Rachel Moline | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: But joining us right now, we have in studio with us.

0:05 Speaker 1: Rachel Molina is here and let me make sure to

0:08 Speaker 1: make sure we can hear you. Hello, Rachel, Hello, welcome

0:11 Speaker 1: to the program.

0:12 Speaker 2: Thank you.

0:13 Speaker 3: Uh so you're gonna play.

0:15 Speaker 1: You've got your guitar and again if you are watching

0:17 Speaker 1: the video feed, you can see but she's got her

0:19 Speaker 1: guitar out and looking forward to hearing you play live. Now,

0:22 Speaker 1: you don't, just so people know, So you don't. You

0:25 Speaker 1: don't have any studio tracks yet, but I assume you're

0:26 Speaker 1: gonna be going into the studio at some point soon

0:28 Speaker 1: because you've got some You've got some original music as

0:30 Speaker 1: well as covers.

0:31 Speaker 4: Correct, correct, and do a lot of covers. I'm starting

0:34 Speaker 4: to write music. I think have finished one and have

0:37 Speaker 4: almost finished for the second one.

0:38 Speaker 3: Oh no kidding, Oh very cool.

0:40 Speaker 4: I read a lot of lyrics. I just have to

0:42 Speaker 4: put music to them.

0:42 Speaker 1: Oh that has that always been the case with you?

0:44 Speaker 1: I have you always? I mean, did you start out writing?

0:47 Speaker 1: Some people some singer songwriters will start out kind of

0:50 Speaker 1: writing poetry and then they'll say, you know, these would

0:53 Speaker 1: make good songs, Maybe I should put music to these.

0:55 Speaker 1: I mean, is that because cause you mentioned you have

0:56 Speaker 1: a lot of lyrics.

0:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, they kind of come as journal entries, but they

0:59 Speaker 4: come out out his songs, and I always thought, somebody

1:02 Speaker 4: I'll put this to music. Yeah, so I've got like

1:04 Speaker 4: a backup.

1:08 Speaker 1: Now why now, Because you said so recently you started

1:10 Speaker 1: writing music, but I assume you've been performing covers and

1:14 Speaker 1: such for a long time.

1:15 Speaker 3: Correct.

1:15 Speaker 4: So I've been playing guitar a long time. But two

1:18 Speaker 4: and a half years ago I started doing open mics

1:21 Speaker 4: nights with Andrew North and the Rangers.

1:23 Speaker 5: Yeah.

1:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking off air about them, and that's

1:26 Speaker 1: kind of how you got started doing the open mics.

1:28 Speaker 6: Right.

1:30 Speaker 4: I've always wanted to do music, but recently finally just

1:35 Speaker 4: I guess it's giving yourself permission to go for it.

1:38 Speaker 3: Yeah, So what.

1:39 Speaker 1: Was holding you back? Is it something you can identify

1:42 Speaker 1: or was it just Yeah.

1:44 Speaker 4: I struggled a long time with kind of the societal

1:49 Speaker 4: pressure to get a career, get the right job, you know,

1:52 Speaker 4: figure your life out. And I just turned forty.

1:56 Speaker 3: Last weekend, happy birthday.

1:59 Speaker 4: And I told myself I wanted to have my dream

2:02 Speaker 4: job by the time I'm forty. Yeah, I've had so far.

2:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, Well it's a start.

2:07 Speaker 1: It's a start, and and you're you're so you're a

2:10 Speaker 1: professional musician now, because the way I've always looked at it,

2:12 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes people will kind of agonize over, well,

2:17 Speaker 1: when can I call myself a professional? Yeah, you know,

2:19 Speaker 1: if it's if it's something that's not their full time job,

2:22 Speaker 1: you know, when can I call myself a professional?

2:24 Speaker 3: And the way I've always looked at it is no.

2:25 Speaker 1: And this applies to music or anything anything that you

2:27 Speaker 1: do in life that you're passionate about. Once you've been

2:31 Speaker 1: paid for something, that's it.

2:32 Speaker 3: You're a pro. You can call yourself. So you can

2:34 Speaker 3: call yourself a professional musician.

2:36 Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, even if you've only had

2:37 Speaker 1: one paid gig, and you know there will be more,

2:40 Speaker 1: right I mean, because once that starts, you know, as

2:42 Speaker 1: long as you keep at it, you know that's going

2:44 Speaker 1: to grow and grow. And so that's awesome. Good for you,

2:47 Speaker 1: Good for you? Is that what so turning forty? Is

2:50 Speaker 1: that what made you say I got to do this

2:52 Speaker 1: now or never?

2:53 Speaker 4: Or actually is when I got an office job a

2:56 Speaker 4: couple of years ago?

2:57 Speaker 3: Yeah? Is that when you started started thinking, I don't know,

3:00 Speaker 3: I was.

3:01 Speaker 4: The most I it was it was hard. I got

3:04 Speaker 4: an office job person and I got really depressed and

3:07 Speaker 4: I was like, what am I doing with life?

3:10 Speaker 2: This isn't me.

3:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, And then actually actually listened to a book by

3:16 Speaker 4: Dave Stewart of Your Rhythmics, his audio book about how

3:19 Speaker 4: the band started, and it was it was like really inspirational.

3:24 Speaker 4: Between that and listen, like I went to one show

3:28 Speaker 4: every month last year musicians and just like seeing people

3:33 Speaker 4: do it, Yeah, like it can happen, It's possible. Yeah, yeah,

3:37 Speaker 4: it's a world changer.

3:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you, Good for you. Well, I'm dying

3:40 Speaker 1: to hear you play. I've not heard you play at

3:43 Speaker 1: all yet, so now I but but I don't From

3:46 Speaker 1: what I've seen online it looks like, you know, people

3:47 Speaker 1: are really digging what you're doing. So I just realized, too,

3:51 Speaker 1: that explains the picture so the and it ended up

3:54 Speaker 1: being the picture that I used to promote today's show

3:56 Speaker 1: of you on Facebook, and you wrote so this is

3:58 Speaker 1: what it's like or something. It's you on stage and

4:01 Speaker 1: You're like, this is what it's like. It's like, okay,

4:02 Speaker 1: so she really is new with this, so very very cool. Well, yeah,

4:07 Speaker 1: I'm dying to hear you play. I'm sure the listeners

4:08 Speaker 1: are too. What do you What are you gonna do?

4:10 Speaker 3: First? For us?

4:11 Speaker 4: I'm gonna do Live and Die by David Brothers.

4:14 Speaker 3: Okay, excellent.

4:15 Speaker 5: This was.

4:17 Speaker 4: A song that I played at every year I play

4:20 Speaker 4: at a New England Mountain Bike Association has a meet

4:24 Speaker 4: up and they asked me to play a couple of

4:25 Speaker 4: years in a row. Oh cool, that's probably that's how

4:27 Speaker 4: I started performing performing and okay, this was one of

4:32 Speaker 4: the songs the friend got me to do.

4:34 Speaker 3: All right, excellent.

4:56 Speaker 5: Ah, little takes just one mom you say goodbye to

5:07 Speaker 5: hobwie hi a planned, fear like habit.

5:14 Speaker 4: Run like a rabbit. I Hannah away.

5:20 Speaker 5: Through the screen door to the ah. No, No, I wanna

5:31 Speaker 5: love you more. I want to find you more. Where

5:38 Speaker 5: do you reside when you're high?

5:42 Speaker 2: How can I find you?

5:45 Speaker 7: No?

5:45 Speaker 5: I want to send you more. I want to send

5:51 Speaker 5: you more. Can you tell that I I am a lie?

5:59 Speaker 4: Let me prove.

6:02 Speaker 8: You and I were the same. Live and Die were

6:06 Speaker 8: the same? Yourent voice, no my name? You and I

6:10 Speaker 8: were the same.

6:14 Speaker 5: Little lack pharaoh sing like a sparrow and anyway, even

6:23 Speaker 5: if there is no land or love inside, we bloom

6:31 Speaker 5: like Roses, Lee like Moses, ah and away through the

6:39 Speaker 5: bitter crowd to the day. Lie and I wanna love

6:47 Speaker 5: you and mom, I wanna find you more?

6:54 Speaker 2: Can you tell that I.

6:57 Speaker 4: Am a lie?

6:59 Speaker 2: Clam It proved, suya.

7:03 Speaker 8: You and I were the same, Live and I were

7:06 Speaker 8: the same. Here a joice, I complain. You and I

7:10 Speaker 8: were the same. Live and I were the same. You

7:13 Speaker 8: and I were the same.

7:15 Speaker 2: Hear my voice?

7:16 Speaker 3: No, my name?

7:17 Speaker 9: You and I were the same.

7:40 Speaker 5: I want to love you more over, I want to

7:45 Speaker 5: find you more.

7:48 Speaker 2: Where do you reside? When? And high?

7:53 Speaker 5: I can't offernd you and I won't send you more.

7:59 Speaker 4: I want to don't.

8:00 Speaker 5: You can learn?

8:08 Speaker 2: Improver?

8:12 Speaker 9: You and I would say, and I would say, you're joice?

8:17 Speaker 4: I complaining.

8:18 Speaker 9: You and I were the same.

8:20 Speaker 2: Did and I were the same?

8:22 Speaker 9: You and I were the same. You're my voice?

8:25 Speaker 3: Oh my name?

8:26 Speaker 5: You and I?

8:30 Speaker 4: You and I?

8:37 Speaker 3: Oh, very nice, very nice.

8:39 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, Rachel Moline is here with us,

8:42 Speaker 1: alive in studio sounding amazing.

8:44 Speaker 3: That was wonderful. That was wonderful. Tell me about Are

8:49 Speaker 3: they a big influence on you?

8:51 Speaker 4: No? Actually, it just happened to be a song that

8:54 Speaker 4: my buddy was playing with picked he he was like,

8:57 Speaker 4: I love this song. I had not really listened to

9:00 Speaker 4: them much. Yeah, played it turned out I loved it.

9:03 Speaker 4: I don't know. I just kind of pick up music

9:05 Speaker 4: that clicks.

9:06 Speaker 1: With me and yeah, yeah, yeah, do you have are

9:11 Speaker 1: there specific influences that have really kind of shaped your

9:14 Speaker 1: you know, your approach to uh to how you play.

9:16 Speaker 1: And I'm especially curious too about about your singing, because

9:20 Speaker 1: you know, you've you've got a great voice, and I'm

9:22 Speaker 1: curious like how you learn to sing and who who

9:25 Speaker 1: you listened to or maybe maybe you even took lessons.

9:27 Speaker 4: I don't know, I it's it's been a mix. But

9:30 Speaker 4: I grew up in choir, Okay, a church choir when

9:33 Speaker 4: I was a teenager, was the choir for about six years.

9:36 Speaker 4: That's where I got my musical I guess training you

9:41 Speaker 4: just the more you do it, the more.

9:42 Speaker 3: Yeah.

9:44 Speaker 4: I never learned how to read music or anything. I

9:46 Speaker 4: just like sang. I loved singing.

9:48 Speaker 3: Yeah.

9:50 Speaker 4: I listened to a lot of like punk and rock

9:52 Speaker 4: growing up, and I don't know if that had any influence,

9:56 Speaker 4: but just definitely energetic and loud and yeah, and I

9:59 Speaker 4: just kept singing. Yeah, took lessons once.

10:03 Speaker 1: Did you, Yeah, like like literally one lesson or for

10:08 Speaker 1: just for like six months. Oh okay, do you think

10:11 Speaker 1: it helped you?

10:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's yeah, there's definitely things that have stuck from it.

10:15 Speaker 3: Yeah.

10:15 Speaker 4: I think I absorb a lot by listening to other people.

10:18 Speaker 4: YouTube does a lot.

10:19 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well that's the thing. Yeah, YouTube you

10:21 Speaker 1: can learn. You can learn so much from YouTube. It's

10:24 Speaker 1: probably put a lot of music instructors out of business, actually,

10:28 Speaker 1: now that I'm thinking about it, YouTube, because you know,

10:30 Speaker 1: if you think about it, that never really occurred to

10:33 Speaker 1: me until just now. But yeah, it's probably you know,

10:36 Speaker 1: like I remember, you know, buying DVDs about how to

10:39 Speaker 1: sing and how to play, and you know that's of

10:41 Speaker 1: course you don't need to do that anymore.

10:43 Speaker 4: I've seen instructors go online.

10:45 Speaker 3: Though, oh yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.

10:48 Speaker 4: So I don't know. Maybe it's, yeah, the.

10:50 Speaker 1: Ones who are comfortable with it. But sure I took

10:52 Speaker 1: I took voice lessons and I from a variety of

10:57 Speaker 1: different instructors over the years, and I doubt any of

10:59 Speaker 1: them or even still in business. But they didn't help

11:02 Speaker 1: me much. I'm not a bad harmony singer. I can

11:04 Speaker 1: kind of find the octave and lock in. But on

11:06 Speaker 1: my own, I get lost.

11:08 Speaker 4: Everything's easier when you do with people.

11:10 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no, but just starting to inquire, starting

11:13 Speaker 1: singing and inquire. I mean, I think that's a great

11:14 Speaker 1: way to start. I always I've always heard Daryl Hall

11:17 Speaker 1: say that, like he learned to sing because when he

11:19 Speaker 1: was a kid, his mom took him to church. Yeah,

11:21 Speaker 1: and that's, you know, growing up in Philadelphia, that's you know,

11:24 Speaker 1: that was a great way to start, you know.

11:26 Speaker 3: And his mother also is a I.

11:28 Speaker 1: Say it is because I think she's still alive, but

11:31 Speaker 1: she's also a vocal teacher herself, and she taught him

11:35 Speaker 1: how to breathe and everything and took him to church

11:37 Speaker 1: and said, here, sing with these people, and.

11:39 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's cool.

11:40 Speaker 5: Yeah.

11:41 Speaker 3: Now what about guitar? How did you learn to play guitar?

11:44 Speaker 4: I got my first guitar when I was seventeen from

11:49 Speaker 4: like a summer crush. He played me, like, I mean,

11:52 Speaker 4: he taught me how to play GCD.

11:54 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then.

11:57 Speaker 4: Over the years it's just been slowly picking up some songs.

12:01 Speaker 3: Yeah.

12:02 Speaker 5: Uh.

12:03 Speaker 4: The first song I ever learned was Boston by Augustana

12:06 Speaker 4: And oh, so I guess we're talking about musicians and bands.

12:09 Speaker 4: They were augustana Is. They're not super popular, but they

12:12 Speaker 4: were like so influential to me.

12:15 Speaker 3: Yeah.

12:16 Speaker 4: Probably when I started writing songs, I it was it

12:19 Speaker 4: was a lot of like a lot of like kind

12:23 Speaker 4: of dark, sad sounding music. You know, a lot of

12:27 Speaker 4: my lyrics would come out as like these sad stories

12:31 Speaker 4: and yeah, I like I like heartfelt things like emotion. Sure, sure,

12:37 Speaker 4: but anyway, okay, Yeah. And then it was two and

12:42 Speaker 4: a half years ago, I again doing open mic nights.

12:44 Speaker 4: I was like, well, I don't pick it up again.

12:47 Speaker 4: So I picked up my my old guitar that I'd

12:51 Speaker 4: got in San Francisco years ago on a whim.

12:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you go a really long time without playing

12:57 Speaker 1: at all? Or did you kind of probably.

13:00 Speaker 4: Went stretches a couple of years stretches and then I'd

13:03 Speaker 4: pick up guitar and like fiddle with it. Yeah, yeah,

13:07 Speaker 4: I might have gone five or six years without really playing.

13:11 Speaker 3: Yeah.

13:11 Speaker 4: I started dabbling in the keyboard too, and that it

13:13 Speaker 4: was fun. Yeah, guitar is always way more intimidating.

13:17 Speaker 3: Yeah. So then, so when did you so?

13:22 Speaker 1: But it was a couple of years ago that you

13:23 Speaker 1: picked it back up and really started to focus on

13:26 Speaker 1: it or yeah, and I just.

13:28 Speaker 4: Had to, like again, it was giving myself permission. Just

13:31 Speaker 4: I don't really still sometimes feel like I don't know

13:33 Speaker 4: what I'm doing, but I I just I learn songs.

13:38 Speaker 4: I find songs that I love, and I'm like, I

13:40 Speaker 4: better if I can learn that, Yeah it's too complicated,

13:42 Speaker 4: I let it go. Yeah, and then to find ones

13:44 Speaker 4: that are easy.

13:45 Speaker 3: So that makes me curious, like what have you?

13:47 Speaker 1: Is there anything you can think of specifically that you

13:49 Speaker 1: tried to learn that you you've felt was too complicated

13:51 Speaker 1: that maybe you'll you'll put aside and come back later.

13:54 Speaker 3: Well, it's curious about this kind of thing. Is there?

13:55 Speaker 3: Is there anything?

13:56 Speaker 4: I think there was a Beatles song, Yeah, I can't

13:59 Speaker 4: remember what was called. Yeah, I get remember which one,

14:02 Speaker 4: but they use a lot of when I say complimented

14:06 Speaker 4: complicated chords, it's like there you have to stretch your

14:09 Speaker 4: fingers around or there's a chord change every you know,

14:13 Speaker 4: every beat home. Yeah, it feels like yeah, and sometimes

14:16 Speaker 4: I've learned too to allow myself to just instead of

14:19 Speaker 4: changing chords, you might find one that sounds similar, so

14:21 Speaker 4: just stay on.

14:22 Speaker 1: It right right, Yes, yes, absolutely, When I when I

14:29 Speaker 1: was a teenager, so I took guitar lessons, and but

14:31 Speaker 1: I was I was kind of a lazy kid.

14:33 Speaker 3: If I wasn't good at something quickly enough, I would

14:35 Speaker 3: tend to give up on it.

14:37 Speaker 1: And that's how I ended up. And bass players hate

14:40 Speaker 1: when I say this. I know that, but I'm a

14:42 Speaker 1: bass player, so I can say it. That's how I

14:43 Speaker 1: ended up playing bass because I got frustrated with the

14:47 Speaker 1: guitar and and then I picked up a bass. I

14:50 Speaker 1: was with some friends, some musicians, and I picked up

14:53 Speaker 1: a bass and I seem to have a feel for

14:55 Speaker 1: it really quickly, and I was kind of like, oh,

14:57 Speaker 1: two less strings and I don't have to know any chords.

15:00 Speaker 1: I think I found my instrument. And it turned out

15:02 Speaker 1: I did find my instrument because I ended up playing

15:04 Speaker 1: in a bunch of bands over the years. But then

15:06 Speaker 1: I'm not a bad bass player. But and I can

15:07 Speaker 1: still play a little bit of guitar. You know, I

15:09 Speaker 1: can play. I can play in a punk band probably,

15:11 Speaker 1: but but uh but yeah, it's uh, But I know

15:14 Speaker 1: what you mean. And it's like you can you can

15:17 Speaker 1: kind of cite yourself out by trying trying too hard

15:20 Speaker 1: to emulate exactly what the original artist did. When you can,

15:23 Speaker 1: you can change it, yeah, and make it sound the same.

15:27 Speaker 1: You know, there's no there's no rules really, I mean,

15:30 Speaker 1: music theory is music theory, but that doesn't mean you

15:33 Speaker 1: have to do it exactly the way it was done

15:35 Speaker 1: to make it sound good. And if along the way

15:36 Speaker 1: you kind of make it your own, that's good too.

15:39 Speaker 4: I think, yeah, there's I think music has taught me

15:44 Speaker 4: that I'm can be a perfectionist and it's a lot

15:47 Speaker 4: of your heart on yourself, and it's like that has

15:50 Speaker 4: to really be ingrained as it's okay to be flexible

15:54 Speaker 4: with the songs, okay to put your own spin on it.

15:56 Speaker 3: Yep.

15:57 Speaker 4: And people want that probably, yeah, yeah, some people do.

16:01 Speaker 3: I mean some people. There's always some people who will

16:03 Speaker 3: complain like, oh that you didn't play that right.

16:05 Speaker 1: But it's like, uh, you know, but to me, I

16:08 Speaker 1: always like, you know, it's like if I see a

16:11 Speaker 1: cover band, I don't necessarily want to hear everything exactly

16:16 Speaker 1: the way it sounds, the way the original artists played it.

16:19 Speaker 1: I kind of want to hear It's like, Okay, I

16:21 Speaker 1: know how the original goes. I can I hear it

16:23 Speaker 1: on the radio. I can pull it up online. I

16:25 Speaker 1: want to hear your interpretation of it, you know what

16:27 Speaker 1: I mean? That to me is more interesting. But there

16:29 Speaker 1: are some people who are just like, oh, you didn't

16:30 Speaker 1: You didn't play that the way I know it. It's like, well,

16:33 Speaker 1: go listen to it the way you know it. The

16:35 Speaker 1: way you know it is available to you.

16:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

16:38 Speaker 4: That's true. It is about creativity.

16:41 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, or it should be, at least it should be.

16:44 Speaker 3: You want to play another one?

16:45 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, if you're just joining us, Rachel Molein

16:48 Speaker 1: is here with us live in studio, sounding great.

16:51 Speaker 4: I sorry, okay, I'll play I'll play an original.

16:56 Speaker 1: Okay, awesome. So this will be the first time this

17:00 Speaker 1: has been played on the radio.

17:01 Speaker 4: That's true.

17:02 Speaker 3: So it was a world premiere, yes, yes, is this recorded?

17:06 Speaker 4: Well? Of course technically the first time it's every recorded

17:09 Speaker 4: to this.

17:09 Speaker 3: Will be the first time. Wait, you know what, just

17:11 Speaker 3: just for that, I should uh, I should do this,

17:14 Speaker 3: uh do this for you. You are listening to wumin Ah.

17:20 Speaker 2: World premiere.

17:24 Speaker 1: Oh you probably couldn't hear that because you don't have

17:26 Speaker 1: headphones on. I gave you the world premiere bumper. Yes,

17:31 Speaker 1: you'll hear it later when you listen to it. All right,

17:34 Speaker 1: what's this called?

17:34 Speaker 4: It's called this song is called the Moment. It's very short.

17:40 Speaker 4: It's it's about living in the moment, really because a

17:44 Speaker 4: lot of times they escape us, yes, before we've had

17:47 Speaker 4: a chance to do something about it.

17:48 Speaker 3: And let's bring that back, all right, Rachel Mouley.

18:10 Speaker 6: Stand to stay moment.

18:17 Speaker 5: For the moment.

18:18 Speaker 9: Nos, it passes bar.

18:26 Speaker 2: And see hard on Wonday.

18:33 Speaker 10: It leaves no chase, it flies with Breathe the moment

18:46 Speaker 10: back now.

18:49 Speaker 2: Because I know.

18:53 Speaker 6: I would say, find yourself a moment, so it does.

19:32 Speaker 2: Saying it's too.

19:39 Speaker 9: God hand sip beside me.

19:45 Speaker 2: We'll fly away, We'll fly.

19:58 Speaker 3: Beautiful, beautiful, Thank you.

20:00 Speaker 1: Rachel Moleen is here with us, live in studio, and

20:03 Speaker 1: that's called the Moment.

20:04 Speaker 4: The scariest thing I've ever done, really, maybe so far.

20:09 Speaker 1: I mean as you, as you advance into your career,

20:11 Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll get scarier. This is nothing, This is

20:15 Speaker 1: nothing if you are just joining us. Rachel Moleen is

20:18 Speaker 1: here with us, live in studio, and so.

20:21 Speaker 3: What kind of what kind of shows have you you

20:22 Speaker 3: been doing?

20:23 Speaker 1: You mentioned the open mics, and then have you been

20:26 Speaker 1: but you know you've been doing more than just that obviously.

20:29 Speaker 4: So yeah, volunteered for a couple of things. It played

20:32 Speaker 4: at a school last weekend, like a parent teacher fundraiser thing.

20:37 Speaker 4: Oh cool, that was fun. There was three other artists there,

20:40 Speaker 4: one that I knew. Playing in front a bunch of

20:44 Speaker 4: kids is really fun there. They give a lot of

20:47 Speaker 4: feedback right away, dancing to your music, or or they

20:51 Speaker 4: come up there and they just stare at you playing.

20:54 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

20:57 Speaker 4: I played at Feathered Friends last week in open for

21:01 Speaker 4: Lee and Doctor g Okay, he is a local man.

21:04 Speaker 3: Now where is that feather trends?

21:06 Speaker 4: Feathered Friends feather trends?

21:08 Speaker 1: I don't know why though, sometimes I don't hear things

21:11 Speaker 1: correctly feathered trends, like like, what would that be like

21:14 Speaker 1: a store that sells jackets made of feather?

21:19 Speaker 4: I think I should.

21:21 Speaker 1: Should open that feathered trends. So Feathered Friends, okay, okay,

21:25 Speaker 1: So what is that?

21:26 Speaker 4: It's a brewery.

21:27 Speaker 3: It's a brewery. Okay.

21:28 Speaker 4: They have a cool stage in the back. Then I

21:32 Speaker 4: played last December. I played up at a place in Bethlehem,

21:37 Speaker 4: Okay called Flamingo.

21:38 Speaker 3: Okay.

21:39 Speaker 4: A buddy of mine, Jim Terrell, is also a New Hampshire.

21:42 Speaker 3: Oh I know Jim ye yep.

21:44 Speaker 1: I've interviewed him actually, jeez, I don't know how many

21:46 Speaker 1: times over the years.

21:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh absolutely, Jim's great.

21:50 Speaker 5: I was.

21:51 Speaker 4: I went up to see him play because he plays

21:55 Speaker 4: there every Wednesday.

21:56 Speaker 3: Yeah.

21:57 Speaker 4: He had me sing a couple of songs and the

21:59 Speaker 4: owner was like, Jim can't be here next week, do

22:01 Speaker 4: you want to fill in?

22:02 Speaker 3: Oh?

22:02 Speaker 4: Nice, it's a three hour set and I was.

22:05 Speaker 3: Like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, let's do Yeah.

22:09 Speaker 5: It was.

22:10 Speaker 4: It was a really good experience. It was a challenge

22:12 Speaker 4: because I didn't have three hours of material, but well.

22:15 Speaker 3: The thing is, though, with a situation like that, too,

22:17 Speaker 3: you can repeat some stuff.

22:18 Speaker 1: I mean, you're not you know, you're not playing to

22:19 Speaker 1: the same crowd in the first hour that you you know,

22:21 Speaker 1: in the third hour, you know what I mean?

22:23 Speaker 3: Right, So yeah, you're right. I mean, is that what

22:25 Speaker 3: you ended up doing?

22:26 Speaker 4: You just yeah, yeah, did about had about an hour

22:29 Speaker 4: and twenty minutes or so.

22:31 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she just played this stuff. Just play the

22:33 Speaker 1: set twice, right, Yeah, no big deal. Yeah no, that's cool.

22:35 Speaker 3: So I went, well it did.

22:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was not as prepared as I could have been.

22:40 Speaker 4: I think I say that every time.

22:42 Speaker 1: Sure, well, you know, like we talked about earlier, you know,

22:45 Speaker 1: I'm creative. People are most hard on themselves, you know,

22:48 Speaker 1: the most self critical. So but it comes from a

22:51 Speaker 1: good place because you want to be good at what

22:53 Speaker 1: you're doing and you you know, you want people to

22:54 Speaker 1: be impressed and whatnot.

22:55 Speaker 3: So right, So are you?

22:58 Speaker 1: Is that kind of is your all to to continue

23:01 Speaker 1: to do shows like that? More and more shows like that?

23:03 Speaker 5: Is that?

23:04 Speaker 3: Like you want to be playing out all the time?

23:05 Speaker 3: I assume I would like to.

23:07 Speaker 4: Uh, it's really good. I've found that. It it's a

23:10 Speaker 4: lot of pressure. I mean, I put pressure on myself. Yeah,

23:14 Speaker 4: but it's really good to develop my set list and

23:18 Speaker 4: it it's I'm learning so much as I'm learning songs.

23:21 Speaker 3: Yep.

23:23 Speaker 4: I'd like to be able to like to be able

23:25 Speaker 4: to support myself with music.

23:27 Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. Yeah.

23:28 Speaker 4: I do want to keep writing and start recording, and

23:31 Speaker 4: I'd love to eventually start a band. Can I say

23:36 Speaker 4: I'm looking for a fiddle player? Know that there's fiddle

23:40 Speaker 4: players like all over, but yeah, I would love to

23:43 Speaker 4: collaborate with someone.

23:45 Speaker 3: Now, why a fiddle player specifically?

23:47 Speaker 4: It okay, it's probably some band influences like Airborne Toxic

23:52 Speaker 4: Event is a rock band and they have a fiddle

23:57 Speaker 4: late fiddle was one of his first band members. Oh, violin. Same,

24:01 Speaker 4: But yeah, it just sounds so cool, I think in

24:04 Speaker 4: any style of music. Yeah, adds something that you don't

24:08 Speaker 4: get to see or hear a lot.

24:10 Speaker 5: Yeah.

24:11 Speaker 3: Does Andrew North and the Rangers have a fiddle player?

24:13 Speaker 2: Don't they know they have?

24:14 Speaker 3: Don't they have a Who am I thinking of? No,

24:18 Speaker 3: I'm thinking I don't know who I'm thinking of.

24:20 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's not like, uh yeah, fiddle

24:23 Speaker 1: players though. Yeah, it's not like you know, guitar players

24:25 Speaker 1: are everywhere, but fiddle players.

24:27 Speaker 3: Yeah. How do you find a fiddle player?

24:30 Speaker 4: I've been asked. I've been I just asked people some

24:32 Speaker 4: I'll come up with one.

24:34 Speaker 1: And when you find one, they're probably already in a

24:35 Speaker 1: bunch of bands because it's not many fiddle players around.

24:38 Speaker 3: Probably.

24:38 Speaker 1: No, I'm sure you'll find somebody. No, that's cool though, Yeah,

24:41 Speaker 1: that's cool. So you obviously, so you want to do

24:43 Speaker 1: something that doesn't sound like everything else, You want to

24:45 Speaker 1: do something something different. No, I think that's awesome. Yeah, yeah,

24:50 Speaker 1: fiddle players.

24:52 Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of who.

24:53 Speaker 1: I don't know why I was thinking of Andrew North,

24:55 Speaker 1: maybe just because we were talking about earlier. But yeah, no,

24:58 Speaker 1: that's that's cool. Now if you so, if you act

25:00 Speaker 1: started looking for band members or are you just kind

25:02 Speaker 1: of starting to.

25:02 Speaker 4: Look, I'm starting to look. I've been meeting people at

25:05 Speaker 4: the open mic night.

25:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a great Oh.

25:08 Speaker 1: Over the years of interviewing people, so many bands have

25:11 Speaker 1: started out of open mic nights, just people meeting there.

25:14 Speaker 3: It's it's such a great place in network.

25:16 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I have faith in that.

25:18 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, so that's that's that's one of the

25:20 Speaker 3: long term goals. Get a band going.

25:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what kind of band yet.

25:25 Speaker 4: I know I want a fiddle player.

25:27 Speaker 3: Yeah.

25:27 Speaker 4: There's this band called the East Pointers. They're from Prince

25:30 Speaker 4: Edward Island. Okay, oh recently. I went to see them

25:34 Speaker 4: last year and that was a moment. It was one

25:37 Speaker 4: moment where I was.

25:38 Speaker 2: Like, I can do this.

25:39 Speaker 3: Yeah.

25:39 Speaker 4: They're a guitar player and a fiddle player and one

25:42 Speaker 4: of them they switched to keyboard. Oh, but they also

25:46 Speaker 4: do you know, they do beats and stuff. Their music

25:49 Speaker 4: is like not really traditional fiddle player. It's not Irish

25:53 Speaker 4: per se.

25:54 Speaker 3: Interesting.

25:54 Speaker 4: It's a lot of really cool different sounds and high energy.

25:59 Speaker 3: I'm super curious.

25:59 Speaker 4: What are they called together, The East Pointers?

26:02 Speaker 3: The East Pointers. I gotta look them up.

26:03 Speaker 4: They're really good. They've got a good, good presence on Instagram.

26:07 Speaker 4: They they just put out some really fun stuff, definitely fun.

26:10 Speaker 3: Dire from Providence or you saw or you saw them in.

26:13 Speaker 4: Probably from Prince Edward Island.

26:15 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okayland in Portland, Oh, in Portland, Okay, Okay,

26:20 Speaker 1: I gotta look them up. Yeah, oh that's really interesting.

26:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, they just you watch them up there, and then

26:25 Speaker 4: you know the one guy in the fiddles, just like

26:27 Speaker 4: the other guys. They just look fun and they have

26:30 Speaker 4: fun and their music's good.

26:32 Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh that's really cool. That's really cool.

26:34 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, Rachel Molina is here with us.

26:37 Speaker 3: You want to play another one? Dying to hear more?

26:39 Speaker 4: All right, do you think there'll be two more?

26:43 Speaker 3: I've got Oh we can, yeah, we got we have time.

26:45 Speaker 3: We definitely have time.

26:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, okay, I'll jump into this.

26:56 Speaker 9: M uh.

27:01 Speaker 4: The song is called What's Up?

27:03 Speaker 3: Is this an original?

27:04 Speaker 5: No?

27:05 Speaker 1: Oh?

27:05 Speaker 4: Okay, this is very much not an original.

27:07 Speaker 3: Oh is this for none blinds?

27:09 Speaker 4: Yeah?

27:09 Speaker 3: Okay, you feel like I'm gonna karaoke bar all of

27:13 Speaker 3: a sudden.

27:14 Speaker 4: A little clue, But I love singing.

27:15 Speaker 3: It's no I'm dying to hear it. Yeah, okay, all right.

27:35 Speaker 5: Twenty five years and the laughers still trying to get

27:40 Speaker 5: up there, great big hill.

27:42 Speaker 9: Uh home.

27:45 Speaker 4: For Destined Nation. Real last weekly had a new las should.

27:52 Speaker 5: That the world was made up of his brother food.

27:56 Speaker 5: Oh man, oh whatever that means.

28:03 Speaker 9: So I cried sometimes on a lying in bed, just

28:07 Speaker 9: to get it up.

28:08 Speaker 2: What's in my head?

28:10 Speaker 9: And I I'm feeling a little peculiar.

28:17 Speaker 5: So I wake up in the morning and I step

28:19 Speaker 5: outside and I take anypro and I gave real high

28:24 Speaker 5: and I.

28:25 Speaker 4: Screamed from the top of my lungs what's going on?

28:31 Speaker 9: And said hey, hey, hey, yeah, I said hey, what's

28:41 Speaker 9: going on? And I said he here, he yeah. I said, hey,

28:54 Speaker 9: what's going on?

29:00 Speaker 4: Mm hmmm?

29:01 Speaker 2: Oh oh?

29:24 Speaker 7: And I try, oh my god, to try. I try

29:31 Speaker 7: all the time, and this since they're too shine, and

29:38 Speaker 7: I pray.

29:40 Speaker 9: Oh my God, I pray a pravacing god Dad for

29:48 Speaker 9: red a little shin So I cry sometimes when I'm

29:54 Speaker 9: lying in bed just to get it.

29:56 Speaker 5: Over what's in my head, and I I'm feel a

30:01 Speaker 5: little cutier.

30:05 Speaker 2: And I wake up in the morning at.

30:07 Speaker 4: Us to outside and I take any breath again, real high,

30:11 Speaker 4: and I screamed from the top of my lungs, what's

30:14 Speaker 4: going on?

30:17 Speaker 9: And I said yeay, y.

30:22 Speaker 2: Hey, yay.

30:25 Speaker 4: I said, hey, what's going on?

30:31 Speaker 11: And I said, heah, yeah, I said, hey, what's going on?

30:46 Speaker 5: Twenty five years and Lafe's still trying to get up

30:51 Speaker 5: that creepy hue of ho.

30:55 Speaker 4: For a destonation.

31:03 Speaker 3: Very nice, Rachel Molein, he're with us in studio? Was

31:07 Speaker 3: there more of the son?

31:08 Speaker 4: No?

31:08 Speaker 3: I just do that, okay, okay. I wasn't sure if

31:10 Speaker 3: there was another part that I was forgetting. I don't

31:13 Speaker 3: feel badly when I do that.

31:14 Speaker 1: It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while,

31:15 Speaker 1: like I'll think somebody's done and then I'm like, oops,

31:17 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.

31:21 Speaker 3: Rachel Molein is here with us, live, sounding great and

31:24 Speaker 3: h so what do you have to like? Do you

31:25 Speaker 3: have shows this weekend or what's uh?

31:28 Speaker 4: Well, no, I don't have anything booked now going forward?

31:30 Speaker 3: Oh you don't.

31:31 Speaker 4: I had a bunch of stuff for like a couple

31:34 Speaker 4: of months, and then this was the last thing I

31:36 Speaker 4: was kind of preparing for.

31:37 Speaker 2: And I I'll be.

31:39 Speaker 4: Honest, I'm stuck in like a.

31:42 Speaker 2: Like I need to take a break.

31:44 Speaker 4: But then I'm like, well, you can't do that. Yeah,

31:46 Speaker 4: I mean you're moving forward.

31:47 Speaker 3: Yeah, you got momentum. Yeah, you gotta keep going.

31:49 Speaker 4: Yeah. I've been talking to some people supposed to play

31:53 Speaker 4: at Conquered Craft, which is also in Conquered Oh yeah,

31:56 Speaker 4: hopefully the next three or four weeks.

31:57 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good good.

32:00 Speaker 4: And I do want to I do want to like

32:03 Speaker 4: shift gears a little and try to try to find

32:05 Speaker 4: people to play with.

32:06 Speaker 10: And there's a lot to do.

32:10 Speaker 3: M Oh yeah, there's a lot to it. There's a

32:12 Speaker 3: lot to it. Yeah yeah.

32:14 Speaker 1: How do you feel about that part of it? I mean,

32:16 Speaker 1: are are you intimidated by it? Or because you know,

32:20 Speaker 1: some some musicians actually kind of embrace all of it.

32:22 Speaker 1: Some musicians are just like I just want to play.

32:24 Speaker 1: I want somebody else to do all the all the

32:26 Speaker 1: other stuff. I mean, how do you feel about it?

32:28 Speaker 4: I I want to do it all, to be honest,

32:33 Speaker 4: I want to sing, like mostly I play guitar, because

32:36 Speaker 4: it so I can play out unforcing like I'm forcing

32:39 Speaker 4: myself sort of to.

32:40 Speaker 1: But in an ideal situation, you'd like to be in

32:43 Speaker 1: a band and not have to worry about the guitar

32:45 Speaker 1: eventually on vocals, Yeah.

32:47 Speaker 4: I would love to sing. I I played with saying

32:50 Speaker 4: with a friend of mine. Their band is called J

32:55 Speaker 4: Street Extension. They're up in the Northfield area and they

32:59 Speaker 4: had asked me to sing with them a couple months

33:02 Speaker 4: back and it was mind blowing.

33:04 Speaker 2: I loved it.

33:05 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:05 Speaker 4: I had to learn all these songs that I didn't

33:07 Speaker 4: know a lot of, like Bonnie Rate and oh okay

33:09 Speaker 4: Little Tom Petty and I had so much fun though.

33:15 Speaker 4: That was also like okay, this is it.

33:18 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh very cool, very cool.

33:20 Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure you'll get You'll get more bookings to

33:22 Speaker 1: after the show, you get the Matt Conderton Unleashed bump,

33:25 Speaker 1: you know, yes, oh yes, I'm sure you've heard about it. Yeah,

33:31 Speaker 1: and then uh so, now what about recording? So have

33:33 Speaker 1: you have you also started looking into where you're going

33:37 Speaker 1: to do that or who you're going to work with

33:38 Speaker 1: or is that still is that kind of on the

33:39 Speaker 1: back burner that.

33:41 Speaker 4: Will be that will be a working on going forward

33:45 Speaker 4: because yeah, I don't. I'm trying to learn a little bit.

33:49 Speaker 4: I bought a microphone. Was it like an H four

33:53 Speaker 4: little zoom recorder?

33:55 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:55 Speaker 4: I can record some of my own stuff and do

33:57 Speaker 4: stuff on on like on Instagram and things. Yeah, recording studio,

34:02 Speaker 4: I have to have to meet people. I don't know

34:05 Speaker 4: where to start, honestly. Yeah, yeah, I am all yours.

34:08 Speaker 3: There's a lot of options. Yeah.

34:10 Speaker 1: I think the name that comes up the most often

34:13 Speaker 1: on this show is Eric Sotter from Blackheart. He's I

34:16 Speaker 1: don't know if you if you've heard of him, if

34:17 Speaker 1: you've heard his name around, but he a lot of

34:20 Speaker 1: the guests that we've had on the show have recorded

34:21 Speaker 1: with him, and he's fantastic. Yeah, and he's been on

34:24 Speaker 1: the show too, and he fascinating to talk to. But

34:27 Speaker 1: he's so talented. Yeah, so somebody might want to keep

34:31 Speaker 1: in mind. But but yeah, but you've got a lot

34:34 Speaker 1: of options, and you know, and we live in a

34:35 Speaker 1: time too where like when I was growing up, I'm

34:38 Speaker 1: old enough to remember when it was like, you know,

34:40 Speaker 1: you you had to find a studio and pay somebody

34:43 Speaker 1: incredible amounts of money to record in their million dollars

34:45 Speaker 1: studio and and uh, if you didn't have the money

34:48 Speaker 1: while you were sol you know, or maybe or maybe

34:51 Speaker 1: you just record something on a little task him four track,

34:54 Speaker 1: you know, a demo or something. But now it's like

34:56 Speaker 1: you've got so many options, you know. It's it's a

34:59 Speaker 1: techno is a wonderful thing.

35:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, that part's intimidating, to be honest. Yeah, I look

35:04 Speaker 4: at all the stuff and I'm.

35:05 Speaker 3: Like, yeah, no doubt, I just want to play the music. Yeah,

35:11 Speaker 3: let someone else do that.

35:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I can understand that you want to play

35:15 Speaker 1: one more Ah, yeah, okay, all right, if you're just

35:18 Speaker 1: joining us, Rachel Moline is here with us live in studio.

35:24 Speaker 4: This is ah. This song is for my buddy Andy

35:27 Speaker 4: that lives in Colorado.

35:29 Speaker 3: Okay, he's listening in Oh, excellent, it's not Andy.

35:34 Speaker 4: This is a song by the Bodines.

35:36 Speaker 3: Okay, everybody free.

35:39 Speaker 4: That's kind of where my heart's at right now too.

35:41 Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people's hearts are at

35:43 Speaker 4: just everybody wants to love and live how they want

35:46 Speaker 4: to live.

35:47 Speaker 3: Yep, agreed, Sorry, I needed to take no worries.

35:57 Speaker 5: Everybody wants to live how they want to live. Everybody

36:04 Speaker 5: wants to love how they want to love. Everybody wants

36:10 Speaker 5: to be closer to free. Everybody wants to touch that

36:22 Speaker 5: little pen. Everybody wants to live sorry. Everybody wants to

36:38 Speaker 5: live how they want to live. Everybody wants to love

36:44 Speaker 5: how they want to love. Everybody wants to be closer

36:50 Speaker 5: to free. Everybody wants respect still let open. Everybody needs

37:01 Speaker 5: a chance once in a while. Everybody wants studie closer

37:08 Speaker 5: to free. Everybody one everybody or two everybody free.

37:22 Speaker 2: Everybody needs a touch, you know know, and.

37:25 Speaker 9: Then everybody needs a good good friend.

37:31 Speaker 5: Everybody wants studie closer to free. Everybody one everybody or

37:57 Speaker 5: two everybody free. Everybody wants to how they want to do.

38:07 Speaker 5: Everybody wants to love.

38:10 Speaker 2: Hell, I want to love.

38:12 Speaker 9: Everybody wants to be goo Sert to free, Goosert.

38:24 Speaker 2: Closert.

38:38 Speaker 3: Oh, wonderful, wonderful.

38:40 Speaker 1: Rachel Molin here with us live in studio, sounding great, Rachel,

38:44 Speaker 1: What should people know about where to find you online?

38:47 Speaker 1: To keep up with everything that you're doing, because you've.

38:49 Speaker 3: Got a lot in your future. I think thank you.

38:52 Speaker 4: I'm on Facebook. Uh Rachel moleen m O L I

38:56 Speaker 4: n E. I have an Instagram. It's at Rape mollen

39:00 Speaker 4: our a E M O.

39:01 Speaker 3: L I n E.

39:05 Speaker 4: Soon there will be music going up on Instagram.

39:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, right now.

39:09 Speaker 4: I tend to post a lot of other musicians because

39:12 Speaker 4: I think they're better than I am. Uh yeah those

39:16 Speaker 4: two okay pose yeah yeah. And every first Wednesday of

39:20 Speaker 4: the month at oh Thank of Hampshire Stage in Conquered

39:25 Speaker 4: if there's any fiddlers out there, meet me.

39:27 Speaker 3: There, there you go, there you go. That is awesome. Well, Rachel,

39:31 Speaker 3: thank you so much.

39:32 Speaker 1: This has been wonderful and we'll definitely do it again

39:34 Speaker 1: in the future, and especially too when you got some

39:37 Speaker 1: studio stuff too.

39:38 Speaker 3: We'd love to play it, you know.

39:39 Speaker 1: Right, We like to do the world radio premiere, so

39:41 Speaker 1: you'll get to hear the bumper when you listen back

39:42 Speaker 1: to this later. Thanks so much, Rachel Molein, Thank you

39:46 Speaker 1: so much.