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Dalton Jones Discusses Authenticity, Influences, and Upcoming Projects in the Music Industry · The Scene Projects

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  Today's guest is Dalton Jones, an Alabama born singer songwriter whose roots in church music
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  at age four grew into a passion for storytelling through country, rock, and
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  Americana.
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  With heartfelt originals like Nothing to Lose and Country Nights, Dalton's music blends grit,
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  soul, and heart.
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  Let's get to the show.
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  This program is part of the Scene Projects podcast network.
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  Scene Project features interviews with independent musicians, comedians, and artists
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  from across the Midwest.
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  Become part of our community and support local art wherever you are.
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  Welcome in to a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host, Bubba Sartz, and with us today is Dalton Jones.
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  Dalton, welcome to the show, brother.
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  Hey, Bubba.
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  Thank you for having me, brother.
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  I appreciate it.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it's a pleasure.
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  You came over from our good friend Willie and his show, Soul Impact.
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  I was glad that we were able to get you over here on our sister network now.
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  Absolutely.
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  No.
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  I we had a great time with Willie the other day, and he had nothing but good things to say
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  about you.
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  And, he said you need to get linked up with Bubba, so just glad to glad to be here.
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  Awesome, man.
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  Well, I before we get too far into it, I I know you've had a a busy time, especially, this week
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  is a real busy one for you.
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  But before we get to that, why don't you, take the floor and tell us a little bit about
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  yourself and your background?
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  Yeah.
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  So, you know, I'm a a country boy born and bred.
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  I grew up, in in here in rural Alabama.
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  Lived here my whole life, just outside of a little town called Jacksonville.
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  It's actually the home place of Raleigh Green.
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  So if you follow country music, Raleigh's doing some phenomenal things in the space, but he
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  grew up just right down the road from me.
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  But this this little town is somewhere I've spent most of my life, and all my family's
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  here.
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  Grew up singing music.
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  My dad is a is a pastor and minister, and so we were always in church when I was a kid before
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  he became a pastor.
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  And he was the choir director, and so he did a lot of music.
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  He was given special music on the weekend or, you know, on Sundays and things.
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  And I was about four years old, and daddy was always up there singing.
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  And so one day on the way home from church, I said, hey, dad.
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  I wanna sing with you.
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  And he said, well, we'll we'll sing next week.
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  So we got up and we sang a song called thank you, Lord.
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  And I wish I could remember the name of the group who who wrote that song, and I'm gonna
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  get it and write it down on a sticky note right here so I can have it for future.
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  But we sang that song together, and all I knew was the chorus.
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  And it was just like, thank you, Lord.
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  And I just like, as a little kid, you know, I started singing that and didn't know how to
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  regulate my voice, but it was a fun fun time.
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  And I was hooked from that moment on and sang in in church, did a lot of things.
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  And then at about 14 years old, I I started playing the guitar.
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  My dad actually bought it for me at 10 years old and took a few lessons and found out real
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  quick that that wasn't for me.
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  I'm the I'm the kind of person I can't stand when somebody can do something, and I can't.
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  So I the lessons did not go well.
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  And so it sat in the corner of my room, collected dust for a few years, and then we
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  finally got the nerve to pick it up and start teaching ourself.
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  And so I I taught her taught myself to to play.
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  And next thing you know, for several years, I did that and started singing in church again
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  with the guitar and doing those types of things.
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  And we launched our public music career, I would say, a little over a year ago in August.
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  My wife had had been pushing me for ten years to do something with music, and we went to a
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  concert.
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  And I had we had the time of our lives.
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  Just had a great time.
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  And on the way home, looked at my wife.
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  I said, we're doing music.
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  And so when I got home, we wrote our first song, and the rest is history.
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  Here we are today.
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  So that's us in a nutshell.
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  That's a lot.
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  Yeah.
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  That's amazing, man.
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  I absolutely love it.
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  I love that, you know, singing singing essentially since you could talk, really, and
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  having that bug and kind of that trajectory.
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  I I learned how to play guitar around that same age.
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  I had played drums in concert band, like, grade.
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  Right?
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  So that'll you know, 10, 11 years old range.
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  And then, by eighth grade, 13, 14 years old, right, Finally got a guitar in my hand, and I'd
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  always been a singer.
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  And there's just something about the six strings on a guitar and a human voice and the
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  way that it goes together that I, you know, I say it's magic.
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  And, it's the reason that we have so much good music that's kind of from that base, right, of
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  of the guitar player, singer songwriter, if you will.
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  Love that the wife has been pushing.
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  What took you so long to listen to your wife, Dalton?
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  Man, I'll tell you.
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  You know, I I've always kinda been more of a, I guess, you would say a humble person.
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  And, you know, I I I just I I knew I could sing.
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  Right?
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  You know, I I believe in having confidence in yourself.
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  I knew I could sing, but, you know, I was just like, no.
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  I'm I'm just you know, I'm the guy that sings on Sunday in in church and does the special
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  music, and everybody kinda cheers and claps because they have to.
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  You know?
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  And so that was kinda my thought process.
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  And my wife always would tell me, you know, we did karaoke a lot.
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  And people, when I was out doing karaoke and stuff, they would tell me, Dalton, you know,
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  you you got it.
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  You need to do more.
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  You need to do more.
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  And, you know, I just always kinda brushed it off brushed it off.
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  And we went to that concert, and we went to was rock the south here in Cullman, Alabama, which
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  is a huge rock festival.
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  I mean, there's, like, 30 or country country rock festival.
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  There's 30,000 people out there.
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  I mean, it's it's crazy.
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  And they're in the middle of a cow pasture in the mud and then just you know?
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  From seeing fist fights to to seeing people doing slip and slides in the mud because it was
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  pouring down rain to just people drunk off their butts, having a great time.
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  I mean, it was just awesome.
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  It was absolutely awesome, like pure redneck chaos, and I'm just like, this is great.
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  And then I hear these people singing that I hear on the radio every day that I think
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  they're great singers, and I hear them singing on stage, and they still sound good.
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  But I'm like, I think I think I could do that.
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  And we went through the rest of that experience and just seeing all those people having so much
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  joy and, you know, look at life and look at all the things going on in the world, which we
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  could talk about all day.
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  But I look at all those things, and I you know, there's one thing that I think everybody's able
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  to connect on, and that's music.
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  And so, you know, I I just I left there with a different perspective.
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  And so we got in the car on the ride home, and I just looked at my wife, and I said, I'm I'm
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  I'm doing music because I wanna bring joy to people that I saw this weekend.
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  Like, that's what I wanna do.
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  And so, that's kinda what started.
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  I got I got the bug, man.
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  I got bit.
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  It bit me hard and, took over me.
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  And so, you know, we just since then, been playing out, man.
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  It's been a it's been a wild year.
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  A wild year.
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  I will say that.
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  We played almost a 100 shows across eight, nine different counties here in Alabama, and it's
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  just been wild.
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  Been wild.
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  We, we went and covered a a festival this year in Sioux Falls called Rock the Country, and I
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  wonder if that's not
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  It is.
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  From the Rock the South.
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  Okay.
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  It was a great time, man.
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  Kid rock was a headliner.
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  Nickelback was the other headliner, but we saw That's
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  his tour.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's Kid Rock's tour.
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  Okay.
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  Cool.
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  Cool.
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  He's kinda
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  the he's the producer, whatever you would call it.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  He put together rock the country.
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  Well, it makes a lot of sense, man.
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  Got to see Aaron Lewis and the state liners, and just the whole vibe was awesome, man.
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  Afro man was there.
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  That was
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  super cool.
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  So, yeah, just shout out to Kid Rock for for bringing us this beautiful tour and taking it
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  out on the road this summer.
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  I thought it was great.
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  And to travel with something that big, I mean, it was fifty fifty sixty thousand people.
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  It was massive.
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  It was huge.
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  Yeah.
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  Really impressed with it.
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  It's hard not to be inspired by those moments.
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  Right?
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  And you talked about, you know, music kinda being something that connects all of us.
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  I lived in Mexico for a year.
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  Throughout my travels, how I ended up there, can get into in another conversation.
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  But truly a universal language.
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  When I landed down there, I I wasn't really playing music at all.
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  But when it came time to feed myself, I fell back on the one thing, up until that point that
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  I'd always had in my back pocket.
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  And I used to go down in the center of the square, you know, downtown in the town we were
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  in, maybe 90,000, a 100,000 people.
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  And I'd sit there all day on Sunday and make, you know, what most people are making working
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  labor jobs in a day, right, for playing music, and it was that reminder.
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  And I'd done that before.
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  I was a busker.
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  I got the bug early, Dalton.
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  So I've been on the road with me and a guitar since I was, you know, 18 years old,
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  essentially, and it took me everywhere.
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  And once I figured out that, man, pretty much anytime I need a little bit of money, I can
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  throw this guitar around, sing a few songs, make $20.40 bucks, feed myself, and get where I
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  needed to go.
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  And then then, of course, that evolved, right, to playing gigs later on.
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  You know, 02/2009, put a band together with my dad and and really started to play out.
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  And then I've been doing that ever since, man.
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  It's crazy to look back and be like, jeez, you've really been in this, you know, two
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  decades now, playing music professionally, I I guess.
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  Right?
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  I was making money doing it.
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  So whether I was on the street or on a stage, like, you know, here we have a a Levitt
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  Amphitheater that, you know, has four, five thousand people, I think, you can fit in there.
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  It's a crazy life that this band, and I love that while you're not new to music, you're new
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  to this part of it.
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  And it's so exciting early on as you're starting to move and to to play around in
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  different you know, getting outside of your hometown is is a big step too.
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  Right?
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  Getting out and playing for new crowds and new people, and that's only gonna feed you, man.
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  The more you get out and you're playing for for other people that aren't, that don't have to
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  clap.
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  Right?
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  You're outside of the church now.
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  Right.
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  They're not required to like you or to to, support you.
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  But so when you feel that support, it feels that much better.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It is it's been, that that part of it, you know, it's it's you know, I I don't ever really
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  do it for the attaboys.
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  You know, it's great.
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  I love it when people come up and, you know, I I've I've had people come to my shows and, you
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  know, I had had a lady this past weekend that literally her and her husband came in late, and
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  they said it was just happenstance that we were here.
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  And I said, well, I don't believe in that.
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  I don't believe in coincidences.
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  Everything happens for a reason.
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  And but they came in and just were blown away and then and loved the show.
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  And she came up afterwards, and she said, I want your autograph.
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  And I was like, I'm nobody.
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  And she said, no.
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  You're gonna be somebody, and I want your autograph.
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  And I was like, man.
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  I was just like, that.
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  Wow.
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  You know, when somebody comes up and says something to you like that, it's just like it's
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  it's surreal.
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  It really is surreal.
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  And, you know, here I am.
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  I'm just doing something I love.
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  I just enjoy it.
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  And getting to write music and tell stories and, you know, relate that are relatable to
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  people.
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  That's something that I've always tried to create since I started is, you know, that that
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  genuineness of myself because I I've always been that kind of person with everything I do.
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  I try to connect with people.
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  I try to see the best in people and and bring the best out of them whether you know, no
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  matter what situation it is.
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  And so if my music can do that for somebody, then I feel like I've done a good thing.
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  And that's that's what I'm about with it.
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  And the world is just craving authenticity right now.
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  Mhmm.
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  When you look at pop music and it's just cookie cutter songs, they rehash everything.
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  I think a lot of people, real music lovers, are craving something more.
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  And we've lost a lot of really good artists that have just aged out.
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  Right?
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  And the music industry has really been on a slide for the last two decades.
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  And the the pop music world, which is now completely infiltrated country music as well,
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  it's just so blah.
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  Right?
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  It's bland.
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  It's rehashed.
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  And people while you like a good pop song every now and then and you put a little twang to it,
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  and sure, they're fun to drink too, People really want music that touches their soul.
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  And that's what music was always supposed to be, and it and it is.
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  And I think that's why you have the, you know, the trajectories of a of a guy like Zach Bryan,
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  right, where he just came on and said, no.
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  I'm gonna do me, and I, you know, screw the industry and look what they've built.
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  And it's just opened the door for so many other artists now, and not that Zach was the first by
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  any means, but I really feel like the the outlaw country and more you know, not
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  necessarily the sound, but the attitude of like, you know what?
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  We're just gonna go do it.
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  We're gonna be independent.
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  We're gonna work with independent labels at that.
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  Nobody's chasing a record deal anymore.
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  It's why Spotify is changing their terms to just completely abuse artists even more and to
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  you know?
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  At this point, you you put your music on Spotify.
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  You're signing a record deal that you don't even know.
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  They're taking your licensing to all your music.
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  I don't know if you plan on putting any music or have on there, but anyone else that's
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  listening as well, do your homework on the terms.
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  And I pulled all of my stuff.
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  I pulled my podcast off of there.
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  You know?
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  I I don't care if I'm not making money over there.
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  I am not going to support them to continue to just trample over independent artists that are
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  out here just trying to get by and to put their art out there for music lovers.
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  And, we'll find our own way, and we don't need you.
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  You weren't doing much for me anyway.
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  So thank you, but no thank you.
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  We'll keep on moving.
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  Now you talked about your wife, obviously, an influence for the push into the pool, if you
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  will, but you talked about writing together with her as well.
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  So is your wife are you performing as a duo, or what's kind of the the setup of the band?
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  Yeah.
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  So so right now, I'm doing mainly just solo stuff.
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  You know, I've I've played one show with a full band, and we're still, you know, hopeful that
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  we can make some things work there.
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  Had a great great time with them.
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  We actually played our very our our debut show, we played in front of 2,000 people.
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  So I would say it was pretty successful.
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  But my so my wife is a an an aspiring author.
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  So she actually wrote her first novel and released it back in July, and so she's a very
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  talented writer.
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  And so it's kind of like having a a secret ace in the pocket, you know, per se that, you know,
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  she she helps me write some of these songs.
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  And so she's actually helped me write three or four of the songs that we've got now.
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  And, of course, you know, I write too.
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  We both I think we both have different talents in that space.
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  And, you know, I I just try to write stuff from from my heart.
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  And a lot of what I do is more ad libbing than anything.
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  I would say I'd most of the songs I've written to date were just ad lib.
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  I just pick up the guitar, start playing, and words just come out.
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  Whereas she is the more technical, I'm gonna sit down and write it on paper person.
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  And so I think it it creates a a happy marriage on more levels than one of, you know, how we
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  can kinda work together and and really put out some good songs.
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  And I would say some of the the better songs that that we've put out so far, were songs that
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  we did together, and people kinda, you know, were able to resonate with that on different
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  frequencies.
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  And so it's been it's been really fun.
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  Yeah.
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  So, obviously, that's gonna continue to be part of the formula here moving forward.
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  Like you said, having the ace in the hole there, you gotta use it.
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  Yeah.
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  You gotta play it.
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  So, you let missus Jones know that she is more than welcome to come on and do her own
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  interview, and we'll talk about that novel that she just wrote.
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  The Scene Projects isn't just about music.
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  We like to get all kinds of creatives on here to share their stories, and and we got a few
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  other people in the network that would love to speak to her as well.
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  So love that.
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  My my wife and I don't write songs together, but I've written some songs about her that have
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  been some of our best.
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  So so I know the inspiration of having someone that you love that inspires you right there
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  sleeping next to you every night.
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  I know what that can bring to the table, man.
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  So good for the both of you.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  So I know you got a busy week.
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  Not only are you coming on our live show, love noise this week, but you're, you're going into
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  the studio too.
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  Your first time in the studio?
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  Yeah.
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  This is man, I so you could tell I've got a very simple setup here at the house.
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  So most all the music we've put out or I say most all of the music that we have put out,
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  I've mixed and mastered myself, and it's not it's not professional professional quality.
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  I would say I've done my very best on it, and it I think it turned out well, and we've had a
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  lot of people that's enjoyed it.
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  But this will be my first time in an actual studio with an actual producer.
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  Super excited.
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  The producer I'm working with is a phenomenal guy.
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  He's worked with some amazing artists.
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  You know, he's worked with uncle Cracker.
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  So uncle cracker, he's he's helped produce some stuff for him.
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  He's worked with another kind of a hiring country music artist, Austin Snell.
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  He's more, I'd say, country rock, kind of that pop country type genre.
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  And then he also just worked on the new album that there's a country rapper.
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  He's so he's very diverse.
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  That's one thing I love about him is he works with a lot of different type of artists.
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  But there's a country rapper called Big Smo.
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  I think he's from Tennessee, and he just helped him produce his new album.
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  And he just does a phenomenal job.
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  He's he can play every instrument.
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  He cuts all the tracks pretty much by himself, and he is really, really talented with his
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  vocal mixes, which was the big reason why I wanted to work with him because he's known for
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  his vocal mixing talent and engineering talent.
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  And, you know, I feel like I'm I I know that I don't have the greatest voice in the world, but
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  also I know that my voice has some character and, you know, I have a lot of raspiness and
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  and different things to my voice that I feel like he could bring the best out in that.
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  So I'm really excited about, you know, what we're gonna do.
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  We're gonna put an EP out.
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  We're gonna work on three songs to start off.
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  We have a I got a full album put together, but we're gonna start with those three songs, cut
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  them, get them put out.
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  I've talked to a few radio stations here locally.
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  I think Willie's been up there kinda advocating for me in some place with you guys.
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  So, you know, I've got a bunch of people on my team and and people that support me and love me
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  and what I do and are trying to help.
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  And that's been the I think the greatest thing about all of this is that, you know, I know I
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  can advocate for myself all day.
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  We can I I believe that you've got to to some extent?
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  But, you know, the people that have kinda come on board and started supporting me as I've done
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  this and most most all of them, I would say it was because they were just able to relate to
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  me.
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  But, you know, it it's been fantastic, and those people have really kinda helped me to get
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  to where I am today, the growth and everything that we've seen with the music and what we're
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  doing.
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  So I'm just I'm excited.
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  I'm really excited about these songs.
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  They're good songs.
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  They're good songs.
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  And I know that, with what, Josh is gonna be able to do with them, they're gonna be they're
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  gonna be phenomenal.
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  I'm I'm just I'm excited.
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  I can't wait to hear what it's gonna be like when we get done.
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  That's what I'm waiting for.
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  Now coming from the church, I'm going to assume that you have a little bit of experience
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  singing harmony parts and things like that.
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  When you produced your your own stuff, were you working on harmony parts and kinda layering
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  vocals in there?
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  I didn't.
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  To be honest with you, I didn't do a whole lot of that, and that was, you know, partially just
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  because, you know, I really didn't know what I was doing.
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  Number one, I was just learning as I was going.
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  I'm I'm really tech savvy.
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  I work in in the tech industry with my full time role currently.
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  And so, you know, anything technology related, I can usually figure out and and make it at
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  least seem very well done.
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  But, yeah, I I I didn't.
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  I do know a lot about harmony.
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  I was in choir coming up in school, so I I was in choral class in school.
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  And then, of course, I I I sang in the choir and did different things at the church as well
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  growing up.
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  So I've got background experience in that.
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  And I I know working with with a guy like Josh, he'll be able to say, alright.
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  Now we cut that that.
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  Let's do it again.
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  Sing it a little different.
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  Alright.
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  Now let's do some harmony.
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  So I'm sure he'll he'll wanna throw some things in there.
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  And the I think that's one thing that I've with the experience I've had in music is that I'm
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  multi multi toned, I would say.
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  I I I'm I'm really I would say my natural range is baritone, but, you know, I've been known to
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  sing some way down bass, like some Josh Turner type stuff, and then all the way go up to on
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  the higher end.
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  You know, I do some things like Leonard Skynyrd and, you know, oh gosh.
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  One of my favorite songs all time to sing is wicked game by Chris Isaacs.
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  And if you've if you've ever heard that song, it it it's up there.
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  So, you know, I've I have a a very broad range, and so I'm hoping that working with him, he'll
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  be able to bring that stuff out.
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  He'll he'll have a better understanding of it than what I do.
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  And that's that's what you pay for when you go to work with a with an experienced producer.
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  It's somebody who's been there before and kinda done that that can say, hey.
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  Try this.
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  Where us working in our home studios, I've I've recorded some stuff.
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  I've never released anything that I've recorded at home.
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  It's mostly been demo so that I could show other people, hey.
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  This is kinda what the song is.
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  But having worked with just a a good friend of mine, but who has a ton of experience in his
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  studio and just the little tips that he hey.
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  Try this.
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  You wanna run this one more time?
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  You wanna do this?
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  It made the songs that I've been working on here, the last year or so that much better.
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  And and now that they're kind of in the mixing phase and we're getting ready to master these
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  things and release them, hopefully, in the next month or two, it's some of the best work I've
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  ever done.
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  And and that would have never come across if I didn't choose to hire professionals to do their
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  job.
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  Right?
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  To to let them kinda cook with with the things that we're bringing.
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  Because I know that, you know, the songs I have, I think they're good songs.
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  Right?
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  I'm bringing this out to the to the table and putting it out there.
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  Help me make it better.
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  Right?
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  And I think when you start to work with, good people, right, people that are not just there
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  to take your money but are really interested in helping you to craft and make your art as good
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  as it can be, that that's when the magic really happens.
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  So thrilled for you, man.
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  I'm so excited to, well, to talk to you tomorrow night from when we film this and to
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  hear how it went.
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  But then, of course, to hear the songs down the line when they get fully produced and released
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  out there, hopefully not on the Spotify, and out into the world.
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  And and we're gonna find a way to promote them on all of our stuff, the scene projects.
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  Radio is up and running now, so we'll definitely be sure to share it on there.
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  And thank you, man.
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  That was a big step.
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  Something I've had in the back of my head for a long time, and I just I do too much already,
• 24:47
  Dalton.
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  So until I had the team, Willie, our other producer, Boo Boo, have been so influential and
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  pulling things off of my plate.
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  And I know Willie is a DJ in his regular gig.
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  Right?
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  He he's running his own production company.
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  Shout out to Backwoods Productions.
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  And everything that he's doing, I knew that he would jump in full force into this with me if I
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  just gave him a little guidance.
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  So He's a good team.
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  So grateful.
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  So grateful for a a brilliant team, and it sounds like you've got a great one as well.
• 25:16
  Dalton, before I let you go, where can people find you online, and where can they take a
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  listen to the stuff you've got out there?
• 25:22
  Yeah.
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  So we're on all the social medias, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, all the things.
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  You can look up Dalton Jones music or Dalton Jones official.
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  It's it's it's one or the other.
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  I couldn't do Dalton Jones music on everything because it was taken.
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  So Dalton Jones music or Dalton Jones official.
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  We do have some music out on streaming platforms.
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  It's on everything right now, but I'm with you with Spotify.
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  I don't plan on releasing anything else to them until they fix that with those terms of
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  service.
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  So we do have some music that's on on Amazon Prime, on YouTube Music, all that good stuff.
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  Spotify, it's on there.
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  It's on Pandora, iHeartRadio.
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  It's on literally everything right now.
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  And then, of course, you know, we also are on bands in town.
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  Of course, it it depends on where you're listening from right now.
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  All of our shows have been in Alabama, but I'm hoping that it's about to spread out way from
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  there.
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  So you can find me on bands in town as well and kinda see our schedule.
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  So if you're making a trip down here to Alabama or if you're in Alabama, you can come and see
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  us.
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  Awesome, man.
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  Well, Dalton, just keep on going.
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  That's the only advice I can give you in your young music career.
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  Before you know it, you'll look back, and those hundreds of shows will be thousands of shows.
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  You'll have made a ton of memories and a ton of friends out there, and it just, it's thrilling.
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  It's thrilling to see someone at the beginning of their journey having a lot of success and
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  and in the middle of it.
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  And you, you're a reason that I started doing this in the first place, and I built the scene
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  projects was to support, guys just like you.
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  So, Dalton Jones, thanks for being part of the scene.
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  Hey.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Thank you for having me.
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  We appreciate what you do.