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• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: It is the EHM Breakfast Show.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're chatting with all different bands from this year's 2026 Great South Bay Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: And coming up on the Saturday, July 25th, is the Almost Brothers Band, and we're joined by Sean McGrath from the band.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: How are you, Sean?
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm well.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: How are you?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Very good.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for doing this.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's nice to kind of get to know some of the bands.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: And you guys are kind of veterans of the Great South Bay Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've done this a few years now.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: We played every year since uh 2017, bearing in mind the two two dark, the two blackout years for COVID.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: And as we were just chatting, we're back on the bill with the mule.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: Get behind the mule, right?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: What uh how long have you guys been together as a band?
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: Celebrating our 11th year.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: 11th year together.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what um what brought you to be um uh kind of an Allman Brothers band, uh, you know, a tribute band?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: What what kind of was the impetus for that decision?
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, so uh, you know, been playing in bands pretty much since my teens and whatnot, and uh, you know, different music.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: I fell in love with the blues very, very early on, you know, by way of by way of London, like uh like most of us uh white boy blues players did with the with the Brits, with Paige and Clapton and Mick Taylor, Peter Green, all those guys, and then uh started getting into the Almond Brothers and just just just found that they were such a a soul stew of Americana.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it was all there.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was blues with with Marshall Amplifiers and Les Pauls, it was you know, soul RMB, it was jazz, it was Dixie, it was everything.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: So we we started seeing, and I I mean, I I got the hit in the note record when I was about a junior in high school, which was the last studio recording that they ever did.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I just once I heard that with with trucks, and that was the the the beginning of the the the legacy of the trucks haynes era of the band and really where the beacon kind of reinvigorated itself.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I just fell in love with that record, fell in love with the band all over again, and um, you know, started going going to the beacon, you know, and just just going out there and and falling in love with a live performance that couldn't help be such an inspiration to myself.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh, you know, so when we started playing in other bands, I you know, being being a uh a student of the blues, I was always playing with older musicians, right?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, there was a lot of kind of blues, there was a lot of classic rock stuff going on, and and the Almond Brothers were were always kind of within that, within that songbook.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: And um, you know, it got to the point where I had met a couple of musicians that we really bonded with, and I started scouting out kind of my players and whatnot.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great to put a band together that was almost like seeing the Almond Brothers?
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and I was like, almost Almond Brother?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that could that could do it.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: So um we kind of just hit the ground running 11 years ago, and we've had a couple of guys come and go into the band, which we still are very, very close to and and whatnot, but it just kind of happened very organically, and uh, and it was just it was meant to be.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: There's a chemistry that we we thrive on, and um, you know, we all are very much students of the music and really take what we do very, very uh very seriously.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, playing this music, there needs to be a level of play that you bring to it, dedication to the music, and um, you know, really kind of you know uh honoring that legacy while we're we're you know hitching our our trailer onto it as well, you know.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna mention that because in a way you're kind of carrying the Allman Brothers legacy forward.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: What's that like?
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I guess early on, when did you know that it was something you could do um and feel comfortable doing it in front of an audience where you're representing such a huge history of the Allman Brothers in a way?
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, you know what?
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: When when we were kind of playing with all these other musicians, a lot of the guys are older too.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I just I I'm the youngest guy and I just turned 40.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it gives you a little bit of an indication, you know.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: But um when I started this band, I was, you know, 28, 29 years old, and the oldest member of the band just turned 71 this past year, who was actually at the film.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, when we started putting this together, it was really about finding like-minded musicians who really knew the music, you know, felt the music, you know, and when we started to do it, like you said, it it's a big responsibility, and we don't take it lightly.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um, we really wanna wanna wanna pay tribute to to the the founding members and and parlay into the history of it.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we we know our our almonds, you know, we know a band that lives and breathes for 45 years, you know, there there's gonna be so many different interpretations of the music within the band, which is so inspiring.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you don't keep guys like Trux and Haynes around without letting them be their own own musicians within this incredible songbook.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: And and to be honest, we we that's that's the freedom of it, and and and you know, playing into the song and what Dwayne Allman's vision was was to be able to literally have this living, breathing organism of a band keep going and to stay progressive with it.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: And while we're staying progressive with it, we're still realizing our own musical identities within the songbook because that's where the blues and the jazz influence comes through.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's improvisational music, you know.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: If you're feeling, you know, feeling a little off on a on a Monday night and you're and you're playing and stuff, and you're that's gonna come out in your music, you know, you're gonna look for that inspiration, look for that extra gear, you know, of what's going into it.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, did it hit way heavy, you know, to be honest with you.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think we were just so in tune with the music right from the get-go that we we had that we had that responsibility already on our shoulders, and we felt that if anything, you know, we were we we we knew our you know, we knew our stuff, you know, we we knew the history of the band, we knew the recordings are are in our ears, and um we were just you know ready to go and really looking to evolve our own musical journey within paying tribute to such a legendary band, you know.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a particular song that is kind of like the I don't know, the center of gravity for the band that kind of defines your connection to the music that that's kind of the one that you know you're best connected to?
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I mean, I I I would say that maybe changes.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: That changes from show to show, you know, day to day, year to year.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: That makes sense with the the theme and the and the style of the music.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's one thing that we do do.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: We play a different set every single show.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there there's there's the crossovers, you know, um of of material that, you know, there's probably I think we've probably played Statesboro Blues all but one show in the entirety of our uh of our 11-year run and whatnot.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um but within that being said, you know, sometimes you get a Liz Reed, sometimes you get a whipping post, just like just like the beacon.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes you get a blue sky, sometimes you get the Jessica.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and you kind of go from show to show sometimes, like, oh man, we really hit the note on Ain't Wasting Time No More.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we should do it again.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: The next note, it's like, ah, you know, I didn't live up to the last performance.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we should shuffle the deck a little bit.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: So it's um we have we have a repertoire of probably about 50 Allman Brothers songs in the in the catalog that we also one thing that we we we piggybacked on, and that was kind of the the Warren Haynes influence into the band and the government influence is that kind of getting mashup of material, you know.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: So we we also kind of dip our toe into, you know, into the stew of of music of where it comes from.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: So we do some dominoes tunes, you know.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, you know, uh uh Dwayne Ullman's connection to Eric and the Dominoes and stuff like that, and that material playing into it.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: We also do a little mashup of of uh with a little help from my friends from Joe Cocker, you know, because hey, that rhythm section, Carl Radel and Jim Gordon, that was you know, that was the rhythm section for the dominoes.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's kind of you know being able to expand that that musical web because that's what the almonds did.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: That was the that was the beauty of the beacon runs and stuff like that.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't know what you were gonna get, you know, and uh I think again, you know, a long answer to a short question, I think that that it changes for us from from from day to day what what we're connected to and and what's into it.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean anytime we get a chance to play play whipping post, for example, and we usually stave the post for for for kind of the the real the real big show, the big exclamation point to to what we're doing.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that that's how do you follow whipping post?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's such an energy and a power to it and stuff like that.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I'd say, if anything, you know, the the epic jams are what we are kind of always using as milestones within our set, but to play those touchstones and to keep a little light and shade within the set, um, that that's that's the living, breathing thing.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: That that changes from show to show.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned uh Warren Haynes and there's so many different errors of the almonds with Dwayne and Dickie and then Warren and Derek.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what's the what's the biggest challenge you found in honoring both periods?
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh because you gotta mix them all up and you're doing a lot of different uh different different errors.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: There is, and you know what it's it's when we when we do, you know, and actually funnily enough, so so just to talk about the different errors, last night was the 55th anniversary of the release of Fillmore East, which we didn't even know.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: And we were, like I mentioned, we were over at the Stevens Talkhouse last night, and all of a sudden we're in a record store, and somebody, you know, between between sound check and showtime, and someone drops that on us, and we're like, oh my goodness, wow, and here we are.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: I guess, I guess I know what we're starting out with.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: We had to pull a couple audibles around and make sure we had a few of the of the Fillmore tracks.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: But um, yeah, it it is one of those things because we do we do touchstone on all of the different eras of the band.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: And and again, you know, 45 years and such not just a live legacy, but also an album legacy.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: And we we do it all, you know, we go all the way from you know the the self-titled first record with Don't Want You No More and Not My Cross to Bear, which is where it kicks off, and through the Phil Maurice, the Duane era, whatnot, through the you know, you know, after the crash type stuff with with Chuck Lavelle, with Ramblin' Man Southbound and Jessica, and all the way up to to to 89 when Warren came into the band with uh End of the Line and Seven Turns.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: And we actually just started putting into the set um Back Where It All Begins, which I believe was the last studio recording um with Dickie and Warren, which you know is is is heavy.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: But it's it's again taking the the audience with us on that journey, you know, and um I I slave over, uh, you know, I'm kind of you know the band leader, the musical director to an extent, but I do slave over the set list, you know, because I want to think about it in twofold.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: I want to think about what's you know playing to the strengths of the band, how the band's feeling, what kind of show, what kind of audience are we playing to, but also as a fan, what do I want to hear?
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because I remember being at the beacon and all of a sudden, oh my god, they're opening the second set with Mountain Jam, I'm gonna lose it, you know?
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I think about that a lot, you know, and about how we can kind of take them on the journey with us.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Again, that light and shade and that dynamics, not between each piece of music, but between each set and how the songs kind of bleed in and lend into each other.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: Was there ever a song, because I'm hearing you talk about a set list and creating that, was there ever a song that was kind of challeng specifically challenging for the band to learn, so to speak?
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: That was maybe technically demanding or whatever.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: Was it that it was kind of a challenge?
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: Was it something that you can think about that uh took you a while?
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: We're always polishing our crack.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: So there's always a couple of things that we go into that, you know, and you know, the drummers will maybe you know roll their heads if they if they get to listen to this thing because they know I come down on them a little bit.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: We, you know, we are a seven-piece band, and our our rhythm section in the back is two full kits and percussion.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: So to kind of you know, see how we can kind of get that interplay and get it authentic and and get it to do justice to to butch, you know, J-Mo and Marchiones, you know, that that's again keeping our level up and polishing up our own individual act, but also the the the product and the output of the band is always a thing that you know we're always maintaining.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Russ never sleeps, man.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so we, you know, especially playing this music, it's all challenging.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: The music is serious.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the harmony lines, the the dynamics, the interplay.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're we're lucky our lead vocalist, Joe Wasserman, is just, you know, can sing White Boy Blues, you know, uh with the best of them, and and being able to lean on him.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: We've we've tried to integrate getting a little bit more harmonies into the band, you know, fleshing out other guys to pick up the vocal end and and layer those harmony lines, myself included, there, you know, and continue the mashup, continue where can we take this music a little different, you know, because just piggybacking off what we talked about with the with the the different uh eras of the band.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you listened to Jessica in 1973, 1974.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: It is a completely different beast in 1994.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean 1990 and 1995.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: They were always integrating new musical ideas, which again is is so kind of progressive of the band is that they never just kind of stopped.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when they got back together in 89, it was like, all right, well, how can we, what did we do back in 74?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, what do we do in 72?
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now all of a sudden, well, Dickie, I got this idea.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then Dickey was such a master arranger, you know, of music and such an instrumentalist at heart, and just so accomplished with his understanding of melody, you know, he's such a melodic player.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they and they they say about that with Dwayne and Dicky and stuff that Dwayne had such an incredible ear and would be but you know, but but Dickie had such a musical harmony identity that they could pick up on each other.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: Dwayne would be listening to what Dickie was doing and pick up on her right there, and all a lot of those harmony lines and whatnot that they did were all just that, you know, literally, impro improvise, you know, trying to figure out, trying to work it out on the road.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Again, a living, breathing organism of what goes into it, you know.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, again, going back to what's most challenging, we've got a song that we haven't actually played live yet, but is an instrumental called Kind of Bird, um, that is off Shades of Two Worlds, that I believe is a Dickie Warren combination.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: That and again, the the the the impetus and the inspiration was Charlie Bird Parker.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: So if you're thinking about it, it's it's it's very heavily jazz inspired and very complicated melody.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: And it goes up and down, it goes into a seven eight time period and whatnot.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and we're we're we're still we're still grinding that one out.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Let's let's let's put it that way.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: We're still in the rehearsal room shedding that one before before it's gonna come out.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: But there is, I mean, it's it's a very melodic music.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: It can be simple at times, it touches people, it connects to people, and then it also does have a a musical edge to it uh of uh of instrumentation that each player really has to make sure that they've you know that they've done their wood shedding and and got their fingers around it, you know.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Is there it's really interesting, is there a song, because you mentioned learning um these arrangements and learning something I think we probably learn a lot about the people that perform them just by doing these songs.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Is there something that sticks out to you that kind of reveals uh something you didn't realize um about these performers in the Allman Brothers band?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, you know, but one of one of the biggest things is as much as it's a guitar band, you know.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you think about guitar, right?
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: You think about Derek, uh Derek Warren, you think about Warren Dickey, Dwayne Dickey, all that type of stuff that goes into it.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: But they are so connected to the rhythm section of that band, you know, whether it be the the the founders of J-Mo and and Butch and uh and and Barry Oakley, you know, I mean, they were such a pivotal foundation for you know Dwayne and Dickey to soar and to fly.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the other big thing about it is as much as they were a guitar band and and you know, founded in 69, you know, a b you know, an era of guitar heroes, left, right, and center, Clapton, Hendricks, Peter Green, you know, Mick Taylor just joined the Stones at that.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: Zeppelin starred in 69.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Jimmy Page is already uh a legend in the in the studio and and the the the new what would be the the new Yarbirds, which would be Led Zeppelin and stuff like that.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: But what separated the brothers so much is that ensemble feel, that ensemble thing that they were really playing to the strengths of of each band member for the greater, you know, greater hold, the greater output of what was kind of coming out and where to leave space, when to push it, when to push the tempo, when to pull back.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: And that rhythm section is such a such a strong foundation of the music that allowed the whole band to really kind of soar and have that fire and that interplay with each other, with again, of course, two amazing musicians, you know, uh guitarists with with Dwayne and Dickey But furthermore, again, you cannot leave out the brilliance of the songwriting and the songbook, you know, between Greg and Dickie.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, the the song is the vehicle for for incredible instrumentalists to to you know to thrive.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you don't have a good song, you're not gonna be able to play some good guitar, you know, or a good guitar lead or whatnot.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: So the importance of of how they were able to not just have a tremendous group of musicians, but to also have a songbook to be able to parlay.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, ain't wasting time no more.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: Melissa, dreams, whipping posts, Dickie on the other side with Revival, Jessica, Southbound.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, these are the, you know, you're only as good as the song you're playing, you know.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: So as much as you have all of those virtuosos of of you know of musicians and whatnot through their entire period and whatnot, they also, you know, were were a group, were an ensemble, and had also an incredible wealth of material to be payable to play through and to improvise off of and to take it into the stratosphere, you know.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I think I think that again, getting diving in deep over these last 11 years, it becomes, you know, a really uh a band of brothers, a group, an ensemble within an incredible songbook of material, as opposed to just kind of, you know, listening to the the virtuosity of any sort.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm a good I'm the good I'm I'm I'm a lead guitar player, so that you know, so I'm in there thinking all that type of stuff, and I'm I'm I'm learning new stuff from the rhythm section every single day.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm learning new stuff from listening back to the film Morris to this day and and the intricacies and the genius of the songwriting within the band.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's that's what rounds it out for them.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it really does.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting hearing you talk.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you have such passion for this music and and these performers, and I'd imagine you you really feel like uh is it difficult performing, and not saying Warren will and we'll be there for Governor Mule and not necessarily see you guys perform, but what's that like knowing that you're performing with them in the same vicinity?
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just say it this way.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll have we'll have a third guitar rig set up just in case uh Mr.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Haynes wants to wants to come on by.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: But I I actually I had an audience with with Warren a few years back on a on kind of a a very uh uh you know uh intimate intimate place and whatnot.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: And I also, you know, I I I uh I don't necessarily, you know, I'm I'm I'm in all of these musicians, and I'm a student of these musicians.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: You talk about about learning new things.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: When you're studying a player and a performer, you know, you really are are studying what makes them tick, you know, they're there, especially with blues, which is where it all, and jazz, which is where it's because it's such an emotive music, blues, soul, R and B.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: There's such an emotive cadence to the phrasing that goes into whether it be the vocalists, whether it be the the guitar players, whether it be anybody that that is is really sustaining a note and and has that kind of um emotive human quality to what's going into it, you know, you really get inside these these these players' heads, especially if you're listening.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's one of the hardest things I've ever I ever went through.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I I studied with with a mentor of mine for many years, and and he always said the hardest thing to do is to listen, you know, and if you can listen, if you can listen to what music you're you're transcribing or you're into and you're trying to get into your own musical identity, if you can listen to the other players of the band, you can you can really, you know, that intense listening really defines you as what kind of caliber and quality musician you are.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, again, when you meet these people or when you're on the same bill or anything along those lines, I I do kind of try and and um, you know, uh I know my place, let's put it that way, within within the spectrum of it.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: And if I and you don't want to push, but when you you have the opportunity to kind of have a a musical conversation um with your heroes, whether it be Warren or Derek or some of the people I've been very privileged uh and lucky to meet along the lines, you kind of you play it a little bit cool because you don't want to come off as the as a gushing fan and whatnot.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: But when you kind of get into that, you you you you have an intimacy with these people because you study them for so long.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: So when you're on the same bill, you know, and you're doing what you're doing and whatnot, it's it's a privilege, it's an honor.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: We have a responsibility to to to play into this song, and you're just happy, happy to be there, you know, and uh happy, happy and privileged to be playing this music.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: It really is.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: It really, again, like you said, I am very, very passionate about it.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's been almost, you know, somewhat of my life's work, you know, and um I'm just I'm just you know, I feel the responsibility, I feel the privilege, and I'm just you know, getting, you know, keeping keeping keeping on, you know.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much, Sean.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: That that that's great.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: So the Almost Brothers band performing that Saturday, July 25th at this year's Great South Bay Music Festival.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: You can rip tickets at GreatSouth Bay Music Festival.com.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh live includes Governor Mule, of course, Bruce Hornsby, Sierra Hole, and lots more.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh very cool you guys are sharing the stage and sharing the bill with those guys, and uh we can't wait to see you out there.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh thank you so much.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Sean so thank you, thank you for your time, and we look forward to seeing you guys perform.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: All right, thank you so much.