Matt Connarton Unleashed: Tyler Allgood

Tyler, all good in studio with us? How are oh wait wrong, Mike. I'm still getting used to the new setup here at our new Canal Street studio. All right, I think I got the right one, Tyler, how are you very good? How you doing, Matt? Welcome, Welcome, And uh that is a beautiful song we opened with. I loved it so much I didn't even play my normal show intro because I didn't want to kill the vibe. Well, I have an intro that's very uh metallic for lack of a better term. But uh no, but I just that song is so beautiful and that's kind of a hit for you on YouTube.

Right, you've got a quarter of a million views on the video. You've got a very cool video that goes with it. Yes, yes, I was. I was blessed to do some amazing work with some amazing people and just so happened that the universe had it lined up that way. Yeah, that that might be the issue. We'll just get that. I get the impression from the lyrics of that song. It's it sounds like it's a very personal song, like it's it's about a specific person. It sounds like, yes, a friend of mine had passed on a couple of years ago, and we had had some really special time together some years before that, and it wasn't in the cards for us to spend our lives together, but we were really close afterwards and she was really dear to my heart and so so yeah, so that's that's where the song goes.

Yeah, no, it's it's it's really beautiful. And what can you tell us about the video for that too? Because I want to encourage people to what's the name of the song? Yet light the room to the brim. I wanted to make sure. Yeah, I wanted to let you say the title because I was afraid I would screw it up because it's a what let me ask you this, what's the meaning behind the title of the song. Well, the meaning behind the title of the song is that somebody like mckela coming into coming into any room an he put in you know, these special people when they come into a room, they just amplify, bring out all of the all of the love and all the highs and that joyous feeling.

And so when she would enter the room, that's what that's the feeling you get because because she's a special person. Yeah, you'll often hear people describe that way, but you know, you know something about this person. They just light up the room when they walk in and that's yeah, that's Uh. What can you tell us about the video? Because the video is very cool and obviously it was professionally done and it looks it looks amazing that I mean, it's you know, some music videos, they don't necessarily have to suit the lyrics of the song.

You can apply all kinds of creative license when you're making a video. There's no rules. But I feel like that video, you know, it really captures the vibe of the song. At least That's that's how I felt watching it, Like it's just it. What can you tell us about the video? And and and who did you work with on that? So my friend who passed away, her older sister, Danielle st Tudo, she does work for Netflix. Oh okay, so she asked it was her idea to put this video together, and she's in La so she wasn't able to be here.

So we hired somebody that was close to Peterborough and ended up having landing Joe Plant, who's a really special guy and his videography work is amazing and so we teamed up together, Joe and I did the big eight hour day. It was around this time of year. It was like January eighteenth, twenty twenty one. It was like eighteen degrees. Yeah, it looks I think. I think if I remember correctly, you can see your breath and at least one of the scenes. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was a cold, long shoot day, but it was really fun and Joe's uh, a professional like no other, and we hit it off.

He's he's one of my one of my great friends. Now excellent, excellent. Still working with him was phenomenal and having that and then Michaela's sister Danielle also phenomenal. So I was just blessed to to be able to showcase my work like this. Yeah, excellent. Now we should also mention too, And we're gonna play it in a little bit. We're gonna go, we'll hold off kind of tease people with it. But you've got a brand new song. We have a world radio premiere, so we'll we're gonna do that in a little bit.

But but before we do that, did you want to you brought your guitar, did you want to play something live for us in the studio. Sure, I think I should and let me pull up that pull up that other mic. There, we got a separate mic on the guitar. We'll see. Uh oh, you know what, I have to turn this on. See we got new we got new stuff, which is fun. It's fun when you have new new toys to play, but there's also a learning curve. M hm hmm. Yeah, that sounds pretty good, all right, Tyler, I think we're uh, I think we're we got the MIC's uh set sounds good.

Whenever you're whenever you're ready to go for it, my friend. M hm m hm hm. A woman is a beautiful thing. Give her what she needs, even when your thoughts are to pleaded, Give her what she needs. A woman is a delicate thing. Only pluck with care. She blue wooms with or without you. Only pluck with care. Woman is an artistic thing with the brush so long, go light, leave with your strokes. Her map is not drawn.

The mother is the most precious thing. She takes it all. She'll give, van give, and give when she's gotten none left at all.

Woman is a scary thing. Her bite so strong. Remember, she's a contender in a world that fall. Wish that I knew anything thing about it, so why could take on anything? Joe your remember she's the contender in the world. Beautiful. What is that called? That's called a woman? A woman? A woman that's saying a much shorter title than the than the other song. Very good, very very nice. If you're just joining us, we have Tyler all Good live in studio with us here. Do you play out a lot, Tyler? Do you do a lot of shows?

I do? Yeah, excellent. And is it always solo acoustic or do you ever play with a band or for the most part it's solo acoustic. I've been doing this for five plus years. Yeah, I've played with various bands and done plenty of that over the years. Yeah. I play bass and sing in a bluegrass band. That's a whole nother thing, but that's a lot of fun. We play a lot of the same places too. Oh, very cool, very cool. What's the name of the band? That's White Mountain Rounders. Okay, okay, Yeah, bluegrass is my my impression.

I've I've never played in a bluegrass band, but obviously I've seen bluegrass bands and to me it looks challenging, I mean, is a challenging playing bass in a bluegrass band, it can be yep, yeah, playing and singing at the same time for sure. Yeah, but it's a lot of the boom boom boom boom boom. Okay, yeah, because I'm a bass player myself. But I've just I've just played in bands where I didn't have to be particular literally technically proficient. So always saying but no, bluegrass is always look kind of challenging to me.

Very cool. Now as far as your so your solo material, do you do you prefer that to being in it because you mentioned you'd been in a lot of bands before. I mean, is it is it kind of liberating to be able to do your own thing, you know, you don't have to. I mean, collaboration is nice, but getting to express yourself solo must be nice too. It is. It's it helps to have it directly only my energy whatever. And so I had I went through some things with that when I was doing my original music, trying to find the right members and trying to to find the right pieces.

And I had a really special band called band Band where we were doing lots of original stuff and unfortunately that came to an end. But what I had to do is learn how to do all the instrumentation. I had to be able to get everything out of my head into my recording, and I feel that that's finally coming coming together, especially on this new third album. But it has been slowly manifesting into everything I need while I play the piano and write the horn parts, play the drum parts, do all the things right.

So, yeah, I was reading online, So you're you're a multi instrumentalist. You're one of those people who I'm always so jealous. You're one of those people who can play a whole bunch of instruments. I play bass on that song. I can play a little bit of guitar, but that's that's really it. But so on your on your albums, are you doing everything? Yes? Wow, yeah my last two this or yeah on all three albums. Okay, Well what was your first instrument? First instrument was guitar? Okay, yeah? And then and then from a guitar, you started what was what was next?

I played bass, and I think I messed around with the drums a little bit and then I've only been playing piano for about five years, but it was a dream of mine to always be fluent on the piano. Oh, no kidding. And so I had a major spine surgery and it was getting too too painful to practice guitar all the time. So I took that opportunity. I got a keyboard, put it up on my dresser, and taught myself how to play. Wow. No kidding. So you had spine surgery, yeah, wow. Did do you mind if I ask what happened?

Or I had an accident when I was eighteen construction, kept working, kept skateboarding. By the time I was twenty eight and had gotten sober, so I became aware of everything going on in my body. Yeah. I was in extreme agony every day. Wow. My thirtieth birthday I had, I had fusion surgery. Oh wow. So leading up to that, so when you have the accident, was it just kind of vow, you know, I'll just walk it off and you just kind of put it off. Or I was stuck in an old man position, hunched over for about three weeks.

Wow, So that's when the doctors think, that's when the inconsistency happened. Okay, and just being young, not have the surgery then just fight through it. Yeah. Yeah, because when you're young, you're invincible. And you know, even if something horrible happens, I'll just walk it off. I'm young. Yeah, yeah, you learn later that, well, you got to take care of your body. So the lesson from that being, if you have a spinal injury, don't don't wait years to deal with Yeah, just slow down a little bit.

Slow down and listen to your body. Don't listen to people who are telling you to overwork yourself. Just slow down. Listen to your body, listen to your soul. Now, what was the recovery like? Did it? Did it take a long time to recover from that? Yeah? It was miserable. Wow, yeah, put it had to be done right. Yeah, So I but I took I played a gig the night before my surgery. Actually, yeah, I figured I'm in pain, I'm going to get this surgery. Why not just push it and push it, And so played a gig before the night before surgery.

And then I was back to gigs after four or five months. But it was really challenging and I wasn't doing much other work. So I was blessed to be able to kind of take things slow. But it's it's been almost five years and it's still healing. There's still things that are that the muscles are getting stronger and yeah, and so it's been a long process. Do you still have lingering pain from it? Yeah? I have bad days, but for the most part it was a success. Good as I was I was in complete agony every day.

Oh wow. Yeah, it did that sort of inform your songwriting at all that it did it or your general approach to music being in pain all the time. So yeah, absolutely I wrote some really good stuff from that. I think what what I've done for years and years is right from my pain. And I've had a lot of trauma as I was younger, and addictions and and all sorts of issues, and I just it all goes back to that pain, you know, And it's been my release, my therapy to write from that space and honest and vulnerable in that space.

Well, it's like I always say, and I mean it's not an original thought. I think everyone kind of realizes this. But you know, if you if you are able to take things that are traumatic or painful, be it emotionally or literally physically painful, if you can take that and and do something constructive with it, you know, create art with it or from it, or inspired by it. You know, then at least it's you know, you're you're taking it and turning it into something positive, you know, to the to the extent that it's possible.

I know, I've never experienced that kind of chronic pain, so you know, I mean, I've seen it up close because Jenny, you know, she has a CRPS and you know she deals with it every day. So but but I you know, I can only imagine. But you know, but you've got a You've got a lot of great music from it. Uh, no doubt about that. So and I'm glad it's getting better. So yeah, thank you. Yeah we should uh yeah, before it gets too late. I want to share the new song with everybody, and I'm sure you do too. Now this is so, this is a world radio premiere of of your new song.

And uh what's this called? This one's called Nothing but Cry? And anything you want us to know about this before we hear it. No, that's okay, we'll talk about it after all right, all right, sounds good. This is really good. Uh this is Nothing but Cry from Tyler All good the world radio premiere here on Matt connorton Unleashed. Check this out.

I can't do nothing but cry. I can't do nothing but cry.

Waited all my life to feel something right. What right is? So? Watrow? What does it take solo to understand yourself? With your heart on the shelf? Because we held each other last night, we c in to lie. Now all is sorn. I've done something so I've got in high.

That's when I've seen it through, always drown in the blood. I can't do nothing good. Cry. I can't do nothing good. Cry waited all my life to feel something right. Whats right? What's mhmm? Love it? Nothing but cry? From Tyler? Allgood, very very catchy. One of the drum kicks in too. It's it's impossible not to kind of move to it, you know, really really good. And that's and that's brand new. That is brand new. That is not even up on the socials yet, but it is getting published and sent by the end of the month or the beginning of March.

Outstanding Is that on an album or an upcoming album that you're working on? Okay, Yes, this is part of that's the first song off of this my third album, okay, And so it'll slowly release over the next couple of months. Outstanding, Yeah, yeah, where do you record this is actually give a shout out to Charlie Kronopolis. That's a name I heard on the show. Yeah, Charlie is a great guy and a just an amazing musician. So he's also a recording engineer and he has a studio in Wilton. And I went to Charlie to produce this work because we're in the same genre, we're in the same feel, and I knew that there was something really special also that he could do pedal steel for me.

And so you actually hear Charlie's pedal steel playing on that as well as he did the drums for that one. I did the drums on the rest of the album, So it was it was an amazing experience, and he and I are very close now and it's it's very special. What what about previous material that you've done. My second album, Through the Empty I did with Ben Rogers in Jeffrey and that was also that was incredible. YEA, a great project. My first album I did with Ryan Gardner or Ryan Reminis as his stage my stage name might say.

And I loved every you know, working with three different people on those, it's been it's been great, Yeah, excellent excellent, And now what's uh? Tell tell us a little bit about the new song in terms of nothing but cry, in terms of like what what what's it about? Is it about something specific? So the album is called of Love, and it's just it takes on

the whole perspective of this relationship that had a really hard time evolving and becoming something and and it was it was very it was very painstaking, and it brought up pretty much every emotion and every event possible for me. And yeah, so this it's not always an easy thing to talk about because obviously, you know, your songs are very personal. You know, this one's very vulnerable. But and you'll hear some blame and anger and grief and and really I don't think there's anything bad to say about one person, you know, And there was a lot to be learned.

I got to learn a lot about myself and and I still love that woman dearly. So but I had to write through those differences, and I had to write through that pain because I had no other no other place to go. Yeah, yeah, do you want to play another live one for us? If you're just joining us, We have Tyler all Good live in studio this morning. On Matt Connorton unleashed. We are, of course in our Canal Street studio and uh loving it. And Tyler is going to play play another one for us, and uh, what's what's this one called, Tyler?

This one's called can we have that day again? Oh? Okay? Can we have that day again? This is part of this, this new album of love, just like a woman was as well, and you kind of see a beautiful story and then it unravels as through the grief and the loss that starts to happen. Okay, all right, very good, whenever you're ready. M hm.

You wait next to me, got to know your eyes say it's okay your way. Did you only have the day? So we put the coffee on and not waste our time, feel the lie and down the trail we go

up the ridge to a prive it on since I never felt so full the rais kiss your hare and I blurred out all my stuff and I always go to fall. Now see the bitter end. We would need that day again,

just to hold my best friend. Can we have that day again?

Can we have that day again? M h just to hold my best friend, Just to hold my best friend? Can we have that day again.

Mm hmm beautiful. If you're just tuning in and you're wondering who that amazing voice is, that it's Tyler all good and also quite quite the guitar player. Do you always finger pick? Yeah? I stopped using a pick a long time ago. At this right now, what what was the reason why? Like, why did you phase out using a pick? I think I always wanted to be a finger picker, and then at the same rate, it just became a more natural place. And I don't do anything conventional. I'll use the ill use my fingernails and a flamenco kind of style.

I'll pick and pluck sometimes, or I'll just kind of use my thumb if I need to play softer. Yeah, so I it's kind of a mixed style and I couldn't do it with a pick, and you don't have to worry about dropping your pick. Right, Where did it go? What was it challenging to make that transition or what it was? It natural? It was a little bit challenge, But what happened was that it was when I finally got over the hump, it was so natural that it was after a little while it was easier to sing without the pick.

It was really here to play in this kind of loose hand format and just kind of let it ride. Yeah. Now when you play out, is it always just you and the guitar? Or do you ever because you mentioned you know you play learn to play piano, do you ever bring a keyboard with you and play that too? Or I have brought my keyboard to a few gigs. It just there's just too much set up. But it'll cumbersome, just too much gear. Because I love playing piano and I do need a little more experience doing that live.

But there's just so much gear of pain, no doubt, no doubt. How many How many original songs do you have? Because you strike me as somebody who's probably always writing. I would imagine you always have ideas. Yeah, so I was talking to a friend, Kate Durman. Actually I think you know Kate. Yes, Actually she was commenting on social media, by the way, how much she loves that song that you displayed. H Yeah, love Kate. She's a wonderful person and she's been a great support over the years. Yeah, it does a lot for local music.

Yeah, absolutely, so, Hi Kate, all the love. Yeah, we had we had her on not too too long ago, a number of months ago for Darlene Hill or Project at Yeah, just amazing. Yeah, that EP is incredible, Yeah, really good. Oh yeah, yeah, so wherever you forgot? What was I asking you? Oh yeah, I was asking you if you if you have an idea of how many original songs that you've written. So it's I think it's somewhere around one hundred of us. Okay, it's quite a few. Yeah. I write when it, when it happens. I tried to force it.

Yeah, and sometimes I go through six or eight months without writing something really yeah, that happened last year. But what it gives me time to kind of produce and write the instruments for the songs that I have written. Oh okay, So there's always always working always, So you don't worry about it when that happens, right, because because some people do. Some people they get into their own heads about oh what do I have writer's block? Why don't have any ideas? Right? But but you use the time productively.

I do. I mean, sometimes it bugs me and it feels like, oh, I'm not doing my purpose, doing my thing right, And but I've learned to accept everything as it comes, you know, that's what kind of Yeah, just trying to accept the universe for what it is. Yeah, yeah, do you want to do one more for us live? Sure? Yeah we have time and yeah, yeah you sound great. I think sound really really good. If you're just joining us. We have Tyler all Good. He is here with us a live in studio. We just did a little bit ago the world radio premiere of his new studio track nothing but Cry.

But he's also planned some live ones for today and what are you gonna play for us? This is hasn't been released yet, hasn't been produced, but it's a favorite of mine and and some other people. This is called Fisherman's All Right, Fisherman's Blues. Tyler all Good live in studio. H His name is George. He heads out Sunday morn for the week. This is I can't talk right now, and most days I don't even like to speak. I've got my fishing rod and my buddy gun. What else do hide need?

Coolers in the back, so the front is reserved for we take that weed down the river at home. He is the King of the blog, King of the blog. A burly man he stands, but inside he is wickedly soft. This is a long week on the coast. I am dreaming of my throne, my gal and my dog says. I don't mind the drives, but these nights are geting lost because at home he is so hes on the clock. He likes to feed the folks with his cross. In a town between the cave caught in me, he helps the working mine through the day because at home he is aways on the cloth.

He likes to feed the folks with his crops. In a town between the cape caught in me,

he helps working wise through the day to keep the busy brands at Babe

outstanding. Tyler all Good Live in studio. It's been It's been wonderful to have you here. This is great, great meeting you and I love your stuff. And where where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing. So my website is Tyler Allgod dot com. Nice and simple. Yeah, and all good is spelled exactly the way you would expect. Yes, yeah, I was blessed with a great last name. That is a great last name. I just used it, you know, Yeah, I kept it so Tyler Allgod dot com. I just released a new live studio video from Clarksville, Tennessee on my YouTube.

Oh I saw that, Yes, so I released that as kind of like I don't have the spot off the new album up quite yet. Yeah, so I got you guys can have that for now yep. Yeah, but so YouTube following me there, Spotify the website will let you know where my dates are. I'm playing all around New England. You had anything this uh this weekend? You want to plug? You had anything tonight? Nope, not this weekend. Okay, I'm trying to think. Actually I've had I have a show in Francistown, New Hampshire on Valentine's Day.

I'll be playing. It's a local spot called toll Booth Tavern. Where is I'm embarrassed to say where is Francistown. I'm not even sure I've heard of it, but I can't picture it geographically. So there's you know, Peterborough, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So if you get on the other side of Peterborough, Oh, Francis Town. Actually I go through Francistown when I come to me. Oh gotcha. So it's like kind of close to Golf's Town. Oh, okay in a way. If you keep going, Oh, I'll be damned. Okay, I'm sure I've driven through it at some point and just never realized.

Yeah. Yeah. So it's a cool little tavern, great food, great people. Been playing there for about eight or nine years. It's close to home. Yeah. But I'll be in Rochester at Porter's Pub on February twenty fourth, and the Bluegrass Band is playing at Pinucci's Conquered on two seventeen, and back at Holebooth on to twenty three. Excellent, excellent, All right, Tyler, this has been wonderful, the great Tyler. All good, and thank you for sharing the new the brand new single with us to Nothing but Cry.

Great great song that will be in our that will be in our rotation here on the show. Yeah, happy for having absolutely

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