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Matt Fockler and Tyler Bills: Songwriting, Festivals, and Community in Music · The Scene Projects

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So you guys mind if I ask you a couple questions?
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No.
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We're gonna start with Matt.
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Tell everybody what's going on in your career, where you're from.
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Is this your first time doing songwriters?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I've been dealing with a bunch in my life.
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My buddy Charlie used to be the sheriff here.
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Come out and stayed with him quite a bit Yeah.
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Way back.
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I'm from the East I'm East River, and I got a hat on, which definitely don't connote East
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River.
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But a singer songwriter.
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Maybe thirty close to thirty years I've been playing, and I'm not I was kinda called last
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minute.
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Somebody canceled, and I got to fill their spot.
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I'm not overly ready.
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I don't really play out a lot.
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I like to write a lot, and my thing is promoting music.
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I got a music festival in Montrose, South Dakota.
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Do.
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Way out of the box.
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I try to I don't hire anybody with Eagle.
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We don't do the normal stages.
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We got sponsored song circles in our in our city park, and it's more of a community
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festival.
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And so I hire 30 to 50 national acts, and I don't I don't hire anybody to come play their
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set and leave.
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They gotta stay for the whole festival, they gotta walk around and talk to the locals and be
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involved in the community.
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We ask anyone who's comfortable.
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We have elders in town that can't make it out, so we send people into their homes to play for
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them.
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And we invite I feel like really, because of farming, we're not allowed to have hobbies or
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to play guitar.
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So there's all these great farm kids that play, and they never bring their guitar out of their
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house.
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And they sure ain't gonna go to town to play an open mic.
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So we're like closet musician capital of the world.
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Trying to trying to get some of these great players to bring their guitar out of the house
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is is brutal.
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So I'm trying to create an atmosphere that invites them in.
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So there's I got big log, cottonwood logs, 10 to 12 in each circle, and the local venues
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sponsor the circles.
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And then I got some Texas circles that come up as well.
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So if you come and your little kids that are just trying a song for their first time,
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they're playing in the same circles as all the national acts.
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And so all of the people that I hire to play the festival, know to make it comfortable for
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beginners and to visit and to relieve that pressure of sitting next to somebody who plays
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250 shows a year.
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You know?
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So it's more community where all of our small towns are falling apart.
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The big ones, if you got two grocery stores, you're thriving.
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But if you're most of us, we've lost our swimming pool and grocery store.
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Everything is business.
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So I'm just trying to use music to promote if you live in a big town, you know, once a week,
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leave town, fill your gas tank, eat at a small restaurant at Mass where you can buy eggs and
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robeys.
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So
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Thank you, Daniel.
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Gonna go to a couple of starts
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in the middle.
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But I also wanted to point out, you've got a couple of things down here.
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Do you wanna
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Yeah.
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There's a a couple programs from last year's festival if you wanna see some of the some of
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the artists that I got are, you know, Grammy winning, and, you know, they play the Austin
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City limits, and they come and just hang out all weekend.
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So you can grab a program if you're interested.
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I got some bumper stickers on sale for $5, and I I left all my CDs at home.
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Not prepared.
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Anyway
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Well, thank you.
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And we're gonna go to the middle chair there.
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We got Bubba Starts.
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And I see you at your little bar code down here.
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I do.
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I just, I've been working on a new album.
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Johnny Hastings is hiding over there in the corner.
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He he had a hand in it too.
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But we just finished it up, I wanted to come out and promote it this weekend.
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So hurried it out to my website.
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It's not available on any streaming networks or anything yet, but we got got music that I'll
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send you a sneak peek of right away.
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And you can download a song right from there.
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So and where are you from?
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I grew up here in Deadwood.
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I live East River now as well, but I live down in a little town called Tyndall.
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So we're about ten minutes north of the Missouri River and 30 miles east of the
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Missouri River in the little elbow there at the southeast corner of the state, and I loved it.
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But I grew up here, and I say that this my favorite weekend in Deadwood, we know Deadwood
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is known for events, But this one is special and it's special because it's original music
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and that's what has always meant the world to me, it's why I have a podcast called The Scene
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Projects in which I feature independent artists on.
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We've done over 300 interviews.
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This year, we passed a thousand uploads on YouTube and over 280,000 views.
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And it's all independent music.
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It's all People like Matt's been on the show.
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It's about promoting originality.
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We have so many great players around the state and throughout the Midwest.
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I'm a member of the Midwest Country Music Organization as well.
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And just started digging in, having conversations with great amazing people.
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I gotta get Tyler Bills on there too, but that's why the record button has already hit on
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the on the camera back there.
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So looking forward to just being here and absorbing all of this, and it's really
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inspiring as a songwriter to come out here and and to see people like Tyler and Matt and
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Johnny and and so many others that are gonna be in town this weekend.
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And this is kinda how I how I fill my cup, right, this weekend and overjoyed to be asked
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to come and play and to be invited into Jacob's gallery for the first time to play as well.
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So thanks for having us, Scott.
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You got a beautiful room full of art and we hope to do our best to share our art with you
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guys today too.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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And then we got Tyler Bills.
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Do wanna tell us a little about what's going on with your career?
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Where are you from?
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My name is Tyler Bills.
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I live in Spearfish, South Dakota.
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I'm originally from Denver, Colorado.
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Moved up here, like, over ten ten years, twelve years ago to be in a a local Midwest rock band
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named Judd Hoose and played spent the last ten years of my life touring all over the country
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with these yahoos, and it was an incredible, incredible time.
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Got to open for people like Billy Idol, Dirt Eye Blind, Pug Cherry, Puddle Mud, some good
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stuff.
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And we released a bunch of albums.
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You can
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go check it check out a bunch of music on there, Judd Hoos.
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At the end of last summer, I just hit a point where I was like, man, I've never got to be
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just the solo acoustic guy, I left the band at the end of last summer.
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I got to pick my last show, though.
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We opened it for third eye blind somewhere in Iowa.
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So I was like, alright.
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Can't go wrong there.
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And, yeah, I've had the best year of my music career so far this year.
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I've played some shows I've always wanted to play, and I've stayed pretty local too, which
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is really nice getting to go home to my family and not as much travel.
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So that has been nice.
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I also have a funk blues band called Denizens of the Deep.
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I'm gonna do a shameless plug.
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We're playing dead weird and dead with tobacco next weekend.
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That kept me busy, but it was always just an outlet for something different than Judd Hoos.
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And so, yeah, I and I released my first ever acoustic EP under my own name this summer on
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July 4.
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I never thought I would do that.
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And so to go check it out, it's on Tyler, own all the streaming services.
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I even had a bet with Johnny who would do it first, and so now he's in the hot seat.
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So but, yeah, excited to be here.
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I've seen this is my third or fourth songwriters festival.
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I look forward to it every year.
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I block off the weekend no matter if I'm gonna play or not.
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It's just so cool to come up and support other great artists and meet really cool people.
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And what a prestigious venue this is with all the amazing art and then get to share the
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Jacobs space and really cool.
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So thank you for having me.
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Appreciate it.
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So now that we all had a chance to say hi to everybody, guys ready for some music?
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Yeah.
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Do you guys in the back wanna get seated before we start playing?
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You guys want chairs?
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Oh, if you go around.
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You can go around.
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If everybody could be seated so everybody could pay attention to the singers and the
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songwriters.
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So since you finished there, Tyler, why don't you start us off?
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So welcome to the thirteenth year of the Wildlife Songwriter.
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Alright.
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Well, I'm gonna start out with something brand new.
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Haven't played this one for anybody yet.
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So I just wrote this one.
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I'm not recorded yet.
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This one's called no pain, no change.
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Great, everyone.
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Hopefully, you get that in the studio in a couple weeks.
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Record that.
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There's a little dial on top of that microphone on there.
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Can you turn that down?
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It's up on the top of the mics.
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Yeah.
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I can see it clipping out a little bit.
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Yep.
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I wanna make sure we capture all this in pristine audio too.
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Tyler, I'm such a big fan of yours, man.
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I was so proud of you because it was a huge it was a huge step.
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You played in one of the biggest bands in South Dakota, and to walk away from that spotlight
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took a lot of balls to to to say, you know what, it's been a great thing, you could have
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kept doing that forever.
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You could have kept going.
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Yeah.
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And to say, I wanna do my thing, I have what it takes and and you did.
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I've all I've been a huge Tyler Bills fan since you moved here.
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I've a huge fan of what you do.
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But what you do and your style is so much different than what Judd Poose did and I know
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that that had to play into that where it's I have to express So I'm so proud of you when you
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made the change and made the decision to do it and getting to follow along now as the Tyler
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Bills trio is going all over and you're doing the solo shows now releasing music of your own,
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man.
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It's just so cool.
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So thanks.
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Thanks, brother.
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I was thrilled.
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You all don't know how happy I got him.
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I got to see the schedule come out and I had a round with Tyler Bills and Matt Faulkner at the
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same time.
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So I think we'll just kinda do this.
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We'll just snake around and we'll come back to you.
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Man, the hardest part about this weekend is that you really gotta step up your game.
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You get put on stage with some really talented people and you have to not necessarily one up
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each other, but you wanna do your best, right?
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And you wanna put your best stuff out there.
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So I mentioned I got a new album coming out and I got a sneak peek of one, so I'm gonna play
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that song.
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Of course you can.
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That's funny, right?
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Awesome.
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Alright.
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This one's called Everlasting.
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This is a song I wrote a few years ago now.
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It was something that came to me.
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My granny had beaten cancer into remission twenty years ago, but they knew that it was
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they knew if it ever came back that it was gonna be aggressive.
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And we found out in, I think it was late twenty twenty two, that it it was back, and it it
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wasn't gonna be long.
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And the only way that I've ever dealt with something personal to me, whether it was a
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heartbreak or, you know, the good times as well, was to write about it.
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So this is the song that came out.
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This one's called Everlasting.
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Awesome.
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I have not made
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it up to Montrose Music Festival yet, and I feel terrible about that, Matt.
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Sounds really cool.
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There's absolutely no reason to feel terrible.
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It's busy.
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Like, we're all in this we're all getting disillusioned with busy, I think.
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We should be making time for each other a little more often.
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I don't again, you have to bear with me a bit.
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I'm a little fresh into this again.
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I got a 10 year old kid, and I've been putting my time into him and this festival.
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I only say yes when it's an end around.
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I'm not a big fan of being on stage, but I'll do it anytime I get to share it with a couple
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other people.
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So I'm really excited to be here and to have only that opportunity.
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I was living in Austin right behind the continental, and a friend of mine made me this
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custom guitar, not this one.
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And I had it for a year and had not wrote a song on it, and I was so frustrated that I come
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up with this.
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Stage and you're like, oh, is gonna
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be tough.
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Man, that was awesome.
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Yeah.
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Gosh.
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Well,
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like I said, I left a band that I was in for ten years, Dina last summer.
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We were working all the way up until then, and we had a single ready to release that I it's
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kind of like my baby that I've been sitting on for a couple years, and we were like, had it in
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post production.
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We're gonna send it to mastering, and it was all ready and then went and ruined it all, quit
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the band.
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But I I hope that, you know, that version gets recorded someday.
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I did put this song.
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It's the first song on my acoustic EP.
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So I encourage you guys to go check it out, but, this one's called Proven.
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Can't help and get this stupid smile on my face every time you hit that falsetto.
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I'm so jealous.
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I'm so jealous of your range, man.
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You're such a great singer.
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And, yeah, to hear you sing your own music now and to go out and and just do that.
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I mean, is there a difference for you?
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Because Jahus was a lot of covers.
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Not that you guys didn't have original music that you were playing, but you were playing a
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lot of other people's music.
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Absolutely.
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Is there a difference now in the feeling for you on now than maybe it did for that decade?
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Because you guys were busy.
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I mean, you were playing 150 shows a year at least.
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Right?
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I mean, that's that's a lot.
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Yep.
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No doubt.
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I play 10 shows a year, and it's a lot.
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This is Matt's only show of the year.
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Oh, that's not true.
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I thought you and Montrose, our good friends put a good little deal together.
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That's actually where I heard that song the first time.
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I can't match Tyler's energy and if I try to all weekend, I'm gonna blow it out.
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I got two rounds today, two rounds tomorrow and I'm playing both evenings up at Lils Above the
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Midnight Star.
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So I'm gonna dial it back a little bit on the energy level.
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This is a song that I wrote for my wife after we had too many at the bar and I was me and
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said some stupid things.
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So this one's called True Meaning.
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It's gotten me out of the doghouse a couple of times, fellas.
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I hope now that it's on this record that it does the same for you.
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Watching me in the morning as you're getting up for work.
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In your hand.
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Spending all day miserable with feelings bottled up, and then we both get so emotional
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when we try to talk it out.
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Blowing up our phones with all this texting back and forth, wishing I could find the words
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to show you what you're really worth.
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True meaning of my life.
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I couldn't live my life without you.
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No.
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I wouldn't even try to turn your hoe on upside
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My dream has never been to be up here.
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I've always wanted like these these Nashville guys, I've always wanted to have other people
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cover my songs so I could stay home and let them sing.
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I've gotten fairly lucky with that.
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This song, I never play.
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So, again, hopefully, I can manage it.
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But it's friend Jonathan Bird, who produced my self titled album, you can get it on
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mattfaulkler.com.
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I've got a few things on there.
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What I do for a living in the festival, and this artist advocacy network I'm trying to
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build.
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I won't get into all that.
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But Jonathan's got it on his new double album, and then there's Martha Bassett, who's got a
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nationally syndicated show out in North Carolina.
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It's been covered.
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Do you dream?
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Do your dreams come true?
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Just a wide open wild.
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Playing night games in the neighborhood.
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Playing like grown ups should.
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Dreaming like there's no way you could these
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Yeah.
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So, like, for me, when I write, it it's always I I hear my own voice.
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Right?
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It's my stories that I'm telling.
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As someone who is writing with the intention of hopefully somebody else recording it, do you
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hear your voice as you're writing, or are you hearing someone else's voice in there?
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I have zero control over songs I write.
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I I don't know how to write a song.
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I'm not sure anybody really does.
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I could give some advice, but they just show up, and you're lucky when they do.
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Like an old friend.
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That
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particular song, Do You Dream, my mom is always they are thrift fiends.
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Like, they're retired now, and all they do is go to thrift stores and rummages.
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So I have them look for word books because I I tend to my mom brought home a what do you call
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them?
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Anyways, that whole song is is written out of that book.
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I I picked it up and and just cliches.
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I call them glitches.
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Just about every line in the whole song is a cliche, but they're all just I don't know.
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I flipped through the book, and it wrote itself just with cliches.
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So I I very little lyric in that song is not a cliche next to another cliche.
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Anyways, I I don't know.
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That's a good answer.
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Very cool.
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Give it up for Stew Jenner for making a sound taste.
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This next one is an oldie, but a goodie.
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I wrote this when I had just moved from Denver up to Rapid City and didn't know very many
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people yet.
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I was getting to know people and kind of a scary big jump.
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And songwriting is such a powerful tool to, like, as a therapy kind of self therapy and
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getting things out that you need to.
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And so the song means a lot to me.
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This one's called wasted time.
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Great stuff, Tyler.
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So proud of you, man.
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So proud to see you playing your music.
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I gotta get you on the scene projects, even though this is gonna go out on there.
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Perfect, a little sneak peek.
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Yeah, well, I just Your story matters, right?
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Moving up here from Denver and joining a big band and doing it for a decade, man, you you've
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lived a a hell of a life.
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And now stepping out, the best is yet to come.
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That's right.
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Haven't peaked yet.
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No.
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No.
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Well, and, you
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know, for guys in our thirties, I got six months left or so.
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It's it's crazy for me to look back and to think that I've been playing music, you know,
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professionally.
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Right?
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I've been getting paid to play music for twenty five years.
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And it's like, how did
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a quarter century get away that fast?
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You know, I started playing in bands.
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Same to you.
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I mean, I know you guys were teenagers Yeah.
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When you and your brother moved up and and have been playing in bands forever.
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And shout out to Devin Bills.
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Is he still in
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Nashville?
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Sometimes.
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Yeah.
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He's not Tall Road.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Now did that have anything to do with you maybe stepping out a little bit of seeing, you know,
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your brother go out and kinda doing, you know, his own thing and being out there?
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And I know he's touring with other bands, but kind of spreading his wings a little bit and
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moving to Nashville to to that whole experience.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was it was really inspiring to see him go move to a place that doesn't know anybody.
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And he grinded really hard, and now he's torn with an awesome, huge person all over the
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country.
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So it's really cool.
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So so I was like, I
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can do that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Any Bills Brothers reunions coming up here soon?
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Do you get him off the road to join you at any time?
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I can't pay him enough yet,
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Oh, awesome.
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Well, I mentioned the podcast.
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It's really a network of podcasts.
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We have several now.
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But The Scene Projects, you can find all that at thesceneprojects.com.
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The Scene is like the music scene, s c e n e.
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I have over 300 interviews with independent artists up there.
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I do two a week.
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I'm scheduled out with episodes already into April.
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So we got plenty of content coming out.
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We won the content creator of the year award from the Midwest Country Music Organization
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back in April and I felt like I had to earn it this year.
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So I went even harder on it because it's needed.
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We don't have a big break for us out there anymore.
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There's not really an outlet for musicians.
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There is no MTV in the sense that a lot of us grew up with.
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There isn't that outlet to to go on besides maybe Joe Rogan show.
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Right?
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If we could make it the Joe Rogan show, we'll be great rock stars.
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It's a grind.
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It's out there.
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It's working, and it's just making as many connections as you can and and sticking with
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it.
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And that's all it's about and that's all I'm about and I just wanted to get a little plug in
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there for the podcast.
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I hope you guys check it out.
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And yeah, I got shows on Roku now.
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So it just continues to grow.
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We have our own radio station too, but I wanna play this one.
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This is an old song of mine.
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Yeah.
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I don't even wanna recount how old it is now, but it's called music is everywhere, and and I
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feel like it encapsulates what this weekend means to me and to a great many others.
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I'm really glad to in the
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round, particularly, and singer songwriter things happening in South Dakota.
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Texas I think the reason Texas is so known for its music is because they know how to
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appreciate music.
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I grew up here on the plains, and not not talking down to any of you.
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It just I think our culture here were like, you can play to a room that seems bored out of
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their skull, and at the end of the show, they loved what you did.
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And we're just we're conservative up here.
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Texas, when when the crowd really loves the music, it makes us be able to play it better.
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And it just it doesn't seem like a lot of people are familiar with singer songwriters who
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are in the round.
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So as to see Deadwood of all places pushing that, that excites me.
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I wonder a few years ago, I heard they were trying to do a a Deadwood City Limits, and I,
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god.
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I had my fingers crossed.
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I was so excited for real music in South Dakota, but it's happening, so I'm excited.
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This song is my hit, if you if you wanna call it that.
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I've gotten really lucky.
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Steve Martin's band, Steve Canyon Rangers cover it.
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We're covering it.
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Right after the the Steve and Steve Kenyon Rangers won a Grammy, they were they released
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this record with a buffalo on the front.
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And I was like, yes.
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My song's gonna be on there.
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And it wasn't.
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So they
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totally psyched me out, and then they
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broke up and never put it on record.
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But that's alright.
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At least they covered it.
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And now the lead singer Woody Platt and the Bluegrass Gentleman just started covering it
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everywhere again.
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So maybe maybe I'll get lucky and actually get a get a song on a real not that some of my
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friends' songs.
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It's on Jonathan Bird.
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He put two of my songs on his last record.
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One of my favorite singer songwriters out of North Carolina.
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If you get a chance, listen to Jonathan Bird.
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And, yes, this guy, he's got a band called Humble Town, him and his wife, and various
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other artists, but it's one flat picking contest all over the place.
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I wish I could play more than three chords.
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I I always joke, Matt.
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Me and Dylan started playing guitar around the same time, and Dylan took one path, and I took
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another.
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And I'm always amazed by the talent that the little town of Leeds, South Dakota, was able to
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produce.
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So
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I was I grew up really prejudiced.
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Just common.
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This whole drunken Indian thing.
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And I worked through all that, and I spent a lot of years living on the reservation.
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And my best friend grew up in the feud with in Rapid City and kinda led the warlords and spent
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eighteen years in the state pen for shooting another Indian, you know, and that first
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generation was so heavily oppressed unmentionable things happened that it's so deep
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into that that the alcohol ain't the problem.
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It's looking at, you know, your parents messing with you.
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I drink too.
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So I put a lot of energy into that.
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It's my favorite topic, so I I gotta be a little careful.
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I don't rattle on.
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And so working through dealing with what I had in my mind growing up versus where I'm at now,
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I wrote this song.
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It's a recording.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It's on my my new record and Jonathan Burns Awesome.
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As well.
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Oh, that was so cool.
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Well, thank you.
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My name is Tyler Bills.
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I got lots of shows coming up for those.
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So you go to tylerbills.com.
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You can check that stuff out.
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But what an incredible weekend.
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Thank you guys for being here because this it's gonna work.
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It'll just be three guys and some guitars
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playing, you know, me and stuff.
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Be just fine.
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Well, The three of us have fun.
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To have everyone here to to give that energy, it it's a big deal, and and it means a lot to
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me.
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My name is Bubba Starrs.
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The name of my band is Starts and Ends.
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That's you can find some of my music on Spotify.
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Five.
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I don't know that I'm gonna put this next record out there.
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It's too close to my heart to have somebody steal it with their AI.
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So if you want it, you can scan this code here and I'll send it to you directly and you can
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own it.
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How's that sound?
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I haven't decided if I'm gonna print it on any, but maybe a vinyl.
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I don't know.
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I heard those are coming back.
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Oh, but you can find oh, yeah.
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Startsandends.com or the scene projects and check out all
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of these amazing artists that I've
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been interviewing for the last eighteen months, and I hope you do.
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Matt?
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Shameless plugs at all or are you good?
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I'm alright.
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Okay.
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That's not popular.
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He's got a great a great music festival that he spends a lot of time and effort putting into it
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and bringing some of the most amazing songwriters that you'll ever meet out to a
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little town in South Dakota.
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It's a great time.
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I haven't been there, but I have a lot of friends who have.
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Montrose Music Festival every summer, and check it out.
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We love you guys.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Matt.
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I just wanna make one comment.
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My daughter made a comment that you sound like Harrelson, Woody Harrelson your voice.
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And then when we look into your different angles, you kinda look like Woody Harrelson in
1:00:16
order to she's alter ego.
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That's been my nickname since two years.
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I shaved my head like one time in my whole life and then natural born killers came out.
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I never
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So you've heard it before then.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We good?
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Thank you guys so much Well, I have another round today and two had tobacco and then I'm
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talking head and talk about the nine star at at 08:00 today.
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So So that was Tyler, Bills, Matt Faulkner, and Bubba Starts.
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Thank you so much,