The Lowtimers | Pacific Coast & Northwest Country Rock at Its Finest

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest The Lowtimers blend gritty country, Americana, roots rock, and honky-tonk into a sound that feels both timeless and refreshingly original. Drawing inspiration from classic country storytellers, Southern rock, and working-class traditions, the band has built a reputation for energetic live performances, heartfelt songwriting, and a no-frills authenticity that connects with audiences wherever they play.

The band's music is driven by rich vocal harmonies, driving rhythms, tasteful guitar work, and songs that celebrate hard work, friendship, love, loss, and life on the backroads. Whether performing in intimate listening rooms, packed honky-tonks, or regional festivals, The Lowtimers bring an honest, high-energy show that reflects their passion for roots music and genuine connection with fans.

With a growing catalog of original music and a loyal following throughout the Northwest, The Lowtimers continue to establish themselves as one of the region's standout independent bands. Their commitment to authentic songwriting and memorable live performances has earned them opportunities to share stages with established regional and national artists while steadily expanding their audience across the country.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:00

Come on. I'm a drinking and a driving and slipping in a grind down. On the soul is the trail bagging wheels, don't you fail them now? Well I'm a riding on the edge and there ain't no more white alliance. Well I'm a drinking in the driver and calling out your name tonight. Charlie Yeah, Charlie, please. Come take these keys. Somebody gonna do a mouth saw out?

SPEAKER_07 1:04

I got no mouth solo.

SPEAKER_06 1:06

There's a tree full of honey just a little ways up the road. Just enough for a taste because left and left you low. But it's enough to keep me going, get me warm, and it's frozen rain. Enough to make me feel like I just need to call out your name. Charlotte, Charlotte, please. Come take these keys and drive me home. Handbones all out.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_06 1:57

I got my mama boots and sinking up to knees. Cause all the bridges I've crossed, there ain't no whiskey left in the creeks. But there's a mine up ahead with just a little bit of mercury. Don't make me crazy enough to call your name down on my knees. Charlotte, Charlotte, please come take these keys. Drive me home. Charlotte Charlotte, please come take these keys and drive me home.

SPEAKER_05 3:04

Hey, welcome, music lovers, to Musical Miles Podcast. I'm your host, Byron Duffin, and I am here with the low timers. Hey guys, welcome. We're in downtown Boise, Seattle. You can hear all the sirens going on. We are getting lit up. Yeah, somebody is getting lit up. Wow. That just our timing's impactful, isn't it? So we are at we're in this cool little funky spot called the Nest at the jump, which is Jack's Urban Meeting Place. I don't know if you guys know anything about this guy. Jack Simplot is the man. Simplot, you know Simplot name? No. No, potatoes, big potato deal, right? They were big potato processors. But he was also big, he was big in uh microchips and uh very, very successful.

SPEAKER_06 3:49

That's about my big potatoes.

SPEAKER_05 3:51

He's the guy who donated all the money or the foundation did and built this cool place. So anyway, they've been gracious to let us come and do some interviews here. We're here for Tree Fort, which is uh very cool event. This is our first year. You guys been here before?

SPEAKER_07 4:06

Uh one other time, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 4:07

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_06 4:09

Tactic is a lot.

SPEAKER_05 4:11

Yeah, there is so much going on. 500 plus bands, uh 60 venues, and 940 some events. Can you imagine? I mean, it's just crazy. It is absolutely crazy. This is a Sunday. I'll just make sure that this is south by southwest, only north. Yeah, northwest northwest. Yeah, what a cool deal though. But you guys are from part of you are from Oregon, part of you from California, California, Oregon, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 4:42

Santa Cruz, yeah, well and Andrew and Austin both live in Santa Cruz, California.

SPEAKER_05 4:47

Andrew and Austin, Mark and Mark and Liam in Portland, Oregon. So how'd you guys get connected?

SPEAKER_06 4:54

Me and Austin have known each other since we were 20 years. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 5:01

Two years ago.

SPEAKER_06 5:01

Yeah, two years ago. Right? Right?

SPEAKER_05 5:03

Yeah, we grew up in San Diego together. Yeah, I'm only 24.

SPEAKER_07 5:08

Uh you grew up in San Diego together. Yeah. And then met Andrew. I met Andrew uh through a mutual fund and an old band like we used to pick around with a banjo player, Tim Kelso. Uh we used to start playing music together when Mark then moved up to Portland because we were kind of in Santa Cruz together. Okay. Mark and I moved.

SPEAKER_06 5:30

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We were doing a duo thing for a long time.

SPEAKER_05 5:36

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 5:37

Yeah, we got just being only having each other to yell at.

SPEAKER_05 5:42

Sure, so you need to add some guys to yell at. So Liam, Liam's the drummer, I'm taking it. Yeah, he's over here doing the knee slap stuff. That's cool. You play guitar, you play guitar, and you bass or upright. Upright bass, yeah. Upright. Upright bass. Yeah. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 6:01

I'd like to make that distinction. Yeah, no, there's a huge distinction.

SPEAKER_05 6:06

I always correct people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love with no frets. Yeah, I love that. That's uh well, yeah. You don't need frets on the upright bass, right? You know, because that's the real true bass. There we go. There you go. I appreciate the interview. Well, I'm trying to suck up. No, we we uh we unfortunately there's so much going on here. We don't get to see everybody we interview. Oh, yeah, unfortunately. That's crazy. And and plus we're old, so we don't stay up past you know, like 6 30. So we start early. It makes for long days. We were up till 2 last night. Yeah, I'm sure. When I when you and I were texting, I was surprised you answered me so early this morning. Did I wake you up?

SPEAKER_06 6:43

No, I'm I'm not a 2 a.m. at night guy, man. I like we played at 7 last night. I was like, this is great, you know. I'm gonna get to bed early, but obviously didn't happen today.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

Who'd you go see? Or did you just go?

SPEAKER_06 6:56

We went on, we saw some crazy bands. We saw this. That was cool.

SPEAKER_05 7:01

I wondered about that. How were how was that?

SPEAKER_06 7:04

Uh yeah. It was it was um super rad. Yeah, it was super rad.

SPEAKER_07 7:08

I was like trying to come up with a better word, but I don't know how I we were just running around in kind of a circle. Chatty and the Rough Riders, those guys are that was the one o'clock.

SPEAKER_06 7:17

That was the one o'clock.

SPEAKER_05 7:19

Yeah, we were we were trying to stay up the other night to go see Crosby, Jeff Crosby, and we've we've we've no we've interviewed Jeff on the podcast, but that's way, way past my bedtime. So uh midnight's when he was playing. And even and then we interviewed his brother uh and Andy yesterday, and even Andy said, Yeah, I didn't last. And he gets, you know, it's tough, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:41

Well, there's so much going on. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_06 7:44

We're not so good at tasting ourselves. So we'll see how we do tonight, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

So let's talk about your music though. So you guys connected early, a couple of you connected early on, and then had the others join you. But what what do you consider your genre of music?

SPEAKER_06 8:00

I don't know. Do you fit anywhere? I think we do. I mean, we're kind of like Americana. I think I think because we both write them together, Austin comes from a different school than I do, you know. So he's got a lot more like indie kind of influence, and I've got like a lot of more country influence.

SPEAKER_05 8:23

Indie Americana. Yeah, it's yeah. Well, I mean, but listen, and America Americana is very broad, yeah. It's a big broad stroke brush, right? So it you can paint it everything from indie to country, and it's a little mishmash of everything in there, right?

SPEAKER_07 8:40

It's hard to actually use that word.

SPEAKER_05 8:42

I mean, because it does. It's become the go-to word when you don't know. You don't want to paint yourself in the room.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

I think that it comes down to like instrumentation choice. Yeah, we have pedal steel. Oh, you do have bass steels, acoustic guitars, okay, and brush is on the bottom.

SPEAKER_06 9:00

A stand-up bass? A stand-up. We're basically jazz. You are a jazz jazz band, right?

SPEAKER_04 9:05

Yeah. On the road, like uh, you know, in California, people will be like, that's a country band. But then we'll go play Dry Town or we'll play some country. We'll play some of these like yeah, these like smaller towns, and they're like, this is a fuck band. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_05 9:22

Obviously, it depends on on the song that you're playing and what you've written. I mean, if it's a ballad, I'm price, it's probably a little more of a country feel to it.

SPEAKER_06 9:31

But if it's got you know, uh an up tempo song it's probably more a little bit more Yeah, we've got some stuff you can dance to, and then we got some stuff you uh Yeah, cry to or something. Yeah, yeah, what is what is it?

SPEAKER_05 9:44

Well that's what music's about, right? It it invokes emotions, everything from from from joy to tears, right? So um uh what who really influenced your music? I'm gonna start down here with you.

SPEAKER_04 9:56

Um you know, these guys are the main songwriters, Austin and Mark, and I I I I imagine Mark listens to uh No, but what do you listen to?

SPEAKER_05 10:04

But what do you listen? Oh me personally? Yeah, what what really influenced you as a kid? Obviously you play an upright bass, so did you play classical music? Yeah, yeah. Is that kind of your best?

SPEAKER_04 10:13

I started with classical and orchestras, got into got into that early and jazz.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:19

Uh went to I think I'm the only one who's done like music school stuff. I'm the resident like nerd. I'll be like, this is actually a six chord. Um we're doing this progression.

SPEAKER_05 10:30

And you and you understand yeah, music theory.

SPEAKER_04 10:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:34

I don't understand it. I I don't even have a spell music theory, so let alone know it and understand it.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

I'm the I'm the dork, and I end up being like, oh, we should do this, but you know, following the rules ends up, you know, sounding really generic. So I like the things they come up with without having theory typically are way better than some kind of theory guy with the scale dude.

SPEAKER_05 10:54

Yeah. That's it. Well, it yeah. Yeah, I'm amazed that the musicians who guitar players, because I'm a wannabe guitar player, right? I I've only been playing for a couple years, but you know, the guitar players that actually are performers that only know a handful of chords, you know. The the cowboy chords, yeah, you know, so moneymakers. True, true, yeah. You go back to those old school musicians, but okay, so who did you listen to growing up?

SPEAKER_07 11:22

Um a lot of things. I mean, yeah, I don't know. I think just a lot of Sun Records uh artists, like the Carl Perkins, the Johnny Cass. Okay, okay, okay, the old school stuff.

SPEAKER_06 11:38

Jerry Lee Lewis, yeah, so like into the Indies stuff, too.

SPEAKER_07 11:41

And then I was, yeah, I mean got a little older, right? Yeah, and then I was got really into Dylan and you know, all this the that whole New York style of 60s folk music, okay, that sort of stuff. Okay. Uh alongside just listening to like 80s punk hardcore. Really?

SPEAKER_05 12:01

And like so you have a very eclectic taste in music.

SPEAKER_07 12:04

Yeah, and then like on like just old Tin Pan Alley RBs, you know, from the 40s.

SPEAKER_05 12:11

Did that stuff come, the influence come from your parents?

SPEAKER_07 12:14

Just introduce. No, well, I mean they listen to like yeah, the boomers stuff. The Eagles, dude, the Eagles. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:24

I'm on the end of the boomer. Yeah, the Eagles, the Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, the Star Trek's little. I mean, Fleetwood Mac, I love Fleetwood Mac too, but uh, I've seen Stevie Nick's live. It's like me cry a couple weeks ago.

SPEAKER_07 12:37

So it was very melody-driven music in that seven, you know, like I've seen fine, I've seen it. You know, and you're just like, oh, I don't know what this is, but my mom is crying too.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 12:48

This is this is good. It's probably good. Yeah. So um so music like that. Okay, okay. I I don't know, I don't really want to.

SPEAKER_06 12:56

What my supposed like local San Diego band, like the is that drive like J's and like Yeah, I mean I that was when Mark and I were living in San Diego.

SPEAKER_07 13:04

Sure. I mean, during the formative years, you know, you want to go see music and you can go kind of cut your teeth on how people are performing. With the big acts, you know, you're like, oh, but I wanted something closer, so there's like a lot of just small acts in San Diego to go see.

SPEAKER_05 13:20

Um the music scene's way different in Southern California than it is. Yeah. Well, everywhere.

SPEAKER_06 13:24

I mean, you we don't do very well down there.

SPEAKER_05 13:26

And I well, and we don't we've yet to go down there and do any interviews and really explore the music teacher show. The music scene in Boise, Idaho is expanding. It's pretty damn and it's and it's way different than Idaho Falls, which is where we live. Oh, cool. We just started because we we've been doing this podcast less than two years, but we fell in love with the songwriter rounds, and we just started hosting songwriter rounds in Idaho Falls. Nobody'd ever done that.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

Oh wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:52

Can you imagine a place that had never done the songwriter rounds? But but anyway, that's that's what we lean to. But we love live music, so it doesn't matter what it is, everything from Andre Bocelli to you know, so I mean we've we've seen some pretty cool stuff. Nice, you know, but uh the songwriter deal was weak.

SPEAKER_06 14:10

So so you're you guys kind of line up yeah, I mean I grew up on more like the old rock and roll stuff that my dad was showing me AC Scorpions, like the 80s. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:22

I saw the Scorpions live. Dude sick. And and uh Matthias Jabs was like the guitarist crazy name. Who were they with? Who were they with? They played oh uh Motley Crue. Oh yeah, yeah. In Black Phil. Yeah, and we actually met the Scorpions at a restaurant the night before the concert. And they gave my son backstage bastards, not me.

SPEAKER_06 14:43

But anyway, uh so that kind of stuff, and then uh uh I think I like learned how to sing mostly singing to like Elvis Costello and Hate Williams. I just had these records that I played in the car. It was bad for a while. But then I, you know, meeting Austin, he like kind of introduced me to like Bob Dylan and Towns and Towns. Yeah, you know, that opened up a whole rabbit hole for me to go down that I wasn't really exposed to. Yeah, in the writing game of ruining your life.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

How'd you how'd you get into Fred Eagle Smith? You that's a huge guy for you.

SPEAKER_06 15:21

Yeah, I don't know who the hell showed me in, dude.

SPEAKER_04 15:24

I've never been heard of him.

SPEAKER_06 15:25

Oh, dude, you gotta check out Fred Eaglesmith. Okay. I really love him. Tim's great. Yeah, yeah, that might have been Tim. Uh Fred Eaglesmith is great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:34

How about you? You got Alan Jackson t-shirt on.

SPEAKER_03 15:37

I do, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:38

You you big country guy?

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Uh I listened to a lot of 90s country when I was younger. Okay. That was kind of your. That was like all my friend's parents, like. Oh, I'm from Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Oh, from Wisconsin?

SPEAKER_03 15:50

I'm the only one from the Midwest.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Yeah, and all my my mom would listen to pretty much only Christian radio. So when I would go to my friends' houses and they were playing like redneck music.

SPEAKER_05 16:04

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

So I listened to a lot of 90s country from that time. And then I, you know, grew up a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:11

So I started to like well, you know, 90s country, when you know, if you talk to a lot of guys that lean towards country, 90s is probably the biggest, biggest influence of the country. I mean, there were yeah, I mean Cash and Carl Perkins and Pearl Hagger. Pearl Hagger. Yeah, those are the Bakersfield sound, you know.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

And there's that stripped back stuff more like the place in the towns. Sure. Like from the Midwest, because like John Cryan was huge. My grandpa had every jump. John Crying. Yeah. But mostly like punk and hardcore. Okay. I played in like power rounds.

SPEAKER_05 16:45

Well, you I was gonna tell you, so Alan Jackson, we actually got to you know his song, Don't Rock the Jickbox, right? Oh yeah, yeah. Well, we got to interview the guy who wrote that with Alan Jackson. Yeah. Yeah, he he's actually a Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter by the name of Philip Murrah. Yeah, not Philip Murrah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:01

Uh Roger Murrah. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. I'm a little early. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm merging two. Philip Wagons and Roger Murrah. Great songwriters, both of them. But anyway, um uh yeah, it's cool to to see you know the influences that that influence your music. And and you know, as a as a listener, not so much a musician, we like I say, we everything from Prince to to Andre Bocelli to you know, I don't know, scorpions, the scorpions, yeah. So yeah, so how old were you guys when you started playing instruments, guitar?

SPEAKER_07 17:42

Uh uh I have three older brothers, so they all played music. Oh, did they? Okay, so you're pretty young. Yeah, I was just like, oh, I want to do that. Sure. Sure.

SPEAKER_05 17:53

So do they find are they touring musicians as well?

SPEAKER_07 17:56

Or one of them still kind of is. I mean, they're all older brothers, so they're kind of like settling with families and making life decisions, you know, but making actual money. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:09

Uh one of my brothers is still playing music like a well let's talk about that making money part of it. Because the music business is up. Okay. I I you don't have to pull, you don't have to pull the wool over my eyes when it comes to the music and the money side of things, because streaming has been so good and so bad at the same time. Yeah, it's it's such a double-edged sword. It is a truly a double-edged sword because there are so many artists out there. Well, even I talk about the songwriters. Songwriters used to make their money from spins on the radio and the mechanicals, right? The presses. There's no more mechanicals.

SPEAKER_06 18:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:45

I mean, people are starting, the vinyl's coming back.

SPEAKER_06 18:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:48

And we're starting to hear that. You guys, you guys doing vinyl with your albums? Yeah. Well, that's cool. We're two of them.

SPEAKER_06 18:55

I mean, we've kind of had to like wrap our mind around like we're a t-shirt store and we play music to sell t-shirts. Listen, listen.

SPEAKER_05 19:03

I tell everybody that. Listen, go to the concert if you can buy the ticket. It depends on the on the venue where you're at, whether you get part of the the door or whatever it is. But your merch, well, and even some of the venues. You're part of that part of that.

SPEAKER_06 19:16

But I tell everybody's a cut of the alcohol sale, which is bullshit, too.

SPEAKER_05 19:20

But you know what? Go go. I tell people go to the concert, put 20 bucks in the tip jar, right? Buy a t-shirt, because it takes, I think of my last numbers. I figured it took 6,000 streams to make the same money you make off a t-shirt.

SPEAKER_06 19:37

Yeah, it's about it's about a thousand streams is like three bucks.

SPEAKER_05 19:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:43

Yeah. So still. So 10,000 streams is a t-shirt. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

Yeah. So I mean, to really help people understand, you know, they've got, well, I'm really helping because I I downloaded your last album. Oh, yeah. That really helped you. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:57

Yeah. Well, if you that that like Bandcamp, you know, is great. They take a small percentage for, you know, letting us use the services, and that's that's fine. So if you go like buy the album on Bandcamp, that helps.

SPEAKER_05 20:08

That's okay. That I needed, I don't understand Bandcamp because that's but I I know about it, but I just don't know. So so it gives you you they just take a small percentage.

SPEAKER_06 20:18

Yeah. And and Bandcamp is also good because they'll push your music out to people that wouldn't purge you anyways. Right. So that kind of percentage ends up working out anyways, where it's like, oh, you know, they keep a small percentage of this. But they did show the album to this person that didn't know who us who we were and wouldn't have bought it anyway.

SPEAKER_05 20:35

And they ended up buying the album. Well, and it's like that's what our ultimate goal is, is to introduce artists like you, independent artists or or lesser-known artists, out to our followers and hopefully we get you some new fans, right? Or both. Yeah. So you are both independently uh under a record label?

SPEAKER_06 20:54

Uh no, we're just no, you're we have our we have our own kind of record label. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 20:59

Which is cool.

SPEAKER_06 20:59

Yeah. Way she goes, record note. It's just us on there.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Well, go sign some more uh uh artists.

SPEAKER_06 21:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

Use more work. Yeah, don't show the hand, man. I'm the PR guy. I'm not the bass player.

unknown 21:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:16

More work well. There's a lot of work in this no matter what you do. So if you're the PR guy, if you're doing the the website, everyone wears multiple hats. What do you have to do? What do you think we do in the podcast? You know what I mean? And there's we have we do have some sponsors, but not very big dollar sponsors, right? They help it help put a little bit of gas in the in the yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:36

I mean, that's any any little bit, how so yeah. You just apply to Taco Bell does this thing where they're they they do this thing, feed the beat, where they like they give I don't know, I guess they give you free tacos on the road. It's like, we'll take it. Well anything helps, right?

SPEAKER_03 21:52

It's like a scholarship, it's like five hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Taco Bell in the lyrics, and let's go Taco Bell.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

What's up? There you go. Well, it's crazy because we actually one of our corporate sponsors is Stetson. Oh, that's a great one. And uh, but Ms. Shanda works for Stetson during the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas has for 18 years, right? So it took a lot of a lot of convincing to write us a check. But Stetson, Roper, and Tinhall, they're all under a brand out of Denver, Colorado. So that it all helps. And then the guitar company, uh Closed Guitar out of Provo, Utah, they uh they don't pay us anything, but they gave me that cool guitar. And if somebody buys one on our uh sounds good as a drum, yeah, yeah. Anyone with this drum wants to sponsor it. Well, every yeah, that's well, it always takes it takes those. You know what's crazy is that the rodeo cowboys all get like fuel sponsors.

SPEAKER_06 22:52

I mean, yeah, musicians too. I mean, yeah, you know, yeah, I mean most of our most of our money goes in the gas tank. We have a giant van.

SPEAKER_05 22:58

Oh yeah, yeah. Well, it's not cheap to roll down the road. And then you end up having that that's your that's your bed, right? You sleep in that thing most of the time. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:07

Sometimes if we have to, we're getting a little older to where it's like I'd rather spend the money, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:11

We're lucky Austin's like an amazing craftsman. He built out like Murphy bunk beds and shit.

SPEAKER_06 23:20

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

That's what I think.

SPEAKER_05 23:23

Can't do anything about the smell in there, but uh well they say after about a month, four or five guys living in a van, it's not gonna smell too good. No. Sometimes even, yeah. They say sort of uh acid feed, right?

SPEAKER_06 23:37

And and uh we had one guy, we had him put his shoes on the top of the van. We had we had socks hanging from the rearview mirror, so if you tie them off so they pair out, and then we put the boots up top and not allowed in the van.

SPEAKER_05 23:54

The things you do from the love of music. Yeah, right. Well, so uh you've got two albums that you've pressed. Other albums, too?

SPEAKER_06 24:03

We've got Well, we did we changed our name last year for we were Smith and Taggio when we were just doing the duos with Smith Mark Taggio. Yeah. Um and then we so we released two albums under that name.

SPEAKER_05 24:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 24:19

And then we just re we did like the name change, and we just released our first album under the low timers last May.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 24:26

So we got one or two or three. I don't know, however you want to look at it.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Okay. We have one as the low timers. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we still have songs.

SPEAKER_05 24:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:44

Well, um, so where are you going when you leave Boise Ido from Treefort? Where are you at? Yeah. We're Seattle, yeah, Everett.

SPEAKER_06 24:54

Yeah. We got a few dates in May. It's been a been a kind of a mellow year. Has it?

SPEAKER_05 25:01

So far, yeah. Okay. So are you guys still doing you doing all your own booking and all your own providing marketing? Everything's in-house. Everything's in-house.

SPEAKER_07 25:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:11

Besides. Well, that's the way most they depend on artists are, right? Yeah. There's a few that have somebody book their music for them, book their gigs for them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 25:20

So, but uh I mean with with I mean there's little helps here and there, you know. Yeah. Mostly it's it's true.

SPEAKER_06 25:27

It's it's a lot in-house, yeah. Uh but a booking would be great if anyone's listening. I would I wouldn't know I'd gladly pay 10% to not have to do this anymore. Yeah. Really? Well, yeah, we're nightmare.

SPEAKER_05 25:43

Well, I can imagine that you know some of the venues. So where are some of your favorite places to play? You guys have bunch of Tree Fort, obviously, is up there for sure.

SPEAKER_06 25:54

You do a lot in Dortmund and Santa Cruz and Central Coast, like uh Pasarobos, Templeton area.

SPEAKER_05 26:03

Pasarobles. I used to live not too far inland from Pasarobles. We used to live in Wasco, California. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:12

So there's a venue in the Tascadera that we like to always stop in that.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Yeah, Templeton. Or Templeton, sorry. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_05 26:20

Yeah, Templeton. So, um I like to ask this question, and I'll put everybody on the spot. Who would you love to work with dead? Obviously, there you can't work with them, but who would you like to work with in music history that's since passed?

SPEAKER_04 26:37

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 26:38

Starting with the upright basement.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

That's a deep question. I mean, Whaling just jumps up. That whole crew like running around with those guys would be so fun. Oh my god. They're pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_06 26:54

They'd be an old whaling drinking.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

They'd have like Billy Joe Shaver around, make him test out all the drugs before they took it and stuff. Like that'd be a fun group to run. I'd probably be the Billy Joe Shaver.

SPEAKER_06 27:11

Oh wow. Wasted on Jin. It was a very uh it was like a seated show, very proper, and we were not proper.

SPEAKER_05 27:18

Oh you were wasted on Jim, not Jin, not him. I don't know what the hell he was a little bit. I was wasted on Jin, I don't know what uh okay, so Wayland and the in the Half off. How about you? Uh oh man.

unknown 27:32

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 27:34

Come on, you gotta have somebody who no way. Um I don't know, maybe I probably just have to wanna be a fly on the wall when town was dancing, is writing the song. Oh, dude, that wouldn't say that.

SPEAKER_05 27:58

That would be that would be there's a lot of people, you know, dead or alive. Yeah, no. Well, we're coming back to the alive one. Okay, so dead.

SPEAKER_06 28:06

A dead? Oh, a dead one. Oh shit. I had my alive one. Dead one.

SPEAKER_05 28:11

Well, these guys have been talking about dead guys, so you should you had time.

SPEAKER_06 28:16

I was gonna mix it up and go alive.

SPEAKER_07 28:19

So we're gonna give you that chance. Mozart. Shit, dude.

SPEAKER_06 28:23

Oh Mozart. Yeah, that would be pretty cool. Um like probably probably towns. I would that whole crew that like that Heartworn Highways, you know, uh crew, that would have been uh pretty cool to Guy Clark?

SPEAKER_05 28:40

Yeah, Guy Clark. Guy Clark was they say one of the greatest songwriters ever. Yeah, yeah. And and uh you know, there's a guy here in town, Johnny Shoes, who won a Guy Clark contest and got to write a song with guy. Wow. So I got I've yet to interview Johnny, but yeah, cool dude.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

I feel like you'd want to hang out with Jimmy Buffett. You know what? He strike me as a Jimmy.

SPEAKER_06 29:05

I think he liked the fish, dude. I'd go kick it in March. I know. You'd love to know the fish. Yeah, me and Jimmy Buffett did. I call Jimmy Buffett.

SPEAKER_05 29:12

That's why he that's why he was there was the fishing game. I know him and his brother-in-law, Tom McGwayne. Tom McGwain's a great, uh, still alive, and he's a great author.

SPEAKER_06 29:21

Mission Bell fishing shirt, all right. There you go.

SPEAKER_05 29:23

There you go. So go fish for some tarpon and some uh me and Jimmy Buffett in the show saying about Margarita Bell D. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

All right, Sandy. Alright, who you got? Uh I think mine might be a little more outside the box. Do it. I think um there's this psychedelic Brazilian band that is like my favorite band ever. And they're from like the early 70s. And the primary songwriter's name is Borais Loretta.

SPEAKER_04 29:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

And he's like just this trippy ass Samba kind of psychedelia artist, and it's like if I'm at home actually playing my instrument for fear me, joy, yeah, I play that.

SPEAKER_05 30:03

Cool. So I think it's that's a great that's a great answer. Okay, yeah, alive. Who are we going with? Oh, shit.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

I was like, I used to go first. Yeah, make Liam go. Liam, you go back to the Liam?

SPEAKER_03 30:18

Um, I think alive artists, yeah. Uh probably I don't even know if he plays with a drummer live or not, but I'm speaking like solely for working with the if you woke up tomorrow morning and had an email from this who would the artist be?

SPEAKER_05 30:38

Tom Mish. Tom Mish.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Yeah, Tom Mish. He's a new kind of like a funk artist from Guitar player.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

I think from Britain? I think he's from Britain.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

It's kind of a high hiatus kind of thing right now. He's been out for maybe like three years just doing a drummer. He might need a drummer when he comes back, but it's uh it's just very soulful, very sexy, very cool.

SPEAKER_07 31:00

He is very swag. That's a good one. All right, that was a good one.

SPEAKER_06 31:04

Uh alive. I think like working with Dave Cobb. Dave Cobb producer. Okay. Yeah, generally the Jason H.

SPEAKER_05 31:15

Oh really? Yeah, is this uh is he an LA guy or uh in Nashville? Okay. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_06 31:22

Haven't done that much research. I can't afford him.

SPEAKER_05 31:24

Yeah, well, there's always yeah, but the this is the dream job, the dream artist. Alright. Up queue up. No my business. Come on. This again, he's a very indecisive guy, Austin is. How do you get him to write music with you?

SPEAKER_07 31:38

He's like, hey, give me some songs.

SPEAKER_06 31:41

Where's your songs? Two we're coming up, dude. Yeah, we're gonna record. I don't know. Just get under the gun. Yeah. Andy, what do you got?

SPEAKER_07 31:53

Yeah, um, come back to me.

SPEAKER_04 31:55

Uh I mean, I don't dude, if I got called by like murder by death or something, they have a they have an amazing band already, but they're such a cool, like gothic country, not gothic country, gothic like folk band with a cellist. They're really good.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 32:11

They're cool style, I don't know. I'd be into that band. Okay.

unknown 32:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

Yeah, I got mine.

SPEAKER_07 32:17

Alright, I would I would I would definitely love to work with all of those. Oh, yeah, dude. Yeah. Everybody's alive. Yeah, yeah. That would be so cool. That'd be a great thing. Just the question, you know, because he's got so many different eras of food. Sure. Totally. He's from San Diego. It's been around forever. Yeah, and uh and just the San Diego boy, too. So national. See it on the right answer.

SPEAKER_06 32:38

You went to Mission Bay High. Wow. Which is what you know. That's the high school fast time centeries when I was based on.

SPEAKER_05 32:45

Oh, that's the one. Okay. That was a great movie.

SPEAKER_06 32:51

I don't listen to me, dude. I'm not a movie class. But yeah, I don't want to be.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

Well, all great answers, and you know what? This has been fun. It's it's always interesting and a unique situation to sit down with four people at the same time, right? Yeah. I I can pull I can pull the questions out of uh one or two pretty easy, even a shag. But but sometimes when you get four of you in the room, it's uh which we're not really in a room. So but anyway, no, this has been cool. Thanks for taking the time. Yeah, thank you so much for our pleasure. Yeah, it's it's cool, and uh, and we look forward to following your music. Where can they find your music, obviously?

SPEAKER_06 33:27

Uh Spotify, Bandcamp. Uh go to our website, thelowtimers.com. Okay. You can get tour dates. You can get if you can buy our merch if you want to support us. We got links to everything. Um perfect.

SPEAKER_05 33:41

Yeah, perfect. Well, that that's great. Well, guys, thanks again for joining us. We are coming to you from downtown Boise, Idaho, at the Tree Fork Fest. And I'm your host, Byron Duffin. Here with the Low Timers, we'll see you somewhere down the road. Adios for now. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

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