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The Album Says It All Happy Hour From Singer Songwriter Mike Sands · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: How are you doing, Mike Sands?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic? My god, I cannot wait to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you about this because I put in my notes only
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  Speaker 1: because I'm one of those old timers in radio that
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  Speaker 1: the last time I was moved by music like this
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  Speaker 1: was with simply read Sugar Ray or even Seal, and
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  Speaker 1: I got your collection of music and went, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: we are headed back into that era again.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Well.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way that you're sharing the lyrics. To me,
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  Speaker 1: you're not just singing them, You're physically sharing an experience,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's what drew me in as a listener.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, I don't feel alone in
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  Speaker 1: life anymore. When he's singing these songs like this because
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing us into the story.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. I appreciate that every song on this
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  Speaker 2: album is really from experience and there's something, you know through,
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  Speaker 2: some kind of truth within each song.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you do something with your lyrics here that really
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  Speaker 1: being a jock on the air. When listeners call in
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  Speaker 1: or they want to talk to you about a song's lyrics,
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  Speaker 1: they really do react. But I mean you talk about
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  Speaker 1: how every day you're never alone, and yet you were
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  Speaker 1: questioning her in the song, and I went, that is
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  Speaker 1: authentic because that's the kind of stuff that's really going
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  Speaker 1: on out here in the real world.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, it's definitely, uh, you know, a song for
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  Speaker 2: the real world. These are all definitely you know, from
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  Speaker 2: real life experiences. I write you know from experiences and
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  Speaker 2: really just lay it all out there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you envision where your listener is? Because when I'm
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  Speaker 1: when I'm tapping into forgetting about Me, what happened is
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  Speaker 1: is that I felt like that I should be in
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  Speaker 1: Montana underneath that big sky country and listening to that song.
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  Speaker 1: You give me that opportunity to find my escape, and
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  Speaker 1: when I get there, your lyrics are going to be
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  Speaker 1: waiting for me.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, No, that's an interesting question. I really don't think
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  Speaker 2: about that when I'm writing. For some reason, the song
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  Speaker 2: just has a feel to it. It's kind of if
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  Speaker 2: the song's a little more angrier, like an abandoned to
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  Speaker 2: more of a questioning, you know, or a different feeling,
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  Speaker 2: the song kind of goes along with, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: feeling of when I'm writing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now does this qualify you to be featured on
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  Speaker 1: Serious XM's yacht rock or even when I go to
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  Speaker 1: Alexa and I want my yacht rock because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you've even got a song called Questions and when
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  Speaker 1: you sit back and experience that, I mean, it's everything
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  Speaker 1: that yacht rock is, and it's like, why am I
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  Speaker 1: not hearing your music on there? Or am I? And
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know it's you yet.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. I again never thought about that. I've never
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  Speaker 2: thought about being on yacht rock. But that's an interesting point.
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  Speaker 2: When we were actually recording it, my producer thought it's
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  Speaker 2: sounded like an old Rolling Stones, That's what he compared
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  Speaker 2: it to. So yeah, we definitely did not have yacht
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  Speaker 2: rock in mind. I have, you know, no problem with
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  Speaker 2: yacht rock, but was not where I was intending to
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  Speaker 2: go with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you handle the emotions of every song?
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  Speaker 1: Because I almost feel like that your heart is bleeding.
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  Speaker 1: I can feel your emotions, and so I always have
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  Speaker 1: to think about what was it like to be on
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  Speaker 1: that microphone and still make it so believable to those
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  Speaker 1: of us that are tapping into it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is It's an interesting experience when I go
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  Speaker 2: in to sing the final lyrics to put down for
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  Speaker 2: the song. You know, the songs definitely take a lot
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  Speaker 2: out of me. So you know, there was some sessions
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  Speaker 2: where maybe we only got two songs done that day
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  Speaker 2: because I was emotionally spent, and even one of the
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  Speaker 2: songs forgetting about Me. After we did it, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel like it had enough emotion, so I asked if
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  Speaker 2: we could do that one again, and did that one
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  Speaker 2: over another day. Yeah, it's just Yeah, I do pour
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  Speaker 2: everything into the lyrics and these songs, so it does
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  Speaker 2: take toll and people can see it when I'm performing them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, live as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's and that's the thing about it. Not
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  Speaker 1: only do we get to see it and feel it,
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  Speaker 1: but the thing about it is we get to carry
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  Speaker 1: it with us as well, and that's what I love today,
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  Speaker 1: is that music will go with you everywhere, and when
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  Speaker 1: you open yourself up like that, I mean in the
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  Speaker 1: studio to do exactly what you're talking about. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where I wish more listeners could really understand the process
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  Speaker 1: of creating music, because when you're in that room, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I forget that microphone is
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  Speaker 1: even there. I'm singing from my soul and and and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden when the song comes to
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  Speaker 1: an end. If I didn't have that engineer over there
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  Speaker 1: in the other room with their two eyes looking back
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  Speaker 1: of me, or whoever else is in that room, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I would do. What do you go through?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's certainly an emotional experience, but you know, you
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  Speaker 2: also have to be aware of the timing and the
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  Speaker 2: technical you know, hitting the right notes, and it's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a lot going into it, and the engineer and the
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  Speaker 2: producer definitely, you know, come into play there and help
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  Speaker 2: me with that. You know, there could be a time
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  Speaker 2: where I hit it the notes correctly but didn't really
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  Speaker 2: feel enough emotion or vice versa. So you know, we
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  Speaker 2: try it again till we get it. You know perfectly
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  Speaker 2: how we want, both technically and emotionally.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. We're coming right back with singer songwriter
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  Speaker 1: Mike Sands. We are back with singer songwriter Mike Sands. Googling,
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  Speaker 1: put him on Spotify, listen to him on iHeartRadio Apple.
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  Speaker 1: He's everywhere. It is a music experience. Mike Sands, What
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  Speaker 1: went into the song the Foolish Shard? I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: playing a lot harder on this song, and to me,
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  Speaker 1: it gives me that summer sunshine kind of a boost
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  Speaker 1: of energy. It's almost like the perfect summer song for
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really from an experience again, and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a song about everybody, but you know, everybody's got
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  Speaker 2: a foolish heart. In my mind, you do things that
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  Speaker 2: you probably say, you know you shouldn't be doing this,
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  Speaker 2: but your heart leads you in a direction that you
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  Speaker 2: gotta follow it and you get mad about it. You're
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  Speaker 2: upset that you you did it. But if that opportunity
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  Speaker 2: came up again, you probably do the same.
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  Speaker 1: That's us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So it's kind of a song just admitting that
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  Speaker 2: I got a foolish heart. But it's there and there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing I can do about it.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that you're you're bringing to the
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  Speaker 1: source of music is that I know that the younger
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  Speaker 1: generation calls everything there is, but what they're not putting
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  Speaker 1: focus on are the regions and I and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: use you as that guy where I'm gonna go not
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  Speaker 1: only is this guy from a region here in the country,
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  Speaker 1: but he's fusing the regions together, and that the listeners
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  Speaker 1: need to understand where you're coming from and the source
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  Speaker 1: of that energy for each one of those songs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, We also, you know, tried to keep
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  Speaker 2: that in mind. Funny when I met Lincoln and he
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  Speaker 2: asked me, if you could describe your music at all,
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  Speaker 2: how would you describe it. My response was, I want
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  Speaker 2: to sound like if Jason Isbell became the leading singer
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  Speaker 2: songwriter for Stone Temple Pilot, I want to be I
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  Speaker 2: call it alternative Americana rock, where I'm kind of fusing uh,
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  Speaker 2: Nashville and New York, which are my two you know,
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  Speaker 2: places that I've lived and and upbringing together. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of throwing to mix the great alternative type rock with
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  Speaker 2: the Americana type of music with a little edge to it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's really kind of the sound that I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Are you using that for the song strip the Paint?
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  Speaker 1: Because I got the vibe of zz Top or very
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  Speaker 1: early group Chicago on that song. I love Strip the Paint.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah that No, I was actually trying to get
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  Speaker 2: a little something a little stronger there. I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: more of something like Sound Garden. Yes, yes, when I
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  Speaker 2: was was doing that one. Yeah, that's definitely one of
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  Speaker 2: the I guess, heavier, more rocky songs on the album.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just, uh know, really vulnerable that you
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  Speaker 2: know you're stripping the paint, that you're stripping layers of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So I was definitely trying to be as emotional as
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  Speaker 2: possible on that one.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to meet with other jocks across the
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  Speaker 1: country in the way of what they're going to do
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  Speaker 1: with the song vision because this song is so smooth
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like that they're going to be using
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  Speaker 1: that as one that you bridge things together. You really
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  Speaker 1: do things with this where we can play with the sound.
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  Speaker 1: And I love it when an artist does that where
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  Speaker 1: you put so much different you know, expression in it,
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, oh my god, that's the one I
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  Speaker 1: got to go to next. And then I'll build from there.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to talk to other jocks about vision.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm. Interesting because honestly, although of course I love all
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  Speaker 2: the songs and like performing all the songs, for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: that's the one I enjoy singing really the most when
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  Speaker 2: we do Yeah, when we're doing the shows, that's the
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  Speaker 2: song I enjoy singing the most and has gotten a
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  Speaker 2: great reaction from the crowd because, you know, I introduce
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  Speaker 2: it a little story behind how I came up with
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  Speaker 2: the song that once you go through certain things through
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  Speaker 2: your life, you gain vision and you gain new perspective
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  Speaker 2: and ideas. So sometimes you need to go through things
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  Speaker 2: to learn something and see things that you didn't see before.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what the song's about. And I've really enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: playing that song the most so far in the shows.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about you, Mike?
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean, You've got a hell of a music history,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want people just to fall into your lap.
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  Speaker 1: I want them to experience everything about you as well
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  Speaker 1: as your music.
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  Speaker 2: Well, definitely, you know, go to the site Mike Sands
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  Speaker 2: music dot com. Uh, you know, everything is up there
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  Speaker 2: on the site. It connects to my band camp page
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  Speaker 2: where all all my music is up on the band
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  Speaker 2: camp page. You know, it's it's up everywhere you can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stream or listen to music. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: definitely you know, recommend people, you know, poke around, you
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  Speaker 2: know some of the other stuff. Although you know, this
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  Speaker 2: album has really been a dream come true for me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's been an amazing experience, but you know
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  Speaker 2: the other other ones weren't you know, half bad either.
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  Speaker 1: So well, you're gonna have to come back to this
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  Speaker 1: show anytime in the future. And if you ever make
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  Speaker 1: it to the Carolinas, we got to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: have a face to FaceTime. Dude.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I would love that. I love the Carolinas. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually might be trying to hit up South Carolina soon,
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  Speaker 2: but that's to be determined when.
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  Speaker 1: Well, keep me posting, all right, guy, Yes, definitely you'd
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  Speaker 1: be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you