Soundcheck with Chase and Mini with Cody Tyler! 6-24-26

Check out a Central PA musician that is from Shillington, PA that plays that red dirt country music, but in this case being in PA - that black dirt country music!  He has a unique voice here in Central PA and certainly is a rising musician.  Check out the latest episode with Cody Tyler, hear his story and his music right now! 

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

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

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Welcome to another Sunday night of bringing our rising country musicians right to your living room. I am Chase.

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Hey y'all, I'm Minnie.

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Tonight we have a special guest in studio, a musician that really sets him apart from the pack with his sound and his unbelievable voice.

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His sound could be described as red dirt country, but the soil here in Pennsylvania is a little darker. So he calls it that black dirt country music. He is from Shillington, PA, in the Appalachian foothills of PA. So he knows a thing or two about country music.

SPEAKER_07 0:50

Yeah, he certainly does. We're gonna sit down and talk with Cody Tyler. His music, his story, it is all coming up tonight. Grab those refreshments, and we're gonna kick off soundcheck with Cody Tyler and Hartworth's Ferry on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app, all powered by Radio Novo.

SPEAKER_06 1:07

Always been the kind of man who wants to see things stay the same. But baby Aura, welcome to Lately I've been working more than I've been home. I know you get second tells not so long. So let's get going. Harbers fairies come here back then, let's tear out the dry. Snap away tomorrow. Can't waste a whole lot of story. Let's get out and live while we're still alive. Let's go out and live while we still alive. You're the girl that needs to roll it twist and whatever. Who knows the time to run is overdue? So let's get going. Arbus fairy's calling back then, let's tear out the drive. I won't wait for tomorrow. Can't waste a whole lot of story. Let's get out and live while we still lie. Let's get out and live while we still alive. Let's dial it on back to a simple time. Like children down. Let us collapse. Let's get going. Harvest fairy scrolling. Back away and let's get out of that try. Won't wait for the number. Can waste a whole lot of scoring. Let's get out and live while we're still alive. No, we can't fall back in love, baby, if we don't try. Let's get out and live while we still alive. While we're still alive.

SPEAKER_07 4:34

That was Cody Tyler with Harper's Ferry here on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie here on Froggy Valley 100.1. And of course at My Froggy Valley app powered by Radio Novo. You can stream us anywhere here in the world. Just download the app today. And look who we have in the studio with us here tonight, the one and only Cody Tyler. So awesome to be chatting with you again, man. Talking music with you. Thanks for being a part of the Soundcheck fam.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

Thank you both so much for having me. This is awesome.

SPEAKER_07 4:59

Yeah, this is so exciting to actually have you in studio. It's been a couple of months that we've discussed anything. And it's also nice to have a fellow Eagles and Phillies fan in studio for once, man. That's right. So I think, you know, since we're all Eagles fans, I think we need to kick this off the right way tonight on Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie. You know how we do it as Eagles fans, right? Oh, yeah. You guys ready to do this? Let's do it. Alright, here we go. Eagles! Sorry, Cowboys and Steelers fans. I feel so much better though. Starting to show off that way. I gotta tell you. Oh yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 5:32

So much to catch up on since the last time we spoke here, Cody. Your latest album, Tusk Aurora, it's still fresh on folks' minds. Just a well-produced album from beginning to end. We know you have new music coming out here soon. We're gonna tackle that here in a little bit. But take us back to the early days of Cody Tyler, where the fire came from, the passion came from to play that amazing music you have out. Your dad had a huge impact on what you're doing now.

SPEAKER_04 5:53

Yeah, my dad definitely. Um he was a truck driver, and being a truck driver, you get to hear a lot of songs about the highway, and naturally that just seems to be a lot of outlaw country music. So um I grew up, he had a an old pickup truck, it was just a six hundred dollar junker that he got. It was a 68 Chevy, it was white, had no seat belts in it. I can't believe my mom let him take me on rides in it. Uh roll-down windows, and yeah, just a bench seat across, and uh there were no CDs in it. It was a cassette player, so we would go to Best Buy and get CDs, and then he had some kind of a stereo system at home that he would put the CD in and burn it to a tape, and then the tape would go in the truck. And we had two tapes in there that were country that I can remember, and that was Hank Jr.'s greatest hits and uh Kenny Chesney's greatest hits, the first volume, which was before he started doing some of the beachy stuff. It was more like Kentucky Kenny. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like it.

SPEAKER_09 6:46

Talk about that style of music that you play. You describe it as black dirt country music, really a unique style of music here in Central PA.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

Oh yeah, absolutely. So in my college years, I was listening to country music that wasn't, you know, it didn't have that pop influence from it. It was more influenced by the Texas and Oklahoma style, and they call that red dirt down there. You know, bands like Turnpike Tribidors, um, Cody Jinx, guys like that. And I realized that up here, you know, we don't really have red dirt, but we actually have some of the most fertile dirt in the world, especially around Lancaster County, which is where I went to college at, and kind of influenced my coming back to country music after years of being a rock and roller, and I realized, you know, that's some of the most fertile dirt around, so it's not gonna be red, it's it's pretty much black in some spots. So I thought black dirt country, because we're north of the Mason Dixon, and we're uh kind of up. I've got family from the coal regions too, so some of it turns black from that.

SPEAKER_07 7:42

It fits well here in PA, it certainly does. You also have a band behind you, the Gypsy Convoy. Last time we discussed, you had to some change some things up in the band a couple months back. How are things now with the boys and and you and that new mix that you guys have?

SPEAKER_04 7:55

It's great. We actually dropped the the Gypsy Convoy part of the name. The guys wanted to just go with Cody Tyler. They thought it was simpler, I felt it was simpler, and uh, we put my last album out under just Cody Tyler, and it was kind of a solo thing. I didn't have a band with me for that, I just uh hired some awesome musicians to play on that. And um it's a lot easier, you know, when you're playing at a venue and people are good and you know, partied up and they go, What's your name again? And you just tell them it's Cody Tyler, and that's a lot easier for somebody that's been partying all night to type into Spotify than Cody Tyler and the Gypsy Convoy. So we're just we're making it simple, putting it all all the music's gonna come out under 110 now.

SPEAKER_07 8:32

So that would be fun to see though when people get all ripped up at the bar or a restaurant or a club and they try to pronounce the gypsy convoy part after. That'd that would be pretty entertaining.

SPEAKER_04 8:42

Yeah, and our and our last logo is kind of hard for some people to read. Like people would like come up and squint at the drum head and be like Odie Tyrone and and be like an exam.

SPEAKER_07 8:57

That's funny.

SPEAKER_04 8:57

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_07 8:58

How's it mixed now though with the guys that you have in the band?

SPEAKER_04 9:00

Oh, it's it's fantastic. Um our drummer Gavin Orth is just the most laid-back and rock steady guy that I've ever played with. Um our bass player Sean Gron is uh another chill and laid-back guy, and just like the perfect uh description of what you would think a country bass player would be, even though they all know multiple genres and they can play in they they they can form their own band and play in a totally different genre. They could play jazz if they all wanted to. Um but yeah, Sean's like so laid back and cool. We call him the Pink Panther. Um one of our friends uh that comes to see us at the winter circle up in Grantville quite a bit, he sort of came up with that and it just kind of stuck. So Sean's the Pink Panther, and then Rafe Groves, our lead guitar player, is just a monster. The the guy he's only 20 years old and he can play jazz, he can play bluegrass, he's in a metal band that just won a competition out in the sturges. They're gonna go out and play the Buffalo Chip during bike week. Uh they're gonna open for somebody huge out there. Um congrats again to his band. They're called New Damage. Check them out if you're into some heavier stuff too, from time to time. And then uh on Pedal Steel, we have uh Jake Meish, who is uh a great singer, songwriter, performer in his own right. But uh he got a pedal steel and told me, you know, I don't have this just to play in my basement, I want to play some gigs, so let me in. And I was like, say no more, man. We we need a pedal steel guy. So when we can we can afford to have a five-man band, we bring him out for some of those shows too. And we've got a few coming this summer, it's gonna be great.

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This is Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie Hopper He said you deserve better than this as the fist lips on my head. Every day it's the same old story, but a swamp on bread Rush's head along in a hill fast forget the victory and the glory. We crossed this mountain back, our enemies were scary. Never smelled that bond through all the smoke Fall and we struggle to stay afloat. It's just a job at the end of the day, it's what I've always done. Just so when the pain I can pull it in a gun. Was my duty to hit the gold, charge the fire on your cue? Laugh should lie, you should fall, I'll be here at by you Send us home together to a new kind of war. Never knew we'd have to weather a different kind of snow Long night you'd wake up crying in my best to comfort you. Family didn't see you suffer somehow. I just knew Toe to toe with the devil you fought those sleepless nights, trying to screamin' like a rabble, wish I had more park to back. You tried to self-made a cake, you just tried to read to whiskey cake kill up since that it was only me to show you I use rank confusion when I won. I cried when they're you need hell It's just a job at the end of the day, it's what I'm born to do. I found out today's the day when your tore on earth is new. It's my duty to heat the cold, charge the fire on your cue. Life's in life. Now you fallin' in a layer up by you. Let you right by you. Got us a bowl ladder in my woolrid shirt And I wanna hip high blacker than the dirt. It's good to feel my boots on this cabin floor Hear the screech of an old screen door Thing ahead of the water and clear my head If it ain't here, don't let me wind up dead Billy's waiting down there with a coffee cup Sitting on the bank and we'll laugh one up Down the creek It's two old buddies laughing down the creek Just all friends feminine sale like a tree We don't need a little root raid in Sun Don't you bother me till my healings done Bill is behind on his child's poor Says pay him up before they haul his ass to go Tell me I got nothing on my list Don't think it's gonna get no better than it's down the creek it's two old buddies laughing down the creek Just old friends reminisce in Black Tree Wean a little red rain and sun don't you bother me till my him lens done Let's go down the creek Just a fan out of my right here phone only if it's a herd of deer We leave tomorrow in the hunts for guns Will I meet in the prison for the weekend Down the creek There's two old buddies a lap here Down the creek Just old friends were eminents here like a tree Y'all need a little refrain sun Don't you bother me to my inland stuff We are joined by Black Dirk Country musician Cody Tyler in studio here on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley Avenue.

SPEAKER_09 18:16

The summertime season is pretty much here. Always an awesome time for festivals and music outside. Is the summer when you really kind of ramp up everything musically, knowing that folks are maybe more in tune to hearing our local talent?

SPEAKER_04 18:31

Absolutely. We've got over 30 shows coming up this year. Um I've got a lot of solo shows and band shows as well. And we've got a stretch in August where we've got seven shows in eight days or something like that. It's just crazy. But yeah, we uh we definitely ramp up the shows. I do take a little bit of a break in July, I go on vacation up to a lake in Vermont, but I still play some shows solo while I'm up there because I just I can't seem to take a break. I just love to play.

SPEAKER_07 18:58

You certainly have one of those distinct voices here in Central PA, Cody, too. You really, really do. How would you define the red dirt sound or in this case the black dirt sound, and as always listening to mainstream country music? How would you compare the two?

SPEAKER_04 19:10

So it's just a little rough around the edges, you know. There's um it's not just a country music influence, there's influences of bluegrass in our style, there's influences of southern rock, and even when you get down to our guitar player wraith, you know, there's some of that metal influence as well. But at the end of the day, it's still got that twang, and when I open my mouth and sing, it's just country. It always has been. Even when I was, you know, 12, 14 years old, just trying to learn how to sing, because I was a guitar player first, and but when I was trying to sing, I always found that my voice was the most adapted to singing country music. So no matter how the music sounds and where we're at sonically, when I open my mouth, it's it's gonna end up being country one way or the other. But I I like the the approach that we have to it being a little rough around the edges and there being a little bit more grit there. Um and we never do any sampling or snaps, claps, pops, you know, that you hear in some of the poppier stuff. So it's I'd say that to describe it, it's a combination of that country sound, but also there's a grit and a rough around the edges kind of kind of thing to it.

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SPEAKER_04 26:47

Alright so this next song's called Betting It All. I wrote this song for my dad. Um I was on the road in Western Virginia one night and we had stopped at a motel and the motel was sitting on a hill up above a truck stop. I was listening to those trucks down there and how loud it was and I thought man how can anybody sleep you know in a truck stop like that with all that noise and commotion going on and it just uh I was overcome with emotion because my dad drove a truck for over twenty years and he did it on the road for probably a good ten to fifteen just to try to provide for our family and make it so that my brother and I could go to college and uh I took his advice and you know he said don't go on the road like me go to college so I did and then when I got out of college I decided I wanted to be a touring musician. So this song is kind of like a a like father like son song but it was uh inspired by me recognizing that the life of a traveling musician is pretty similar to the life of a truck driver. Just a couple differences in uh what you're hauling and what you do when you get where you're going. It's coming on the next record.

SPEAKER_07 28:08

Should have known I'd end up just like you be on the lights staging a different view here we keep on building down the road traveling man ramping sun in the radio I spend my nights more stone tryna catch some wings on this sleeper cat in the morning that's all she wrote down a race and steaks and hit the road wasn't born again but I lay it down on alone Son of a ramblin man and bitten it all on a highway in the song in the song the black top out useful crooks and dirty things when you're out here total tough to make the greatest things in the beach you up and hold it down try to take you for a ride full you in the air and a test crown but the foot takes it in stride wasn't born again but I'll leave it down on that alone so ramblin' main and betting it all on a highway in a stone in a stone my strip city is telling me to quit today but the man in me is telling me join someday just take it on my head a time and one or after that for you know you an old dog the same as you road man wasn't born again man but I'll lay it down on alone son of a rambling man in bedin' it all wasn't born again man but lay it down on alone Son of a rambling man in bedin' it all on a highway in a song and a song we have a special guest in studio Cody Tyler is in the house here talking all about his music his story the red dirt country music scene really deep rooted down in Oklahoma down in Texas how much has that growing up here in Pennsylvania really influenced your storytelling and also the musical style versus some of the stuff down in Oklahoma and Texas too.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

So when I was in college I would say it was around my junior year um I was living in uh Lampeder just outside of Lancaster and I was listening to Chris Stapleton very early on before he blew up on the award show with Justin Timberlake doing Tennessee whiskey. I was a huge fan of his album I was a huge fan of his songwriting style because he had written hits for so many other people you know everybody from Adele to Luke Bryan and I really loved his stuff and I got into Sturgil Simpson and Cody Jinx and Whitey Morgan right around the same time, Coulter Wall, a lot of these songwriters that are from you know the Texas area or the Oklahoma area and it sort of changed the way that I looked at country music to where songs that I wrote it didn't all have to be about a girl on a back road sitting on a tailgate of a truck sipping a light beer and you know wearing a sundress and you know I I could write about more than just that because these guys were doing it and it was resonating with people. So it it encouraged me to open my mind and to write about what I know and not pretend to be you know party boy party all the time on a back road with a bonfire and a tailgate, you know. So it encouraged me to look it encouraged me to look outside of that and that I could be confident in writing about what I know and things that happen to me and you could still do it somehow. You know, even if you don't get play um in the popular spaces the just like these guys, you could still make it happen just by toreing your butt off like crazy and playing everywhere you can and that's what I've been doing for the last several years. And you gotta sing what's in your heart. Of all fan bases, country fans can smell inauthenticity from a mile away and you've gotta be authentic. If it's not in your heart like you said, they're not gonna buy it and it's not gonna work out you know and plus my wife told me the other day because I was talking to her and I was like you know somebody told me the other day that if this next album doesn't go the way you want it to you should think about selling out and my wife's like are you kidding you couldn't you couldn't sell out even if you tried because it would be written all over your face that you're not into it. And she's like you need to just keep doing what you're doing and eventually something's gonna stick because she's like even if you tried to sell out like you you wouldn't even be able to fake your way through that because you're she's like you can't be a fake person.

SPEAKER_09 34:46

She's like you wear your feelings on your face and on your sleeve like there's no way you could even try to sell out all right let's change it up here and get into some fun stuff hit that jingle get ready for it sound check with Chase and Minnie it's Minnie's hopping good time we're asking your favorite stars three questions totally random every time so get ready to jump on in for minis hopping good time on Froggy Valley 100.1 Froggy Valley Woo Indeed it is that time of the show where we turn the tide on the musician and give them three totally random questions on Minnie's hopping good time.

SPEAKER_07 35:35

Question number one Wait a minute wait a minute before we go any further that was here uh with Will and be I I gotta I gotta get Cody ready for this before you go into your your spiel here. He should be ready he looks ready but I'm not sure he's 100% ready. So Cody all I gotta say to you is like I've said everybody else I love I love these like I'm I'm intrigued.

SPEAKER_09 36:00

Question number one what is your favorite thing to do outdoors?

SPEAKER_04 36:04

Ooh that's a good question. Man I can I can go so many ways. Hunting I like hunting deer hunting or turkey hunting either one um I'm partial to turkey hunting because it involves you playing an instrument that instrument being a turkey call and you have to outsmart the animal that you're hunting with the instrument. So being a musician I would say turkey hunting. I don't get to do it a lot anymore though because spring turkey season is in May and that's usually when we get busy with shows. So it's been a number of years since I've been able to do it but I would love to be able to get this operation to a point where we only have tour like a couple months out of the year and I can have my maze off and then go out and chase after some turkeys again. So are you saying the turkey outsmarts you more times than than you outsmarting the dog? Absolutely even the best turkey hunters in the world get outsmarted more often than not.

SPEAKER_09 36:50

Question number two what was your very first job that you had and how long did you stay at that job?

SPEAKER_04 36:56

Oh man So my first job was working at a sandwich shop and uh I made Italian toogies and cheesesteaks and fried food and I lasted geez let me see a little over a year maybe a year and a half until I went and got my favorite job as a teenager working at a go-kart track on the ball that was a cool job. But yeah yeah I I learned the right way to make a cheesesteak at that job. That's the one thing I was able to take away from that and I've I've been a sandwich connoisseur ever since he's a cheesesteak guy.

SPEAKER_09 37:30

We love our cheesesteaks a two part question.

SPEAKER_04 37:39

So the first part the 90s was known for the boy band era if you were to pick one of the boy bands of the 90s which one would you want to be in no hesitation in sync that was my favorite my first CD I ever owned for my CD Walkman amazing myself there a little bit was in sync no strings attached so I like in sync and no voice to men, Black Street O Town New Kids on the block back in the day. I was born listen I was I was a I'm a younger millennial borderline Gen Z being born in 94 my little brother was born in 99 so that means I trend a little more towards Gen Z, but I'm really a millennial so yeah InSync was all the rage when I was in first grade around like 2001 2002 and that's that's what I was into you know I I saw something in Justin Timberlake before he was a solo artist man. You know I always liked his style and I like Joey Fatone. His uh his red frosted tips I thought were cool because he had dark hair like me and I remember I got red frosted tips when I was a kid at some point too because I want I was like that dude's got cool hair I bet he gets the ladies I'm gonna I'm gonna go get that hair frosted tips.

SPEAKER_09 38:47

People used to do that when I was back in high school but it was vanilla ice imitate vanilla ice's hair back in the day yeah and the second part to the question is can you sing a little something from them?

SPEAKER_06 38:59

Uh oh uh oh little a bye bye bye or you know what I mean uh what was some of their other songs it's gonna be May that's good that's good stuff back and relax this is Soundcheck with Chase and Mitty Hopper on Froggy Valley 100.1daddy left his girl is world mama was his last darling girl know the heavily shelf over the record William Merle Grand Daddy was a colonel in the guard love music in his heart but we never made he found a way to teach me about country music where words away in mind and sitting here music wanna say music we'll draw the meetings was a lot of green we'll draw the meetings walking green stranger making cash my grandfather down glass away in my feeling again and it's sitting here when I drive the middle when it driven me driving with a dramatic was a little check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 Froggy Valley 100.1 It's sound check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 Froggy Valley 100.1 start your day the Nancy and Newman way well that sounds very good to me on Froggy Valley 100.1 hope you're having a good weekend on Monday we're gonna be celebrating National Hot Dog Day and National Beodorc Day Newman both things can coexist at the same time also the worst things women have said to men on dates like hey can you take a picture of me from

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SPEAKER_04 44:52

See, I co-wrote this one with Jake Maish and then uh Bobby Law. Have you had Bobby Law on yet?

SPEAKER_07 44:57

They're gonna be down the road too.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

Oh, awesome. Awesome. Yeah, Bobby and then uh Bobby's friend Bill Price. We wrote this on uh um one of Bobby's crew members back porch like a year and a half ago. And uh I don't know. The uh cost of living has definitely gone up a lot lately. And I'm a millennial, I'm 31, and there's a lot of people my age that don't even have homes yet because it's just hard to buy a house. I had a buddy, he was a groomsman in my wedding, he just got a house, and the the struggle he went through just to get a starter home is just crazy. And we're just being squeezed so much right now, especially millennials and the the elder Gen Z, and it's just crazy that the American dream is further out of reach than it was for the generation before us, you know, and it's one of the first generations in our history where it's you know it's harder to get that then than it was for their parents, and uh it's a shame. But uh it's kind of what this song boils down to is just us we were writing this, and it's sort of like an appeal to heaven to say, hey, can we get a little help down here? It's guessing we're a leaf here, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So that this one's called Cut a Deal.

SPEAKER_06 46:18

Gas is sitting high, tanks getting old, it's hard to see the light. From the end of this whole room, she let me hunt and dry. The middle of last week been stretching myself thinner than this coat to make ends meet. Can you hear me now? Look at you is this break, please show me a side. Can I bring her back? With who does the rhyme? Can I just settle back? Can we cut a deal? Got season store, but my head's too far in the weeds, I don't get to watch 'em go. There's a cold race in the meadow. Where it brings your name. The river's dry, the crafts are die, cause there ain't been no rain. Do I feel this to be the law? I ain't broke, but I'm bad. As far as I can go. Please show me a side. Can I bring her back? With who does the ride? Can I just settle down? Can we cut a deal back in my head? Can I bring her back? We could do it. Can I just double down? Can you hear me? Can we cut a deal? Can you hear me now?

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Alright.

SPEAKER_04 49:16

Good stuff, Cody. Thanks. And that'll that'll be on the next record too. Um, I got Jake and Bobby's blessing, and uh I hope they each do their own versions too. Yeah. Because like every song you put out, it's kind of like fishing. You cast a line, you know, like Bobby's got his own way of doing it, right? And Jake's got his own way of doing it. So I told him I was like, everybody should just put out their own version and we'll just see which one hooks a fish, and if it does, then hey, we all make out in the end. We got songwriters' royalties, we got cuts on it.

SPEAKER_07 49:43

You all three should collab, man, and do it together.

SPEAKER_04 49:46

That is a better option, too. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, then we could have four versions out and then see what happens.

SPEAKER_07 49:52

Yeah, that'd be pretty awesome stuff, man.

SPEAKER_04 49:54

Yeah, would be fun to do and and put that one out as like a single or something, and just do our own versions on an album or something. Yeah, it'd be cool. Yeah, love it.

SPEAKER_07 50:02

Let's talk about that music you're making. You're fresh off of that release of Tusk Aurora, which was an amazing compilation of songs, including the lead track off of that one called Down the Creek. You pair it up with Philip Bowen, West Virginia native, also an absolute killer of a fiddle player on that song. Talk about the experience of making that album, also that collab with Philip on that song.

SPEAKER_04 50:19

Yeah, that was really cool to get a hold of Philip. So he did the fiddle on Down the Creek and on Harper's Ferry, and uh he was just a really nice guy. We didn't have him in the studio with me for it. It was just one of those remote things where like we emailed the file off and then he sent it back. The power of the digital world, right? Yeah, yeah. But like he had some like little notes, like little things that he said when he was done with his takes. Like at the end of Down the Creek, he's like, Man, cool tune, dude. That was really cool. Thanks for having me. Like it was just like in there, and it's like, oh, cool. Little little voice memo from Philip. And then Harper's Ferry, I could tell he really put his heart and soul into that because he's from West Virginia, and it's about a town in West Virginia. Oh yeah. And I he like his down the creek take was great, but his Harper's Ferry take was just masterful, I thought. And then on the other songs, we had uh Troy Angle. I'm not sure if you're familiar with him or not. Troy plays with Ricky Skaggs now. He's a he's the newest member of Kentucky Thunder, and I got hooked up with Troy through Jake. Jake has collaborated with him, and Troy plays like all the instruments on Jake's songs. So Jake will go to his studio and Troy will just put he'll just go back and punch in everything. Um Troy is a master man, uh just a a true, not evil genius, but just like a like a crazy professor genius on everything. And he's got cool cuts, like he he he's got songs that he's written jingles for commercials that probably you haven't even you don't even know. But yeah, Troy's just amazing. And to get him on those tracks, and then he announced later he was in Kentucky Thunder, it's like okay, well, this album is just like that's an even cooler bullet point to have on this album is that we've got a a member of Kentucky Thunder, and Troy is living out his boyhood dream. He's wanted to play with Ricky since he was a kid, and I couldn't be happier than to see him. And it feels like every cool accomplishment that he has is like another cool little not accomplishment, but like a cool little footnote that we can put under Tuscarora is like this guy that's playing on the Opry, or this guy that's playing at the Ryman, or this guy that's playing, you know, wherever Ricky is playing, he played on our album, and isn't that cool? You know, Troy Angles a stand-up dude.

SPEAKER_07 52:29

He really is. And then when when you hear him talk about the story of his first experience with Ricky Skags and how it came to be on stage, it it is just an absolute amazing story, and how he's been kind of his boyhood idol growing up, and now he's actually playing with them in the band, which is pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_04 52:45

Yeah, and just a really down-to-earth, nice guy. Him and Jake are like they're cut from the same cloth. So I knew loving Jake meant I was gonna love Troy. Yeah. And Troy and I have only interacted in person like once or twice with that single that Jake and I collaborated on. Um, but yeah, the one time I was at his studio, couldn't be a couldn't have met a nicer guy. Yeah, awesome dude.

SPEAKER_09 53:07

You have teased some new music coming out and kind of titled the journey a new chapter, a new album. You have 11 songs ready to be recorded. Talk about the next adventure here with this new album coming up.

SPEAKER_04 53:20

Yeah, so we've got a new record on the way. Um, we've got to get into the studio and record it. So we've got a fundraiser that we're doing. It's like a crowdfund that we're doing on our website. It's not like a GoFundMe where we're holding our hand out and asking for money to record. We're actually giving people an opportunity to buy some exclusive merchandise. We've got t-shirts, hats, bandanas, a whole bunch of stuff, and then we've got some collectibles too, where we've got one. We've got a big window in August that I would like to record if it works with uh either of the other two producers. And um, as soon as we get that thing finished and we've got the CDs and the vinyl back, anybody that pre-orders the CD or the vinyl through the crowdfund now is gonna get it before it comes out. We're just doing some cool little quirky things to like try to incentivize people to give to the crowdfund and be part of the album making process. And, you know, the people that uh book us for house shows are actually gonna get their name in the album credits for the record, and it'll be like in the thank you section and stuff. So we've got some cool little incentives, and we're just trying to make it fun for folks because I've seen crowdfunds over the years for bands that I idolize and I've examined what they've done and taken little elements and been like, oh, we could do that too. That could be cool, or maybe we could change this up about it and do it. So yeah, you can go on our website, it's Cody Tylermusic.com forward slash new album, and you can find all the info there. And um, every donation, no matter how small, even if you get like a sticker, that's probably the cheapest thing on there, up to you know the most expensive thing, like a house show, we will email you a download instantly of a demo of one of the new songs. It's called Higher Ground. So we email that out and then you have it, and it's not gonna go on streaming. The album version will, but this demo that we recorded in Lancaster is only gonna be available through our website. It won't be on streaming, it won't be available anywhere else. So only the OGs that help us out on this are gonna get to hear it. So we like having that little veil of exclusivity so that people it incentivizes them to do it and it gives you something cool in return. We like having added value. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 56:14

This has been so much fun tonight hanging with us here on a Sunday night. Thank you so much for the time. Best of luck here going forward.

SPEAKER_04 56:19

Thank you. Thank you both as well, and best of luck to both of you as well. You're doing an awesome thing here with this show. It's been an honor to sit down and talk with you guys. I I could go a whole other hour. Yeah, we could too.

SPEAKER_07 56:29

Uh but before we go, not only do we have that delicious caramel corn there from Wurtz Candy for you to take home, Cody, tonight. We're also gonna sample some of Wertz Candy's chocolate covered bacon. It's a specialty they have down. They've been in business for 95 years here in the Lebanon Valley. I have not sampled their chocolate covered bacon, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to have Cody Tyler in studio. We're gonna sample this all together. Cody's got a strip, Minnie's got a strip, I got a strip. We're gonna sample this right now.

SPEAKER_04 56:59

I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_07 57:01

All right, everybody got their strip. Minnie called grabs their strip of bacon there. This is the uh chocolate-covered bacon from the famous Wurtz Candies, of course, in downtown Lebanon. We're all gonna sample this for the very first time. You ready, Cody? Cody's taking a snapshot of it for uh for social media. So here we go. Let's uh let's sample this thing. Let's see how this tastes.

SPEAKER_04 57:23

You're definitely gonna taste the salt right off the bat.

SPEAKER_09 57:26

Smokey.

SPEAKER_04 57:26

Mm-hmm. That is a combination that is way better than you would think. I don't think I was expecting to get the salt flavor right off the bat, but it hit you right off the bat.

SPEAKER_07 57:40

So, what's your take? On a scale one to ten. What are you ranking this?

SPEAKER_09 57:44

I'd say ten. This is pretty good. I like it.

SPEAKER_04 57:46

I'm a tough critic, but like as far as like chocolate products go, I give it like a nine out of ten. That's awesome. Now, what'd you say? Now, this being bacon, would you have this for breakfast? I would have this in the afternoon. Absolutely. Okay. I'm a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast type of person. Yeah. So this is not out of my wheelhouse at all.

SPEAKER_07 58:04

Thank you to Wortz Candies for hooking Cody Tyler up, of course, with that amazing caramel corn. Go visit them in downtown Lebanon and that chocolate-covered bacon as well, where they've been providing all those sweets and treats for 95 years right here in Central PA. They ship anywhere here in the U.S. as well. Head on over to their website. It's WurtzCandies.com. Thanks to Jazzy, his wife, the rest of the crew down there at WurtzCandies.

SPEAKER_09 58:25

Next week on Sound Check with Chase and Minnie, we will have a Camp Hill-born musician who has propelled his music career to Music City, and he is on the verge of country music stardom.

SPEAKER_07 58:37

He has new music out, and he also has two young children at home balancing that life as a country musician and a dad. We can't wait to have Ben Gallagher on the show next Sunday night starting at 8 o'clock right here. Well, the one and only sound check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app, all powered by Radio Novo. All right, Minnie, you turn off the lights. I'll lock up. Before we do that, though, we always leave you with this it ain't country music.

SPEAKER_09 59:01

Unless it's homegrown country music. We will see y'all next Sunday, same time and same place. Have a great week and thanks for hanging out with us on the one and only sound check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app.

SPEAKER_02 59:18

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