The Stifftones | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:04 Speaker 1: Tell me right to come.

0:18 Speaker 2: You see it all in the hand up boys to

0:21 Speaker 2: sleep in this cop and me, he said.

0:23 Speaker 3: He got Calistoa right again, ride in the ride in it.

0:29 Speaker 3: I'm gonna turtle hill.

0:31 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell on him. I'm gonna sell him so.

0:34 Speaker 1: We can look at you.

0:38 Speaker 3: And you right, said men Ris, turtle past.

0:45 Speaker 4: And turtle past, and pattle past, and paddle fast, paddle past,

0:48 Speaker 4: and paddle faster, paddle.

0:49 Speaker 2: Past and go.

0:53 Speaker 1: And rising.

0:56 Speaker 5: You ri sing.

1:00 Speaker 2: We want to work on day on.

1:01 Speaker 5: It said, he ripped the stand sixteen.

1:04 Speaker 6: When to tell your brother five?

1:06 Speaker 2: When you see all in, you know, see all in,

1:10 Speaker 2: No see all there. That one's on a hill, that

1:13 Speaker 2: he's down on hill. I just shut on hill. So

1:16 Speaker 2: he to look at Jean, say right, okay, he right here, I.

1:26 Speaker 7: Sail faster paddle that's your battle, faster battle's battle after battle, faster.

1:31 Speaker 1: Battle past to go and I say, young right sit.

1:42 Speaker 2: So he's got his sister that time. Man, he never

1:45 Speaker 2: gets to leave it. He's okay with it.

1:48 Speaker 5: He's got a tube.

1:49 Speaker 7: Sod gotty twee's everywhere he leaves here where he leaves

1:53 Speaker 7: here where that ways.

1:55 Speaker 4: Out of hill.

1:56 Speaker 2: I was telling hill that was going on hill, so

1:59 Speaker 2: we can look at.

2:13 Speaker 3: Polish stufter Polish.

2:32 Speaker 2: I love it.

2:33 Speaker 5: That is backwards down a hill, and that is the

2:36 Speaker 5: Stiff Tones. And we have the Stiff Tones with us

2:39 Speaker 5: live in studio. We're going to talk with them in

2:41 Speaker 5: just a moment and they're going to play. So really

2:42 Speaker 5: looking forward to this right now. So we've got the

2:45 Speaker 5: Stiff Tones here with us in studio. Now I'm gonna

2:46 Speaker 5: bring these mics up. I'm using a little bit of

2:49 Speaker 5: a different microphone configuration than we usually use here, so

2:53 Speaker 5: we'll see strum that guitar a little bit, if you

2:56 Speaker 5: would please, Actually you could both, Actually you should both. Strump.

3:02 Speaker 2: We came out, came out a little bit while I

3:04 Speaker 2: was sitting there.

3:04 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's okay.

3:05 Speaker 2: I think my guitarget as nervous as I am. Maybe

3:08 Speaker 2: perhaps all right, cool, that's wild.

3:13 Speaker 5: Let's sue this. Let's have you, let's have you introduce

3:17 Speaker 5: yourselves please.

3:19 Speaker 2: Well, I guess, uh, where are the Stiff Tones. I'm Sean.

3:23 Speaker 2: This is Rachel, my wife, and uh we're from I'm

3:26 Speaker 2: from southern Illinois. She's from New Hampshire. I liked to

3:28 Speaker 2: joke that she exited her and exit her just Stan

3:33 Speaker 2: go to jokes. We've been traveling the country for about

3:37 Speaker 2: five years, living in the back of our Cadillac hearse

3:40 Speaker 2: playing and singing for our supper and hundreds of towns

3:43 Speaker 2: all over the country.

3:45 Speaker 5: Yeah.

3:45 Speaker 8: Yeah, we quit being grown ups and I got away

3:49 Speaker 8: from Yeah COVID trust is how I was a nurse,

3:51 Speaker 8: you know, And yeah COVID streussed no doubt.

3:54 Speaker 5: Yeah.

3:55 Speaker 8: After that, we were like, what we have choices, Like,

3:57 Speaker 8: we don't have to have all this stuff.

4:00 Speaker 5: That's okay, we're on a delay. I caught it shipwreck.

4:02 Speaker 8: I was saying, ship we don't have to have all

4:08 Speaker 8: this stuff, and so yeah, whatever we can fit in

4:10 Speaker 8: the hurst we can take with us. Yeah, that's what

4:13 Speaker 8: we did.

4:13 Speaker 2: So that's what we did. We we kind of ran

4:15 Speaker 2: away with the proverbial circus, so we kind of call

4:19 Speaker 2: ourselves the rock and roll defible circus versus a revival.

4:22 Speaker 5: Okay.

4:23 Speaker 2: So that's basically where you take instead of just reviving something,

4:27 Speaker 2: you take the good parts of it and you form

4:29 Speaker 2: something new with it.

4:30 Speaker 5: Okay. By the way, I just want our listeners to

4:33 Speaker 5: know too. I can confirm so the hearst thing is

4:36 Speaker 5: not a gimmick. That is real. There's an actual hearse outside.

4:40 Speaker 8: Her name is Tanya.

4:41 Speaker 5: Oh yes, I noticed that on the license plate. Yeah yeah, yeah.

4:44 Speaker 8: People think that I have Tanya and I'm not. I'm racial.

4:47 Speaker 5: Why why is the Hurst Tanya?

4:49 Speaker 2: Why is it?

4:49 Speaker 6: Okay?

4:50 Speaker 2: So everybody, a lot of folks get a hearse and

4:53 Speaker 2: they immediately want to name it, you know, get Patty

4:56 Speaker 2: on the license plate either, for.

4:57 Speaker 8: This is our age showing like if you're older than

5:00 Speaker 8: you know who Patty Hurst is.

5:02 Speaker 2: We're like, okay, well I get it. That's funny. But

5:04 Speaker 2: wouldn't it be even cooler if we got one and

5:07 Speaker 2: we switched it to her music? People at Yellow Name.

5:10 Speaker 8: Yeah. So when she when she was kidnapped and then

5:12 Speaker 8: she joined the People's Liberation Organization, she changed her name

5:15 Speaker 8: to Tanya. And one of our favorite bands happens to

5:17 Speaker 8: be a band named Camper van Beethoven and they have

5:20 Speaker 8: an album called Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. All on this

5:23 Speaker 8: album is a song called Tanya and it's so we

5:28 Speaker 8: have to I mean, it was just meant to.

5:29 Speaker 2: Be because she used to be a funeral carriage, you know.

5:31 Speaker 2: Now she's a rock and roll she rock.

5:33 Speaker 8: Now she's a beloved rock and roll tor queen.

5:36 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, kind of a you know that's kind of

5:37 Speaker 2: why that how that happened? Now?

5:39 Speaker 1: Do you?

5:39 Speaker 5: So you travel all over the country, So do you

5:41 Speaker 5: have a show in the area and that's why you're

5:43 Speaker 5: you're here or how how does your tour routing work?

5:46 Speaker 8: So in July, so, I, like I said, I'm a

5:49 Speaker 8: New Hampshire native, and my father and my wicked stepmother wicked,

5:53 Speaker 8: being New England wicked. Nobody else gets out of it.

5:55 Speaker 8: I'm like, my wicked step.

5:56 Speaker 2: Don't like her.

5:57 Speaker 8: I'm like, no, she's wicked good. Okay, Yeah, my wicked's mother.

6:00 Speaker 8: They live in up here, and so we come up

6:03 Speaker 8: in July and split in stack wood and fill the

6:05 Speaker 8: woodshed and do some odds and ends and stuff to

6:07 Speaker 8: keep them, you know, going up on the hill while

6:09 Speaker 8: we're running around and okay, So, but he's from Illinois

6:12 Speaker 8: and that's where we So that's what we're up here. Yes,

6:14 Speaker 8: we do have actually a show. When we get done here,

6:16 Speaker 8: we head over to Leven in New Hampshire. I went

6:19 Speaker 8: playing over the road House Mall, and then next week

6:22 Speaker 8: in World over in Vermont, and then then we head

6:24 Speaker 8: out Okay, back on the road.

6:26 Speaker 5: Okay, is it challenging that, I mean, this is an

6:28 Speaker 5: unconventional uh lifestyle, right, it.

6:34 Speaker 1: Is.

6:34 Speaker 2: It is difficult.

6:36 Speaker 8: So it's paying a mortgage and so, you know, so

6:39 Speaker 8: making sure the lights are turned on, and raising children

6:41 Speaker 8: and and you know, and just getting by and in life.

6:44 Speaker 8: So it's just it's just different. It's just a different complicated.

6:47 Speaker 8: I mean, I've been just as broken, just as frustrated

6:50 Speaker 8: when I was a nurse, as a as I am

6:52 Speaker 8: as a rock goddess.

6:53 Speaker 5: That makes sense.

6:54 Speaker 8: But you know this today was the first time I've

6:56 Speaker 8: had to set an alarm clock in.

6:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a lot kind of on a different time schedule. Now, Yeah,

7:03 Speaker 2: you play late a lot of times. Then you sleep

7:06 Speaker 2: in a little bit, you sleep until the sun warms

7:08 Speaker 2: you up.

7:08 Speaker 8: You could have been when you want, and you wake

7:09 Speaker 8: up when you want. For the most party, there's you know,

7:12 Speaker 8: there's also those fifteen hour drive days, you know, because

7:14 Speaker 8: you guys, you got to get there or you know,

7:16 Speaker 8: the side of the road, you know, tire changes or

7:18 Speaker 8: you know, I mean there's but again, you know you

7:21 Speaker 8: have those, you have roof leaks, and you have you know,

7:23 Speaker 8: things life life, happens. We have five children between the.

7:25 Speaker 2: Two of us.

7:26 Speaker 8: They're grown. Yeah, so yeah, we're pretty well adapted to,

7:30 Speaker 8: you know, dealing with the litany of issues you can

7:32 Speaker 8: come up on the road.

7:33 Speaker 5: Yeah. And have you been doing this since?

7:35 Speaker 4: Uh?

7:36 Speaker 5: Because you said so, COVID was kind of your breaking

7:38 Speaker 5: point right as far as nursing.

7:39 Speaker 8: And well, my girlfriend passed away suddenly on me and

7:44 Speaker 8: girlfriend like friend friend, Yeah, and passed away suddenly on me.

7:48 Speaker 8: And it was one of those moments where I was

7:50 Speaker 8: forty five and I was like, man, my life was

7:52 Speaker 8: already half over, and you know what am I going

7:54 Speaker 8: to do? And so I started travel nursing and we

7:55 Speaker 8: did that for a while, trying to scratch that itchy

7:58 Speaker 8: And because I was a millit Harry Bratt, so I

8:00 Speaker 8: grew up moving around a lot, and I'd been stuck

8:03 Speaker 8: in Illinois for like thirty years, and so he agreed

8:07 Speaker 8: with me, and then yeah, we started singing together. Because

8:12 Speaker 8: he was a musician. I met him at an open

8:14 Speaker 8: mic and I'm dominating this conversation anyway. And music has

8:19 Speaker 8: always been very therapeutic to me in a different kind

8:22 Speaker 8: of way. I was never a maker of music or creator.

8:24 Speaker 8: I was an appreciator. I know Sush, So long story,

8:29 Speaker 8: extremely long. We met an open mic and then we

8:33 Speaker 8: started playing together. Gosh what in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,

8:37 Speaker 8: and he had to rule no girlfriends in the band,

8:40 Speaker 8: so we had to get married.

8:42 Speaker 2: If you're in a band, it sorry like having three

8:43 Speaker 2: girlfriends at the same time.

8:45 Speaker 8: So we were together as friends with extraordinary benefits for

8:50 Speaker 8: the first seven years and we've been married for the

8:52 Speaker 8: last seven fourteen years together. But anyway, we had to

8:55 Speaker 8: get married so we could be the stiff Tones starting

8:58 Speaker 8: the open mic thing and travel around with the travel

9:00 Speaker 8: nursing and kind of getting you know, like a hey man,

9:03 Speaker 8: what are you doing here? Can't have a vibe, and

9:05 Speaker 8: so we're like, yeah, we'll try it. And it's nothing

9:08 Speaker 8: like what we thought. And we were completely naive and

9:11 Speaker 8: we weren't that good and bless everybody, and first everybody

9:14 Speaker 8: really cursed. But what are you doing here? I think, Yeah,

9:17 Speaker 8: that's how you get gas money.

9:18 Speaker 2: You're either really good or really That was one of

9:21 Speaker 2: our tactics later as a later as a band, I'll

9:23 Speaker 2: pass this out for any fledgling bands out there listening.

9:27 Speaker 2: Go out there and do it. And the reason for

9:29 Speaker 2: it is if you're even if you're awful like we were,

9:32 Speaker 2: eventually somebody will pay.

9:34 Speaker 8: You to leave, and perspective is everything and just start.

9:41 Speaker 2: Setting up camp and they'll just be like, all right,

9:43 Speaker 2: we're gonna pay you to get out of.

9:44 Speaker 8: Here the toilet paper.

9:47 Speaker 5: That's right, very good. Well, I uh, it's it's it's

9:54 Speaker 5: gonna be hard to avoid these puns. I'm dying to

9:56 Speaker 5: hear you play, so I said to Jenny earlier. I

9:59 Speaker 5: was like, before before the sentence even made it out

10:03 Speaker 5: of my mouth, fully I started. I started to say

10:05 Speaker 5: I'm dying to see the hears. I got as far

10:08 Speaker 5: as I'm dying, and then I'm like, oh, I'm making

10:10 Speaker 5: a pun. You're very punny, but but yeah, there's a

10:14 Speaker 5: there's a legit hearse out there.

10:15 Speaker 1: Yeahah.

10:16 Speaker 8: And just for the record, the name the stiff Tones

10:18 Speaker 8: came before the hers.

10:20 Speaker 5: Wondering about people. Oh, I just assumed our.

10:23 Speaker 8: Last name is Steve, and well my mine is now

10:26 Speaker 8: adopted it, okay, And so growing up his nickname was Stiffy.

10:29 Speaker 8: So the little town where we're from, everybody knows him

10:31 Speaker 8: as Stiffy. That how I met him was true, and

10:34 Speaker 8: so when we were when he would do the open

10:36 Speaker 8: mic circuit, they would call anybody could get up there.

10:38 Speaker 8: They'd say it was Stiffy and the stiff Tones play

10:40 Speaker 8: with him.

10:41 Speaker 2: The stiff I mean, as much as I love Tom Petty,

10:43 Speaker 2: and I really do, but I don't want to be

10:44 Speaker 2: known as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I want to

10:46 Speaker 2: be like the Stones or something, right, And it was

10:49 Speaker 2: just the.

10:49 Speaker 8: Two of us, So it can't be Stiffy and the

10:51 Speaker 8: stiff Tones, right.

10:52 Speaker 5: Right, right right?

10:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, very strange thing, wouldn't it.

10:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, yeah, that would be that would be yeah.

10:58 Speaker 5: Well very good. Okay, Well I am I'm eager to

11:02 Speaker 5: hear you play you sound You sounded phenomenal during the soundtrack,

11:06 Speaker 5: so this is going to be killing.

11:10 Speaker 2: I want to play in the song about a little hometown. Sure, okay,

11:13 Speaker 2: So I guess we'll do a song for you about

11:15 Speaker 2: our little hometown. It's on our first album is about

11:17 Speaker 2: to come out in September, and it's kind of give

11:21 Speaker 2: you it's the meson scene of the album. Okay, it's

11:24 Speaker 2: kind of the just you know, it's a it's a

11:27 Speaker 2: little corn town. It's where it all started. There's trains, coal,

11:31 Speaker 2: mines and uh industry that has gone kind of vibe.

11:34 Speaker 2: So anyways, it's where this album starts. I think we'll

11:37 Speaker 2: start there.

11:37 Speaker 5: Okay.

11:38 Speaker 2: It's a song called Midwestern Town. It's just kind of

11:42 Speaker 2: a love song to your hometown kind of song.

11:44 Speaker 5: All right. The Stifftones live in studio.

12:10 Speaker 2: Liver has a story.

12:14 Speaker 9: They have to stay in in this town. Most were

12:22 Speaker 9: passing through here win faith.

12:25 Speaker 3: Had decided to let them down.

12:32 Speaker 6: If I hadn't ha chance, I'll tell you what I

12:38 Speaker 6: would do.

12:43 Speaker 7: If I pack my bags and say goodbye.

12:47 Speaker 2: Hand catch next train home to you?

12:51 Speaker 10: Home?

12:51 Speaker 4: To you.

12:55 Speaker 2: Near the Western Town?

12:57 Speaker 3: Western Town down?

12:59 Speaker 6: Chu my home?

13:02 Speaker 10: You my home?

13:05 Speaker 11: Let me Midwestern town in Western Town?

13:09 Speaker 2: Do let me go? You gotta let me go, won't

13:16 Speaker 2: you let me eg? You gotta let me go. This

13:28 Speaker 2: place is like a heaven where dreams a go.

13:33 Speaker 12: Today I should have left you ride away and never

13:43 Speaker 12: speen a single night.

13:46 Speaker 2: Single.

13:49 Speaker 7: But if I had have chance, I'll tell you what

13:54 Speaker 7: time would to lad back my bags and say goodbye.

14:04 Speaker 2: Henll catch next train home? Do you.

14:08 Speaker 6: Home?

14:08 Speaker 1: Do you?

14:12 Speaker 2: Mid Western Town? Western Down?

14:16 Speaker 6: You're my home?

14:19 Speaker 10: You my home?

14:22 Speaker 11: Let me mid Western Town, Western Down?

14:27 Speaker 2: Let me go?

14:29 Speaker 6: You gotta let me go?

14:32 Speaker 2: Won't you let me go? You gotta let me go? Now,

15:19 Speaker 2: tell me baby.

15:22 Speaker 10: When it's that you used me?

15:29 Speaker 6: So I'll me never make it out.

15:32 Speaker 2: But maybe we could share around dreams, share o dreams.

15:41 Speaker 11: Middle Western town Western down, Chum, you're ma let me go,

15:52 Speaker 11: midle Western townstern down to let me go?

15:58 Speaker 2: You gotta let me.

16:18 Speaker 5: Oh, that is so good, beautiful, it is so good.

16:22 Speaker 5: We've got these stiff tones here with us alive in studio,

16:27 Speaker 5: and uh, how many like, how many songs do you have?

16:32 Speaker 5: Probably quite a few at this point right in terms

16:34 Speaker 5: of original music, we do have a few.

16:37 Speaker 8: We do have a well, we're getting ready to release

16:39 Speaker 8: our debut album on September twenty first.

16:42 Speaker 5: Hopefully excellent, excellent.

16:45 Speaker 8: Yeah, and there there will be nine original tracks on

16:48 Speaker 8: there in one cover.

16:50 Speaker 6: And then we have.

16:53 Speaker 8: The good meat and potatoes of our second album already

16:56 Speaker 8: wet on that one. Largely so we've been most of

17:01 Speaker 8: these songs that were that were performing today and that

17:04 Speaker 8: are all going to be on the album are all

17:06 Speaker 8: songs that were written either right well before Sean and

17:10 Speaker 8: I met, or write as we met, or you know after,

17:13 Speaker 8: and so yeah, fourteen years he and I have been

17:17 Speaker 8: kind of working on some of these same songs. Yeah,

17:20 Speaker 8: but we didn't go into this with the idea that

17:22 Speaker 8: that's what we were doing, because again, I was a

17:24 Speaker 8: nurse and I was a mother and that's what I

17:25 Speaker 8: you know. I sang with him and harmonized with him

17:28 Speaker 8: when he would practice and play because it was fun

17:30 Speaker 8: and I love to sing, you know, and I sang

17:31 Speaker 8: growing up and whatever. But like run away and join

17:35 Speaker 8: the circus, no, I mean, like, yeah, I had my

17:39 Speaker 8: PhD and Karen, you know, like I had the hair

17:41 Speaker 8: cuts hairs for a while. It's living in ahearse what no, right?

17:45 Speaker 3: Right?

17:46 Speaker 2: Yeah, So the one cover we do is a cover

17:49 Speaker 2: by a guy named Johnny Hickman. I want to mention that,

17:53 Speaker 2: so not all heroes were caves. So the reason it's

17:57 Speaker 2: on there is because it's it's our that signal song,

18:01 Speaker 2: and it's at the very very end of the album.

18:05 Speaker 2: So so anyways, that's kind of that was the first song. Okay,

18:08 Speaker 2: So the album actually was kind of written around the

18:11 Speaker 2: idea of putting that song at the end of the album.

18:14 Speaker 5: Yeah, why is that, like why it belong there?

18:19 Speaker 2: It's I don't know, for whatever reason, well, Rachel probably

18:21 Speaker 2: tell you.

18:22 Speaker 8: One of the reasons is you know, is it that signal?

18:24 Speaker 8: You know? And when Shawn and I were first dating

18:27 Speaker 8: and becoming friends, anybody that knows us knows we know

18:29 Speaker 8: how to fight very very much. We perfected it like

18:32 Speaker 8: it's very early on and where's much brother and sister

18:38 Speaker 8: and a mother and son and and and it like

18:40 Speaker 8: it's crazy. But when we would break up, and because

18:46 Speaker 8: we again we had five children between the two of us,

18:48 Speaker 8: it was just complicated and missing. We'd break up and

18:50 Speaker 8: he'd go home and he'd post this song on the

18:53 Speaker 8: internet because Facebook was new at the time. And I

18:56 Speaker 8: knew that I was the treacherous woman in that song,

18:59 Speaker 8: even though he didn't it was but so but I

19:01 Speaker 8: knew it was time for me to call him up

19:03 Speaker 8: because he was thinking and.

19:04 Speaker 2: Johnny, Johnny's my favorite guitar player. Without him having been

19:09 Speaker 2: a guitar player, and he heard his work in the

19:10 Speaker 2: band Cracker, I would have never picked up a guitar

19:13 Speaker 2: like yeah.

19:14 Speaker 8: I actually got to take his hand and say it.

19:16 Speaker 8: And so he gave us his permission for this song

19:19 Speaker 8: to be or not that the song weren't doing it

19:21 Speaker 8: right now, but that song to be at the end

19:23 Speaker 8: of the album. Oh okay, Yeah, we rearranged it a

19:26 Speaker 8: little bit and but yeah, permission.

19:29 Speaker 5: Very cool. Now where you might have mentioned it earlier,

19:32 Speaker 5: but where are you recording the album?

19:34 Speaker 2: Everywhere? So we were as we were writing in we

19:37 Speaker 2: were here listening to you guys talk about that on

19:39 Speaker 2: the show, and I was like, oh my goodness, way

19:40 Speaker 2: to the hear hear from us. So we're putting this

19:43 Speaker 2: album together in the most unconventional way you could possibly

19:46 Speaker 2: about imagine over the course the last four years, being

19:49 Speaker 2: run around the country singing for our supper. So we

19:52 Speaker 2: started putting the album together like in different places. So

19:58 Speaker 2: part of the album, the first part at the end

19:59 Speaker 2: of the album. Firstly, we just recorded.

20:03 Speaker 8: Tracks in my dad's garage, of my dad's kitchen.

20:05 Speaker 2: Just the other night that we recorded for it would

20:08 Speaker 2: have happened. We we went all the way to California,

20:12 Speaker 2: southern California to record like the end of the album.

20:15 Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's where Backwards Down a Hill was recorded. Yeah,

20:19 Speaker 8: because when we first went out in twenty twenty one,

20:21 Speaker 8: we went out with the intention of recording this album,

20:24 Speaker 8: and at that time, Backwards Down a Hill was going

20:26 Speaker 8: to be maybe was going to be on the album.

20:28 Speaker 8: But the only thing we left that day with was

20:31 Speaker 8: Backwards down a Hill. An education that's right, very good,

20:35 Speaker 8: very good education, and realization that we needed more education.

20:39 Speaker 1: Yea.

20:39 Speaker 2: And so so the back of the album is more

20:42 Speaker 2: like recorded in California. But then everything kind of goes

20:45 Speaker 2: like in a Quentin Tarantino style, everything it goes backwards.

20:48 Speaker 2: After that, Backwards down a Hill, we just cursed ourselves

20:50 Speaker 2: and didn't even know it. We went in there. We

20:54 Speaker 2: recorded a version of the last song in the album,

20:57 Speaker 2: Father Winter, and it was awful. Really, Yeah, we did.

21:00 Speaker 2: The one thing that we were asked not to is

21:01 Speaker 2: to not not ruin the song in the Chili and yea,

21:06 Speaker 2: so we did in the studio that it was originally

21:08 Speaker 2: recorded with.

21:09 Speaker 8: The original engineer that recorded the original.

21:13 Speaker 2: We did.

21:13 Speaker 8: We could have fanned ourselves in front.

21:15 Speaker 2: Of them anymore situation, yea. So we tuck tail and

21:20 Speaker 2: we went. We drove all the way back to New Hampshire.

21:22 Speaker 2: In our hearse there's a story about paying the band

21:26 Speaker 2: the engineering change story for a year older. But yeah,

21:30 Speaker 2: we get we make it back and then we get

21:32 Speaker 2: stranded on the mountain in the winter time up here. Yeah,

21:37 Speaker 2: so anyways we uh recomposed that song. Yeah, while we're

21:42 Speaker 2: living in a tenth wow side of.

21:43 Speaker 8: The mountain, would couldn't would stay warm?

21:48 Speaker 2: And then we went to uh, we went to uh

21:50 Speaker 2: we recorded that with Chuck melching down.

21:52 Speaker 8: Chul in Newmarket where I got kicked out of the

21:55 Speaker 8: first grade.

21:56 Speaker 2: So Father Winter was recorded here in New Hampshire and

22:00 Speaker 2: the last, last last track on the album. Okay, So

22:03 Speaker 2: I know it's a lot of discon convoluted story, but

22:05 Speaker 2: all ties into a big theme.

22:07 Speaker 8: Yeah, we're from a movie.

22:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a movie, or at least a really uh seedy,

22:13 Speaker 2: grainy YouTube video.

22:15 Speaker 8: So porn you're just started. Do you what your role is?

22:21 Speaker 2: By like, man, I'm hovered on the button.

22:26 Speaker 5: Okay, okay, anyway, by the way, I do have to

22:29 Speaker 5: ask why did you get kicked out of the first grade?

22:31 Speaker 2: Oh boy, this is glorious, is it?

22:33 Speaker 5: Yeah?

22:33 Speaker 2: She was on an army brap Go ahead, right, you'll

22:35 Speaker 2: tell the story.

22:35 Speaker 8: It's really it's not that good.

22:37 Speaker 4: So I was.

22:38 Speaker 8: I was in military brat my birthdays in October when

22:40 Speaker 8: we moved to Germany and my and they let you

22:44 Speaker 8: start kindergarten at like age.

22:45 Speaker 5: Four over there, Yeah, kindergotten.

22:47 Speaker 8: Yeah, so I finished kindergarten where they originally originated it,

22:52 Speaker 8: and it came back to the US and they let

22:54 Speaker 8: me start the first grade. And then they realized they

22:56 Speaker 8: didn't meet the age requirement. They sent me home with

22:59 Speaker 8: a note pinned to my shirt telling me that I

23:03 Speaker 8: was not allowed to come back anymore. I was I

23:05 Speaker 8: loved school. I was so mad.

23:07 Speaker 5: Oh wow, yeah so.

23:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, and then I was traumatized after that.

23:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, I can imagine. Wow. Well on that note, whytn

23:19 Speaker 5: to play another song? You want to hear? You want

23:20 Speaker 5: to play another one? I'm not to hear another one

23:22 Speaker 5: over Okay, So I can't. I can't even help it.

23:24 Speaker 5: I literally just said it. Yeah.

23:27 Speaker 2: So yeah, give me just a second week, give a

23:30 Speaker 2: little too. Yeah, yeah, we'll play one. Rachel can talk

23:33 Speaker 2: about this one if she wants. But this is we're

23:35 Speaker 2: gonna do a song called starting Over. And if you're old,

23:37 Speaker 2: if you're you're old enough to have had to.

23:40 Speaker 3: Do this before you, So I'll tell you this song is.

23:43 Speaker 8: We released it as a demo version on Backwards down Hill,

23:46 Speaker 8: so there is a B side out there. It's a

23:48 Speaker 8: demo and I recorded it in southern California, And the

23:50 Speaker 8: reason why we had to come to New Hampshire recorded

23:52 Speaker 8: is because when I recorded and sound in New Hampshire,

23:55 Speaker 8: I didn't realize till we got back here that was

23:57 Speaker 8: Statton Nova. I was like, what, like, I'm not I

24:01 Speaker 8: haven't lived in New Hampshire since Ye, this is where

24:02 Speaker 8: I learned how to speak.

24:04 Speaker 1: Yeah.

24:04 Speaker 8: Since, So I had to come back to New Hampshire

24:06 Speaker 8: so I could re record it, Chuck Melchin, and so

24:09 Speaker 8: I could start over, stop starting over. But the one

24:13 Speaker 8: that's on the internet right now, I'm stopping over. So

24:19 Speaker 8: and then the other side of this story song is

24:21 Speaker 8: the internet version is explicit.

24:23 Speaker 11: We won't do the explicit.

24:25 Speaker 5: Version today, thank you.

24:26 Speaker 8: But it's a beautiful song about starting over and if

24:30 Speaker 8: you're gonna, you know, do it, you might as well

24:33 Speaker 8: do it big. So the F word is all through it.

24:35 Speaker 5: Oh, I said, yeah, but not but not this one.

24:38 Speaker 5: Well we're on an eight second to La slip it happens.

24:42 Speaker 8: Yeah, we got this one down.

24:43 Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thank you?

24:45 Speaker 2: She says that.

24:46 Speaker 5: All right, the Stiff Doones live in studio.

25:05 Speaker 3: He tell me to just see that. I couldn't look away.

25:15 Speaker 3: I don't know where I'm going.

25:18 Speaker 10: It's journey out of it.

25:22 Speaker 3: And I don't know where I'm going, just that I

25:27 Speaker 3: can't stay. And now starting over, a starting uberm Maybe.

25:33 Speaker 13: This time I can get it right, starting over, starting uber.

25:40 Speaker 6: Maybe this time I can get here right.

25:43 Speaker 13: But I wouldn't play dolls because I'm leaving with no regrants.

25:51 Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't hold children.

25:54 Speaker 1: For me.

25:57 Speaker 6: Now for me, looking now for me, keep looking now?

26:09 Speaker 13: Tell me that you feel that something's gone to change. Well,

26:16 Speaker 13: it's been coming for so long, honey, I can't wait.

26:23 Speaker 13: I don't know I'll go, just that I can't stay.

26:30 Speaker 13: And now starting over, starting Ober. Maybe the time mark

26:36 Speaker 13: in it ride, I'm starting over, starting Nouber.

26:41 Speaker 6: Maybe this time marking in it ride.

26:44 Speaker 13: But it's broken his time maybe, and it's desperate, it's

26:49 Speaker 13: in maze. There's at least somewhere for.

26:54 Speaker 10: You, in for me, for me, people looking for me

27:08 Speaker 10: now traditional.

27:24 Speaker 3: Tell me?

27:24 Speaker 1: Did you hear that.

27:27 Speaker 3: Times taking away? Come with me? Hand mid because I'm

27:34 Speaker 3: living here. I don't know where I'm coming, just that

27:42 Speaker 3: I can't stay.

27:45 Speaker 13: And now starting over, starting over, maybe this time back

27:50 Speaker 13: get here right, I'm starting over, starting over. Maybe the

27:56 Speaker 13: time barking, get it right. But I wouldn't place no

28:00 Speaker 13: opens because I'm living with no regrets.

28:06 Speaker 3: Noah wouldn't hold children for me, for me, keep for me.

28:23 Speaker 13: I'm starting over, I'm starting over, maybe this time back.

28:28 Speaker 3: And get here right. I'm starting over.

28:32 Speaker 13: I'm starting over, maybe this time back, get here right.

28:37 Speaker 13: But I wouldn't place no bence because I've got no

28:41 Speaker 13: freaking regrets.

28:44 Speaker 3: Noah wouldn't hold children for me.

28:50 Speaker 6: For me, people looking for me.

29:06 Speaker 5: I love it. The Stiff Tones live in studio. That

29:09 Speaker 5: is so good. Rachel here with us. Yeah, oh that's okay,

29:15 Speaker 5: no worries, no worries. No, you sound amazing. Is this now?

29:19 Speaker 5: Is this the earliest in that Is this the earliest

29:21 Speaker 5: in the day that you've sung in a long time?

29:23 Speaker 1: Yeah?

29:24 Speaker 2: Probably?

29:24 Speaker 1: Yeah?

29:25 Speaker 4: Yeah?

29:26 Speaker 5: Is that is that different? Or because you know, sometimes

29:29 Speaker 5: somebody will will come in and they'll perform and they'll

29:31 Speaker 5: say it's it's unusual, like they feel like they sound

29:34 Speaker 5: different or something, And for a lot of people they

29:37 Speaker 5: don't notice any difference.

29:38 Speaker 8: But I think I'm a two pack a day reform smoker.

29:42 Speaker 7: Yeah.

29:45 Speaker 2: Some days I get up and like I'm feeling I'm

29:46 Speaker 2: sound a little rough this Morning track something yeah, and

29:51 Speaker 2: she's like, well, it's you sound like Rover on the recording.

29:57 Speaker 8: My biggest issue is just comfort.

29:59 Speaker 7: Yeah.

30:00 Speaker 8: They have really bad stage, right, and then get in

30:02 Speaker 8: my head and then yeah, yeah, they'll start getting tight

30:04 Speaker 8: and pitchy, and then I start sweating and I'm like,

30:07 Speaker 8: I don't know.

30:07 Speaker 2: Whole thing is just like if i get nervous on stage,

30:09 Speaker 2: it looks like I'm doing methapheta means I start sweating.

30:11 Speaker 2: I'm going like really yeah, yeah, like speed racing through

30:15 Speaker 2: my songs.

30:15 Speaker 5: Oh wow, Yeah, it's crazy.

30:18 Speaker 8: Doing something that you love so much but you're so

30:20 Speaker 8: scared to do.

30:20 Speaker 2: Like that's true.

30:21 Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I used to play in bands, and you know,

30:23 Speaker 5: for me, the way it would always works, I'd be

30:25 Speaker 5: nervous right before, but then once I was on stage.

30:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, you can get in it, then you're good.

30:30 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

30:31 Speaker 8: Like you're up there and you've got like one person

30:33 Speaker 8: just sitting there staring at you and you're like yeah yeah,

30:36 Speaker 8: or if it's somebody that you know.

30:37 Speaker 5: But there's value in that too, right, Because on the

30:40 Speaker 5: one hand, yeah, it's you know, you feel that anxiety

30:43 Speaker 5: and whatnot. Sometimes in the moment, you might wish you

30:44 Speaker 5: didn't feel that, But then again, if that went away,

30:47 Speaker 5: wouldn't that also be kind of a bummer, because then

30:49 Speaker 5: you'd start to question, like, is this is this no

30:51 Speaker 5: longer exciting?

30:52 Speaker 8: That's what I learned about is tell yourself, it's not anxiety,

30:56 Speaker 8: this is this is not me being afraid, This is

30:58 Speaker 8: me being excited. I feel that emotion. You know, other

31:02 Speaker 8: people tell you that that's that's fear that you're feeling

31:04 Speaker 8: that way, but they're not in your meat too, they

31:05 Speaker 8: don't actually know what you're feeling, right exactly, you get

31:08 Speaker 8: to say that this moment, I'm not afraid, I'm excited excited. Yeah,

31:13 Speaker 8: and I'm worried that I might do it wrong, but

31:15 Speaker 8: I'm gonna have so much fun that it's okay. Yeah,

31:17 Speaker 8: I'm gonna be have more fun than I'm gonna be scared.

31:20 Speaker 5: It's ultimately, it's a good kind of nervous, you know.

31:22 Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, psych yourself, lie, lie until you believe.

31:26 Speaker 5: It, right, Yeah, exactly, exactly.

31:29 Speaker 8: Yeah, And that what they're teaching is now these days

31:32 Speaker 8: and you.

31:33 Speaker 5: Said, Rachel, you said you used to be a smoker. Yes,

31:35 Speaker 5: how do you quit? I'm curious because I'm a hypnotherapist,

31:38 Speaker 5: I help people quit smoking. So whenever someone tells me

31:40 Speaker 5: they used to be a smoker, I'm like, oh, how'd

31:41 Speaker 5: you quit?

31:43 Speaker 8: Well, first of all, I was a nurse for eighteen years,

31:45 Speaker 8: and so there would be many and I was icy

31:47 Speaker 8: nurse and a dialysis nurse, so there'd be many shifts

31:49 Speaker 8: that I would go twelve to eighteen hours without being

31:51 Speaker 8: able to smoke. So I've got some pretty good control

31:54 Speaker 8: over stuff when I have control, but I also have

31:57 Speaker 8: an inability or ability to have no control.

31:59 Speaker 2: Yeah.

32:00 Speaker 8: Being said, when we started doing running around the country,

32:04 Speaker 8: smoking as expensive, and I smoked mentals and my throat

32:08 Speaker 8: started burning a lot. And then so we started smoking

32:11 Speaker 8: his cigarettes to save money, and we would share because

32:14 Speaker 8: I didn't smoke quite as much. And then we started

32:16 Speaker 8: smoking a loose leave and we were smoking out of

32:17 Speaker 8: a pipe because it was just even that cheaper, And

32:20 Speaker 8: it got down to the point where we were literally

32:22 Speaker 8: smoking the equivalent of three cigarettes a day between the

32:24 Speaker 8: two of us out of a pipe. So it's messy,

32:27 Speaker 8: it stinks only sometimes, but it wasn't nearly as pleasurable

32:32 Speaker 8: as we wanted it to be. As we remembered it

32:34 Speaker 8: being when we first started smoking, and so you guys

32:37 Speaker 8: to the point that you were like, why are you

32:39 Speaker 8: What we did is we went to we went to California.

32:40 Speaker 10: Yeah, I bought an ounce.

32:42 Speaker 8: We for like forty dollars. We bought two of three, And.

32:45 Speaker 2: I thought, every time I'm gonna every time I crave

32:47 Speaker 2: a tobacco, I'm gonna have my pre roll up here

32:51 Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna smoke until I need to lay down.

32:53 Speaker 5: There you go, And I did.

32:54 Speaker 2: About about a day into this process, I'm like, I'm

32:57 Speaker 2: pretty good. Yeah.

32:59 Speaker 14: Then you know, then I'm having crazy occasionally, but you know,

33:03 Speaker 14: once in a while, I'll be like, oh yeah, somebody's

33:04 Speaker 14: near us, and I'll take a job office because I

33:06 Speaker 14: still like the you know, it's pretty much not enough

33:08 Speaker 14: to smoke against it.

33:10 Speaker 1: Yeah.

33:11 Speaker 8: If I lived to seventy.

33:12 Speaker 2: Five, yeah, we're firing backyard.

33:14 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, maybe that long seventy five.

33:17 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, make it seventy five back again.

33:19 Speaker 5: Yeah.

33:21 Speaker 1: No.

33:21 Speaker 5: The thing is, though, like you were saying, once you

33:23 Speaker 5: get down now, like if you're smoking the equivalent of

33:25 Speaker 5: three cigarettes a day, it's like two of us, Like

33:28 Speaker 5: they were like, what are you doing?

33:29 Speaker 2: Man?

33:30 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. At that point, it's like, yeah, you might

33:32 Speaker 5: as well just be done with it.

33:33 Speaker 4: Yeah.

33:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, did you notice, like without smoking, did it change

33:37 Speaker 5: your like for either of you? Did it to change

33:40 Speaker 5: your voices or yeah?

33:42 Speaker 2: Gain twenty really yeah, and so I feel I feel

33:46 Speaker 2: like my voice is husky right now that it used

33:48 Speaker 2: to be.

33:48 Speaker 5: Oh really, I don't think for sure, but possibly. Oh

33:52 Speaker 5: that's interesting.

33:53 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, I haven't really noticed by different.

33:55 Speaker 7: Yeah.

33:56 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm most curious about that too. Yeah. Well, do

33:59 Speaker 5: you want to you want to play another one for

34:01 Speaker 5: the almost.

34:02 Speaker 2: At the end of the album like these times and

34:04 Speaker 2: then give them just sure? Yeah, because I mean we

34:09 Speaker 2: didn't have a game you Yeah.

34:11 Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's good to keep it loose for this show.

34:13 Speaker 5: That's kind of how we do it anyway.

34:15 Speaker 8: We never run with a set list, we try.

34:17 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, well, not not being chained to a set

34:21 Speaker 5: list that gives you some flexibility too, because you can

34:24 Speaker 5: kind of read the room and kind of figure out

34:25 Speaker 5: what you think people might want to hear and just

34:27 Speaker 5: what the vibe is, you know. Yeah.

34:29 Speaker 8: Well, unfortunately for him, I only knew a handful of

34:32 Speaker 8: songs because I was raised not allowed listening to secular

34:35 Speaker 8: music and so really Yeah, so there's a lot of

34:38 Speaker 8: songs you like, I have made it. I can sing,

34:40 Speaker 8: I can, but he's he's an encyclopedia of music. So yeah, mm.

34:47 Speaker 2: Was that curious. So this song is is kind of

34:57 Speaker 2: a song I want to preface this with. This song

35:00 Speaker 2: is about.

35:01 Speaker 5: Polarity, okay, and uh getting the fear and.

35:06 Speaker 8: It's about not picking this picking sides.

35:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, but this in my world, this is a song

35:12 Speaker 2: about you can I don't know, just love, try to

35:17 Speaker 2: love people, try to love your name, show that kind

35:20 Speaker 2: of thing. Yeah, because it's kind of it's a friend's

35:23 Speaker 2: language language.

35:25 Speaker 5: All right. No, I look forward to I look for

35:27 Speaker 5: to he in this one just a.

35:28 Speaker 2: Little bit, no worries. This is the last track that

35:31 Speaker 2: we have on the album that's ours okay, and it's

35:34 Speaker 2: immediately followed by that Johnny Hickman song Felt.

35:37 Speaker 5: The whole album around okay.

35:39 Speaker 2: So yeah, the first song and then starting over is

35:42 Speaker 2: kind of the middle way point where you get the

35:44 Speaker 2: boyl over six track six instantly okay. This is towards

35:48 Speaker 2: the end of the album, all right, song before I.

35:53 Speaker 5: To be safe worries. All Right, the Sift Ones live

35:57 Speaker 5: in studio.

36:49 Speaker 2: There's times at all.

36:50 Speaker 3: Let him understand these times at all.

36:54 Speaker 2: I of'm understand these times at all.

36:57 Speaker 3: Let him to understand this time sat.

37:00 Speaker 10: Everyone's offended, but everyone wants.

37:03 Speaker 3: To shut on understand there's times at all one's.

37:08 Speaker 10: Offended, but everyone wants.

37:10 Speaker 3: To shut don't understand there's times at all.

37:14 Speaker 13: Look over there, those things, they're over there, they're coming here.

37:23 Speaker 2: I don't understand, just don't understand.

37:26 Speaker 1: I don't understand.

37:28 Speaker 2: I just don't understand these times, these times, these times.

37:43 Speaker 2: But little understand these times at.

37:46 Speaker 3: All, understand these times at.

37:49 Speaker 2: All, But little understand these times at all.

37:53 Speaker 3: I don't understand these times at all.

37:57 Speaker 10: People needing forgiveness, People want to judge.

38:00 Speaker 3: I don't understand these times at all.

38:04 Speaker 10: People need and forgiveness, people want to judge.

38:07 Speaker 3: I don't understand these times at all.

38:10 Speaker 10: Look over there, I think if they're over there, they're almost.

38:21 Speaker 2: I just don't understand. I just don't understand, not these times,

38:35 Speaker 2: these times. Well, I of understand these times at all.

39:34 Speaker 3: I don't understand these times at all.

39:37 Speaker 2: Well lot of understand these times that are old.

39:41 Speaker 3: I don't understand these times at all.

39:44 Speaker 2: Well, yeah they got something, got something you want.

39:48 Speaker 3: I don't understand. There's times at all.

39:51 Speaker 2: Don't you got something that everyone wants?

39:55 Speaker 3: I don't understand there times at all.

39:58 Speaker 10: Look in the middle. I think they're always here, they're

40:03 Speaker 10: in the mid.

40:08 Speaker 2: I just don't understand. I just don't understand.

40:16 Speaker 15: Times, these times, these times. I have understand these times

40:26 Speaker 15: at all. I have understand these times at all. I

40:30 Speaker 15: understand these times at all.

40:33 Speaker 16: I haven't understand these times up, I haven't understand these

40:39 Speaker 16: times all.

40:47 Speaker 5: Wow, that is so good. That's right, that's right. The

40:54 Speaker 5: stiff Tones here with us live in studio sounding amazing.

40:58 Speaker 5: That was fantastic. That was fantastic. If you are just

41:01 Speaker 5: joining us, this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are

41:03 Speaker 5: live from the studios of w m n H ninety

41:06 Speaker 5: five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course

41:10 Speaker 5: you can stream us at Matt connorton dot com slash

41:13 Speaker 5: Live and yeah, great song and yeah, very very appropriate,

41:17 Speaker 5: I would say for the times that we're in.

41:20 Speaker 8: Certainly we started writing that in twenty fifteen.

41:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know what they're gonna do there this always, Yeah,

41:27 Speaker 2: we're gonna get every one of us fight each other

41:29 Speaker 2: for every damn Yeah, you know truth.

41:32 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, So in twenty sixteen it kind of really

41:35 Speaker 8: ping got to paper and I was up here in

41:38 Speaker 8: twenty twenty when or during the COVID in twenty twenty

41:42 Speaker 8: when we really you know, you started really seeing the

41:44 Speaker 8: polarity in the country where you know, like in polarity

41:47 Speaker 8: being everything, if there's something for us to stand against

41:49 Speaker 8: each other as regular folks all and yeah, yeah, we

41:53 Speaker 8: keep picking the wrong Yeah, we keep picking the wrong

41:55 Speaker 8: person to fight with. But anyway, and so twenty twenty

41:59 Speaker 8: four is when we finally released that song and it

42:02 Speaker 8: was nominated for Song of the Year for josh for

42:05 Speaker 8: Joshua and Joshua Tree, California.

42:08 Speaker 5: Oh Wow.

42:08 Speaker 8: It features Victor Krumanaker and Jonathan Tagle of Campra Van Beethoven's.

42:13 Speaker 2: Okay, So We're standing on shoulders of Giants yea, and

42:16 Speaker 2: Kyle Mayor.

42:17 Speaker 8: Of September Morning is on the drums on that and

42:19 Speaker 8: he also helped us do mixing mix and then on

42:22 Speaker 8: the album. Victor and Jonathan are both on a couple

42:24 Speaker 8: of songs on that, and then we have our we

42:26 Speaker 8: have several friends and Kyle's on drums and he's helping

42:28 Speaker 8: us with the mixing in the final.

42:30 Speaker 2: Engineering, we kind of went around the country getting all

42:32 Speaker 2: of our friends together to record all the different parts.

42:34 Speaker 8: The North Carolina favorites on there. We have Illinois people

42:38 Speaker 8: on there. Yeah, anywhere we could.

42:40 Speaker 2: It's been recording in the garages and basements and caves

42:43 Speaker 2: and Tanya the car. Yes, it might be the first

42:46 Speaker 2: album ever have tracks recorded in hearst. I don't know

42:48 Speaker 2: for sure, but because I mean it should be the

42:51 Speaker 2: stiff tones, I mean, I guess.

42:52 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean, there was enough Bruce sessions in

42:55 Speaker 8: there trying to burn and listening to right right anyway,

43:01 Speaker 8: how are we on time?

43:02 Speaker 6: We're good, We're good.

43:03 Speaker 5: We got probably probably do one more in a couple

43:06 Speaker 5: of minutes. I'm curious. So in terms of like I said,

43:09 Speaker 5: you know, because we talked about it a little bit earlier,

43:11 Speaker 5: this is such an unconventional approach, you know, travel in

43:13 Speaker 5: the country and ahearson and so forth and doing this.

43:16 Speaker 5: Is there anything that's really surprised you over these over

43:19 Speaker 5: these years, this news.

43:21 Speaker 2: Is a bunch of yeah, yes, that to answer your question, absolutely,

43:27 Speaker 2: you know, I thought, my god, California is crazy and

43:30 Speaker 2: we're gonna get there and it's gonna be all this

43:32 Speaker 2: these things and see on the news, right, it wasn't

43:34 Speaker 2: any of those things, right, thought the same thing about Texas.

43:38 Speaker 2: You know, oh god, Texas is going to be this

43:40 Speaker 2: way in South Code. I can name every state that

43:41 Speaker 2: we have and every place that we've been, and you

43:44 Speaker 2: think it's going to be a way and you're like, wow,

43:46 Speaker 2: you know what, people are just people in here.

43:49 Speaker 8: So but then also the other thing though, was that

43:51 Speaker 8: each individual state really is so individual. It's a contrary line.

43:56 Speaker 8: It really like things that you know, the landscape shift,

44:00 Speaker 8: that the culture shifts, you know, And that's the other

44:02 Speaker 8: thing that is seeing all of the different cultural differences

44:05 Speaker 8: just in even traditional rural America, you know, where you

44:10 Speaker 8: don't think that you have that culture, and there's so

44:14 Speaker 8: much the eclectics, the melting pot of it, like the beauty,

44:19 Speaker 8: the true, true raw beauty of what America the beautiful

44:23 Speaker 8: is melting pot.

44:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, that you can go.

44:26 Speaker 8: Anywhere everywhere here and see also the wonders of the world.

44:29 Speaker 8: I mean, we've been traveling for a couple of years now,

44:32 Speaker 8: and we scratch the surface, yea.

44:35 Speaker 2: But mostly the most surprising thing for me is, honestly

44:38 Speaker 2: is the fact that no matter how far you travel,

44:41 Speaker 2: where you go once and needs of people doesn't change, right.

44:44 Speaker 8: Right, the regular people like us, us people. Yeah, we're

44:48 Speaker 8: just regular people.

44:49 Speaker 5: Yeah.

44:50 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's beautiful and it's good to know. There's so

44:54 Speaker 8: much fear that's created like that sponsors and there are

44:56 Speaker 8: there are they're legitimately bad people out there, yes, but

44:59 Speaker 8: there's legitimately good people out there. You seek, you will

45:03 Speaker 8: find what you seek. So look for the good.

45:05 Speaker 2: Be the good.

45:06 Speaker 8: Do the good, you know, And if you I mean

45:07 Speaker 8: or of being a whole, I don't care. You can

45:09 Speaker 8: be an a whole. It's not up to me. Just

45:10 Speaker 8: if you want to be one over there.

45:12 Speaker 2: Right, We have a we actually have a song for

45:14 Speaker 2: that too, but that's that's on the album.

45:18 Speaker 8: We wrote that up here and we actually wrote that

45:20 Speaker 8: Harley Jackson.

45:22 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very cool. And do you have any advice

45:25 Speaker 5: for for people who not not necessarily want to buy hers,

45:28 Speaker 5: but just just for people who want to do what

45:30 Speaker 5: you do? You know a lot of young independent.

45:32 Speaker 10: Artist I do.

45:33 Speaker 2: I do, And I'll give you the first piece of

45:34 Speaker 2: advice that my friend Turk gave me right before we

45:37 Speaker 2: left on the emotion.

45:39 Speaker 3: Yeah.

45:39 Speaker 8: And then and then he died then he died.

45:41 Speaker 2: Oh wow, and he was young. He was all right,

45:43 Speaker 2: you know, I mean, but he's like he's but he

45:46 Speaker 2: was old just dead.

45:47 Speaker 5: Oh wow gone.

45:50 Speaker 2: So yeah, so as your question, yeah, man, make it happen. Yeah,

45:56 Speaker 2: make it happ and go for it. Do it, do

45:58 Speaker 2: it now, not later? Right?

46:02 Speaker 6: Yeah?

46:03 Speaker 2: Man?

46:04 Speaker 5: Do you want to you want to play one more?

46:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll play another unfraid. So this is the end,

46:08 Speaker 2: the end of the end of the album and this song.

46:10 Speaker 5: Okay, and this is.

46:14 Speaker 8: The name of the album. Is Existentialism on Main Street?

46:16 Speaker 3: Follow you do?

46:17 Speaker 5: Okay?

46:19 Speaker 4: It is.

46:21 Speaker 8: It's kind of we don't want to say it's a

46:22 Speaker 8: concept album, but it kind of is kind of. We

46:25 Speaker 8: have to plan each song and how they're going to

46:27 Speaker 8: be in track order and different things that they weren't

46:30 Speaker 8: written in secession or anything. But the plan is for

46:34 Speaker 8: you to put it on repeat all and when you

46:36 Speaker 8: get to the very last song, it should kick right

46:38 Speaker 8: back to the first song and you should feel like

46:41 Speaker 8: you just went on a journey that you can't want

46:42 Speaker 8: to go on again. Yeah, okay, that's that's kind of

46:46 Speaker 8: what our goal is.

46:46 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, nice The Stiff to.

46:50 Speaker 8: Fort mm hm h.

47:04 Speaker 1: M hm h m hm h.

47:21 Speaker 13: M hmmm.

47:24 Speaker 6: Mm hmm.

47:34 Speaker 17: Okyotes our streaming up all the rich.

47:42 Speaker 2: Another year is over.

47:44 Speaker 3: It's called nunters that breach. I don't know here, sunning, well,

47:53 Speaker 3: I guess I've got friend.

47:57 Speaker 2: Well, yess I do.

48:01 Speaker 3: Now five the winter is it and he's leaning old me.

48:14 Speaker 2: I don't want your money and I don't want your power.

48:21 Speaker 2: I don't want your love.

48:24 Speaker 3: I ain't got time for night when I shoulder unless

48:33 Speaker 3: it comes me.

48:37 Speaker 4: Listen, indeed, nar five the winter is it and he's

48:46 Speaker 4: leaning call me.

48:54 Speaker 3: She steps some biggers for love.

48:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, she used it.

48:59 Speaker 3: Well, shoot far of bit tonight the socc lemizl fire.

49:09 Speaker 3: The winter can't.

49:12 Speaker 2: Break your space. Love is a lesson. Love is a curse.

50:05 Speaker 11: Depends on the love has to witch all his words

50:10 Speaker 11: here through the seasons.

50:15 Speaker 3: I'm a sweet church is indeed now five the winter

50:26 Speaker 3: is here.

50:28 Speaker 2: And he's leaning.

50:30 Speaker 16: Hold me, who he's leading, Hold me when he's leaning,

50:45 Speaker 16: Hold me.

50:50 Speaker 3: When he's leaning on me.

51:08 Speaker 17: Cauties scream and oh, oh that is so good, that

51:25 Speaker 17: is so good.

51:25 Speaker 5: The stiff Ones live in studio here with us. Rachel

51:29 Speaker 5: and Shawn are here, and that was amazing. Thank you

51:31 Speaker 5: so much for coming in and playing absolutely now for

51:36 Speaker 5: our listeners who are tuning in live on Saturday. So

51:38 Speaker 5: where's your next show? Where are you off to? After this?

51:41 Speaker 8: We head to the roadhouse, uh, powerhouse, mall yeah, over

51:48 Speaker 8: in Levin in New Hampshire four and then or two

51:52 Speaker 8: wish to four, and then the following weekend we're at

51:54 Speaker 8: the Scutiny Festival over in Vermont, and then we head

51:58 Speaker 8: to New York And it'll be probably next year before

52:02 Speaker 8: we back up here again, but we come, We do

52:04 Speaker 8: try to come up. Yeah, we were considering coming up

52:06 Speaker 8: for snow season and helping shovel and we did spend that, Yeah,

52:10 Speaker 8: we really, Yeah, we spent a couple of winters up here.

52:12 Speaker 8: We did, like five winters. Like when I was a

52:14 Speaker 8: travel nurse. We specifically took contracts up here so I

52:17 Speaker 8: could be, you know, to help, you know with the shoveling.

52:19 Speaker 8: My dad and my wicked my wickedste mother. I've had

52:23 Speaker 8: some you know, health issues and stuff, and so her

52:26 Speaker 8: dad's like, oh that flat land up, yeah, shovel snow

52:30 Speaker 8: for real.

52:32 Speaker 5: Welcome to the Mountain Sun right right? Well, very good?

52:37 Speaker 5: And where should people go online to keep up with

52:39 Speaker 5: everything that you're doing. Where's the best place to go.

52:41 Speaker 8: The Stiff Tones dot com. Yeah, and we're very heavily

52:45 Speaker 8: active on Facebook. Yeah, we're gen x and so that's

52:48 Speaker 8: kind of you know, that's where we fell after my Space,

52:51 Speaker 8: and so that's where we're comfortable. Yeah, but I do

52:54 Speaker 8: we do have a website that I somewhat maintained, but

52:57 Speaker 8: our bands in Town link is on there. There's you

52:59 Speaker 8: can find links to everything, like if you're interested in

53:01 Speaker 8: your I G page and all that stuff.

53:02 Speaker 2: But you can also send hate mail at gmail dot com.

53:07 Speaker 8: We stepped on hate mails.

53:10 Speaker 5: Very good.

53:12 Speaker 8: Yeah, I like my coffee suite, my male bitter Yeah, yep,

53:17 Speaker 8: like that.

53:18 Speaker 5: Well, very good. Thank you so much. This has been

53:20 Speaker 5: wonderful and we are the time does go quickly, h

53:24 Speaker 5: I do want to remind people too, if you are

53:26 Speaker 5: listening live on Saturday, coming up at so at nine

53:29 Speaker 5: pm tonight, Yeah, we're going to be at Jewel to

53:32 Speaker 5: see under the Horizon and it's a it's a big event.

53:35 Speaker 5: Actually there's a three day event going on, but we're

53:37 Speaker 5: we're mainly going to see uh see them, and that's

53:40 Speaker 5: why we're twins today. We've got the matching Under the

53:42 Speaker 5: Horizon Shurts and uh and of course, uh scarecrow Hill

53:47 Speaker 5: is going to be there to another great band we've

53:48 Speaker 5: had on the show. And Uh, Jenny, do you want

53:50 Speaker 5: to mention your website. You've been up to a lot

53:52 Speaker 5: of stuff as usual.

53:54 Speaker 2: Man.

53:54 Speaker 18: The latest is up on the website, so go check

53:57 Speaker 18: it out at Jencoffee dot com, E N N C

54:00 Speaker 18: O F f U I dot com and see what

54:02 Speaker 18: kind of good trouble getting into good trouble.

54:06 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, and let's see. And of course, uh, if

54:09 Speaker 5: you miss any part of today's show, it will be

54:11 Speaker 5: up in just a little bit at w m n

54:12 Speaker 5: H radio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton

54:15 Speaker 5: dot com. And thank you everyone who joined us today,

54:18 Speaker 5: Lydia ready and uh Tony from Flair and again Rachel

54:22 Speaker 5: and Sean from the Stifftones, thank you both so much.

54:24 Speaker 2: Thank you.

54:25 Speaker 5: This has been wonderful and that's gonna do it for

54:27 Speaker 5: us for now. We hope to see a jewel tonight

54:29 Speaker 5: and uh.

54:31 Speaker 8: Go out and enjoy live music.

54:32 Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's very very important and we'll we'll talk to

54:34 Speaker 5: you a little bit later. By everybody,