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Celebrating Burt Bacharach Country Music Legend Neal McCoy Releases Alfie · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I know it always seems kind of fun just to
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  Speaker 1: jump onto Spotify or iHeartRadio and, oh, there's my favorite podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But what would happen if that one author that you've
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  Speaker 1: got for a podcast host is actually hosting 21 different podcasts?
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  Speaker 1: It's the thing. We're all doing a network of podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: It's that one place where you can find four stories.
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  Speaker 1: You've got your favorite park. You've got your favorite place
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  Speaker 1: of solitude. Where are you writing this down to preserve
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  Speaker 1: for a future self? A little bit too heavy for
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  Speaker 1: you today? Oh, it's not when you go to four stories.
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  Speaker 1: Only on arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Neil,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of you for doing this project because
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in Montana where we enjoyed all shapes
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  Speaker 1: and forms of music. And maybe it was just my
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  Speaker 1: mom just telling me, you got to listen to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I saw that you were attached to
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  Speaker 1: Burr Bacharach here, dude, you have no idea what this
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  Speaker 1: did to my creative senses.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wow. What a sweet thing to say.
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  Speaker 2: And it sounds like our moms were alike in that
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  Speaker 2: they wanted us to eat all our vegetables and taste
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  Speaker 2: everything before you give it up. So that's the same
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  Speaker 2: way with music.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that was the thing that she did. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everything to my mom either went back to Charlie Pryde
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  Speaker 1: or it went back to Hank Senior. And she says,
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  Speaker 1: you have to understand where music is today. It had
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  Speaker 1: a real story. And I think that Burt Bacharach and
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  Speaker 1: Hal David here are the same exact thing. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to hold on to these stories.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. And then music. I think some of us
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  Speaker 3: are doing our part.
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  Speaker 2: I cut a standards album some years back and it's
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  Speaker 2: my favorite project I've ever been involved in.
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  Speaker 3: And so when these folks reached out to me.
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  Speaker 2: About Burt Bacharach and Hal David, I said, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: the melodies of those guys are fantastic. They just create
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  Speaker 2: such wonderful, intriguing music. And so when they reached out,
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  Speaker 2: they said, well, Neil, here's the thing. We got one
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  Speaker 2: more spot left.
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  Speaker 3: And the song is Alfie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you familiar with it? And I said, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: am I familiar with it? I've sang it all my life.
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  Speaker 2: Even though Dionne Warwick, Still Black are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: had the hits with them.
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  Speaker 3: I had a hit with it also in my own
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  Speaker 3: room at home.
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  Speaker 2: So when I got a chance to sing it, I
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  Speaker 2: just went back.
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  Speaker 3: To then and thought, oh, I got this. Interpreting, delivering, phrasing.
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  Speaker 3: It's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: What are you going to do when one of those
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  Speaker 1: fancy DJs in some radio station in maybe Seattle or
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco takes your version of Alfie and teams it
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  Speaker 1: up with Dionne Warwick? Because you know they did that
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  Speaker 1: with You Don't Bring Me Flowers. They never saw each other,
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  Speaker 1: but they still brought it together.
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  Speaker 2: They did, and I hope one of them does it.
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  Speaker 2: Would you recommend that to them? I can use all
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  Speaker 2: the help I can get.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I just think that you singing with
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  Speaker 1: Dionne Warwick, my God, that has got to happen. And
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  Speaker 1: then to see you guys at the Grammys or something, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Right. Okay, Errol. You've got your homework now, Errol.
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  Speaker 3: Just remember that.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like, though, to step into the studio
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  Speaker 1: to sing Alfie? Because, I mean, we're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: song that really, to me, you're pulling from your soul
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  Speaker 1: with a song like this. And I can just see
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  Speaker 1: you putting your whole entire body into those vocals.
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  Speaker 3: That is exactly what I did, because I do love vocals.
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  Speaker 2: That era of music and just the chord progressions and
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  Speaker 2: all the, and I grew up a big back rack fan,
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  Speaker 2: easy listening kind of stuff. That is what we did
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  Speaker 2: around our house. So when they they said they told
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  Speaker 2: me about it and told me the song, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just I kind of want to just fall over
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  Speaker 2: and go, oh, my gosh, this is this is I've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting on something like this. And but I kind
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  Speaker 2: of I played it cool. I said, oh, yeah, boy,
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  Speaker 2: I love that song. I'll go back and listen to
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  Speaker 2: that thing when I knew it like the back of
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  Speaker 2: my hand. So so when I got in the studio,
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  Speaker 2: it took absolutely almost. I might have made three or
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  Speaker 2: four passes at it, but but that's about it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was it was.
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  Speaker 2: So and I had to learn that version a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and it was just a hair different. But man,
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  Speaker 2: it was just just saying so easy for me. And
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  Speaker 2: I was so grateful. And now that the project has
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  Speaker 2: come together and is going to be coming out, I
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  Speaker 2: hope people will. Well, listen to that, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people know me from being a country music singer,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I'm so.
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  Speaker 3: Much more than that.
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  Speaker 2: I hope when they hear this delivery and hear Alfie come,
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  Speaker 2: they'll go, oh, I see why he says that, because
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  Speaker 2: he gets this kind of music.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't it Conway that pretty much proved that country music
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  Speaker 1: artists are everybody's people when it comes to music, that
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  Speaker 1: you guys do things that others do not try to
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  Speaker 1: do because you've got the courage and the confidence to
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  Speaker 1: step out there saying, look at what we're doing with
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  Speaker 1: this song right here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I think you nailed it. And you're right. Conway did
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. He would go from country to something else.
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  Speaker 3: But he sold it. He sold it all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and his people loved him so much that
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  Speaker 2: they would accept just anything from him and give it
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  Speaker 2: a listen. And then when they did, they'd think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know I cut this. It's a great song.
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  Speaker 1: Neil, I envision you in concert with this song, A
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  Speaker 1: Single Light. You're at the edge of the stage. It's
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  Speaker 1: only on you and you sing Alfie a cappella. It
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  Speaker 1: starts off a cappella and all of a sudden the
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  Speaker 1: music builds up in the background. And I just I
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  Speaker 1: swear to God, people are gonna be bawling their eyes out.
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  Speaker 3: Man, what a great take. And you're right. I can
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  Speaker 3: do that.
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  Speaker 2: And we may need to work that up right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm working up with just my guitar player and it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a wonderful guitar player and knows all the
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  Speaker 2: huge chords from that era. And it's so it we
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  Speaker 2: haven't done it yet on stage because I was trying
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  Speaker 2: to wait until the project comes out and it's right
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  Speaker 2: there at it. So we've actually got it worked out
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  Speaker 2: to where we'll be. And, you know, you'll have to
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  Speaker 2: choose the right time because. A lot of country music
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  Speaker 2: singers are not going to be familiar with the song.
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  Speaker 3: Or the attitude of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I will set it up to where they'll know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm fixing to sing. And then I think once
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  Speaker 2: they hear our version of it, more of an acoustic
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing and me singing, I think they'll go, wow,
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  Speaker 2: I get it now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this might be too radio inside, but I used
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  Speaker 1: to have a program director that told me, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to play country music, you got to get in
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  Speaker 1: that room and you better be wearing that cowboy hat
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  Speaker 1: and those cowboy boots. So when you do a song
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  Speaker 1: like Alfie, did you dress the part? Did you put
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  Speaker 1: on that era?
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  Speaker 3: I did not.
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  Speaker 2: I had on the boots and hat, but I took
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  Speaker 2: the hat off because the earphones won't fit over that
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  Speaker 2: stupid hat.
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  Speaker 3: But believe me, I was there. I was in another era.
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  Speaker 2: I'd gone back with this song to 60 years when
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  Speaker 2: it came out, and I was bound and determined that
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't sinking myself into it. But, you know, it's...
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  Speaker 2: The thing is, Darrell, that music is so great. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to try very hard.
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  Speaker 3: Just the music. The music will take you there.
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  Speaker 2: And the lyric and those chords and the melody, it'll
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  Speaker 2: take you right there where you need to be.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about it is that you don't make it
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  Speaker 1: sound like that is an older song. You make it
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  Speaker 1: sound so personal and so right now. Like if I
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  Speaker 1: were jumping onto Spotify or iHeartRadio and that song jumped on,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be going, my God, this is a brand new song.
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  Speaker 1: I love this song in my life now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, that's a nice compliment in the way you
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  Speaker 2: hear it. And again, you're in the right business to
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  Speaker 2: hear different things and different takes from different people and understand.
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  Speaker 3: What they do to get into.
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  Speaker 2: That mindset of doing a song like that. But when
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  Speaker 2: this came to me, you know, I had... I did
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  Speaker 2: an album standards album a few years back and it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's my greatest project.
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  Speaker 3: I just love the music.
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  Speaker 2: So Alfie is one of those songs that, that the
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  Speaker 2: chord progressions are going to be just so much different
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  Speaker 2: than what you're, what you're singing in country as a rule. But,
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  Speaker 2: but those progressions are what leads you in this lyric
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  Speaker 2: because it is so, if you don't know the progressions
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  Speaker 2: or even if you do, you hear it and you go, Oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: that is so great where they're taking you in this song.
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  Speaker 2: And they're listening to me do it. And they're going, wow,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know Neil could understand that. And so
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have a new appreciation for me and
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  Speaker 2: a new appreciation for that music in general.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Could you envision Burt Bacharach and Hal David being in there? Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you talked about the earphones on. You know
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  Speaker 1: what happens once we put on those earphones. We step
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  Speaker 1: into a whole completely different universe. And then when we
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  Speaker 1: take them off, we're like, what did I just do?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. Okay, if you said I did that,
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  Speaker 1: I did that then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you did it without thinking about it. It
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  Speaker 3: just came to you.
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  Speaker 1: So true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is truly what separates the you's and me's.
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  Speaker 2: from some of the other folks that are doing the
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  Speaker 2: same things. I think we're smart enough, and talking to you,
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  Speaker 2: I already know that you are smart enough and talented
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  Speaker 2: enough to understand a different take on something.
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  Speaker 3: And you got it.
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  Speaker 2: And I appreciate what you got from me when I
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  Speaker 2: delivered the song. And that just goes to show that
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  Speaker 2: you're capable of listening to something from 50, 60, 70,
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  Speaker 2: 80 years ago and understanding what the people were trying
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  Speaker 2: to do with that project and with that song. So, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm having a chance to talk to you
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  Speaker 2: because some people.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get it, Arrow. And you understand that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're in the music business and you'll listen
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  Speaker 2: to somebody and maybe what they say about a song.
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  Speaker 2: And you may say, because this is what I do.
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  Speaker 3: I said, what are you even talking about?
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  Speaker 2: That's not what they're trying to say in this song.
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  Speaker 3: They just don't get it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're going to totally Jimmy Cliff this song. And
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  Speaker 1: what I mean by that is, is he took I
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  Speaker 1: can see clearly now to the DJs. It showed up
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  Speaker 1: at weddings. It showed up at parties. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that Alfie is going to be at more weddings from
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  Speaker 1: this point forward because they're going to sneak it in
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's going to come up there and go, who
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  Speaker 1: was that? Who was that? Who was that? And that's
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  Speaker 1: going to get you into a whole completely different genre of. listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I sure hope so because in reality, I've sang
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  Speaker 2: country now. I've been in it 30, 40 years and
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  Speaker 2: love every bit of it.
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  Speaker 3: But I really, I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to do this kind of music also along with
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  Speaker 2: it because I don't want, I want people to know, Arrow,
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  Speaker 2: that that there's so much more to me. And not
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  Speaker 2: that there's not great music in country music.
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  Speaker 3: There is, but I just want to show them the
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  Speaker 3: other side of me.
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  Speaker 2: And so the album that I did do is called
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  Speaker 2: You Don't Know Me because they don't know that side
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  Speaker 2: of me, but I'm anxious for them to get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think what you're talking.
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  Speaker 2: About is Alfie is going to introduce This is to me,
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  Speaker 2: to that listener, to that listener.
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  Speaker 3: And then they'll find out more about that.
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  Speaker 2: Once they hear the project that we did, they'll they'll
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  Speaker 2: understand and they'll get me.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah. Because they're going to go to their smartphones.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to go to their Spotify and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be, they're going to be pointing at that goal.
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  Speaker 1: And then, and that to me is music swapping these days.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the cassette. It's not necessarily the album. They're
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  Speaker 1: doing it on their smartphone. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait till somebody says, yeah, you seen this one.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, you can't tell me you're making me
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  Speaker 1: look at your phone. Come on. But yeah, you are
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  Speaker 1: that artist that's now on the phone where we just
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  Speaker 1: point at it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I expect you to have that project done with
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  Speaker 2: me and Dionne Warwick, but not too long. I'll give you,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a little bit of time, but you
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  Speaker 2: reach back out to me when it's done.
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  Speaker 3: I got to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with the legendary Neil
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  Speaker 1: McCoy coming up next. Bird Back Rack, Hal David, two
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest songwriters of all time, and Alfie is
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  Speaker 1: performed by Neil McCoy. We are back. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: sat down with Dionne Warwick and had a conversation with her?
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  Speaker 3: I have not. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: I've been blessed. I've been with her four times, and oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. First of all, she doesn't forget anything. Second
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  Speaker 1: of all, she speaks with spirituality. There's something about the
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  Speaker 1: way that she can just bring a conversation to just
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  Speaker 1: an embrace is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Good for her. And that's a real art. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I think so many people have lost or never had
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  Speaker 2: that art because They just didn't understand it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she understands the music and what she's singing about. And
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  Speaker 2: I think people that don't don't listen to that music
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  Speaker 2: just don't understand how how wonderful a person she is
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  Speaker 2: and what she's given us.
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  Speaker 3: And so take the time to go listen to it.
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  Speaker 3: Then they'll get it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So now let me let me ask you a question
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  Speaker 1: about the about the song Alfie. And if I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: too deep and listeners don't get it, that's OK.
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  Speaker 3: It's me.
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  Speaker 1: It's you and me talking here. And the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: is that I love the change-ups in Alfie, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to know how you were able to handle that
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  Speaker 1: with your vocals and not crack up or do something.
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  Speaker 1: Because you know how those vocals are. You trust them
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  Speaker 1: to do something, and they go completely awry.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that is....
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  Speaker 2: I've had great practice with that because of the standards
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  Speaker 2: on my cut.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many changes.
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  Speaker 2: And in that music, in that time, sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're a singer and you're singing with regular songs,
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  Speaker 2: the chord progressions are taking you there. You know, after
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  Speaker 2: the chord is, that's where you're going. In this music
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  Speaker 2: and in Alfie, The vocalist took the lead. So you knew,
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  Speaker 2: you knew the melody and you knew the changes in
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  Speaker 2: the melody. So you were going to go there no
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  Speaker 2: matter what, what the, what chord was being played because
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  Speaker 2: in those big passing chords, You knew they were going
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  Speaker 2: to end up where you are.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the beauty of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I love music where the singer actually takes the
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  Speaker 2: lead for a change.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, that is scary because I'm that dude that listens
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  Speaker 1: to the music while I'm moving forward. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: can't even hear a click track because I'm so into
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with the music that I want to
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  Speaker 1: add to what's going on behind me.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But sometimes the singer's already taking you there, and
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  Speaker 2: the singer's waiting now on all those.
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  Speaker 3: Because I know you know the music.
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  Speaker 2: I know you know the chord progression, all that stuff
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  Speaker 2: to use. Sometimes a singer will hit where he's going,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll chord around him. And I used to
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  Speaker 2: hear it live when Sinatra and some of those other
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  Speaker 2: guys were singing, because they didn't sing these songs the
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  Speaker 2: same way. You know, they would they would track it
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  Speaker 2: one way and that's how people got to know it.
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  Speaker 3: But when they were doing them live, they would go
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: And so the conductor and the director would have to
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  Speaker 2: listen closely. And so the the the band would have
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  Speaker 2: to go where they went instead of what was written
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  Speaker 2: on the chart.
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  Speaker 1: See, Stevie Nicks said the same exact thing. She says,
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  Speaker 1: you think a song is the same once it's in
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  Speaker 1: the studio and we get out here and we do
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  Speaker 1: it live? No, we crave doing it live because we
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  Speaker 1: can explore even more.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. That's right. I totally agree.
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  Speaker 1: How did you get your breathing in order, though? Because
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: you know how when we're breathing out there, I mean,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: you put a half breath or something in a song,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: they're going to be in.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: There going, God, Neil, you got to do that again.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: I heard something in there that just didn't feel right.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. You're really a very smart listener, I
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: can tell, because in that, and I tell people all
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: the time, in the most.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: The place I hear the screw-ups are during our national anthem. Oh, God.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: You know, there's phrasing. There's phrasing in there. And so
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: when you deliver this, when you're delivering a phrase, sing
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: all the.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Way through it.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Don't stop a couple of times. Don't even stop once.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Finish the phrase like you would speak it. And I
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: tell people all the time, I said, when you ask
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: me that or say that statement to me, And they'll
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: say it. And I'll say, how come he didn't stop
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: and put a breath in it? I said, well, I
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: just I.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Don't I don't know.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I said, but singers sometimes that's that's a thing of
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: the singers sometimes don't work on. They don't work on.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: And I, at 68 years old, work on my body,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: work on my voice all the time. So I can
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: go out and deliver an entire phrase without it breaking.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: And then it just goes right past a lot of listeners,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: but I could tell it, it wouldn't go past you
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: because you understand what the songs are.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Trying to say.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: And that sometimes it requires you to, to, to speak
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: or sing 30 seconds straight without taking a breath because
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: then it breaks up what the phrase is.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: See, that's, that's what the comedians have taught me, dude.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: It's that pause. If you don't, if you do not
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: praise the pause, then you're missing out on the entire message.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Yep. Yes, sir. You're exactly right.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Good for you.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you, Neil?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I want to know where we can go and see
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: you live and really give you a lot of love.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate it. And we give love back. So
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: we're very good.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: NeilMcCoy.com will take you just about wherever you want. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: then we're on the Facebook page. But NeilMcCoy.com has our calendar.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: And we encourage a lot to come see us. I
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: promise once you see us, you're going to want to
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: come back and see us again and again and again.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: We don't have a set list. I just make it
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: up as we go along.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: You got to have a great band.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: But luckily, I've been doing it for a long, long time.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: And I certainly won't say I've mastered the art, but
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I've gotten pretty dang good at it. But when we
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: start a song and we do some stuff from our
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: standards album, a song called That's All.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. It's just one of the greatest songs
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: there is ever.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: And don't you dare forget about You Don't Know Me, too.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: But come on now, that's a big one, too, with Steve.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, yes. Steve Tyrell? Yes. How do you know
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: all this stuff?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Obviously, I must be listening to this some dude by
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the name of Neil McCoy. I mean, I just must know.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: You know, just somebody I tripped across one day. Yeah, right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Well, you'd be surprised. Oh, my God.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't want you to be late for your
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: next meeting, man. But God dang, I'm so blessed to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: have this conversation with you. And thank you so much
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: for being here today, dude.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You know what? It is so good.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Of being able to listen to you, you ask the
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: questions because the questions you ask tells me you.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Really know what you're talking about. And that's fantastic.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Well, you be brilliant today. Okay, sir.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Buddy, thank you, man.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I'll see you, Arrow. Take care of yourself, buddy.