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Mixtape Rewind: Joshua Dylan Balis talks about his album We're On Fire
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In 2022, Matt and Samer were joined by Joshua Dylan Balis to talk about his album 'We're on Fire' and go through a mix of some of his favorites and inspirations.
His mix is here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1X4iHRTZ9pjJvxGr8A10gN?si=oEZnh0F-TpOHYDu9ijvMkg
- Voices - Joshua Ray Walker
- Riga Black - Chuck Johnson
- Every time the sun comes up - Sharon Van Etten
- Motion picture sound track - Radiohead
- Godan Daginn - Sigurd Ros
- May Janes last dance - Tom petty
- Tumble in the wind (version 2) - Jackson C. Frank
- Look at miss Ohio- Gillian Welch
- Love - Lana Del Ray
- Boys of summer - Don Henley
- Red Eyes - The War on Drugs
- Girl from north country - Bob Dylan
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Musical Inspiration With Joshua Dylan Bayless
Speaker 1welcome back to another super awesome mix . My name is matt said home alongside my co-host and co-founder of super awesome mix , sammer abu salalbi Samer . How are we doing today ?
Speaker 2I'm doing real well , enjoying life , excited to be here . We got another guest on the show today , that's right . It's always a fun thing .
Speaker 1Another guest , and this is kind of a first for us . We had Mega Ran on last year and we had featured him on a new music mix , but we kind of knew he was coming on the show at that point before we featured him . Right . This time I found this artist , I found one of his songs . I was like man , I really dig this stuff . Obviously , we don't reach out to every artist we feature on the show . I don't think Weezer needs to hear from us again .
Speaker 2No , they do .
Speaker 1I think they're good . They keep ignoring our messages .
Speaker 2We're going to send them another one .
Speaker 1It's going to happen , but I reached out to our guest and he invited him on the show and he agreed to do it . So our guest , without further ado . He's got a new album entitled we're On Fire and , yeah , we invited him on the mix . We're so excited he's about to go on tour , so you're going to get a chance to go out and see him live . But this is Joshua Dylan Bayless . Welcome to Super Awesome Mix .
Speaker 3What's up ? How are you guys ?
Speaker 1We're doing great . Thanks so much for joining the show . Like I said , we really just dug your music and threw you on a new music mix and then here you are is this is kind of a first for us awesome .
Speaker 3Much more easy to access than weezer , I would say well , for right now okay yeah , we don't know in a few years , you're going to stop returning our emails . Okay , but yeah , yeah , that's the goal . That's the goal right ?
Speaker 2just be the goal Right , just be one of those Essentially like Instagram accounts managed by like a studio of 500 people , a bunch of interns . You know there's no human behind it . That's the goal .
Speaker 3Absolutely not completely replaced by an . Ai version of me Right right .
Speaker 2Well , so happy you could be here . It's really exciting . Yeah , we really did like . I love listening to your track and Matt talked a lot about you and it's so cool to have you here . It's great . Thanks for making the time .
Speaker 3No , thank you for having me . It's an honor . It's such a cool thing you all have going on . It's exciting to jump in and talk to people about music at any time , so if we can record it and throw it up , all the better the better appreciate that .
Speaker 1Um , so , before we get into your mix , I mean you want to take a second talk about this album . Um , I know you released an ep I don't know maybe five , six years ago and now you got a full-length album out . So so maybe just talk for a minute about kind of the development this album and kind of what went into it sure .
Speaker 3So , um , I was in a band in dallas and we recorded a full record and then , after like a year and a half of work , we decided not to put it out . So I was in this place where I was kind of devastated , but I had all this material that didn't work for the band that , um , I knew that I needed to make something happen . So I called up the studio in Nashville called Omni Sounds and it's like hey , I've got these songs , they sound , here's some demos and they said this sounds good , come out here and let's try a few tracks out . So came out to Nashville , recorded three songs . I liked the way they sounded and um was excited enough about the experience and was in the right place at the right time , where I was like I'm just gonna move to nashville and um continue to pursue music , but do it out here , um .
Speaker 3So that started in 2018 , 2019 and , uh , the pandemic delayed things , but , but the record's out now . It's called we're On Fire and yeah , I'm not good at describing it personally , but it's all kinds of stuff . There's love songs , there's existential stuff on there . I guess it's indie rock , but yeah , it was a blast to make . And finally , this Friday we're going to get to take it on the road , so I'm excited for that .
Speaker 2That's so cool . I love that .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2Well , congratulations on getting that all together . That's something . Thank you , matt and I are still Matt and I are still working on our album .
Speaker 3Are you ?
Speaker 2It's coming together real badly . I got it .
Speaker 1It's not good . Yeah , neither one of us plays an instrument that's that's our biggest hurdle .
Speaker 3I think up to this point , yeah , so you just need to use some midi , some garage band loops . Loops are your best there it is .
Speaker 1That's right . That's right . Yeah , we're right there on the edge . Uh well , we asked you to kind of bring together a mix of songs that you know maybe inspired you along the way or got you into music , and I think you put together a great one . And the first track here you put Voices by Joshua Ray Walker .
Speaker 3Yeah , so he's another dude on my label . Who who is um done so much ? I mean , I've remember playing it around with him at the all good cafe like three or four years ago , and I think he just had his Opry debut and played on Fallon , and it's for good reason . This song , voices , is probably my favorite of his . It's one of those that I can put on repeat constantly . It's good lyrical content . The arrangement is so good . There's like this combination between this electric swell guitar and pedal steel . That's awesome . It also has a really unusual structure where half of the hook is this vocal melody .
Speaker 3It's not verse , chorus , verse , chorus , bridge , chorus . But your intentions wrap the whole time , and that's always a sign of a good song . For me , it's got to have a really strong melody to do that . Guys like Dylan have really strange structures , but they still make it on the radio because there's power . It's a great song . I think the record came out a year or two ago , but I feel like I've only just fallen in love with this tune , so for the last two or three weeks it's just been on my heavy rotation .
Speaker 1So I threw it on the list .
Speaker 2Yeah , awesome yeah .
Speaker 1This guy's voice was incredible so good . Yeah , I mean , yeah , that's awesome . Yeah , this guy's voice was incredible so good , yeah , yeah , I mean , that was the thing I think that stood out to me the most was , uh , was , yeah , just vocally I was like man , this is , this is really good and it's kind of an upbeat song , although it doesn't necessarily describe a real happy scenario totally right , yeah , it's got that classic rock and roll feel where it is melancholic in its melody but the tempo's up .
Speaker 3So you're liking it . You're in love with yourself . Right , right , exactly yeah .
Speaker 2I know I had that same thing and you know I say this a lot on the show whenever I start to dive into lyrics a lot more because of this show , and I'm like oh , oh , that's what I've been like , nodding my head to , okay , like that's a little dark , but it's , it's really good , though , totally and I also wrote here is just absolutely beautifully sung . I mean , that's like the big takeaway I had I . I just absolutely loved it . What a great , great voice yeah , the vocals um , that's awesome , great , great first pick .
Speaker 2Honestly , yeah , this mix is so good so I'm really excited about this next one . This is one of my favorites that I got introduced to . It was not familiar with this artist , but the track is riga black , riga black by chuck johnson . Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3So I saw like a review for this track three or four years ago . It might have been pitchforkork . It was a blog and it said that essentially this guy took pedal steel and reintroduced it as the lead instrument . Pedal steel is famously always support . It always adds texture and ambiance and this guy layered two or three pedal steel tracks on top of one another . He approached the instrument the way that a post-rock band like seagrass would , and it's . It's instrumental , but it's like a six or seven minute soundscape . It's more of a composition than anything else . It's classical and the fact that it doesn't repeat itself melodically . It lives and it grows . I've never heard the pedal steel used in this way and it's one of my favorite songs to just drive to . You know , sunset done with work .
Speaker 2I could see that , yeah , yeah , I could totally see that this . Of all the tracks on here , this is the one that I was like most tempted and I ended up clicking into their album and just like listening to their album and I it's almost like a . It reminds me of explosions in the sky , but almost with a country vibe to it a little bit , but it's so atmospheric and meditative and it's just beautiful . It is a beautiful composition . Yeah , I thought that was such an interesting track .
Speaker 3Yeah , atmospheric country mixed with Explosions in the Sky and the guy's English Psych .
Speaker 2Right .
Speaker 3It's awesome . Oh wow , yeah , yeah , I like it . Yeah , nice , I like it . Yeah , would not have guessed that .
Speaker 1Would not have guessed that . All right , Now track three . You go with Every Time the Sun Comes Up . By Sharon Van Etten .
Speaker 3Yeah , have you all heard this song before ?
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 2I had not no .
Speaker 3So Sharon Van Etten . Now I feel like she's huge , which is awesome . She's sort of this institution in the indie world . But the first time I heard this song I was blown away . It's one of those songs with a timeless arrangement . It could have been recorded by Fleetwood Mac . It's timeless . It's like is this country , is this rock , is this indie music ? And the lyric is great . The hook she just keeps repeating Every time the sun comes up . I'm in trouble , um which . I'm a sucker for a sad line like that .
Speaker 1There's nothing sadder than a brand new day um , no , it was .
Speaker 3It's a great song . It's so melodic and I I throw it on repeat all the time . Um , so it's one of my faves . Man , if you haven't heard of her , you should dive into her discography . She's got a weirdly wide range . She'll switch up . That song is from a self-produced record of hers , but her sound can change drastically from album to album because occasionally she'll just pick a new producer and let them run with her songs with their vision . So it's really dynamic . It's cool .
Speaker 1What I loved about this song is it's she's not in a hurry at all . She keeps that same cadence throughout and musically and vocally . I just thought that was so interesting because I imagine or maybe you hear artists talk about how , you know , producers will try to speed things up , try to get it under three minutes , you know , make it a radio song and this is like nope , we're going to make this song the way I want to make this song . So not surprised that it was kind of self-produced , because you kind of get that feel just from the rhythm and pace of it .
Speaker 3Absolutely .
Speaker 2I like your description of that . Yeah , that's like a great one . I especially just love the very , very ending , that she kept the outro where she's laughing and says sorry , my headphones fell off , like I . Just I really appreciate that . You know , it's just like a little bit of humanity mixed in with her recording and she just sounds like she's having a lot of fun recording , so I dig that .
Speaker 3Yeah , it was such a bold move too . I think it was the single on the record , and she made it the last song on the album , and I'm always like brave , very cool , that's awesome , all right .
Speaker 2Well , let's move on ahead .
Exploring Unique Musical Inspirations
Speaker 3Track four You've got Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead . Yeah , this is a song , so cliche . I love Radiohead . I love Radiohead and I listen to this song all the time . Tom York's vocal is great . They're one of those weird bands where you can never cover their songs because everything they do is completely original . The arrangement on this is weird . He's using that organ . He breaks into that falsetto . It's also the last track on that record . I think it's Kid A right and I love the line . I will see you in the next life is such a cool way for a record to go out . So love that song .
Speaker 1Yeah , this was a really cool one . I just thought , like , musically , I just like Tom York's voice kind of , you know is there , and then there's all these things coming in and out of the background , right Like these different instruments and different sounds . I thought that was just so cool , absolutely .
Speaker 2Yeah , it was like such a haunting track too . I just feel like it was so good I did not know this one and I was actually laughing to myself . I was like I'm really glad I didn't know this during kind of like the dark days of the pandemic , because I would have put this on really extra depressed yeah , because it is . Uh , it's one of those tracks .
Speaker 1It's really beautiful though it's not the soundtrack to a rom-com . That's not the motion picture you're referring to here . Not at all .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2No , not at all .
Speaker 3Not to a film that wants to make money , that's for sure , right .
Speaker 1All right , track five . You go international on us here , and I know I'm going to screw this up , which I think is why Sam had me read this one off . Is it Gowan Degin ? I have no idea Okay .
Speaker 3Perfect , all right .
Speaker 1You can't even correct me .
Speaker 3It translates to good morning . I know that . Good morning , yeah .
Speaker 1It translates to good morning , and it's Sigur Rós .
Speaker 3Awesome . Well , you're already educating me . So yeah , this band .
Speaker 3if anybody's new to Sigur Rós I don't know if that's how it's pronounced , that's how I read it in my mind yeah they are , this post-rock band from Iceland , and they make up their own words . They speak in some form of tongues which the lead singer , jonsi , calls hopelandic , which is wild , very easy to make fun of , but I love it . So the language most of these lyrics . They're not even real words , which you wouldn't know because he sings with this Icelandic accent . You assume it's another language . It's not , and I think his philosophy behind that whole movement is just that it leaves more room for the listener to impose their meaning on the track whenever they're listening to .
Speaker 3But this was a song . I'd never heard music like this before , and when I was nine or 10 years old , my dad gave me his old iPod and it was preloaded and I remember taking the train from Plano , texas like 30 minutes south , to Dallas . My mom would drop me off , my dad would pick me up and I'd spend the weekends with him and I just have clearly these distinct memories of being like 10 years old , hearing this weird song with words I don't understand , looking out the window like my head on the glass . It was just one of those tracks . I love the acoustic melody . It's so pretty and they don't really even
Musical Journey Through Time and Emotions
Speaker 3have a genre .
Speaker 2I've never really heard music like what they make , so it's cool oh , I I'm like so happy you just described how you listen to them , because my notes literally here is like I feel like I should be floating 15 feet off the ground or flying in a plane looking out the window like I think that's exactly like the mood that that they bring with all of their tracks .
Speaker 2Um , and yeah , I just feel like it's like a soundtrack song , you know , if you just kind of like , like you said , I think you impose your own kind of like vision to it , and I think that that's what makes their music so beautiful . So for me , yeah , I'm just imagining myself , like you know , walking along and and maybe it's like a sad part of , but there's like a little bit bit of hope in it , like I just think that they bridge that line so well . It's a really beautiful track . I love them , me too . Nice , all right . Well , let's go to someone who I think most people are going to be very familiar with , a little group called Tom Petty , and you've got Mary Jane's Last Dance .
Speaker 3Yeah , I had to . I wanted to pick some classics , some formative stuff , like when I was in fourth grade I was given this box set of Tom Petty anthology through the years and this was this man I'd never heard of in my life and I put these songs on repeat and there , obviously , it was just hit after hit after hit . And I put these songs on repeat and there , obviously , it was just hit after hit after hit . And I think if I had to name one song that was the most repeated through my life , when I was a kid I was obsessed with Mary Jane's Last Dance . Every road trip ad nauseum , I could put this song on for hours on end and listen to the riff and I loved it . It's good old-fashioned rock and roll , so it's a classic . Everybody knows this song is one of their biggest hits in the 80s , but it's just probably seeped into my subconscious in ways I don't even understand . I love the song yeah , this was a .
Speaker 1This is a great one . It was great to see this one on here . Tom Petty so good , so many great songs . But yeah , this was a . This is a great one . It was great to see this one on here . Uh , tom petty's so good , so many great songs . But , yeah , this one definitely a standout . It also had a really notable music video that I kind of forgot about until I was kind of searching around , because kim basinger's in it and like she's , she's a dead woman in this video and tom petty's like running a morgue and this is the dead woman that comes to him , and so it's a really , really kind of a cool video that got some notoriety . I remember I'm a little older than you , so I think I was like in high school when that came out , but I mean , yeah , it was , that's a good one , great pick .
Speaker 3Awesome , yeah , I forgot about that . That video . They're like Tom Petty .
Speaker 1They bridge that gap from pre-video to you must have a video on MTV days . So good for them . Yeah , and he did so many unique videos during that time for someone who is not you know , uh , not someone who's you know necessarily camera ready , right , totally so , but he did a lot of great work with that . Yeah , um , all right , your next track you picked tumble in the wind , version two by jackson c frank .
Speaker 3Yeah , um , I honestly I think I was on a spotify radio playlist when this song came on , and jackson c frank is one of those guys who who wrote a couple hits that were recorded by other artists . Um , if he used big in the 60s or 70s , I'm not sure that he ever had massive personal success , but there are a lot of songwriters that point to his material and talk about how influential he is . This track , I'm not sure of the origins . It sounds like a portable tape player or something from the 70s or 80s and it's a demo , more or less . But there's a spirit to it that we could be in the studio now trying to find all these digital plugins to recreate that analog sound . I love it .
Speaker 3Some of the lyrics are understandable , some of them aren't , but you know it's this timeless folk song where he's singing , I , I , I seem to tumble in the wind . I wait for it to begin . Times are hard . The money just won't come through . I'd be alone if not for you Something like that Classic , but this is one of those songs . That's another road tripper for me . I can put it on repeat and it puts me in a mood where I don't want to answer any phone calls it's just a good one .
Speaker 2Yeah , oh , I love that description .
Speaker 2It's a good one . Yeah , oh , I love that description . Yeah , I felt the same way . I was reminded I feel like it could have made like a Wes Anderson film , you know like it could have . It has that kind of vibe to it . But I just felt , yeah , it was like a really soft , like love song . Basically it slowed me down , it just made me want to breathe and relax into my chair and just be comforted by like his beautiful guitar play and his voice . It's like barely coming up over the guitar and and I think the quality or the lack of quality , whichever direction you want to go like , actually really adds to the track . Like it's , it's really beautiful , um , and and that's rare , right , because I think if you try to do that today , people would just be like what is this ? Like ? What am I ?
Speaker 2listening to , but it works so well here . It's amazing .
Speaker 3Yeah , absolutely yeah .
Speaker 2Awesome , all right , well , track eight , you've got look at miss Ohio by Jillian Welch .
Speaker 3Yeah , another song with a really interesting lyric . It's , there's this character , it's clearly this beautiful young woman . She's miss Ohio and she doesn't want to settle down , and it's simple . I think the lyric is oh me , oh my-o , look at Miss Ohio running around with her rag top down . Oh me , oh my-o , look at Miss Ohio . I want to do good , but not right now . So she's on top of the world . She's this beautiful woman . She's got her adulations . The last thing she wants to do is settle down . There's like a verse about her mother handing her , giving her , a wedding dress , and she just , she just wants to ride around in her convertible . It's simple . I love the melody . It's like everything I love about folk music , where the arrangement couldn't be more simple , but it sounds so big . I love this song .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's a great song . I love it . You know it's a good good description of kind of you know expectations , people have expectations of you , but you kind of want to go your own way . So I think this is a great I don't know just a really , like you said , simply written song , but just really delivers a great message . So , yeah , I thought this was a great one . All right .
Speaker 3Track nine You've got love by Lana Del Rey . Yeah , pop , so she's a pop star . But yeah , right , she's a pop star , but she's the indie dark queen . I guess this is like my favorite song from her . I love her stuff . I think her melodies are so original . She's , you know , unique in the mainstream . I think she's not just all sex all the time or all whatever all the time , which is great there's a place for that . But I love this song . It's sort of telling a coming-of-age tale . But I love the song . It's sort of telling a coming-of-age tale . You get all dressed up to go nowhere . In particular , it's such a feeling that I remember from high school . Oh my , gosh .
Speaker 2Yeah , that was the lyric I called out here too . Isn't that so good ? It's like it's Friday night .
Speaker 3You just want the miracle , the mysterious thing to happen to you . It's friday night , you go out and you're imagining you make eye contact with that person that you've been waiting for , or whatever and generally you're in it with a bad hangover and the most time you're 30 , you're like , yeah , right uh , spot on .
Speaker 2Yeah , no , I . I really enjoyed this track and I love her voice . Like I just can always spot it in a mix , right . I was listening to this on my computer , you know , preparing notes for this and my girlfriend like two , you know like a room down over her is like , is that Lana Del Rey ? And it's like , yeah , it is Right , because you can just immediately spot her voice . It's so unique and beautiful . I've always loved that about her music . But yeah , I love that line you get ready , you get all dressed up to go nowhere in particular , back to work or the coffee shop doesn't matter Totally , because it's enough .
Speaker 3She's good .
Speaker 2Yeah , she's great .
Speaker 3Her lyrics are so good and so simple and she's somebody who's just in love with the world and life and she's able to put that yearning , that unquenchable thirst for experience into her music . She does that better than so many people . I love it .
Speaker 2Nice , all right home stretch here , track 10 . You've got just a great track here Boys of Summer by Don Henley .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Rediscovering and Reflecting on Musical Classics
Speaker 3So this song I grew up hearing my entire life . Everybody has . But I think about a month ago I feel like I heard it for the first time and I love when that happens , like I remember that happened for me with dylan . I was like who is this weirdo ? And then I was 17 and I was like oh , oh , it's God this melody is so good .
Speaker 3I had no idea so I did some research on it . The guitar player for Tom Petty I can't remember his name is the one who wrote this guitar part . It was a demo and Jimmy Iovine was looking for tracks for Don Henley . Don Henley liked the melody , took it back to his place , wrote the entire song and it's got a spirit to it . That's amazing . It's also got a really strange structure where there's a giant guitar solo in the middle of a song which is hard .
Speaker 3Its song has to be good to get away with , especially a pop song with defying that , that pop structure . But the composition it's rock and roll and it's a catchy melody . But the harmonies are so rich and so deep , um , I think it's easy to write it off . But especially when you listen to the outro , there's this there's a guitar riff that's that's harmonizing with the synthesizer and you don't even know what's happening but it's taking you somewhere . It's just it's a really good song . Um , it's up tempo . I feel like the same way that running up that hill . I think that's that case . Kate bush song is having another moment with stranger things . It yeah with stranger things .
Speaker 1Yeah , this song could be re-recorded in a modern context .
Speaker 3Hill , I think that Kate Bush song is having another moment with Stranger Things . Yeah , with Stranger Things . Yeah , this song could be re-recorded in a modern context and be just as big as it ever was . It's got the synths . They just need to be updated . It's got the lyric , it's got the melody . Yeah , I love this track .
Speaker 1All right , you got Red Eyes by the War on Drugs .
Speaker 3Yeah , so there's a theme , I guess , that I didn't really even pick up on . This guy is a guy who found a way to sort of revive that 80s synth rock and roll sound and he did it in a modern context . And when I first heard this song I was like , is this a band from the 70s or 80s ? It sounds like he could have toured with don henley or tom petty , but at the same time it's got this modern flair and melodically , um . I remember the first time I heard the song I fell in love with this band . I fell in love with this record . Red eyes is so good .
Speaker 3There's a slow build to this guitar riff which is really the hook . It's not even so much . It's not even so much the vocal melody as it is the riff . I think it hits at like 130 or 145 . He makes you wait for it , but it's just good , old-fashioned rock and roll . He's got the best tone guitar-wise of anyone around right now . If you look at his pedalboard or watch his interviews , he's got like 150 pedals in front of him at any given time and he's constantly changing everything . I mean you could never recreate it .
Speaker 1I love this guy , I love this track this was uh , you know , I think putting it right next to the boys of summer like really made that connection to the 80s for me , like so hearing these back to back I was like , wow , and , and the war on drugs was a band and maybe they were on a mix last year on an episode or or I just kind of stumbled upon them last year . But I I really kind of started listening to them about a year ago and I really like their stuff . But I never really made that connection until they were back to back here with Don Henley and that's when I was like , oh my gosh , this has got such such a cool 80s sound . That's sort of updated .
Speaker 3Yeah , it reminds me of a combination between Bruce Springsteen and Arcade Fire . They've got this big anthemic thing , but they've got that backbeat 80s rock thing going too . So I like these guys .
Speaker 1Samer that sounds like it would be the perfect band for us . I feel like that's . I know I'm a big springsteen fan . Sammer loves arcade fire I think , we finally found the uh , the venn diagram sort of here that that will work right , yeah , that's , that's the overlap .
Speaker 2That's so exciting . What a big moment for us here . I love that . Um , all right . Well , here's another artist I'm , I'm certain would also be in that venn diagram . Uh , we've mentioned him a couple times already in talking today , but bob dylan and you got his track .
Speaker 3Girl from north country yep , yes , um , I love bob dylan . Everybody does . How could you not ? He's a strange enigma . This song is a classic . It's a folk song . It's him and his acoustic guitar . There's no greater test of metal for a track than if a man could sit alone in front of a microphone and play it one time , and it can last 40 or 50 years .
Speaker 3Good description of that yeah it's amazing right , like it's so incredible to think about yeah , it's like this guy was there for two minutes and 30 seconds and said sounds good and walked out and 50 years later , everyone's still like what an incredible song . Yeah , this guy is yeah , I'm like I've never known that sort of effortlessness . I'm like I can't trust a song that's ready until I've bled out on the floor and blast shouted everyone around me . Now I know it's ready .
Speaker 1We all have our process . We all have our process . Yeah , that's mine . It's highly toxic .
Speaker 3Yeah , it's a good song . It's a melancholic tune . I think there's a theme . I like those songs a lot . What he does really well with heartbreak songs that I try to rip , not only for my music but my life , is there's always this tone of acceptance . It could be a really sad moment , it could be a , it could be , um , it could be heartbreak , but there's always this sense of peace behind it all , which is almost like this god's eye view , this detached thing where , yes , this is happening and yes , it's okay . He's never melodramatic . Um , that's where I think the real it almost makes it sadder . The acceptance almost gives it more power . You're not like I miss you , babe , and I'm up all night crying . It's like that's what you're like , okay , but um , he finds , he finds a way to , to , to be detached and still have affection for this person where things went south . It's a great song .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean he really is . I think in that way , you know , not just his lyrics , but everything about him is like he is like a poet on the human , just human nature , right , like I think everything about his music and I think that's why it has such staying power is exactly what you're saying . It's like it is a view on just what it is to be a person and like all the various things that we struggle with and all the things that he's sung about and how he does it . And it is amazing , I absolutely I loved this song . I wasn't as familiar with this one as some of the other of his other many , many , many tracks , um , but I just I listened to this one and I just again kind of sank into my chair and just felt , just felt it speaking to me , right , like I think that that it just cuts right through everything and you're like , oh wow , oh wow . You know , like that's like always my reaction with some of his music , so absolutely , well , there you have it , folks .
Speaker 1Another super awesome mix for your collection , okay , this one provided by our special guest , joshua Dillon Bayless . Josh , tell everyone where they can find you and find information about your tour .
Speaker 3Yes , so I'm on every platform except for TikTok . I've got it started but I haven't started making anything yet . So that's our goal for this tour is to get the band familiar , introduce the world , the band to the world on TikTok , but I'm everywhere else . The music is everywhere that you can stream music . I'm more active on Instagram than anywhere else , so if you want to hop on Instagram and see , we'll keep things updated there .
Speaker 3We're doing another run in July , but those dates are still being set . But we are on tour across the state starting Friday , and I posted about it on my Instagram . I don't have all the exact dates memorized , but I know that the initial run we're going straight to DC where we're playing a Sofar in Roslyn that night , and then we're doing a radio spot in Jersey the next morning , and then we've got two shows in New York Saturday and Sunday , and then we've got this long haul from New York to Columbus , to Kansas City , to Denver , york , to Columbus , to Kansas City , to Denver , um , and then we're going from Denver to LA , la to Salt Lake , fort Worth , dallas , and that will be there by June . 22nd , 23rd , 24th is our Dallas run , and then we're wow , we're ending in Nashville . So it's gonna be a . There's going to be a lot of time on the road .
Speaker 1That's awesome . That sounds great . Like we said , we love the album . It's called we're On Fire , so definitely check it out , stream it and then check out those tour dates and go out and see them . Congratulations on the album and thanks for coming on the show .
Speaker 3It's been a pleasure . You guys are great to talk to . It's such a relief to talk about music other than my own .
Speaker 2It's been a blast . Well , come on back anytime , we're happy to have you yeah .
Speaker 1Thanks again and for the listeners out there , check us out at super awesome mix on Instagram and we'll get to work on our next Super Awesome Mix . So , for Josh and Samer , this is Matt and we'll see you next time . Peace .
