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In this intimate edition of rBeatz Live, host Greazy Keys welcomes North Carolina singer-songwriter Courtney Puckettand guitarist Bo Sigman for a conversation about creativity, songwriting, and finding your voice.
Courtney shares how growing up between New Jersey and North Carolina shaped her music, how Charlotte's thriving indie community became home, and why collaboration has become central to her creative process.
The episode also features beautiful live performances of original songs including:
• Stardew
• Chess Game (Working Title)
• Misconceptions
• How Do You Feel
Whether you're an artist, songwriter, or simply someone who loves authentic music, this episode offers an inspiring look into the creative process behind one of North Carolina's emerging voices.
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✨ Growing up between New Jersey and North Carolina
🎸 Discovering songwriting through guitar, jazz and creative writing
🌿 Building a career in Charlotte's indie folk scene
🎼 Creating music inspired by memory, nostalgia and everyday life
🎵 Live performances of original songs
🤝 Collaboration, community and finding your musical family
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🎵 Stardew
♟️ Chess Game (Working Title)
🌧️ Misconceptions
❤️ How Do You Feel
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Hey there, I am Delta Sigma, part of the DJ World Beats experience, right here on hashtag local music somewhere with host Greasy Keys, brought to you by RBeats.com.
SPEAKER_04Thank you so much, Delta Sigma. Hey, this is Greasy Keys. We're in the RB Rbeats suite. Thrilled to have uh our good friends Courtney, uh Courtney Puckett and Bo Sigman. Welcome, guys. Thanks for coming in and and uh kind of giving us uh a little bit of your your story and your music today.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we're excited.
SPEAKER_04Uh Courtney, you are like an emerging North Carolina singer-songwriter who has become part of Charlotte's growing indie and folk community. Um so give us a little bit of your background. Are you originally from North Carolina?
SPEAKER_03Um, I was actually born in New Jersey, but I've lived here most of my life. Right on. Um moved here when I was 10 and lived in Rockwell, North Carolina. So went from you know, right outside of Philadelphia to Rockwell. Um if you're not familiar, it's a very small. Where's Rockwell?
SPEAKER_04Is that close by?
SPEAKER_03No. Uh it's very small. It's like maybe 40 minutes from here, um north, and it's just yeah, it's tiny. But yeah, grew up there. Um and yeah.
SPEAKER_04Are you from a musical family? Is it has music been a b a big part of your background growing up? What was your process in becoming uh you know, interested in music?
SPEAKER_03Well, my um parents weren't really musicians, but my sister became a really great saxophone player. Um started at like in fourth grade, she started playing. Um because in New Jersey we had like that kind of program for younger kids. Uh so she was playing saxophone and I think I was like inspired by her.
SPEAKER_01Right on.
SPEAKER_03Um so I started taking like private guitar lessons um when I was like twelve.
SPEAKER_01Right on.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, I kind of started as a kid just really enjoying like the creative outlet that that brought for me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Who were some of your early influences on guitar and singing?
SPEAKER_03So honestly, it's the these influences probably don't come in as much now. Right. But at that time as a 12-year-old, I really liked like System of a Down and like stuff like that. Like uh you know, Green Day. Um just like I was really angsty, you know. Right.
SPEAKER_04So a little hard edge punk rock.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I actually started an electric guitar. Yeah. Um so I never played acoustic till maybe high school.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_03Um, so yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well your current style, you know, some words that describe it, you know, are like dream folk, indie folk, uh jazz inspired. So where where was where did that transition kind of begin for you with going from those harder influences into a more jazzy or folky sound?
SPEAKER_03Um so I was in jazz band, I played the clarinet in school. Well, there you go. Um and so I played the clarinet, might play it at some point with the group, we'll see. Nice. But um and so that was part of it. Um my grandpa listened to a lot of uh old jazz music when I was a kid, like uh fat swallower and Harlem kind of jazz. Uh so I think that that was like ingrained in some in me young. But then, you know, and as I got a little older, I was like, that really is nostalgic and special to me. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04So when did songwriting kind of come into play for you?
SPEAKER_03Um, I was always a writer. I like to write pretty young, um, like creative writing poems and stuff like that. Uh started writing really writing my own original music about 11 years ago. Um I think it just you know, I liked playing music, I liked singing, and so I was like, I just want to keep creating and so yeah.
SPEAKER_04Fantastic. Um and you uh recorded and released uh some singles in an EP not too long ago. Tell us about that process.
SPEAKER_03Um so I have uh another band that I've worked with for a long time called Paper Wasp. And we put out an album before uh I want to say it was like 2019.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And um so that was really fun. And I think just the more I got into music, the more I wanted to play. And so I thought a good outlet would be to play some solo stuff. And so I started writing my own kind of album and brought on some cool musicians from um from different places. And so I have like a really good fiddle player on there, for example, named Carrie Webster. Um it's kinda it's kind of a lot of bluegrass musicians, really. But uh they ended up playing jazz for this record. But uh we're just all friends in the community, and so we just all kind of got together and um I like I said, I kind of wrote those songs for that album, sort of, and then put it out. It took took about a year to do all that. Um and we did that at um Snug Records Studio.
SPEAKER_04Fantastic. Yeah. Oh, I love uh Dave, right? Uh is it Dave that has that the same thing?
SPEAKER_03So his name is Eddie. Eddie, that's right. Eddie Snug.
SPEAKER_04Eddie Snugged. Eddie Snug, yeah. Yeah. Sorry, Dave.
SPEAKER_03That's okay.
SPEAKER_04He's got I I've had a chance to record there as well, and what a great spot in his home, you know, right there near the rock quarry and and all that kind of stuff. It's really, really neat.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Is that inspiring to kind of be there and oh yeah, it's very nice. Relax relaxing for you guys. Oh, yeah. Comfortable.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and the his style is very laid back. You don't feel I mean you no, you don't feel like that red light fever or whatever, like that kind of like pressure to make it perfect right away. Like he gives you the space to make it the way you want. So very cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And so you've been playing a lot of solo shows mostly lately, but now you've kind of put together a band around yourself, right? Including Mr. Bo Sigman over here on guitar.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Bo, you're a fantastic guitarist. We've had a chance to share on the stage in different outfits over the past couple of years, man. And uh it's really cool to have you here in the studio and uh and and supporting Courtney. How did you guys uh uh come around to work together?
SPEAKER_05Well, I was uh I started playing Charlotte a couple years ago, me and uh Daisy B. Daisy B music. We started playing together. We played together for a couple of years, and then uh Courtney had actually reached out to us to uh open for her, I think, right? And we were at a point where we were not gonna be playing anymore. So I was looking for a new project, and it sounded like Courtney was looking for a new project. So we uh got together and I really liked Courtney's stuff and we just kind of clicked and went from there.
SPEAKER_04So you're in the process where we talked before we started the show, you know, you got it rehearsals and you'd be really, really putting your nose to the grindstone, working out some songs and working up a set. Um so how's that process been going for you guys?
SPEAKER_03It's been going really well. Um we actually are playing some of their songs that they wrote as well. So some of the songs Daisy wrote we'll be playing. And she has a really cool songwriting style, so it's fun to sing and work on the songs that someone else wrote. Yeah. Um so yeah, she's very talented, very good artist. Um so it's been really good, and then we have a lot of things that I've written, and then the guys are like creating cool like parts, and we're like, let's change this, or we could like you know, kind of make it different, and it's nice to collaborate and and make it something that you couldn't come up by uh up with by yourself, you know.
SPEAKER_04Any challenges in that?
SPEAKER_03I sometimes get stuck with the way the song is sounding when I'm working on it, so that's my main mental like block. So like I just gotta like release control.
SPEAKER_04Right. There you go. Yeah, that isn't that is not easy for an art, especially as a singer-songwriter. I can see, you know, you kind of come in with maybe a song in your in your mind the way you expect it, you know, maybe not even even beyond just the chords and the lyrics, but you know, instrumentation. And when you have other people's ideas kind of come into play, I can see where, you know, that can be a challenge to kind of relinquish or negotiate.
SPEAKER_03But luckily, luckily they've all been really good and added a lot that I can't really, you know.
SPEAKER_04Right on.
SPEAKER_03I can't be mad about it because it sounds so good.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's cool. Well, hey, why don't you grab your guitar and let's let's let's delve into some live performance with you guys and and and hear what you've been working on. And and thank you for the opportunity to to join with you guys today. It's really cool.
SPEAKER_05Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, what what's your first song?
SPEAKER_03Okay, so this one is called Stardew. Um should I like give little descriptions? Sure, go ahead. Okay, please, yeah.
SPEAKER_04This is your time to please let us all know what's going on and and and there's there's no rambling. You can just talk and let us know. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_03Um so uh as I said, I grew up in Rockwell, that's where my grandparents lived. Um and I was driving down 52, which is like a highway, um, and it's kind of a main road in Rockwell, and their house is on there. They they passed away several years ago, but their house is still there.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_03And that house is the last house standing. Um it's just like that, and then Dollar General on his own, you know.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Um, so yeah, um, it's just a beautiful house they built in the 60s, and I was driving past it and I kind of just had this sort of sentimental feeling like this one day is gonna be gone, you know. Um so that was kind of the feeling behind the song. And then I also like to play the game Stardew Valley, which is like a video game. Um, and in that game, you are um working a corporate job and you find out you've inherited your grandfather's farm. Yes. So you move or you quit your job and you start up this farm. So I feel like that has similar energy as far as like kind of wanting a more simple life a little bit, like that's great.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. All right, let's get it.
SPEAKER_03So that's what's called Stardew.
SPEAKER_04Cool.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02There's a house from the mid-century where my mind often takes me. It's up on a hill. Is it even real? Or is it in my dreams? There are resilience in the front yow did things get so high, man. I don't know. Try not to let it show. Can you take me to the mini bar? You make my eyes look like star y but you can probably see what you do to me. And everything will feel so dry. Well, when it does, I hope that it flies as we stare at the sky. You make my eyes look like star too. Trying not to tell you, but you can probably see what you do to me. Trying not to tell you, but you can probably see what you do to me.
SPEAKER_04Beautiful.
SPEAKER_03Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Very I mean, I literally got chills through that one. That was awesome. What a great sentiment, great song. Fantastic.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Beautiful, beautiful. Um so what tell us a little bit about your live performances. Like uh, do you uh do you prefer performing solo versus with a band?
SPEAKER_03Um no, but I love playing with a band.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, but I mean I like playing solo um if it makes sense in the moment.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Um, but I also play with a trio. Um we do a str a string band. Oh, cool. Um Tommy Farmer on mandolin and Eric Webster on upright bass.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_03Um, so we do things around um so that's been really fun. And yeah, I was like, I want to add like an electric full band to the mix. So I think I just love to play and perform, so I'm just like different like avenues for that. So I wouldn't say I have a favorite, but I do love playing with a group.
SPEAKER_04Right. And with those different groups, are you playing totally different songs or are you are you sort of reinterpreting your your other original songs in different ways? How does that work?
SPEAKER_03So I so some of the songs that we're working on as a as a full band, we play as that trio, but mostly we're kind of coming up with new stuff. It was my goal. Um so I've been just writing a lot and sending him a lot of voice notes. And I'm like just like, here's another one I randomly came up with, like, and he'll send me stuff. And so we're just kind of like wanting to get some fresh stuff going. And then for the little the trio, I kind of write for maybe more acoustic, like I like with the intent like this is gonna have a mandolin kind of vibe, you know.
SPEAKER_04Uh and with your songwriting process, I love that you mentioned that. Do you literally just are just taking notes as things kind of pop into your head, or is there a more uh, you know, long drawn out process? I mean, do you write the music first or do you do lyrics first? How does that work for you? Is there a r a system?
SPEAKER_03Um, I'm very chaotic, so I don't know that I have a system, but um I do a lot of voice notes. I know a lot of people do that these days. Just like come up with a melody, I'll sing it in my phone, um, and then think about it later. Um my notes app has this random lines. And um, like for example, with that one, um, I just like the idea of Sardew being the chorus and I like the melody kind of that's kind of how I came up with it, and then I like you know, built on that sentiment. So I don't know. I'm just kind of it just kind of comes. Right, you know?
SPEAKER_04Right, right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Very cool, very cool. Let's try another song.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Now this one doesn't really have a title yet. We've been calling it chess game. Um, I wrote it because I really enjoy playing chess. And uh we me and my husband went to play um at the Plaza Midwood Chess Club meetup at Common Market in Charlotte. So shout out to them if you play chess and you're in the Charlotte area. They meet Thursday nights.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_03Um, but anyways, we it was just such a cool, like chill vibe. Like sometimes with chess meetups, it's like really stuffy and quiet.
SPEAKER_04Sure, I can imagine it could be kind of uh intense. I understand that.
SPEAKER_03But like with this, everybody's just hanging out and talking. And anyway, it was like a cool date night for me and my husband. So I thought I was like, it'd be fun to write like a sultry chess uh song.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Make and chess sexy, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, making chess sexy. All right. So do we start this together?
SPEAKER_05I think you usually start it.
SPEAKER_03Cool. All right.
SPEAKER_02You got me in pieces, sitting across the table. I'll love you as long as I'm able. Why you getting a right? You got what I need I'll let you leave me. You got what I need, don't let you leave me. In this chest cake. Um open, I'm open, and I'm open, I'm open, and I can still feel the same. Um, I'm not sure. Where are my penny loafers? Tapping away, wondering what you're about to say. That's my man. You got what I need I'll let you leave me. You got what I need I'll let you lead me in this chest and I'm a bed and I'm hoping I'm a pen You still feel the sick. And this chest cake. Um open um open. And I'm hoping I'm open. And you still feel I'm hoping I'm open.
SPEAKER_00Kind of haunting. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Very cool. Uh not too many songs written about chess. I was thinking about it. It's like the only other song I know of is uh One Night in Bangkok. So there we go.
SPEAKER_03Oh, and I was gonna say if any of the listeners have song titled names for that, um, feel free to s tell us because I was thinking like something chess related, like a move or maybe a famous chess player could just be like the title. Right. So if anybody has thoughts, let us know.
SPEAKER_04Nice. And that that brings a good point. Where where can folks find you online? Where what's the best place where people can follow along and keep up with you? Or reach out to you and communicate with you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, right now um my Instagram is at Courtney Puckett Music and um you can Reach out to me on booking Courtney Puckett Music at gmail.com. Um, and I will announce our project on that page when we start creating an online presence.
SPEAKER_01Cool.
SPEAKER_03We haven't started that process yet. Right. Um, we're kind of playing with the idea of being almost more of an analog kind of vibe, like we'll have like a website, like a landing page with like a blog or something. Right. Just as a thought. We don't know. But that was like an idea I had. Um, but I'll announce all that on like my Instagram page. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Fantastic. Yeah. Um, and so you've been a part of an emerging artist here in the Charlotte community for a few years. Um how has Charlotte influenced your music and your writing at all?
SPEAKER_03Um, I think that I really like the artistic atmosphere of Charlotte. Um there is so much diversity and like people are just very welcoming. I I feel like every time I've played, I've mends, you know, or you know, going out to the chess meetup, like people are really welcoming there. I love Paws in Midland a lot. Like that's probably one of my favorite places to hang out or nota. So um but yeah, I just think that it's like it's southern, but at the same time urban, you know. Um so I think that that kind of correlation is something that I really resonate with as someone from a more urban area as a child coming to the south.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I think I really just connect with the kind of culture of Charlotte in that way.
SPEAKER_04And definitely I've noticed I've been in Charlotte since the late 90s, and you know, it's always been a small city, uh, but particularly lately in the past four or five years, in those areas you mentioned, you know, Plaza Midwood and Nodot, it's really become a lot more uh just uh full, full of people, you know, a lot more uh uh just but yeah you have these great venues who are you know still able to provide music and an outlet for musicians. Um but have you seen personally any changes in the the audience with with that kind of growth for at your personal shows that you've done?
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, I definitely feel like we sell we've been selling more tickets with all the people the influx of people, which has been really nice. Um like we played at uh Petra's a little while back and had a great crowd for that. Um I think another cool thing is the Charlotte musicians really kind of come together and it's like not really a competition, it's more like a community.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03And so I like that because like you could like reach out to someone that you really like and you know just ask them, like, hey, would you like to do a show? And pretty much most people write down to do stuff and eve you know, it's just very uh like we're working together and that is something that I that I've seen as well.
SPEAKER_04Again, being a musician of 30 years in Charlotte is you know, obviously, you know, people come and go, bands come and go, but that communal communal kind of atmosphere has always been present and I've been grateful for it to have the opportunity to to play with so many different artists, just just based on that. I think just people being open and receptive to having, you know, me join them and play and and and also with other songwriters that uh you know they obviously I've heard stories like in New York City and places like that, where it's it's not like that. You know, it's a bunch more cutthroat and very competitive and it don't allow other artists to kind of break breach in. So it's really cool to hear that you've had that experience as well in Charlotte. Yeah, for sure. How about you, Yubo? What's been your experience playing in Charlotte?
SPEAKER_05Uh very similar. I've only been playing down here for a couple of years now. You know, I'm from the Hickory area. So uh it seems like, yeah, like Courtney said, every time you come down, you play a new show, you meet new people, you find people that want to play with you, that want to collaborate, and you know, several bands in the area, Cassetti Kit, Feather Pocket, you know, I played with you, with Jason. Um so it it's uh and for me it's like you know, I I meet somebody new every time I come down here because it's it's all kind of new for me still.
SPEAKER_04So well, growing up in Hickory, what were some of your musical influences and backgrounds?
SPEAKER_05Or is it uh well I grew up my my family all plays music. So my uncle played the banjo, my dad played the fiddle, my sisters play the fiddle and the mandolin. Um so that's where I get my mandolin playing from. And my you know, so I grew up playing bluegrass and then in college I played classical. So I I love classical guitar. And uh now I do a lot of electric. Right. And uh like I said, I I I still play some acoustic around and about here in Charlotte. Uh I still play back home with the family. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_04Um, wonderful experience to have that to go back with your family. Yes. Because that's the thing about bluegrass, is like I know it's become really popular nowadays. You have like artists like Billy Strings and and things like that who it is not necessarily traditional bluegrass, but it's sort of brought that style to the forefront. But um, you know, what's your opinion on that versus being traditionally bluegrass where you know you're raised in it to me?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I mean bluegrass, it's that whole Americana thing, it's just it's such a wide genre. I mean, you know, like I I of course I grew up with a more traditional bluegrass like Flatten Scrugs, you know, Bill Monroe, that type stuff. Um and there's still people out there that'll do, you know, they do that, they keep that alive, which I love seeing a good band that can do that. You know, I like the stuff that you know Billy Strings and people like that do. Right. And bring in new stuff and kind of fuse bluegrass with. I mean, bluegrass is such an easy genre to like mix and match, you know, throw in other stuff with blend it. Um but I I like a little bit of it all. We used to play with Merle Festum, you know, you get a nice blend up there of the traditional and like modern, you know, Sam Bush style stuff. So I you know, yeah.
SPEAKER_04To me, bluegrass is one of those things, again, it's like, you know, you artists it it can influence artists and people can tr play bluegrass, but it's like and to me, I really respect people who have grown up in it. It's really a a family tradition.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, no, and it's a really neat thing, you know, having a family. It doesn't mean you know everybody plays and you know, it's just it's a unique thing. So I I really appreciate it. And yeah, it's helped me a lot, you know, in my musical journey.
SPEAKER_04I remember going to Merlefest sometimes over the years and and you know, see little jams break out uh all around the campsites, and then there'd be like small kids, children, just tearing it up, yeah, just shredding it away. And it's like those are your real Oslars of of bluegrass, you know, around that's my you know my opinion.
SPEAKER_05But it's yeah, I'm that area, uh Doc Watson country, you know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. It's really cool to see that. That's that's amazing because you sound amazing on electric guitar. That's well. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's really cool. I love it. Yeah, how about let's try another song, guys.
SPEAKER_03Um, okay. This one's called Misconceptions. Um I don't really have a huge description of this. I feel like this one I I mean, all my songs can be up for interpretation.
SPEAKER_01Sure.
SPEAKER_03Because I feel like once you share your art, it's you know, the listener can do what they want with it and and you know, apply it to whatever situation they're in. So I feel like this one I don't have like the best like description. I think I just kinda I needed to write it when I wrote it.
SPEAKER_00So nice, very cool.
SPEAKER_02Your misconception is that you think you're the one that's gonna hurt me, the baby. You don't know what I can do. You think you got something to prove, but your hands are shaky Even metal melts when it gets hot enough and you reach your breaking point when things get rug. So when you walk away, I'll be running through your mind. So just take your time and maybe one day we'll be alright. Oh, maybe you'll be fine one day. There is writing on the wall, you think that you know it all, but you really don't. They say that people can change even when they're acting strange as you Even trees can die when they get old enough And you reach your breaking point when things get up So when you want a way I'll be running my So just three So just take it up Oh maybe five So be one just take it one day on A B I want Fantastic Yeah Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
SPEAKER_04What's the hardest part about being an independent artist for you?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, um, you know, it's probably the emailing people.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_03Yes, I am not a good emailer.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03And I'm trying to get better. I I I know that's like a weak point for me. It's like I need to sit down and just send out the emails, you know. Um I think just like that, like the business side of it all. Right. I think everybody probably is like that. But when you're an artist, you're like, I'm an artist, but um but I do think it's super important to like work really hard to promote yourself because you know, you know, no one else is gonna do it, right? Um, you know, maybe one day like if we're doing well, making good money, we can hire someone, but right now that's not the situation. Right. And that's okay. But um, yeah, I think that's like obviously like probably the hardest. Um but yeah, working on it.
SPEAKER_04So what about what's the most rewarding thing for you?
SPEAKER_03Um definitely playing live. I love to play live, it's my favorite thing. Um and practicing with my friends, like making new friends and just collaborating. I just all of that just makes me happy.
SPEAKER_04So you still don't mind the rehearsal part of it, right? No, I don't know. I know a lot of folks who like you have to basically pull hair out to get them to rehearse.
SPEAKER_03It's just like you show up and play and it's like Yeah, well, I feel like with us, yeah, like we set a date like a month out basically to like and we'll do like one a month, and then we work on our own on the songs is kind of the right now the style we're doing it. And so we like know when we get there, we're like this is this is the time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, but yeah, but I I enjoy practicing. I think I don't know. I d uh it it's a good like getting things out. Like it I get out of my head when I practice, so I just like I like to do it.
SPEAKER_04So do you find uh I know you practice and try to get things right, but do you find things maybe go totally different at the show versus what you rehearsed? And how do you deal with that?
SPEAKER_03Um yeah, definitely that happens. Um but you know, I think if you practice enough and you work and you really got it down and you feel confident, even if a little thing happens live, it's okay. Like you I don't know, you're not as nervous because you practice and you feel like ready to go. Right. Like your fingers feel warmed up, like you feel like you got you got the chords down, like um you worked on the lyrics, made sure you really know everything. Yeah, so I think it's really a matter of preparation when you come when it comes to the live situation.
SPEAKER_04So uh you mentioned Petra's earlier, but w what are some other like favorite venues that you like to play and that you like to shout out?
SPEAKER_03Um I love the evening muse, obviously. Um that's a great venue. Um also in Salisbury is a great little venue called Shogs. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I've not played there, but I'm connected with those folks and and hope to make it up there one day.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you definitely should. They have great talent that comes out there from all over the country. Um in Little Salisbury. Um so Sugs is a great music venue. That's kind of like where we we we love to play there. So yeah, um, but definitely evening muse and petras have been really up there for me for Charlotte. And I actually got to play Common Market uh the other week and that was really fun.
SPEAKER_04Which one?
SPEAKER_03In Plaza Midwood. Plaza Midwood, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04I agree. Because Common Market, you know, for folks who don't know, there's several locations, but each one just kind of brings its own vibe. Yeah. You know, and it's kind of funny how you know Plaza Midwood is a little bit more, you know, rough and tumble, you know, which you know Plaza Midwood was known for for a while. And you have like the the newer one near near uh um what I call Oakwald or Oakhurst, you know, which is uh seems a little bit more older, yeah, you know, mature. And then you have the one near South End, it's like also kind of young and maybe a little bit more South Indy, you know, which is a little bit more corporate. So it's kind of interesting to have you know so many different kind of styles with all within the same sort of the name with common market, it's kind of neat. But but they they all support live music, which I think is just fantastic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Being that it's you know like a bar slash deli, that they all really are really supportive of the music scene and have artists come and perform, so that's really cool.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, um, I definitely get that community feel every time I go. Like they just seem like they're really that's their focus. So that's right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So you're working on putting together the band. Where do you see your music uh kind of forming or heading to over the next few years?
SPEAKER_03Do you have a a plan or yeah, um so we would like to play different cities um in different states, maybe in the kind of like southeast region, maybe in the next few years. Um like Charleston, Atlanta, we'd like to you know branch out there, maybe some places in Virginia. Maybe like a little tour.
SPEAKER_04Right, right.
SPEAKER_03Um you know, we'll and then maybe build up like we'll just kind of see where it goes, and if we're like, yeah, we should do more, you know, kind of s leave it up to everybody, make sure we're all on the same page. But I would love to do that, like play with a group and and go out to cities that are.
SPEAKER_04Have you had most experience with that with touring?
SPEAKER_03You know, I played in like a lot of places in North Carolina. So Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington, um, Raleigh, you know, cities out here. So I feel like the next step would be to go somewhere, like in different states and stuff eventually. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Who's an artist, a dream artist that you would like to share the stage with or collaborate with?
SPEAKER_03Um that that's a hard question. Um I love so if we're talking like big.
SPEAKER_04Sure, anybody, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um I really love Faye Webster at the moment. Don't know if you've heard her music.
SPEAKER_04Faye Webster, uh uh. Yeah, she's out of Atlanta. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Um she's doing great stuff and um really love her vibe. Um yeah, that would be like a huge dream to open for her. Um you know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Any guilty pleasure artists that maybe you know, I think it's a good idea.
SPEAKER_03I'm not I never feel guilty about I don't feel like I'm like music, I just enjoy. So um not really. I mean, I like everything, like well, I wouldn't say I like everything, but I like a lot of things. Um but yeah, I mean I yeah, I don't know. I don't think I feel guilty.
SPEAKER_04You know?
SPEAKER_03So yeah.
SPEAKER_04I love it. I love it. How about you both? Any guilty pleasures?
SPEAKER_05Oh, that's that's a great question, actually. Stuck me on the guilty pleasure too. Um I listen to a lot of older music, so I feel like jamming with artists that I listen to would be kind of you know, not as applicable. But yeah, um no guilty pleasure that's on the tip of my tongue. Do you have a guilty pleasure?
SPEAKER_04You know, yeah, I you know, I would say if I were a guilty pleasure, uh it would be something like you know, like any kind of like 80s, 80s pop, you know. Okay.
SPEAKER_03I do sometimes like listen to um Creed with my friends.
SPEAKER_04There you go.
SPEAKER_05See, that would be a guilty pleasure, you know, Creed. I played a couple disco shows. That's what I'm gonna do. There you go. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but again, like I don't really feel guilty about it, but it's just a funny, like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Well, you know, Creed has kind of come back around in popularity the past couple of years is fun, but yeah, they kind of got kind of downtrodden for a while, them and nickel back, but yeah, then they've kind of kind of come back around.
SPEAKER_03Dad rock, there you go. Yeah, I think that's fun. Yeah, yeah. I I think it's just like a vibe that it creates.
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SPEAKER_04Uh one more funny question. Uh any uh would you like to share your most embarrassing moment on stage?
SPEAKER_03I'm trying to think of a a good one. Um uh I mean I trip a lot. I fall, I I mean I like just trip over cores. I'm like really clumsy. Um, I think like probably the hardest thing is if like the sound person is um you know having a hard day.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_03And that can be awkward.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that can definitely inter interfere with the energy for sure. You have a difficult sound man, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Which they're notorious, you know. Sound men kind of get the you know, the the bunt of that joke of being, you know, just a curmudgeons and just uh really grizzled and old and kind of rough.
SPEAKER_03Oh, and actually I know another thing. Um, so I was playing I won't like name the brewery just you know, just to be nice. Um but we my band Paper Wasp was playing at a brewery and we like do like in original indie jazz rock kind of stuff. Um just kind of weird, like you know, dark kind of and um well we didn't really I guess vet the brewery we were playing at and there was a lot of like um kid rock fans in the audience. Um and they did not like us. Like the lady was like, um she was like mad that we were playing jazz. She was like, Can you play you know, whatever? And I was like, sorry, we only play original music, you know.
SPEAKER_04Right, right.
SPEAKER_03Um so that was really um that was hard.
SPEAKER_04That's tough. Yeah, that yeah. Because especially when you're somebody dealing with like, say, the owner or the paper people who booked you, and it's like, uh, it's kind of awkward.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's like you they should have maybe like called like a little more uh Right.
SPEAKER_04I should have checked out your music maybe online first.
SPEAKER_03But oh you know, whatever. Lesson learned. Love it.
SPEAKER_04But you say you got one more song for us today? We do.
SPEAKER_03Um so this one is my very first song I ever wrote.
SPEAKER_04Fantastic.
SPEAKER_03Um and I recorded it with paper was um, but for some reason um there's something going on with the album online, so I'm trying to work that out, but I'll let y'all know on my page when it's back up. But it's called How Do You Feel?
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SPEAKER_02Do you wanna leave me up? Or do you wanna push me down? I told you I loved you yesterday. You told me you love me. Should I say? But now you're not of show today. Now you're not of sure today. How do you know? Do you want to see would you rather stare at the crowd? I told you I loved you yesterday. You told me you love me just the same. But now you're not so sure. Today. Now you're not so sure. Today we're going to do it.
SPEAKER_04Fantastic.
SPEAKER_00Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Courtney, thank you so much for coming in to R Beat today and just sharing a little bit of your story and your music. Uh and I just I just feel so much more relaxed for real. You probably have such a really cool energy for that.
SPEAKER_03Oh my gosh, having the keys on it is such a nice touch.
SPEAKER_04Well it's a pleasure. And they're great songs and really uh fun and easy to play along with. And and literally just my energy has just been uh settled and it's just really, really cool. So I hope some of our listeners and watchers are experiencing the same and and I really appreciate that. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER_04Very cool. Uh remind us one more time where folks can follow you along and tell us where you might be playing out next.
SPEAKER_03If anything book, yeah, um, so again, Instagram is at Courtney Puckett Music. So you can follow me on there and um you can email me at booking Courtneypucketmusic at gmail.com. Um if you forget that, it's on my Instagram bio. Um and I'm playing at Carolina Beach State or Skate Park, sorry, it's a skate park. Um it's for a event for it's called Life Rolls On. Um they help people that are disabled um surf and skate. Fantastic. So it's a really cool organization.
SPEAKER_04Is that local where is that at Carolina Beach. Carolina Beach, okay.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. So we'll be playing out there at Carolina Beach.
SPEAKER_04Fantastic.
SPEAKER_03Um and that is in two weeks um from or yeah, two we basically in two weeks. It's like not next Sunday, but the next Sunday. Um but you can find that on their website, on Life Rules On website. Um so yeah, that's the next thing. And then me and Bo are working on booking in the fall, so we will announce that stuff really soon. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04How about you, Bo? Any other projects going on? Or you is the main your primary focus now?
SPEAKER_05Or yeah, me and Courtney have been playing together. I also uh I play with Jason Klein and Feather Pocket, and we're playing tomorrow at Camp North End and on Friday at Snug. Yeah. And then uh I play with Cassetic at two, those guys, a great band, and we're playing Snug on Saturday, the Noise of Stand Reunion.
SPEAKER_04So you know, uh I'll I'll be seeing you probably both of those. Uh I I have previous engagements, but I'm gonna try to make the shows on both of those and pop in and see you guys. That's fantastic. You're playing with both uh Jason Klein with Feather Pocket, and which I think he just had a single come out today as well. He did, he did.
SPEAKER_05He had it. I think were you on it?
SPEAKER_04Yep, yep, American Spirit, and then uh and then also with the Noises 10 reunion, those guys are some of my dearest friends. Um and so I'm thrilled that you guys you're playing with Casteticate.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Casteticate we're opening for them. And yeah, that was great. We just got done recording with Jason, so it's uh those are great guys too.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, fantastic. I love those guys. So that's awesome. Well, I look forward to seeing you again this weekend. All right, yeah, look forward to it. That's awesome. Thanks again for coming into R Beat Studio today and just uh just again just sharing your beautiful music and just your incredible vibes, and it's really, really awesome to have you. We'll look forward to having you guys back in soon, okay? Thank you. This has been Greasy Keys with Behind the Curtain on the Rbeat Studio with Courtney Puckett and uh Bo Sigmund. We really appreciate you guys coming in again, and we'll see you next time. Peace.