Stephen Decuire | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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5:25 Speaker 9: I love that that is called Matteline. That is Stephen de Cure and he is here with us and we're gonna talk with him in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, Newympshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. I go to Matt connorton dot com slash live. Soon there will be a spoiler alert. There will be a Matt Connorton dot live and there's a brand new site coming specifically devoted to the show, so keep an eye out for that.

6:00 Speaker 9: And Jenny is here, of course at the news table accounted for. I love that song. Oh yeah, I do too. That is really really good. And Stephen de Cura is here.

6:10 Speaker 10: Welcome, Thank you guys very much. Are you guys doing good?

6:12 Speaker 9: Good? Am I saying your name correctly?

6:14 Speaker 10: Correctly?

6:15 Speaker 1: So?

6:15 Speaker 9: I thought, so. I just want to make sure because I remember that was a discussion last time you were here. I was like, is it to cure? Is it to cure? Yeah? What is the what is the strangest I guess would be the way to put it, uh iteration of your name that.

6:29 Speaker 10: You've heard I've gotten. I've gotten a lot I've gotten. I used to got called you know one that I'm sure you could guess in high school.

6:40 Speaker 9: Okay, gotcha, gotcha, I've been.

6:42 Speaker 10: I've been called everything under the book by the last thing.

6:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, do you ever have you ever seen it misspelled.

6:47 Speaker 10: On a like on a poster when I've had a Q in it before, they've put they've put a V in it before. Really Yeah, I don't know where they got that.

6:55 Speaker 9: Yeah I don't. I don't either. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. So uh this so and thank you for reading these. By the way, they do ep oh I should too. For those who are watching on YouTube or Facebook or wherever, I'll hold that up for everybody. Uh, this is the uh oh yeah, you've got one there Actually that cameras you know what, I can actually zoom in on that camera for people who are watching the program. Let me see here. Well, well, oh I just went way off, way off. Let me fix that if I can. Oh, no, what have I done?

7:30 Speaker 11: I just.

7:33 Speaker 9: I think I just completely screwed this up. I love it.

7:40 Speaker 10: Enough. Caffeine.

7:41 Speaker 9: Wow, I'll tell you what.

7:42 Speaker 12: Here we go.

7:43 Speaker 9: I apologize to are audio listening on his caffeine morning. It is showing it is a radio show, but somehow I can't seem to Uh, okay, let me try this again. He's lost in the room. Let me try this again. Here we go. Okay, so I am zooming in. For those of you who are listening strictly to the audio, I have to tell you what's going on. I'm zooming in on the Stephen is holding up his new EP called Toward the Sun, and there's the back of it. Very very good, very good. All right, now that we've finally I've accomplished that, I will zoom out very carefully.

8:22 Speaker 9: Why did this come out seven? Or is it out?

8:23 Speaker 4: So?

8:24 Speaker 10: This is actually coming out next Friday, April twenty fourth, at twelve am. It'll be live on all music platforms and I also have CDs available as you just saw, yes t shirts the whole nine yards. April twenty fifth, I'm having an alburbnm lease party at Brownie's Pub in the futin mass I'll be playing there seven to ten pm, so I will be having all the merch there, so if anybody wants to come out and check it out and get to grab a copy. Please come on out. You're more than welcome.

8:50 Speaker 9: Outstanding, outstanding. So why did you decide to do an acoustic EP? What went into that decision?

8:56 Speaker 10: So this is the first EP I've ever done. This is the first I've ever recorded music in my entire life.

9:02 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

9:03 Speaker 10: So Towards the Sun was the first song that I ever written and recorded and I ended up getting that released on ninety two point five the River in Boston, Massachusetts. Oh yes, and that was last September that I got that released on the Homegrown series.

9:18 Speaker 9: And that's great too. You know we we should mention that too. That's because that's a big accomplishment because obviously they get I know this for a fact, they get a lot of submissions they you.

9:28 Speaker 10: Know, it's funny. I randomly just sent it in yeah and hoping, hoping for the best, and you get an email back right away. They said, listen, we get a thousand submissions a day. Oh if if we don't respond to you in a month, don't keep sending us the same song. So a month later, before a gig, I got an email from them and said, hey, congratulations, we love your song. We're going to play it. I was like, this is great. So then afterwards they told me any any other music you have, please send it inm will play it for you.

9:54 Speaker 9: Outstanding. Yeah, outstanding.

9:57 Speaker 10: So I'll be trying to get some more back on the radio. Yeah this year as well.

10:00 Speaker 9: Oh, very good, very good. So yeah, so when you were with us last time, I think you just played live, right I did.

10:06 Speaker 10: I did play it live, Okay, okay, yeah, I think we did play Everybody's changing and towards us on on the air as well.

10:12 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, gotcha. Yeah. I love that that song, Madeline, that's really good.

10:18 Speaker 10: That's all about my grandmother.

10:20 Speaker 9: Oh okay, okay.

10:22 Speaker 10: So the line in the song you're tattooed on me, you'll never leave because she's always she's oh so she never got to see me play a show. So yeah, now she gets to see every show.

10:31 Speaker 9: Right right?

10:32 Speaker 13: Yeah?

10:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, I gotcha. I gotcha. Well that's uh, that's amazing. So where did you record this because and we were talking earlier about your producer. Yeah, you have a producer you work with Yep, Charlie Barusso.

10:44 Speaker 10: He is the owner of Woodshot Productions over in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Okay, and I started working with him about two and a half years ago. It's a but how long I've been working on the CP Yeah. Yeah, And you know, I went in there, he's he was great. Told him, Hey, I want to learn everything i can. This is the first time I'm doing this, you know, teach me everything, you know. And he just worked with me. He was very easy going, going through the motions and teaching me how to, you know, keep a click track and all those fun things.

11:17 Speaker 10: But yeah, he's is a great He is a great guy. He has an amazing studio. All the equipment there is absolutely professional and standing.

11:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, how how did you how did you decide to work with him? Because you've got so many options as so many.

11:31 Speaker 10: Studio He was recommended by a couple close friends of mine and the family. He's done some work with a few of my friends like Lee Richard's and a few other people that I know, Okay, mostly friends of the family though, Okay, told me, hey, you should work with him. He's great. I went in there, recorded towards the son. He goes, hey, you should throw an EP together. He goes, you have what it takes for it? Yeah, yeah, Okay, he goes come back with like five more songs if you can.

11:56 Speaker 9: Okay, okay, yep, fantastic. So what I mean and in terms of time, how long did it take to do to record those five songs?

12:04 Speaker 10: So the record all five of those songs, I mean, I guess six total, but yeah, the six songs.

12:09 Speaker 9: I'm not.

12:11 Speaker 10: I'm a full time musician, as you guys know. So last year, this past year, I did over one hundred and eighty nine shows. Oh my god, over New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Tonya, all over the place.

12:22 Speaker 9: Good.

12:23 Speaker 10: So it took some time. Yeah, yeah, it took some time. It was about two and a half years that I've been working on this EP, okay, and it started out with Towards the Sun.

12:31 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, well that's so. Is that the first single officially or that is.

12:36 Speaker 10: The first single officially? Towards the Sun?

12:38 Speaker 9: Well we should play that? What uh what do you want us to know about this before we give it a spend?

12:42 Speaker 10: So towards the Sun Basically, I got this idea in my head. I've had it for many many years now and just never knew how to put into words. But it's always about it's about, you know, having one Eye towards the Sun. No matter where you are in your life, whether you're here, there, high low, doing great, no matter where you are, you're always looking for something to better yourself and looking for you know, better change.

13:04 Speaker 9: Right right, No, that's good. It's a certainly a positive message. So has this been played anywhere on the radio? On Gotcha? Gotcha? But is this the same recording or is this a new recording?

13:19 Speaker 10: The this is the newest recording.

13:20 Speaker 9: This is the newest Okay, so it's a different version than the original.

13:23 Speaker 10: Yeah, it's pretty much the same though, just better better.

13:26 Speaker 9: This sounds better. Yeah, very cool, very cool. All right, let's give this a spend. This is Towards the Sun. This is the first single from from the acoustic ep uh one eye, Well, one Eye towards the Sun is of the of the EP, but Towards the Sun is the first single, all right from Stephen de Cure. Here it is.

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16:04 Speaker 15: It's all loose line street to my face, not apter n', not the.

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16:24 Speaker 16: And now we standumble you in your place. I've said heaven lore the song and pa.

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17:05 Speaker 12: Work old barn.

17:07 Speaker 1: It's all decided because I got old. It's all the.

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17:47 Speaker 1: Just son because I got old, fought someome far.

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18:21 Speaker 9: All right, that is towards the Sun. That is Stephen de Cure from his brand new acoustic EP, one Eye Towards the Sun, and that is of course the first single, and a different version of that had played on The River ninety two point five, which again that's a that's a big feather in your caps. Congratulations on that, Thank you very much. Absolutely so. You were just telling us off air that you are working on a full length.

18:44 Speaker 10: I am working on a full length album right now. Okay, I had not set of recording yet, but I do have about six or seven songs that are just about fully done and ready to go. Yeah, ready to get recorded.

18:55 Speaker 9: So do you plan to work at the same studio?

18:58 Speaker 10: I am, Yeah, I'm on fence a little bit. I'd like to explore my options too. Yeah, And I was also looking at a new studio in Milford called dream Track Studio. Okay, and I have a meeting that I'm supposed to set up with them and within a month or two, okay, talk about possibly doing a recording session there, maybe staying there for a month in their apartment and.

19:18 Speaker 9: Just oh no kidding, writing and recording in Milford, in Milford, New Hampshire. So I can't remember who we've talked about this with and who we haven't, but it's so weird to me in a good way. It's it's a cool thing that Milford for for those you know, because obviously we have a lot of listeners in the area, but we also have listeners online from all over the place. So for people who don't know, Milford is a relatively small town.

19:41 Speaker 10: It is very small, not a city.

19:42 Speaker 9: It's this little town, but I feel like it's it's almost like the epicenter of the music scene in New Hampshire because Milford comes up in so many conversations, this little town. But apparently there's a lot good that goes on in Milford in terms of music.

19:59 Speaker 10: I got my start in Milford.

20:01 Speaker 9: It's so weird and like, who would even expect that anyone would ever say that I got my start in Milford, this little town in New Hampshire. But it's got this vibrant music scene.

20:12 Speaker 10: And that's all thanks to Brad Bossy And do you remember Brad Boston has to be a big part of the music scene in Milford as well, and he used to do the open mic, so I'd go there. He was like, hey, you could do this for three hours. Man, He goes, you can make some money doing this. Yeah, all right, it sounds good.

20:26 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah. So yeah, it's quite remarkable. I mean there's so many guests we have, Like we'll have guests come on the show who are like, you know, I'll ask him, do you have any shows this weekend you want to plug? Oh yeah, we're playing in Milford Stonecutters. Yeah yeah, Station one on one Yeah yeah, next guest comes in next hour. Oh yeah, we're playing in Milfordford. You might be recording in Milford. It's so weird but it's cool. It's awesome. But it's like, you know, who would would have ever guess I thought, Yeah, but uh yeah, so you're you're so you're kind of weighing your options.

21:02 Speaker 10: Yeah, way, my options right now. I love where I'm at, where I'm recording right now. It's so easy going. Charlie Brusso is an incredible dude. He's he's actually worked with run DMC and Godsmack in the past, kidding, yep, So he has some some stature under his belt. So yeah, he does a really good job.

21:19 Speaker 9: And for people who don't know, Godsmack is originally from or at least Sully is originally from, tow him. Sure he is, so that's probably how how they met. But he worked with run DMC.

21:28 Speaker 10: Yes he did.

21:29 Speaker 9: That's really cool yep.

21:30 Speaker 10: In his mom and dad's basement when he had the studio in his mom and dad's basement at first.

21:34 Speaker 9: No kidding, did he did he explain how that came about, because that's fast.

21:39 Speaker 10: I don't know the full story. I just know that he's worked with both of them.

21:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, oh that's wild, yep, very cool, very cool. So the songs that you're so you've got you said, you've got six or seven ready to go, ready to go, just haven't started recording.

21:54 Speaker 10: Haven't started recording it. Like I said, I've been trying to work on getting this first EP out. Yeah, take a look creative break for myself. You know, I booked, you know, a bunch of shows I play, Like I said, I did one hundred and eighty nine shows last summer, yeah, or last year, I should say. And it's it's a never ending grind.

22:12 Speaker 9: Yeah, you're busy. You're busy. When you when did you start? How long have you been doing this?

22:18 Speaker 10: I started so as I told you, I was doing the open Mics with Brad Boston, Yeah, at the pastle Off. That was probably back in twenty sixteen, okay, And then I started. I did like an audition with Paul Costley at the open mics at the Wild Rover when he was doing them there. Now he does them at the Casey's Ripshack in Manchester, Okay every Tuesday, And so I did a little audition there with him. Didn't get through right away. And then the next year after Brad he said, he goes Paul, you got to get him in.

22:44 Speaker 10: Yeah, he's good enough, get him in. So and I've been doing it since like twenty seventeen okay, okay, yep, and then COVID hit I stopped doing it obviously, and then a couple of years ago when I moved out of my when I moved back in took with my parents, I started doing it full time again. And yeah, I've been doing it ever since.

23:02 Speaker 9: Yeah, outstanding, outstanding. So the grand scheme of things not that long for when when you consider like how successful you are with it, you know I be able to do because not everyone can do it full time. No, So that's great. No, that's great. And you're playing a lot yep.

23:15 Speaker 10: Tonight I'll be at The Spice in Nashua, okay, five eight thirty Okay, So I'll be playing there tonight. So if you guys want to come check it out, check it out.

23:22 Speaker 9: Outstanding outstanding. Is that a new place I'm not familiar it is.

23:26 Speaker 10: It's actually so the Sun Bar and Grill in Milford, New Hampshire as well. So they're actually owned by the same people as the Spice, and I play it there as well.

23:35 Speaker 9: Oh, okay, outstanding the news. I assume you're playing out so the songs that you're going to be recording. I assume you're also you're already playing.

23:43 Speaker 10: I'm already playing them out. Yeah, I play them out yeah in a while.

23:45 Speaker 2: Yep.

23:46 Speaker 9: I'm always curious about that because it's funny. So some guests we have on the show, they won't play anything live. I mean, I'm sorry, Well, yeah, they won't play anything live until they've recorded it. I've run into that. I think that's more of a band thing. I've run into that more with bands then I think solo acoustic artists.

24:02 Speaker 10: But I like to do it to give it a try. I want to get the crowd's reaction, yeah, you know what I mean. And you're not always going to get the same reaction every time obviously. It's like even if you were to play a cover song, you're not going to get the same reaction out of people.

24:13 Speaker 13: Right.

24:14 Speaker 10: If people are liking it, that's half the battle.

24:16 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what I so, absolutely, Yeah, it's kind of like a focus group in a way.

24:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, helps me helps me be able to, you know, play it out before people even know what it is, you know what I mean, And then when people actually know what it is and it catches on now I've already been playing it for years, and right I have it fully mastered, right, right.

24:33 Speaker 9: Exactly exactly. I'm curious. I'd probably asked you this last time, but I'm curious about your vocal style. You've got to You've got a pretty distinctive voice.

24:41 Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I don't do voice lessons or anything like that. I kind of just like taught myself everything I know about it and just kind of I kind of wing everything, honest, I wing it, and I try to make it sound as good as possible.

24:55 Speaker 9: Yeah, because especially on that song, Madeline, it's like, you know, I'm listening to it, I'm trying to think, I'm trying to think of who you remind me of, but I can't because you don't necessarily remind me of anyone.

25:04 Speaker 10: You've got your own style. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Yeah, I don't want to be anybody else but me.

25:10 Speaker 9: Well, is there anyone who's a big influence on you vocally?

25:13 Speaker 10: Definitely Benson, Boone Ye, Noble con obviously huge influence on me, Steely Dan, Donald Fagan always loved his vocals. Oh yeah, and then obviously Simon and Garfunkle.

25:26 Speaker 9: All right, So speaking of Noah Khan, tell us what you were tell us about this, you were saying, so we're telling Jenny and I have something to off air. So it's really interesting.

25:34 Speaker 10: My girlfriend and I were watching the new Noble Khan documentary the other night on Netflix. Yeah, there's an enormous amount of similarities between the two of us, and yeah, every five minutes she look at me and she's like, oh my god, Oh my god, I can't believe how much you guys have in common. And then towards the end of the show, like back in the day, my babysitter used to ask me all the time, Steven, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I always used to tell her I want to be a fire truck and so on.

25:58 Speaker 10: At the end of the the show that we were watching, he his mom said, you know, we would always ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he always used to say a fire truck man. And my girlfriend jumped up, She's like, this is really creepy. Now it was really creepy, but it was funny though. Yeah, yeah, we have a lot in common, apparently, like like what else, like what his writing style like how he You know, I get my head a lot about like, you know, perfectionist kind of things like we were talking about off air.

26:26 Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, making sure that I'm doing everything right and it sounds correctly how I wanted to, and you know, I'm very particular about it. Yeah, those and he and he gets in his head about about himself and while he's writing creativity, you know, just about anything topics or having trouble writing.

26:42 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, very interesting. Uh, well, we should play another track from the EP absolutely, what would do? I'll let you pick what would uh? What would you like to play next?

26:51 Speaker 10: What's too? Chasing my dream?

26:53 Speaker 9: Chasing my dream? Okay? Anything we should know about this before we play it.

26:56 Speaker 12: All.

26:57 Speaker 10: This song is all about finding my love for music again. And once I started actually writing my own music. This is I knew once I recorded Towards the Sun, I go, I got one taste. Now I'm ready to go. Yeah, let's chase the dream.

27:11 Speaker 9: All right, Let's give this a spend. Chasing the dream here and this is Stephen de Cure.

27:28 Speaker 10: Hang on everybody's technical difficulty. It's the uh the dance mix, chamin esten the other one.

27:37 Speaker 9: No, I don't know how that. No, no, no, it's a problem. It's a problem here. Okay, I think I can. I was like, that's not right. Yeah, I didn't think so either. I was uhue, quite puzzled myself there for a moment. Let's see, I'm just sudjusting this. I don't know how that happened. I honestly don't. Yeah, that doesn't usually occur. Okay, think I've tell me if this sounds right to you, songs me, Okay, let's start that over here.

28:17 Speaker 4: It is.

28:17 Speaker 9: This is chasing the dream Stephen to cure now, I won't play what is going on here? There we go.

28:42 Speaker 1: I'm trying to write some songs of men. There's someone going with Doo and mad spins. They were not the sea,

28:56 Speaker 1: jeez in my dream road to feed and new things on the road, see the fighting and money eyes, the hunger that's inside. Just some days, gimme reeve.

29:26 Speaker 13: All this stuff, scamming rehe man, stay in focused onbu.

29:32 Speaker 1: Behaving, wondering where this journeys leading, chasing my dream abo to feed.

29:42 Speaker 13: And new things on the road, see the faller and my eyes, the hunger that's inside.

29:57 Speaker 1: Just some days. I'm being me, you guys, at least you went through it. You try.

30:23 Speaker 13: Regrets of painful Let it rise, A love of music sets for free.

30:31 Speaker 1: Got one out of a door, chess in my dream.

30:37 Speaker 1: New thing's on the rise.

30:40 Speaker 13: See the fire and my eyes the humber that's inside.

30:49 Speaker 1: Just some days. Let me read.

31:10 Speaker 9: That is chasing my dream. That is Stephen de Cure from the the new Acoustic Kip one I Towards the Sun and we have Stephen de Cure with us live in the studio. And yeah, that's a great song. You very much. You were telling us about the your league guitar player on the album.

31:26 Speaker 10: My lead guitar player, Nathan McGinnis. He does an incredible job. This man is a true professional. I can't say enough great things about him. He is the owner of Mojo's Music. Okay, I don't know if you've ever heard of Jo's.

31:40 Speaker 9: Absolutely.

31:40 Speaker 10: Oh he runs Majo's Music. He does a bunch of stuff with like the School of Rock there.

31:44 Speaker 9: Oh excellent enough, yeah, excellent. Now how did you come to work with him? How did that happen?

31:48 Speaker 10: He's the family friend of ours as well.

31:50 Speaker 9: Oh good god, yeah, I got I got a lot of.

31:52 Speaker 10: Good family friends that are in the business.

31:54 Speaker 9: And yeah, now why is that? Are your parents musicians?

31:58 Speaker 1: Also?

31:58 Speaker 4: Now?

31:58 Speaker 10: My mom and dad just have a lot of good close friends. Oh okay, yeah, it's yeah, like growing up, these people have known me my whole life and I'm still friends with them to this day and they've just become my friends.

32:09 Speaker 9: You know. Oh that's great. That's that's really good. That's really good. And then so now how many of the songs as Jeff planned to two? Okay, okay, yeah, it's it's interesting, you know, because obviously you want to on songs like this, you want to have somebody who who can do a solo that really adds to it without doing too much much. Yeah. And I don't know if that's a conversation you guys had or if he just he probably knew it instinctively.

32:38 Speaker 10: Like when I say, this man is such a professional. He I sent him Chase my dream. Yeah, he didn't even do it in the studio. He sent he recorded it himself, sent it to me, I sent it to Charlie. Yeah, and he put it all together and he just did it like on the spot. And then we went into the studio and did everybody's changing together. Yeah, and he laid the Soulo down in one dake?

32:59 Speaker 9: Oh okay? Was I was? He was like, how was that?

33:01 Speaker 10: And I was like that's it, yeah, I go that's perfect right, It don't change anything.

33:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's fantastic. Yeah.

33:08 Speaker 10: He knew exactly where to go with it, like professional.

33:11 Speaker 9: Yeah, who else plays on the album? Anybody else?

33:14 Speaker 10: Are So the only other person that I have on the album is Artie Kenyan. He does the bass for me in Madeline Okay yep, and then it's just me that does all the other instruments in the singing.

33:25 Speaker 9: Okay, now why did you have him in for Madeline for the bass part?

33:30 Speaker 10: I could not get a bassline to save my life.

33:33 Speaker 2: I was.

33:33 Speaker 10: I was spending hours and hours trying to figure out a bass line I had. Something wasn't going and I was just like, you know what, let me just have somebody come in and do it for me. Yeah, you know what I mean, make my life a little easier. It was during the summertime when things were very hectic for me.

33:46 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt No.

33:48 Speaker 10: I really didn't have the time to do it.

33:50 Speaker 9: Yeah. Was he able to come up with something pretty quick that? Ye? Yeah, yep.

33:53 Speaker 10: He came he just kind of, you know, filled it in for me, yes, you know, even it out.

33:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, it wasn't oh excellent. Was of these song what was the most challenging one too? Maybe it was Madeline because of the best part. I don't know. Was there one that was more challenging than the others.

34:07 Speaker 10: I would have to say Madeline was probably the most challenging that and I mean they were all pretty challenging really. I mean it was my first time ever recording in a studio and doing this, so yeah, I was learning as I was going. Yeah, you know what I mean.

34:25 Speaker 9: So what was the most challenging aspect of it for you?

34:30 Speaker 10: Trying to make sure I got the vocals right every time? Like like I'd always like get in my head and be like, can we do another take? Can we do another take? He's like, stop, asks me. He's like, we can always do another take, right, You're paying for it. He's like I was like, okay, right, So that was just me being shy, right right, But yeah, I mean that was pretty much the hardest thing. And then following like a click track, you know what I mean, Yeah, getting comfortable with that. But now I'm pretty much good with that.

34:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah. I mean, did you feel any pressure in terms of because obviously you're not just singing, you know, you're playing a lot.

35:01 Speaker 10: Yeah, I would, I trust me. I had to do multiple, multiple takes on the guitar, so he would have me play and sing it first. Then he would have me do, hey, let's do two takes of just you playing it and not singing.

35:16 Speaker 9: OK.

35:16 Speaker 10: Then I had to you know, my brain, don't sing? Don't sing that all along?

35:22 Speaker 9: Is that difficult? It is when you're not used to that.

35:25 Speaker 10: It is because in some ways, like when you're in your flow, like you know what I mean, when you're in your zone and you're singing and you're you got the emotion going with it, and then when you're not, and it's like, okay, now I'm just like trying to keep on time with it, right, and so it's like I don't have that same emotion going into it with the right hand.

35:40 Speaker 9: What about when when you record the vocals? Are you just vocals?

35:44 Speaker 10: I just have it playing in my in my headset the track, and then I just sing the song over it.

35:49 Speaker 9: So is that weird?

35:50 Speaker 10: That's actually easier, that's easier, that's easier. I'm way more comfortable doing it that way. Okay, it's the guitar playing and doing the double tracks that it took me a little bit.

36:00 Speaker 9: That makes sense. That makes sense. And then so do you have any kind of it's probably too early to know, like do you have any kind of a long term idea of when the full album might be.

36:10 Speaker 10: I'd say a couple of years. A couple of years, I'd say at least two years, because because this.

36:14 Speaker 9: Took a while just to do this.

36:16 Speaker 10: Yeah, it took a while.

36:16 Speaker 9: You're playing a lot of money.

36:18 Speaker 10: Took a lot of money, yeah, a lot of you know, organizing, and you know, because I was I wrote towards the Sun, I didn't have any other songs, yeah, and he was like, see what you can do. So and then I had to get to work. My dad and I started working in on writing songs together. Yeah, and he's been a big help with me on that good. So he helps me a lot with like some of my lyrics and things like that, and then I do all the music, so he'll help me with some of the lines and like just kind of trying to get it to the direction of like where I want to take it.

36:49 Speaker 10: Yeah, the message that I want to deliver to people.

36:52 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, outstanding.

36:54 Speaker 2: Ye.

36:54 Speaker 9: Will the when you do the album, will these songs be included on the full album or were the full album be?

37:00 Speaker 10: The full album is going to be completely different songs? Oh okay, actually completely different songs.

37:04 Speaker 9: Excellent? Yeah. Will it be mostly acoustic like the EP or do you?

37:10 Speaker 10: I'm not sure yet. I'd like to get a band together. Oh okay, that's my next thing. I'd like to get a band together so I can hopefully go play these these albums out live.

37:19 Speaker 9: Yeah.

37:20 Speaker 10: Yeah, for people to actually hear and not just hear acoustically.

37:24 Speaker 9: Right now, when you play live, is it always just it just.

37:26 Speaker 10: Always just me and the guitar? Yeah yeah yeah, And I do pretty well with these ones, you know, off the album, so sure sure, yeah.

37:33 Speaker 9: They lend itself to that. Yeah, but yeah, it makes sense. So when you record the album you might you might have things that you want to be able to play with a full band.

37:40 Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, and get some other ideas and you know, connect with some other people.

37:45 Speaker 9: Have you ever played in a band?

37:46 Speaker 7: No?

37:47 Speaker 10: No, never played in a band. Oh ever played in a band? I have always been the one man band.

37:50 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, it can be it can be hard. I mean the hardest thing I think is just the logistics of it. You know when you when you you know, when you're trying to book shows and you gotta.

38:00 Speaker 10: The comfortability with it. You got to be you know, yep, the communication. You know, everybody's gonna be in the same page like nowadays. Like yeah, like the David Crole says, he's like, go get some friends and go start a garage band, right, you know what I mean, and like make sure that you guys do it. You guys want to actually do it right. I'm not going to do it unless you actually want to do it right, exactly.

38:19 Speaker 13: Yeah.

38:19 Speaker 9: I mean as far as finding people to play with, you know, there's so much as you know, there's so much incredible talent around.

38:25 Speaker 10: Absolutely absolutely, and yeah, like I said, I'm looking for people that are that want to do it and be professional about it. Yeah, actually go somewhere with it.

38:33 Speaker 13: You know.

38:33 Speaker 9: The hardest thing will be the finding a drummer. Yeah, And that comes up all the time on the show, like every every drummer, it's it's sort of a running joke, but it's not even really a joke, Like every drummer is in ten bands you know. And my theory has always been, and regular listeners hear me say it all the time. But if you uh, you know, when you're growing up and you first develop an interest in playing an instrument, if you approach your parents and you say I want to play drums, that's you know that and maybe the tuba or the two things they are gonna actively try to talk you out of right away.

39:01 Speaker 10: It's funny because the first thing, the first thing I did in school was played the snare drum. Oh no kidding, Yeah, I wanted to play drums growing up before I started playing guitar.

39:09 Speaker 9: Me too. I had a snare drum when I was a kid. I would banging on yeah, before I ever picked the guitar and stuff. Yep, yep, totally yeah, yeah. Yeah, So that's that's my theory about why that is. But yeah, bass players can be a little hard to find, but drummers are very you know, to find one who's available when you need them, that's that's the that's the difficult part of that. No, no, but I think that's great. We should play another track from the EP. What do you want to play it?

39:33 Speaker 10: News, let's do. Everybody's changing since we were just talking about Jeff McGinnis and his solos.

39:39 Speaker 9: Ah, yes, yes, everybody's changing. And if you are just joining us, of course we have steven to cure here with us, live in studio and we're talking and playing some songs. From one eye towards the sun is great acoustic EP and here it is. Everybody's changing.

40:20 Speaker 1: Sit in her hair.

40:23 Speaker 18: In the chair thing again, wanddon wear hair. This squirrel scol socks of fool horror all low round, watch these boo dans grumble to them.

41:04 Speaker 6: Graha s everyboy change.

41:17 Speaker 1: The true, the mountains, mountain, fierce.

41:23 Speaker 10: Be e's world, All this change.

41:29 Speaker 6: Waiting, waiting, waiting.

41:33 Speaker 1: When the waiting we come wrong.

41:49 Speaker 12: See this he.

41:52 Speaker 19: Spreading through the crowd, affording boots.

42:05 Speaker 1: Are alt.

42:14 Speaker 13: Two parties, says Storm, designed to DEVI.

42:27 Speaker 20: Friends and family, bus you on shi everybody's change.

42:46 Speaker 1: Or minds and mon emphies me a the world this change whining me wearing wit we go.

43:54 Speaker 13: Balla chest shunts ohly no, don't all strings, We'll just fall bits.

44:10 Speaker 1: In this ballidic go worry, lead.

44:20 Speaker 3: With your hall heart, loves with it all big games.

44:32 Speaker 3: Let's stand together.

44:36 Speaker 1: And learn to love fuck.

44:38 Speaker 9: Game that is everybody's changing. And that is a Stephen de Cure and he is with us in studio and we're playing some songs from his new EP, One Eye Towards the Sun, and uh, yeah, that's that's really good. I love what's our last line, Let's.

44:58 Speaker 10: Let's stand together, Let's learn to love again?

45:00 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, So what's the significance of that? I mean, other than the obvious?

45:04 Speaker 10: But so I mean, yeah, other than the obviously, you know, everything that's going on in the world. Yeah, and we all just come together right and figure this out, you know what I mean? And stop being so hateful towards each other. Yeah, what I mean, they please and thank you, hold the door for somebody, let somebody go when they're driving, or you know what I mean, on the road, you know, yeap, just have common courtesy for people.

45:24 Speaker 9: It's not hard, exactly exactly. Yeah, very good and and uh yeah, what's it Jeff what Jeff McGinnis. Jeff McGinnis, Yeah, was a guitar playing on that.

45:33 Speaker 10: It's just so absolutely incredible, so perfect.

45:36 Speaker 9: Tasteful would be a good word, yes, to describe it, very very tasteful. Jenny is leaving us. She's not gonna be here for the Uh. In the third hour, we're going to be talking with Charles Richardson about WrestleMania and uh, you know, but we didn't get a chance to watch SmackDown yet. So Jenny doesn't want to hear the spoilers.

45:54 Speaker 10: Yes, I don't need I don't either. I didn't get to watch it either. I watched it once in a while. So yeah, I look I look forward to the the WrestleManias. Oh yes, I've always been a fan of the kids the big weekend.

46:04 Speaker 9: They'll mess up my stories, you know, I was a kid. My aunties will be like, don't call during my stories, you know, general hospital. But these are my stories. I don't want spoilers to mess up my stories. That's right, man, that's right. You'll be safe. All right, good Jenny leaves us. But yes, we are talking with with Stephen de Cure. And so where are you so this weekend you've got so you've got a show for our live listeners. You've got a show later today.

46:31 Speaker 10: Yeah, later tonight the Spice in Nashville, New Hampshire. Okay, that's five thirty, okay, all right, And it's where the old KFC used to be.

46:40 Speaker 9: Gotcha, gotcha? Do you have like, where do you There's a lot of places to play around here, obviously, but do you venture out of New Hampshire?

46:50 Speaker 5: I go.

46:50 Speaker 10: So I play all over the place in Massachusetts. I do Muddy Waters Pub, I do Brownies Pub and Thewin. I actually just got put on the as an opener for July twenty fourths feel the Dreams Festival. Oh very good and sell in New Hampshire, So that'll be my first festival that I'll be playing.

47:10 Speaker 1: And then.

47:12 Speaker 10: Yeah, I play all over the place, Laconia, Massachusetts, everywhere.

47:15 Speaker 9: Yeah, everywhere. Yeah, excellent. I'm glad you're going to be playing a festival because I always say festivals are great because not only do you obviously get in front of a crowd that you know might not otherwise know you, So there's an opportunity to really build your fan base, but also the connections that you make, the people that you make with in the industry. You know, other performers, managers, you know, promoters, everybody you know that it's such a you know, it can't be overstated just how much of an opportunity it is to play a festival.

47:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, So I tell everybody to get on as many festivals as you can.

47:47 Speaker 10: Absolutely. Like I said, I was trying to get on there last year. They didn't have a spot for me. And then I started work with Massive Entertainment Group. Okay, they booked for like all the like the Nash Casino and all that, so I'll be playing there as well, and may actually just booked there. And then so they called me and said, hey, we you're on the list and we'd like to have you for the festival.

48:05 Speaker 9: So yeah, oh that's fantastic.

48:07 Speaker 10: It was, It was really it was really nice opportunity.

48:10 Speaker 9: Why is it? Do you know why it's called the Field of Dreams Festival.

48:13 Speaker 10: I'm honestly not sure.

48:14 Speaker 9: I'm just I'm just curious because when I when I hear Field of Dreams, I think of the movie. Yeah, and I just wonder if there's a baseball connection. Maybe it's sure.

48:22 Speaker 10: I think it's more of like a community thing, ok because it's like a free concert pretty much. Yeah, and they do a bunch of like community stuff in Salem with like you know, parks for the kids and stuff like that, dog parks, all kinds of stuff for the community.

48:36 Speaker 9: Oh okay, Oh that's very positive. That's good. That's good, very good. Do you know how long you're set is going to be at that?

48:43 Speaker 10: So I go on at five forty five, I'm opening for wild Side, the band wild Side okay, And and then I played till six thirty, so about forty five minutes set.

48:52 Speaker 9: Oh okay, Oh that's great.

48:53 Speaker 13: Yeah.

48:54 Speaker 9: Actually at a festival, forty five minutes is a pretty good, pretty good a lot of time. Yeah, that's that's really good.

48:59 Speaker 10: Good for you, Good for you, Thank you.

49:01 Speaker 9: Do you have a favorite place to play?

49:03 Speaker 1: You know?

49:04 Speaker 10: So I just started playing. I actually just played there last night. It's this place called the Sweet Hill Farm and plast out in New Hampshire, Okay. And it's a farm and they do barbecue there and they you go into the farm they have obviously live music, and you sit right in the greenhouse and you eat barbecue and drink bottles of wine.

49:25 Speaker 9: Okay.

49:25 Speaker 10: It's it's amazing. It's such a unique and cool spot. It's one of my favorite spots that I've been playing.

49:31 Speaker 9: Okay so lately. Yeah, okay, yeah, is that somewhere new or.

49:34 Speaker 10: Is that Yeah, that's a new place for me, and I'm not sure that it's a new spot. They did just start doing live music. Oh okay, so it's new for that, gotcha.

49:43 Speaker 9: Yeah, Oh, that's that's great. The nice thing about you know, being a solo act, a singer songwriter, is it you know, there's so many like you'll never you'll never run out of place to play, and you'll never stop finding new opportunities.

49:57 Speaker 10: Absolutely, And you know, I was telling myself too, I go know, when I started recording the CP, I said, I can either play at bars the rest of my life. I know I can do that and do the covers, I know, But that's about as far as I'm gonna go with it. Yeah, I want to go further. Yeah, I mean I want to be on a bigger stage. I'd like to sell on an arena someday. Oh yeah, I mean yeah, that's that's that's the goal exactly. Absolutely. Do you do covers?

50:20 Speaker 9: Do you have covers?

50:21 Speaker 10: I do a bunch of covers. Do Teddy Swims, Jim Croche, Simon and Garfunkel, beatles? Yeah, just about everything.

50:29 Speaker 9: Do you do any obscure ones that where where people sometimes aren't sure that yes? Yeah, like I do so.

50:36 Speaker 10: I do a few off of Donald Fagan Soul album.

50:38 Speaker 9: Oh, no kidding, I do.

50:40 Speaker 10: Uh, it's weather in my head? Play that one I do, Sweet Shooty Blue Eyes, Yeah, I do. Going to California by Led Zeppelin. You know a lot of like stuff that people really wouldn't attempt.

50:54 Speaker 9: To play out live. Yeah, technically all the time.

50:56 Speaker 10: You know what I mean. But yeah, I try to challenge myself with it.

50:59 Speaker 9: What do you do that? Does anyone ever come up to you after a show and they don't, like they have no idea how to cover and they're like, oh, I really like that song I've had.

51:05 Speaker 10: I've had a lot of people like so when I play at Telvi's and Epping, yeah, yeah, they put me through like the speakers, like just right through the house music. Okay, right, So people will be in the bathroom like, oh, we thought we were listening to the radio, but it's me that's playing.

51:19 Speaker 9: Yeah.

51:19 Speaker 10: Yeah, they're like, that's not it just like the song on the radio. Oh, thank you. I really appreciate that.

51:24 Speaker 9: Oh wow, oh that's cool. That's cool. Well we are running out of time. I do want to play one more song, but I also want to make sure very very important. Where should our listeners go? Where's the best place to go? To keep up with everything that you.

51:39 Speaker 10: Are, everything that you that I'm doing. You guys can find everything on Facebook. You can add me right on Facebook, Stephen de Keer. You can also add my music page just Steven de Keer Music. Okay, I'm going to be having Matt Conorton build me a website pretty soon. You're talking about off the air absolutely, And yeah, you can find out where I'm playing every single month. I post all my monthly dates, weekly dates as well. You'll find out where I'm playing every single weekend, okay, and all the fun stuff about my own music coming out.

52:07 Speaker 9: And you should definitely spell your last name for our listeners.

52:09 Speaker 10: Yes, my last name is spelled d E c U I r E and it's pronounced Q.

52:15 Speaker 9: Is that a rare name?

52:16 Speaker 10: It's French Canadian?

52:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, are there a lot of Yeah.

52:21 Speaker 10: I think it's like from like Louisiana. Oh really, yeah, you find it a lot in Louisiana.

52:25 Speaker 9: Oh, okay, I have a very rare last name, you do. There are very very few Connortons. Yes, there is another Matt Connorton right here in New Hampshire, but he's yeah, but he's my uncle, so it kind of doesn't and then I did find another Matt Connorton somewhere else, but he spells it co O N and E R t o n okay, which actually is the more common common spelling, even though there's very few. There's just very few Connortants generally. There are some contortants in the Boston area. Yeah, but I think they all spell it c O N and E R t O N. So yeah, I have a very I was joking at the top of the show.

52:56 Speaker 9: I was saying, you know, there's gonna be a new website, Matt Connorton dot Live. And I was saying to Jenny, I said, uh, this might surprise you, but it's very easy to get a domain with Matt Connorton in it because nobody else. There's no other Matt Connorton along the website certainly, so it's very very easy. All right. So, Stephen de Cure, thank you so much, Thank you very much, appreciate it. This has been absolutely wonderful. And what should we play to close out the segment?

53:28 Speaker 10: Well, what do you think? And we were talking off the air about Quiet Moments being in that upcoming film.

53:34 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, anything more that you can.

53:37 Speaker 10: You were telling us my friend Catherine Taylor. She she had messaged me after our last interview on here about Quiet Moments when I played that live on the air, and she said, we absolutely love Quiet Moments. She goes, and we have a spot, a particular scene in a film that I'm working on and directing right now that we think Quiet Moments would go great and oh wow, and she asked me if they could put it in the film. I said, yes, so waiting. I'll probably hear back in about a week or two and I'll know all the details for it.

54:08 Speaker 9: Oh fantastic.

54:09 Speaker 10: Guys, want to just follow me on Facebook. You guys will find out all about that as well.

54:12 Speaker 9: Outstanding. Oh that's very exciting. So that's a perfect way to end the segment. So we will end with this Quiet Moments. If you are listening live on Saturday stick around. Coming up in our number three, we have Charles Richardson joining us online all the way from the great state of Florida. He is the host of the Charles Richardson Show. And we're going to be talking about WrestleMania Weekend. It is upon us. So I look forward to that and I hope you do as well. But we will close out with this quiet Moments.

54:41 Speaker 9: The album or I'm Sorry. The EP is one I towards the Sun and this is the great Stephen to cure Stephen again.

54:49 Speaker 10: Thank you so much, you guys very much. I appreciate it.

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57:27 Speaker 1: The wind is going ringing song and sway.

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58:21 Speaker 13: quiet moments, Oh houses, sempty.

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