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  SPEAKER_00: It's WEHM All Access, the Stag Harbor Music Festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's four days of music all throughout the village of Stag Harbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: It starts off Thursday evening, September 24th, and runs through Sunday, September 27th.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can get the full schedule online at StagharborMusic.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the performers is uh I guess a veteran of the EHM local over the years and so many great shows that are out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Annie Treza.
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  SPEAKER_00: Annie, how are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy, I'm super groovy.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just went surfing, so I'm good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that that has to help any day, uh, especially.
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  SPEAKER_00: How's the surf this summer going?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been pretty good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's been small a lot, but that's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I work with kids a lot, so doing surfing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've had well, there's swell today, and September will definitely be swell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we're looking forward to the uh the Sag Harbor Music Festival, and you've got a ton of things and different projects going on uh over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and I want to kind of get to know you a bit as we get a chance to sit down and kind of chat about some things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you had a chance to to actually grow up in Montauk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and I guess I was curious what's that like to come from that perspective?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because everyone goes out there during the summer, they they surf, then they go back to the city, but you grew up there uh year-round.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that what does that mean for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is the kind of the version of Montauk that tourists never see?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, the more pleasant version.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really I really love the the different seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's such a whirlwind in the summer and it gets so crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like since I was like 17, it's pretty much just been like you put your head down and you work and you grind and then you save up to go travel, or you know, but I like I like the winter because it's good for the creativity and I like the solitude and it's nice though to see you know the changes and in throughout the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a way, I think you actually appreciate it more uh because when it when it is quieter, and then you really appreciate the beauty of being out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can connect with the lands more too, which I really love about Montauk.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been I've been reading up and kind of learning where you're you came from and kind of what inspired you over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And is it true that you were only like six years old discovering the Beatles?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, probably even before that.
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  SPEAKER_01: My dad had like cassette tapes in the cars, and I think I knew like every Beatles album by like six or seven, yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was what was that like?
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  SPEAKER_00: Was music always kind of on in when you were growing up?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was, but I also like grew up in a church, so I didn't really wasn't exposed to too much except for like the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then as I got older, more and more things started creeping in.
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  SPEAKER_01: But aside from like church music, my dad had pretty much all the Beatles tapes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was your favorite Beatles song when you were growing up?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, I honestly really feel like I loved Magical Mystery Tour, like the whole album when I was younger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I really remember that one.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I also loved the white album and like Abbey Road is my all-time Here Comes the Sun is probably like one of the songs why I wanted to pick up the guitar.
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  SPEAKER_00: When did you first uh play the guitar and start singing?
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  SPEAKER_00: How old?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I started getting pretty serious about guitar when I was like 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before that, I played piano, so I do play piano as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I kind of knew I always wanted to like sing and write my own songs, but I had a guitar when I was like 10, but it wasn't I didn't really get serious with it till I was like 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you performing growing up or was it in church or different different things, or was that kind of where you only started at 15?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I played a little bit in in church, yeah, but um not too much.
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  SPEAKER_01: But um the performing really started.
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  SPEAKER_01: The performing really started probably when I was like 18, actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just in various bars and things around Montauk.
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  SPEAKER_00: When did you discover as you got older and you started to kind of find out more about music?
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  SPEAKER_00: Was there an artist that kind of obviously the Beatles, uh, but was there one that you remember back when you were like 15 that kind of really affected you and kind of set you on this journey?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, I also fell in love with Bob Dylan music when I was very young, like probably more so around 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when I was 10, I was uh I was pretty much obsessed with the um Abra Levine album Let Go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Actually, because like in a world of like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and all that kind of shit that I had no taste for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like she came out, and I was already a little skate rat when I was like by the time I was seven or eight.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she came on the scene, and I think I listened to that album like three times a day for like two years.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: When did you realize that you wanted to perform and this is what you wanted to do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it seems like you were doing a lot of different things growing up, but you kind of started to focus a little bit more on it in your late teen years.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I remember like being 10 and listening to that album in my room and pretending to be like fake performing with like my cousins and stuff, and I was pretty serious about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think um, I think I just kind of always had a big like love for music.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even when I was very little, I think I kind of knew that I I wanted to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was pretty obsessed with it, um always.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I remember like being at like the gig shack and like uh different bars out here when I was like, I guess just when I was graduating high school, and um I kind of was just like I really want to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I just asked and booked a gig and then from there just started doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's it like in the Montauk music scene growing up?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they obviously they've got a lot of different performers that come out there for the summer, but also year-round.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, what what kind of um what kind of scene did you get involved with and kind of mentored you along the way?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think probably I mean, what yeah, when I was like 18, I I started playing at the Gig Shack and it was like it once, and then it became like three times a week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you just play in one place, and then people kind of hear about you, and then you just it was also cool to just be able to like walk into places and like introduce yourself and book gigs that way rather than having to like write emails.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think that's a cool thing about being in this town.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like a small town, you just kind of know everyone, and it's pretty, you know, booking gigs is pretty easy at this point, but um yeah, I mean it's a lot of like bars and restaurants, but I knew my my goal was to get to the talk house eventually.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, you go put a band together and do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You certainly accomplished that so over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's it like for you, the writing process, and uh as far as like how do you start?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are there lyrics first?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there music?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do you begin?
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  SPEAKER_00: And also where do you write?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is there a lot of have my writing spots for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like to be pretty like alone um when I'm writing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't really I don't like do too well if others there's others' energies around, but um, I have a Volkswagen van, like a 90s Euro van, and that's one of my writing spots.
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  SPEAKER_01: I got like some different places I like to park at where I know it's pretty low-key and I can write there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Always usually where there's like some bodies of water and nature around, definitely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or at home a lot on the piano.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I am kind of a I'm kind of like a really deep, I'm a deep feeler.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a lot of my songs I like can I have like a real I'm like usually feeling a lot about a certain situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: I kind of feel something coming up and the music and lyrics will roll out at the same time a lot of the times.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um or I'll have lyrics first, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_01: But most of my songs have been both at the same time, and I just like feel it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I press record on my voice notes and make sure to capture the moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what did I'm curious because you do surf, uh, is there does that play a role in kind of clearing your mind, maybe?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or I'm trying to because it certainly has an effect on you as an artist, I'd have to imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it definitely does.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's pretty much like the most the closest thing to meditating and stuff that I have.
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  SPEAKER_01: It also can be a distraction because if the waves are good, that's pretty much what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I think it just like keeps me very like mentally healthy, as you know, as well as physically.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's just something that makes me feel so good and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it definitely has creeped into a lot of my lyrics.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I was gonna mention that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious, have you ever come out of the water and just like knew you had to get something in your voice memos right away?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've definitely wrote there's definitely been lyrics that came into my mind while sitting on the in the water for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: When did you uh now I know you've gone, I think you were down in Charleston for a bit and you've gone all over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, when did you start to travel?
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  SPEAKER_00: What age and kind of perform different places?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when I was probably like, yeah, 18 or 19, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pretty much would pick up gigs wherever I went.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did live in Charleston for like a year.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was a while ago now.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then whenever I go to like surf towns and surf trips, I usually will pick up gigs as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Definitely.
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  SPEAKER_00: What place kind of stuck out to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, you spent a year in Charleston, but have there been places that really affected you and kind of inspired your writing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I've spent I've gone to this little surf town in Mexico a couple times, and I think I got I got a couple songs that came out of that place for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Actually, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, definitely that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Charleston really did inspire a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was like the start of my songwriting and my being addicted to traveling and knowing what that felt like.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have uh a whole bunch of different EPs and albums that are out there right now, but but I'm curious to to learn about the blue suitcase.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to talk about kind of the story behind that, because you've got the blue suitcase one and two, the EPs.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's there's a story there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it was that that's actually one of the first that's like the first project I ever did.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that was like she that was probably almost like I guess like eight years ago or something now.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I um when I was living in Charleston, one of my best friends had this like vintage blue suitcase, and I used it when I was busking because I used to busk on the streets.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was pretty much how we made money.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, she gave it to me when I left as a parting gift, and it just became my like gig carrier, you know, all my equipment and everything is in there, like my cables and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, I think it just like is symbolic of like the start of my of my journey as a songwriter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then when I was at a thrift store one day, I found another one, blue suitcase number two.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's like the same kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're following you around, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I had this like obsession with the word and color blue for a little while, but that's where that came from.
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  SPEAKER_01: And those those are like some of my earlier songs, I feel like I that I wrote to during that time living in Charleston.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been really all over recording and doing different things.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: There's the EP something nothing I wanted to talk about at a Bear Creek Studios.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: How did you find your way out there?
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I just wrote the producer an email and he answered, and then we had a couple um meetings, and I was going out there anyway to um see a friend.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I got to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I someone had like mentioned working there, and I just looked into it, and I think I like liked a lot of the things that he's produced.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am I'm a big Brandi Carlisle fan, and she's recorded there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, I just reached out to him.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: And what a great lesson though, because a lot of people think that that you can't do that, or you have to have the certain connection, and you literally just sent an email to to Ryan the Hedlock.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was that what was that like to work with a producer that has done so many different projects to kind of come from Montauk and in the smaller projects and different things and kind of all of a sudden find yourself Bear Creek.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was that like for you, the process?
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  SPEAKER_01: It was really cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was definitely like super nervous leading up to it because that was actually like my first time working in a real studio.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I had like like the blue suitcase was recorded at my friend's like loft apartment studio, and he was like my best friend, so it was super easy to work with.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this one I was like definitely nervous about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was some of my most deep personal songs as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh once we started rolling, it just like felt really good and just like a couple takes, and then the the musicians that he had booked, like the session musicians were really cool and pleasant to work with.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: And once we did like one take of a song, I was like, okay, this feels great.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I felt like my confidence went up because I was definitely nervous leading up to it.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: I had never done anything like that before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there something you like that you learned from that experience that you kind of propelled you forward?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'd imagine that I'm capable of recording in a studio and that I could write songs that people would like.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It definitely was a great experience.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sounds like a lot of fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like a big push.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and a beautiful like there's great pictures online of Bear Creek Studios.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you inspired?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you did you write there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, as far as did you kind of write some new lyrics there?
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: I probably like messed around a little while I was there and like roaming around the property, but um I had gone there with songs that were to be recorded.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: So on a mission.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, totally.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the time you're the other P I want to talk about is Surf Crushing, which you did actually locally here in East Hampton.
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  SPEAKER_00: It came out a couple years back in the summer of uh 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was the inspiration for those songs?
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, it seems like your love of surfing, really, but uh kind of putting it all together.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's like surf crushing is like that's like the first song I wrote on there.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's called Surf Crush, and it's about having a crush on somebody about being in the surf lineup, and then the other songs on it have to do with surfing and crushing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Crushing, they all kind of just rolled together, and there's surf crush no more from the second trip to Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_01: That didn't go as well as the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um You're you know, this is such a different time for musicians and and artists, and they can get their their songs in so many different places.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was reading about the fact that you have uh there's this, I guess, the last victim uh thriller.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got some songs on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: How did that come together for it?
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  SPEAKER_01: That came about from Living Montauk, um, the guy who was the editor for the film, I know from surfing and from just being around town.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: And when he was editing the film, the our uh the director kind of described the what he wanted as uh the music for like the main character bit, and he was like, I think I know this girl, she's perfect.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: And he played the director one of my songs, and they were just like, Whoa, that's yeah, that's perfect.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: So they used a song, it's called Across the Bay, it's from the blue suitcase EP.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then after that, I ended up having two more in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one I actually wrote for the movie, um, which was really cool.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: That was also a really cool experience.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I was curious about the the French countryside, uh, and then the Paris apartment, uh, writing about obviously different places.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh where did those where did the ideas come from for that?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Absolute heartache and heartbreak.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: Those ones, yeah, those ones are definitely, I feel like, two of my most personal heavy tunes ever, based on real life experiences.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Is it hard writing and putting those lyrics down?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it really it kind of opens you up to to everyone to know your inner and so personal, uh, those feelings.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: What's that like as an artist to kind of make that decision to do that?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, those are definitely the easiest songs to write, they just like roll out, like it's like therapy, basically, is therapy.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but um, yeah, I feel like with French countryside in particular, I I remember I wrote it when I showed it to the band.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I think I want to play this.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's you know, it's a very finger-picking mellow tune, and then it picks up.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so we just like it, it sounded really cool when we practiced it, and then I played it once and like playing it once at a show, and everybody was just like, Wow, that song, that song, because it's so like raw and personal, you can like feel the emotions.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm pretty sure it's probably even made me cry once or twice while singing it.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: But people tend to like that sad stuff they can relate to.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: So once we played it once, it just like it felt like every time I played it, I was healing a bit more in the situation.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I actually therapeutic.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's great.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: I need that stuff.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: You talked about playing live, um, and this is really one of your your strengths, I feel like, and you love performing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, where has that come from?
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  SPEAKER_00: How have you grown as a performer from you know the 17, 18 year old who was just around the different bars?
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  SPEAKER_00: How have you seen yourself grow over the years?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I feel like, yeah, I definitely feel like performing is like my favorite, probably the thing that I that I do the most.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: It feels like so natural.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I remember the first talkhouse gig, which was in like 2019.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: I probably couldn't sleep for like a month or so leading up to it.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: I was so nervous because I had never played with a band before and like putting, you know, especially like songs that I wrote.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, I was pretty nervous leading up to that.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think I even had like a pep talk from Nancy Atlas upstairs.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_01: But once I got on stage and started singing, it just felt so good.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then after that one gig, it was just like, yeah, it just feels good.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like I don't really get nervous, maybe like certain things, but I love performing.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's such a natural high, and I'm I'm so like such a person that like feeds off people's energy.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: I love performing, but I definitely feel like yeah, playing with the band and getting to play at the talkhouse is very good and helps a lot.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: And it's also nice to travel and and play, play for different people.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's good.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's interesting.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what are you working on now as far as uh there's some new music coming, or what do you what are you looking to do?
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, well, I still have a couple tunes to release.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I would definitely like to think more in the context of an album.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: So that would be cool to work on over the winter or something.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I also ideally I would love to just like book little tours and be able to play, even if it's just like a solo thing for now.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: But that's like my main goal and dream for sure.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: Even if it's just like up the coast, down the coast, you know, we'll be really rad.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'd love to do that.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I love it.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: I love the fact that you got I was looking at your merch on on your website and thinking they're so colorful.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: Who does all of that?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Or is that you, or how do you um I I have like come up with the ideas, but one of my best pals, she's like done the doodles for sure.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: I definitely have I have a lot of friends who work in the graphic design world that can help bring some of the ideas to life for sure.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Well, they look they look great, and please send along my regards because they have really some some cool stuff on there, and it's great to see you grow as an artist.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Coming to the Sag Harbor Music Festival uh and coming that Sunday, the 27th, at Steinbeck Park.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: What do you have uh planned for the show?
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what you how you do you approach it differently than a talkhouse gig and have a different different audience?
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, I mean, for those kinds of like things, especially if it's like it's like a little festival, I'll definitely be thinking about the set for a few weeks.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: I want to make sure to include all the good upbeat ones and have it be like a good versatile set where you can get a good feel for my songwriting.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: You you perform before all of your friends and family, it seems like, uh, all of the time.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: What's that?
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is it is it nice to get away sometimes and kind of because I'm curious to kind of maybe try some different songs away before you bring it home because there's gonna be a little bit of a I don't say pressure, but uh you know all these people.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's nice to kind of get a different perspective, I'd imagine.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's always really nice.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a totally different feeling when you play somewhere else and for different people.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like even when I have gigs in Sag Harbor, it's it's really nice to get out of Montauk and see different faces.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like people really like listen to and appreciate the music.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's not just like I'm playing in like a bar or something, you know.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's cool, it feels good.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: One of the yeah, one of the nice things too about um Long Island musicians is it's a pretty tight-knit community, and it seems like Montauk has its own community.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: And are there some artists you've worked with um over the past couple years that you're you're kind of collaborating with or you want to work with?
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, that's yeah, that's a good question.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: I got some pals in the city.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: As far as like artists out here, I really I really love Nora, Nora Conland.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: She's awesome.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: She's a local.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: I like I love playing gigs with her.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be cool.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: One day we'll write a song together, I'm sure.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, that's it.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: That is a good question.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: There should be there should be more.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I recently played with Silas Jones.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: He's another East Hampton kid.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: He's great, he was great.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'd like maybe like to write with him, do some more stuff with him.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: And tell me too about your your bandmates that you've been working with and performing with.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, well, Jack Marshall.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he's been playing out here in every band for a long time, and he's a string wizard.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's definitely a guitar, guitar guy, but he also plays pedal steel and violin and pretty much anything with strings.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: So very lucky to have him in the band, and he's been playing with me since that first talkhouse gig.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wow.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: Then Aiden is a drummer.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Aidan Arnold, he's a Springs guy, and then Parker plays bass, and he's also who works at the studio in East Hampton, Monk Music.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: So we've been playing at them for a couple years.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, a lot of these artists uh that Annie's mentioning to part of this uh Sag Harbor Music Festival coming.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: It starts off that Thursday, September 24th, uh, 25th, 26th, and 27th.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's free throughout the village of Sag Harbor, and Annie will be performing at the uh the Steinbeck Park stage that tends at one o'clock on Sunday, September 27th.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, uh check out the website, Annitreza.com, and you're always doing some gigs.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh check out list online, and of course, your social media.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Annie, it's been a pleasure to get to know you a bit, and uh can't wait to see you live.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: That'd be awesome.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: So nice to meet you.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: Nice to meet you too.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's uh WHM All Access featuring Annie Treza of the Sack Harbor Music Festival 2026 edition.