Soundcheck with Chase and Mini with 81 South The Band! 7-12-26

Thanks for checking out Soundcheck with Chase and Mini, the only local show in Central PA highlighting our rising country musicians for 1 full hour!  On the latest episode Chase and Mini sit down with 81 South The Band!  These four guys have really propelled their music career in such a short time and the big stages and bright lights are the end goal!  Listen to their story and their amazing music on the one and only Soundcheck with Chase and Mini right here!  

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SPEAKER_14 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 Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie Hopper on WFBY 11 in Hershey, Harrisburg. Froggy Valley 100.1.

SPEAKER_15 0:20

Welcome to another amazing Sunday night here on Soundcheck, always delivering our rising country musicians right to your living room. I am Chase.

SPEAKER_11 0:27

Hey y'all, I'm Minnie. Welcome to the show. Tonight we will have quite the show.

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We have four musicians in the studio that play original country music and southern rock music right here in Central PA. They are certainly building a fan base and playing some amazing music.

SPEAKER_11 0:42

We will sit down with PJ, Corey, Mason, and Austin. They make up 81 South the Band. We will have their story and their music on the way. Get comfy and we are kicking off soundcheck with 81 South the Band and swing on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley at PowerBeye Radio Novo.

SPEAKER_07 1:00

I've been trying to lead this good life. I stumbled over baselits, tried to get it right.

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I'm not at the top, but it's pretty nice right here I can't give you more push, but I can make it crisp clear that every time you wrong Every time you fall, every time you swing At the ball, I'll be the one that you can run on to a ball Or sweat them all in when you're standing tall How would you leave Teasing claws I wouldn't gone put you well on your way I give you tomorrow Just learn from yesterday that every time you wrong Every time you fall Every time you swang At the ball I mean the moment you can run to an all Swang at the mall Don't forget to ride Every single night I wait for you And now we wait for you It made you find my thing here I hope you're well with it I will look for you And I'll be missing you Every time you wrong Every time you fall Every time you swang At the ball I be the one that you can run on to a ball Swang at the most Or swing at the most lift down the rock Left time Lift down the swing At the bottom What's Wayne That was 81 South the Band with Swing kicking off soundcheck with Jason Minnie here on Sunday night on Froggy Valley 100.1 and of course you can stream us anywhere in the world by Froggy Valley app, download it today. Let's bring it in here to the Froggy Studio. Welcome 81 South the Band, right here to our home. How's it going? I tell you what, I could not be more excited to have you guys in studio. Obviously, we did the podcast with you guys a couple months back. This is a little different. You guys on mainstream radio playing your songs. We are so hyped that you guys are here for us on Sunday night. Glad to be here.

SPEAKER_07 4:49

We've been waiting for this since the day we got your email. It's been it's been on the top of our to-do list and looking forward to this.

SPEAKER_15 4:57

Yeah, this is so awesome to spend a Sunday night with 81 South of the Band. It's been a little while since we chatted. Good to have all four of you, of course, here in studio. Welcome to mainstream radio boys. First off, uh let's go around, introduce yourselves, and your role in the band.

SPEAKER_16 5:09

Hey, what's going on? My name is Mason. I am the drummer for 81 South. Hi Mason. Welcome.

SPEAKER_13 5:14

Hey guys, I'm Corey. Uh I'm the uh lead guitarist and backup vocals and uh do all the administrative stuff for the band. That sounds very important. There you go.

SPEAKER_08 5:24

I'm Austin. I uh play bass and also provide some backing vocals.

SPEAKER_15 5:29

And head drum major too, I heard prior prior to this interview. We established football players. That's right.

SPEAKER_07 5:34

My name is PJ Walters. I am the uh lead vocalist in rhythm. I write, and uh these guys sort of bring all that sound uh what you folks know, come to know as 81 sound.

SPEAKER_15 5:45

Yeah, welcome aboard, guys. What a ride it has been since we chatted the last time. Uh fun watching this transformation. Talk about how this began for you guys and putting this together. The story's very unique and not a typical way the band formed either.

SPEAKER_13 5:57

Well, it started with Austin and I. We were in uh uh, you know, some some kind of project that never really turned out to be anything, and it fell apart. And I was on a military trip and you know thinking, what am I gonna do now? You know, no band, got nothing going on. So I hopped on Craigslist and uh saw this ad. This guy was looking for someone in the jam with me, put something together. Paul Waters was the name, uh, goes by PJ, and uh I kind of see why.

SPEAKER_07 6:18

But um alias it's it's aliases are important in this manage 2026.

SPEAKER_13 6:26

So he uh he replies in uh previous drummer with the band and I went over and uh met the guy and it went alright, you know, like we'll give this a shot.

SPEAKER_07 6:35

It didn't go alright. Corey didn't want to come back. It was it was the other fellow that was there who's like, yeah, we should come back and try what's going on. And Corey was like, eh. So don't let him don't let him for you there.

SPEAKER_13 6:47

Well he lured me back in and he said, Hey man, I'm I'm having a party tomorrow night at the house, and you know, you want to get to know each other, come on over and hang out, have a couple beers, whatnot. I'm like, alright, and I show up and it's like this is this guy, and you know, he's got some high class friends, and one dude had this crazy looking like Pelican case with these these crazy whiskey glasses and this super expensive whiskey, and this guy's a high roller, like he's he must be like a members-only party.

SPEAKER_07 7:10

Well, we were, you know, smoking some Cuban cigars and having some good times. Yeah, but it's uh I guess I guess we sort of tore into that high class whiskey a little too too much because um I had an outfit change and I and I came back out into the party and this is where the story gets weird. Just to let everybody know. This is where it gets weird.

SPEAKER_13 7:30

Well, you know, I'm I don't know anybody there. I'm just and I get along with random people just fine, but I'm like, where'd PJ go? He comes out, and this guy must have been a little turned up on this high dollar whiskey, wearing a pair of uh Daisy Duke short shorts and an open button-down shirt. Oh my goodness. And I'm like, what did I get myself into? I'm glad he didn't wear those here tonight.

SPEAKER_07 7:50

Well, I they were on the short list.

SPEAKER_16 7:52

They were on the short list, but I I went with a golf attire. I think the important part of this story is that like that's not the last time he did that. He did it again?

SPEAKER_07 8:02

It's gonna continue happening, I think. Listen, we have to keep things, we have to keep things exciting around the the studio at home. It's it we can't let it get boring. It does not get stale every night in there every night. So we end up, we ended up, uh Corey continues to come back. We they expressed the collective group at that time cle expressed their ideas and what they wanted to do with original music, and and we weren't none of us came from the same genre, but what music that we were playing, like we couldn't have been further apart. You know, I'm a hardcore country guy, and he's more like the southern rock guy, and and he was more like an alternative fella. You know, through some personal changes, we finally landed with with Mason, and that was about a that was about eight months to a to a year after the after the Austin the bass is core the guitars and and myself started playing. From there, it's just we've been we've been writing, we've been practicing one one to two times a week. Our venues have just continued to grow, and uh the outpouring of support that everybody gives us from the community is so freaking awesome. So um including you know folks like yourself, like totally helping us out. Um so yeah, that's how we formed, that's how we ended up on the same page.

SPEAKER_15 9:21

Did I tell you this was gonna go off the rails early?

SPEAKER_10 9:23

Uh no, you did not.

SPEAKER_15 9:25

Well you've been warned.

SPEAKER_10 9:26

Only now? I should have been warned before the show.

SPEAKER_07 9:30

They they we we have we have some we have some uh how can we say some rituals that we like to do, you know. We we played in we opened up for hippies and cowboys almost a year ago down in Washington, D. D.C. And that was sort of our first taste of a big venue, a bigger venue. And it was awesome. Like you know, you know, we we leave out of the house in the mid-afternoon, and you know, I I may have no jobs. Um so they they got to see the Daisy Duke outfit that day, too. I mean, I felt it was only I felt it was only unfitting. No, that was bib overalls.

SPEAKER_16 10:07

Oh yeah, that's just bib overalls. It only gets worse. I can't stress that enough. Uh I mean the wardrobe lack of wardrobe, maybe I should say. I don't know.

SPEAKER_15 10:18

Or the the mental pictures I'm getting right now just uh we soon need to move on here.

SPEAKER_14 10:23

We've got your pictures if you want them.

SPEAKER_07 10:56

Can you give me some water? Let me clear my throat. We are lost in the rain, don't say my cold, I'm gonna be low or a better sand I promise to be cold if you live in.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

I'm just travel like an old Letter Bay Let's play that it's so I've been rockin' rolling nearly forty years, took the devil's drones, drank all his bear, one thing every call from along the way it can all be called home if you never stay and use the travel and cattle Letterplay Letter Play.

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You're the best up and coming artists every Sunday night with Soundcheck with Chase and Minnie Hopper on Froggy Valley 100.1 for the bad guys six shooters on my side killed my brother, West the tombstone ain't been the same since his die got caught up in some bar umbrella knocked some drunk to the floor with a moss barrel, waited for my brother to leave, empty both barrels in the driver's door.

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I promise you when I swear to you when I find responsible I won't make it so much when you're kids, when I think it's gonna be slow and sonico.

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Thanks for tuning in tonight here on this Sunday night. The boys from 81 South, the band, they made their way to the Froggy Ranch here tonight for sound check. Here on Froggy Valley 100.1, and don't forget, download that app, take us wherever you go. This entire summer, my Froggy Valley is the app. Download it today.

SPEAKER_11 19:28

When you guys first formed, what was the mix that you were looking for?

SPEAKER_13 19:32

Um it was honestly we were just kind of you know with PJI queued up.

SPEAKER_07 19:36

I had five original songs. I've been playing guitar since I was 12 years old. Since your age is probably one of the first time I picked one up. In that entire span, I've wrote five songs. So they said I want to do originals, and we pulled those out. Um they didn't even have a style to answer your question. They were somewhere in between rock and roll country and and uh just the alternative feel.

SPEAKER_15 19:59

Yeah, you guys are really sort of like cuddled down right now, which is which is awesome to see in the short time that you guys have been together. I mean, sometimes it takes fans five, ten years to get where you guys are at right now. But the chemistry has been absolutely incredible. What do you think has made this work with you guys in the short amount of time that you guys have been doing this now?

SPEAKER_13 20:16

Exactly that. The chemistry. You don't have a if the four of you can't live like a second family and be close to each other and be weird with each other. Yeah, let's let's get that out of the way first. But if you don't have that, it doesn't work. I mean you can't have any bad apples in the band if we dealt with that in the past, and it was it made things a nightmare.

SPEAKER_16 20:38

Well, I mean you guys broke up over it.

SPEAKER_13 20:40

We did.

SPEAKER_07 20:40

Well, I will tell you this. Let's let's I will I will give a shout-out with a shout-out and I'll always do Corey. Corey is a huge part of our success. He's he's chasing emails, he's chasing venues, people are calling him, we're bugging him. Um you know, a lot of hard work often goes unnoticed, but a game of patience, and you know, I know Corey keeps his foot on the promotional throttle, and it has done nothing but propelled us to where we're at right now. I mean, I I I give that, I give a lot of our success directly to Corey. My heart is warm. We'll hug later.

SPEAKER_15 21:22

We'll light some candles in here, play that slow music for you guys. We'll we'll be right back, guys, with 81 South of Band.

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SPEAKER_07 27:04

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SPEAKER_02 27:54

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SPEAKER_11 29:58

We are joined by 81 South tonight in the studio. You guys have started something pretty special here in Central PA. You are not looking to keep this on a smaller level. You really are looking to reach the bigger stages here.

SPEAKER_13 30:11

Oh, no doubt. I mean, we started in the bar scene and we played a couple, you know, bar venues here once in a while. Uh Tim from Back Porch Brewing has been extremely good to us. I mean, he kind of gave us our start. Um and the staff at SCI. Yeah, Sherman's Creek End, they've been great too. Uh Patrol Rich Mellon takes care of us. But we're trying to step out of the bar scene and circle out of Pennsylvania a little bit. Um trying to step into some the dream is theaters and music halls. That's that's where I really want to be.

SPEAKER_07 30:39

We had, as I already stated in one of my previous answers here, we we had our first taste of getting out of s of of our comfort zone here of home. And uh went down to Washington, DC, spent the day down there, had a had a great time. Uh that's when we knew we had to put something together for this year, and subsequently we leave in uh, you know what, fellas, a little over a week, week and a half. Yeah. We hit the road to head down to Virginia, and then we're doing a four-day run, back-to-back shows that's just sort of like a dream come true, you know. And we we have an RV, we have trailers, we have l stops and entertainment lined up along the way, so it's really exciting.

SPEAKER_15 31:21

Well, I'd I'd assume long term, need a national touring band here, and and probably sooner rather than later for you guys.

SPEAKER_13 31:29

That that would be ideal. Yeah, I don't want to wait like 15 years, you know.

SPEAKER_16 31:32

I would whatever it takes. I mean, if it takes fifteen years to get to play big stages, it's more for the fun, I think, than it is the fame. I'm really excited to play cool venues.

SPEAKER_13 31:40

We got we got one life, you know, we're going for it. Yeah, there's no reason not to.

SPEAKER_07 31:44

I've always been a realist and I and I always try to tell myself, you know, just to be a a cool regional band, and you know, back in I the one that comes to mind is not even country genre, but Emily's Toy Box. Oh yeah. I mean, back in the early 2000s, they were they were one of the biggest bands around and and we're doing really awesome stuff, you know, just to do something on which we're we're fastly approaching that level, and and I I I just couldn't believe in a million years that it's gonna lead us down to Nashville and out to Ohio and and that kind of stuff. So yeah, we're we're throttle down trying to trying to hammer it out.

SPEAKER_15 32:24

You guys did have an amazing 2025, 2026. Started with that pedal down, like we just said, releasing that debut album on ramp. An absolute incredible list of songs that you guys have on there. Talk about the process that you guys went through to make that album.

SPEAKER_13 32:36

That was a lot of money spent in the studio. That was a lot of time. I think we tracked them in like twos and threes, because yeah, the recording's not cheap, so we we do a batch of them, you know, and then work save up a little more, play a couple gigs, and do the next batch, and then we get back and listen to everything, you know, during the mixing process and whatnot. Just a lot of time and money. And many I think PG and I had the most hours spent in the studio between guitars and vocals. It's just drums are easy. He lays his stuff out, he's done. Yeah, it was always nice for me.

SPEAKER_16 33:07

I got I got all three knocked out if we did batches of three the same night, and uh then it was just hanging out in the studio, watch my buddies play, and that was fun.

SPEAKER_15 33:15

So, what you're saying, if you want to be in a band, then you want the easy job, you take the drums, right?

SPEAKER_07 33:20

He only gets the easy job for recording because the equipment's set up. He's got the hard job when we play because he's gonna move a million things that weigh a million pounds. Breaking back every gig. That's why you that's why you're strapping. Strapping? Yes.

SPEAKER_15 33:37

You need to get some people to do that.

SPEAKER_07 33:39

Well, listen, we're taking applications.

SPEAKER_14 33:42

That's right. So anybody listen, country music from local, regional, and national up and comers. If it's Sunday night, it's sound check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1.

SPEAKER_07 34:04

I try to face the facts. I'm alone. I can't fail can If someone else is home to my soul every day. It's been three weeks now. So I think so still, so a dream every day we all said you let out you up because you know, what you know, no, yeah!

SPEAKER_05 38:17

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 Minnie's hopping good time on Froggy Valley 100.1. Froggy Valley. Woohoo!

SPEAKER_15 38:45

It is that time of the show, guys. We're gonna change it up here, sort of like the halftime show. Minnie is gonna come in here, run the show. Three random questions to our musicians. We see how they react to them. 81 South. You guys ready for this? Oh yeah. These aren't music related. I'm ready. These are these important, I think. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 39:01

Question number one. I just became a teenager yesterday. What is the most ridiculous thing as a teenager you did to impress someone?

SPEAKER_07 39:10

Oh yeah. Can't wait to hear this. It was Father's Day. I was 17 and I was at senior week. Now this is not a father yet. No, not a father yet. And I'm at down at the senior week senior week, and my dad and I are real tight. We're really good buddies. Uh he's been gone ten years, and he's a subject matter of a lot of my tunes, but um I wanted to surprise him with a Father's Day again. So I meet a bunch of buddies wrote down this.

SPEAKER_08 40:21

You're wild stuff in the end. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_11 40:25

Question number two. I love riding roller coasters. Are coasters your thing, or do you like the non-adventure rides?

SPEAKER_13 40:32

I don't do steel, but the wooden coasters all day that break your neck, that's my thing. They're wild. I'm scared to death of height. Yeah, what's that one called up in Knobles?

SPEAKER_11 40:42

Phoenix.

SPEAKER_13 40:43

Well, believe it or not, the Phoenix, you know, I thought that was gonna be big and bad, but the smaller one is violent. Yeah. The car was come off the track on the dips. Like it's we took my nephew, it was me, my brother-in-law, my nephew. Like, yeah, this he'll be alright. I was holding over dear life, and I watched it neighbor in the seat in front of me, and he's coming up like a foot from like hands or holding one of him. Like, this is this is insane.

SPEAKER_11 41:07

And our third and final question what was the weirdest thing that one of your pets has done when they thought nobody was watching but you were?

SPEAKER_13 41:15

You can start with that one. You got some weird animals, man.

SPEAKER_07 41:19

I'm a I'm a I'm a dog guy. I have I have a hundred-pound sheepdog. I used to have a dog, anything that my daughters would sleep with, he would pull out of their bedroom, and he would lay with that thing all night long.

SPEAKER_13 41:37

I had a cat that and he was eating sh I don't know if it was some kind of string or something from clothing or a curtain. I thought nothing of it, but then later it reappeared and we had to pull it out. And so that's all I'll keep it PG. Yeah. One and one end came out the other. Oof. Did you save it for floss?

SPEAKER_06 41:59

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SPEAKER_07 44:22

I've been called a bastard, been shot at once or twice. I've walked the toughest present with folks who weren't so nice. I've been to California, ride through the Lone Star State, spent my time in little bars, crossing USA I started out from up and man, that's where I stay or turn. And I keep on flying up till I crash and burn. I didn't know I sinner, then I turn the saint. Even though there are those who say I sure say wink. Said I played through Oklahoma. Straight to Tennessee. And I've been busy loving ladies who are busy loving mate. I've been called red-handed, risky and a crooked dog. To my friends, I made a memory. And I'm all mid broken rolls. Jack on my guitar. Made a girl at 17 as pretty asked to be. Fell in love with my best friend and never looked at me. I should get off like a traveler who's shaking off the gold. I realized then my friend, my future won't foretold. Said I played too over home. Straight to Tennessee. And I've been busy loving ladies who were busy loving me. I've been already-handed, wrist deep in a cookie dog. To my friends, I made a man's I'm pretty good so far. And I'm on his broken road. Shock on my guitar. Rolling on eye, everywhere I go. Life it catches up too fast if you take it slow. Drop another gear. Don't live, don't scale. Everything gets better.

SPEAKER_02 47:00

You keep all instead I'm way too old for home.

SPEAKER_07 47:23

Straight too tight of sleep. And I've been busy loving ladies, who were busy loving mate. I've been called red handy. Risk deep in a book, jaw. Two my friends, I made amends. I'm pretty good so far. And I'm on this broken roll. Shotguns my guitar. Say that I'm on this broken roll. Shotguns my guitar. Say that I'm on this broken rope. Shot comes my guitar.

SPEAKER_11 48:13

If you are just joining us, we are joined in studio tonight with the guys from 81 South, the band here on South Tech with Chase, and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app. You will be heading to the Grand Ole Aubrey here in September for the Josie Awards. You will be up for Southern Rock Country Rock category this year. How awesome is that to be nominated at the biggest independent award show in the country.

SPEAKER_13 48:39

Totally unexpected. I submitted a band, you know, months months ago for it. I'm thinking we'll try it. I didn't expect anything because there's tens of thousands of submissions.

SPEAKER_07 48:49

I mean, it's the nation's 101,000 applicants. Something like that.

SPEAKER_13 48:54

It's the nation's largest independent music awards. And I'm like, I don't think we'll get in, but let's try it. And uh, you know, months later I'm driving down the road, and not that I'm on my phone when I'm driving, but I saw a notification pop up.

SPEAKER_07 49:06

You were on your phone when you were driving. I was. And uh But back then, see back then it wasn't in Delal yet that you'd get a ticket. So don't say that. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_15 49:15

This is going out over the radio PJ. People are listening.

SPEAKER_13 49:20

My name's uh Bob Smith. I don't know, and admitting there's a problem is the first step to change. That's right. There's classes for that. There are. But yeah, so uh I made a post, I can't remember what it was about, and uh I think Clifton Bryan commented and he's like, something something. Oh, congrats on the Josie, by the way. And I got wrecked the car, I was like, I gotta pull over. I was like, wait, what? Like, what what do you mean congrats on the Josie? And uh sure enough, I looked on there and I was like, no way, we made the list for best country southern rock group of the year, and we're on there with the band of heathens, which is huge, that they're way bigger than us. And I'm like, how do we, you know, a little Pennsylvania band make that list? So it's it it was shocking. I mean, I called the odds as soon as I saw it, I'm like, you're not gonna believe this. Like, we're going to Nashville in September, and they thought I was lying.

SPEAKER_15 50:05

Yeah, congratulations to the four of you, man. That's thank you. That's pretty incredible. Now, the the only question I got is will PJ be wearing the bib overhauls, or what's he what's he wearing to the Grand Ole Opera?

SPEAKER_16 50:15

I mean, I've been as little as possible. I think that's really gonna propel our music in a positive direction.

SPEAKER_07 50:20

Yeah, we we I might take a uh page out of Janet Jackson's playbook. Who knows?

SPEAKER_14 50:25

I mean it's I mean, like a wardrobe malfunction or like before they were superstars, they were hometown stars. It's sound check with Chase and Minnie on Froggy Valley 100.1.

SPEAKER_07 51:12

Gasoline in my stone, opi oats and whiskey, I take in the toe, call the vest by open stone I found a mess of body Get the touch of the skin Will you got the fight out? I wanna do it again out of this go out the show that's no question. So the moon ride Just me and Jack Daniel Having a soft time Call of Fear My Oak is gone out of control there's no question Call of Fed my oath out of control there's no question the o' system Welcome back to the one and only sound check with Chason Minnie here on Froggy Valley 100.1, the My Froggy Valley app as well.

SPEAKER_15 53:43

We're joined in studio by the boys from 81 South, the band on this Sunday night. Rising country musicians, right here in PA. Coming up here in August, guys. You guys will be one of the supporting acts for Chris Jansen. Down at the York Fair alongside local musicians Faith Noel, Cody Tyler, Karina Rose, and others, always big crowds down there at the York Fair. How cool would that be for you guys to be performing in front of an audience that size down there?

SPEAKER_13 54:07

It's gonna be a whole different ballgame, but uh I wouldn't even say I'm nervous. I'm just ambitious, eager, ready to go. You know, big national stage in front of thousands of people at the Grand Cannes stage. It's it's gonna be something else. Um we're ready for it. We're excited and eager to go.

SPEAKER_15 54:24

Go check these guys out down there at the York Fair. You guys also had a show with Baltimore Maryland musician Ethan Lake here recently. You guys are gonna play three more shows with him, and incredible talent down there in the Maryland area. Talk about how you guys got hooked up with him and how that first show was with him.

SPEAKER_13 54:38

That all started at the Dirty Boots competition. Ethan! And uh, you know, we've seen hundreds and hundreds of solo acoustic acts, and I found out I come from the bluegrass background, and this guy plays a bluegrass song that I wouldn't expect anybody to know. Any any not just not just a drummer, nothing against anyone that just drums chords, but this guy can pick and he can play flicks and solos and like and he sings. It's incredible. And he writes some really good songs. And then the most laid-back down-earth guy. And he looks like someone from like that could have like time traveled from the Almond Brothers. Yes he does, but he loves it. Yeah, absolutely love it.

SPEAKER_07 55:16

Yeah, he's got it, he's got it all. Like, um we ended up speaking with his father, I believe. And um, you know, again, that's that network that that he does a lot of work up in the in the 717 and and surrounding areas. We just start chit-chatting. We he's opened for us a few times last year. Um, and you know, just like I I think anybody in their right mind would, the the bigger stuff we get, the better support we need, and and he's like he's quickly becoming a a really go-to guy.

SPEAKER_15 55:46

I gotta thank you so much for stopping on by here on this Sunday night here in the studio. Wish you guys nothing but success here in your career. We can't wait to have you guys back on the one and only soundtrack with Chase and Minnie here on Froggy Valley 100.1 and the My Froggy Valley app.

SPEAKER_07 56:00

Chase and Minnie, we really appreciate it. We thank Froggy, we thank the staff, man. This has been awesome. We had a great time.

SPEAKER_13 56:07

Yep, you guys are really doing something special, and don't ever stop. Yeah, we appreciate it, guys.

SPEAKER_11 56:12

Also, a huge thank you to Words Candies for hooking up 81,000 band with the delicious Chrome core. Go check them out at Wordscandies.com or visit their location that is the glue of the downtown district for 95 years, right there across from Hack. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Words Candies.

SPEAKER_15 56:32

Go check out Words Candies. Downtown Lemon is a stable 95 year old. What do you think, PJ? What's your what's your what's your rating there, man? One to ten. What about the caramel corn? What do you think of that caramel corn?

SPEAKER_07 56:44

Where is that?

SPEAKER_15 56:45

Go check them out. Wordscandies.com. You can get it shipped anywhere here in the US of A. Alright, Minnie, you're cleaning the bathrooms tonight. I'm gonna get the lights, okay?

SPEAKER_10 56:53

I don't want to clean the bathrooms.

SPEAKER_13 56:55

Not a good trade on that.

SPEAKER_10 56:56

That's not my job.

SPEAKER_13 56:59

The name for that was the literature. I was the literature and basic training, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_10 57:06

Phil does not make me want to do that.

SPEAKER_15 57:08

As we close out another edition of Sound Check next week on the show, we will have another rising country musician from Sound Center PA who just opened up for low cash. His voice is often compared to Eric Church. We will have Nathan Merovich on the show next Sunday night. It all begins at eight o'clock. Let's close it out, Mini. Job well done again, and you know how we close this thing out. Any country music.

SPEAKER_11 57:29

Unless it's homegrown country music. Thanks for tuning in, and we will see you next Sunday night at 8 o'clock with the one and only soundtrack with James A and Mini on Roggy Valley 100.1.