

30:49 Speaker 11: This best, go the break.

30:55 Speaker 1: You woom cosson you can.

31:01 Speaker 10: A feels like murder, not the first degree lower swing down.

31:17 Speaker 7: It's a base stepping over there showing now on where you are. Let anybody who gun mean eventually to chap is circud with no sacking chance.

31:42 Speaker 1: A cold. Don't live in lisire a gun in hand.

31:49 Speaker 15: We can't be no ball being.

31:53 Speaker 10: We can't be counted by words nice, batsheet.

31:58 Speaker 1: And pain gunnery. The love about it is walking around

32:08 Speaker 1: body roll, stimp down, you'll creature somebody learn about it, Let everybody do me. So I'm kind of that you to.

32:31 Speaker 21: Know you're gonna do your bound the world to what you're gonna to your bad, what you're going to.

32:44 Speaker 1: You're gonna fight in, but don't tie in because starting

32:55 Speaker 1: we're gonna fight in.

32:58 Speaker 17: You gonna die.

33:04 Speaker 1: Bad, so bad. Let the money, let the body gone,

33:22 Speaker 1: so that later to levebout it later go too bad. Look, you got you what you're going to that? What are you going to do?

34:07 Speaker 21: What you gonna do that?

34:11 Speaker 1: What's going to golf? Did it? Gold? A crazy little me think we've asked.

34:53 Speaker 11: Sou broad.

34:57 Speaker 1: Where did we go? Where did he had? Jams getting too But we'll make it.

35:12 Speaker 11: This time.

35:16 Speaker 1: A change man.

35:18 Speaker 15: Had and.

35:21 Speaker 1: Made this time hold out, hold out, hold out to hold out.

35:45 Speaker 14: Jams had a change in the man.

35:51 Speaker 1: So strong. Where did you go? Which we have.

36:05 Speaker 15: Jam getting children and we've made it.

36:10 Speaker 1: This time.

36:14 Speaker 15: Take matter hand.

36:19 Speaker 1: Way with launch, launch, launch, full lots of you, and

37:16 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lie. Lord, it's gonna be a love.

37:35 Speaker 22: Hold on to your hold on to Your, hold on to Yuck, hold on Young, hold load Yah.

37:57 Speaker 1: Hold.

38:04 Speaker 8: A Wow. What a cool song.

39:55 Speaker 9: I like the there's a little bit of a fake out at the end to where it sounds like it's fading out, and it sort of is but not quite and then.

40:03 Speaker 8: It fades out. It kind of like you kind of think it's fading out sooner than it does.

40:06 Speaker 5: I like that.

40:07 Speaker 8: I like that.

40:08 Speaker 9: That is hold on to Your Heart by Brooks Young. That song, by the way, had escaped me. I had not heard that one, but I found it online and I was like, one I haven't heard. And the thing with Brooks too, is, you know, doing a show like this, I always have to screen the music. But Brooks never had any bad words in any of his songs, so I knew that I could play that without pre screening it and it would not be a problem. But if you are just joining us, we are spending this hour remembering our friend Brooks Young, who was taken from us earlier this week in a tragic car accident, and such a talented person, and love his music and loved him.

40:50 Speaker 9: He was just a great, great guy.

40:53 Speaker 7: You know.

40:53 Speaker 9: It was interesting, As I said, I'd interviewed him so many times over the years, and but the when I interviewed him in twenty three, I interviewed him earlier this year. I'd also interviewed him in twenty twenty three, and but I think it was the first time I'd seen him in quite a few years, at least the last time I had seen him, definitely pre pandemic. So but it's it's you know, and his hair had pretty much turned completely gray. You know, he's prematurely gray. He was only forty two when he passed away.

41:25 Speaker 9: But but it was it was I hadn't seen him since his hair would turn completely gray. But I kind of suited him.

41:31 Speaker 8: It worked for him.

41:33 Speaker 9: But yeah, such a such a great guy. I think we should, uh, I think we should continue. I hate to say it, it's such a cliche. I think we should let the music do the talking, But I think we should. I do think that's probably the best way to honor Brooks and his memory. So let's play another one.

41:48 Speaker 8: Why not? This is called Same Old Blues Brooks Young.

42:18 Speaker 1: Morning, way.

42:21 Speaker 23: Keep the phone. Lots of tears that fall from my eyes.

42:36 Speaker 1: That's that see.

42:39 Speaker 15: In my room.

42:42 Speaker 23: Steering Now, that's the glue.

42:47 Speaker 15: That's the way.

42:49 Speaker 1: In the same sable blue.

43:00 Speaker 23: Lacked all.

43:02 Speaker 14: Racked as thinking.

43:10 Speaker 1: When the sun.

43:13 Speaker 23: Used to sund my back door.

43:18 Speaker 24: Now the sun it's turns ray. Oh my loveday, it turned to pay It is the pay.

43:31 Speaker 1: Lo the same.

43:34 Speaker 25: Blue sunshine sunshine, and so you see now, but it all looks like clowns to me.

44:43 Speaker 1: But as I in my room standing now that the froom, it's the way.

44:56 Speaker 20: It's the same. Oh yeah, it's the rain. It's the same.

45:10 Speaker 1: Blue ya, it's the rain. It's the same, oh blue

45:33 Speaker 1: back you guys call a cap leaving what we have thinking old over, I'm gonna make a mistake consipt. We do it all the lad We're gonna be the way.

45:56 Speaker 1: Oh can't you see that? No, well, never love you that.

46:03 Speaker 1: We'll never tell you that. I've got to charge you the one you find no one. We'll never love you like a love. We'll never give you what I kid do wan loved to love you, lacking child, your one.

46:34 Speaker 1: She'll take your kids a close the door. Tell me what you looking for? Cau City, you know, and you going there's something I gonna say, Oh yeah me, because if we're going all the wall, we're gonna be loved.

46:59 Speaker 1: I gotta check ell yeah, no, bron.

47:03 Speaker 20: We'll never love you like a love.

47:06 Speaker 1: We'll never tease you like a pean.

47:10 Speaker 6: You know.

47:12 Speaker 1: Either it's your bad another no word, no no one,

47:30 Speaker 1: my mother laugh.

47:33 Speaker 15: We're gonna be that.

47:39 Speaker 7: You pack your bags, call a cat, believe in what we have biked over.

47:50 Speaker 12: No word.

47:52 Speaker 7: We never love you like a love. We'll never tell you like a church you no one, no one you love love you love love. We love a gue.

48:17 Speaker 1: Love love. Look at sound, no.

48:25 Speaker 8: One remembering Brooks young. Let's play one more.

48:54 Speaker 1: The heal of voice.

49:02 Speaker 15: You sad my mind.

49:08 Speaker 1: Telling me, but you listen the true my thoughts.

49:16 Speaker 15: Your wand your wand.

49:30 Speaker 1: Sand shivers tell my span even though it's an time

49:43 Speaker 1: A hero of the day.

49:51 Speaker 6: I guess that's what I've ma.

49:58 Speaker 1: I guess that's would leave whoa whoa, whoa whoa here out the day, here out the.

50:28 Speaker 26: Day, going one way, you on a two way track

50:40 Speaker 26: ahead in my way.

50:42 Speaker 10: But I'll never too back. I hear you crying when you came my name.

50:55 Speaker 11: I'll say your soul, I'll say you'll s.

51:08 Speaker 1: Whoa whoa whoa whoa hell out the day, you out the day, and you my lady, who will whoa whoa

52:28 Speaker 1: of the day of the day, whoa whoa who all the day.

53:14 Speaker 8: At his Hero of the day.

53:15 Speaker 9: Brook's Young taken much too soon, but as music lives on, I suggest you if you're a fan, you should definitely go online and check out it. Was such a prolific songwriter, such a great songwriter, great voice, and one hell of a guitar player, Brooks Young.

53:32 Speaker 8: I'm honored to have known him.