Matt Connarton Unleashed: Two Towns "Covered Up"

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3:07 Speaker 8: That is Two Towns. That is called running Away. Welcome everybody, and we've got the two gentlemen from Two Towns. Welcome back, guys, very well, very well. So running Away was a track we had played the last time you were here. We're gonna play some new stuff though, because you've got this great new I want to talk about this uncovered and I listened to the whole thing and just really really good. I love the cover versions of these songs. But gentlemen, please each introduce yourselves and remind us who you are and what you do in Two Towns.

3:39 Speaker 7: So, yeah, I'm Zack. I'm the front man of Two Towns. And do you all like the vocals and like some backing guitar and piano and harmonica and all the fancy stuff.

3:48 Speaker 9: So okay, yeah, I'm a James or j Money. I do the lead acoustic guitar, and I keep Zack in line.

3:55 Speaker 8: Yeah pretty much, Okay, very good, very good. Well, it's wonderful to have you guys back. Jenny looked it up. It was June the last time that that you guys were here, so it's really good to have you here. Tell us about tell us about the new project Uncovered, and uh, why why did you decide to do this? And I'm curious too to know, you know, and we'll play some of them today, but I'm curious to know what went into choosing these songs to cover.

4:22 Speaker 7: So we changed the name of it. It's called Two Towns Covered Up and that's gonna be the album name. We're gonna put it out April four. Yeah, we changed the name. We decided would go with something else, okay, but yeah, we're gonna put it out on April fourth. And we kind of just we wanted a mix of songs that we do live, that we truly feel has a connection with the audience when we play them, or just something that's less boring. We just wanted some stuff that, like, for example, like Atlantic City Bruce Springsteen.

4:53 Speaker 7: Like the original it's great and all, but we just wanted to like kind of bring it up to more like modern times, especially with how audio engineering has changed in mixing and mastering has changed, so we kind of just wanted to bring it into the new era. I guess. Yeah, we did with a lot of the songs.

5:09 Speaker 8: So no, that makes sense, you know, because you chose things that are not necessarily I mean some of these I would imagine if you know, when you play them out, people don't necessarily know that they're covers, right, I mean, because you didn't go with like the obvious. You know, there's there's certain songs that when someone says, Okay, I'm gonna do a covers album, there's certain songs or certain artists who are just kind of obvious. But these are a little more I don't know if obscure is quite the right word, but but not not what one expects necessarily, right, Yeah.

5:40 Speaker 7: Yeah, we definitely tried to stay away from like really known stuff, Like there's there's definitely some on there that are like, Okay, yeah, this is this is something I know, or this is something that my friends know.

5:52 Speaker 8: Yeah.

5:53 Speaker 7: But then we also tried to like do like cough Syrup in Atlantic City and like mash two Luminier songs together just because as we kind of could.

6:01 Speaker 8: Yeah, were there any of these that you found particularly challenging to learn or to kind of cause you're not and you're not just learning them, you're also kind of putting your own spin, on your own vibe on them.

6:13 Speaker 7: Yeah.

6:13 Speaker 8: Were there any of these that were kind of challenging?

6:15 Speaker 10: Would you mind? I had never heard that song before the day of recording?

6:19 Speaker 8: Oh, no kidding.

6:20 Speaker 9: Yeah, so Zach kind of just threw it in front of me and was like, we're doing it. So I learned it and it turned out great.

6:24 Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, but yeah, so you had never heard it before, so that that's a little extra challenging, right, Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Were there any of these that you decided to learn that were easier than you expected that just kind of just came together like that?

6:40 Speaker 7: The Way Down was really easy?

6:42 Speaker 8: Really?

6:43 Speaker 7: Yeah, Like I thought that was that one was gonna be way harder, but that was really easy, no kidding. That one just kind of came together and flowed. Yeah, that was one of the first ones we actually got done.

6:52 Speaker 10: There didn't have to really change a bunch of it.

6:54 Speaker 8: Oh that's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Are you playing these? Are you actively playing these out? Have these been okay?

7:00 Speaker 7: Yep, We're gonna start playing the live or booking shows as we speak. I think we're up to like forty five dates on the summer run, so we'll see what's gonna happen. But yeah, okay, keep adding as we go.

7:10 Speaker 8: And you're playing them as two towns or yep, okay, I remember last time I made the mistake. I kept I think I might have been because of Facebook or Instagram or something. I kept calling you guys two Towns band, but it's actually just two towns. Yeah, but is it always? Is it still always the two of you live? Or do you have other musicians who join you?

7:25 Speaker 10: Just the two of us?

7:26 Speaker 8: That must be nice because you know it's simpler, right, you don't have to check with three other four other five other people. When when did you go to book a show?

7:33 Speaker 7: Yep, I've done that whole band thing. No, thank you, it's just too it's too complicated. Everybody wants their own opinion and their own spin on things. With this, it's just two brains and it's just okay, we're gonna go do this, and there's usually no disagreement, and if there is, it's just easy to get past.

7:48 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:48 Speaker 8: No, that's great, that's great. And on the album though, like what are is the album just all you guys are Do you have some other do you have some guest musicians? Oh, we do have.

8:00 Speaker 7: We had a guest musician do some electric guitar work, Tucker Tucker reeneh Art. He was great and he did. He's probably on like three or four songs on the album. And it's just like a few spots where we need an electric guitar and we're like, okay, we got a guy who knows how to do this, and.

8:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, then Eric Eric is on base our producer.

8:18 Speaker 7: Yes, okay, Eric Eric from Blackheart. That was he did such a good Eric yep, solder.

8:23 Speaker 8: Of anyone who records, produces, any of it, engineers who is active in the scene, his name comes up more than anybody else.

8:32 Speaker 7: He is fantastic.

8:33 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, no, he is. He's amazing, and we had him on the show. I don't know how long ago it was now, I was less than a year, but I remember, you know, Sandu him. It's great to finally have Beyond because your name comes up on the show constantly. No, he is amazing at what he does. Absolutely, how did you come to work with him?

8:48 Speaker 7: So we were gonna work with. There was another studio in match that had closed down. Oh I don't remember which one it is, but closed down to do some building issues or something. But after that the name came up. They were like, oh, we're closing down, but this guy Eric at Blackheart, like he's the guy you want to go work with. Well while we're shut down, And then eventually they didn't open up again, so we're like, all right, we just guess we're just gonna go work with Eric.

9:13 Speaker 8: Oh it was fate, probably worked out for the best.

9:15 Speaker 7: Yeah, it worked out great.

9:16 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Was the entire album recorded with him.

9:19 Speaker 7: Yep, entire album was recorded with Eric. We're actually going back in June for this album was recorded probably the span of like three days, I would say. And then we're gonna go back in June and we're doing a whole week with Eric, and we're just gonna get a whole original album out and hopefully have that out by the fall.

9:35 Speaker 8: Oh fantastic, fantastic. Well, let's play something from the new album. So it's called uncovered covered up? Oh covered up? Why do I keep saying uncovered? I'm sorry, covered up? What should we I mean? I'll let you guys pick. I mean, they're all great.

9:50 Speaker 7: But start from top Astra. I was hoping you'd say that was my personal favorite. It was my favorite. Now yeah, I don't know what it was. And who does this originally Mountjoy Mount Jos. Okay, yeah, this is This is an example of the song I was not familiar with, but I was listening to it and I.

10:10 Speaker 8: This is so good. All right, check it out. This is astro van as covered by two towns.

10:29 Speaker 3: Angels smoking cigar.

10:31 Speaker 11: It's sotop sinfishness in the mall with room steel. He comes Jesus in in a strow van, rolling down the street.

10:48 Speaker 12: Beginy Stone Wild Jay play.

10:55 Speaker 3: You see lifing ever what he seems?

10:59 Speaker 11: These streams some more than paper things.

11:02 Speaker 6: He's our momy over a brain. Now people along the way, I don't want.

11:10 Speaker 11: To see those tears get you know, Jesus jobs a nastrove. Then yes it does, he said.

11:36 Speaker 6: To my heart.

11:37 Speaker 12: There's a holy goal strip and none go know, but those who know the best ones delp book come down.

11:49 Speaker 12: If I love that zip Matos are reaching now who the greed known? Every y has their rule Ooo, because life thing never what he seems.

12:05 Speaker 3: These dreams of all and baby things.

12:09 Speaker 13: It's all right, mommy or afraid now before a long way.

12:16 Speaker 11: I don't want to see those tears again, you know. Jesus jobs a nastrove ven.

12:25 Speaker 1: Is it does?

12:28 Speaker 2: I said?

12:36 Speaker 11: When I see those angels on who I know how made it? When my do be smoking, Jesus.

12:45 Speaker 3: Puts my name upon his guestless.

12:48 Speaker 14: He said, you're famous in heaven or maybe famous in heaven, or maybe there is no heaven.

12:58 Speaker 3: H Maybe we'll all alone together now.

13:02 Speaker 2: And I don't want to see those tears A gay lord Jesus Chrials and Astrovan is he done?

13:34 Speaker 8: Oh? That is so good. That is so good. That is two towns doing astro Van by Mountjoy. That's the original artists on that. Yep, very very good, good good job. Do you guys have Do we each have favorites on this? On this album uncovered, I keep changing mind. Yeah, yeah, I like to change it every other day. Astra Van Astravan's up there. Astra Vans in my top three. Yeah, no, vacancy is up there.

13:59 Speaker 7: That will definitely that one was my favorite for the longest time. I was just like, Yep, that's gonna be the best song on the album. Then I heard Astravan. I was like, oh, maybe it's that one. I had to come in with a third, probably be sleep on your ho Hey? That one is that one came out really well?

14:15 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah I did. I never you know, it's funny until I listened to it. Well until I saw it and listen to it, I never knew that that was the actual title of the song.

14:22 Speaker 7: That is not the actual title of the song. So what we did not no, oh, we took one song by them and another song by them and just mashed them together.

14:30 Speaker 8: Oh, I didn't even realize yet.

14:32 Speaker 7: We play the first half of one of their songs, sleep on the Floor, okay, and then we play the entirety of ho Hey oh, and we do it live. We do it live during our shows, Like we're like, okay, this song, that's second half boring, you can't get through the whole thing. So we decided to put the first half of that song of sleep on the Floor and the interesting ho Hey, which is more upbeat and energetic, and just mash them together during our shows. And they're like, well, if we do it during the show, why not do it on the album.

15:02 Speaker 8: That kind of explains my confusion. Yep, but they obviously they go together well, because I didn't even realize that as I was listening to it. It didn't occur to me that they were two different songs. It's like, oh, oh that's cool. Now what about what about you, James? Do you have favorites?

15:15 Speaker 10: Oh?

15:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, mine are more of the like mellow would you mind sleep on your he and then COFs there are my favorite.

15:24 Speaker 10: That was my idea. He is not a fan, but oh no kidding it.

15:27 Speaker 7: It came out good. It came out better than I thought. But like, when we did it, we're like, we're really gonna.

15:31 Speaker 3: Do that one?

15:32 Speaker 10: Really, we were drawing it up. That's the one that I wanted for sure to Yeah.

15:35 Speaker 7: Yeah, but you had to be talked into it, Zach, I mean a little bit the original is. I mean we're not we're both not huge fans of the original, but when we play it live, we like the more mellow toned down version of it. I think, like the originals a little got a lot, It's got a lot going on. So taking it and stripping it down definitely made me like it more. Okay, So yeah, I'm glad we put it on we did.

15:56 Speaker 9: Similar things with Would you mind because the original is a big lots of stuff.

16:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, we just got it pretty simple.

16:03 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah. When you're recording these, do you record them with keeping mind like playing them live, how it's going to be to play them live? Do you keep that in mind? Or do you not worry about that part and say, we just want these to sound awesome and we'll figure the live part out later, Like what's kind of your approach to that? Do you think about that part or no?

16:26 Speaker 7: I mean I think that's probably the way we go with it. It is just like you just want it to sound as good as we possibly can, and then we'll just worry about playing it live after. Even if we have to play the stripped down versions live or whatever we got to do, or play with the backing track, then that's what we'll do.

16:40 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:40 Speaker 8: Yeah, I was curious because you know, a lot of people I've interviewed over the years, I'll say, well, when we go into the studio or when we go to record, however we record, you know, we think a lot about, you know, can we pull this off live? What we do in the studio, because to some musicians it's really important to be able to duplicate that live. But I've always looked at it as like, like what you were just you know, if live, if it's going to be more of a stripped down version because you can't replicate what you did in the studio exactly live.

17:07 Speaker 8: Who cares? So it's a more stripped down version. That's cool too, write, you know, because I like what when I go to see somebody live, I like hearing a different interpretation perhaps of you know, what they recorded, or if it's more raw and stripped down. That's I like that, you know what I mean, Like, it's like, Okay, it's live, it should be you know. Sometimes that gives it a little extra energy, you know, or.

17:31 Speaker 7: Yeah, changes it up, And that's exactly why we did it. It's like, Okay, maybe people want to hear something different.

17:36 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Are you guys playing a lot? Because I looked at from what I saw online, it looks like you're you're pretty active, right.

17:42 Speaker 7: We played I think last in the past year. I think we cleared like eighty five to one hundred and fifteen shows last year.

17:50 Speaker 8: Oh, that's really good.

17:51 Speaker 7: This year, we haven't started our like show runs yet, but we're going to start next month. We're gonna start in May. Actually we're starting in May over at Telly's. That's gonna be the first day. I think it's May fifteen, and then yeah, it's just going to take off from there. I think we got like forty five dates so far and we're just gonna keep adding them as we go.

18:09 Speaker 8: Excellent, excellent? Are you are? Is there anybody that you're playing a lot of shows with, you know, sometimes Ban's team up or it happens organically with other.

18:20 Speaker 7: I don't know which one right, maybe, Yeah, we're working on some shows in Vermont and like doing some like bigger stuff. Oh nice, but yeah, because I'm from Vermont and I we had like a pretty pretty strong following Vermont when we started out because that's where we originally started out. And then I moved down here and we just kind of like it's not like a restart, but it's like, oh, we gotta kind of got to build it up again.

18:47 Speaker 15: Yeah.

18:48 Speaker 7: So yeah, it's definitely it's easier to book shows in different places than it is other places. So we're really trying to break into Boston Marcas. We play a few venues in Boston, but we definitely want to have it more be the like mainstream places.

19:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, no, that makes sensese, makes sense. Well, we should play another track from Uncovered. I'll let you guys pick what do you what do you want to play next?

19:12 Speaker 7: Broken Window? Broken Window Serenade?

19:14 Speaker 8: Okay, thank you?

19:15 Speaker 7: And who does that originally Whiskey Myers.

19:17 Speaker 8: Whiskey Myers. Now that's somebody else. I'm not who's Whiskey Myers. I'm not familiar with them.

19:21 Speaker 7: They're like they country southern rock, Like yeah, like a southern ish country rock. They Yeah, they're kind of like not new to the scene, but like they're up and coming definitely in the past three years.

19:35 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, I was gonna say, yeah, I hadn't heard of them, but uh, but it's funny with a name like Whiskey Myers, it it makes sense that they would be kind of like southern h Yeah.

19:44 Speaker 7: It like it's it's weird too because when we were I was in my like high school original band, we played a higher ground. I didn't realize that at the time, but it was us in one side of the building and the other side of the building was Whiskey Myers, and we were like just kind of like having dinner with them and stuff. Yeah, kind of it just kind of worked out that way that we ended up doing one of their songs.

20:03 Speaker 8: Do they know, Like, have you reached out to them and told them that you covered this song?

20:06 Speaker 7: We will, we will. Like this is the first place anybody's hearing this album, So yeah, we don't have this anywhere else other than we had an album released party last night that yeah, we got like all of our friends and family got to hear for the first time.

20:17 Speaker 8: Oh, very cool. Well, that's awesome that we get to share these share this on the radio. Very good, very good. Well, let's give this a listen. This is Broken Window serenade as covered by two towns.

21:07 Speaker 3: Here a couple of little pretty flowers. This is what I'm brought to you.

21:12 Speaker 14: I saw you through broken the Window with a different point of view. You had signs of depression from a long line of.

21:24 Speaker 3: See me over.

21:26 Speaker 11: Face tells his story about the please sees you have been.

21:31 Speaker 3: I loved soul, a soun you should know, Henny.

21:45 Speaker 16: Mudy waters flowing hesitating my hand, past the.

21:52 Speaker 14: Creek down by the holler, through your Tay's land. I could buy you diamond, but I cannot change world. Because I'm got no money and you'll never be my girl.

22:10 Speaker 1: Love a song.

22:16 Speaker 3: A fo you should do.

22:36 Speaker 17: Us gont be a singer in a big move is starn but you.

22:43 Speaker 14: Can't catch no brisbee and Hollywood is song.

22:49 Speaker 1: Now you aren't count out the time out.

22:52 Speaker 14: Other one fifty five beyond that savoy dollar, just trying to stay in love.

23:01 Speaker 3: It hurts me so thoun sh no.

23:14 Speaker 18: Here you feed your addiction with your crystal left desire.

23:21 Speaker 3: Please for your life as it takes you to your death.

23:27 Speaker 6: You made a deal with the devil, and your looks begin to fade.

23:33 Speaker 3: I saw on you laughing through the tears.

23:37 Speaker 17: As you slowly sleep to way, Watch to Go, I found you should know.

23:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, watch to Go, Thoun you should no.

24:02 Speaker 7: I like that.

24:03 Speaker 8: That is broken Window serenade, as covered by Two Towns on the new album Uncovered. And uh that is that is really good whiskey myers. Of course I did that originally, as you explained. And does that Zach? Does that require a different mindset when you're singing something like that, because you're the way you're singing it is? You know it fits knowing who, as you explained earlier, Knowing who does the song, and and you know it's got that Southern vibe to it. You know, you're you're singing it a little differently than you would sing a lot of your other material.

24:38 Speaker 7: It seems like, Yeah, yeah, I definitely Okay, I definitely adjust the vocals to what I feel this song requires, like based on like the just the emotion of the raw tone of it. I just like, especially with that song, that one came out like a little rasp beer than we usually have, And I think it just it just matches the song, Yeah, matches what it needed to be.

25:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, is there anything else that you saying that you kind of approach it that same way?

25:04 Speaker 7: Or I think on Covered Up, there's something in thee, something in the orange. Yeah, that was just like the same sort of feel like live when I play it, it's more soft, it's more subtle. And then when we recorded for this, it just came out way raspier than I intended, but it sounded.

25:21 Speaker 10: Good, so we kept it No Vacancy too completely for good.

25:24 Speaker 7: Yeah. I like having kind of a Southern draw on No Vacancy, okay, and I just don't have one when I talk.

25:31 Speaker 8: Yeah, right right, Yeah, obviously, now you're from Vermont originally yep.

25:35 Speaker 10: And what about you, James Somerville Mess You're fraid out of Boss.

25:38 Speaker 8: Somerville, Mass Okay, yeah, okay, And how did you guys? Obviously we talked about it last time, but for for newer listeners, how did you guys meet? How did you connect and end up doing this project together?

25:49 Speaker 7: So we like we were working at a like skiing marketing company together a couple of two years ago, year ago. Yeah, he still works for him. I don't work for him anymore, but we were working together at this company and my guitarist had just left the summer before that. He moved out west to go do something or moved out to the Midwest. I don't know what he's doing now, but yeah, so he left, and then I just went through like a string of random guitars. It's like, no, you're not gonna work, You're not gonna work, You're not gonna work.

26:18 Speaker 7: And then eventually James just brought a guitar to like one of the like business weekends or something, and then it's like, oh, you play guitar, and he's like kinda so, and then what just happened? Yeah, it just kind of happened yeah, he's like, I've been playing guitar for like three months now. I'm like, cool, you're now in a band or start playing live and recording albums? Like all right, Yeah, we kind of got up.

26:42 Speaker 10: To speed to three months later we played our first show.

26:44 Speaker 8: Wow, that's amazing. Had you really only been playing for a few months?

26:47 Speaker 9: I got it like maybe a year before, but it had been like pick a play a little bit. I wasn't serious until he asked me to join it.

26:54 Speaker 8: No kidding, Wow, Oh that's awesome. That's awesome Zach. At the time, did you feel like you were taking a It's just.

27:01 Speaker 7: Like no, no, yeah, yeah, he got it. It's it's playing guitar. It's not rocket side right. If you can play guitar like.

27:09 Speaker 8: You can do it? Yeah, yeah, outstanding, outstanding. Do you guys when you when you play shows, are you like, like, how long is your set? And do you do Do you do covers when you play live? Yeah? Prior to prior to doing this album.

27:26 Speaker 7: Yeah, we do covers and originals. Usually our set spans It depends really depends where we play. Our average time i'd say is about two hours. Okay, so two hours breaks and whatever and just yeah, but yeah, about two hours. Then sometimes we'll play like three to four hours. That's when we really have to break out like extensive list of covers. Like we'll find us on a Thursday afternoon playing ninety songs in the span of four hours. So it's it's nice to just have that like little guitar tab thing there when you're just like, I don't know what to play anymore.

27:58 Speaker 8: Of course, I mean I would guess when you're playing a show that long, you can you can get away with repeating things, right, or maybe you don't. I don't know, because I'm just thinking too that crowd's turning over, right, it's not the same people there three hours in who are there at the beginning?

28:12 Speaker 7: Necessarily I did that one time I played a solo show. It was like two weeks after my guitarist had left. I played a solo show in Hampton and I repeated a song and this drunk lady just yells out, you already played that one, and I know doubt never did it again. Oh that's why I never repeated a song. And unless it was on accident, I've definitely played a song twice on accident.

28:31 Speaker 8: Yeah that makes sense. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Uh, we should play another one. What do you guys want to play next? I love these. These all sounds so good.

28:40 Speaker 10: Yeah, that one all right?

28:43 Speaker 8: And uh so your version is called the mashup of the two songs to Sleep on Your Hey, well a mash up isn't quite the right word, but you know what I mean, Yeah, putting putting these two together. Yeah, I really like this. I like how this came out. If you are just joining us, Two Towns is here with us and the new album? Is it uncovered or covered up?

29:00 Speaker 7: Covered?

29:01 Speaker 8: Covered up? I don't know why I keep saying uncovered.

29:03 Speaker 7: I don't think we changed the name.

29:04 Speaker 8: Oh that's why. Yeah, covered up, that's the name, right, yep, all right, I'm committing that to memory. No, but we're very happy to play these here today. These are really good. All right. Here's the next one. This is Two Towns sleep on Your hoe.

29:18 Speaker 19: Hey, yeh, beg yourself tooth birsty, thank you, save you, savy, bounce, take it with draws, take of savings.

29:49 Speaker 3: Because if we don't.

29:50 Speaker 5: Leave, this sound.

29:53 Speaker 3: May never make it out. And no, I was numb bun to draw.

30:02 Speaker 12: Baby, Come on forget with father bred and said we were not born in said leaving no on your bed.

30:20 Speaker 3: Let your mother know hear.

30:22 Speaker 12: Say in by the chisy ways. We'll live dreaming through this stage. We'll live dreaming through the night. Baby, Come on, because.

30:45 Speaker 13: I've been trying to do it right. I've been living a lonely line. I haven't sleeping here instead, I haven't sleeping in my bed, sleeping in my bed, So.

31:09 Speaker 3: Showing me famy.

31:12 Speaker 20: All the blooded old, Please, how do.

31:16 Speaker 1: Know I belong?

31:19 Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm wrong if I can.

31:23 Speaker 1: Write a song?

31:27 Speaker 3: Hey, I've been along with you. You be alone with me, my sweet, I've been alone with you. You been lone with me in my sweet.

31:39 Speaker 20: How do you think you're right for him?

31:56 Speaker 3: Thinking it might have been if we look abased to join in.

32:01 Speaker 1: Town, I'll be staying in non cannot.

32:07 Speaker 21: Him boy, she'd be standing next me. Hey, I be along with you, You be alone with me? Man sweet hand.

32:25 Speaker 3: Having along with you, you be alone with me? You must sweet hard.

32:32 Speaker 14: Eln wed now listen.

32:42 Speaker 3: Folk song, you sir, will.

32:49 Speaker 22: Blieved now I being along with you, you be alone with me, you mun sweethard, I'll be along with you.

33:00 Speaker 3: You mean love me mostly.

33:17 Speaker 8: That is excellent. Two Towns. They're here with us in studio, and you know, I was thinking, I was saying about this when the tambourine comes in, the mix is so perfect, and you know, credit to Eric Sotter for that. I mean, he's just you know, it's it's just so well done. The mix is just I mean, it's just perfect, you know what I mean.

33:36 Speaker 7: Yeah, I definitely like when when we first like did the recording, we get the rough tracks, I'm like, ah, we made a mistake. This is gonna suck, Like, oh, it's gonna be bad. And then like it's like it's fine, Yeah, it's great, don't worry about it. Yeah, give it like a week and then a week late, I'm just like, ah, I don't know why I was freaking.

33:53 Speaker 8: Out right, Right, how long did it take to uh this? Ha would have been a lot of work, right, I would think it took a while to comple this, right, because it's it's ambitious. It's not like it's an EP. I mean, it's a full album.

34:04 Speaker 10: It's you know, two days, two eight hour days, and.

34:08 Speaker 8: Then no, really, yeah, are you serious?

34:10 Speaker 10: Two eight hour days of recording extras.

34:12 Speaker 7: Yeah, And then I went in like two times under that and did like two or three hours at a time.

34:18 Speaker 8: Like I'm stunned. Wow, good for you guys, sub twenty hours to record it. Okay, wow, that's great. I mean obviously you went in very prepared.

34:27 Speaker 7: No, not one bit of no. I've no yeah, never really yep. I'm the I'm the kind of person it's like, Okay, we're gonna show up, but we're going to learn it all on the spot, no kidding.

34:38 Speaker 8: Well that works for you, apparently, I guess.

34:41 Speaker 7: So I've never had to play seven straight hours of acoustic guitar, but I never want to do it again.

34:46 Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, it was.

34:47 Speaker 7: It was all the timing because I mean I've before this, I've only recorded in someone's basement. Yeah yeah, and I am never recorded before yeah, other than on his phone or like me in the same boat. And then we get in there, it's like we got to play to a click track. Yeah, which she's quite possibly the worst thing possible.

35:07 Speaker 10: That stuck in my head for like a week, no.

35:09 Speaker 8: Kidding, Yeah, but you did. I mean it works for you, guys. I mean I'm stunned at how quickly you did it and with with little preparation. That's amazing. I mean, obviously you knew the songs.

35:19 Speaker 7: Yeah, like we play them live. I mean other than would you mind?

35:21 Speaker 10: That was just like.

35:25 Speaker 7: Trying to find the door. It's ridiculous.

35:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, you know. And obviously getting to work with someone like Eric I'm sure was a big help too.

35:32 Speaker 10: Yeah.

35:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, no, that's that's amazing that you were able to do this so quickly. And then who did the mastering?

35:40 Speaker 2: Eric?

35:40 Speaker 7: He did all the masters everything. Yep.

35:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's perfect, It's it's really really good. Are any of these so is it safe to assume that these are all songs that you've you had played live prior to that or no?

35:54 Speaker 3: Yeah?

35:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, okay, there might be one or two that we didn't, but okay, when we just pulled from our set list, yep, yeah, it's.

36:01 Speaker 7: Like what can we play, what can we play well? And then we took that into consideration, like what we play well or what we play the best, And then we also took into consideration like we want it to be very diverse. We want it like that's what I think we're all about just two towns in general, is we want to play something for everybody. We don't want to cater to one genre or one age, demographic or anything. I want to play stuff that like from kids to grandparents, know, and just so there's something for everybody, and then naturally they'll be drawn to other genres by listening to our music.

36:32 Speaker 7: Because I mean me personally, I listen to everything. You'll catch me listening to ed M and opera in the same car ride. And then it's just I think I want everyone else to have that same experience and not limit themselves to what they're listening to musically.

36:46 Speaker 8: Mm hmmm hmm. Yeah, absolutely. Are you the same way? James?

36:49 Speaker 9: Pretty diverse, honestly, kind of ironic. The only music I don't listen to his Country, which is what we play. I've warmed up to it.

36:57 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, there you go, There you go. Do you have I mean, do you intend to do this again? Or is oh no, Actually I think you did mention earlier. You've got an original album coming up right, or or an EP or something.

37:09 Speaker 7: Ye, We're gonna do a full full length album in June with Eric again and hopefully that comes out by the fall, and that's gonna be five days of us just locking ourselves in a studio.

37:20 Speaker 8: Yeah, are you are you intentionally kind of spreading it out this time over five days, so it's not like, yeah, because you mentioned how hard that was.

37:28 Speaker 7: To Yeah, I don't want to have to go back in again, like I want it to be done in the five days. Yeah, that makes sense and then not have to like go in and just be like, oh, here's another thing, here's another thing. Because then, especially with recording an original album, that's when ideas hit a wall. Oh yeah, especially when like you're like, oh, five days straight, like we're gonna get all this done, the ideas are gonna flow, and it's gonna be one big musical process. And then if I have to come back in a week later and be like scrap the whole thing, I hate it.

37:57 Speaker 7: I don't want to do that, right right, Yeah, understandable. I always think it's funny.

38:02 Speaker 8: You see too, these uh documentaries of very famous, very successful artists who you know, you see a documentary about them working in the studio, you know, Pink Floyda, Fleewood Mac or somebody in there, and it's like, because they have all the money in the world, they can they can do this thing where you know, they're like writing songs in the studio they're coming up with all these new ideas while they're while they're recording. But they you know, and they can do that, but it's like, you know, and then it ends up taking you know, eight months to complete an album.

38:28 Speaker 8: But they have the resources to do that. But you know, when you're when you're young and you're starting out and you know you've really got to be you know, hence the going in for two days, right, and that for two days, it's just trying to do as much as you can.

38:41 Speaker 7: And yep, that was a lot.

38:43 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, but like I said, it worked out. I mean, this is this album covered up really really good. I love these We should play another one? Uh, what do you guys want to play?

38:52 Speaker 7: No Vacancy?

38:52 Speaker 8: No Vacancy?

38:53 Speaker 10: Okay?

38:54 Speaker 8: And who did this originally?

38:56 Speaker 7: Tredio Revival.

39:00 Speaker 8: I don't think I know them.

39:01 Speaker 7: They they're they're new, they're like new new.

39:03 Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, why'd you choose this song?

39:06 Speaker 7: I we play it live and then I just love the way this song sounds. All of their songs. I like the way they write, I like the way their songs are mixed and recorded, like they have a sense of like rashness to their music too. Okay, which I enjoy. Yeah, yeah, they're just like I said, they're just starting out, and that's someone we want to work with in the future.

39:25 Speaker 8: Okay, all right, very cool. Let's give this a spend. This is no vacancy as covered by two towns.

39:43 Speaker 6: Seeing not a curve, sound like you're in the comb.

39:48 Speaker 6: We actually say it's goodbye and the phone here, and it's kind of got me feeling some TAMPOOA I can send hers sitting on judgment day.

40:17 Speaker 3: With empty bottles and motel rooms.

40:23 Speaker 15: Don't treat me quiet, they used and the coming in name don't treat me well paying for a floor five prison cell. But she comes as she goes, and she always says goodbye.

40:46 Speaker 3: And I get any things to be by her side. I got a bottle in the room and a motel.

40:58 Speaker 6: And a broken how loan vegan see brook holl lord vacant, see hell know vacancy said she called me around Halfdan stays ben a damn long day.

41:26 Speaker 3: Don't stay up. Jay had him sit out the prisoner the.

41:33 Speaker 6: Sports, watching basic cable, taking alcohol.

41:42 Speaker 3: Well, she comes as she goes.

41:44 Speaker 21: And she always says it's good bye, And I give Betty thanks to be by her side.

41:54 Speaker 3: I got a bottle in the room and a motel keep.

42:00 Speaker 6: And a broken how no bacon see broke in, I.

42:05 Speaker 21: Know vacon see.

42:07 Speaker 18: Hell no vacancy, sitting on a curve syde liquor, and my come.

42:38 Speaker 3: It says goodbye, and a phone up.

42:44 Speaker 6: Again.

42:44 Speaker 3: It's kind of got me feeling sometime way like I can see last sitting on judgment day.

42:55 Speaker 6: Well, but she comes and she goes, and she always says good bye, and I get.

43:02 Speaker 3: Many things to be by the sign. I got a bottle in a room, and moon sail.

43:10 Speaker 6: Came and broke and howl and old vacancy and broke in howel and old vacancy.

43:21 Speaker 3: I don't know vacancy.

43:47 Speaker 8: Oh, that is so good that one came out really well. Yeah I did, Yeah I did. That is no vacancy as covered by two towns. And now who's that on guitar game? We gotta we gotta give him some some shine.

44:00 Speaker 7: That's uh, Tucker Reinhardt. He's a buddy of ours. He'd kind of just started coming and hanging out at the apartment and it was just like, oh, I play guitar too, like cool, So then we would all just sit around have a few drinks and then start playing together. And yeah, eventually studio time came and I'm like, well, I don't want to do this. He didn't want to do it. They're like, oh, we'll just gonna call it Tucker. He's gonna do it.

44:23 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah. I love what he plays in his tone, everything, everything, that's perfect. Yeah, that's probably my favorite. I think I said earlier it might have been astro Van, but I think that's actually I think No Vacancy is my favorite. Yeah, that's so good. It's got a great vibe. And who's the original band on that? Again?

44:39 Speaker 7: That's a Treaty O Revival.

44:40 Speaker 8: Okay, Treaty Oak Revival.

44:42 Speaker 7: And they're new, they're new, Yeah, okay, okay hitting the scene.

44:45 Speaker 8: Yeah, I got to look into them. Are they from? Where are they from? Do you know they're not from here? Are they?

44:48 Speaker 7: No, they're not from here?

44:49 Speaker 10: I don't think.

44:49 Speaker 7: I want to say out west somewhere? Okay, mid West maybe southern.

44:55 Speaker 8: Sounds like it. Yeah, Yeah, No, that's that's really good. That's a really great song. And then now for the for the next project, because you've got as you we talked about earlier, you're gonna be doing an original album, do you already have the material for that or are you still writing for that or.

45:12 Speaker 7: We've got a few things like, I mean, I've had stuff backlogged for a little bit now. But at the same time, I don't want it to be just me. Yeah, I also wanted to be like us just getting in a room together and just figuring out kind of what's gonna go on it and how we're gonna do it.

45:28 Speaker 3: Yeah.

45:29 Speaker 7: Yeah, So I definitely don't want an everything to come from me. I want like James's creative input to.

45:34 Speaker 10: Kind of like this one.

45:35 Speaker 9: It's we have songs like Astrovan and then we have songs like no Vival where they're just completely different as far as like the tone and our first original we kind of wanted to be the same where there's like heavier songs, lighter songs, and then after that.

45:50 Speaker 10: We'll release more yea themed Okay, okay projects.

45:55 Speaker 8: Will that be the first full album of original material that you guys have done.

45:59 Speaker 10: Or with me on the band with City?

46:04 Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, Shell was two years ago. Okay, with that was with Hunter. That was the first like oh Towns album with Shelle City.

46:11 Speaker 8: Gotcha so the track we played earlier at the top of the segment that was from that Yeah, okay, right right, okay, Yeah, it's starting to come back to me now. Yeah, because it was almost a year ago. Jenny looked it up. It was June, the last time you guys were here. So yeah, and yeah, you guys have been busy with all the shows and recording this album and so, but you probably don't have an ETA right on the new one. It's gonna be when did you say, like fall by fall?

46:35 Speaker 7: I want it to be. I want it to be like if we do the album in June, like we're planning on doing. Okay, then yeah, August September, hopefully towards the end of our show run. I think our shows are probably gonna wrap up around late August early so I know we have some shows in early September already, so right around there, kind of take the headwinds from touring and then just throw it right into the album coming out.

46:58 Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, very good, very good. We're gonna play one more track in a moment to finish out. But I want to make sure our listeners know where's the best place to go online to keep up with everything you guys are doing. You're very busy. You've got you've got this, You've got the shows, you play, play a lot. Where should people go to keep up?

47:16 Speaker 7: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, two Towns Yep, you can find us there and Spotify. Make sure to pre save the album. We'll be getting that on there for a pre save, probably by the end of the weekend. And then yeah, April fourth is the hard launch date for the album.

47:32 Speaker 8: April fourth. Great, congratulations on it. It sounds amazing, sounds amazing. Absolutely, guys, I'm gonna let you pick what should we close out with?

47:40 Speaker 7: From Atlantic City?

47:44 Speaker 10: Atlantic City?

47:45 Speaker 8: From Covered Up? Yeah, I almost said the wrong name again. I almost said that's why I glitched. I was like, no, no, no, Atlantic City, Okay, And who's the original? Oh? This is the spring Scene yep. I hope our friend Rob Azevito is listening. I don't know if you guys know Rob. Here's the show granted State of Mind Fridays at six and he's a huge Springsteen fan.

48:06 Speaker 7: Yeah. This was a good This was a good one.

48:07 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, this is really good. So Rob, if you're listening, well I hope you're listening. If not, I'll make sure you know about this so you can check it out later. Atlantic City by as covered by two towns and guys, thank you again so much.

48:20 Speaker 7: Thanks.

48:20 Speaker 8: We leave you with this. This is Atlantic City, as covered by two towns.

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