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It's Sunday night and Froggy Valley 100.1 is spotlighting the best local, regional, and national up-and-coming recording artists. This is Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie Hopper on WFBY 11 in Hershey, Harrisburg, Froggy Valley 100.1.

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Welcome to a Sunday night on Froggy Valley 100.1. Always a beautiful night when we are highlighting our local, regional, and national up-and-coming country musicians right here on the one and only Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. Minnie, of course, is here. Are you ready to introduce our next musician here on Soundcheck?

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I think I'm ready. Our next musician is from the Lone Star State. You're hoping he isn't a Cowboys fan.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

Oh, we already got that answer, I think.

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I think he may have more energy than my dad does. His high-energy shows are second to none. His music is going to blow you away, and he also served our fine country in the U.S. Air Force for 12 years. Froggy Valley is pleased to welcome Nashville recording artist Miggs to Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. We cannot wait to chat with Miggs here shortly. But get comfy, get your pre-bedtime snack, grab a drink, and we are starting off with Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie with Miggs and Your Country Song on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app powered by Radio Novo.

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Oh let's get a little ratty. But that don't mean I don't enjoy a small town. Alan Jackson on the radio with the windows down alone. Jesus and Jones won't look at me. You already know I can be a country soul. The one you pull it out, I'm not alone. You won't look it for a little more. Show me what you got to do.

SPEAKER_11 2:17

I don't need a state of my truck.

SPEAKER_13 2:20

Take it to the boot, get a little stuck. If I can do hold up, come up. I can be a cultist tall.

SPEAKER_12 2:39

You've been living this life in this big old town. Nothing in this world gonna slow you down. What do I gotta do? I can be on the comfort soul. The one you put out a little hole. You fall the fan floor, begging for a little more.

SPEAKER_11 3:01

Show me what you got in store. I blow in the seat of my truck. Take it to the road, get a little stuck.

SPEAKER_13 3:27

There's no boy is going Take fast, take it slower revenue. Don't want you bull on alone.

SPEAKER_11 3:57

Tell me what you got in store. I don't need a seat of my truck. Take it to the road, get a little stuck, and if I get a lucky, you wanna cut a look I wanna get a lucky and baby wheel, cut a look.

SPEAKER_13 4:14

I can be a cultural song. Let me be a cultural song.

SPEAKER_06 4:39

That was Miggs with your country song kicking off Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1.

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We welcome you into our home here on Soundcheck on this Sunday night. We couldn't be more thrilled to have our next musician here on the show. He is from Maryland, really making a name for himself. Miggs, welcome to the party here on a Sunday night, man.

SPEAKER_12 4:58

Let's get a little rowdy on a Sunday night, Chase. Minnie, thank you guys so much for having me here. Uh what an introduction. I tell you what, I'm I'm pumped to be here.

SPEAKER_06 5:07

We have a very important question. We have to get this right out of the way, right off the bat here, Dad, right? You're not a Cowboys fan, right?

SPEAKER_12 5:14

Pause for effect. Yes, I am. For the last 37 years of my great life, um, God bless Texas and the uh Dallas Cowboys. Uh, but when Jerry Jones came to the world, oh man, I tell you what, it's been a heartache ever since. You know, we were having a conversation before we came in here, and you know, it's really hard as an independent artist to really get that opportunity, and you guys have given me this platform today, and I'm really excited to chat with you guys.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Yeah, man, we couldn't be more excited. Just talk about your start as far as your background of you getting into this country music scene.

SPEAKER_12 5:45

So uh it started back when I was about five, six years old. I remember sitting in the back of my dad's Lincoln Town car listening to uh the police uh rock saying one of my favorite songs. And as I grew older, uh my dad introduced me to George Strait, Alan Jackson, and John Michael Montgomery. And, you know, I left for the United States Air Force in 2012 at the age of 24. Over the next 15 years of my life, you know, everything I started to write and started to play, just started continuing to gravitate towards that country style of storytelling, that country style of family, God, country, and everything else. And, you know, when I got here to Maryland in 2024 after getting out of active duty and staying the reservist and met my wife, she said, Honey, you need to put your music on the radio. Wouldn't it be but two weeks later that her and I were down in Nashville, Tennessee, working with uh a great friend of mine now, Ben Ben Reno, at uh Majestic Cape Studios and you know, 12 songs in. We're still doing it and putting up more hits or actually going to the studio again next week to record next year's single. So it's been an absolutely amazing journey and it's not stopping. Where it goes, I have no idea. But it's with the support of everybody that I'm here and doing what I'm doing. Pops, my wife, my family, my friends, you guys. Talk about the man that's next to you there to the right of you. That my father-in-law, um Pops, Tommy, works with me and helps me. He's actually my band manager and helps me get everything done when it's coming at the shows, merchandise, coordination with sound. I just want you to introduce yourself. I think that was a pretty good introduction.

SPEAKER_14 7:05

Yeah, my name is Tommy, uh aka Pops. Um, I got that nickname from him, and it kind of went around and went viral for me having lollipops at the shows now. So now I always have which I have some up in my bag if you'd like many. I'm his band manager. Tommy, we're extremely happy that you have made the trip up here too, as well as our Froggy Valley studios. It's pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome to me, too, just to walk in here and see all the old stuff around with the analog stuff and a digital world.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

And makes thanks for your service as well, man. Twelve years in the Air Force, pretty awesome stuff. We're gonna get into that in just a little bit too. But when you had your initial plan when you got into this country music world, some people get into it as a hobby right off the bat. What was your initial goal, your initial plan?

SPEAKER_12 7:49

Uh my initial goal, man, you know, I started off in the church back in the day when I was about in high school and led worship teams and worship um um ministry stuff like that. It was never really a plan. I I just wanted to enjoy bring entertainment to people and bring joy to people however I could. I mean, I've always felt I've been blessed uh with a great talent, and I wanted to share that. You know, my faith in God is my number one thing that's gotten me through life. And the plan has never been a plan, it's like continue to play, it just continues to grow. And I it is by his by his will that that things be done, you know.

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What was the toughest part in starting out your musical career?

SPEAKER_12 8:24

No. From a venue, from a person of like you know, when I got to Maryland, so again, I've been playing music all over the world with the airports, which was great, and playing some of the coolest places Afghanistan, Germany, Portugal, Arizona, some all these cool places, so it's like I've gotten to do that. And when I got here, you know, 2020 during COVID, I got my first show at the Broken Or down in Pasadena. I didn't think there was a lot of country music out here. And I it's good to know that there there wasn't, but now there is a lot, and and there's just so much opportunity for music in in the Maryland DMV area. When I kept on getting no, you're just not big enough, or no, you didn't bring this, I was like, you know what, I'm not gonna take no for an answer. Like, okay, if you don't want to bring me to hire me, that's okay. I'll see you next time and be like, oh, well, will you come play with us? I'm like, well, remember that no you gave me? I would love to play with you guys. And just bringing that professionalism to each individual place, I think, is really the the hardest thing I've done was, or the the biggest obstacle I've had was hearing that no and not giving up because of the no.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

A lot of folks are gonna hear your music again here shortly. I don't think you're gonna be getting a lot of no's here down the road once we start playing some of your music. When you first started out, too, everybody's got a different genre that you pick up right away. Was country music always your genre to start?

SPEAKER_12 9:33

Uh you know, I I think it I think it is, but at the same time, growing up in the 90s, I loved alternative rock, crunch music, stuff like that, and you know, hip hop, RB. So I'd like to say that that I fell into country music just as where life my life is gone. And but I take all those influences I've grown up with and put that into my music, talk about God, family, country, party in good times with friends and family. And ultimately, when I want to put on a show, I want to write music that is something that people can enjoy and get up on their feet and be like, shut off the outside world for the 60 minutes or the three hours they're here. Because at the end of the day, life is tough, the world is tough. I don't want it to be tough in here, you know, and for the same at the same time, I do write music from my heart, from the places that I've been, and it can hit people in a lot of different ways. You'll hear a song never far away that I wrote for my daughter, and it's being danced to as father-daughter dance songs at weddings. And it's crazy because, like, wow, I never thought that that song that I wrote for my kiddo would be used for that circumstance. And it's amazing. Or a song promised to you forever that you'll hear later was used at my uh my bassist's wedding as the w as his wife fiance at the time bride walked down the aisle. It's just so cool. This little girl sitting right here. She's got a bad spirit, nothing to fear. Enough I'm like him, just to be near. This little girl sitting right here.

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This little girl, she stole my heart. Oh, I could go on and on. This is where I'll start. She came in this world.

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Little my dog. This little girl, she stole my heart. My baby girl, don't you worry about a thing.

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And I'll always be here every night and every day. Even when I'm gone.

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Remember when I say Your daddy's right here, and I'm never far away. Pretty like a mom can't get enough. I wish I could slow down time and keep speeding up. My little girl, you gonna win up My baby girl, but don't you worry about a thing? I'll always be here every night and every day Even when I'm gone. Remember when I stay Your daddy's right here, and I'm down of a fucking way I would drive a million miles if you asked me to You will always be my baby, no matter what you do.

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And if you get scared and I'm not there, close your eyes, stay a prayer, I'll be on my way My baby girl, don't you worry about a thing And I'll always be here Every night and every day Even when I'm gone Remember when I say Your daddy's right here And I'll always be here Your daddy's right here And I'm never far away back and relax.

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This is Soundcheck with Chase and Bitty Hopper on Froggy Valley One Hundred.

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They say there's a reason They say time will heal, but now the time and reason gonna change the way I feel. Gone all the days we used to share, but in my heart, you always there Gates of memories will never close. Oh, I'm just sitting here and drink with my whiskey and I'm thinking about the laughs and good times we both had I look up to you in heaven with my boo and my best friend.

SPEAKER_13 15:47

It hurts like hell no any other gone.

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I know you're looking down saying don't be sad But I miss you dead If I could write a story, it'd be the greatest ever told About a can and loving father Who had a heart of gold sitting here and drinking With my whiskey and I'm thinking about the last good times we both had I look up to you in heaven With Bible and my best wheel stuck here I be looking down saying no be said I'll be sitting I'll make no be found me I'm heard won't be mad because it's in that only answer And I'll always be my day So I'm sitting even drinking with my whiskey and I'm thinking about the last good times we both had I look with my mood at my best friend It looks like you know any other gone down so you don't be staying Please look down on me when I won't be staying I'll miss I miss you did uh talk about when you first started too probably one of the most difficult things as a country musician building that fan base you have done such an incredible job in building that fan base in the short time that you've been doing this now. Just talk about building that fan base right off the bat.

SPEAKER_12 18:51

Man, it's it's been a journey, I tell you what. And it's funny because I wish, you know, telling you that I've been playing to all these different great amazing places, we've had phones at our fingertips for the past 20 years. I wish I would have gotten so much more content of different places. But starting like, you know, my social media, Instagram and Facebook, and TikToks back in like 2020 and not being as consistent, um, the the the biggest thing is is putting out just who I am in authenticity and trying to be authentic as I can. A lot of people are like, dude, you're so high energy and and upbeaten up general, like, holy crap, do you have an off switch? Like, no, really, I don't. I'm fueled by monsters, caffeine, and good old uh good old energy, I guess, you know. Um but you know, building the following is is is my pops actually is one of the first people to say it. He said, dude, you're in Pasadena, a small area. Grow with people. And when you grow with people and build that foundation, they feel like they are a part of it. And that absolutely showed up at this recent show I'd had in Pasadena. It was the first show in about 16 weeks I had. We had over 300 people proked into the rumorous, which is great, which was supposed to hold about 600 at the tiki bar, but because it rained, they put it inside. But people know who I am. And they're like, Man, I remember seeing you five years ago, four years ago, and just your guitar sitting at whatever place in a copy. But they feel a part of it, like, man, I've watched you grow, and then that's really what helps. And people love to see it.

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Coming up, we have more music from our special guest, Migs, in the studio here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1.

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Spotlighting load. Local artist, it's sound check with Jason Minnie on Froggy Valley.

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One hundred point one Sitting at a bar stool feelin' like a damn fool, hopin' that you all crew I know you think it's my fault, but girl, you got it all wrong Cause breaking up it takes two They're's a buzzin' don't drown out your name The raining of a whiskey To kill all the pain I wish I could drown out the memory of you But every shot I take just pulls me back into The way you laugh, the way you cry, the way you walk, a way they die I'm chasing ghosts in a hit I can outrun my mistake Last cow double shot Call a cow in my ass bag home Stumbled in through the door all alone Try to figure my phone Extil I ain't call back The bottles I won't gone I wish I could drown out the memory of you But every shot I take just pulls me back into The way you laugh, the way you cry, the way you walk, the way that died I'm just a ghost in ahead So I can outrun my mental death Every day that I'm sticking Got me rampant What it was like getting you Every night when you win Justin of the love Do you won't back? I wish I could drown out the memory of you, but every shot I take just pulls me back into the way you laugh, the way you cry, the way you walk, away the night, or why I'm chasing ghosts in the heads. I can outrun my mistakes.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

That was Miggs there with a brand new unreleased song, Chasing Ghosts, here on Froggy Valley 100.1 soundcheck with Chase Mini. We are of course joined by Miggs in studio. Talk about that one, man, and thank you so much for allowing us to actually play that one because it hasn't even been released yet.

SPEAKER_12 25:39

Man, I I'm really pumped about that song. So last year, when I was getting all my songs ready for recording in September of last year to release with singles, and I released singles because it's just kind of the way to stay in the algorithms. But this song, you know, I had the hook in my head, I wish I could drown out the memories of you. A lot of people say, Did you write that for like an ex-girlfriend or something? So no, I love my wife. And the way this song is, is that, you know, if anything were to happen, I lose my wife, we break up, whatever it is for my stupidity, whatever, I would be chasing her ghost because I love her that much. And and I try to put myself in that perspective of that type of what would happen if that were to happen. You know, we all have been through those breakups, the heart breakups where you want to call them after one step away or whatnot like that. And that's the same thing where one dream takes it too far, and you just can't help but think about that person. And that's where it came from. And I think it's a really good country ballad. I think people are really gonna enjoy it, and you can get that May 22nd. I'm so glad you played it here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie today. It's thank you so much.

SPEAKER_06 26:40

All right, Dad, I think it's about that time. Let's play that Minnie's Hoppin' Good Time jingle. Yeehaw!

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Get ready for it! Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. It's Minnie's Hopping Good Time.

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We're asking your favorite stars three questions totally random every time.

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So get ready to jump on in for minis hopping good time on Froggy Valley 100.1. Froggy Valley. Woo!

SPEAKER_06 27:15

We have reached that point of the show where we break it up with some fun with our musicians. Migs, I'm hoping you are ready for this. I will give you three totally random questions.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

What do you always ask the artists then? If they're ready, they're always ready, right?

SPEAKER_06 27:30

Yeah. I hope. And we'll see how to get into them. Now keep in mind they are totally random. So here's the first question. What is your favorite vacation spot?

SPEAKER_12 27:42

Ooh, my favorite vacation spot is in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay on my boat with my family.

SPEAKER_06 27:48

Question number two, do you have any pets at home? If so, what are they? If not, why not?

SPEAKER_12 27:54

I have two beautiful dogs at home. Uh Blueie is a black golden doodle at 72 pounds. He's adorable. He's about five years old, just celebrated his fifth birthday a couple weeks ago. And then um, my wife came in to visit me in San Antonio a few years back, and uh on the way back I was driving, I picked up our second golden doodle without her realizing it. Her name is Poppy, she's a little mini golden doodle. Um, and I'll show you a picture here later. Absolutely adorable. Um, I'm not a huge cat fan. I love watching cat videos, but uh, have yet to get a cat. I'm actually allergic to them. Um so yeah, not a cat guy, but yeah, two golden doodles, absolutely beautiful. And uh they're they're just they're they're they're they're the sweetest.

SPEAKER_06 28:32

I'm assuming you don't want to come to over to our house with our five cats then.

SPEAKER_12 28:35

I'll I mean again, I'll I'll stick away from them, like, oh my god, that's a cute cat, and then you're gonna have to give me some Benadryl or Clarence. Give me an epipin, you know.

SPEAKER_06 28:44

And our third and final question As a kid, were you a band kid or a sports kid?

SPEAKER_12 28:49

Uh a little bit of both. So fun fact, I joined um a band in the seventh grade playing trumpet, French horn and trombone. And then uh eighth grade year, I played basketball. And my freshman year played basketball and started doing wrestling my sophomore year. And then my junior year I got put into choir because they missed up choir and calculus. I was supposed to go to calculus, but the teacher was like, hey, you sing really good. Two weeks later I was doing solos for the uh men's uh 5A soloist competition, and so a little bit of both, and then I was doing some acting there too. So maybe maybe there's some acting in my career, like uh like old boy Riley Green did Marshall's the other day. Good questions there, Minnie.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

Those are awesome. I think he was ready.

SPEAKER_06 29:30

I think he was. I'd say so.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

I'd say so. You're just joining us here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie here on the Sunday night here on Froggy Valley 1001 in the My Froggy Valley app. Just download it there in any of those app stores, just search My Froggy Valley. It's all powered by Radio Novo. We got a special treat coming from Miggs here. He is gonna do an acoustic version of One Sip Away right here in the studio. Talk about the backstory on that one first, there, Miggs.

SPEAKER_12 29:55

So, like I said earlier, One Sip Away, my uh I like to call her my Maryland mother because she's just such a motherly person to me. Her name's Kim, uh, down in Pasadena, and she messaged me last year. She said, Honey, I got three words for you. I want you to write a song. I said, One sip away. I said, I got it. And the whole topic is it's funny because this song actually kind of kind of ties into chasing ghosts of that whole we've all been there, we've broken up with a significant other or high school sweetheart, whatever it is, and you just get to drinking, you're just like, Man, I can't I just want to call that person. I know I shouldn't. But one, two, three drinks you're in, you're missing them, you're loving them, and it's you know, you ever thought you'd end up in a bar on a Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock o'clock, but there you are, one sip away from wanting to call that person. That's what that song's about. So I'm really excited to play it here acoustically for you, and you guys can go stream it anywhere you listen to music, but you can listen to it right here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

You're not there yet.

SPEAKER_12 30:47

Oh, it's Coke. Coke and Sprites. It's iced tea. What are you talking about? Ginger El. Ginger El, there you go. This one is one sip away. You can get it wherever you get your music, but listening to it right now on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. Barstool's got my name on it, same spot every night. Megon hums a melody in this old die bar light. Fart tenant knows a drill, don't even have to say what's wrong, let it burn and drown the memories away. I swore I was done, calling, swore I moved on. But here I go again. Yeah, I'm like a rabbit long.

SPEAKER_13 31:34

I'm one sip away from dialing your number. One more way from saying I love you. 3D V and I'm missing your touch.

SPEAKER_12 31:47

Four shots down, and I'm needing you too much. I keep telling myself that I'll be okay. Put on my ways. One simple way. That old Merle on the jukebox ain't helping my case. Every song is a reminder of the love I let fate. I swore I'd never chase you. I swore I let it die. But the killer's got a way of bringing back goodbye.

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I'm one sip away from doubting your number. One more away from saying I love you. 3D being I'm missing your touch.

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Four shots down and I'm needing you too much. I keep telling myself that I'll be okay, out of my own ways.

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One simple way.

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Take these keys away. Cause if I hit that row, I know I'm heading straight.

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I'm one tip away from dialing your number. One more away from saying I love you. 3D B and I'm missing your touch.

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Four shots down, and I'm needing you too much. I keep telling myself that I'll be okay. But I'm my ways. Just one sibling. Hey, I keep telling myself that I'll be okay. But the truth is, darling, I'm one sip away. Yeah. Thank you so much, you heard it here, Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. That was one sip away.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

What a song from Miggs, the acoustic version, of course, of One Sip Away back here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1. I I gotta ask you. It's such an awesome song. How long did it take you to write that song?

SPEAKER_12 34:20

Uh fun fact, probably like 30 minutes, 35 minutes or so. I I went out to go get some Mexican food for my my wife and myself, and uh I was hearing in my head and played it back, and I came in and she was um she was doing something on her way home for something, and I said, honey, I got a new song and played it for her. She's like, Holy crap, I really like that. And it's really cool because it's such a it is a catchy song. The whole chorus and the one sip away, too. I think it it's just really relatable and it really has helped the succeed that that song.

SPEAKER_06 34:45

As a musician, there are so many ups and downs, especially as an independent musician. What has been the most rewarding so far in your career up to this point?

SPEAKER_12 34:56

You know, I think um every artist who can kind of relate to this, um, the greatest success is the next song that's coming out. And because, you know, as an artist, when you record all these songs, whether it's singles, multiple, at a time, three, five, ten, doesn't matter, you just feel better and better about each song. Like, man, and even my producer tells you is like, dude, the the way you write, the voice you've found within yourself from, you know, your country song all the way to you could use a beer, the newest song is like just you found your tone, you found your keys, you found your your just the rhythm of how you write your songs and what you're saying, and you get it to the audience in the best way possible. And that's why I think the greatest success I have is the next song that I get to release because I just feel that great about it.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

And one thing is pretty awesome too, and now we we see it firsthand here with you being in this studio, when people have met you, people have done interviews with you, your interactions. Uh even on the interview here, man, we are we are feeling it. You're such a personable guy, genuine dude, which is not always easy to find in the country music world for sure. Where does that come from of just being a good solid dude?

SPEAKER_12 35:57

Um, you know, I think the therapist could tell you it's because I was a middle child. You know, I was uh I was left unseen between a family of uh of five, you know, between uh my stepsisters and my brother or whatnot. So I was stuck right in the middle and off trying to find my own path, forge my own path. And um, you know, I just I I guess I've always just grown up to want to bring joy to people. Um want to make people happy, I guess again, even being the middle child of trying to keep things together, right? Um between between older siblings and younger siblings, all that kind of stuff. So I think that's just where it's blossomed. And at the end of the day, it's mentality. Like I said, the Air Force has really given me a lot of understanding mentally and how to, you know, the four pillars of of just life, you know, having balance and spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical, all these different things. And it's really helped me be the man I am, not to mention the great wife I have by my side, because if I didn't have her, I tell you what, the greatest flex right now that I've got is a wife that supports 100% of what I'm doing. I can walk into any room and every person like, man, that what they have, I just love it. I just love it.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

We got more coming up with Miggs. We're gonna give him a little practice, Minnie. What do you think on being a radio DJ? Yeah, we'll see if we'll see if we can break him in and give him the radio DJ lingo as he's gonna announce his top three mainstream country songs. That's all the way. Also, more of Miggs's great music that he does play. We're gonna dial into that coming up, but keep it where it's at. It is Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie exclusively right here on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app, all powered by Radio Novo.

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Down the left wing, a breaking on goal.

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It's game three of the Atlantic Division semifinal Tuesday night as the Hershey Bears take on the Wolfspray Scranton Penguins from Giants Center and Hershey. Coverage begins at 6.30 here on Froggy Valley 100.1.

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Country music from local, regional, and national up and covers. If it's Sunday night, it's Sound Check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1.

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She's been running all week on caffeine infuse.

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Digging all fuels in a master backaroom Hairs in a night makeup have gone Singing along to a favorite song. All stopping down rental. Like last week, just I ain't gonna do the bears, something I gold.

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Lift it up, I let the good sides roll. Just try to change that feel good. If you're here, then you're in the clear. You could use the beard.

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Working that job, doing what he must Drop on Star pills in a pile. After top sips, dress off the style, back forward, taking good buying chair, not a single damn word left.

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Just a pull on it's all good. You can disappear, something else gold. If you do highlight rolls, always don't feel right. You can use a bear You can use a beer, something that's cold.

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Keep you with your crew, let your worries go.

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Raise one up if you had that kind of win. If you could use a beer, something that's cold. Hazy little things that it folds. That feels good, fried. Then you're in the flu. You could use the bear.

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You could use the beer.

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This is Soundcheck with Chase and Vinnie Hopper on Froggy Valley 100.1 and on the My Froggy Valley app, powered by Radio Novo.

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For the first time in days, I've been waiting for this moment for so long. I know I am tough. But I still need your touch. I'm a man that still alongs for your love. So let's pull those shit.

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Baby Light and those doors. Cause somebody over mine.

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Let the buddies do the talking. Where's the music to play? This is just what we need.

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But now we first kiss both her deal in just like night. We can still have the play. Let burning the fish.

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No daddy over the light. Let the bodies do the talking.

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Baby line does.

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Let the bodies do the tall kids.

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Texas born musician who is now a resident down in Maryland, veteran of our U.S. military, is joining us here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie.

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It is getting to be my favorite time of the year. Summer! This summer you will be playing at a big music festival. Now it's in its third year and keeps getting bigger every year. The Riverwave Country Music Festival. What do you think of the festival?

SPEAKER_12 46:29

Man, the Riverwave Country Music Festival. I never thought in a million years I would be playing this or getting much less get invited to it. And um, you know, when Gina reached out a few months ago, we we we got in touch again through social media. That's what I say. When it's used right, you can meet some of the greatest people. And Gina's just like that. She said, Hey, I have a festival, want you to play at, come here. And I was like, awesome. I didn't know much about it. Started doing my research, like, wow, it's such a cool thing to be a part of. Um and fun fact, so Chris Greiner's another guy that's gonna be on on this on the festival. Um, we actually met my last trip in September to Nashville, Tennessee. I was playing a songwriter's round. He was out in the audience and said, Hey dude, really liked your stuff. And I was on my way out because I had another songwriters round to get to like 20 minutes down the road. So we had a quick talk, it's changed socials, and you know, him and I have been sending our music back and forth, right? But like the productions, like, hey, what do you think? What should you change? And just the way that relationship is worked. Anyway, Riverwave Country Music Festival, May 9th. I'm playing an acoustic set there with all these songs, some unreleased tracks, and I'm excited. The lineup hasn't coming out as far as the time frame, but you be there, be YOB, come early, stay late, get a little rowdy with us, y'all. It's gonna be a darn good time. Two stages, one day, full of memories. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 47:40

You mentioned Chris Greiner, another great dude. We had him on the podcast. We're gonna have him here in a couple weeks, too, on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. Just a good crop of folks that are gonna be playing that, not only just here from Pennsylvania, but even out of state, too.

SPEAKER_12 47:53

It's it's so cool. And to be a part of a festival, be part of a lineup of other people, independent artists that are doing the same thing that I'm doing, and get to pull in stories and like, hey, my biggest thing is the tide raises all ships. There's enough food at the table for everybody to eat. Let's all come, let's all come enjoy it. And you know what? I'm gonna share my experiences, share yours, please, because I want to know how I can be better, how you can be better, how we can make this career better for everybody that wants to get into it. Because it's it's not for the pain of heart. It really isn't. It's tough.

SPEAKER_06 48:22

You have been working with some notable producers and musicians down in Nashville. Talk about some of them that have really helped you in the process.

SPEAKER_12 48:30

So, Ben Reno is uh Majestic Cape Studio. It started off as a business relationship. I was talking about it the other day with him. Uh, has turned into a wonderful friendship. Um, you know, he's he's been in Nashville since he was young, kid grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, started off as an artist, had a record deal at 15, 16 years old, and a couple years into it, he's like, I don't want to do it no more. I'd rather be the producer. Um so fun fact, I'm still a network engineer by trade, working out at Fort Meade, and and uh I have a buddy Nick, a coworker of mine that that I work with, and one day he saw that I was playing at a local festival in Maryland. He's like, Oh, you actually play music. Do you have anything recording? I was like, No, he goes, I have a friend. Two weeks later, and Ben Reno got a call from later on that evening. Two weeks later I was down in in Nashville recording with him. And the thing about him and how what's helped shape is just is the people he gets as far as studio musicians, the people that he knows, and his background of being a part of so many different types of projects, from from contemporary to uh to gaming projects to just instrumentals, I mean Hans Zimmer stuff like that, even to like some hip-hop stuff and everything. So he has such a great um plethora to pick through as far as influences, kind of thing, same thing with myself. So, really how I write and how everything comes together and his ideas of what he can put into it has been amazing. Scott Spivey with Party Ride, you know, from here locally is part of a band called Southland. Um, another guy that plays every instrument under the sun, he's an incredible musician, and just developing that friendship and him and I tag along and stuff, and we do some co-joint things like that too, which is really cool. But to have these kind of people surround me, like I said, a tide raises all ships. And people to have a team of people behind you with you next to you, this is what's gonna drive it and help it continue its success in full speed ahead.

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Before they were superstars, they were hometown stars.

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It's Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 Sun peeking up over the bay, Mercury gay says eighty-eight. Stop by the station, fill up the tanker, little jumbo. Been busting my ass, working 95. Boss man says I've been walking the line. If I don't pick up that over time, it's gonna cut me loose. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'll be out on the water, look like a poppy poppy tie with a couple of friends.

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Leave your worries at the bank, stoke it out on it. Tell me, baby, what you think? Take it slow, let the good times roll. Feel that breeze blowin' through your stove when that's time.

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Gotta tackle box and sticks back too. Making memories just me and you. No stretch, no plans, nothing of fruit. Just a random other way.

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We'll be out on the bottom, looking like a boba baba tie with a couple of friends. Don't get down and down the bag to watch the fight. Let the good times roll. Do that freeze, blow it through the old store with that time. Let the body ride. No fight out here, no fist of throw, save the drama for your mama. Come on, let's go and that's high.

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Let's get out on the water, floatin' like a baba popper top with a couple of friends. Leave your worries at the bank, so get out all in.

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Tell me, baby, what you think. Feel that freeze blowin' to the old snow with that tide, I let the party ride. With that tide, I let the party ride.

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Ah, let's awake an ice coat beer. Get yourselves out of the water, let's get a little ride. I got Dave back in the boat for some orange crushes, y'all.

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Let's go. When that time is I let the party ride.

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Alright, our friend Miggs is here to take the reins and become the radio DJ as we present to you Miggs's top mainstream country playlist. We would always like to go backwards and start out with number three.

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All right, on top three, on top three. My name is Miggs here. Thank you for joining us here on Soundcheck with Jason Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1. Yes, he's pretty good at this. Yeah. Alright, so it I'd say top three in no particular order, but top three, uh, I definitely have to say Jason Aldean, my kind of party. I mean, again, it's it's got that rock feel, that country feel. Uh it's got that, I just like I like hard-driven, heavy guitars. I really do. I got honestly.

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I saw that coming, Miggs.

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Yeah, you got to do that. No, I know what are you talking about? So that definitely has to be number three on the list. Um, number number two on the list, Cody Johnson, good old Texas boy, till you can't. And I love that song because fun fact, when it came out, I was dating my wife, now my wife, for about two years, and I didn't realize just time flies, right? And I heard this song, and there's a second verse, you can always put a diamond on your hand until you can't. I'm like, I need to put a ring on her finger or I'm gonna lose this girl forever. And 100% I did three weeks later or something like that. And and so that that song always rings true. Not to mention that, you know, being being seasoned in my life, if you will, um, never stop chasing your dream until you can't. Don't let, don't take no for an answer. You are who you are, be who you are, and the only person that's gonna fight for you is yourself. And then, of course, you know, when it talks to country songs and breaking hearts, my number one country song. There's been a lot of things that have broken my heart in this life, but a beer, dang sure ain't one of them. Beer never broke my heart by Luke Combs.

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You can get it wherever. This may be a bizarre question. Right, Minnie? This is gonna be a bizarre question, you know. This is gonna be real bizarre. Uh, have you ever tried Lebanon Bologna?

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You know, fun fact, when I first came up here, uh, one of my coworkers was like, hey, go try the baloney, and I was like, Oh, I don't like bologna. So I I didn't really know realize that Lebanon was home of baloney, but please tell me.

SPEAKER_02 55:09

Yes, that's what we are famous for here in the Mecca. That is Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It is so good. So many different varieties of it that are out there. We have gifted you, of course, with the beef jerky, the bites as well from Seltzer's Lebanon Bologna up there in Palmyra, and the famous caramel corn from Worst Candies in downtown Lebanon 2 for you. Try and take that with you. Try and make sure it gets back to maybe the home front and maybe they can have a couple pieces of it. I can't promise anything.

SPEAKER_12 55:34

I cannot promise. I mean, this beef jerky looks really good. Ground informed, two different types of bites. I mean, come on, all the protein that a growing boy needs. I think you and Tommy are gonna snap right into that as soon as we as soon as you guys leave the studio here.

SPEAKER_06 55:46

Make sure when you are back in our neck of the woods, give us a shout and keep us updated on all that you are doing, Miggs.

SPEAKER_12 55:53

Oh, I will do that for sure. Again, guys, thank you from the bottom of my heart having my pops and myself up here. Sorry, Tommy up here, and and being able to do this with you guys. It's an amazing opportunity, and not very many people do it, so I don't take it for granted at all. It's been a pleasure hanging with you guys today, and I hope to do it again. Yeah, thanks for the time, Miggs.

SPEAKER_02 56:12

Make sure you check out all his amazing music that he is out because in a matter of time, you're gonna see this man on the big stages, bright lights. Miggs, thank you so much for stopping by. And also a huge thank you out to our local candy shop downtown Lebanon that has been a staple here for years. Worst candies, hooking up our musicians with that good old caramel corn, Lebanon's finest. And we are also hooking Miggs up with that famous Seltzer's Lebanon Bologna to take home. That is gonna do it here for another stellar episode of Sound Check with Chase and Minnie.

SPEAKER_06 56:38

Next week, we will have Chase Matthews Band.

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So stay tuned next week from eight until nine, on the only place in Central PA getting you backstage with our local, regional, national, up and coming country musicians here on Froggy Valley 100.1. All right, Minnie, time to get out of here.

SPEAKER_06 56:55

It ain't country music, unless it's homegrown country music. Have a great week, y'all, and we'll see you again next Sunday on Sound Check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app, powered by Radio Novo. Thanks for taking a listen.

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Are you an up and coming artist trying to make it big? If so, we want to hear from you. Submit your demo to Chase at sevenmountainsmedia.com. That's Chase, the number seven mountainsmedia.com. Thanks for spending your night with Froggy Valley 100.1's sound check with Chase and Minnie Hopper.