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  SPEAKER_00: It's EHM All Access as we get ready for this year's Stag Harbor American Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many great performances all throughout the village.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kicks off on Thursday the 24th through Sunday the 27th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And happening on that Saturday in the alley, as you wander through the beautiful village of Stag Harbor at 5 30 p.m., you'll hear uh Dozot St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marie performing at the stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to welcome in the other members of the band.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh welcome in Matt and Heather.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Dozot St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marie.
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  SPEAKER_00: How are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're doing great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to ask, because you guys are based out in Los Angeles, not touring all around.
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  SPEAKER_00: How did you first hear and get involved with the other Sag Harbor Music Festival?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm actually playing with another artist at the fest.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember the name of the stage.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're playing at 2 30 with uh Jesse Altman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm playing with her earlier.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm doing a double duty that day.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's how we heard about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I had not heard about Sag Harbor Music Fest before, but then looking into it, this looks incredible.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're super excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's going to be our last day of tour, so that's kind of celebrate.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a cool way to go out with a bang.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's a beautiful village.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you're really going to enjoy uh fingers crossed for excellent weather that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh chance to, we're sitting down with a whole bunch of different acts and getting to know them a bit and learning about uh where they came from.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I guess let's start because I know you guys are based out in Los Angeles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, where did you guys meet?
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  SPEAKER_00: How did you guys first uh get together as a duo?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I graduated from high school and went up to art school.
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  SPEAKER_01: I grew up in a small town in South Louisiana where everybody knows everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I decided to go somewhere where I didn't know anyone, and I got there and realized that I didn't know anybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that uh someone in my class said that the uh a high school senior was putting a band together, and I thought that's a great way to meet people.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I auditioned for his band, and we've been singing together ever since.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now we're both from Louisiana originally.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's funny because I was trying to place the accent for a sec there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, wait a sec, that's not uh and then this is very cool to get you guys on on together.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess let's start.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you're both from Louisiana, you grew up there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where how did you guys kind of get involved with music?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to take that individually, Matt and Heather.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I was like she was saying, I was already forming a band.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I knew that that was kind of what I wanted to do and looking for a singer, and uh she was referred by somebody in the band, I think, and um got her out to audition and was kind of blown away with just how loud she is.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's she's a petite thing, but then very loud.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it was uh it was a rock band at the time, so kind of a heavy melodic rock band, and so it was a perfect fit.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we just started touring.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I don't remember exactly how that happened, but we just did it.
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  SPEAKER_02: We started touring, it became like you know, regionally, you know, you start in your hometown, you build it up, and then it gets regional, and it just kept going outward and outward until you know, at some point we were going playing out in Hollywood, you know, we go out and play the whiskey or troubadour every few months or so.
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  SPEAKER_02: We were just kids, you know, didn't have a whole lot of responsibility, so we'd just just go, you know, do silly things like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um, but that kind of led to us getting a nice network of um music industry people in Hollywood.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it kind of you know formed the basis of us being able to move out in 2002.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, had you guys always done that growing up, what did you guys uh get involved with as far as music was?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, were you interested in in singing and performing even as a child?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or um I when I was very little, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I guess I kind of put it in the back of my mind like that's such a silly dream.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then um, but I was always in like high school band, I played French horn for many years.
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  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, then I'd never ever sung in public, and our school had a fundraiser and everyone had to participate.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I said, Okay, I'll just sing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was so naive, I handed a CD to the jazz band.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, learn this song, and never even rehearsed with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then got out there in front of 2,000 people, and I was like, oh no.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I closed my eyes and I sang my heart out and got a standing ovation, and then I was like hooked.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said, This is fun, I love this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, when I got up there and I joined the band, that was the first actual band I had ever been in, and it was just it's been no looking back ever since.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did you each uh grow up listening to?
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  SPEAKER_00: What were kind of your some of your influences?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, my mom was a big Beatles fan, so I loved the Beatles, I loved Queen, um, a lot of that kind of classic rock, big vocals, you know, Phil Collins and Genesis kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, my brothers were 10 and 11 years older, so I listened to their music, which was classic rock too.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, a lot of Boston, um, which really tracks because of all the um vocal harmonies and stuff that that's in our music.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then, you know, their uh Black Sabbath, you know, stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that kind of the the rock rock roots of our duo too.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you kind of blend them all together in your influences and you come up with this project.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, you guys have been it sounds like together for uh a while now, over a couple decades, because you said around 2002.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh what's that St.
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  SPEAKER_02: Marie is about 11 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, but still you've been working together.
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  SPEAKER_02: Correct.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: In different projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, how does the writing happen uh for you guys?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who um who kind of sits, do you do it together?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, where do the kind of songs come from?
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  SPEAKER_01: We both collaborate.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, sometimes it's an idea I have.
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  SPEAKER_01: More often than not, it's a a like a little reifator thing idea he's got.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we've just sit down and early on we realize that writing together is always going to be stronger than writing separately.
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  SPEAKER_01: And both of us put ego aside and we just try to let the song write itself.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we find that that creates the strongest, most impactful music.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been doing this for a bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: How does uh because it sounds like you guys have a lot of projects uh going on, playing with various uh different musicians and things.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you find the time to kind of make sure you focus on uh on the the songs for Dozat and St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marie?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it we're kind of behind on that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, it is, because we tour so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's really our our own touring habits that get in the way of our writing.
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  SPEAKER_02: You we don't really have a lot of other projects.
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  SPEAKER_02: I did so obviously I I took off 2023 to tour with Seal for the 30th.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was getting into that because it does seem like there's always there's always something kind of going on where you guys are keeping it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so there was that was 2023, and she was with us too.
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  SPEAKER_02: She joined, ended up joining the band later.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then we after that, we toured uh we jumped from there and toured Ireland, which I don't play with a lot of other artists.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just the fact that does that same rate tours so much that um we rarely have the time.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it it's for this whole time it's been just the two of us.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're we're the artists and the the business part.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, just this year we've picked up, we've now just picked up a manager.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so that's going to help a little bit because the problem is um doing the business and you know, the booking, for example, is like it takes up all the full-time jobs.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a full-time job.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so that's really been where the deficit in creative output.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so now that we have some help in that uh you know, booking and management, we're gonna be able to put out a lot more music.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, we have about eight, eight to ten songs that are in various stages of production.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, we were we were supposed to be in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: We had a whole week set up for uh recording that stuff, and then Sammy Hagar added one more date to because we were on the Sammy Hagar Best of All Worlds tour, and then we jumped from there to tour with Tiffany, and then we flew home.
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  SPEAKER_02: We were gonna be home for 10 days, and then but then Sammy called after two days and said, Hey, we got we're doing one more date in Colorado Springs.
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  SPEAKER_02: So he had to just throw stuff in a van and go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's amazing to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems very eclectic.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of different types of artists you guys are always working with or opening for.
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  SPEAKER_00: What have you learned from?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd imagine you learned a little bit from all of these different people because they've all of them have varied success, and it's interesting to see, I guess, how you're developing your own style from watching all of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is homework for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, for me, like I like to watch how people command the crowd, how they interact with the crowd, you know, how their delivery is, and you you kind of take notes of like, well, that maybe I could try that, or that's definitely not for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, but watching someone, um, especially of that top caliber definitely helps hone in on where you need to grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a great chance to see so many different performers.
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  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned you were on the SEAL tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what was that like as far as what did you learn from him as a performer?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, that was the first time that Heather and I ever got to be in a band that we weren't in charge of.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: We were actually just we were musicians in the band.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, but that that actually every opportunity that I take on, I take on because I want to grow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, I want something that challenges me.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh the SEAL thing definitely challenged me to uh, you know, and it was fun to go back and it's you know 30, 30 years, he's celebrating 30 years of his first two records.
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  SPEAKER_02: And um the producer, Trevor Horn, just genius, very, very famous producer, and he was the musical director in the band and the bass player in the band.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so they flew me to London to work uh closely with Trevor.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I got to uh just kind of open up the hood on those records and and hear all the multi-tracks and just everything that's going on.
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  SPEAKER_02: It gave me full access to that stuff, which really um it was eye-opening for me as the producer for Dozat St.
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  SPEAKER_02: Marie.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, it was just it was very inspiring.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would I would imagine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh what what a chance to kind of to learn it and grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you guys produce everything for your for this project yourselves.
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  SPEAKER_02: We do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, what a what a a great resource uh to be able to kind of see that and kind of move that.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a partnership that's been around for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh how does it work?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you mentioned you've got like eight or nine songs uh that are out there or you're putting together right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what do you guys want to do with this project?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it sounds like you're constantly touring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh is there kind of things you still want to kind of achieve with it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: I haven't gone to nearly enough countries.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
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  SPEAKER_01: We definitely want to tour the world, but um, you know, and just put out really good music.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, hopefully, after, I mean, in this day and age, it's better to put singles out because then you can focus on marketing that song and then you move to the next and the next.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but eventually I'd love to see us putting an album together, vinyl, you know, of all of our best.
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  SPEAKER_01: That'd be great.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, that sounds fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And coming to Sag Harbor Music Festival, which is a great chance to uh be a part of just a great weekend of music all over the village of Sag Harbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever been out here before?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or these this year.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, we're really excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, that'll be that'll be fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a chance to, I think, uh, in a way, um, to see a whole bunch of different because you it the one thing that I've noticed you are constantly doing shows, touring, um, and and on the road.
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  SPEAKER_00: How often do you get home and and how often are you on the road?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious, percentage-wise.
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  SPEAKER_01: A good year.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're usually out about nine months, but not straight.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll do a little bit, come home for a little bit, you know, and maybe like three trips around the US and maybe other countries.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it just varies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some years we're home more, some we're on the road all the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: You get a chance to see uh all of all this country and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: What have you noticed with live audiences?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like COVID changed it and it seems to be on the rise over the past couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what have you noticed um being in front of different audiences?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's that's how they've evolved over the past decade, say.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, I think we all took a dip for COVID.
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  SPEAKER_01: People got used to staying home and they kind of slowly ramped up, but I'm seeing it faster and faster now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Personally, I think it's because of all this AI music.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, AI is a great tool.
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  SPEAKER_01: We use it to help us, like, you know, route tours or come up with marketing plans.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good as a personal assistant, but it's never going to replace the human experience when you're creating.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's never going to replace a live show.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I see more and more people really enjoying coming to hear us live and being in the audience and you know, getting what Cajuns call the frissons when you get the goosebumps, you know, because you're just like there's something magical about being in that spot while something is being created between musicians and the crowd.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think it's great.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we're it's definitely growing.
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  SPEAKER_02: That'd say positive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You guys are from uh Louisiana, you said how often do you get home there as opposed to because I know I think you're based out in Los Angeles for for You know, on a good year when we're touring a couple times a year and we get to see everybody and perform and yeah, it's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, looking forward to seeing you guys on the Express uh Alley stage coming on that Saturday, the uh the 26th, 5 30 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that is happening, of course, uh Sag Harbor American Music Festival this year runs the 24th through the 27th and uh Dozat St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marie.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking forward to seeing you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: This will be fun and uh first time in in the Hamptons and Sag Harbor.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are excited.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can't wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't wait to meet you and thank you for uh for sitting down for a little bit, getting to know you a bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh we look forward to uh your performance and and good luck with everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good luck getting those songs recorded, and I can't wait to hear more from you in the future.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: See you next Saturday.