Rachel Moline | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: But joining us right now, we have in studio with us. Rachel Molina is here and let me make sure to make sure we can hear you. Hello, Rachel, Hello, welcome 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 the video feed, you can see but she's got her guitar out and looking forward to hearing you play live. Now, you don't, just so people know, So you don't. You don't have any studio tracks yet, but I assume you're gonna be going into the studio at some point soon because you've got some You've got some original music as well as covers.

0:31 Speaker 4: Correct, correct, and do a lot of covers. I'm starting to write music. I think have finished one and have 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 put music to them.

0:42 Speaker 1: Oh that has that always been the case with you? I have you always? I mean, did you start out writing? Some people some singer songwriters will start out kind of writing poetry and then they'll say, you know, these would make good songs, Maybe I should put music to these. I mean, is that because cause you mentioned you have a lot of lyrics.

0:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, they kind of come as journal entries, but they come out out his songs, and I always thought, somebody I'll put this to music. Yeah, so I've got like a backup.

1:08 Speaker 1: Now why now, Because you said so recently you started writing music, but I assume you've been performing covers and 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 and a half years ago I started doing open mics 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 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 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 or was it just Yeah.

1:44 Speaker 4: I struggled a long time with kind of the societal pressure to get a career, get the right job, you know, 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 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 professional musician now, because the way I've always looked at it, you know, sometimes people will kind of agonize over, well, when can I call myself a professional? Yeah, you know, if it's if it's something that's not their full time job, 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 do in life that you're passionate about. Once you've been paid for something, that's it.

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

2:36 Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, even if you've only had one paid gig, and you know there will be more, right I mean, because once that starts, you know, as long as you keep at it, you know that's going to grow and grow. And so that's awesome. Good for you, Good for you? Is that what so turning forty? Is that what made you say I got to do this now or never?

2:53 Speaker 4: Or actually is when I got an office job a couple of years ago?

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

3:01 Speaker 4: The most I it was it was hard. I got an office job person and I got really depressed and 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 Dave Stewart of Your Rhythmics, his audio book about how the band started, and it was it was like really inspirational. Between that and listen, like I went to one show every month last year musicians and just like seeing people do it, Yeah, like it can happen, It's possible. Yeah, yeah, it's a world changer.

3:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you, Good for you. Well, I'm dying to hear you play. I've not heard you play at all yet, so now I but but I don't From what I've seen online it looks like, you know, people are really digging what you're doing. So I just realized, too, that explains the picture so the and it ended up being the picture that I used to promote today's show of you on Facebook, and you wrote so this is what it's like or something. It's you on stage and You're like, this is what it's like. It's like, okay, so she really is new with this, so very very cool.

4:06 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm dying to hear you play. I'm sure the listeners 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 at a New England Mountain Bike Association has a meet up and they asked me to play a couple of years in a row. Oh cool, that's probably that's how I started performing performing and okay, this was one of 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 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 love you more. I want to find you more. Where 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 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 the same? Yourent voice, no my name? You and I were the same.

6:14 Speaker 5: Little lack pharaoh sing like a sparrow and anyway, even if there is no land or love inside, we bloom like Roses, Lee like Moses, ah and away through the bitter crowd to the day. Lie and I wanna love 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 the same. Here a joice, I complain. You and I were the same. Live and I were the same. You 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 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, alive in studio sounding amazing.

8:44 Speaker 3: That was wonderful. That was wonderful. Tell me about Are they a big influence on you?

8:51 Speaker 4: No? Actually, it just happened to be a song that my buddy was playing with picked he he was like, I love this song. I had not really listened to them much. Yeah, played it turned out I loved it. I don't know. I just kind of pick up music that clicks.

9:06 Speaker 1: With me and yeah, yeah, yeah, do you have are there specific influences that have really kind of shaped your you know, your approach to uh to how you play. And I'm especially curious too about about your singing, because you know, you've you've got a great voice, and I'm curious like how you learn to sing and who who 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 I grew up in choir, Okay, a church choir when I was a teenager, was the choir for about six years. That's where I got my musical I guess training you 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 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 growing up, and I don't know if that had any influence, but just definitely energetic and loud and yeah, and I just kept singing. Yeah, took lessons once.

10:03 Speaker 1: Did you, Yeah, like like literally one lesson or for just for like six months. Oh okay, do you think 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. YouTube does a lot.

10:19 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well that's the thing. Yeah, YouTube you can learn. You can learn so much from YouTube. It's probably put a lot of music instructors out of business, actually, now that I'm thinking about it, YouTube, because you know, if you think about it, that never really occurred to me until just now. But yeah, it's probably you know, like I remember, you know, buying DVDs about how to sing and how to play, and you know that's of 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 I took voice lessons and I from a variety of different instructors over the years, and I doubt any of them or even still in business. But they didn't help me much. I'm not a bad harmony singer. I can kind of find the octave and lock in. But on 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 singing and inquire. I mean, I think that's a great way to start. I always I've always heard Daryl Hall say that, like he learned to sing because when he was a kid, his mom took him to church. Yeah, and that's, you know, growing up in Philadelphia, that's you know, 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 she's also a vocal teacher herself, and she taught him how to breathe and everything and took him to church 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 like a summer crush. He played me, like, I mean, 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 And oh, so I guess we're talking about musicians and bands. They were augustana Is. They're not super popular, but they 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 was a lot of like a lot of like kind of dark, sad sounding music. You know, a lot of my lyrics would come out as like these sad stories and yeah, I like I like heartfelt things like emotion. Sure, sure, but anyway, okay, Yeah. And then it was two and a half years ago, I again doing open mic nights. I was like, well, I don't pick it up again. So I picked up my my old guitar that I'd got in San Francisco years ago on a whim.

12:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you go a really long time without playing at all? Or did you kind of probably.

13:00 Speaker 4: Went stretches a couple of years stretches and then I'd pick up guitar and like fiddle with it. Yeah, yeah, 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 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 picked it back up and really started to focus on it or yeah, and I just.

13:28 Speaker 4: Had to, like again, it was giving myself permission. Just I don't really still sometimes feel like I don't know what I'm doing, but I I just I learn songs. I find songs that I love, and I'm like, I better if I can learn that, Yeah it's too complicated, I let it go. Yeah, and then to find ones 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 tried to learn that you you've felt was too complicated 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? Is there anything?

13:56 Speaker 4: I think there was a Beatles song, Yeah, I can't remember what was called. Yeah, I get remember which one, but they use a lot of when I say complimented complicated chords, it's like there you have to stretch your fingers around or there's a chord change every you know, every beat home. Yeah, it feels like yeah, and sometimes I've learned too to allow myself to just instead of changing chords, you might find one that sounds similar, so just stay on.

14:22 Speaker 1: It right right, Yes, yes, absolutely, When I when I was a teenager, so I took guitar lessons, and but I was I was kind of a lazy kid.

14:33 Speaker 3: If I wasn't good at something quickly enough, I would tend to give up on it.

14:37 Speaker 1: And that's how I ended up. And bass players hate when I say this. I know that, but I'm a bass player, so I can say it. That's how I ended up playing bass because I got frustrated with the guitar and and then I picked up a bass. I was with some friends, some musicians, and I picked up a bass and I seem to have a feel for it really quickly, and I was kind of like, oh, two less strings and I don't have to know any chords. I think I found my instrument. And it turned out I did find my instrument because I ended up playing in a bunch of bands over the years.

15:05 Speaker 1: But then I'm not a bad bass player. But and I can still play a little bit of guitar. You know, I can play. I can play in a punk band probably, but but uh but yeah, it's uh, But I know what you mean. And it's like you can you can kind of cite yourself out by trying trying too hard to emulate exactly what the original artist did. When you can, you can change it, yeah, and make it sound the same. You know, there's no there's no rules really, I mean, music theory is music theory, but that doesn't mean you have to do it exactly the way it was done to make it sound good.

15:36 Speaker 1: And if along the way 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 that I'm can be a perfectionist and it's a lot of your heart on yourself, and it's like that has to really be ingrained as it's okay to be flexible 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 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 always like, you know, it's like if I see a cover band, I don't necessarily want to hear everything exactly the way it sounds, the way the original artists played it. I kind of want to hear It's like, Okay, I know how the original goes. I can I hear it on the radio. I can pull it up online. I want to hear your interpretation of it, you know what I mean? That to me is more interesting. But there are some people who are just like, oh, you didn't You didn't play that the way I know it.

16:32 Speaker 1: It's like, well, go listen to it the way you know it. The 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. You want to play another one?

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

17:09 Speaker 3: Will be the first time. Wait, you know what, just just for that, I should uh, I should do this, 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 headphones on. I gave you the world premiere bumper. Yes, you'll hear it later when you listen to it. All right, what's this called?

17:34 Speaker 4: It's called this song is called the Moment. It's very short. It's it's about living in the moment, really because a lot of times they escape us, yes, before we've had 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 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 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, I'm sure it'll get scarier. This is nothing, This is nothing if you are just joining us. Rachel Moleen is here with us, live in studio, and so.

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

20:23 Speaker 1: You mentioned the open mics, and then have you been 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 at a school last weekend, like a parent teacher fundraiser thing. Oh cool, that was fun. There was three other artists there, one that I knew. Playing in front a bunch of kids is really fun there. They give a lot of feedback right away, dancing to your music, or or they 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 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 correctly feathered trends, like like, what would that be like 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, 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 played last December. I played up at a place in Bethlehem, 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 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 there every Wednesday.

21:56 Speaker 3: Yeah.

21:57 Speaker 4: He had me sing a couple of songs and the owner was like, Jim can't be here next week, do 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 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, you can repeat some stuff.

22:18 Speaker 1: I mean, you're not you know, you're not playing to the same crowd in the first hour that you you know, in the third hour, you know what I mean?

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

22:26 Speaker 4: You just yeah, yeah, did about had about an hour and twenty minutes or so.

22:31 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she just played this stuff. Just play the 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. I think I say that every time.

22:42 Speaker 1: Sure, well, you know, like we talked about earlier, you know, I'm creative. People are most hard on themselves, you know, the most self critical. So but it comes from a good place because you want to be good at what you're doing and you you know, you want people to 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 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? I assume I would like to.

23:07 Speaker 4: Uh, it's really good. I've found that. It it's a lot of pressure. I mean, I put pressure on myself. Yeah, but it's really good to develop my set list and 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 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 I'd love to eventually start a band. Can I say I'm looking for a fiddle player? Know that there's fiddle players like all over, but yeah, I would love to 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 Event is a rock band and they have a fiddle late fiddle was one of his first band members. Oh, violin. Same, But yeah, it just sounds so cool, I think in any style of music. Yeah, adds something that you don't 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, 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 players though. Yeah, it's not like you know, guitar players 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 I'll come up with one.

24:34 Speaker 1: And when you find one, they're probably already in a 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, that's cool. So you obviously, so you want to do something that doesn't sound like everything else, You want to do something something different. No, I think that's awesome. Yeah, yeah, 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, maybe just because we were talking about earlier. But yeah, no, that's that's cool. Now if you so, if you act started looking for band members or are you just kind of starting to.

25:02 Speaker 4: Look, I'm starting to look. I've been meeting people at 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 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 long term goals. Get a band going.

25:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what kind of band yet. 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 Edward Island. Okay, oh recently. I went to see them last year and that was a moment. It was one 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 of them they switched to keyboard. Oh, but they also do you know, they do beats and stuff. Their music is like not really traditional fiddle player. It's not Irish 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. 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, 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 you know the one guy in the fiddles, just like the other guys. They just look fun and they have 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. 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 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 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. Oh man, oh whatever that means.

28:03 Speaker 9: So I cried sometimes on a lying in bed, just 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 outside and I take anypro and I gave real high 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 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 all the time, and this since they're too shine, and I pray.

29:40 Speaker 9: Oh my God, I pray a pravacing god Dad for red a little shin So I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed just to get it.

29:56 Speaker 5: Over what's in my head, and I I'm feel a 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, and I screamed from the top of my lungs, what's 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 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 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 there was another part that I was forgetting. I don't feel badly when I do that.

31:14 Speaker 1: It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while, like I'll think somebody's done and then I'm like, oops, I'm so sorry.

31:21 Speaker 3: Rachel Molein is here with us, live, sounding great and h so what do you have to like? Do you 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 of months, and then this was the last thing I 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, 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 at Conquered Craft, which is also in Conquered Oh yeah, 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 shift gears a little and try to try to find 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 lot to it. Yeah yeah.

32:14 Speaker 1: How do you feel about that part of it? I mean, are are you intimidated by it? Or because you know, some some musicians actually kind of embrace all of it. Some musicians are just like I just want to play. I want somebody else to do all the all the other stuff. I mean, how do you feel about it?

32:28 Speaker 4: I I want to do it all, to be honest, I want to sing, like mostly I play guitar, because it so I can play out unforcing like I'm forcing myself sort of to.

32:40 Speaker 1: But in an ideal situation, you'd like to be in a band and not have to worry about the guitar eventually on vocals, Yeah.

32:47 Speaker 4: I would love to sing. I I played with saying with a friend of mine. Their band is called J Street Extension. They're up in the Northfield area and they had asked me to sing with them a couple months 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 know a lot of, like Bonnie Rate and oh okay Little Tom Petty and I had so much fun though. 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 after the show, you get the Matt Conderton Unleashed bump, you know, yes, oh yes, I'm sure you've heard about it. Yeah, and then uh so, now what about recording? So have you have you also started looking into where you're going to do that or who you're going to work with or is that still is that kind of on the back burner that.

33:41 Speaker 4: Will be that will be a working on going forward because yeah, I don't. I'm trying to learn a little bit. I bought a microphone. Was it like an H four little zoom recorder?

33:55 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:55 Speaker 4: I can record some of my own stuff and do stuff on on like on Instagram and things. Yeah, recording studio, I have to have to meet people. I don't know 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 on this show is Eric Sotter from Blackheart. He's I don't know if you if you've heard of him, if you've heard his name around, but he a lot of the guests that we've had on the show have recorded with him, and he's fantastic. Yeah, and he's been on the show too, and he fascinating to talk to. But he's so talented. Yeah, so somebody might want to keep in mind. But but yeah, but you've got a lot of options, and you know, and we live in a time too where like when I was growing up, I'm old enough to remember when it was like, you know, you you had to find a studio and pay somebody incredible amounts of money to record in their million dollars studio and and uh, if you didn't have the money while you were sol you know, or maybe or maybe you just record something on a little task him four track, you know, a demo or something.

34:55 Speaker 1: But now it's like you've got so many options, you know. It's it's a techno is a wonderful thing.

35:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, that part's intimidating, to be honest. Yeah, I look at all the stuff and I'm.

35:05 Speaker 3: Like, yeah, no doubt, I just want to play the music. Yeah, let someone else do that.

35:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I can understand that you want to play one more Ah, yeah, okay, all right, if you're just 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 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. And I think a lot of people's hearts are at just everybody wants to love and live how they want 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 wants to love how they want to love. Everybody wants to be closer to free. Everybody wants to touch that little pen. Everybody wants to live sorry. Everybody wants to live how they want to live. Everybody wants to love how they want to love. Everybody wants to be closer to free. Everybody wants respect still let open. Everybody needs a chance once in a while. Everybody wants studie closer 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 two everybody free. Everybody wants to how they want to do. 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, What should people know about where to find you online? 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 n E. I have an Instagram. It's at Rape mollen 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 I think they're better than I am. Uh yeah those two okay pose yeah yeah. And every first Wednesday of the month at oh Thank of Hampshire Stage in Conquered 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, thank you so much.

39:32 Speaker 1: This has been wonderful and we'll definitely do it again in the future, and especially too when you got some 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 you'll get to hear the bumper when you listen back to this later. Thanks so much, Rachel Molein, Thank you so much.