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From the Roll in Funeral Home Studios, this is Central Pennsylvania's locally programmed country station, Froggy Valley 100.1. Now on the new My Froggy Valley app, powered by Radio Novo and funded by Lebanon Federal Credit Union. 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 WFB5 Lebanon Hershey, Harrisburg, Froggy Valley 100.1.

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Always love hanging out with our Froggy Valley family here on Sunday night. It is Soundcheck. I am Chase.

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Hey y'all, I'm Minnie. Each Sunday night we bring our local, regional, and national rising country musicians right to your living room.

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We're so glad for you to be joining us here on this Sunday night this week. We are getting down with a group that is from Northeast PA, just recently formed back in 2025. They have been growing their sound ever since. Froggy Valley, please welcome the Jace Matthews band to Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. We are gonna talk to them very, very shortly, but let's kick off the show, Minnie. The reason we are here for their music, right?

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I couldn't agree more. Here is the Jace Matthews band with this whiskey on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1.

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Like starstruck lovers in an old film. Chase those dreams ahead, even far away. No one could ever stop us. Who knew death actually had a name? Just up real nice, but brings all the pain. Step by step, but we fell away. I've got that whiskey shame. Girl, I want you, I need you. But this whiskey keeps me from you. When I'm silent, don't try yet to get my way back to you. When you're crying from my lion, not that I never met that for you. Cause I've always loved you, girl. But this whiskey keeps me from you. Thirty-three, you came back from me. Hope that I took care of me. Tried to see the best of me. No, I hid away. A dark spirit that haunted me. That damn thing that made you always wanna leave. Girl, I want to, I need to, but this west gave keeps me from you. Well upside and no one try it to get my way back to you. When you cry at From my lion that I never met that boy, cause I always love to girl. But the twisty keeps me from you. But the twisty keeps me from you. No longer my food gun. I need to for the twenty proud When I'm dying, no try yet. Am I way back to you? When you cry, but I get that I'm never never for you. Cause I'm always love to her. But this whiskey keeps me from you. But this whiskey keeps me from you.

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Whiskey keeps me from you. So we got the Jace Matthews band in the house here at Froggy Valley 100.1 for Soundcheck with Chase and Mini. Drove all the way down from Northeast PA, guys. Thank you so much for being a part of Soundcheck with Chase and Mini. Absolute pleasure to be here. We are so excited. Let's introduce yourselves first before we get any further here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie.

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So my name is Jace, which is going to be fun this entire Chase and Jason. And then we should do a radio show, man. We should, Chase and Jason. Anybody with a lisp is doomed. And then we've got here our uh production engineer. His name is Rick Slick Ord. And I'll let him uh introduce him.

SPEAKER_11 5:21

Yeah, what's up guys? My name is Rick. Uh saying I signed on what about halfway through last year, like the end of last year. And uh I had been friends with uh well at the time Tyler was in the band, Tyler and Cody. Uh for a lot of years. Tyler and Cody played in a band before called the Holton Effect. Uh more of a hard rock band. And uh so I'd known those guys for quite a while. And uh they kind of called me and I was happy to jump on. It's like this is a great way to fill some weekends and have a good time.

SPEAKER_10 5:49

You guys just had your one-year anniversary back in March. Yeah. Talk about the start because I know you you spearheaded this whole project of putting the band together, so talk about that.

SPEAKER_13 5:57

Yeah, I went into full-time music uh October of 24, and uh just go ahead first and started solo gigging anywhere that I possibly could. And uh I'm a band guy at heart, and I've been in bands on and off all throughout my 18-year-old adult life. And so I'd been in uh in another band at the time, and I just really was like, you know what, my heart is for original music. It always has been, I've always been a writer. I just started just piecing some members together, and uh what was really cool is that everybody in the band I either knew or they were friends with another great musician and friend. And so that there was no like, we're starting a band who wants to be part of it. It was literally, hey, I know you, and a sign of treat or anything. Yeah, yeah. So like you know, I asked our guitarist Tyler, you know, Tyler Salleck, and then we were like, man, we need a drummer. He goes, Oh hey, I know a great drummer, and he's also one of my good friends. His name is Cody Sibio, he was our original drummer, and so Cody came on, and so like and that's just how it just built in fairly quickly. We had a full-blown six-piece country band, so we kind of just steamroll from there. Yeah, I mean, we've only been a band for a year, and it feels like it's been five to ten years.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Um put the band together and get the right mix that you were looking for, and what were some of those challenges?

SPEAKER_13 7:26

You know, honestly, out of all the bands that I've put together over the years, this one came together the easiest. I I think part of the part of the reason is we're all older. So we've all been in bands for a long time. And uh so we didn't want to waste any time. You know, there's always the natural challenges of you know, for me especially. I I didn't know everybody well. And uh you know, when you put a band together and then you tell everyone you're you know the captain at the helm and you know, by the way, I write original music, and please please don't hate it. Uh I mean, I I on my end feel just a little reserved, like, oh man, like I hope they believe in this product. And so fortunately, really since day one, um, we've just had tremendous camaraderie uh among the members. Um we we've just developed a sound so quickly that it's very reminiscent of uh 90s country to southern rock. I mean, it's like a perfect fusion in between.

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Fronti Valley 100.1 is bringing you the best local, regional, and national up-and-comers right to your radio every week. This is Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie Hopper.

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People are always chasing brand new things. All the hustle and bustle sure is a nodity. Funny I people miss that little thing called love. Darling with you, I just can't get enough. I don't take shots I sift slow. I don't drive fast down the inner stake no I don't rush folks, just wanna talk. The sense and running we can't walk when it comes down to loving you. Wanna love slow people will always come and go. Yes, that's just all the life that we all know, but I can't bear to miss out on life. Staily loving you as my wife. I don't say shots, cause I sip slow. I don't drive fast down the end of stay No I don't trust folks, just wanna talk. The sense to run and we can't walk when it comes down to loving you. Wanna love slow Wanna love slow Take our time to dedicate Take our time to raise our kids, take our time beautiful to live slow don't take stones cause I sift slow Thou don't drive fast down the interstate No Thou don't rush folks just wanna talk presenting running we can't walk when it comes down to loving you Wanna love slow Noah wanna love slow wanna love slow This is Soundcheck with Jace and Minnie here on Fraggy Valley 100.1 We are joined by part of the Jace Matthews band in studio this week.

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Let's get that original country music y'all have released. Talk about how this song came to be Younger Me.

SPEAKER_13 12:32

Ooh, Younger Me. I uh I'm learning that as I get older, country songs are more and more correct in that the older I get, the less I know. And so younger me is i it is almost a letter to myself. I just think back and and you know to being a kid, uh to high school, to college, and just my twenties, and just just things that were in my mind at the end of the world at that time. In like the first verse I say, like, you know, you're trying to be cool, and you feel like you're just you're the only nerd, but it turns out everyone's just trying to be cool. You know, it's it's funny, but like I talk about like, you know, oh man, you're just I you remember just being depressed about all those breakups, but it's like dude, you're gonna be okay because they were the end of the world, man. And they were the end of the world, yeah. But you're gonna be okay because one day she's gonna be walking down that aisle and you're gonna be like, you know what, I'm really glad that this is where this would end. And so yeah, and so it is it's really just a letter to myself.

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Do you remember all the times you try to be so? You will see all the people you encounter doing the same thing, dear younger me. Dear younger me, I still remember all the times the struggles broke your heart, made you feel surrendered, you will see that past those nights is a beautiful missing I do standing there and watch my head to tell y'all be one thing from the speech up that would change the way me see. I would say about the difference of what matters in the way that things make me younger all those days when you felt like you gone and you always ripped with rain you well like a teaser Lighty still alive, back to life if you face the body. About the difference of what matters, and the way that things make seems to me. Dear younger means when we're old, I think we both find everything we try longer as its voice, though summer changes with our families, little moments we remember shape you and me, dear younger me.

SPEAKER_10 18:22

That was the Jace Matthews Band sound check with Chase and Minnie here on Froggy Valley 100.1. And of course, you can stream us anywhere here in the good old US of A on the My Froggy Valley app. It is all powered by Radio Novo. We are of course sitting down with the Jace Matthews band in the studio this week. You guys had an absolute amazing year of 2025. Talk about the year that was. You opened up for Jimmy Allen, Maddie, and Tay, so many more. You just celebrated your one year together in March. How awesome of a rookie year was it for you guys?

SPEAKER_13 18:54

It doesn't feel like a rookie year. Right. Like uh that's a good way to put it. Um when I when I when people ask, like, you know, what did you do in your first year? And the list just kind of keeps going on. We're like, oh my gosh, that was like a year for it. Um for us, it has been the most incredible rookie year that we could have asked for.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Who is your favorite musician so far to open up for?

SPEAKER_13 19:18

Maddie and Tay was it was a pretty fun night. Yeah. They're just incredible artists. And we had a great time, so we played uh the pre-show party um at the theater there. And so um before everyone went into uh the uh the concert, we had this hour full hour long set and just impact I mean it was just it was a blast. And so just to be able to have that time with with our fans and new fans, and then everyone just goes into this Maddie and Tay concert and they're I mean to play on their last tour was really was really cool because they're just phenomenal artists.

SPEAKER_11 19:52

And then also that night too, I mean, that was the Sherman Theater in Strasbourg, and uh just to have all the the new owners of the Sherman Theater coming in afterwards and all the new management going, oh wow, that was really, really good. And when we saw you roll in with all this gear, we were worried about what was gonna happen here. But no, for them to all come in and like individually seek out people that they recognized from either being on stage or being around and say, Hey, you guys killed it. This was a great time. We're so happy we can't wait to have you back was really sick to hear.

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Wondering if I'm gonna make it watch it again. The girl from last night I was to take it if you come back with me. Zero kid, zero check, zero, non separate, seven back here again, so you lost that just takes me on some of you Noah Ohia Zero Kala Pero check you say that you say that we're sick Is it okay if I love you? Is it okay if I stay? Is it okay if I take my rough rebel heart and come sit over there? Can you say that you like me? Can you say that you're care? I got a feeling that this is right. Sit okay, I don't make you die. Can you say that you love me? Can you say that's okay? Got a feeling that this is right.

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It is sound check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app, powered by Radio Novo. That was the Jace Matthews band with Is It Okay. How did that song come to be?

SPEAKER_13 27:26

That song, it it started as it's funny sitting in these and playing in these bars every night. So I just watch a lot of uh relationships. People watching it's gotta be fun in those places. Oh, I love it. I hear every I tell people I hear everything and I see everything. Um and so I w I watch just things happen in bars. And so I I originally thought of this song just as a uh as a list of questions that the guys are saying in their head that they want to ask to the girl, but they don't. So I you know, I'll joke that it's like like you know, like guys just get out there, just go ask the questions. And so that's why the chorus is is it okay? If I love you, is it okay if I care? Is it okay if I come sit over here? It's just it's literally supposed to just be this this scenario in a bar where the guy finally just asks everything that he's thinking, hoping that she says, Yeah, I'm interested in y'all and you should come sit over here. And so that's where that was. It's almost like a TV show. It is, it is.

SPEAKER_11 28:30

And the goal of the people watching too is uh, you know, especially for me being kind of behind the scenes, is to not be the person being watched, to go and have fun, but not also be part of the, you know, not be the watchy. The watch-ee. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

When you first formed the band a little over a year ago, what was your initial goal?

SPEAKER_13 28:50

I uh the guys this one could have a good story coming up. The guys continually give me uh give me a little crap for this because uh I told them, oh no, no, no. The goal, like if we get one or two shows a month, this is gonna be great. Um, I'll be happy. And and like, and really, that's what we're booking Thursday. That's what I was. And then and then like the band got together, and we were like, oh man, this is really good. Um need to expand a little bit. Yeah, then we started getting calls, and then I mean, and then like it was funny, like we all got in kind of this place where we were like, let's book more, let's book more, and so I was calling, and then we ended up getting um some pretty major management out of Syracuse, New York. They're called Grace Musicians Management Group, um, and that's Brian Fagan who heads that off. And uh he's been great, and then he was like, Well, I can get you into New York, I can get you into festival, and so it's like cool. A year later, we're like, uh, we have I think eight shows in August or July, you know, and like so they uh they tease me on that, that uh it's not just one or two shows.

SPEAKER_10 30:05

You guys have have steamrolled through this country music scene here in PA and up and down the northeast as well. Yeah. So fast. You've made quite the following, not only on social media, but also with all of your music, the streams that you guys have as well. We're gonna get to your new album that you guys just released here in just a little bit, too. But also just talk about the mix that you guys have. You have a new drummer now, yeah. Chad's in the mix. Cody, who you guys call the OG, is no longer with you guys. Just talk about some of your band members that are not here uh tonight, those guys and what they do behind the scenes with you guys too.

SPEAKER_13 30:35

Yeah, so on the drummer side of things, so we have Chad and he just came on board. Uh he's awesome. He's been he's actually good friends here with Rick and then our lead guitarist Tyler. Um Cody uh took an awesome job opportunity, um, but it's just gonna call for a little bit more traveling unexpectedly, which isn't as conducive to our schedule right now. But he is actually still gonna be playing a few shows this year that Chad's unable to do. Honestly, he showed up and grabbed the sticks for the show. Yeah, he did, he showed up the other night. So then Cody said, oh, he was our original drummer. We have our pedal steel player, and uh I always joke on I mean, it's not really a joke, it's just reality, but uh on shows that he is the man of every instrument. So he's pedal steel, he does fly guitar, banjo, but he also can play Dobro, wicked just electric player in general. I mean just the guy's an an animal on anything he touches. Um he's very much so a core of that country sound. On the other side of that country sound is our fiddle player, Brendan Lesavage. Um he is one of the most brilliant, talented, charismatic individuals you'll ever meet. Um excellent fiddle player, and then we have Tyler Salek, who's our lead guitar player. Um he also sings background vocals as well. And then um we have Jasper Picciotti, he is our bassist, who also is a monster harmonica player. Um and then we've got Rick here, and then myself. I play acoustic, electric, piano, trumpet on one song.

SPEAKER_12 35:57

Get ready for it! Sound check 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.

SPEAKER_00 36:23

Woo! It is that time of the show where we give you three random questions and see how y'all react with Minnie's hopping good time. Alright, here we go with the first question. What is your favorite amusement park?

SPEAKER_13 36:37

Ooh.

SPEAKER_11 36:39

Yeah, I gotta say that. I had a feeling they were gonna say that. Yep, I had a feeling it's great. Not to pander to the area, but Kennobles does kind of roll.

SPEAKER_13 36:46

It's the best one. I've lived in the West Coast of the Midwest now on the east, like it's the best one.

SPEAKER_11 36:53

The haunted house is top-notch. It's so fantastic. Yeah. I'm 31 years old, it still scares me to go through the haunted haunted house and the rib sandwiches.

SPEAKER_10 37:01

You have the rib sandwiches up there? I have. Oh my gosh, they are right by the haunted house, right out in front of the haunted house. You gotta try the rib sandwiches. It is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

How about the apple cider slushies?

SPEAKER_10 37:14

And the waffles and ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

Our second question if you could party with one country musician, who would it be?

SPEAKER_13 37:23

Oh, dumb. Dom. I'm gonna have I don't know if I want to hang out or party, because those are two different things in my mind. Can I can I give two? I'd want to hang out. I'd want to party with a newer artist named Braxton Keith just because I'm obsessed with his music right now. But I'd want to hang out with Tim McGraw because that's my favorite country artist.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

And our third and final question as a kid, what was your favorite cartoon or TV show?

SPEAKER_13 37:50

Ooh, that's a time. As a kid, I was Spongebob.

SPEAKER_11 37:58

Or um Hey Arnold. Hey Arnold was great. How about fairly odd parents? I was hit.

SPEAKER_13 38:03

I was hitting this with it.

SPEAKER_11 38:05

Yeah, I love the fairly odd parents.

SPEAKER_10 38:06

That was a great one. Of course, we were joined by the Jace Matthews band right here in studio. Just tuning in here on a Sunday night. We appreciate you being aboard. You guys have a big, big 2026 planned here as far as shows where you're gonna be playing. You're also gonna be playing, we we kind of mentioned this before we got on air, Country Night up at the Scrant Wilkesbury Railriders baseball game. You're also gonna be playing with alongside Miggs, who we had on the show last week, at the River Wave Country Music Festival. That was just yesterday. So talk about all the events that you guys have planned here in 2026, a lot of big events.

SPEAKER_13 38:40

Yeah, um there's this shift that I think is happening this summer where we've been playing a lot of the um more regional bars and smaller clubs, and as of this summer, we're moving up into theaters, casinos, festivals. So it's that next tier of performances and shows that uh that a band experiences. Um so I mean, we're gonna be playing at a huge campground called Sunny Hill in New York. Uh playing two or three different casinos through New York. Um we're gonna be playing uh Wally Fest at Lake Wall and Paul Pack and headlining that this year as far as we got.

SPEAKER_11 39:19

I know we've got two days at Wally Fest. We're doing that whole weekend. I think we've got to be a little bit more than a lot of Wally Fest on that weekend.

SPEAKER_13 39:25

We're just we're traveling more, uh, we're just reaching farther out into PA, New York. Um our next goal is to start tapping into New Jersey, um, start getting on the shore there.

SPEAKER_11 39:36

I told them if we could stay at the Jersey Shorehouse, I'd give up my pay for the weekend.

SPEAKER_10 39:40

You are a Jersey Shore guy, huh?

SPEAKER_11 39:42

Oh, I hate to admit it, but yeah, trash TV rules. We'll have to edit that out right there.

SPEAKER_10 39:46

No, no worries, no worries at all. Now, when you guys play some of these bigger shows that you're gonna be playing at, how do you guys adapt from going from like the small clubs, the bars now to those bigger events?

SPEAKER_13 39:56

Well, we're a little bit ridiculous on the smaller places. So the the philosophy is do the whole shebang in the smaller place so you're ready for the bigger place. Um so for every show, we roll in our full production lighting sound, um, and uh we put on our full show every single night. Three hours, and so that way when we get to the bigger places, really the only difference is there's just a lot more people. A lot more room for you guys. A lot more room for me to move. Um it's been really cool to play to more people, and we're just not shaken by it. Just because we're used to the bigger sound, we're used to our 19,000 instruments, um, you know, we're used to I mean we play three hours every show. And uh I actually love when we play like a 45 minute set.

SPEAKER_11 40:52

It feels like nothing. Right. See, that's so weird because I'm always like, oh, what do I do for the rest of my day? I'm not gonna pack somehow, I gotta find somewhere to go hang out.

SPEAKER_13 41:00

Yeah. So I mean it's been uh, you know, the adjustment will definitely be as once we start getting into more major venues, the adjustment will be using those larger systems and working with house crews as well as other band crews and just all that goes with that. But we're all experienced too. We've done it, we've done this for a long time each. Um, so that I think the collective experience really just helps us navigate those waters. The show is the show.

SPEAKER_09 41:27

It is, yeah.

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SPEAKER_04 41:45

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SPEAKER_05 42:03

We're definitely gonna be late to the concert. I feel like we should be there by now.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

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SPEAKER_09 43:03

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

SPEAKER_02 43:24

I hate when people ask me where I'm from Cause the honest truth is here and there than some When they ask me where I wanna be, my only part is Are you holding me? Because I'm a traveling man with no home I keep a running hard watch, face and fate, with nowhere else to go, and you love totally.

SPEAKER_10 44:00

Travelin' many books that I'll buy the door travelin' man After I had the thought to settle down But I got all hot up in the win and how me all the troubling out of the way from me I'm a travel and man with no I keep a running hard while stays in the face nowhere else to go any trouble and man Only be footstep by the door to come right home and travelin' man for the full and winning up on whip on make me too far down Cause I'm a trouble and whip no man I'll leave you foot down by the door bring all this double man what a Sunday night it has been here with the Jace Matthews band they're joining us here in studio of course on Soundcheck with Chase and Mini on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app download it today you can stream us anywhere here in the good old US of A. It's all brought to you by of course Radio Novo. Gotta ask you guys, it's always a great question to any musician that we bring in. What's the ultimate goal here three to five years down the road?

SPEAKER_13 46:22

Oh man, I would love if we are on the road, if we are standing side by side with friends of national acts. Um I I would love if if that that was our future. So that's the goal to make this like the real deal, the big thing. I think we've got a shot at it with especially just the amount of momentum we've already had. I think there's some really awesome things on our horizon. And uh our goal is just to uh stay humble, stay kind, and stay professional and keep moving forward and all this.

SPEAKER_10 46:52

Uh now you guys have played a lot of places, gonna be playing a lot of bigger places as well. Any crazy stories of fan interaction or just within the band stories, there's gotta be some.

SPEAKER_13 47:02

We we've got I love it. Um here's the thing about it.

SPEAKER_10 47:07

Now keep it G-rated though. Yeah, here's the thing about it.

SPEAKER_13 47:09

No, country fans are the most devoted fans, I think, on the face. Next to rock fans. I think between the there we were talking, there's a lot of similarities between the the genres.

SPEAKER_11 47:18

They're just for shows, I mean, fan-wise, and then also, you know, we were talking before about how, you know, telling a story and like the fans feeling like they know you on stage and stuff like that. And I feel like that's somewhere where like especially like newer rock music and country music kind of go hand in hand, you know, where maybe some other genres, like if I go see Kanye West, I used I'm not expecting to like hear him tell stories and get to know, you know, Hammer J C on stage, whereas like if I go see whatever Garth Brooks or, you know, what Hardy or somebody like that, you know part of that show is gonna be a storytelling thing and they're gonna be there's more to it than just going up playing their set list and I think the funniest thing though, and my favorite thing, is the dance moves.

SPEAKER_13 47:58

Oh, I think it's to the to the point where we've actually been making a uh a very long reel that we will publish at the end of the year, just something along the lines of like the the J and B dancers, and it's just all the most out there going for it. Just 110% dancers that are at our shows. And it is.

SPEAKER_11 48:21

So I'm not sure you know this, but there's also one of just your dance moves going around.

SPEAKER_13 48:25

Uh-oh. I've seen part of this. I uh we gotta see those. Don't worry. I've been told that I have been filmed many times just mid-conversation, just randomly just dancing around. So those could get more streams than the fans are.

SPEAKER_10 48:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 48:41

Yeah, it's gonna be quite quite the uh I'm gonna share it more, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_10 48:46

So what's so when you guys are in um I'm sure you guys sign autographs, do all the things after the show. What's the oddest thing that you guys have have signed so far? Anything bizarre?

SPEAKER_13 48:57

No. Wow. I somehow have not gotten anything weird. It's been it's been shirts, a lot of shirts. The weirdest thing is like when people are like, they're like, sign like the shirt that I'm wearing, and it's and it's just like another band. And you're like, you're like, okay. Yeah, sign this Rolling Stone shirt. Yeah. But no, like no foreheads, no mannequins. Uh, you know, nothing.

SPEAKER_11 49:18

When I was thinking weird, those are not the two things I said about.

SPEAKER_10 49:22

I wasn't thinking that either, Rick. I was going to other places. I had a couple ideas. I'm keeping it for radio, okay.

SPEAKER_09 49:28

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

SPEAKER_02 49:55

Honey I've been burning. Somebody came and still run a lot. But I told you one day I'd have to go. If there's any consolation I will have to fly in the company, consolation I will come back and calling my heart in that county. Up there, back and boo. Oh there, back and foo.

SPEAKER_10 53:18

Now you guys just released your debut album, Gone Country. Talk about that album, the process of putting that whole album together, picking the songs that you chose to go on that album as well.

SPEAKER_13 53:27

Yeah, so we uh that came out um last summer, and uh it was recorded by a good buddy of mine. His name is John Rajinski, and his uh studio called Papa Bear Studio. It's over in the uh Derrier area. This uh this album was really kind of like the first wave of getting into not only the just the country music scene, but just really establishing the sound. Um I had actually it was interesting, I had started recording this album by myself. The development and idea for the band came about halfway through. I introduced this music, and we still play all of these songs every night. And to see how they have morphed as we as a band have developed more of our identity and our sound. At the same time, they really haven't drifted far away from from these recordings, and so I'm a storyteller at heart, and so each one it you know, I was very intentional about what do I want to share, what do I, you know, what do I want want to convey to people, I like to move people, I like to share what I believe about something, and and so each song comes just from a different aspect of life.

SPEAKER_00 54:41

How would you guys describe success and what does that look like for you guys as an independent musician slash a whole group?

SPEAKER_13 54:49

The temptation is always to say numbers, but but I really think it's it's when um you begin to develop uh a following that turns into a community. And we've really got that already. Where every show um I mean we're just we're just filling places um with faces that we know and have come to know well. And then just new people. Like even this last week at our show um at the lounge, I mean we had tons of people that came said that they came out for the band. I didn't know 75% of them. Um and the place was packed all night long. And so it's you know, just uh I I think when you see that community come into fruition, I mean, because that's what it's all about. It's about us sharing our music, our sound, our message with people, seeing them relate to it and enjoy it, and and then you know, what's awesome is that fans give back to us. They give us their support.

SPEAKER_11 55:54

We we see how they, you know, might be impacted by a song in a certain way, or um and even in small places, it's fun to have, you know, it's fun to have that following because there was a few times where we've gone into the bars where Jason said to me before, like, man, we're trying to fit a six-piece band into this little tiny bar and like what are we gonna do? But if those people are there to see the band, they have literally zero option except for to be right on top of the band. So it m kinda without forcing people, it like it kind of pushes for that energy because you know, you've got no choice but to be really, really involved because you're not gonna be able to hear yourself because you're so close to the band. So you're either there for it or you're not.

SPEAKER_00 56:39

It is that time of the show where we turn our musicians into radio disc jockeys, just like the WKRP in Cincinnati days. We think you're ready to take this new gig. We are going to have the musicians announce their top three mainstream country songs. Alright, guys, let's start off with what is song number three by you guys.

SPEAKER_13 56:59

Alright, we're gonna turn on our preacher voice here. Here we go. Number three is Dirk Bentley with What Was I Thinking? We picked this song because it's just a good song about a guy and a girl running off and trying to find a little love. What's song number two there, guys? Number two is George Strait with Here for a Good Time. And uh, well, as the title says, that's our hope every night to just roll in and give everyone a real good time. And song number one, we gotta do the number. Number one is a song we play every night, Tim McGraw's. I like it. I love it, because summer's coming, and there's no better song I think that describes than going out to that good old county fair and finding the girl you love.

SPEAKER_00 57:42

Summer.

SPEAKER_13 57:43

Summer.

SPEAKER_10 57:44

Gotta love summer and you gotta love Tim McGraw.

SPEAKER_00 57:46

What a night, guys. Great to have the two of you in studio Froggy Valley. That was the Jace Matthews band on Sound Check with Jace and Minnie.

SPEAKER_10 57:54

And a huge thank you goes out to, of course, Wurtz Candies in downtown Lebanon, right across from Hack, supplying our musicians with those munchies to take home. That unbelievable caramel corn. You guys, I'll tell you what, I I gotta hear your reaction once you dive into that caramel corn. It has taken everything in me to not be this entire interview. You gotta check out Wertz Candies on Facebook. Most importantly, check them out. They're on Cumberland Street right here in downtown 11 Town. Chase Minnie sent you. Uh next week, we're gonna introduce you to a musician right here in Central PA. Began singing, songwriting as a hobby, but now he has taken that full circle and into a passion for country music. We will have Willoughby Hayes next Sunday here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie here on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app. A big thank you goes out to, of course, the Jace Matthews band here tonight. You guys were absolutely incredible. Thanks for making the trek down here to our Froggy Valley studios. We really appreciate this, guys.

SPEAKER_13 58:47

We appreciate what you guys are doing. Thank you for having us and for supporting uh artists all over.

SPEAKER_10 58:51

Minnie, we're gonna wrap up another show. Let's come to an end. You know how we do this. It ain't country music.

SPEAKER_00 58:57

Unless it's homegrown country music. Thanks for hanging out with us and have a great week, y'all. And we'll see you next Sunday right here on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app powered by Radio Novo.

SPEAKER_09 59:10

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 Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie Hopper.