Matt Connarton Unleashed: The Writeful Heirs

0:00 Speaker 1: The Rightful Airs are here with us live in studio. Welcome, Hey, great to be here. We have John Montalto. Is that any saying perfect? Was it really? Yeah? Okay?

0:11 Speaker 2: Good?

0:13 Speaker 1: And Sonny Barretto. Yeah, okay, excellent, So welcome to both of you. It's nice to have you here. And I'm kind of adjusting these mics on the fly because the Rightful Airs are going to play live for us in studio. By the way, So where does the name come from?

0:30 Speaker 3: That's an interesting question. I think we just really we're thinking about kind of being the heirs to a lot of different music while we were growing up, all these great, great influences that we had, and we just wanted to be songwriters. So it's Rightful with a write, yes, And it's really kind of reflecting that, you know, we're songwriters, but we're airs to a huge legacy of diverse music, rock and roll and other influences.

1:06 Speaker 1: I was reading on your website something from another interview that you had done, where what have you said something about at a certain point you stopped worrying about genres and just worrying about kind of which is interesting. It sort of relates to a conversation that Jenny and I were having with our previous guests in the second hour. Eli le love about not worrying about trying to fit into a particular genre or style, but just doing the music that you want to do, you know, and letting it come out organically.

1:34 Speaker 1: And it sounds like that's kind of your approach.

1:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we have, We've stumbled into so many different types of songs that we can't really say that we're you know, strictly Americana or anything like that. You know, We've got some songs that sound a little Latin and things like that that you know, just they happen, and we don't want to really exclude them. We just want to let them flow.

1:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that makes sense. That makes sense. And how long is how long has The Rightful Airs existed as a duo? How long have you been doing this?

2:08 Speaker 4: Well, we had over the anniversary of our first song creation was November September.

2:14 Speaker 1: Fourth, seven years seven years.

2:18 Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, seven years.

2:19 Speaker 4: We've been writing collectively.

2:22 Speaker 1: Over the course of that time. I mean, how many how many songs have you written and recorded together?

2:27 Speaker 4: Well, we've written over thirty songs. We've recorded ten.

2:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, about ten, we recorded.

2:33 Speaker 4: Ten and we're in pre production for our next project. We have fifteen new songs which we're going to start. We're going to start work on at the end of November.

2:44 Speaker 1: Okay, do you sir Lecoin schiefer? Okay, excellent, excellent. Do you want to play something live for us? We played a studio track. We have a couple others we can play over the course of the time that we have together. But I'm dining here.

2:55 Speaker 4: You play live, Oh, but we're happy to play. We're going to play you all brand new material.

3:00 Speaker 1: So we're oh, fantastic, all right.

3:04 Speaker 3: So this next song is called in My World, and it just kind of came up, as you know, instead of complaining about the way things are, which I think a lot of us, you know, in this kind of election, you're all griping about what we like and don't like. I said, you know what if I just wrote a song about what I really like? And that's what this song is really about.

3:28 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, fantastic.

3:43 Speaker 6: In my world there's no trap because we already got there. In my world, there's no hung because there's nothing that is not ship.

3:57 Speaker 7: We always stop being laying the hand, we always give what we all can here.

4:05 Speaker 8: Here in my world.

4:15 Speaker 6: In my world, there's no worries because we know nobody is not nice.

4:22 Speaker 8: In my world, there's.

4:24 Speaker 9: No sorrow because we all see that we've got race.

4:29 Speaker 6: We always turn them music on.

4:33 Speaker 8: We always have a party on here.

4:38 Speaker 5: Here in my world.

4:42 Speaker 8: Just get yours on down here for you with joy, life more feeling batters, the best time you could have here in my world. In my world, there's no.

5:07 Speaker 6: Mirrors because we all see what is so true. In my world, there's no garbage because there's nothing that we can't use.

5:19 Speaker 8: We Ohays turn ourselves around.

5:22 Speaker 3: We always pick it off the ground here here in my world.

5:32 Speaker 8: Just get your ass on down here for your waist jolive on, feeling bat.

5:37 Speaker 9: It's the best time you could have.

5:40 Speaker 8: Here in my world.

5:54 Speaker 6: We Ohays turn the music one. We ohays have up Audie on here.

6:03 Speaker 3: Here in my world.

6:07 Speaker 8: Just get your ass on down here for your waist, hove off feeling bad. It's the best time you could have here in my world. In my nevelt be halle may comit jai wa ha ha ha.

6:34 Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. The Rightful airs with us live in studio on this Saturday morning here on Matt Connorton Unleashed and you were saying, that's brand new pretty much, excellent, excellent. Did I did I ask you before how many you've written so far?

6:51 Speaker 8: Ago?

6:51 Speaker 1: Thirty over thirty?

6:53 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in the beginning, I think it just kind of started out where, you know, when we met, I just handed him a poem, and you know, he came back to me like in a week with this, like this recording of him singing my poem to this amazing music, and I was like, wow, this is really amazing. Was I was so pleased. And you know what started to happen later was, you know, he's so prolific in writing all of these amazing tunes that I realized it was kind of like solving a puzzle to put the lyrics to these amazing tunes.

7:32 Speaker 3: So we probably do more of that and less of me like free writing a song and then him putting it to music. Although we have had that happen in one of the songs that we're going to be playing. The he wrote the music twice to the to the song. So there's a song on our album called Tear It Down. And originally I wanted him to I gave him a song called Muscleman, and I said, hey, you know, I need music to this, and he wrote this like kind of bright and jaunty music, and I'm like, that's that's just not you know, bluesy enough or you know, I need something like more serious.

8:13 Speaker 3: So we held onto the music and that music became tear it down. But you'll we'll play for you a song called Muscleman later on. That is the kind of second generation for that song.

8:28 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, cool, Well let's right now, let's play another studio track and then we'll we'll hear you play more live. But I'm dying to play the song American Dream the radio edit and then maybe we can talk about it after. But this is a really great song. This is American Dream by the Rightful Airs.

8:45 Speaker 10: Then at the American Treat.

8:51 Speaker 11: Cut things under.

8:52 Speaker 12: It was this.

8:56 Speaker 7: Work on man, she don't want me.

9:02 Speaker 10: I lived and died the American Dream, the same old thing today feels so paid, the sinking feeling you will never.

9:22 Speaker 13: Find he saw maney I did everything who with spent all I made, packed up bill, left my home for a better job.

9:35 Speaker 11: But I was drowned.

9:38 Speaker 12: I'm build up in a whole time.

9:41 Speaker 11: Thus or else could I with thous.

9:50 Speaker 7: I lived and tied the American dreamcasting time. Really what they had seen works so damn hard to keep her green.

10:07 Speaker 7: I live and die the American entree, you.

10:20 Speaker 10: Know, God of Santa Miracles, take up hill.

10:24 Speaker 5: What else can you do to protect your head, to your.

10:31 Speaker 12: Try and not to get old?

10:34 Speaker 11: And no one to hold a million and a those who live just like.

10:40 Speaker 5: Uncertainty.

10:43 Speaker 9: I'm running of our road time, I said, it's up, goddamn crime.

10:55 Speaker 7: I live and die the American.

10:57 Speaker 11: Trees packed up on my bride, in my esus.

11:06 Speaker 7: And Sir Blcovis Nancy. I lived untied the American dream.

11:17 Speaker 7: SHO tell me what I want to be?

11:28 Speaker 11: The mock.

11:33 Speaker 12: Of them?

11:33 Speaker 11: Up with spending streets? Are you me up chating me?

11:51 Speaker 14: I'll live in on Barber.

11:57 Speaker 10: I lived and tied the American Dream. I'm still in love with my country. My rockin will will keep me free. I lived and the American Dream.

12:27 Speaker 1: I really like that song a lot. That is American dream. That is the rightful heirs who are here with us live in studio, and uh yeah, I'm curious to hear the story behind that song. Very very topical, shall we say.

12:42 Speaker 3: Well, you know you know how sometimes you're just kind of like talking to somebody and you kind of make a phrase that just kind of like sticks. So I think I said something along lines of like oh, I've lived and died the American Dream, and John's like, oh, that's a song, and he just kind of kept noodling it, and he came up with the chorus right away, and then he I think already had a piece of like a verse that went with it, and why don't you talk about how you constructed it?

13:17 Speaker 4: But we had the we had the chorus to the song, and trying to fit what a verse would be match that. There was a song idea that popped into my head that was twenty five years old that never did anything with that just fit perfectly. And once we had that structure in place, Sonny was able to compete the whole lyric idea.

13:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, and who's on that? Larry Campbell was on that song with him.

13:53 Speaker 3: So Larry Campbell has I think three Grammys. He's playing I think pedal steel guitar on a lot of our tracks and on this particular track as well, right and.

14:05 Speaker 4: On and on Tear It Down. He also plays guitar and pedal steel as well.

14:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, we also have Josh Dion on drums.

14:16 Speaker 4: And Danny Lewis the keyboard player for government. You played on all tracks.

14:20 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh wow.

14:22 Speaker 13: You said something.

14:23 Speaker 8: I had nothing. I said nothing, you had something?

14:27 Speaker 11: Ter down.

14:29 Speaker 8: I did everything for you. Just tear it down. It's the only thing to do. I've been waiting, you've been praying. I've been praying. You've been waiting. Tear it down. Can't get anything from you. Just tear it down. It's the only thing we did that's loner.

15:01 Speaker 15: You should really go back almost be.

15:06 Speaker 16: Tail it down to the ground, down to the gram.

15:24 Speaker 8: I don't like it when you're lazy. You don't like it when I'm crazy. Tear it down. Is there no alternative? Just tear it down. Is there any way to your forgiving me for living living, for your giving? Tear down? We had everything, it's you. Just tear it down. I will always sing to you.

16:00 Speaker 12: Up to all.

16:03 Speaker 15: You Just not build that on your room.

16:07 Speaker 8: That Just do it down.

16:12 Speaker 15: He started down better rock eye, youn it. You should really go back almost sweet.

16:32 Speaker 14: To the ground, down to the ground. You will start when I must finished?

16:45 Speaker 8: Could I know to live?

16:48 Speaker 17: Really we build no blaze of glory. How could we just d the story build it up? But it's our time town.

17:02 Speaker 8: Just tear it all down.

17:08 Speaker 17: Tear it all down and move all from.

17:16 Speaker 8: We should I'm not staying willing and layon. You're not laying where I'm stayin ho town. We'll give in to grab the teachers. Take it down live where you would rather would be. You're a bricking.

17:45 Speaker 15: I can't build the struggle while you can wear it down.

17:53 Speaker 8: Hold turn down.

18:13 Speaker 18: To the ground, very very catchy.

18:31 Speaker 1: I like it that is, tear it down. We've got the rightful heirs here with us, live in studio on this Saturday morning. Uh, let's go and try that, Mike John, try talking into that. Oh, I think we're onto something here. Keep keep keep talking. Well, Uh, that's that's a that's much better. Yeah, we were. We were getting some buzz earlier that whether it was not not helpful. Yeah, that's that's that's a big improvement. I can actually hear you plug that mic into a different channel. So yeah, so we have the rightful airs with us.

19:03 Speaker 1: Uh, live in studio with us. You want to you want to play another live one for us?

19:08 Speaker 3: Okay, so you just heard tear it down on the recorded track there that we submitted, and that was really the music that John came up with for this next song when I handed him these lyrics and oh you'll you'll see these are two totally different songs. This is probably a little bit more kind of serious sounding and.

19:38 Speaker 1: Okay, oh now I'm curious.

19:40 Speaker 3: Yeah, so the song is called muscle Man.

19:43 Speaker 1: Okay, rightful Airs live in studio, the right Hilaiirs live in studio.

19:48 Speaker 4: The.

19:50 Speaker 8: Musclemade? What don't you move me? If you can? Hey them? Musclemaide, Why don't you move me if you can can care?

20:19 Speaker 8: A prodigy, no ambition? Can your mirror spin your mission on the ViRGE of what? Since I'm urged to say the lad hey them musclmade, Why don't you move me if you can? Hey them Musclemade? And you know you'd move me if you can can care? Watch this love's condition. Can't you see what you've been listened? Break free from your history and come feel my mistreet Hey them, Musclemade? Why don't you move me if you can?

21:23 Speaker 11: Hey them?

21:25 Speaker 8: Musclemade? And oh you could move me if you can can can care? What's song on the outside? Or free you from your inside. What's on the outside, won't a are you.

21:46 Speaker 19: From your ripped tad? That one inside?

21:57 Speaker 8: Hey? Hey hey hey you got how weldy? Hey hey hey you got to move Hey the muscleman, what don't you move me? If you can?

22:31 Speaker 1: I like it? I like it?

22:33 Speaker 3: Thank you?

22:33 Speaker 1: That is muscleman. The Rightful Airs are here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning here on Matt Connerton Unleashed playing some tunes. We also played some studio tracks. And what have you released so far for studio material? Do you just have the one album, the one self titled album, or have you put anything else out prior to that?

22:55 Speaker 3: That's really all that we've kind of put up there, you know, like on Spotify and Apple Music and all of that stuff. Is that studio album. We did have another song that we had a different producer do, but we haven't really released that one. And we've got a whole bunch of stuff that we're working on for our next go around.

23:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would imagine. I mean you're probably constantly writing, right.

23:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's kind of like a disease. Yeah, it just keeps happening. But yeah, there's nothing we could do about it. And it's all different, and you know, you just got to go with it.

23:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, and just blessed to have such a wonderful songwriting partner.

23:38 Speaker 4: For many years, I had gotten to the point where I wasn't really able to.

23:43 Speaker 5: Complete anything on my own.

23:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, and then once Sonny and I started writing together, all of these wonderful new ideas started coming about.

23:53 Speaker 11: And in the.

23:55 Speaker 4: Thirty five plus years that I've been writing, this is the best material that I've really been part of. And I've been part of some really great bands in the past, so it's really it's really pleasing to to have this type of partnership.

24:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Where do you record it? By the way, forgive me if I asked you this earlier, I may have been distracted by the little technical problems we were having, But where where do you record? Where was this album recorded?

24:26 Speaker 3: Lincoln's Lot Log Cabin in Bronx, New York.

24:31 Speaker 1: So there's a place in the Bronx, a studio called Lincoln's Log Cabin.

24:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, it's wild. It's really like a basement. There's no there's no log cabin, but it's a house in the Bronx. And he's got this like basement studio and all of these amazing artists came there to record our album.

24:49 Speaker 4: We're really fortunately we recorded the album during COVID and a lot of these musicians would have been on the road and they were grounded and they were available to so we were very, very lucky and fortunate to have the opportunity to have them come in and really create our music. And basically we came in with songs just the way we're playing them today, and from that point of view, Lincoln had a vision for each and every track, and we're really we're just really grateful we had the opportunity to work with Lincoln and with all these magnificent players.

25:25 Speaker 1: Oh excellent, Yeah, excellent. Do you plan to go back there for recording in the future or are you going to try somebody else.

25:31 Speaker 3: Or Oh, We're definitely going back to Lincoln.

25:33 Speaker 4: No, Lincoln's our man, for sure. We're scheduled to meet with Lincoln at the end of November and to play him fifteen to fifteen songs, including all of what we played here today. These are all songs that are going to be considered for the next project.

25:49 Speaker 1: Oh excellent, very good, very good. Do you want to play another live one. Sure, sure, if you're just joining us, we have the rightful areas with us alive in studio here, so you want to be okay.

26:01 Speaker 3: So this song's kind of a medley. It's it's two songs really kind of sandwich together. That just kind of happened that way. One day John was noodling around and he just kind of slid from one into the next, and then it's just kind of we realized they needed to go together. So the first songs called in Due Time, and the next song is called the Devil. And you know, feel free to put your favorite villain in our Devil song. Think of who you must in these times. I'm sure everybody's got somebody that they consider might fit the bill here.

26:39 Speaker 1: No doubt.

26:53 Speaker 5: She knew down upon he's great blackbird screams in Blazzle Week.

27:05 Speaker 11: Where she's here and.

27:07 Speaker 5: He is gone, no reason left to carry.

27:17 Speaker 2: Just take your please inside the land, all questions answered in your time.

27:38 Speaker 12: Won soul tear is all she see.

27:44 Speaker 5: From the memory of that day. Now that warmmon has grown old, the little tear has turned to go.

28:01 Speaker 12: Just take your.

28:02 Speaker 2: Place inside the land, or questions answer in due time.

28:10 Speaker 11: In due time.

28:14 Speaker 8: Everything shall be revealed.

28:48 Speaker 5: When you look in to the mirror, you say, no one left to save? Have the image Beagle's clear?

29:01 Speaker 12: Who's the master and who's the sleeve?

29:05 Speaker 11: And whose rules? To you be?

29:18 Speaker 5: I have seen your face before history has served me. Will there'll be those who take your hand, But I won't fall under your spill.

29:35 Speaker 11: I won't follow you to haill.

29:41 Speaker 5: Would you know the devil? It's be looking to your eyes?

29:53 Speaker 5: Would you know the devil?

29:57 Speaker 8: When it comes as non surprise?

30:02 Speaker 12: Men?

30:02 Speaker 9: You been help motis you're thinking you can't do no wrong?

30:11 Speaker 11: Do you no wrong?

30:15 Speaker 12: Do you no wrong?

30:23 Speaker 5: Yes, we all do have a shadow, and we almost make a choice not to give in to what shadow or to slip in to the board.

30:39 Speaker 9: We just need to raisoveice. Would you know the devil if he looked into your house? Would you know the devil?

31:00 Speaker 12: And then it.

31:01 Speaker 8: Comes as no surprise.

31:05 Speaker 11: When you bad him the task?

31:08 Speaker 9: You thinking you can't do no wrong, do no wrong.

31:18 Speaker 11: Do no wrong? Would you know the table? Would you know the table?

31:43 Speaker 8: And it comes as no surprise.

31:48 Speaker 11: When you paid him the times?

31:51 Speaker 8: You thinking you can't do no wrong.

32:08 Speaker 1: Oh I like that, Thank you, I like that a lot?

32:12 Speaker 4: Thank you so in due time. Was it felt to me that there just wasn't there. I needed to have more And it was just that happy accident when I was doing that figure, just going down that half a step is where the devil started and that's it's sunny. Let's try to put these two together. Yeah, and uh, like I said, it was just a happy accident.

32:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that was very cool. That was very cool. If you're just joining us, the Rightful Airs are here with us live in studio before we run out of time, do you wanna do you want to play one more and then we'll kind of remind everybody where to find you online.

32:49 Speaker 12: We'd love to thank you. Thank you.

32:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely no, I like that last one so much. I just want to hear another live one. Oh great you. Oh so while you're looking at that too, I'll just remind our listeners if you're looking for the Rightful Airs online. So it's rightful with a W W R I T E f U L and then airs is h E R I R S for the spelling tom pairt.

33:17 Speaker 4: This is another song that's that's quite different.

33:19 Speaker 12: Here.

33:19 Speaker 4: Let me just make sure, let me just tune this up here.

33:25 Speaker 1: Sure, So this is.

33:27 Speaker 3: Kind of like a date night song, like if you know, just kind of one thing kind of leads into the next. And the song is called Pepper and uh it's kind of not like our other songs because it's a little Latin sounding. Oh okay, all right, don't have much more to say about this song.

33:49 Speaker 4: The song almost didn't come to be. But that's a story for another time.

33:53 Speaker 3: Oh all right, we could say more about that later.

34:02 Speaker 8: Bring me a little more pepper, Baby, I'll pour a little more wine. We can make it together, the baby. It will really be fine.

34:16 Speaker 5: Close your eyes, make a little wish. Yes, I'm your guy.

34:24 Speaker 8: Play me some more of your music, honey. I'll make a really good rhyme. We can play it together, honey, we can sing it right.

34:38 Speaker 5: Take my hand, make a little wisch. Yes, I'm your man, and you've got me right here. Baby, you've got me goin crazy.

34:52 Speaker 8: Wrap your arms all around me, baby, Turn me towards the stars. We're still holding each other, darling. That's just who we are.

35:06 Speaker 12: What you are.

35:08 Speaker 5: Make a little wish.

35:11 Speaker 11: Let's do this all night.

35:14 Speaker 8: Slide your hips a bit closer, my love, dance me through the night. We keep moving together. The baby and did feel so right?

35:27 Speaker 5: Close your eyes, make a little wish. Yes, I'm your god.

35:35 Speaker 8: It's time that you kissed me right there. You could do that again. We can make love together all night. It will never end.

35:49 Speaker 5: Just take my hand. I've got wa Genie. Yes, I'm your man and.

35:57 Speaker 11: You've got me right here.

35:59 Speaker 6: Baby, you've got me going crazy.

36:10 Speaker 8: Bring me a little more pepper, Peep, I'll pour a little more wine. We can't do it together, Beep. We can do it right.

36:25 Speaker 20: We can do it together, the babe, we can do it right. We can do it together, Babe, we can do it right.

36:40 Speaker 1: That song made me blush. No, that's great. That is Pepper by the Rightful Airs here with us live in studio. Where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing? Where's the best place here?

36:55 Speaker 3: The Rightful Airs dot com. That's the w R I T E f U l H E I R S dot com.

37:04 Speaker 4: Okay and Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, all the major music carriers you can find us.

37:09 Speaker 1: On Okay, excellent. And do you have any shows this weekend that you're playing or when's the next show?

37:14 Speaker 4: No, that's that's something that we're working on, as you know, in order to play a lot of the venues here, you do have to know a fair amount of cover songs, which we're totally new to us. So we're currently working on about fifteen or twenty cover songs so that we can put a show together and start playing all the local places. Excellent, And just to say, we were from New York and when we moved here, we were surprised to find that there is really a fantastic music scene here. Oh yeah, wonderful, wonderful musicians, a lot of opportunities to play, so we're happy to be part of it.

37:49 Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent. What brought you you're both from New York? Original? Yes, what brought you here?

37:54 Speaker 12: Oh?

37:54 Speaker 3: Just like I think in living in New York after a while, I used to have this helicopter that was over my house all the time, and I was like, you know, I really could use some peace and quiet. So like, we came up to New Hampshire and it's been great. There is no traffic here, at least where I drive anyway. Yeah, and you know, as long as they don't put any more stoplights in, I think it'll be an awesome, awesome place to drive all the time. So we're loving it.

38:24 Speaker 1: Here excellent, excellent, very very good. Well we'll in a moment, we'll wrap up. I was thinking about playing this studio track Jupiter in July that I really like, and as you said, you know you can get it on all the streaming platforms. So thank you both for coming in today. This has been wonderful.

38:43 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me, Thank you for having us.

38:45 Speaker 4: And we want to get the word out to the public about your show, so we will be promoting it on our website and our Facebook page.

38:52 Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, thank you. We appreciate that. We appreciate that