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The Scene - Episode One - Alyssa Keiser, Devon Sants, Clayton Ryan · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome, everyone.
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  You are listening to the scene with Dave and Bubba.
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  My name is Dave Holly, and I have my own podcast called the Dave Holly hour, which
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  focuses on arts and entertainment, which includes music.
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  But this podcast, the scene with Dave and Bubba, you're gonna hear a lot more music
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  because, well, Bubba is a musician, singer songwriter Bubba Startz.
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  How are you?
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  And don't forget concert promoter
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  as well.
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  You do it all.
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  Which is what we're here to do.
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  Right?
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  To not just promote myself and what I do musically, but to promote the rest of our local
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  scene and our, our more regional scene as well.
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  We're in a a very a very precarious geographical location here.
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  Lots of borders, lots of different towns, lots of different states.
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  Right?
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  So, when we say local, you know, it can stretch a few 100 miles in each direction, I think.
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  So Because, you know, we got the whole state of South Dakota cause we wanna give our due to the
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  West Coast, Northwest Iowa, and Southwest Minnesota, and, even down into Nebraska, you
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  know?
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  Correct.
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  And the Omaha area has a lot of great music going on.
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  But we're gonna focus on getting the people that really haven't had the chance to get a lot
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  of promotion behind them.
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  Right.
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  Well, we're gonna focus on people that I'm working with, especially, but growing from
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  there and, you know, mostly independent local singer songwriters and people who are forming
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  bands and are doing things and releasing things all independently right now.
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  And we wanna give them their due credit and, give them a little bit of press and publicity
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  where we can.
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  And also, you know, booking and promoting them in our shows and and things as well.
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  So it's kind of a full circle moment between this and all the shows and everything that
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  we're doing all weekend and connecting that with of the week and the rest of the arts
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  hopefully in the future.
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  Well, let's give people a sample of what they can hear on this show.
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  Tell us a little bit about Alyssa Kaiser.
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  Alyssa was just at our ladies night songwriters rounds in Mitchell at doctor Lucky's.
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  Great young singer songwriter.
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  I can't say enough good things about this young lady.
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  She came in and absolutely blew us away at the ladies night.
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  Her range was from doing a cover of Britney Spears toxic to her own, I would say very
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  Taylor Swift esque, song that I'm gonna introduce you to today called Seatbelt.
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  Easy to see the influence that Ms.
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  Swift has had on the world, when you listen to someone like Alyssa.
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  She's great.
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  She's very, very talented.
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  She's a very talented songwriter.
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  She's gonna do great things.
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  I know that she's going to Mount Marty University right now.
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  She's a volleyball player as well, so a student athlete.
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  And, she's staying really busy playing.
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  Yankton, Mitchell, we got her into some shows.
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  I know that she's trying to break into Sioux Falls and and our scene up here.
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  So we're definitely talking about working her into our other projects at Club David and
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  beyond.
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  So yeah, I think this song Seatbelt is a great encapsulation of what the scene is going to
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  look like over the next five years.
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  We have a lot of young ladies that are coming up.
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  Rowan Grace is another one from out in the in the Rapid City area, who's going to be coming
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  up.
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  She's releasing music.
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  Alyssa is right in that same vein.
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  It's pop.
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  It's rock.
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  She's got a lot of range.
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  And, I think she's a really talented songwriter, Dave.
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  I think you're really gonna like this song.
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  All right.
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  Here it is.
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  This is Seatbelt by Alyssa Kaiser.
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  Welcome back.
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  We just listened to Seatbelt by Alyssa Kaiser.
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  Dave, what did you think?
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  Oh, I when you were talking about, Taylor Swift and so forth, yeah, you could definitely get
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  it.
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  But, I guess I loved this song because of the way that it transitioned.
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  You know, there was a there was some fun stuff in there, Larry, but I'm always one of those
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  when I hear a young person because, you know, face it, I'm 61, and sometimes I think that,
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  music ended after Sinatra.
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  But so I'm always like, okay.
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  Why did they call it c oh, there it is.
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  And and then you get the hook.
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  And I just, always enjoy a fun tune like that.
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  She is, very talented, because that's a great song lyrically as the songwriter and as a
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  singer, it's there.
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  What a great start to the show.
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  Fantastic.
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  Yes.
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  Fantastic.
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  And I really wanted to start with a feature, you know, Alyssa, especially because she's
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  someone that we're new to working with.
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  Mhmm.
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  But she is the future of the scene.
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  And that's really why we started the podcast.
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  That's why we are doing so much work.
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  DBS entertainment doing so much work in the community to form songwriter nights, open mics,
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  and different things like this to foster this young talent that we have in the area to allow
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  them the space to become really great artists.
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  And I think this young lady is on a great path.
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  Another person that I think is well on their way being a great artist, and he's actually one
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  of mine and my wife Danielle's favorites, is Devin Santz.
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  This song that I'm gonna introduce you to, Dave, is called I'm Not a Hero.
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  This one is special to us, And I know it's special to Devin as well, because the
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  collaboration it was with some good friends of his.
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  Tyler Bills is a lead singer for Judd Hoos.
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  Chris Hoosengay is on this as well.
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  He goes Chris Graves.
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  They work together tirelessly on shows.
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  They they play a lot of duo shows together.
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  I know they recorded it with Tom Freer out at Cottonwood Recording, who's a good friend of
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  mine as well.
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  So it was kind of a celebration.
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  He shot an awesome music video for it.
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  They had a ton of fun with this.
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  And I think it really comes out in the song.
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  And the song is so poignant.
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  And you'll hear Devin's voice.
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  He's so unique.
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  He's the most unique voice and music today.
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  And his stage persona, everything is so cohesive and coherent.
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  It's really, he's got a great stage persona.
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  He's got great stage presence when you go see a live show.
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  And it comes out in his music videos, in his songwriting, and and in the song itself.
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  So with no further ado, I give you I'm Not a Hero by Devin Sans.
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  Can you play I'm Not a Hero?
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  Sure.
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  This one's for you.
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  No.
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  I'm not a hero.
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  All these words Alright.
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  Good job, everyone.
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  You know, Bumpa, sometimes there are songs that you listen to and you can envision where you
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  would really love to be listening to it, and that's when I wanna be on a country road,
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  windows down on a nice day, and turning the radio up high.
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  Maybe do an 11.
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  That's how, music should be listened to.
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  Yeah.
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  Man, that just gave me that vision, and such a a catchy tune.
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  Very understandable on the lyrics.
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  That's another thing that I I like quite often is that, you know, you can just sing along with
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  it after the first verse.
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  You're you're ready to go and say, hey.
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  Have you heard this guy?
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  You know, go ahead and listen to this Devon guy.
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  Yeah.
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  Wow.
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  It's great stuff.
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  And, you know, that's that's one of the focuses of, this show, the scene with Dave and Bubba.
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  Although, it really could be Bubba and Dave too.
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  But, what I love about it is the fact that it's originals that we're focusing on for the most
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  part.
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  When you get great lyrical things to go with great music, you know, there are so many things
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  that, don't happen right.
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  That's a great example of how music happens right.
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  And Devin is a is a powerhouse as far as, output goes.
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  He has a huge discography already.
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  He's always working and writing on more.
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  So yeah, if you're if you're going to follow someone you love original songwriting, you
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  love, a little bit different.
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  He can be a little darker sometimes too, with some of his themes, but he's as original as it
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  gets for me.
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  And guys like him are a big reason why I'm so focused on doing what we're doing now, building
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  the show, building the scene in general, because we got a good thing going on here right
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  now in South Dakota and in the region where I think not as many of us have that dream of
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  moving to Nashville and and doing that and playing for no money.
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  And I think we understand that there's some really good paying gigs around here.
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  And if we all kind of band together that we can do even bigger and better things.
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  And Devin's been a big part and a big believer of what we've been doing.
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  We've brought him out for some shows out here already and worked with him out in the Black
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  Hills as well.
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  He's from the Rapid City area now, originally from Colorado, but, I know he calls the Black
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  Hills home now.
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  So, yeah, he's a big focus of what we're gonna be doing this year.
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  So get used to seeing and hearing Devin Sands.
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  You mentioned, you know, the the dream of Nashville and getting down there and then
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  playing for nothing.
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  I have, family down in the Nashville area, and, my nephew is in two different bands.
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  One is an indie rock band, and the other is a Pearl Jam cover band.
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  Great bands.
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  And so one time I was talking to him, I said, so, you know, when you get a gig down there,
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  what do you guys take home for it?
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  And he laughs and says, if you want to play in Nashville on Broadway, you're usually having to
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  pay a stagehand, pay for the right to be on the stage, etcetera, etcetera.
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  It's like so different than what everybody imagines.
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  You know, we always wish anybody, especially when it comes to dreams, you wanna wish people
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  well.
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  I am I hate the people that wanna see people fail.
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  I wanna see everybody succeed.
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  Yeah.
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  As you mentioned, Devon already has quite a discography.
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  It's a great thing, and it's great that people do stick around and realize that either, a, you
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  can make your business out of what you love, or even if you don't make a living at it, you're
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  still gonna have plenty of opportunity.
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  Making an impact is the biggest thing to me where it might not make a living.
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  I don't know what it's going to do for us yet.
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  I just know that I'm being called to put my time into something greater than myself right
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  now.
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  Mhmm.
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  And if that means building out and and capitalizing on some opportunities that are
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  coming my way because of what my band happens to be doing right now, I'm trying to hold that
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  door open and to to bring everyone that's waiting in line outside and with me.
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  You know, there's no exclusivity to what we're doing either, Dave.
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  We're wide open.
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  We we wanna connect with everybody.
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  Yeah.
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  We do.
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  You know?
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  But also somebody I've talked with, you know, venue owners about is that not every
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  opportunity is for everyone either.
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  Right?
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  So I'm not going to be offended when my show that I want to bring to yours, you think just
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  doesn't fit demographically with your or the vibe of your place.
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  That's fine because we'll find a home for that, you know, but also there's a
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  new place.
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  Looking for?
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  Right.
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  Exactly.
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  For you.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you do you have some direction of what you want your vibe to be?
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  Because I think we can provide that.
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  I think the Sioux Falls area and the scene, you know, regionally, I think we can provide for
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  everything.
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  We have comedy.
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  We have theater.
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  We have country bands.
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  We have rock bands.
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  We have, you know, pop artists, not unlike Alyssa Kaiser, who we heard from earlier.
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  Yeah.
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  So there's a lot to offer in Sioux Falls and and South Dakota, you know, in the greater
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  area.
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  So we're really trying to bring that to light and and have this be a hub for artists to get
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  heard and then hopefully, get to build on their careers from the opportunities we can provide
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  here.
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  You are listening to the scene.
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  We hope that you are having a great time as we are listening to original music.
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  So the next one on the list, our final artist of the scene this week, Clayton Ryan.
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  Tell us about this.
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  Clayton's gonna blow up this year, and I'll tell you why.
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  The songwriting is out of this world.
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  And not only is the quality there, the quantity of it that he's putting out right now is
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  incredible.
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  I think I told you about it when we did our podcast together that he's writing a song a day
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  and posting it on his Instagram.
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  Right?
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  Even if each one isn't a full fledged song, you have all these ideas.
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  You're gonna have 365 ideas by the end of the that's a whole career, Dave, in my book.
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  So, yeah, he he's doing a lot.
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  He's in the Minneapolis area, and he's unbelievably talented.
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  I mean, that's that's the key.
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  And he works really hard.
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  He's got some great representation now, Coffee Break Entertainment, who DBS Entertainment is
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  going to be working closely with to bring more Minneapolis artists down here, but also to help
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  our South Dakota artists to get up into that bigger market and to build themselves a fan
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  base up there as well.
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  Clayton is the tip of the iceberg there.
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  He's really the best of us.
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  He's played, out in the Black Hills band, the Brandon Jones band, who, starts and ends, has a
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  little bit of a relationship with now.
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  And he's good friends also with Tom Freer out at Cottonwood Recording.
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  He was also featured on Triple Fine, my latest release, playing bass and singing along on some
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  on some backup vocals.
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  So Clayton's just a force.
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  You're gonna love this song.
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  Better man is something deeply personal to Clayton himself.
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  The song was written at a time before.
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  And then after leaving Los Angeles and after heartbreak and financial break, as he put it to
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  me, that he revised some of the lyrics, and it really became what it is now.
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  So I think you're really gonna like this one, Dave.
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  And this is Clayton Ryan.
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  Better man.
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  I was making up time, feeling low running high, my soul was headed southbound.
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  And I still ain't sure, but the love that I've earned got me feeling that I won the fight.
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  Well, my mind was heavy and my body was weary, held up by my bones and brain.
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  I was feeling mighty low like a flower couldn't grow with the sun being down
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  Don't get much better than that, Dave.
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  That is for sure.
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  Oh, my better man by Clayton Ryan.
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  That one blew me away.
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  And then while we were listening to that, you said he's 25 in the first well, actually, after
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  my mouth gaped open and gasped, it's like, that voice does not sound 25.
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  That has maturity in it that's been honed and just has such a great sound to it.
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  He is seasoned in every way and such an accomplished musician.
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  I mean, everything you heard on that song besides the drums on the piano was him.
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  Incredibly talented musician, incredibly good natured and good spirited man.
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  He is a better man.
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  I think he's the best of us right now.
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  He's got such a good thing going on.
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  He's got a great team.
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  I I really think he's gonna crack through, and that's what we're looking for is to help some
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  of these artists to to do that.
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  Right?
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  To make those opportunities for these beautiful songs to see the light
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  of day
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  and to do more than just throwing them out there on a on a playlist on Spotify.
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  Right?
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  To to give them some life, to talk about these artists, to get to know the people behind the
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  songs, and to then feature them hopefully on future interviews.
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  And a a lot of big plans for the show, Dave.
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  I think this was a great first episode.
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  I do too.
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  It's a nice little pilot for everybody to get an idea about what it's going to feature.
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  And, you know, the thing is, in just a moment, I'm gonna let you tell people, where they might
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  be able to see these artists live because a dear friend of mine, his favorite saying is,
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  live music is good for the soul.
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  Any of these three that we just played, I would love to see live.
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  Well, I think you're gonna get a chance to, Dave.
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  All three of these artists are people that I'm pretty close with.
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  Alyssa Kaiser plays a lot in the Yankton area.
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  We're talking about having her up at Club David for the first songwriter's night at Club David,
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  May 9.
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  We're working out some details, but hope to have her in for that one.
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  Devin Sance is gonna be in town April 27.
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  He's actually gonna be out at Mitchell at Doctor Lucky's for our gentlemen's songwriter
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  round now.
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  We had Alyssa for our ladies songwriters night.
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  Well, now Devin's going to be featured at that with his buddy, Chris Graves, and actually
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  another friend and a member of the Coffee Break Entertainment artist or roster of artists
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  rather is Samuel John.
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  So he'll be coming down to join us from the Minneapolis area and to really make that April
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  27 show something special.
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  He's actually taking the spot of Clayton Ryan, who had the opportunity to open up, at the
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  State Theater, I think, up there for one of big national act on the same date.
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  So he wasn't able to, come down here.
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  So we said, hey, buddy.
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  No no, no hard feelings here.
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  You guys send somebody down in your place that's new to us, and that's gonna work fine.
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  So, yeah, catch Clayton Ryan.
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  Best follow on Instagram.
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  He's writing a song a day, and, his schedule is mostly up in the Minneapolis area right now.
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  So if you're looking to get up and and see something in the cities, definitely check him
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  out and and find where he's at.
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  He'll be down visiting this summer.
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  We're working on some future dates yet, but with his schedule and things being as they are
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  rapidly accelerating for him, we're hoping to get him through later on this year.
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  And the great thing about that is, you know, when, I have a cancellation for my own podcast,
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  I have rules as to what I accept as a cancellation, a better paying gig, and
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  grandchildren.
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  There you go.
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  Yep.
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  If you if it's because any one of those two things, yeah, I'll let you buy.
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  We'll catch you on the flip flop there.
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  Well, Dave, I wanna thank you so much for taking some time with me and my my crazy ideas
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  here.
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  I love crazy ideas.
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  Hey.
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  This is the craziest of them all.
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  We thank you guys so much for listening out there.
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  And, yeah, help us grow this thing, and let's let's be better together.
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  We'll be back with more in the very, very near future.