Field Dispatch
Nancy Manet | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: It's called set us Fore. Another great track from Nancy Manette,
Speaker 1: who is here with us online via teams. I think, hey, Nancy,
Speaker 1: are you there?
Speaker 2: Hey I am, can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Excellent? Yeah, no, you sound great. Welcome to the program,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Thank you absolutely so tell us about so.
Speaker 1: At the top of the hour, we played Hey Little Brother,
Speaker 1: and and it looks like that's been pretty successful for
Speaker 1: you as a single.
Speaker 2: It has. Yeah, And you know, I know you you
Speaker 2: talk with so many amazing artists and we're always surprised, right,
Speaker 2: you know, we have our personal favorites are the ones
Speaker 2: that you know, we think will land, you know, very
Speaker 2: strongly with people, and then one that just takes off
Speaker 2: and you kind of like wow, you know, and and
Speaker 2: yeah it did, it did, and I'm really excited about it.
Speaker 1: So wow, you sound surprised, though, I mean, is there
Speaker 1: is there something about the song that you didn't think
Speaker 1: it was maybe as commercially viable as as it turned
Speaker 1: out to be, or really.
Speaker 2: Really good question. No. I think I was just super
Speaker 2: playful about about the song, and you know, it was
Speaker 2: for It was for a very good friend of mine
Speaker 2: who is ten years younger, and I call him my
Speaker 2: little brother, and he always calls me sis, and I
Speaker 2: just I just wrote this fun, playful song really kind
Speaker 2: of you know, as a tribute to him. And and
Speaker 2: you know, I mean because a lot of the other
Speaker 2: songs that we, you know, that I write, that we've
Speaker 2: even talked about, are heavily thematic in the sense of
Speaker 2: like I've got something very strong and and this was
Speaker 2: just just love and encouragement for my little bro. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm excited because it is for all the little brothers
Speaker 2: out there. Yeah, you know, yeah for sure. So that's
Speaker 2: the reason, you know, because it just was one of those,
Speaker 2: you know, the people that that I love in my life,
Speaker 2: I'll write songs for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's very cool. Is this is this the most
Speaker 1: successful single you've had thus.
Speaker 2: Far in commercial radio? Yes?
Speaker 1: Excellent?
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that and this is from the album is Paths?
Speaker 1: And when did this come out? This is this is
Speaker 1: your newest release, obviously.
Speaker 2: My newest release. It came out in May, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and so h hey, little Brother hit the airwaves in
Speaker 2: May and it's just been going ever since.
Speaker 1: Okay, So okay, yeah, and you've you've recorded quite a
Speaker 1: few right now, how many albums have you recorded now?
Speaker 1: Because it seems like a you've recorded a lot in
Speaker 1: a relatively short span of time.
Speaker 2: You really want to know the number, like the actual
Speaker 2: album number we're working on. I can't see your face,
Speaker 2: so I'm getting it like yeah, nodding your head.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, yes.
Speaker 2: We are and high gen by the way, we are
Speaker 2: working on album number five.
Speaker 1: This is you're working on number five right now?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh wow?
Speaker 2: Been completed in what a span of what?
Speaker 1: Two years? Yes, that's that's great.
Speaker 2: The first the first. The first album took longer to
Speaker 2: write because I was in the process of should I
Speaker 2: write an album?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Should What? What would I want to Well, not even
Speaker 2: what would I want to write about. I've pretty much
Speaker 2: knew what I wanted to write about. But it was
Speaker 2: more of the can I right, It was the can question?
Speaker 2: Can I do it?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 2: Can I do it? From a skill set? Can I
Speaker 2: do it? Because I you know, can I do it?
Speaker 2: Because I was always told I couldn't. Right, So in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty I had to start kind of you know,
Speaker 2: doing my own healing process of like wait, yeah, of
Speaker 2: course I can, of course I can do that, you know,
Speaker 2: Like wait, I was told I couldn't, and then I
Speaker 2: listened to it, you know, So there was a lot
Speaker 2: of that I had to get through to get that
Speaker 2: first album written. But then which really would be probably
Speaker 2: the first one and two and then three, four and
Speaker 2: five have been in the last year.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, Yeah, that's that's a lot of output in
Speaker 1: a short time. Do you think putting out so much
Speaker 1: music is what has led to your current chart success
Speaker 1: with a Hey Little Brother?
Speaker 2: Oh you know, yeah, yeah, I mean, I guess I've
Speaker 2: never thought about it that way.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I will say this, just the churning of
Speaker 2: music maybe is not the complete answer, because you know,
Speaker 2: first of all, writing music, the more you write anything right,
Speaker 2: the more you do anything, the better we become at it. Right.
Speaker 2: So plenty of songs, Matt, that I've written and I've
Speaker 2: gone you know, or or they've started one way and
Speaker 2: I've shelfed them and I've pulled off and I've either
Speaker 2: completely you know, cut and pasted and just moved around,
Speaker 2: or just scrapped tons of the lyrics and I took
Speaker 2: the theme, or sometimes I just completely start over with
Speaker 2: a new melody. But the ideas are there, right, And
Speaker 2: so there's that component. Then there's I have a great producer,
Speaker 2: I really do, and he challenges me. And the one
Speaker 2: that we're in the process right now, the number five.
Speaker 2: There were some songs when we sat down, I've submitted everything.
Speaker 2: We sat down and I said, okay, I'm want to
Speaker 2: bring my thoughts and he's bringing his thoughts, and you know,
Speaker 2: a couple of our thoughts actually aligned and.
Speaker 3: Meaning.
Speaker 2: Like one of the songs, I said, I think this
Speaker 2: one needs to be revisited, and it was on his list, right.
Speaker 2: And he's always pushing and always challenging and always reminding
Speaker 2: me to do something different and expand my my, my,
Speaker 2: even my skill set. Just keep growing, keep growing as
Speaker 2: a musician, Nancy, keep growing as a singer, and show
Speaker 2: growth every single thing you do and write, push yourself
Speaker 2: further and further and further. And it's been it's yeah.
Speaker 2: So that's a longer version probably the answer to that
Speaker 2: question for now, for hey, little brother, because because of
Speaker 2: all of that, and I listen, you know, I think
Speaker 2: having the right collaboration and then being willing to listen
Speaker 2: to what the feedback is and push and stretch and grow,
Speaker 2: and you know, even musically, I'll do things that I've
Speaker 2: never even tried before.
Speaker 1: And you know, yeah, well, have you worked with the
Speaker 1: same has it been the same producer for each project?
Speaker 2: It has been?
Speaker 1: It has been Okay. Yeah, so you definitely found somebody
Speaker 1: who you can work with who brings out the best
Speaker 1: in you and has a lot of ideas. And that's
Speaker 1: great too, because you know, a lot of artists they
Speaker 1: don't want to hear a lot of artists don't want
Speaker 1: to hear ideas necessarily, you know what I mean. They
Speaker 1: want to go in and they know what they want
Speaker 1: to do, and and you know, the producer doesn't always
Speaker 1: know best necessarily. But it sounds like the person you're
Speaker 1: working with. Who are they, by the way, what what's
Speaker 1: their name? We should give them credit?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, David Percifal with Yellow Dog Studios. Okay, and yeah,
Speaker 2: so he's been He's been in the industry for forty
Speaker 2: plus years. Right, He's a great, ammy winning producer, has
Speaker 2: some very notable bands and experience under felt. And the
Speaker 2: thing about David Percival is that he never stops pushing himself. So,
Speaker 2: you know, the older that we get, we get we
Speaker 2: tend to get stuck right in our style or our ways.
Speaker 2: Or this is the way we do something, and he's
Speaker 2: constantly experimenting. So if I you know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: working with somebody who that is what he holds himself to,
Speaker 2: of course I'm I'm going to hold myself to that.
Speaker 2: I also, you know, I'm that's also kind of who
Speaker 2: I am. Never in my twenties, man, I coined well,
Speaker 2: I think it was already coined, but I heard it
Speaker 2: somewhere and then I made it mine right, never stop
Speaker 2: being teachable, Always be teachable. And that just meant a
Speaker 2: lifetime of curiosity and learning and listening. And you know,
Speaker 2: we have an agreement that that if he feels super
Speaker 2: strongly about something, he's really just I mean, he is
Speaker 2: going to tell me. And I don't like something that
Speaker 2: comes across in production, I'm I'm going to tell him.
Speaker 2: Like on the past album and people may have loved it,
Speaker 2: I could not. I couldn't do it. In the song
Speaker 2: that was in we had a Glockenspiel and I'm like, Dave,
Speaker 2: it's got to come out, that's all I hear. And
Speaker 2: he was like, Nancy, it's so fun. I'm like, it's
Speaker 2: gonna drive me nuts. And now post production and post mastering. Right,
Speaker 2: I'm like, now I only hear it, but nobody else
Speaker 2: knew what was there?
Speaker 1: Oh? Interesting?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah it's funny.
Speaker 1: So now did you go onna? I saw something about
Speaker 1: a radio tour? Did you Did you go on a
Speaker 1: big radio tour for uh?
Speaker 2: I did? Just yes, and we're now we just spent
Speaker 2: so much time in the studio. I had to decide, Okay,
Speaker 2: what are what are the priorities? What what do we
Speaker 2: need to finish? What do we are? Because you can
Speaker 2: only go be so many places at once, right, yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Would be one exactly.
Speaker 2: I can only be in one place at one time.
Speaker 2: And so yes, so now we're so. Yes, we did
Speaker 2: the big radio tour, we did shows. Then we've just
Speaker 2: been hunkered down either in my home writing or doing
Speaker 2: things locally, doing private events and in the studio. So
Speaker 2: now we're gearing up to get back out, you know,
Speaker 2: to be on the road again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And then so what's the plan long term
Speaker 1: as far as is that us Free going to be
Speaker 1: the next single? That I understand that correctly?
Speaker 2: Yes, it is okay thank you, which which is very anthemic, right.
Speaker 2: So I wrote it with really specific intent and we
Speaker 2: did drop it first in January. But I will tell you, Matt,
Speaker 2: I dropped it on January sixth. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 2: and I'm just going to be as raw and as
Speaker 2: vulnerable and we're just going to let it land where
Speaker 2: it landed. And you know, plus I talked with my therapist.
Speaker 2: I was actually scared, really like we just did what
Speaker 2: We just dropped what song on January sixth. That's basically
Speaker 2: saying we don't want It's not basically it's flat out
Speaker 2: saying we don't want what our grandparents built, and we
Speaker 2: don't want what our parents thought they could do without
Speaker 2: getting caught. Yeah, I'm calling my our parents' generation, not everyone, right,
Speaker 2: not everyone very specifically. I'm making some statements and I'm
Speaker 2: making them based upon what I've I've listened to, you know,
Speaker 2: always remain teachable. I'm listening to what the younger generations
Speaker 2: are saying, and they're saying, we don't want that, we
Speaker 2: don't want we don't even want what all of you
Speaker 2: guys went out to scrap and build and work so
Speaker 2: hard and all the stuff you've accumulated. We don't want it.
Speaker 2: We don't want that, we don't want war.
Speaker 1: Right, we want to get wrong. And yeah, did you
Speaker 1: say this, because we've talked about the song before too.
Speaker 1: Was there something too about a conversation, a specific conversation
Speaker 1: that you had with your daughter. Am I remembering that correctly?
Speaker 2: That's what started the whole thing, was that she sat
Speaker 2: me down and just you know, said, there's a better
Speaker 2: way to do business, mom, There's a better way to
Speaker 2: do life where you're not so exhausted, because right, I mean,
Speaker 2: we were taught to do it all and we hadn't
Speaker 2: to do it all, and we had to do it
Speaker 2: all with energy and never sleep. And it's the work ethic.
Speaker 2: And there's nothing wrong with the work ethic. Or my
Speaker 2: daughter's got a fantastic work ethic. Yeah, she's an amazing
Speaker 2: life where she actually builds in respite and she isn't
Speaker 2: driving herself into the ground by thirty nine years old, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: So that's what I was doing. I was driving myself
Speaker 2: into the ground at thirty nine, It's true. Yeah, yeah, laughy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I made it mad. I made it past forty. But
Speaker 2: they said I wouldn't, right, right, I didn't shift. And
Speaker 2: I think it's also the amount of stress and the
Speaker 2: amount of anger and the amount of hate and she's like, Mom,
Speaker 2: it's just we we don't want it. We don't want
Speaker 2: a world like that anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're yeah, you you write about a lot of
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, like you said, hey, little brother is playful,
Speaker 1: but you you write a lot about a lot of
Speaker 1: heavy stuff. I do.
Speaker 2: I do. I'm kind of laughing because there's some things
Speaker 2: I've not I've not to put music to. But I
Speaker 2: just I'm rite, you know. And as soon as I
Speaker 2: got off the phone with my daughter, I sat down
Speaker 2: and I wrote, I actually, yeah, I wrote those lyrics.
Speaker 2: I wrote those specifically after that conversation because I was
Speaker 2: so moved by what she had to say. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: came to January. I was actually pretty afraid of how
Speaker 2: that could land. Yeah, I was. Actually I think nobody
Speaker 2: understood what was going to happen in come January. I
Speaker 2: don't think we still do. And we're trying to navigate.
Speaker 2: And there was there was, you know, I mean, Matt,
Speaker 2: you know some of my backstory. There was there was
Speaker 2: some old patriarchal and there's nothing wrong with men, right
Speaker 2: that this is not an anti men thing. For me,
Speaker 2: that old model was very much what really kept me silent.
Speaker 2: Why I had to ask myself, can I do this right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's actually why, because I came from that old model
Speaker 2: that that really held or holds a lot of people down,
Speaker 2: a lot of people down. And so yes, of course
Speaker 2: when that came out, it's like, oh, oh, but we're
Speaker 2: leading off with it next month. So yeah, for long,
Speaker 2: I was just quiet about it for a few months.
Speaker 1: Has that changed it all, by the way over the
Speaker 1: course of because you know, like we talked about, you've
Speaker 1: been creating a lot of music. Has your as your
Speaker 1: approach or your priorities in terms of what you're singing about?
Speaker 1: Has that changed it all over the course of that,
Speaker 1: because obviously in the beginning, you know, you had a
Speaker 1: lot to get out. At this point, are you still
Speaker 1: trying to work all that out through the songs or
Speaker 1: or or has as yours as your your priorities in
Speaker 1: terms of what you sing about changed at all?
Speaker 2: So what you're saying that is, am I still singing
Speaker 2: about loss and trauma?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well I suppose I am.
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, because that first work was really what I
Speaker 2: what I had done is I had weaved a story
Speaker 2: of my life. Yeah, and so that was a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of that was I would say every
Speaker 2: song that was on that first work or the first two, right,
Speaker 2: because we've got a longer work that we did not
Speaker 2: release yet, and I would say that I had already
Speaker 2: gone through and processed that stuff. But now I'm putting
Speaker 2: it to music in a way that may and the
Speaker 2: hope is that it would resonate with others that are
Speaker 2: going through that. Right. But yes, the trauma and things
Speaker 2: like that. So the answer to that question is I
Speaker 2: still write from life, and I write from happy life,
Speaker 2: and I write from difficult life, and I write from
Speaker 2: painful life, and that that part is not going to change.
Speaker 2: I Oh, gosh, how do I want to say that?
Speaker 2: There are just different styles of writers?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And and sure do I want my music to be
Speaker 2: toe tapping? I want it to be you know, drawing
Speaker 2: in or a lot of ballads. I'm a ballad writer too, right,
Speaker 2: And so I want those to draw people, you know.
Speaker 2: My hope is that it draws people. But then but
Speaker 2: then eventually the lyrics hit right, like on the the
Speaker 2: number four I've written a song about, and they're not
Speaker 2: coming out in that order, just so that's clear, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're not putting them so the technically the first album
Speaker 2: has not been released, and that won't be that'll be
Speaker 2: actually hanging out there for a while. The long one
Speaker 2: that you and I originally talked about, Okay, the seventeen
Speaker 2: song you know, rock Opera is right, it's a lot
Speaker 2: to digest. And my advisors really said, they're like, just
Speaker 2: let's let's write write albums for right now. Let's wait
Speaker 2: to bring that out. And that's that was the best advice.
Speaker 2: And if any artists are listening, listen to the advisors
Speaker 2: that have been in this world forever. Yeah, just listen
Speaker 2: to what they're saying. And so in next year a
Speaker 2: song's going to come out. That's about one of my
Speaker 2: best friends who lost her husband after thirty eight years
Speaker 2: of marriage, and it's her journey over the last four
Speaker 2: years of what she had to do to move on
Speaker 2: and just her thought processes in song format. Right. So
Speaker 2: when I first wrote it, it was probably eight minutes long. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I kept writing and writing and writing. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: now I have to trim, trim, trim, trim, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then it was still very long. It was still five minutes,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, nope, got a trim trim trim trim trim. So,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, I do. I write from life. I write
Speaker 2: for my own life. I believe in therapy, I believe
Speaker 2: in healing, and and things always come up. They always
Speaker 2: come up. But I will say thematically I wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 2: from my own maybe because my life is settled a
Speaker 2: little bit. No, maybe from my own personal trauma. It's
Speaker 2: not so heavy. But I'm still writing thematically about things
Speaker 2: that I think about. Yeah right, yeah, things that I
Speaker 2: see happening in the world, things that are happening to
Speaker 2: people I know, see things that are just happening. Another
Speaker 2: one that's coming out addresses it addresses loss that's sudden,
Speaker 2: but it addresses It's specifically written about school shootings because
Speaker 2: I have a nephew that was in a school that
Speaker 2: in December had had a student shoot up a classroom.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it is yes, and when that touches
Speaker 2: that close to home, my nephew is fine. But I
Speaker 2: know staff at that school. It was where my kids
Speaker 2: grew up, where I raised them, and it hit home
Speaker 2: very strongly. It was, you know, the school's three doors
Speaker 2: away from where my kids grew up, and so friends
Speaker 2: and teachers and community members in Madison, Wisconsin. All were affected, right,
Speaker 2: everybody has been rocked and turned upside down, and that's
Speaker 2: just that's not it. There's not even a great way
Speaker 2: to say it, right, it's just horrible, horrible and horrible.
Speaker 2: But then there's lighter songs, right of course for all
Speaker 2: the generation exers. We have one that's coming out too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, all right, answered your question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely, And I know too, you know,
Speaker 1: you're right. You write a lot about, you know, advocacy
Speaker 1: for LGBTQ plus and I think that's important too, especially
Speaker 1: in the you know, the times we're living in.
Speaker 2: Yes, so on the one we're in the middle of
Speaker 2: right now, I have one that very much specifically deals
Speaker 2: with their freedoms and are Hispanic friends Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 2: Even know what to say. You know, I'm born and
Speaker 2: raised in a suburb of LA and I live in Houston.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, you no doubt no people or have
Speaker 1: known people who are affected. You no doubt no ah
Speaker 1: of people who have been affected by what's happening, or
Speaker 1: or are worried about being affected by what's happening. Yes, yeh,
Speaker 1: scary scary stuff, but but you know, certainly worth making
Speaker 1: music about. You know. That's that's I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the best delivery systems for for for putting,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to put a message out there and
Speaker 1: expressing your concern about what's going on, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, Man, in my writing, I I hope
Speaker 2: to be a bridge. So the last name Manet actually
Speaker 2: you know it's it's the artist who bridge to generations
Speaker 2: of art, right. I take his example from realism to Impressionism.
Speaker 2: He taught money, and I thought about my life and
Speaker 2: just where I've been throughout my life and the opportunities
Speaker 2: I've been given, and where I tend to settle or
Speaker 2: not settle as far as like I'm settling, but where
Speaker 2: I land right, Yeah, and Pendaland is in a space
Speaker 2: of bridging, right, bridging two schools of thought, bridging two generations.
Speaker 2: You know, we've got the younger generation and the older generation.
Speaker 1: And it's.
Speaker 2: Hopefully like if you could see me, my hands are
Speaker 2: all stretched out, why, bridging thoughts and ideas and helping
Speaker 2: to cross this divide. And if anything that I write
Speaker 2: can can even just cause pause and for people to
Speaker 2: think even things lighter. You know, hey, little brother right.
Speaker 2: It is a light and fun song. But if we listen,
Speaker 2: you know, you aren't afraid to lead the way into
Speaker 2: the unknown. That means you're daring, as a little brother
Speaker 2: to the world, right to like venture out side of
Speaker 2: what you were told even as a child you had
Speaker 2: to be like, right, you're not afraid to do it,
Speaker 2: and you're leading the way on it, and and and
Speaker 2: so those have certain themes in it of encouragement and
Speaker 2: stepping out of who you know, what always has been
Speaker 2: and asking why And we're not all going to agree,
Speaker 2: and we were never supposed to all agree, right, I
Speaker 2: just don't think we were supposed to be positioned with,
Speaker 2: you know, war heads at each other all the time.
Speaker 2: I just don't think that that was the plan either, right, right.
Speaker 2: So you know, Matt, you know how when you tune
Speaker 2: a guitar, it takes tension, right, It takes tension to
Speaker 2: tune a string, Yeah, to bring it into the right frequency,
Speaker 2: to bring it into harmony. And the only way to
Speaker 2: do that is we have to have tension. But if
Speaker 2: we have too much tension, it snaps right enough tens
Speaker 2: you can't even tell what it is, right.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Oh, Nancy, just froze. Whoops, Oh what her screen
Speaker 1: is her screen is frozen? Oh no, uh yeah, well
Speaker 1: she did mention she was having internet issues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that has been a bit of an issue for
Speaker 2: her today.
Speaker 1: Okay, I wonder if she's like, is she in the
Speaker 1: city or out in the I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It is late in the show. Oh, it's probably her
Speaker 1: on the phone. Good good, Hey Nancy, is that you?
Speaker 3: It is power again?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah. All of a sudden, it froze the screen.
Speaker 1: I noticed the screen was frozen. I said, oh, that's
Speaker 1: why she's not talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, right, Well, so I hope this is okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, okay, Yeah, no, that's fine. Uh yeah, We're
Speaker 1: we're getting We're gonna have to wrap up soon anyway.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad. I'm glad you were able to call
Speaker 1: because I do want to ask you about to finish
Speaker 1: out the segment, we're going to play this track. Oh,
Speaker 1: Son of Mine. This is another one of the songs
Speaker 1: that you sent us that that I really like, and
Speaker 1: I wanted you to tell us about this, you know,
Speaker 1: any anything we should know about this track?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Well, it was a toss up for
Speaker 3: which one was going to radio next this one or
Speaker 3: set us Free.
Speaker 2: So we did.
Speaker 3: We did a test market, and not because it isn't
Speaker 3: a great track. We just had some people feedback like
Speaker 3: the time was now right, yeah, set us Free. But
Speaker 3: here is what well, well, it's a very personal song
Speaker 3: to me because it was written for my son. And
Speaker 3: my son is thirty years old now. But you know,
Speaker 3: he at twenty two bought a house and when COVID hit,
Speaker 3: he sold that house and moved to the Houston region
Speaker 3: and ended up having to live off the propheeds of
Speaker 3: what he's sold his house for. And he was really
Speaker 3: bummed and he felt, you know, he felt like a failure.
Speaker 3: He had trouble getting back on his feet, he had
Speaker 3: trouble getting work again, and it's taken him a while
Speaker 3: to dig back out. And in his discouragement, I wrote
Speaker 3: this song and sent it to him and I said,
Speaker 3: anytime you're feeling low, I want you to hear this.
Speaker 3: And even some other friends of mine that were talking
Speaker 3: about their sons and the discouragements that they were feeling,
Speaker 3: and I said, so this is for our sons out there,
Speaker 3: no matter no matter who you are or where they are.
Speaker 3: Everybody that I've ever talked to their sons have gone
Speaker 3: through you know, down cycle and they've had to pull
Speaker 3: back up. And I my bigger and broader hope for
Speaker 3: this song is that young sons, you know, in that
Speaker 3: twenty somethings, you know, that teenage years, that they may
Speaker 3: find encouragement and hope that they can keep going and
Speaker 3: they can start again, and they can they can always rebuild,
Speaker 3: and they can always always remember that they are loved.
Speaker 1: Excellent. No, I think that's fantastic and certainly very relatable.
Speaker 1: So we're going to play that in a moment. One
Speaker 1: more thing, Nancy, where should people go online to keep
Speaker 1: up with everything that you're doing and find your music
Speaker 1: and everything you got going on. Where's the best place
Speaker 1: to go?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Primary? Nancy, Mine m A N E T dot com. Okay,
Speaker 3: and find me on Facebook. I am on Instagram, but
Speaker 3: I am on Facebook more. Okay, I would say that.
Speaker 3: So I'm on Facebook, and really follow and send me
Speaker 3: a direct message because I respond personally and I love
Speaker 3: to act with people. So send me a message to
Speaker 3: my website. Send a message on Facebook. I'd love to
Speaker 3: hear from you, absolutely, and watch the website for the
Speaker 3: updates of a tour coming near you, guys.
Speaker 1: Oh fantastic. Oh hopefully we can see you personally. That
Speaker 1: would be great. That would be awesome.
Speaker 3: That would be that would be I would be honored
Speaker 3: to have you there.
Speaker 1: Thank you, definitely wonderful. All right, So we're going to
Speaker 1: hit that track, Nancy, we will let you go. I
Speaker 1: hope the rest of your day in terms of the
Speaker 1: Internet is better. But technology will fail us at times.
Speaker 1: I know the pain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for being flexible and gracious and as
Speaker 3: always you two. I'm just really I'm really grateful to
Speaker 3: be a part of your show and have you guys
Speaker 3: on this journey with me. So thank you. Oh well,
Speaker 3: we're being who you two you are.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Nancy. We appreciate that very much, and
Speaker 1: we appreciate you and and we wish you continued success
Speaker 1: and we'll talk soon again. And I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Absolutely I would love it. Okay, thank you guys, and
Speaker 3: thanks again for rolling with today's internet.
Speaker 2: Oh you guys have the best, no.
Speaker 1: Worries, healthy internet, healthy Internet. That's right, all right, Nancy Manet,
Speaker 1: thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Next time in person. There you go, guys, have a
Speaker 3: good one
Speaker 1: YouTube, bye bye bye.
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