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Mark Joseph & Kaia Marie: Music, Stories, and Live Performances · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome into the Scene Project songwriter showcase here at the Midway Saloon in beautiful
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  Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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  With me now is Mark Joseph.
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  Mark, welcome to the show, brother.
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  Thank you.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  Yep.
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  Man, it's a pleasure to have you.
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  Hasn't been that long since we've seen each other.
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  We ran into each other out in Deadwood A Few Few Months ago now.
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  But Yeah.
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  What have you been up to?
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  You know, just playing shows and running around and making music and trying to stay out of
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  jail.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I've actually been better at that lately too.
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  Oh, boy.
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  Good for you.
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  Yeah.
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  Good for you.
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  No.
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  It's been good, man.
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  It's been a very busy year for us.
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  We're promoting the Palisade Peach record and touring all over creation and wherever they'll
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  have us.
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  Spent a little time in Mexico this year, weren't you?
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  Yeah.
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  We just played Cabo a few weeks ago, and, yeah, we're just up in Lutzen last last well, this
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  weekend, Grand Marais and whatnot.
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  And where else have we been?
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  Everywhere.
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  Every
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  yeah.
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  Where have we been?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's been a good year, man.
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  We've been real busy.
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  That's awesome, man.
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  Well, I'm just so proud of you.
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  I know you may not remember, but 2018, I just got out of prison, and my my friend booked me
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  for a show after the Deadwood Jam.
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  The headliner that weekend was the big woo.
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  Yeah.
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  And you guys came over and jammed with us, jammed with my dad, and we got to meet the
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  crew.
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  And it was really it was a really great time.
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  Unfortunately, at that time, I wasn't well versed in who Mark Joseph was, and I should
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  have taken more of an opportunity to to play some more songs with you then.
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  But here we are now, six years later, almost to the day, and, we get to do it anyway, man.
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  So Yeah, man.
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  I'm very honored to have you on here.
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  Thank you.
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  For those that don't really know you, I mean, why don't you give them a little the highlight
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  reel of the last, you know, thirty years of making music?
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  Okay.
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  I'm gonna try to keep it quick because it's possible.
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  But, my name is Mark Joseph.
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  I grew up in Northfield, Minnesota, and I've been playing music professionally for twenty
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  one years on the road.
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  I saw BB King play guitar when I was 10 years old at the Minnesota State Fair, and it changed
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  my life forever.
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  The blues are the cornerstone of my musical, experience and, the music that speaks to me.
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  And, so, yeah, at 10, I started playing guitar, with intention, and, you know, and, it was
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  02/2003 I went full time in music.
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  And, you know, I've been very blessed to have a have a career doing it.
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  It's it's not been easy.
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  It's a lot of hard work.
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  But it's the life that I'm was born to live and and and a path I was born to walk.
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  And I'm blessed to be able to do it for a living and raising three kids doing it.
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  And we're still going.
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  I'm a member of the Big Woo for fourteen years now.
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  I tour all over the world playing my music.
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  I'm about to in 2025, I'll release my fifth full length LP.
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  And, yeah, we're just we're just rocking, rolling down the road.
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  You know?
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  Yeah, man.
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  Oh, it's beautiful.
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  And our conversation, you know, a little while back really inspired me.
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  And something that you hit on a lot is just kinda being true to yourself, walking your
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  path.
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  Right?
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  And we kind of alluded to it with this podcast because this thing is all new.
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  This idea is something that that's Yeah.
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  It's newly formed, and there's not people out there doing what we're doing.
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  Yes, people have podcasts, but people aren't out there, you know, supporting songwriters and
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  putting other people out and doing that.
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  So everything that we touch in every situation this day, this is brand new, not just to us,
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  but really to the world.
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  You know?
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  And you really gave me a lot of confidence to come up here and to know that the Minnesota
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  Minneapolis music scene was going to embrace this.
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  And we really were very happy to find find a home here at the Midway Saloon.
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  And I'm sure this is a room you've played under three or four different names over the years.
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  And
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  You know?
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  Truth be told, I haven't played in this room for twenty years.
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  Really?
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  It was it was called Christian's Big V Saloon, or I don't if it's
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  a saloon or not.
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  It was called Big V's back then.
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  Was a
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  punk rock bar.
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  Yeah.
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  And it was it was rough.
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  Well, I played it, man.
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  So it's cool.
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  I've done done some nice with it.
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  Midway Saloon.
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  It's great in here.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and they're supporting a lot of original music, which is what we're here to share today.
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  Why don't you why don't you introduce us to your music and play us a song?
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  You got it.
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  You got it.
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  We'll start off with the title track of my current record.
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  It's called Palisade Peach.
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  Risky.
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  Not quite out of retail.
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  Well, I love you, baby.
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  And I don't mind that you're the boss.
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  No.
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  I don't mind that you're the boss.
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  Well, I love you, baby.
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  I don't mind that you're the boss.
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  I don't mind that you're the boss Alright.
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  Come on.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, gotta be a keeper.
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  Finest thing I ever seen.
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  Finest thing that I ever did see.
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  I got me a keeper, the finest thing I ever seen.
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  Finest thing, baby, bonafide you a reindeer because it's always good to pop us.
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  Oh, hoo hoo.
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  And she treats me like a cane.
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  Yeah, she does.
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  Oh, well, now, baby, loving you is a treetail.
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  Yes, sir.
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  I do.
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  Oh, Mark.
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  You're easy to love, brother.
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  Easy to love.
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  Thank you.
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  It's good stuff, man.
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  You've been doing it a long time.
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  Do you ever feel the love for it fade?
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  No.
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  No.
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  It's just the hours in the van and all the setbacks of pursuing something you love.
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  It's just like any other business.
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  You run an entrepreneur.
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  Things happen.
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  Robots come up.
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  You know?
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  It's always money.
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  Money is the thing.
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  Right?
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  So you're always trying to navigate that part of it, whether it's investing in your next
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  project or figuring out where you should spend.
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  Should I, should I buy, you know, another 300 vinyl, or should I replace the brake pads in my
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  van, or should I you know, it's like all that stuff.
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  That's the that's the stuff that gets, tiresome, and that goes for any, job you do.
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  But the love of the music is always there.
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  I love to write.
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  I love to just sit and play my guitar.
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  You know?
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  And we made a documentary about the Big Woo some years ago, and the great Charlie Parr did
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  an interview for us.
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  And in that interview, at the end of it, he said something very profound.
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  And in his own way, which is kind of very long form and involves a lot of stuttering and kind
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  of like starting, stop and starting, because that's who Charlie Parr is.
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  But he got the point is, he said, man, if all the money dries up and all the and the people
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  weren't coming to your shows anymore, and it just you know, it was just you and your guitar
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  and your buddies and whatever.
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  So they you if you would you still do it?
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  Would you still go play?
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  And if the answer is yes, he goes, well, that's then you're on the right track.
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  And, you know, and that's I still truly love what I do every day.
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  I can't wait to pick up my guitar and sing.
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  The joy, the joy in the music, and I'm I'm sort of, reborn in that every every time I play
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  because that's my connection to to God and to the spirit world, and and I, you know, I feel I
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  feel truly myself in that space.
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  And so every time I do it, I'm, like, I'm happy to be there.
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  I'm blessed to be there, and I'm I'm grateful.
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  And that makes it possible to push through all the roadblocks and to keep going over and under
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  and through and and blowing up.
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  And yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  You leave it all on stage, and don't, you know, don't take anything personal and just keep
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  moving down the road.
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  You know?
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  No.
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  And don't take it for granted either.
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  Don't take it
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  for granted.
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  Think Gratitude of gratitude
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  I think it would have been very easy for you to do that at points in your career, Mark.
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  I mean, as as long as you've been at it, you know, the different modicums of success that
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  you've experienced, right, whether it's with the Big Woo or, you know, know, playing music
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  festivals for a bunch of hippies or, you know, coming in and playing the blues for, you know,
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  a small handful of people here at the Midway Saloon is you gotta find that love for it, and
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  you gotta stick to that.
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  Right?
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  You gotta stay focused on that.
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  Yeah.
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  And, you know, religion of gratitude every day.
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  I mean, if you take things for granted, they're it's you're straightened out pretty quick.
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  So, you know, it's good.
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  Always be humble.
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  Always be a good neighbor and be kind to others, you know, and just be thankful for what
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  we got.
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  If we're here breathing and we're hanging out like this on a Sunday, we've got a lot.
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  In fact, we've got it all.
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  Because if I if I offered you a million dollars, right, you'd be like, sweet.
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  A million dollars?
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  That'd be great.
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  But if you can't wake up tomorrow, you wouldn't take it.
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  Right?
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  Because you're a rich man.
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  Your life's worth much more than that too.
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  And that would go for $10,000,000 or $50,000,000 or $100,000,000 So you're all
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  millionaires already, including myself.
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  I feel like there's a song in that too.
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  Did you already write it?
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's I'm working on
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  it.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and you're working on a new project.
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  You said you got a new LP coming out in 2025.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, what's the new record gonna be like?
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  Because Palisade Peach is a kick ass record.
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  I recommend everybody if you haven't listened to it yet, you gotta you gotta do it back back
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  to front, front to back.
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  It's a great album, man.
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  Thank
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  you.
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  I just grew to the whole thing a few weeks ago when we were getting ready to chat.
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  What what's the next one?
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  I know you kinda have some themes that you're working on and different stories that you're
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  trying to tell now.
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  Yeah.
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  The the new record is a it's sort of a new concept, one that I haven't done to this degree
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  yet.
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  The whole record is written about a character from the South, from the Deep South, who is a
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  leader of the Dixie Mafia back in the sixties and seventies.
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  And I happened to catch his life story on this podcast during the COVID period.
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  And it really moved me.
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  And I started writing songs about it because it was just stranger than fiction.
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  This guy's life was crazy.
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  And he's one of the it's one of these very complicated American stories where, know,
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  America, we like our bloody history and celebrated all these people, right, like the
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  Jesse James and the John Dillingers and people who on paper are really bad dudes and killed
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  people and did really horrible things.
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  On the other hand, they're celebrated and respected by their communities to this very
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  day.
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  Right or wrong, you know?
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  And I'm a history guy, so like I ran after it and I wrote this whole record about this
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  individual's life, and it tells a story.
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  I I actually went down to Georgia and met their family, and I got the blessing from them to
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  write the record.
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  And it's all true stories about this guy's life and everything from he was a kind of
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  notoriously famous, like, ladies man and a party guy and well liked and loved by everybody
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  that met him.
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  But if you crossed him, you know, they're gonna dig a a hole by the in the red clay, you know,
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  by the river and stuff like that.
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  Like, they didn't mess around.
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  You know, it was really dangerous people and crazy stuff.
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  And he ended up going to federal prison for forty years and was on death row and got a got
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  his execution date commuted by the governor hours before he was supposed to be executed.
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  He found Jesus.
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  He took him out of federal prison against all laws.
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  You know, this guy, sheriff Earl Lee, risked his whole career to bring him out of federal
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  prison to be baptized in the middle of the night.
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  And just the stuff is pretty amazing and and moving.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  And so yeah.
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  So I made a whole record about it.
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  It's currently called the Baddest Man in Georgia.
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  It'll come out in spring probably.
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  Yeah.
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  Would you mind sharing one of the songs off the new one?
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  Yeah.
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  We'll play the Baddest Man in Georgia.
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  Let's do it, man.
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  Alright.
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  Man in Georgia.
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  Alright.
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  Well, if you wanna know, then you better go about 200 back to the still in the wood where
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  the cooking another never phase and he's a killing bank robin machine.
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  Now have you ever heard about the fattest man who ever walked the streets of Georgia?
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  He could jump so high that children thought he could fly.
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  Man, don't you cross them because you lose your life.
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  I hate to be you at the table where the protune.
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  I keep your mouth shut now.
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  That's the only clue.
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  Well, I'm a talking about the baddest man in Georgia.
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  Alright.
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  Ready to go.
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  Now have you ever heard about the baddest man who ever walked the streets of Georgia?
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  He can jump so high, no women thought he could fly.
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  Alright.
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  Yes, sir.
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  True story.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's that's the crazy part.
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  Right?
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  That it's all true.
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  Yep.
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  That's I'm a history guy.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  I love it.
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  I love the the storytelling nature of what you do, that you're here to tell the stories.
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  Whether it's, you know, a long bow you know, this this drawn out thing, right, a whole LP
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  where the stories or if it's just one quick one to to get in a get a feeling out.
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  Right?
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  I mean, you've been at this so long.
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  You've very how many songs you think you've written?
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  Thousands?
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  I don't know about
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  thousands, but
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  I've got don't Hundreds, probably.
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  Well, this is, you know, this will all be about me present since you asked.
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  On the way down from I drove five hours just today to get here from Lutzen, Minnesota.
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  And I just started digging into my voice memos coming down here, because I've just been
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  thinking about new music and projects and stuff.
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  I started cycling through them, and I think there's like almost 400 of them in there.
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  And so, you know, not everyone is a song.
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  Right, But, you know, we started going through them and listening and listening.
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  Yeah.
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  It's like a lot, man.
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  There's a lot out there.
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  I mean, Finnish published songs, probably close to a hundred.
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  But there's so many.
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  Yeah.
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  It's an incredible feat just to get a hundred songs to fruition.
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  You know what I mean?
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  To get them produced.
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  It's no small feat to do this as someone who's recorded just a small few and never in, like, a
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  true I mean, yeah, I was in a studio and stuff, but not a true professional setting where it
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  was like, we're on the clock, and we are trying to make something timeless here.
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  And I would say that that is what I get from your man.
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  It's timeless, man.
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  That that blues, a Palisade Peach is a great record.
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  I can't wait to hear the new one.
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  You feel like you just keep getting better?
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  Well, I
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  I like to think that we keep we keep moving forward.
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  And and I I guess to honor answer that, it's like I try to honor the craft.
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  So that means playing with intention.
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  That means making every show count, making everything you do count.
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  And that goes for everything in life.
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  So yeah, I I like to think that that's what we're doing.
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  We always listen a lot to our recordings.
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  I like to go back and listen to the shows.
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  We try to tape stuff and analyze it, think about it.
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  But mainly, try to do something with feeling and with intention where people can really feel
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  it and go home with something.
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  That's the beauty of the music experience is that people can come and share that with us.
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  And we get to do that together.
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  And that is such a powerful thing, and truly can change the world.
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  And, know, changing the world is changing yourself.
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  It's changing or maybe not changing, but helping your neighbor.
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  And when people can come and have that experience, and they can walk away from a show
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  feeling like a new person or they just shed a bunch of skin or baggage that they needed to
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  there's nothing in life that that comes anywhere near that for me.
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  I'm sure there is examples of it.
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  Some people are runners, or they're painters, or they're into sports and performance, all
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  these different things.
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  I know that all those things can can provide that experience for you.
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  But for me, music is it's it's a completely religious experience.
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  It's powerful, and it connects us as people together.
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  So I guess I'd like to think that it keeps getting better only because I won't back down,
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  and I won't stop.
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  I just keep going forward.
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  Yeah.
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  A freight train, man.
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  Just keep on going, baby.
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  Yeah.
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  Nice for the living.
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  Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  Well, and I kinda said so, and I'm sure you you can relate.
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  I'm sure you've played a ton of other people's music and shows and have played all these long
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  shows.
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  I mean, you've been doing it for twenty five years, you know.
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  You're gonna you're gonna get you a little bit of everything.
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  And for me, you know, I've been working the same set list of covers or something for the
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  last year.
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  And what I've been doing is that I've been landing in the markets that I wanna go to and
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  just finding local guys to play it.
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  Very middle of the road set list that I was playing just because the guys in South Dakota
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  didn't really wanna dig too far out in one direction or the other.
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  They wanna okay.
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  Well, it's like I got kinda bored playing that.
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  Sure.
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  But by now introducing that to other people and playing them the same songs but with different
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  people every time I go out, you know, this weekend, I played at the Sherwood Lounge with
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  two guys, and I played here at the Midway with two other guys, you know.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's kinda what kept it fresh to me.
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  New experience.
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  I don't I don't wanna live the same experience over and over again.
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  Yeah,
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  man.
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  You know?
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  It's great.
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  Like you said, life is meant to be lived and or meant to grow.
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  I think you said, you know, when you heal the world, you heal yourself.
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  And I would say the opposite of that is true too.
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  When you heal yourself, you hear the world.
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  That's right.
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  And, you know, music is so healing.
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  We've had a a situation in Rapid City where one of their big outdoor music things, you know,
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  serves 5,000 people every every Thursday summer nights.
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  They're in danger of not getting their permits for the 2025 season.
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  And and whatever the reasons for that may be, the way I put it was like, you know, this is a
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  cultural, spiritual event.
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  And somebody was like, how is it cultural and spiritual?
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  And I was like, have you ever heard music before?
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  Yeah.
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  You know, like, you ever been to a concert?
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  Have you ever, like, experienced these things?
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  Like, how is it not?
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  Sure.
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  So, yeah, you you touch on so much of it.
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  And and it makes me feel like I'm on the right path knowing that a guy like you is thinking
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  the same thing, man.
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  Respect.
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  And not putting you on a pedestal or anything, but you've experienced more than I have.
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  Right?
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  And that's the respect that I have for you.
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  You've been in this craft that that I've loved for so long, and maybe for the first time now,
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  I'm actually approaching it as a profession.
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  And granted, you know, now my my performing career, at least with a guitar in my hand, is
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  kinda taking a back seat to this because this is how I serve my community.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Right?
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  This is a much better way for me to use my gifts of organizing people and bringing people
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  together to kind of bring nights like this to fruition or days like this.
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  I don't even know what time it is.
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  I don't know what day it is.
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  Can you all put your hands together for Bubba, please?
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  Oh, stop.
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  Oh,
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  yeah.
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  I appreciate you guys.
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  He's he's he's got the guts to stand up and make this happen and represent for artists and
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  try to, you know, create a scene.
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  So good job, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it's because of guys like you that that this thing exists because I think there's not
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  enough press.
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  There's not enough people talking about all the talented people that I know.
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  You know, we don't have a Rolling Stone, a lot of these weekly magazines that we used to have.
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  I know that you had a great one up here for years, but a lot of these things have gone away
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  because of money or or whatever the situation may be.
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  You know?
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  So we're just doing it all online.
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  Right?
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  I'm doing the write ups and the q and a's online and just trying to get something out
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  there and hoping that it eventually gets enough momentum where other people really wanna start
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  contributing their own art to that.
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  And it's not all just artists who are, you know, writing music and recording, but it's
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  also people who wanna write about those people that we need too.
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  So I'm really hoping that, you know, this weekend and having this beautiful package that
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  we're gonna put it into and and there's an incredible day that we've had, I'm hoping that
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  this is kind of the the selling point now that, like, this is what we wanna do, and this is
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  what I want to spend the rest of my life doing is stuff just like this, man.
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  So thank you, Mark, for being a part of it.
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  It really means a lot to me.
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  You're very welcome, brother.
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  Yeah.
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  Why don't you play us another song, man?
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  Alright.
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  Let's do it.
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  Is my daughter here?
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  My daughter was coming through.
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  No, not yet?
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  Alright, that's okay.
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  We'll keep you on stage until she gets here.
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  Alright.
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  The
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  song's called Bound to Be Blessed, and if you guys want to sing along, the chorus is easy.
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  It goes, yes, yes, yes.
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  I think I can do that.
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  We got it?
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  You too, man.
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  Right out the door.
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  Don't be afraid, but what comes next?
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  If you try to do your best, Lord, you just ain't unknown where life is in store.
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  I checked in another roadside motel.
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  Yeah.
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  Turns out they got a room just for you.
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  Tonight, we hit the stage and led all on the line.
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  Midway Saloon.
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  You gotta let your let your light shine good.
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  You're bound to be blessed.
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  Sing it loud.
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  Yes, yes, yes, you're not like the rest.
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  La lauren, you write your own story.
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  There is just not for worry.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, too confess.
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  Yes, sir.
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  On a Sunday in Saint Paul, can I get a witness?
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  Yes, Right here.
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  Well, Mark Joseph, thank you for joining me, man.
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  I am I'm just so thrilled to know you, to call you a friend now.
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  We're gonna do some great things together.
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  I know with your energy and the power of this music that we're making, we're gonna do some
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  great things for a lot of people.
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  So everybody, Mark Joseph.
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  Welcome
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  to the Scene Project songwriter Showcase.
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  We are here at the Midway Saloon in beautiful Saint Paul, Minnesota, and with me now is Kaia
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  Marie and her dad, Mark Joseph.
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  Yeah.
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  Thank you.
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  Well, Kaia, I just met you, like, five minutes ago.
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  You had no idea you were gonna be on stage and doing this tonight.
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  No.
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  No.
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  Not at all.
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  How do you feel about it?
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  I'm excited.
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  I like for inviting me.
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  Oh, you're so welcome.
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  Yeah.
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  As someone who grew up with in a family band, right, my dad played with me and how I got
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  introduced to music.
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  I was not going to let the opportunity slip away to put you and your dad on stage together
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  like this.
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  So welcome to the show.
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  Why don't you tell me a little bit about you?
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  We know a lot about dad already.
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  So why don't you share a little bit about yourself?
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  Yeah.
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  So I work with kids.
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  I'm a gymnastics coach.
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  I love to travel, and one of my favorite things to do in the meanwhile is play with music with
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  my dad.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's saxophone too.
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  Really?
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  Yeah.
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  How awesome.
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  And dad says you guys are working on writing some songs for a future EP or LP.
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  Yeah.
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  We're hoping to.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I think I think you're gonna accomplish that.
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  It's just finding the time to put in the work.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  Writing songs is not easy.
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  No.
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  It's not.
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  Well, and something that, you know, dad had alluded to was that, you know, you you write
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  songs for the muse.
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  Well, you can't rush the muse either, can you, Mark?
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  That's right.
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  No.
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  No.
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  You can't.
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  No.
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  He he's he's really good at it.
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  So I've been learning.
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  I've been learning from him.
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  He's a good teacher.
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  Well, and life teaches you a lot about songwriting as well too.
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  And obviously, you're a very young lady still.
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  So you got a lot of living yet to do, but you got some of the best teachers around you.
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  What's let's play a song.
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  Let's play a song, and I'll get to hear you perform, and then I'll have more questions
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  after that.
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  This is a song called Girl in the Pecan Tree from the forthcoming record next year, and Kai
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  is featured on it.
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  And there goes little Louise, the girl in the pecan tree.
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  They tree.
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  Girl in the pecan tree.
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  The girl in the pecan tree.
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  Well, you just don't know where these old boys go except for the little girl right there down
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  at the end of the road.
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  Go ahead, take your step across the Bear County Line.
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  You can hear the truth as it whispers through the tops of the Georgia Pines.
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  There goes little Louise, a girl in a pecan tree.
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  They come and go as they please, driving fast through the streets.
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  The pecan tree.
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  The lawman guns and whiskey runs around here as a way of life.
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  So much that the law don't see when the sun drops out of sight.
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  Harold Ruth and Billy Bert Dixie boys would hang around.
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  All the truth that just don't know except the girl who runs this town.
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  There goes little Louise, a girl in the pecan tree.
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  They come and go as they please, driving fast through the streets.
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  Imagine what she sees, the eyes within a The in the pecan tree.
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  Girl in the pecan tree.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Good job.
• 31:42
  Good job.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I know dad plays a lot of songs each and every year, but I venture to say that that was
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  one of his favorite performances right there by a long shot.
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  You know that's right.
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  Yeah.
• 31:53
  Well, I got young kids too, man.
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  I know what it means now.
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  Right?
• 31:57
  And that's something as a young man that I I could have never fathomed.
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  And it's it's a beautiful thing that you're doing.
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  You're making your dad's dream come true, Kaya, in more ways than one, I'm sure.
• 32:08
  Oh,
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  yeah.
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  So, Kaya, talk about what it's like growing up with a rock star dad that, you know, spends a
• 32:13
  lot of time on the road, I'm sure, and is gone and and, you know, when you do get to see him
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  perform, maybe it's on a big stage or it's a little room with just a few people, you know,
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  it's a different experience and no one else here that's spoken with us today has lived
• 32:25
  that.
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  So, share a little bit with us.
• 32:27
  Oh, it's incredible.
• 32:28
  I I loved growing up going to festivals and, you know, running around with a hula hoop and
• 32:34
  watching the shows.
• 32:35
  And I got, you know, invited up on stage from a very young age, and it was just it's so
• 32:41
  inspiring to be around people who are really living their truest life and playing music from
• 32:47
  the soul, and it really teaches you that, you know, that's what's life what life is all
• 32:52
  about.
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  It's really Amen.
• 32:53
  Chasing that dream.
• 32:54
  Yeah.
• 32:55
  No doubt.
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  And I think you you touch on something there, especially the the people that your dad has
• 32:59
  surrounded himself with that are out there living that, you know, being their truest
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  selves.
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  And I think that teaches, you know, especially young ones that that grow up around that.
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  When you learn that at an early age, you can avoid maybe a lot of the the troubles and
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  strife in life, you know, that we go through trying to find who we are.
• 33:15
  You know, and yeah, really a beautiful moment sharing up here with you guys.
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  I appreciate you all letting me letting me have you up here and share this.
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  You got some more songs for us too?
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, yeah.
• 33:34
  So I'm gonna do a old Tom Petty song that that Kaia shines on pretty bright.
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  Loves Jesus, and America too.
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  She's a good girl, she's crazy about Elvis, loves horses and her boyfriend too.
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  Yeah.
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  It's a long day and I'm free.
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  I'm free falling.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm free.
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  Yeah.
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  Alright.
• 37:58
  That was really beautiful, guys.
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  Unless you got something else to share, I don't know what better way to end this perfect,
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  perfect day.
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  There you have it.
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  Beautiful.
• 38:06
  Well, thank you, Kaia, for coming up and joining us off the cuff.
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  Didn't know you were gonna be a star of a show today, but Thank
• 38:13
  you for bringing everybody together.
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  Hey.
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  It's it's what I do.
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  Yes.
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  Thank you, Bubba.
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  Hey.
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  God bless you, brother.
• 38:18
  No.
• 38:18
  Thank you.
• 38:18
  Thank you, guys.
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  Yep.
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  That's Kaia Marie, Mark Joseph.
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  Thank y'all.
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  This has been the songwriter showcase presented by the Scene Projects.
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  The Midway Saloon has been so good to us.
• 38:30
  I am Bubba starts.
• 38:31
  I know.
• 38:32
  At least 13.
• 38:34
  And we gotta send a big shout out to Kaia's boyfriend Cameron.
• 38:37
  It's his birthday right here.
• 38:38
  20 birthday right now.
• 38:40
  So happy birthday, bud.
• 38:41
  Yeah.
• 38:42
  We're about to go have some dinner.
• 38:43
  We're getting a little state dinner in.
• 38:44
  So man.
• 38:45
  Happy birthday, brother.
• 38:46
  So much for joining us.
• 38:47
  This has been an incredible day of music, and I'm just so, so grateful for it.
• 38:53
  Have a good night.
• 38:54
  That was