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SPEAKER_00: It's the Itch and Breakfast Show with Harry getting ready for a fun weekend out at the Great South Bay Music Festival.
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SPEAKER_00: And so many great performers.
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SPEAKER_00: And kind of a mainstay of the festival year after year is Kerry Carney.
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SPEAKER_00: And back this uh Saturday, July 25th, on the main stage, kind of kicking things off on that day.
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SPEAKER_00: Carrie joining us.
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SPEAKER_00: How are you?
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SPEAKER_01: I'm doing great.
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SPEAKER_01: Harry Tech Lut.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: Yourself, doing good.
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SPEAKER_00: We're doing good.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being a part of we've done uh the battle for the Great South Bay over the past couple years.
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SPEAKER_00: You've been a great judge for it, and I appreciate that.
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SPEAKER_00: So thanks for everything you do there and kind of helping a lot of younger musicians, it feels like you're involved with uh over the past couple years, too.
0:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, it it's uh we we we gotta pass the torch, I always say.
0:43
SPEAKER_01: Make sure, you know what I mean?
0:44
SPEAKER_01: It's fun.
0:44
SPEAKER_01: And uh as long as they have a good a good upbringing in the music field, that's what it is.
0:49
SPEAKER_01: Get the right kind of music to them and stuff with that, too.
0:51
SPEAKER_01: There's so much stuff out there that a lot of young kids don't hear that I kind of try to bring with the classic rock, with the old blues, even some jazz, some folk.
0:59
SPEAKER_01: And it's funny how they listen to it, they're like, wow, this is great.
1:01
SPEAKER_01: And um, all they gotta do is be turned on to it, and then they, you know, they they really dig it.
1:05
SPEAKER_00: Well, of course, you were turned on by the the Beatles uh way back.
1:08
SPEAKER_00: And I how old were you?
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SPEAKER_00: Were you like three years old?
1:10
SPEAKER_00: I think I read when you first saw the Beatles.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: I was, yeah, it's funny.
1:15
SPEAKER_01: You know what's funny about it too is that I had nothing to gauge it against, and the specialness and just the um the greatness of the Beatles, but I didn't know who Elvis was, I didn't know who so-and-so was.
1:25
SPEAKER_01: So, but to me, it was just like an unbelievable thing.
1:27
SPEAKER_01: Seeing that that's how powerful they are, you know, they were still to stay.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what was about that performance that kind of just uh imprinted itself so strongly on you?
1:38
SPEAKER_01: You know, I think it was just the the music was great, they they looked interesting, you know, very different.
1:44
SPEAKER_01: But I I find that the music was really, really got me.
1:46
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the first song was uh you know, close your eyes, and I'm just that was the first uh first tune.
1:52
SPEAKER_01: And from that point on, and my brothers, they were all I'm the youngest in the family.
1:56
SPEAKER_01: My oldest brother's like he's 10 years older than I am, so he was about 13 at the time.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: So he had their album, like he had the first album, Meet the Beatles, that we had in the United States.
2:05
SPEAKER_01: So he'd play it all the time.
2:06
SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, I'd always tell him play the record again.
2:08
SPEAKER_01: He wouldn't let me touch it, but you know it's three.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: So it's funny talking.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: You're three years.
2:13
SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
2:13
SPEAKER_00: When did you how old were you when you first picked up a guitar?
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SPEAKER_01: You know, I wanted to then uh as a really, really young kid, but I mean, not really, really doing until maybe I was around 10.
2:24
SPEAKER_01: I really like learned a couple of chords and got it like that.
2:27
SPEAKER_01: But I was always it was between that and baseball.
2:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
2:30
SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
2:31
SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
2:32
SPEAKER_00: A guitar or a baseball bat.
2:34
SPEAKER_00: Uh I had older brothers that really love music too.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: And uh I find that there's a common theme talking to a lot of different musicians where um they really learn from their their brothers' record collections, so to speak.
2:43
SPEAKER_00: And I I feel like you're one of those too.
2:46
SPEAKER_00: What did you what did you listen to?
2:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, it's funny.
2:48
SPEAKER_01: Um so many friends, uh, they have their siblings too, and they have all we always used to bring albums over to each other's places and stuff.
2:57
SPEAKER_01: And um, but there was so much great stuff.
2:59
SPEAKER_01: But I remember when I was really, really young, Beach Boys were big, Peter, Paul, and Mary.
3:03
SPEAKER_01: One brother's really into folk.
3:05
SPEAKER_01: I have three older brothers, and they're all older than I am, obviously.
3:08
SPEAKER_01: But uh one was into folk, one was into like one was like a hippie type music, and one was do-ops.
3:14
SPEAKER_01: So he was like from like the 50s type stuff like that.
3:16
SPEAKER_01: So I got all the stuff, and my dad was a tinkerer, and he made a um a beautiful cabinet.
3:22
SPEAKER_01: It was called a Heath Kit at the time.
3:23
SPEAKER_01: It was just this big wood, it was like a thingy god kit, and he made that, and he had a beautiful Macintosh tube head we had.
3:31
SPEAKER_01: I remember that.
3:31
SPEAKER_01: If people are into audio, it it's it's tubes receiver, and that's what we had.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: So that was our thing, and it was really just an amazing like audiophile type of upbringing.
3:42
SPEAKER_01: How was that?
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SPEAKER_01: A great sound to it, but the records just never stopped.
3:45
SPEAKER_01: My brothers were like all into the top, the top 10, the top 100 at the time and stuff, you know, back back in those days with the old with the with the AM radio at the time, too.
3:53
SPEAKER_01: You know, it was big.
3:54
SPEAKER_00: Do you remember do you remember the first band you joined and how old are you?
3:59
SPEAKER_01: You know something?
4:00
SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
4:00
SPEAKER_01: I I was probably around maybe 11 or 12, maybe about 11 years old.
4:06
SPEAKER_01: A friend of mine, uh, he was in high school, he was a little older than I was, and he knew I played guitar when he said, Hey, Carrie, you you want to join a band?
4:13
SPEAKER_01: We're doing a band.
4:14
SPEAKER_01: I was like, sure, sounds great.
4:15
SPEAKER_01: I might have known maybe four chords, you know what I mean?
4:17
SPEAKER_01: But I was like, sounds good, sounds good.
4:18
SPEAKER_01: So we used to get together all the time.
4:20
SPEAKER_01: We play corrosos and dash music, uh, some stones, he loved stones, and uh a little bit of Beatles, and we we we just jammed, a couple friends were one guy played drums, baseball player, I play guitar, and um it was so much fun.
4:33
SPEAKER_01: It was like I just couldn't wait every day to you know to get with them and jam and stuff.
4:36
SPEAKER_01: So it was good.
4:37
SPEAKER_00: What was it like to try to figure out, especially that age, um, your career?
4:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh, because I obviously music's a tough, a tough career to it's not there's no real set path for.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: What was that like?
4:46
SPEAKER_00: Did you have other options?
4:47
SPEAKER_00: What were you thinking at the time?
4:48
SPEAKER_00: And kind of how did you decide to to make sure that you were doing music?
4:53
SPEAKER_01: You know, it I I I told story a million times.
4:56
SPEAKER_01: When I was in my early 20s, I was gonna be a policeman and I was already going to the um the academy.
5:02
SPEAKER_01: And um I was a photographer at the time, doing stuff at to make a living, actually, um, with a friend and uh doing like a lot of weddings and stuff like that.
5:10
SPEAKER_01: And I played the band also, I was doing stuff, but uh I had gotten a call from a friend of mine that was having a um a Toys at Tots benefit in San Francisco, and he was one of the Jefferson Starships road guys, pretty much.
5:25
SPEAKER_01: So we opened up for uh Canton Ballon and Cassenue called KBC, around 88, I think it was.
5:32
SPEAKER_01: And uh after I played, Marty Ballon came up to me and said, Wow, man, he sounded great.
5:36
SPEAKER_01: I thought he was being nice.
5:37
SPEAKER_01: I got it, you know.
5:38
SPEAKER_01: I was like, Oh, great.
5:39
SPEAKER_01: So a few months later, um a friend of mine called me from out there.
5:44
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Hey, how you doing?
5:45
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm not doing too good.
5:46
SPEAKER_01: Having a kind of a weird relationship back here with an old girlfriend of mine.
5:49
SPEAKER_01: And uh he says, Listen, why don't you go on a plane and come out?
5:51
SPEAKER_01: Just come on out.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: So pretty much that night I jumped on a plane.
5:56
SPEAKER_01: I never did it in my life with it, but I jumped on a plane, went to San Francisco, where he was out in Marin, and he ran this old church that Marty owned as a rehearsal hall, the church of San Anselmo, actually.
6:05
SPEAKER_01: And um, when I got there, he called Marty and said, Hey, that kid is here that you like.
6:09
SPEAKER_01: I was like 20, 27, whatever.
6:11
SPEAKER_01: And uh he came over, we played a little bit, had a couple cups of coffee.
6:15
SPEAKER_01: How are you doing?
6:15
SPEAKER_01: Blah, blah, blah.
6:16
SPEAKER_01: And then the next day he said, Listen, I'm coming back.
6:18
SPEAKER_01: You want to try some more music with me?
6:20
SPEAKER_01: I said, I'd love to.
6:21
SPEAKER_01: So he came back.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: Next day, we sat on the couch, and after he played, he said, Listen, I'm going on tour for three months.
6:26
SPEAKER_01: You want to be my guitar player.
6:28
SPEAKER_01: So I called back home and I said, Listen, I'm not coming back to New York for a little while.
6:32
SPEAKER_01: So I canned the whole police thing.
6:36
SPEAKER_01: But I ended up um, you know, we rehearsed for about three weeks, and I'm sitting on the couch at this big church, and all of a sudden, outside a big bus pulled by, tour bus, and they came and said, Carrie, I get it.
6:47
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Come on.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: So they got all my gear, threw it on the bus, and I didn't come over five years.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: That was it.
6:53
SPEAKER_01: I was yeah, pretty wild.
6:54
SPEAKER_00: Been doing it every time.
6:55
SPEAKER_01: But it was the most unbelievable.
6:56
SPEAKER_01: It was such a great um experience.
6:59
SPEAKER_01: I I highly recommend if everybody if they would get to that that area in in music to like just you know do that.
7:05
SPEAKER_01: It's really something that was really I and it really chose if you really I mean, there'd be like nights, I'd be on the road, it'd be like four nights in a row, we'd be going like 300 miles.
7:14
SPEAKER_01: I'm on the bus.
7:15
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't really sleep.
7:16
SPEAKER_01: I was like so jacked up a lot, a lot of coffee.
7:18
SPEAKER_01: And by like the third or fourth gig, I was like standing on the side of the stage saying to myself, am I gonna be able to do this?
7:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm so mad of it.
7:25
SPEAKER_01: But all of a sudden I get on and I get another bunch of adrenaline and it's it's great.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, it's really amazing.
7:29
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you know.
7:30
SPEAKER_01: So I knew that that was that was it for me.
7:32
SPEAKER_00: For sure.
7:32
SPEAKER_00: You said your style blends uh Delta, Chicago, Louisiana, jam-ban influences.
7:38
SPEAKER_00: Which of those are kind of central to your identity today?
7:41
SPEAKER_00: How have you evolved?
7:43
SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm always I can't say I'm always changing.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: It's always in the same realm of music, whether it's like folky stuff, whether it's Cajun.
7:51
SPEAKER_01: By the way, I'm doing a Cajun show at the Great South Bay.
7:54
SPEAKER_01: We're doing a little, I got a fiddle, I got accordion.
7:56
SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna incorporate what we do with that, which is gonna be a lot of fun.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: But I mean, I I I find I get a little bored with stuff, I think like all musicians do.
8:06
SPEAKER_01: And but I I try to keep the foundation and the basis of like the psycho delta stuff.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: Uh years ago, I played on a um with a Grateful Deadband, and I went up on the stage, I played slide with them, and as I got off, uh somebody said to me, goes, Wow, that was like psychedelica.
8:22
SPEAKER_01: And I said, That's I'm taking that, man.
8:24
SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
8:25
SPEAKER_01: And so I kind of like wanted to fuse together like that whole thing, like that kind of classic rock, jam band type thing with you know, blues, with you know, uh stuff in Louisiana, the Cajun, the all that stuff like that, Chicago, Texas.
8:40
SPEAKER_01: And um, it it's all, I mean, so many bands have done it, but they don't really label it.
8:44
SPEAKER_01: It's all just you know, rock and blues, you know what I mean?
8:46
SPEAKER_01: From you know, Johnny Winter to you know, Little Feet to whoever, Allman Brothers, obviously, you know, so it's all out there.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: Well, the Almond Brothers, they were a pretty big influence on you, I'd imagine, right?
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Because you were around them for a bit.
8:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, it's it's it's something.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: I uh when I was very young, I really got turned on by the slide and I started playing, trying to figure it out.
9:06
SPEAKER_01: My brother one day showed me how to do it, and um, I got kind of into it and stuff like that and kind of kept playing and playing and playing.
9:11
SPEAKER_01: And and I made an album, I made a CD called Blow Your House Down back in '99.
9:17
SPEAKER_01: No, no, I'm sorry, '96.
9:19
SPEAKER_01: And a friend of mine was a doctor for uh for Ron Delsner.
9:24
SPEAKER_01: What he would do is he would be on call on the shows.
9:27
SPEAKER_01: And so what I did was I uh he gave the and he helped me finance a CD.
9:31
SPEAKER_01: We made the CD, he gave it to uh John Paul Dell's name was he was the manager and agent for the Alman Brothers, not the bad, but the agent actually for the Alman Brothers.
9:40
SPEAKER_01: And one day I got a phone call about a week later.
9:42
SPEAKER_01: I'm laying in bed, and this guy calls me in the morning and he's like, Hey, Gary, what's going on?
9:47
SPEAKER_01: He's kind of funny how he talks.
9:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I was like, Hey, how you doing?
9:49
SPEAKER_01: I had no idea who it was.
9:50
SPEAKER_01: I was half asleep.
9:51
SPEAKER_01: And he says, Listen, man, I love that slidey stuff.
9:53
SPEAKER_01: I got the CD, I'm gonna listen to it later.
9:55
SPEAKER_01: I'll call you back later.
9:57
SPEAKER_01: So all of a sudden, bang! And it was, and I'm my friend called me, the doctor.
10:01
SPEAKER_01: He said, Did he call you?
10:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, who?
10:03
SPEAKER_01: And he goes, That's the Allman Brothers agent.
10:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, holy smoke.
10:06
SPEAKER_01: So I got together with him.
10:08
SPEAKER_01: We went up town, we had a little dinner at a restaurant up there, blah, blah.
10:12
SPEAKER_01: So he says, Listen, all you need is one label, and we're gonna get that, we're gonna check it out.
10:17
SPEAKER_01: So he got me a label at Manny's car wash up uptown.
10:21
SPEAKER_01: It used to be his great, great blues club up there back in the back in the day.
10:24
SPEAKER_01: And so a couple of guys came in, said hi, we're from Red Company, we want to see you.
10:28
SPEAKER_01: So we went out.
10:29
SPEAKER_01: I played about three or four notes, and it was really crowded.
10:32
SPEAKER_01: I saw those guys walking towards the door, and they were leaving.
10:35
SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, I guess you kind of blew that.
10:37
SPEAKER_01: But that Monday, I was signed a record deal with them.
10:39
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: So it was great.
10:41
SPEAKER_01: And he put us, he put us out there.
10:42
SPEAKER_01: He put it, John put us out, John Paul Dell, with your own brothers who did the NASCAR rocks tour.
10:47
SPEAKER_01: We started on smaller stages, kind of things, then we graduated to the big stage when we got to Atlantic City.
10:53
SPEAKER_01: And that was a big, you know, my whole hometown came and buses.
10:57
SPEAKER_01: They all came to the big show.
10:58
SPEAKER_01: And so we would have to wait for a while.
10:59
SPEAKER_01: And then Dickie Betts, too.
11:01
SPEAKER_01: I got onto his tour.
11:02
SPEAKER_01: We were with him for a while that whole summer after that.
11:04
SPEAKER_01: And that was a lot of fun, too.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: Did you learn something from watching them perform as far as kind of that's influenced you to this day, as far as seeing them on stage and night after night?
11:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know what it is?
11:15
SPEAKER_01: The professionalism of all those bands, I find, is that they um they have a lot of respect for each other.
11:21
SPEAKER_01: Number one, the the stage volume is very low, which is amazing.
11:25
SPEAKER_01: When you always see a band, you're always like, wow, blown away.
11:27
SPEAKER_01: But I mean it's the PA that's really pumping it.
11:29
SPEAKER_01: But if you were standing on a stage with them near it, it's amazing how like low the volume is, how they're hearing each other and how it makes it like that, which is like, you know, I'm sure the who is different.
11:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:39
SPEAKER_01: You know, but uh it's interesting.
11:40
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, but that was interesting.
11:42
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, but but they're but their way about what they do, very professional at what they do, obviously.
11:47
SPEAKER_01: And and the people that work with them, they work with them for years and years and years.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: They had these guys that were always, always there making it always work, always make it happen.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: And um, it's all about love, though.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's all about the love of what you do.
11:59
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
11:59
SPEAKER_01: If you're there just for like the money, or you're there for this or that, it's just not gonna work out.
12:03
SPEAKER_01: You gotta have something in you where you started in the first place because you loved it.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, you got the litter skin.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they were in, you know, this that that hellhouse they called it.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: It was a little, little like little barn place in Alabama in the summer, 110 degrees with no air conditioner.
12:19
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you gotta you gotta have love.
12:20
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's that's what it is.
12:21
SPEAKER_01: You're loving what you're doing, you know.
12:23
SPEAKER_01: So, yeah.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: That's uh that's very true.
12:25
SPEAKER_00: And and really, I feel like that's what you've that mentality you've used and has to be for you just celebrated 30 years of the Carrie Carney band.
12:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, what's that been like to look back at the various people you've worked with in the Carrie Carney band and kind of look forward to?
12:38
SPEAKER_00: I love the fact you're doing the Cajun review for uh the Great South Bay.
12:41
SPEAKER_00: Is there other things you mentioned you kind of want to try coming up with the band?
12:45
SPEAKER_01: You know, um I started a little band with a couple of friends of mine recently, and what it is is uh it's just uh it's two two uh female friends of mine, women, and uh can't let me won't say it.
12:56
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, uh the um well, one place the cordian one place the banjo and uh claw him a banjo, very, very interesting women.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: And uh we we played one night at a um at a benefit together.
13:07
SPEAKER_01: I got them together and we jammed.
13:09
SPEAKER_01: And so I'm gonna do a couple shows with them actually, doing that kind of music.
13:12
SPEAKER_01: I love it because it's so taken away from what I normally do, yeah, that it gives me another avenue and it makes me want to come back to what I do at the same time.
13:19
SPEAKER_01: So that could be something new that I'm kind of like you know thinking about doing.
13:22
SPEAKER_01: So it's pretty cool.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: Of course, you've been inducted into the uh the New York Blues Hall of Fame.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Uh, how did that recognition feel and kind of what's it like to as far as you find your place in the blues community?
13:32
SPEAKER_00: Because you've certainly been uh kind of a leader there.
13:35
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's it's very surprising.
13:37
SPEAKER_01: Um a lot of times I look at it, I'm saying, I don't even know what people like are looking at, you know what I mean when I'm playing, you know what I mean?
13:42
SPEAKER_01: But it's like, um it's a great thing.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: I'm very, very humbled by it all the time, obviously.
13:48
SPEAKER_01: I try to uh keep my wits about myself about what it is that that's going on with musicians, having respect for other musicians and this and that.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: And like, you know, not really picking and choosing like who I play with, but a lot of they gravitate towards me a lot, and I gravitate towards them, and we put it together, and I find that that's that that that's a great thing.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: And when there's chemistry there, I mean you can't, you know.
14:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'll play tonight where one of them maybe can't make it to a show, and I'll have somebody else play.
14:16
SPEAKER_01: That's really, really great.
14:17
SPEAKER_01: But it takes me a little while to like get into the groove of it because it it's like an old shoe when you have a band together that's they all dudes, the old, you don't know what's going on, you know what I'm saying?
14:26
SPEAKER_01: So it's hard.
14:27
SPEAKER_01: Well, I was mentioning the Who before.
14:28
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's hard to like lose Keith Moon, who I mean to me is one of the greatest, like so unique players, have somebody step in for him while they're playing because it's so it's so like abstract and unbelievably, you know, musically poppy and rock and everything.
14:45
SPEAKER_01: And I can say abstract at the same time that any other drama probably wouldn't, you know, really make that happen like that.
14:51
SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Are there, as you look at the Long Island music scene, are there uh certain, I guess, younger upcoming, up-and-coming performers that you've you've recognized and are trying to help along the way?
15:00
SPEAKER_00: And imagine there's a couple.
15:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, there's uh there's Joe Lewis and the groove.
15:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, I like him a lot, actually.
15:09
SPEAKER_01: He's got like a little Steve Rigorn thing going.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: And uh he played with Little Buster.
15:12
SPEAKER_01: He was a very famous uh blues band we had.
15:15
SPEAKER_01: He passed away a while ago.
15:16
SPEAKER_01: And uh he had some of his members to the band play with him.
15:19
SPEAKER_01: And um, I find he's great.
15:20
SPEAKER_01: He really, really is good.
15:21
SPEAKER_01: And what's nice about it too is that he's he's about 27.
15:25
SPEAKER_01: And he has the love.
15:26
SPEAKER_01: Like he has the thing, he has that one I'm talking about.
15:28
SPEAKER_01: You gotta have the love of it.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: That's what it is, you know.
15:31
SPEAKER_01: So uh Cameron uh Cameron, she sang on my um on my last album.
15:37
SPEAKER_01: We did a Christmas song, actually, on the last album we had.
15:39
SPEAKER_01: By the way, my last album hit the top 100.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: Congratulations.
15:42
SPEAKER_01: That's pretty cool.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: You know, the what's what we call it in the international big blues chart.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: And um and that that was on it too.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: And it's it's really it's it's really a great day.
15:53
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, stuff like that.
15:54
SPEAKER_01: It's like, you know, I I find people I see, it's funny, every time I turn around, one eye on especially.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: It's amazing the talent.
16:00
SPEAKER_01: Whenever you go somewhere, you're like, wow, listen to this, listen to this.
16:03
SPEAKER_01: And guys like like Jim Faith, who we run the Great South Bay, keeps his eye out for that.
16:08
SPEAKER_01: I always give him a couple of times, I'll give him that thing.
16:10
SPEAKER_01: Even when we we went we were doing the um the HM, you know, bat uh band battle.
16:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, those bands are fantastic too.
16:16
SPEAKER_01: It's unbelievable.
16:17
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's hard to pick somebody.
16:19
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's funny, yeah.
16:20
SPEAKER_01: We're picking somebody out, we're we're trying to think like what day it's gonna be.
16:24
SPEAKER_01: So each band is equally great, but if the day falls on a certain way of playing and one band has that, that's what we're gonna pick.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: But it doesn't mean the other ones aren't aren't as good or can't do it, you know, man.
16:37
SPEAKER_01: But it's great stuff.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: How long have you known Jim Faith?
16:41
SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
16:44
SPEAKER_01: Maybe maybe 20 years, possibly.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: I remember him calling me one time.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: He asked me if I would do a show he was doing.
16:50
SPEAKER_01: And this is before Great South Bay.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: And um it was cool.
16:55
SPEAKER_01: What's great about Jim is that he gets it all he gets it all going.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he really does.
16:59
SPEAKER_01: I mean, for what he does, I mean, I don't know anybody else out there that really can make that work like that.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: I mean, there are great promoters of like in individual places, but Jim's got I I can't even imagine one day in his, you know, making this happen in what like how many phone calls, how many emails, how many blah blah blah.
17:17
SPEAKER_01: And the people that work around the world great, they're making it work.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
17:20
SPEAKER_01: It's but uh, but yeah, yeah, he's great then.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: Very, very true.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh, thank you, Kerry Carney.
17:24
SPEAKER_00: Cage review coming up on the main stage uh July 25th to Saturday of the great South Bay Music Festival.
17:30
SPEAKER_00: And uh Kerry, thank you so much.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: We look forward to seeing you out there.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: And uh thanks for sitting down for a little bit.
17:34
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it.
17:35
SPEAKER_01: Harry, you're the best.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: Always, man.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: Love you guys.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: E H M.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Woo.