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EP14 - In Tune with Mitchell Hall · Oh And One More Thing

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Some old friends facing our fears, laughing through the
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Oh. And one more thing.
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Hi. I'm Brian, welcome to.
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Oh, and one more thing. Hey, I'm Rob.
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Hey, how are you doing today? Brian Oh, I'm all right.
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Yeah, is, is your summer going well?
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Oh, it's going good. Good.
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We're getting out and see in the sun a little bit, having some
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fun. Good.
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It's gone fast. Oh yeah, I can't believe we're
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back. Right.
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Isn't that crazy? Yeah.
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So we're back a week earlier than I expected.
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Well, I know. It's been it's been way too
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long. It's been too long, so obviously
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I wanted to get back in the in the saddle again, but.
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Absolutely can't stay away. Yeah, why are we back so early?
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We have a special guest today. It's a bonus episode with a
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special guest, Mitchell Hall. Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
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Hi, Mitchell. How's it going?
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Hi, Mitchell. He's the headliner of his band
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Mitchell Hall in the Tennessee Trio.
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Welcome. What you tell us kind of a
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little bit about yourself, Mitchell?
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Well, not much. Just Johnny Cash tribute to this
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kind of the the bulk of how people know me.
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I've been doing it for a little over 8 years if you can believe
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that. A while it's yeah, that's.
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Time flies. Eight years already.
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A little over eight. Yeah, that's crazy.
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In May of 2017. OK.
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Very cool. So to give our listeners a
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little background on who Mitchell is, he's an old soul in
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a young body. I took this right off your
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website by the way. He loves old classic cars and
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fifties, 60s and 70s country music and rock'n'roll.
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Mitchell Hall brings a young Johnny Cash back to life with
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his spot on performances. The Tennessee Trio replicates
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the boom chicka boom sound that was uniquely Johnny Cash.
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The Tennessee Trio is made-up of Michael Ness on lead guitar,
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Dave Schwartz on drums, and Rich Pryder on bass guitar.
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So welcome to the show. Thank you for having me there,
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Brian and Rob. Yeah.
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So if we talk a little, how, how do we know Mitchell Wise
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Mitchell here and, and, and how do we know him?
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Oh, it's a long story. A long.
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It's a bad story too, no? Long, so it's.
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A great story. It's actually two parts.
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I mean, Brian and I both know Mitchell from show choir.
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Obviously, show choir. That's how you got your.
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Well, I actually knew Rob before show.
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Choir say I've known Mitchell quite a much longer time than
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that 'cause my side job in the winter is driving school bus and
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Mitchell was on my bus when I would fill in in.
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Yeah, this was back before I had a low voice.
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Yeah, this. Is I mean, I think I was trying
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to think about this today, how long?
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I mean, this was elementary school 'cause I started driving
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in 2008 mm hmm. And the first route I drove was
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your route out to where you live out the middle of nowhere.
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You're on the bus for an hour and. 1/2.
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You're on the bus forever, so we got to know each other 'cause
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you're the last stop most days and.
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First stop on and last stop off. Uncle Rob.
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Right, so I've known Mitchell a long, long time and and over the
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years through I'm just driving the bus and doing show car, I've
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gotten to know your family a little bit.
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Your sister Brittany. Yep, I would always pick on her
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'cause I always say. Oh, it's just easy.
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Well, it's easy 'cause she's easy to pick.
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On, but I'd go out with like Brian, right?
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Yeah, you guys, you pick on me way too much.
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We do. We do.
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But I was, I'll go up to her during show choir, give her a
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big hug. Brandy, it's so good to see you.
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You're my favorite. And then of course, I go to the
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very next person. Hi, Susie, give her a big hug.
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You're my favorite. Brandy would draw, would drop to
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the ground, but between just us 3 here and nobody else, she
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really was my favorite in show choir.
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So don't tell her that though. And we got to know your mom
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quite well too, because she volunteered for a lot of events.
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So you have a very, very cool and close knit family so.
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I appreciate that. That's great.
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And they're big supporters of you.
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Oh yeah. Yeah, Yep, Brian, you're you're,
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you're your type, your story now, I guess.
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OK, my story. Well, As for Show Core, of
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course we we knew to come there. But there was this time that I
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was doing the sets for the musicals at the high school and
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there was this young man sitting in the audience waiting for his
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sister. And lo and behold, it was you.
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And you came up to help me and we started building sets
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together. Oh, that's kind of cool.
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Nice. Did that and then there was one
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or two years did some stage true stuff with spotlights and stuff
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which was up on the crow's nest and we're doing that and of
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course our awesome stage true times and show choir.
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That's right. That's right.
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Good times. So what got you into music?
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That a very early age of probably 3 or so growing up with
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all the old school music, the 50s, sixties rock'n'roll,
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anything from the 1920s through the 80s of country music, 90s,
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early 2000s, anything from The Carter Family to Hank Williams
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to Johnny Cash to Alan Jackson and George Strait.
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Grew up with music. And then obviously in school I
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was in choir for from kindergarten through senior
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year, show choir for five years. So definitely got some music
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background there. I safe to assume Johnny Cash is
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your favorite. Yes, I mean, there's something
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to be said about the legends, you know, Johnny Cash and
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there's, there's so many great legends from back in the day.
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I mean, you couldn't name them all.
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They all had uniqueness and especially Johnny Cash.
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Do you focus primarily just only on Johnny Cash in your sets or
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do you kind of branch out a little bit?
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It's strictly a Johnny Cash tribute.
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Back when I had my first band, it was Johnny Cash tribute and
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then it branched out to Vintage Rock'n'roll, Elvis and Jerry Lee
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Lewis. And then we had Vintage Country,
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John Denver and some other artists that we did.
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So that I did a little bit. But at at the end of the day,
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when I first started that my first band out of high school, I
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wanted to do a Johnny Cash tribute, Strictly.
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And then after that band ended and I got this, my new band that
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I have now, that was my my big thing.
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OK, so there was a lot of music growing up, always something
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happening in in your household. Yes, yeah, there's there was
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always music being played and on the old big stereo that my dad
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had and the old vintage stereo from the 70s and playing CDs and
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stuff like that. It was it was pretty fun.
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That's. Cool, so in your opinion, what
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keeps Johnny Cash more relevant to the newer generations of
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fans? I would say it Johnny Cash is
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known for the the the later recordings that he did.
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That's how the younger generation knows him is.
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Yeah, when he got resurrected basically in his career in the
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late 90s and early 2000s before he passed away with American
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recordings with Rick Rubin doing some 9 inch nail covers.
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And you know, when the man comes around and and hurt, that's how
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Johnny Cash was kind of last remembered.
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But at the end of the day, Johnny Cash was really known for
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the heart of his career was that old country traditional train
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sound back in the 50s, sixties and early 70's.
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The 1st 25 years of his career was the biggest part of his
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career, which is what we replicate for the most part,
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especially the 50s and early 60s would a lot of his big hits were
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being recorded right? So you mentioned your first band
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earlier, and that was a lot of your high school friends, if I
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remember correctly. But so how did you get involved
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with your current band, the Tennessee Trio?
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I met my league guitar player and I retired drummer down at a
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small radio station down in KCHK 95.5 FM in New Prague and very
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great radio station. They had a, it's called LMF Live
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Musicians Friday. They've started it back in 2012.
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They've never missed a Friday. They've almost got 700 episodes,
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never missed a Friday. I've been on there a handful of
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times and every 100 episodes they'll have a big celebration.
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All these musicians will come down.
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They'll start at 5:00 in the morning and every band or
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musician gets 3 songs. So I met them in 2020 and it was
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LMF 404 hundredth celebration. And that's How I Met my my
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league guitar and my league guitar player and my drummer.
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And I did 3 songs with them and it was awesome.
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And at this point, the my first band was falling apart.
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People are going off to college and stuff like that.
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And I told him I said what my intention was, that I wanted to
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keep this band going, you know, come hell or high water.
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Yeah. And, you know, they're older
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gentlemen and almost retired, so they got nothing else better to
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do like Brian. I do this podcast.
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Yeah, so I told him what I you know, what I do with the Johnny
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Cash tribute and looking for league guitar player and some
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band members and the rest is history.
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Very cool. What's your favorite song to
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perform? Folsom Prison Blues by far.
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We just recently threw in some new songs here a few weeks back,
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and another good one. This is actually my first waltz
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that I've ever performed. It was a good night, Irene, and
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that's a classic waltz that a lot of old timers know.
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But it goes back. That song goes back to the late
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1800s. OK, like 1896 maybe.
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OK, cool. OK, so obviously you play
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guitar. We know that.
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Do you play any other instruments?
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I play a little bit of harmonica just for one song that we do on
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the show. So I wouldn't say, I mean, I
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play it, but I don't know more than one song.
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So I don't know if that's if that works or.
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I'd count it and then. Like drums I play train rhythm
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one with them so I don't flat Collins either but I I have a
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lot of people that don't don't realize that I I have picked up
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a bass a little bit throughout the years.
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I actually started upright bass first before electric bass.
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Really love upright bass. Yeah, that's cool playing the
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the slap rockabilly bass for like Johnny Cash and some other
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stuff. Electric bass I've transpose,
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which is a completely different animal going from upright to
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electric, right, or vice versa. But there's been a few acoustic
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shows that I've done locally. Once in a while I'll play bass
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and just kind of surprise the audience and they'll come up
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saying I didn't know he played bass, and then I say I didn't
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realize he played it either. So I I see have a Fender guitar.
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Is that do you have a favorite guitar?
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Is that just kind of what you're using right now?
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I don't really have a favorite guitar, but I mean country music
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and a lot of the old timers back in the day, 40s, fifties, 60s
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were it was always Martin's usually OK, but Fender is also
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well known for country music. Electric guitars for sure,
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Fender Telecasters and stuff. But Johnny Cash had one like
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this. OK, this isn't identical to what
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he had, but he had a black Fender guitar just like this,
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the same headstock and it was a full body, not a cutaway but
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pretty close. He had one like this in the 60s.
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It was black. Yeah, since you're trying to be
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more like Johnny Cash, of course you should have a good car
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guitar like him. Oh yeah, that's.
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Right. So I know you play a lot of gigs
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here kind of locally, but what's the farthest you've ever gone
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for a show? The farthest we've had in two
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years in a row. We had five shows and six shows
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in five days down in Vegas and Arizona, down in Mesa, AZ, Lake
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Havasu, Henderson, NV, which is right outside of Vegas.
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There's a couple other towns that they're blanking out, but
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been down there. We've done a couple side side
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Curb St. performances down in Nashville in front of the Ryman
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Auditorium, just for, yeah, shits and giggles.
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Just because you can. Just because you can, yeah.
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Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, why not?
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You know, it's something to talk about and put on the resume,
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right, if you will. What do?
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You What do you think the largest crowd is that you've
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had? Ballpark, I'd say well over 1000
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people oh wow and one of them actually unbelievably being a
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music in the park, which is unheard of.
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Oh yeah I think that was last year or two years ago down and
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can't remember it was Lakeville or Prior Lake.
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It was our first time there and it was, it was well over 800
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people, I'd say. Yeah, close to 1000.
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And then obviously you get county fairs and stuff, you got
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people rotating, but that's well over 1000 people and.
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We're going to talk a little bit about Simpson's Fest in a little
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bit, which is coming up in a couple days now, where this is
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dropping on Thursday until this weekend.
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You're playing at Stifton's Fest.
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There's a lot of people there. I mean, you draw a huge crowd
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there. I mean, it's that place is
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packed. It is.
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That's probably one of the bigger shows that I'm well known
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for is at Stifton's Fest. I've been there.
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This is either 7 or #8 as far as the year in the performance for
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me. I've been there consecutively.
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Yeah, I believe it is 8 years. OK.
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I think ever since I've started doing this, I think it's it
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sounds about right. Yeah, I know.
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We've seen you there quite a few times.
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And to let everybody know, Stifton Fest is a German
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festival in Norwood, young America.
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It's coming up well, this coming weekend, it's.
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Coming weekend 24th, 24th yeah so.
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In August. Yes, in August.
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Yep, we will. We will be there.
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Yep, absolutely. We're going to be there, Cheer
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Neon. That's right.
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Have you written any of your own music yet?
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I haven't written any. I've rewritten songs.
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Brian knows that too well. But yeah, there, there's been
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some Johnny Cash songs that I've, I've rewritten.
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I don't know if you if you, if you too remember Joseph Korkins.
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He was in my class. He'd passed away sophomore year,
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I believe it was, or early junior year of leukemia.
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OK, I do remember that, yes. Rewrote a Johnny Cash song
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called Give My Love to Rose to Give My Love to Joe Rewrote that
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one. And then last year when we had
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that historic flood with all the rain with the Minnesota River or
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the Mississippi too, I guess, but more than Minnesota, that
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Johnny Cash had a song with the same experience of flooding down
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in Arkansas with the Mississippi in 1937.
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And 13 years later, he wrote a song called 5 Feet High and
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Rising. And it was a very well known
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song, very good hit form. And last year, about a year ago
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now, a little over a year ago, I rewrote that to 10 Feet High and
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Rising, throwing in some of the Minnesota history of the 1965
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flood that we had. And then last year a lot of
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towns got flooded out, Mankato, Saint Peter and Henderson,
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Waterville, Henderson beat that 1965 record by a foot and 1/2.
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It was unreal. And Carver and Chaska shock be
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almost, almost beat it, but right.
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And then some of the verses I threw in with the the dam that
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broke down South of Mankato and then having the water rise even
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more, Right, Right. I I I ask you if you written
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your music yet, 'cause I the the one of the the very one of the
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most distinct first memories I have you singing a Johnny Cash
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tune is at show course spectacular.
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What you saying? I've been everywhere but you did
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the Minnesota counties. Yep.
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To me, that was just. I mean, I seriously sat there
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with my. Job unbelievable.
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Like why don't go first of all? How could he even remember all
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those counties and then get them to rhyme right in the song?
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It was amazing, yeah. Very super impressive.
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Super impressive. Yeah, that was kind of the the
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big start and stardom to the the whole thing 8 1/2 years ago.
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So what is your favorite part of performing?
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I would say it's. It's so unexplainable, like you
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can't put into words the best awesome thing.
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I love doing theaters and some of the big festivals are
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awesome. Like we're talking about
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Stiffens Fest in county fairs with a lot of people.
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But the theaters, because we we put up, we put on the show as
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you know, and you're telling a story, you're putting on a show,
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so you want people to sit there and watch the show.
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So the theaters is our bread and butter.
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The best thing is at the very end of the performance.
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And I've had a time in and time again standing ovations, but
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once they're up and hooting and hollering at the end of the
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show, the loud applause, the whistling, the hooting and
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hollering and I walk off stage, it's it's so awesome.
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That's going to be a great feeling.
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It is it's you can't put it into words.
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So what is the strangest thing that might have ever happened to
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you while you're on a stage? While I'm on stage.
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The strangest thing? Well, there's probably a couple
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things. There was one time down in
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Kenyon, MN that we were playing in the American Legion and right
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after the show got done, I threw my guitar over my shoulder to
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take it off and the part of the body of the guitar nailed me
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right in the eyebrow and I it gashed open, started bleeding.
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That's one way to end the show. Yeah, that is.
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And then there was another one, another time with our retired
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drummer. We were down in Cresco, IA in a
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theater, and about halfway through the performance he went
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to reach down for a drumstick or a setlist or something that fell
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down. I think it was a setlist that he
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had up on one of his drums. Well, when he reached down, he's
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on an elevated riser. You can see where this is going.
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Yeah. And, well, the one of the legs
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of his seat kicked back when he went to reach down.
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He didn't notice. Well, he went to sit back and
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fell back off the back of it. Yeah, fell off the back of the
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riser about a foot and 1/2 and. He was OK to continue
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performing. Oh yeah, rough and tumble.
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What's probably the toughest Johnny Cash song to perform?
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The toughest to perform, Oh boy. I would say maybe lyric wise,
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with a lot of words is probably the Ballad of Ira Hayes.
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That's a pretty lengthy, wordy song telling a story.
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There's no real traditional chorus, verse and all that.
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And this can be a little tough because you I know people know
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the song. So yeah, you don't want to screw
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it up, because if you do, what's?
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Happened they're. Going to point you out.
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Yeah. Hey, dude.
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Well, I, I hate when that happens.
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Like when you start the show, you get into like 2 songs and
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then you screw up like the third song of the show.
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It's like and this should be happening at the end of the show
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then. What do you do?
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Yeah, but yeah, as far as the hardest to play like guitar wise
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to remember that's got some not a traditional 3 chord song would
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probably be understand your man. OK, that's got kind of a weird
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chord progression, I I would say.
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Yeah. Do you do you play the same set
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list and you show it? You kind of try to mix?
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It up a little bit. Each year we change it up a
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little bit. You know, we'll take out songs
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and throw in songs we haven't played for right a year or two.
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But there's obviously the staples you have to play at
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every show, so oh. Yeah, you get your iconic songs
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that you got to. Play Ring of Fire, right?
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Yeah, obviously got to play that.
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Yep. You get tired of it.
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Oh, no, no, I never get tired of playing these songs.
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I mean, and the one most requested song that we that we
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get is either Orange Blossom Special with the harmonicas,
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Yeah, or I've been everywhere, everywhere.
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Could you do a little? I've been everywhere.
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Oh, I suppose I've been. Everywhere, man I've been
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everywhere, man. Cross deserts, Bear man.
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I breathe the mountain air. Man, I've traveled light at my
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chair. Man, I've been everywhere In
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Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow,
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Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama,
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Matabola Blue of the Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amaro took
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what about to get batted And I'm the killer.
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I've been everywhere, man, I've been everywhere.
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Man. Boston deserts Bear Man I
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breathe the mountain air. Man, I've traveled out at my
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sheer. Man, I've been everywhere.
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I've been to Boston. Charleston Dean.
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Louisiana, Washington. To Houston, the keys to.
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Tessa Can of Monterey Verde, Santa Fe Town Blues.
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Again, the rock black box. At the Rock.
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Horses. Tennessee Hennessy, Chief.
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The Keys. For Lake Randall Lake and.
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Those 3 Crater Lake Pizza. I've been free where, man?
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I've been everywhere, man. Boss it is.
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It's a bear, man. I breathe the mountain air, man.
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I've traveled out at my share, man.
21:06
I've been everywhere. I love that.
21:11
That is awesome. So you know, you've got groupies
21:15
in US, but do you have any other groupies that follow you around
21:18
from show to show? Oh.
21:18
Yeah, there's, there's plenty of groupies.
21:20
There's a couple that that are roadies.
21:23
They don't like being the roadies, but we make them be
21:24
roadies. Yeah.
21:26
These are your friends. They're the roadies.
21:28
I wouldn't. I suppose they're friends.
21:32
They might be listening to this. Yes, yes.
21:35
So I know you like old cars, like what's your follow you on
21:38
social media? What do you do?
21:39
I do, obviously. What's the car that you drive?
21:42
I drive a 1975 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that was my grandfather's
21:46
Oldsmobile that he bought brand new at Linda Olds in
21:49
Bloomington. And then my my father had it for
21:53
15 years and then now I've got it.
21:56
And and it's been restored at some point, I'm guessing.
21:58
It has not been restored. It's all really, it's all
22:00
original. That's original.
22:01
Yep, hold the buckets. You just you just see the good
22:03
size of the car when I take a picture.
22:06
A lot. So if you haven't, if you're not
22:08
following Mitchell yet, following what's your what's
22:10
your social medias? Mitchell Hall and the Tennessee
22:12
Trio, our Facebook page and then my personal page, Mitchell Hall.
22:15
OK, we've got our website where you can find all of our shows
22:17
and ticket links at Mitchell Hall and the Tennessee trio.com.
22:20
But going back to classic cars, I don't know if you know this,
22:23
but I've I've owned 7 classic cars at one time.
22:27
Really. I've had two collector John
22:28
Deere tractors. A total of classic cars I've had
22:31
in the last five years was 9 classic cars.
22:33
What were they? OK, you know you have to name
22:35
them all. Just name a couple of your your
22:36
favorites. Well, I mean, they're all
22:38
interesting. So the oldest I had was an
22:40
original 1922 Ford Model T Woody pickup truck.
22:44
That was original, original Minnesota vehicle.
22:47
I had the original Minnesota plate.
22:48
Oh wow. Well, that's amazing.
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A custom 1923 Ford Model TT bucket.
22:55
I had a 1929 Chevy hot rod that was custom built and then a 1953
23:01
Chevrolet 4 door sedan 210 had the old inline 6 that was all
23:05
original. A 1965 Pontiac Bonneville big
23:09
boat 4 door hardtop. Beautiful car turquoise paint.
23:13
And and you're saying had you don't have these anymore?
23:15
Had you should have bought them with your money.
23:17
I should have bought them, but you know, my dad had a car
23:21
collection. It just happened to be the die
23:23
cast model cars. That's all And.
23:28
Then but he had like 40 of them, so you know you're 9, his 40.
23:31
Is a lot, really, Yeah. It's kind of a wash.
23:33
Yeah, Then I had a, you know, Johnny Cash black Cadillac.
23:38
So I had a 1970 black Cadillac, 1970 Cadillac hearse.
23:45
That was really awesome. Mint condition.
23:46
All original did did. You drive the hearse around.
23:49
I did. That's awesome.
23:51
That's cool. Drove it to a drove it to a few
23:54
shows and then I had a the I have the 75 Olds.
23:59
My my first classic that I had was a 1978 Ford Ranchero.
24:04
The old pickup car body style similar to the El Camino and
24:08
then the newest classic car I had was a 1979 Lincoln Town Car
24:14
huge another big huge car and. Where are you finding all?
24:18
These most of them I found on Facebook marketplace.
24:21
There is a couple out of dealership like that Lincoln I
24:24
got at Apple, used Ford in Shakopee, but most of them have
24:28
been, you know, private owned on Facebook marketplace you can
24:32
find some good deals and and. Then are you spending time
24:35
restoring them to sell them again or what are you doing with
24:37
them? No, just I find them original.
24:40
That's how I like them all original or stock if you will.
24:44
They they may have been restored by someone or fixed up.
24:49
But no, I just buy them, drive them.
24:51
You know, you're going to have your typical, you know, fixer
24:55
uppers, right? You know, new tires or a fuel
24:58
pump or something like that. Yeah.
24:59
What if something people probably don't know about you?
25:01
Other than the cars. Other than the cars.
25:03
Other than the cars, well, like I mentioned earlier, you know,
25:05
playing bass, I would say something that they don't know
25:09
about me, man. I mean, I've been to a lot of
25:12
states between performing and show choir and then performing
25:16
with the band. I've been to Hawaii 5 times.
25:19
I've been to Canada 4 times, Florida a number of times so.
25:24
Are you performing in any of these other destinations?
25:27
Not Hawaii, I have not. Not Canada.
25:29
Not Florida. But you like to travel.
25:31
I love to travel. Yep.
25:33
The furthest I've traveled in the Midwest, We've been in the
25:37
Dakotas, we've been in Iowa and we've done one show in Wisconsin
25:40
on the furthest we've gone, which we actually have it booked
25:43
again this year, is 6 hours away up in Park River, ND It's about
25:49
45 minutes South of the Canadian border.
25:51
Okay, that. Pulls in a crowd, I'm sure the
25:54
whole town. I I've noticed you and I have a
25:58
significant other. I do you do I?
26:00
Does she like to travel as well? Yeah, she likes when she, when
26:03
she can, she'll, she'll tag along and she, she loves it.
26:08
She's a huge Johnny Cash fan. So I was one nice thing.
26:10
Yeah, having the the the similarities and right, every
26:13
once in a while when we're when we're at home and you got the
26:16
classic country music playing, it's like what I grew up with.
26:19
It's like finding someone that listens to that old stuff is
26:22
very hard to find. So rare.
26:24
It's like it's it doesn't get any better than that.
26:27
That music was also played in my house growing up, but my dad
26:29
played the accordion. And so when we were kids, we had
26:32
the same kind of music that you're playing today playing
26:35
throughout my house all the time.
26:36
Except the only difference is, Brian, is that when you listen
26:39
to it, it came out new. Hey, there is that, that is a
26:44
dig on my age. So I know off your website, you
26:49
mentioned in your events section that you're going down to
26:52
Memphis in November. Can you tell us about that?
26:54
Yeah. So that's probably one of the
26:56
most exciting things that we have.
26:58
We've we've recorded three CDs. The band has been together
27:02
almost five years. It'll be five years in
27:04
September. Mitchell and the Tennessee Trio,
27:05
we're recording our 4th CD down in Memphis and that'll be at Sun
27:10
Studios. Sun Records were.
27:12
Really. That's awesome.
27:13
Where Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, all of them have
27:16
recorded Robertson, Fats Domino, all all those great artists,
27:21
Charlie Rich and a lot of people that don't know this is that Sun
27:24
Records was closed for quite some time and they reopened it
27:28
in the mid 80s and they had the, the class of 55 go back there
27:32
and do like a reunion. So Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis,
27:35
Elvis or not Elvis, but did all that and they reopened it for a
27:38
tourist and and put it as a National Monument if you will.
27:42
But you can still go in there and record if you want.
27:45
It's not a full up and running record company like I was back
27:49
in the day. But the cool thing with us going
27:52
down there is that they still have you stand in the same spots
27:57
where everybody else stood in that room.
28:00
Sam Phillips, that the the the owner and the founder of Sun
28:04
Records, all the artists, the singer, the guitar player stood
28:08
in the same spots where he thought the best sound was.
28:12
So that's where that's. Where you get to stand.
28:15
We'll literally be standing where all the legends were when
28:18
Sam, before Sam Phillips passed away, he had five original
28:22
microphones that he used in the recordings that he brought back
28:26
to sun Records that are used on these recordings.
28:29
So you may use a microphone that Johnny Cash used back in the
28:34
day. So the nostalgia of all of that
28:37
and you being there, it's got to be just thrilling.
28:40
It's awesome. And then getting to that, is
28:43
that when the studio shut down and they moved buildings?
28:46
Yeah. From what I understand is that
28:48
there were some other contractors and people that have
28:51
bought the building or rented it out.
28:52
From what I hear, that might have been like an auto mechanic
28:55
or a laundromat that was in the building.
28:57
They never changed anything. The, the tiles that you know,
29:00
the sound tiles that are on the walls, on the ceilings, the
29:04
floor tiling, literally the entire building is original to
29:08
the day that he opened it. So if only the walls could talk.
29:11
So when we're down there recording, we're recording
29:13
literally with the same tiles that Johnny Cash and all these
29:17
other ones recorded with 70 years ago.
29:20
It's. That's so cool.
29:22
It's about as vintage and authentic as you can get, yeah.
29:25
Take lots of pictures. Get some video.
29:27
Put it on the website. On the website for sure.
29:29
So couple more things before we go.
29:31
What advice would you give to an aspiring new musical artist?
29:34
I would say to to definitely, if they're a singer to keep
29:39
singing. Singing is awesome, but your
29:42
vocal cords is a muscle. You know, if you don't use it,
29:45
you lose it. And then as far as instrument is
29:49
to, you know, you're going to play guitar to play an acoustic
29:52
guitar guitar before you go to an electric just because you got
29:55
steel strings that are thicker and harder to play on a, on a,
29:58
an acoustic guitar. So you can build up your
30:01
calluses on your fingers. So then when you go to an
30:03
electric, it's a piece of cake. If you go to electric first your
30:07
fingers don't get that built up, but then you go to an acoustic
30:09
and it almost tears your fingers apart.
30:11
That's why calluses are on all the guitar player fingers.
30:15
Yep, and it just takes time, you know, to build those up.
30:18
When I first started learning and playing guitar, it was not
30:21
fun. It, it hurt.
30:23
You know, there's when we, because we haven't done a lot of
30:26
shows in the winter in the last couple of years.
30:29
It's it's hard to get people to, to drive out in the winter.
30:32
It's a pain hauling equipment in and out of venues when it's
30:35
cold, you know, you got blizzards and whatnot and
30:38
traveling to the venues. That was never a problem with
30:40
Show Clear. There's never a Blizzard in
30:43
Minnesota. In February.
30:44
In February? Never, never, never.
30:49
So do you want to take a moment, plug any event or show coming up
30:53
that we can see you live? Yeah, I know locally we've been
30:56
talking about Stiffens fast. Stiffens Fast.
31:00
I think it's the Minnesota's oldest festival and it it's just
31:04
a great, great time. Huge music tent, a lot of
31:07
people, a lot of beer, a lot of burgers.
31:09
Yep, the burgers are great, but a lot of great music.
31:11
You got polka, you got country, you got rock'n'roll, little bit
31:14
of everything. Yeah.
31:15
Now you, I'm gonna, the way I'm gonna phrase this is you kind of
31:17
open for Johnny Holman if you've been in the upper Midwest,
31:20
Johnny Holmes has been around for 50 flipping years.
31:22
Yep. And there's a huge, huge
31:23
following. So I mean that just in and of
31:25
itself, to open for him is kind of a kind of a big deal.
31:27
Yes, there's been a three big bands that we've opened for that
31:30
we've had the honor is Johnny Holmes.
31:32
We've opened for him, Yeah, quite a few times at the McLeod
31:35
County Fair, will be there again this year.
31:37
We've opened for the White side walls.
31:39
They've been around for years. And then one other performance
31:43
we did a couple years ago was open for Frankie Ballard.
31:45
He was a country musician, pretty well known back in the
31:50
2000s. I believe.
31:51
Yeah, I think I heard of them. Yeah, our biggest thing coming
31:54
up right now is, is the Sun, Sun Records.
31:56
And we're doing 10 songs on that album, and it'll be all Sun
32:00
record songs that he recorded back from 1955 through 1958
32:05
before he left and went to Columbia Records.
32:07
OK. Cool.
32:07
And when can we expect that out that CD?
32:10
Well, we're recording it in November, so if everything goes
32:13
right, hopefully by the end of the year I would say.
32:15
OK, great. I'm getting one.
32:17
By going back to the authentic too, just to throw this in is
32:20
the the recording equipment that they're using half of it is
32:23
digital and digital is great. It's got, it's awesome, right?
32:27
Stuff, you know, you're not wasting tape like it was back in
32:30
the day where you were limited on takes.
32:32
But the the mix is 5050. Half of it is digital, half of
32:36
it is still the original or one of their pieces of the original
32:40
analog mixtures that Sam Phillips used back in the day.
32:43
Yeah. That's cool, so, and it has a
32:45
different sound to it too. I mean, it does.
32:48
There's something to be said about the old school music.
32:52
I mean, when you play something on YouTube, something on a
32:55
record, on vinyl, there's just something about that sound that
32:58
you just don't get anymore. Right.
33:00
I mean, I asked for a record player by five years ago for
33:02
Christmas and it just, it just has such a different sound to
33:04
it. Just it's phenomenal.
33:05
Oh, did you get a record player for Christmas?
33:08
Did. Well, that was awesome,
33:11
Mitchell, thank you so much for hanging.
33:12
Out Thank you. Thank you for having us a great
33:14
looking for you. I should say look.
33:16
Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of days and everybody
33:17
if you I have if you have don't have plans this weekend stiffed
33:20
in the fest and Saturday check out Mitchell Hall in the
33:22
Tennessee trail a phenomenal ban.
33:24
Then live out new Germany. I'm sorry, new Germany, Norwood
33:27
young America. It's close next time over plug
33:31
your socials again really quick. Where?
33:32
Where can we find you? Yes, on Facebook, Mitch Hall in
33:34
the Tennessee Trio, our Facebook page and then Mitch Hall in the
33:37
Tennessee trio.com. You can go on there and find our
33:40
our shows, our ticket links. So we do have a merchandise tab
33:43
on there you can buy. We've got T-shirts, we've got
33:45
ball caps, we've got tank tops. We've got our three CDs, our 4th
33:48
1 coming out sometime at the end of the year.
33:51
A lot of great stuff. Awesome, looking forward to.
33:53
It As always, please follow us on the socials at O and One More
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O And one more thing, check out Mitchell Hall on the Tennessee
34:12
Trio every chance you get. They're fun to watch and a
34:15
great, great fun to listen to. That's it everyone.
34:18
Hey, play one more song for us before we go.
34:20
I think so. That's awesome.
34:22
Bye. Thanks everyone.
34:23
Bye. Hello here's a burning thing and
34:30
makes a fiery ring bound my wild desire I fell into ring a fire I
34:45
fell into a Ring of Fire. I went down, down, down and the
34:51
flames went higher. Edit Barnes, Barnes, Barnes.
34:56
The Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire I fell.
35:03
Into a burning ring of. Fire.
35:06
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher.
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Edit Barnes Barnes Barnes The Ring of Fire Drink fire The
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taste I love is sweet. When hearts like ours meet I
35:28
Before you like a child. Oh, but the fire went wild, I.
35:37
I fell into a burning. Ring of Fire I went down, down,
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down and the flames went higher and it burns, burns, burns the
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Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire I fell into a burning Ring of Fire
35:59
I went down, down, down and a. Flames went higher and it.
36:04
Barnes, Barnes Barnes The Ring of Fire, The Ring of Fire and it
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Barnes, Barnes, Barnes, The Ring of Fire, The Ring of Fire.
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Awesome. You know, I accidentally put
36:32
cayenne pepper in my coffee. Now that really was a burning
36:34
Ring of Fire.