Andy Crosby |Talks Music, Family, and Life on the Road

"Born and raised in Donnelly, Idaho, Andy Crosby spent nearly a decade touring with his brother Jeff Crosby before stepping out on his own and becoming one of the Northwest's most exciting Americana artists. With influences ranging from Jason Isbell to Will Hoge, Andy's music blends heartland rock, country soul, and powerful storytelling. His debut album American Love Story and his latest release Statue of Broken Chains have established him as a rising voice in Americana, and today he joins us to talk songwriting, life on the road.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey music lovers, welcome to Musical Miles Podcast. I'm your host, Byron Duffin, and I'm here with Andy Crosby.

SPEAKER_02 0:06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Welcome.

SPEAKER_02 0:07

Yeah, man. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Well, thanks for coming out and sitting down with us. We're in Boise at the TreeFort Fest, which uh this is the 14th year, I think, of Tree Fork. This is our first year. And have you been here a bunch?

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Yeah. No, I think I've played it um like five or six times with my old band and then once with my band last year and then this year too.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Okay. So yeah, you're playing, so you're playing Sunday night, and unfortunately, we're on our way home because I've got to get ready for surgery the next day after. So anyway, uh a lot of stuff going on in our world, but you're playing on Sunday. Where do you play at?

SPEAKER_02 0:45

Uh Penguillies.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Oh, you are playing at Penguillies on Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Pinglies at 10 p.m. Yeah. Sunday, so we're kind of closing down the Yeah, you are kind of the last of the Mohicans, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. I was kind of I was a little not worried about the slop, and I was like, ah man, you know, people are gonna be crawling to our gig, but yeah, I know it seems everyone I talk to, like, you know, people are stoked to kind of you know, well, Pink Gillies is such a cool venue, and I actually had been there.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Uh Miss Shandel was there the other night. We went over to see Reckless Rooster play, and I was shooting some pictures and some video, and Andy comes up, puts his arm around me, and he's like, Come here, get me a spot today. And I look over and he goes finally goes, I'm Andy Crosby.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

Who's this guy that just I'm like that's cool, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Yeah, I'm very cool with that. So but uh no, it it it's cool to finally meet you because we've we we've seen you play when you played with your brother Jeff, and uh you played with Jeff for how many years?

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Uh man, close to ten. Wow, yeah, like all in my twenties.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

So I gotta ask, and I know this is a dumb question because I get asked this because I have two younger brothers too, but is you the younger or older? Uh younger. That's what I get.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Yeah, he's a year and a half older.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Okay. And uh is there just the two of you?

SPEAKER_02 1:59

Um, we're the two like blood brothers. Oh, okay. Um, both our folks had kids, and uh we're married, so we have a bunch of half siblings. Okay. Like half-brothers that are in their 50s and 60s.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Oh wow. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

And uh yeah, and then my mom's side, Nick and Mike, they're in their yeah, late 40s. Okay. I'm I'm 37, Jeff's.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

So but the music, when I when I sat down with Jeff a couple years ago, I asked him that question, you know, musically, where'd this come from? And he said it came from some old guys in town. He used to just love to hang out with the old guys down at the hat shop, right? Totally, yeah. And he would he would go down there and and uh they taught him how to play the guitar. So there really isn't any music in your family, is there?

SPEAKER_02 2:44

No. My folks were always really supportive, though. They're they're just big fans. And then uh, and then my neighbor, Andrew MD, was a musician, and uh, he would always have the Fran Drew barbecue at his house with his ex-wife Fran, and he's Andrew. And then they kept that going far past when they got divorced, too. It stayed the Fran Drew for a lot of years. That's cool. She'd come in and hang out. Yeah, she's you know, she lives in uh Black Diamond, uh Washington now. Okay, and uh but yeah, so that kind of you know, I think maybe introduced Jeff to kind of you know being social with music and stuff and not just like playing in your bedroom. Right. And then uh, you know, and then eventually met like the hat shop band, which is uh like Randy Priest, just passed away, had a hat shop in Donnelly, right? And then he had his his band, the hat shop band, and uh yeah, kind of yeah, jammed with them a bunch, and then yeah. And there was there was another band, Frame of Mind, that really took Jeff under their wing too. Okay. Um they're a bunch of dudes from like Santa San Diego, Santa Barbara or something. Okay, and they uh had a bandhouse in Macaula. Sorry, when he's making them my wife's over here. She catch me looking over here. She didn't live the experience of the bandhouse, did you? Yeah. But uh so Jeff would go and play lead guitar with them, like in like Mott up in Moscow, John's Alley and stuff when he was like 15. Oh my god. And then uh yeah, and then he started his first band shortly after, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Well, cool. So so you were you're a year and a half younger. What about how old were you when you picked up the guitar and the bass? Because you ended up being a bass player in Jeff's band, right?

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah, yep. Um, I mean, I always messed around with stuff, but drumming was like my first love. Just, you know, love to play the drums and and uh I was more into sports and snowboarding and stuff. I was like a snowboard instructor and growing up. Okay. Uh Tamarack and Donnelly. We used to we used to get wood on that mountain and it turned into a ski resort. Oh, there you go. Yeah. But uh man, Jeff needed a bass player for a run, kind of last minute, and uh yeah, instead of you know hitting up other players in town, he I think he he tossed it to my dad, and then my dad was the one who was like, you should, you know, do this run, because I knew all of his music, like you know, seen a million of his shows. And I was like, man, maybe because I I just hurt my back snowboarding too, so I was kind of not you know, not snowboarding, and uh yeah, it was uh pretty crazy. That's what kicked it off though. I'd signed on, and the first gig I did with him, actually I think we had like one rehearsal gig in McCall, but uh the first like show I did was a headlining festival slot in Missoula, Montana at Love Your Mother Fest. Oh really? Yeah, and it was crazy. Like my first show ever, where there was like probably 3,000 people or so. And like I remember like first song dropping in, and like, yeah, going like, you know, hitting the first note and nothing comes out.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

And I'm just like freaking out, like, oh my god, you know. No, I think I stepped on my tuner or something first first song, so like, yeah, got that dialed and then it was fun. And uh luckily my brother's old band Equalize, they're like a pretty intense jam band. And uh so all the players in the band were like insanely good and were just playing circles around me. And uh, you know, so I know I've always been like kind of a pretty, you know, meat and potato bass player. So uh yeah, I feel like it kind of held things together pretty nice. So you know the bass wasn't constantly dancing around all crazy. But people after that show were just like, damn, dude, you're so badass. Like, you're like one of the best bass players ever. It's like, yeah, the most simple, like just because I couldn't play more. And uh that's uh it's been a blessing in disguise, right? Yeah, and you know, and that's what kicked off the thing pretty much, yeah. Shortly after that, he kind of offered me the the gig. And then it's how was that touring with your brother?

SPEAKER_00 7:03

I mean, I have two younger brothers, yeah, so I could see it being great, but I could also see it being a little rough at times.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Yeah, I mean, him and I are like pretty opposites. He's a really like extroverted social butterfly. Right. And I'm way more chill, like I like chill time. I can't believe you guys social butterfly. So I don't know, we kind of you know, we balance pretty good. You know, he takes care of his people good, and and uh, you know, but I I moved down into his place in LA when I officially joined them, and and uh, you know, that was just kind of like culture shockish. But we toured from Donnelly, and we just toured year-round for you know, probably like six, seven years of like hardcore touring. And uh we'd go out for like a month or two and then have like a week or two at our place in LA. Yeah. And uh, and then it was you know, just like barbecues and you know, bar stuff. And but had a lot of fun, man. That's where I met Andy Shepard, who I think I was like, you need to meet my buddy over here.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Yeah, you introduced me to Andy Shepard, and I did a little little background checking on Andy, and some at some point we'd love to sit down with him. But uh, but Donley, let's go back to Donnelly real quick, uh, and then we'll then we'll make our way back to LA. But you you uh Donley is exactly where in Idaho. It's closer to McCall, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:30

Yeah, yeah, it's like 10 miles south of McCall.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Ten miles south of McCall. Well, your brother's affectionately known as the the Duke of Donnelly. What's your uh the mayor of Donnelly? Yeah, you're the mayor of Donnelly, huh?

SPEAKER_02 8:41

I mean I guess so.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Well, as long as you have your own moniker, we you know we can't have the the the the brothers. Yeah, he doesn't like me dupes.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

He doesn't have a Donnelly tattoo. Oh no, he doesn't. Look at that. You're you're committed. Yeah, you are committed. Um population 50.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

I was gonna say it's a tiny, tiny little town in uh in Idaho. In kind of central Idaho, it's technically, isn't it? Uh you know, I we've been to McCall. Uh I don't yeah, we probably drove through Donnelly. Yeah, we did drive through Donley on the city.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

It's like a gas station town, yeah, you know, but now it has a ski hill, right? And you know, the lake there, Cascade Lake.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Yeah, Cascade. We yeah, we because we uh we kayed on Cascade and one on the river. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

Yeah, we grew up uh on a peninsula right there, and we were damn near the only house on the peninsula growing up. So it was like uh it was amazing. It was you know, and I had like a four-wheeler, and so I'd make four-wheeler tracks and trails all over, and like the beaches were just empty, and we were the only house out there, and it's a pretty good sized peninsula.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

And now it's covered up. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

No, now it's like resort area, you know, seven car garage houses coming up everywhere. Like, there's not a single normal house that gets built out there swear. Oh it's like epic. Like someone dreamed up this beautiful thing, and then they just Airbnb it, you know, and no one lives there. Or people come to party there, and you know, so now my folks are kind of surrounded. Because they're still middle middle. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I see them quite a bit. I play in McCall pretty consistently and stay close to home. Yeah, my dad's 80.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Well, I see Jeff posts, you know, because I've followed Jeff for a long time on social media, and he posts stuff with your dad. So it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Yeah, my dad's just he's just been such a supporter and like a really uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

Well, family, family's what makes it work, right? I mean, you have to have supporting a supportive wife, and you gotta have to have supporting siblings and and stuff. So let's go back to LA because you guys were in LA for a while, but Jeff had a song. You guys had a song on uh uh TV show, uh Sons of Anarchy, right? Yep, yep. Yeah, have a cool song. Two songs. Two songs.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

Yeah, that was awesome. Man, that was uh it's kind of funny down there. Like we were so stoked, and uh, you know, we were like, dude, we we made it. Here we go. Here comes the the money. Yeah, the money's just gonna flow through the we have to get a truck to haul it all to the bank. Yeah, and then we you know tell our friends down there and they're like they're like, oh sweet, dude. Yeah, I have like 15 placements. Or, you know, like they, you know, everybody just kind of has kind of yeah, it's kind of the dream killer down there because it's just like nothing is good enough type of thing. Oh but like everybody's awesome, you know. And I all the friends I met there, I love to this day. That's why I keep you know talking about Shepherd Man. Him and I have a hilarious story. He's given me like a thousand free coffees. You know, like worked at a coffee shop down there. Oh, really? Yeah, and found out we were from Idaho and we just kind of hit it off. Yeah. But uh, yeah, but then coming back here, you know, yeah, like not a lot of people have placement or like, you know, things like that happening because it's the business isn't it. Oh no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Well, you don't you're not it's a whole different world. Well, and what we found doing this podcast is that we've you know, we haven't really done a lot delved into the California deal much. We've done Nashville and Texas, and and we love we lean towards that Texas red dirt, which is where where you guys really kind of fit in and where you end up. Totally. Yeah, I love that stuff, man. And and of course some of the greatest bands ever, and of course some of the greatest Idaho guys ended up in Texas, you know, the the bronze and uh Reckless and Mickey the More Carson and we love those guys and we go to the try to go to the BBR as much as we can.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

So yeah, those guys have been awesome. Like we've toured with them, like yeah, and Jeff does a lot of stuff with them still. Right. But uh yeah, they took us, you know, the East Coast and all over Texas, and so we got to play like Green Hall sold out and just like get the true Tessic Texas experience.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

That is the iconic legendary hall. We uh we actually did some interviews in there when we were there. Oh, so we we we just went into the management and said, Hey, we do a podcast, can we come in here and do some interviews? They go, Yeah, whatever. Yeah, yeah, they weren't bothered by us at all. That's awesome, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

Yeah, I think being in not not just from those things, but my producer uh he's an Austin guy, uh he's from Dallas, Jonathan Tyler.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Okay. And uh have not met Jonathan, but yeah, gotta check his music out, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

It's really good. And uh I met him in Boulder, Colorado. Okay. So I I lived over in Denver for like six or seven years. Okay. And uh met him and then just kind of like, you know. At first he was probably just like, oh, you know, like, cool, you know, this you know, random fan guy or whatever. But then I kind of right right when I told him I like did stuff with the motor cars and records Kelly and stuff, he was like, uh. And then we just kept in touch and ended up cutting one of Jeff's songs at his studio first. And then uh, yeah, and I was like, man, I want to do a whole record with this guy and ended up uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

So he's still he's is he is he in Colorado or is he in Texas?

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Uh Texas. He was on tour with Butch Walker. He was opening. Okay. And uh so I went to the show because I was always I was a fan. And uh yeah, so I think he's always he's been in Nashville too, but Texas and Nashville.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

Well it's it's it's such an interesting uh two different worlds, you know, the Texas Nashville world. Texas has its own uh its own awards and they're and really it's it's almost segmented into four areas, you know, because you have the West Texas, you know, you got the that that that uh Lubbock, you know, kind of uh up in that part of the country, and then you've got uh the Hill Country in Austin and and New Broncos and San Marcos and all that. And there's so many cool venues down there uh uh that that are just historical. And and that's one thing because because we you know with our podcast, we we we tell everybody, look, it's it starts with the song, right? Totally. Without a song, there's you no need for an artist, but then you have an artist, right? And then and then you've got the venue, because if you don't have a place to play, and if you don't have the fans to listen to you, we tell everybody that's the perfect that's the perfect equation for uh music is the song, the artist, the venue, and the fan. And if one of those things is missing, you don't have the whole equation, right? So we we featured, we we actually got to interview one of the the bartenders or managers there at Green Hall, and they talked about you know about the Willie door, right? Do you know about the Willie door?

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Is it like a short door?

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Well, it's a door in the very, very back of the where they actually cut in the wall for Willie too. Well, because you know there's no way to get to the stage except from the front. Yeah, yeah. So Willie goes, I'm not doing that, I'm not gonna go through all these people. They went in and took a chainsaw and cut a door in the back of the stage. I do remember that to get get in and out of there. So anyway, but it's just such a cool place. And then there's Devil's Backbone, you know, which I love the Todd Snyder story and song about Devil's Backbone, about headed to headed to uh uh Lucanbach, and they ended up at Devil's Backbone and they said, Screw Lucanbach, stay here and drink with us. And what a cool story. And that's a sad deal, losing Todd Snyder.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

And I I still like haven't really dove into Todd Snyder yet. Um my brother was a you know huge fan, still is, and sure. Yeah, just seeing that all go down is just so sad, man.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

Well, and it all ended up happening in Salt Lake City of all places. And you know, crazy thing, I knew he was coming, so I had reached out to him for an interview. Really? And then that whole thing blew up. I never didn't hear back from me, but I was just just tore up. Yeah. Uh Django Walker's the one who turned me on to Todd Snyder. He told me a Todd Snyder story, and I went, I gotta check this guy out. And he is he was so cool.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

Man, I never uh actually I I may have met him in Texas once. I don't know, somewhere. Sure. We both didn't remember, but uh I was asked to give him a ride from the like from the airport to BBR. Oh, really? Last year. Oh, yeah. So we got to know each other real well. It's like a four or five hour kid. What an experience to see. Man, it was so cool, man. Django.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

Oh, Django. Django. Yeah, Todd. Okay. But Todd, he was in uh I was gonna say I didn't think Django or Todd was at BBR right now.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Yeah, Todd was in Hardworking Americans with um my friend Dave Schools in Whitesford Panic. Oh, okay. Um we like, yeah, we met Dave through uh touring with this guy, Jerry Joseph. And uh he's an amazing songwriter, rock and roller guy. And uh yeah, check his stuff out too. Jerry Joseph is amazing. Yeah, we will have it. And uh yeah, we we toured with him, like we we'd open and then back him on a couple like nationwide tours.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

And uh he like you know took us down to Georgia for the first time, and uh Dave came to a couple gigs and uh just kind of like you know, hit it off with us and and uh actually a couple big widespread panic songs, like my favorite ones, like Chainsaw City and I'm not a I'm not uh nothing against those guys, but it's just not something that I ever get listened to.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

Yeah, and you know, and I'm not a like super jam ban guy too. I love it, and it's so fun to play. You know, we have great players and stuff. Sure. But uh um Jerry took those guys on the road back in the day. Okay, and so those songs are Jerry's tunes that they oh really they cover. Yeah. Oh wow, and they're massive, and this band is huge. Like they've sold out Red Rocks, like yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Well I know all the band I just never got into Listed. Here's the here's the problem we have, to be real honest with you, is that there's so much music, and we are lovers of live music. So any live music experience we can go have, we we try to. Everything from Andrea Bocelli to you know to whatever, you know. And and so we and and and we've we've had really the the fortune of meeting and interviewing a lot of uh big time uh Nashville songwriters, which uh Nashville and Texas, there they there's there's always that you know rub, but it's not really a rub because the Texas guys go to Nashville, they don't and they go out and write with some of those guys too. So but it's just it's two different worlds, but it's very cool. We we just love music in general. So if we get the opportunity to hear somebody and listen to their music, we're unless it's just really weird. Well, I've interviewed Cody's kids, you know. Yeah, they're they're in the heavy metal scream, you know, it's in April. Yeah, they are uh good kids though.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

Yeah, you know, totally man. I you know I remember seeing him at BBR just like so young and oh yeah. And Cody's so cool, man. He's he's been awesome to me, you know.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

And the best was the people walking into Green Hall. Yeah, yeah. When those kids opened for Cody Hall, there's like new metal like Green Hall.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

That's almost sacrilege.

SPEAKER_03 20:09

So when you tell them they're Cody's kids, they're like Oh, okay. They're like, oh sweet.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Yeah, but we've interviewed those kids twice, and so that was that's been fun to sit out with him in uh anyway, but uh well cool. Well, um uh so after the after the music hit with Sons of Anarchy, did did it take off like you had hoped? Did it help the careers?

SPEAKER_02 20:34

I mean Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think you know, I definitely think it helped. It definitely hyped it up around here, and now my brother can play locally and sell out pretty much every show he does here, you know. So I feel like you know it's a part of that.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Sure.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

But uh yeah, I don't know. And and it's a really cool story, too, for being here because uh we like how it happened, we we played Curtis Steiger's Christmas party here. Do you know? Do you know Curtis Steiger?

SPEAKER_00 21:06

I know of him. I've not uh he's been on my radar. I would love to have a sit-down with him, but he lives here in Boise. Yeah, he's a legend, man. But legendary tours the world. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Uh Sax Man back in the day in the 90s, the long hair, the Saxon. His big song is like epic, too. I don't know if you heard it.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Well, I I'm sure I have.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

I wonder why we hold on with tears and it's a massive song. Yeah. And uh man, he he booked us there. I don't know if Jeff met him before that, but he uh watched us play, and Jeff wrote a Boise Christmas song type thing, and him and I played it duo style.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

And he was like, Man, you guys are great, and you're living down in LA right now. He's like, You need to meet my buddy. He'd be a good guy to know living down there. And and uh his buddy was his roommate in New York in the 90s. I think. Hope I'm not getting this wrong, Curtis. But uh the guy's name was Bob Thiel.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:06

And he did all the music for Sons of Anarchy. And Curtis sings the the the intro song on the show, the Curtis Stagers and the Forest Rangers. Okay. And I was so stoked too because one of my favorite artists, Noah Gunderson, was on that show a bunch too.

unknown 22:26

I know that name.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Yeah, he's just kind of like a yeah, beautiful songwriter. And Whitney and I actually saw him solo in New York. That was epic. That was uh during during the pandemic or coming out, and it's kind of cool where we saw him. I played there before. Um, so that was cool. But yeah, he's just yeah, great songwriting.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Well, there's like I say, there's so much music out there. It's so hard to wrap your mind around it. When we, you know, we come to a festival like this, there's five hundred plus bands here. So that's that's just wrap your mind around that. Yeah. Over five days, that means there's a hundred bands play each one of those days. Somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

It's totally south by southwest style. Like every bar and everywhere. Yeah, there's a band playing.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Yeah. Well, even in the park over there, I think, isn't there three or four bands stages in the park? Big stages. There's uh stages downtown, there's stages at Boys and Brewing, there's there's plus all the venues. There's 90, no, no, 60 venues.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Crazy. This is just it's been it's been really, really nuts for us. And and and and it's really uh I made this comment when I I think when I interviewed uh Gary Brown. I said, you know, uh our New Broncos Austin is like a target-rich environment, right, for us as a podcaster because there's so many artists. There's a there's a and and and you, you know, like you, you're introducing me to ten new names for me now that I'm I'm gonna have to go back and re-watch this and write them on that and then go research them because there's there's so much music out there that everybody wants to share, and that's what we want to do, is we want to share Andy Crosby's music. They they may know Jeff, they'll realize, you know, in in fact it's well you've been over and played, have you you've been over and played Bone? Yeah, yeah, for uh those people are really cool. She's way cool. Um so I knew you've been over there and played. But um anyway, we we just we want to I I'd love to interview every artist and share everybody's music and with the world, but unfortunately there's not enough hours in the day, enough days in the week. We we we post three episodes a week. That's weird and we've done two since we've done this, we've been doing this since uh 21 months. We have interviewed 240 people and posted 190 some episodes.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

It's grown like crazy. We just hope someday that uh we can make it all right. I like being a musician. So anyway, speaking of that, grab that guitar within and tune.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Kind of set it up. Something you you're gonna play something you you wrote? Yeah. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Um let's see here. Let's play this song. This song is called In My Arms. And uh this is a song I wrote in Weezer a while ago. And uh yeah, it's kind of been a yeah, real fun one to play with the band. And uh it's about it's about a rough patch in a relationship. Okay, and the things that you do to make it work. All right, fill in my arms.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

You've got your friends, I've got my guitar. We've been a mess since we met at that dive bar. We were lost and lonely searching for touch Chasin that bus Some people love like a getaway car. You get the money at keepin' down we can I tell it out of here under the stars. I do anything to keep you around anything to hold you here in my arms I never questioned the man in me. If I could fight for family, if I could risk it all when I need it to have been flying with my feet on the ground, I never know sharp turns are coming around. I was raised in the mountains outside, and I'd always never been too kind too long Some people love like a getaway car You get the money and keeping down we can I tell it out of here under stuff I do anything to keep you around anything to hold you here in my arms in my arms in my army when it goes down round and round you and that like what it claims ain't going easy.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

In my That's a great song. Thanks, man. Thanks for sharing that with us. Yeah. Now has that been released? Uh yes.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Okay. That's on my album.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Okay. Um, and where tell tell our viewers where they can find your music.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Um, you can find it on all the streaming streaming apps, like Spotify and Apple Music or wherever you like to stream music. And uh, yeah, and I've got an EP coming out. It's uh it's totally done. Cool. It's a four-song EP called Peninsula. And uh yeah, I was trying to get it out before TreeFort Fest, but yeah, yeah, not quite. But uh No, you have a website as well? Yep, Andycrosby Music.com. Cool, cool. And uh Instagram, Andy is numero uno on Instagram. Perfect, perfect, and uh yeah, man.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

Well, so uh a couple of questions I like to ask everybody. Um one, if you could work with anyone that's past, obviously you can't work with them, but I would have had the opportunity to have worked with a musician. This is tough. Yeah. There's a lot of good dead musicians, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Yeah, man, this is real tough. I want to just say Todd Snyder off the top, but it's but we talked about which is cool.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

I love Todd.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Tom Petty.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Tom Petty. There you go. Tom Petty. What a cool guy. That would have been great. Yeah, that would have been a great collab. Okay, what about Alive? If you could wake up tomorrow and and have that great email, phone call, Andy. We want to work with you. Who would that be?

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Man. That's another tough one. Um John Mayer.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Oh, that'd be.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Yeah. What a talented guy. And and hangs out in the Northwest, kind of a Montana guy. Yeah. Montana.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

So almost he's almost a kindred Idahoan, huh? Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's been some great musicians come from here. I mean, obviously. Well, Muzzy, Muzzy told me when I interviewed him that he's the one who introduced uh your brother to to Mickey and Gary and uh well Cody.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

So Muzzy played the friend Drew Barbecue. That's what it was back in the day. Yeah. And uh saw Jeff and I play and booked us at BBR and just kind of like, you know, put us in there. Because I know, you know, I know they pay a lot of attention to who they book, you know, so it's kind of like looking back now, it was a huge thing that he put us in the back.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Well, Must he had a lot more control back in those days, right? Yeah. So he and he he said that. He said, you know, now the the the only one he he has the handshake deal with is is Cody, can you know, to come back every year. And and uh and so he says we we have a deal that that uh Cody's always invited back.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

But yeah, I remember the yep, the first day I met any of the Bron boys was uh actually man. I don't know. The first time I saw them in person, like off the stage. Sure, we we Jeff and I and the old band opened for Reckless Kelly and Big Head Todd and the monsters.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 33:20

In McCall. Someone someone put that build together at the ice skating rink, and and uh yeah, it was the first time I saw Willie, and was just like, oh my god, like he's like, you know, absolute legend. And uh I love all of their stuff, man. Willie's such a great songwriter. Sure. And uh I think I was a little too little too um shy to say hi and you know, put him on the spot or whatever. But then uh playing Braun Brothers, Cody was dishing food in the backstage, and then yeah, I got to kind of meet him and just tell him I'm a huge fan. And sure, and uh, and that's kind of slowly how I met everybody at that fest. And yeah, man, they've just been so cool.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

You know, well they're they're great great people and a lot of fun. We actually during COVID, when nobody was touring, we hired Mickey and Gary and they didn't came and did a private deal for us and 60 of our friends and family. They wouldn't let us advertise it because you know nobody was supposed to do anything during COVID, right? So but uh but no, they were they were staying out to their place out on the desert and they rolled into town and uh and uh we uh we had a great night there and uh Gary's Gary still tells me Gary tells me it's one of the funnest deals he ever did. And and he says, Yeah, we're we'll do it again. And and Mickey's always like, yeah, well, whatever. But um, it it's it's been fun. And we've we've uh uh we just love going to the BBR. I think you know it amazes me, even here during this festival. I talked to some people the other day about going out to Chalice to the BBR, and they're like, What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 34:58

Yeah, it it blows me away. I meet people all the time. Yeah, and it's yeah, yeah, man, it's just like it's been so awesome, like just being close to that orbit, you know, and how like legendary they are in Texas. And yeah, you know, because now we wherever you know we go in Texas, like you know, those guys just carry such a like uh I don't know, respect. You know, people love Reckless in the motor cars.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Yeah, they do. They absolutely love those guys, and they and and everybody in Texas in that in that Texas country music scene knows Reckless and knows Mickey. Totally.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

And they've just put out great music forever. Yeah, I don't think of a bad song.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

First time we ever saw them, those boys were still little, right? We had our kids. We're on the we're skiing at Palmerel. You know where Pomerel is down by Burley? Yeah. We're at the Ski Hill, and Muzzy had him and the boys were there, and they were little. Mickey was just a little whelp, and uh and they played in the lodge there at the at Pomerel. Crazy. And so that was the first live experience we ever saw with them.

SPEAKER_02 36:02

But anyway, man, in the fest too, like backstage is like it's so awesome. You just get to hang with you know all the artists that are coming in, and it's such a family thing, and just like there's so much like respect happening back there. Everyone's just so open and awesome. Like I met uh Charlie Crockett back there, and yeah, and he just like just chatted me up, and I'm like, oh my, you know, this is crazy. Like, you know, yeah, big fan. And uh another guy I met back there that was super awesome was Parker, we'll call him. Right.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

We were we were at the the first, I think it was the first year Parker was the first year he was on the stage there. Remember, they did the guitar pole, and he was he sat up there on the stage with him. Nobody I I'd never heard of him, right? He was brand brand new, and he played a hell of a year. Yeah, I think that was the year I met him. Yeah, yeah. And uh, and I think he he I don't know, I'm sure Mickey invited him up because didn't Mickey co-write that or yeah, yeah. So they they were headworked together, so invited him to come up, but he sat on the stage there and played, and now look at him. Yeah, he sells out him and George Strait sell out the largest concert ever in the great music, too, man.

SPEAKER_02 37:13

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

No, he's way talented. Have you met Jared Morris? Do you know Jared?

SPEAKER_02 37:17

Uh he has a podcast. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

I've not met him's vibe, but I watched him, but he's also an artist. Yeah. And he actually co-wrote uh Big Sky with uh with uh Parker. Huh. So we interviewed him. He came and played in Boise here uh last spring. Yeah Jared was here in town, and so we came over and interviewed him. And I love interviewing other podcasters too, because kind of see what you know how how you how you guys do your your podcast or whatever. Totally. Yeah. And uh learn something new every day. So Andy, thanks for taking the time, dude. This has been a lot of fun. Totally. It's always cool to get to you know meet new people and and make new friends, and hopefully we'll see you somewhere and uh get to hang again.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

Yeah, man, and you picked a good time to come. Like, you know, that's probably why I was dragging around all these other artists and stuff, like because we're we're never in the same spot at the same time, so like this fest. It's like yeah, that's why I hit it so hard the first day. I uh it was kind of my like hang day. Yeah, because I you know, nothing going on until today and Sunday. And uh man, I just saw like 50 friends that I haven't seen in you know forever. And yeah, all playing and yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Well, thanks for introducing us to who you have. And if you if you see us tonight tonight and somewhere and you got somebody else that you want to introduce, we're we'd love to meet new people. So thanks again, and thanks for playing the song. And uh good luck on Sunday on your your show Sunday. Sorry we're not gonna make it to that one because yeah, too too many things going on.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Closing out the fest.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Yeah, awesome, awesome. Well, thanks again. Hey, for Musical Miles Podcast, I'm your host, Byron Delphin, here with Andy Crosby. We'll see you somewhere down the road. Audios for now. Cheers.

unknown 38:59

All right.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

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