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  SPEAKER_01: It is uh WEHF All Access, Stag Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is that time of year, and we're diving in and chatting with all the performers at this year's festival.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of them has uh done it for a few years now.
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  SPEAKER_01: We go back, I think the butcher's blind actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Pete Mancini's joining us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pete, how are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Doing good, good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for having me.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh good to be back.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's our pleasure, and uh, we love featuring you on the local, but you're you're all over the place these days.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love seeing your gigs, uh, all the lists, because you're you're uh traveling up and down the coast, really.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: You're moving around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I've been touring uh with uh Jimmy Webb, Joe Prunice, and uh with my solo stuff, so it's been busy, but it's been good.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Very good to hear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I guess part of uh what we want to do today is to kind of sit down, chat, and get to know you a bit and get people to know you uh a little more um before we hit the Sayac Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I guess uh for people that don't know, where did you where did you grow up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I grew up in Belrose, which is right on the border of Queens and Nassau, and um I'm on the Queens side, but if I cross the street, I'm in Nassau.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I always had kind of one foot in New York City, one foot in Long Island, and um, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: How did you find your way did you find your way out east?
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  SPEAKER_01: When was that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, it was when I I started working with Paradiddle Records uh in Butcher's Blind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Paradiddle released uh two of our albums, and we started playing the uh live at the lobby in the Patch Hog Theater, and uh that's where we met people like Brian Gallo and you know Dave March and all the friends that we now are like kind of musical family out there, the McKevneys, Travis McKevney, Jerry McKeven.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, you know, just been playing out there for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did a lot at the uh Great South Bay Music Festival and all those runes, Bolton Center, and yeah, so a lot of great memories playing on Long Island over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Bradstock community has been really cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, you know, we're uh Sag Harper Music, American Music Festival is kind of just another one of those great Long Island events that we're happy to be part of.
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  SPEAKER_01: How old were you when you started to really become interested in music?
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  SPEAKER_01: When did it kind of hit you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, when I was a kid, uh, you know, growing up, my parents they played a lot of like, you know, Beatles, Eric Clapton, Frankie Valley in the four seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh that stuff was happening in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: My dad listened to a lot of classical music, so I was always interested in music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I took piano lessons and violin lessons, and nothing really stuck until I got the guitar bug when I was like 16.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw Jack White playing at the VMAs, and he was doing like Death Letter by Sun House and Seven Nation Army.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I went out and I got a guitar right away.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: I quit the swim team, started playing guitar.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just got sick of going back and forth in the pool.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, ever since then, um yeah, I heard Wilco a few years later, and then that's when I started writing songs in earnest.
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  SPEAKER_01: How old were you when you when was that?
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  SPEAKER_00: That was uh senior year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: My buddy passed me a note, and he's like, You should check out these songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them was uh Theologians by Wilco, and uh ever since that day, for better or worse, my life has had a singular focus of writing songs, being a songwriter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So and it's not an easy path uh to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: When what was your first band, and how did you find your way to Butcher's Blind?
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  SPEAKER_01: How was that started?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, our first band that was they were called the Double Stops, and it had like uh members of what would eventually become Butcher's Blind uh in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um we had like various different bands uh, you know, playing covers and stuff, but the first like original band was the Double Stops that eventually became Butcher's Blind, and um yeah, eventually we we put together an album.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh we didn't really know what we were doing, but we like we loved records.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were going to the record store, Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chipo's a Miniola, and you know, we were just absorbing so much music at that time, like replacements, big star, um, just you name it, Wilco, Drive By Truckers, Hold Steady.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we loved these albums and just we wanted to make our own.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of happened that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: How did you start?
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  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned that you started writing um senior year of high school, I think you said.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and how what were you writing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where what was your inspiration and kind of how did you develop your process for it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, at the beginning, um, you know, you you kind of like you emulate your heroes, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like so a lot of the early stuff kind of bears a striking similarity to Wilko and Sun Volt and all those bands.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, if you go back and you listen to those records, you're like, oh yeah, you know, these guys are kind of just paying homage to their influences and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: But over time you start to, you know, develop your own voice uh in songwriting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, I mean, I've I have four uh solo records.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over the course of those records, you could see kind of a shift in styles and uh writing.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, you know, like now I know like when I'm writing, I'm like, okay, this is this feels like me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at the beginning, you're kind of struggling to figure out you know who you are in that medium.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: And like, you know, like you listen to like early Beatles and stuff, they were kind of just making rock and roll music that they liked, and then eventually, you know, they start putting themselves into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like every band, you could kind of see that progression.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I guess that was our little version of that, you know what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_01: How how long were you in Butcher's Blind?
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you guys?
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  SPEAKER_01: I know you had a couple albums.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Butcher's Blind, because it was with the same guys, it kind of it felt like a really long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'd say we were only really active from like 2009.
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  SPEAKER_00: We put out our last EP.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was called A Place in America around 2015.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it was like 2009 was our first little demo tape.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was like a good six years of of active duty in Butcher's Blind, um, I think.
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  SPEAKER_01: What did you learn from that experience though?
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  SPEAKER_01: That you kind of uh transitioned to a solo artist because obviously you work with those guys for a bit, but you know you probably wanted to do your own thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: What was that transition like?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, the transition was a little it was rough for a little while because you know, felt like I was kind of picking up the pieces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um band kind of just broke up, and um, I was really bummed about it.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I had this solo record that I was kind of working on during that time, and uh when I put that out, it started getting some legs and some good press and started getting some gigs and doing more touring.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I just kind of eventually just poured my uh effort and energy into the solo thing, but um yeah, you know, that band was really fun because it was like a band of brothers, and you know, nothing really replaces that um energy of the sum of its parts.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's cool, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still friends with all those guys, and they're all doing their own thing.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: And but uh, I think it it worked out the way that it had to because you know I had greater aspirations.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: When did you uh start?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you mentioned coming out and Patchog and meeting a lot of different uh artists there.
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  SPEAKER_01: When was that and what was that like for you to kind of um become a part of a new community?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was great, you know, meeting a lot of people and you know, hearing a lot of different music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Met uh my buddy Travis McKeveny and started co-writing a lot with him.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, it was just good to you know expand our network and expand, be influenced by that music being made out there, and then all the music being made in the city, and um it was just cool.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: We we kind of had a wide net.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would play in the city, we'd play on Long Island, and you know, we'd do a little Butcher's Blind didn't tour that much, but uh you know, solo doing the the touring thing.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's like pockets of communities all over in every scene in every city, and getting to know those people is like a really cool experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: You put out uh a few different solo records, and you started with Foothill Freeway um and then continued flying for his class, and then the third one, if I'm not mistaken, I had like some EPs in there, but you also did uh Killing the Old Ways, and you did it down in Mississippi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh what was that like to kind of do something now?
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  SPEAKER_01: Curiosity were the others done on Long Island or in the New York area, and then and was this the first one kind of away from home?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was the first one um in like you know a studio.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did I did my first two solo records at Paradiddle Studio.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um I did Flying First Class at the uh lantern sound recording rig with Mick.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then um third album was Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi with Matt Patton from Drive By Truckers, and that was just like a crazy awesome experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the summer of 2020, so like we were on lockdown.
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  SPEAKER_00: I flew down to Mississippi, which was crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, it was nerve-wracking, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it felt like we were all holed up in the studio, we became a little family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we recorded live to tape, and then just working with Patton was just artistically, he kind of his arrangement ideas and just you know, it brought the music to a whole nother level.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then like seeing like oh, what's possible, it was just like you know, it expands your horizons artistically.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, Matt Patton from Drive By Truckers.
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  SPEAKER_00: My buddy uh Nick Loss Eaton, um, he has a great band called Lelo and Sundries.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: He does PR for a number of artists, and he was doing PR for an artist named Bet Smith who was recording at Dialback.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I was like looking to do my third album, I had these songs and I had a list, like a short list of you know, places I wanted to reach out to and try.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, Nick made an intro, and it was like, wow, you know, it was a great deal, and you know, it seemed like it's like, all right, we're gonna do this.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: We set a date, and then the pandemic kicked in, and um we moved it to the summer and ended up uh it was great.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, what a great I I love the record, I'm really proud of that album.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: And um, so we did another one.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did uh American Equator, which came out maybe two years ago at this point.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: Goes really fast.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe it was no, it was last year.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: It was last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm bad at ears if you can't tell in this interview.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's all one big blur of music and gigs and stuff.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: It does go fast, but it's it's great to watch you make a career out of this.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's really cool to see.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you grow as an artist too, and you're you're moving down and we're not moving down, but working in different studios and with different people, and also heading on the road with some some pretty impressive names.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: What's that been like to uh for you to grow as a performer?
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  SPEAKER_01: What have you learned over this process of kind of figuring out and working with some some bigger names in the industry?
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  SPEAKER_01: What have you learned from them?
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  SPEAKER_01: The Matt Patents of the World Club.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: So working with you know Joe Pernice and others.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: Jimmy Webb.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um working with Jimmy Webb and Joe Pernice.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's crazy.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like it has changed my life.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's been like something that I'm I'm so grateful to be a part of.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just thankful to call Jimmy a friend.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, but I learned so much from touring with him, just the stories alone.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: I you know, I feel like I could write a book at this point, but um, you know, Jimmy's a dear friend, and he's kind of taken me under his wing, and it's been a very special thing.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: And through that connection, I met Joe Pernice, who is like a hero of mine.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: I've been listening to his records since I was like 19 years old.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, just going on tour with him was like not only was it like a dream come true, but it was like a huge learning experience for me.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: And um, yeah, these guys are kind of I I consider them to be masters at their craft and just artists who are both singularly focused, all in.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: So just you know, learning from them and just playing these songs with them that I've just I've loved for so long, it's it's been like a wild experience.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I think I've learned that the big takeaway is like, you know, okay, these guys have written just truly great songs.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, not just like, oh, like, you know, these are good songs.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, these are legendary songs.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it's like, you know, what makes a truly great song if you take something like Wichita Lineman, you know, and how that makes people feel, uh, it's like, you know, you get a good benchmark of like, okay, this is truly great.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so like I haven't written anything even close to it, but like I I as I now have something to aspire to.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing goes with Joe, and like his his music is just I think it does that same thing that Jimmy's music does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just it's truly great.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: It inspires people, it uh you know, captures the imagination.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what great songs do.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: You've really branched out and you do different tours, obviously the East Coast, but the Midwest, down south.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: What's been the big difference in the audiences uh coming from New York and then kind of seeing uh learning and growing as this uh continues to build?
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: What was that like with different audiences establishing your music and introducing it?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh different cities all have different vibes, but I've noticed that like certain places seem to appreciate you know touring bands and live music more.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think maybe because you know, in New York City, um it's just it's very oversaturated.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: There's a ton of different shows, but everywhere, um I I'd say like in America, or you know, I haven't really played internationally.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh on the whole, people are pretty cool and have just you know are happy that there's a show going on.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I think like in major markets, big cities, it's it's a little more um competitive and it's a little more so you know, people are kind of like uh especially in like Brooklyn, you know, sometimes people are just you know arms folded, uh kind of thing.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: But overall, I think, especially now, people are more receptive to live music after, you know, all the lockdown and everything we've been through.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh people are just happy to be out and happy to be at a show.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: And um, it's a it's a good thing to see.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's a good shift.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's hard, but you know, people appreciate it.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it's it's a different time too.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: And you've kind of grown up with this with streaming starting and having ways to introduce your music to other people that aren't on Long Island or the New York area.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um and it's kind of amazing to think that someone out in the Midwest knows you and because they've they've downloaded it or they they've streamed it.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: So it's such a different world, and and I think it has to open up a lot of different opportunities for artists like you.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, um, it's hard with streaming because the uh the money has changed so much.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: So like we rely on shows, we rely on merch sales, um, different alternate methods of revenue streams.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: But the the upside of that is exactly what you said is that someone can can discover your music.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: So like it's a great time to be a listener.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah like you have the whole of recorded music at your finger.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: But it's not necessarily an artist, yeah.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's rough.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I think um my uh my message to fans and listeners out there is just support your favorite artists.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like definitely go to the show, but also buy a shirt, buy an LP, and and it's just nice.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Get a turntable, you know, uh CDs, you know.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I I mean I know that they're kind of on the way out, but like, you know, CD players, they make Bluetooth CD players now, you know.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: So like you know, just just buy the thing.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: You will be so much happier with it if you if you own it and you're not renting it from some billionaire or whatever, you know.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: To have a physical copy.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: I know there's websites like Bandcamp that certainly help the artists more and obviously recommend those.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it is it is a tough thing, but it's nice to get it's kind of a catch-22.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: You get the awareness, but you're not really getting much more from that.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: You have to really uh capitalize on it when you get in front of them, so to speak.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, absolutely.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I have to say, like, local radio stations like EHM are like a huge part of what we do because you know, you guys like put a spotlight on us, and like even like this interview now, it's hugely important for you know for you guys to shine a light on us and just want to say thank you for that because it means a lot.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: So it's our pleasure.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's so many talented people in the community, and it's nice to be able to share that with others and and watch it and also watch it grow over the years.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, before we wrap up, I I want to mention and I want to talk about the famous Dr.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: Scanlon band.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um and your and your history with this and the music of Travis McKevin.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Can I ask when when you met Travis?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I met Travis, I think it was in twenty I'm good at this year.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: It was 2012.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: I had a show with Brian Gallo, Travis McKeveny at a place called Gallery Z.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was like an art gallery, I think it was like Port Jeff area.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: That sounds about right, yeah.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: And um I remember uh we're playing this show, there wasn't a whole lot of people there, and um Travis got up and he started playing like Fanfare of Rolling Dice.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, damn, this guy's really good.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we didn't really become like close friends until much later when we started going to like the NERFA conference, which is Northeast Regional Folk Alliance, and um yeah, we just became good friends, started co-writing, and uh yeah, you know, um that friendship eventually I joined his band, which he called the famous Dr.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Scanlon Band.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then sadly, in 2021, Travis passed, so we kind of banded together and the community got together, and uh we finished his third album, which is called From Dublin to Duluth, and it finally comes out on October 2nd, and uh we're doing a big show at the Bolton Center on October 3rd to celebrate.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of going to be a celebration of the record, a celebration of his life, and uh yeah, it's been a labor of love, but um it really came out amazing.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, like we're I know he would be very proud of the tunes.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: He left us with 11 great tunes, I think like 10 great tunes, and um his father, Jerry, contributed one, which is a fantastic song.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, we're just it's it's bittersweet, you know, to see this thing get across the finish line, but we all were very determined to like we're gonna finish this for Travis.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: So um he left a big void, you know.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's coming out October 2nd.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: So where can people learn more about the famous Dr.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Scanlon band online?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: Is there a there's a site and a yeah, yeah.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um you could find us on Instagram, famous Dr.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Scanlon, or on Facebook, uh famous Dr.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Scanlon Band, and uh Paradiddlrecords.com.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Paradiddle is putting out the record, which is really cool.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, on Bandcamp you could pre-order it.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um so Bandcamp is definitely the way you get we get uh vinyl and CD and you get like the streaming thing on the app.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Find uh famous Dr.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Scanlon band, and um, you know, we're hoping to uh have a good show on October 3rd at the Bolton Center.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now I want to mention you're performing at this year's Sag Harbor Music Festival before that.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: So are you working on new music?
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: What are you uh what are you I guess working on these days?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'm working on uh some new tunes.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's gonna be volume two of the Commonwealth Sessions EP.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: And then um I have songs for another album written, so we'll see what happens after that.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm kind of taking my time right now with new stuff and um focusing mostly on the Scanlon record.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Gotcha.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: But uh little by little I'm kind of just putting in some time at the home studio and uh getting this new batch of songs together.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll be the first to know.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: I will be sending it out when it's ready.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Looking forward to it and looking forward to uh hearing the record for the famous Dr.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Scanlon Band out early October.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: We'll of course uh tag all of that in the episode description for this and uh post it up on our socials at WEHM Radio.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Pete, thank you so much for your time.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Looking forward to the Sedic Harbor Music Festival and getting to know you a bit, and uh we will we will chat down the road.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, man.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Great great stuff to be on the show.