Bones Unfiltered Podcast Episode #3, featuring Outlaw Whiskey Band

In Episode # 3 of the Bones Unfiltered Podcast, we welcome the Outlaw Whiskey Band, a high-energy group known for their gritty sound and rebellious spirit.  We dive into their origins, their roots in Southern rock and what keeps them driven as they take the stage.  Join us for a wild ride with the Outlaw Whiskey Band! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Bones Unfiltered Podcast. I'm your host, Bones. And sorry for the delay. We've uh we've had some technical difficulties trying to get all the guys in here, but I am privileged and honored to have the award-winning five-piece band known as Outlaw Whiskey Band in our presence today after they've had a little bit of band rehearsal. So we're going to have some good talks with them and maybe try to play video and hopefully get the other two guys in here while we're doing all this. So thanks for your patience. But for those of y'all that don't know, Outlaw Whiskey Band is a country and southern rock band. They are out of Haywood County, North Carolina. So welcome guys. And they are up for a plethora of nominations at the award show this year that's going to be held at the historic Oak Grove Theater. They uh we're going to get into that. We're going to let the guys kind of talk about what what they're nominated for and what the positions they play and and whatnot. So uh without further ado, I guess we'll start with the um Gerald Scott, which is the guy that actually started the band, and he is gonna be down in my lower right hand corner. So, Gerald, welcome, my brother.

SPEAKER_07 1:58

Well, thank you, bud. We're pretty good to have you on here, and uh we're looking forward to uh uh let's see we're having a crazy.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

I can't hear you. Let me see. Okay, is that better? Yeah, I can't hear you, bro. I don't know why this is what happened. Hey Gerald, I'm gonna remove you from the stage and just come back in. Let's see if that fixes you.

unknown 2:28

Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

All right. Well, well, Skip, do you or Ricky want to start would you all like to start off while we're trying to get everybody in here? Do you want to uh we'll start with you, Skip. Let everybody know kind of what is your position in the band, and if you're up for also nominations for the award show, I'd like to know what exactly are you nominated for this year.

SPEAKER_06 2:54

Okay, well, uh, I play bass and I'm nominated for the best play bass player. Um, I've been playing for a number of years, like about uh over five decades. Mike and I used to play in a band before this one, and uh they needed a bass player for Outlaw Whiskey. He called me, and by golly, I'm having a great time with these guys.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Well, you all got an incredible sound. I was telling Gerald, I was I hadn't had the privilege of knowing what you all uh did until recent. And man, y'all are just so clean. It's just great sound, clean sound. I just love it. I just absolutely love it. So it's not surprising that you all won some awards and that you're being nominated for stuff, that is for sure.

SPEAKER_06 3:40

Fantastic. Well, I appreciate the confidence there, and we're gonna keep on keeping on and improve every day, every time we play. So we're trying to add more songs in there. Uh so you got a lot of stuff that people love. We love to play, and got a lot of originals too.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Heck yeah. I can't wait to see y'all perform there at live at the uh award show when y'all do. Now, Ricky, I don't I obviously I don't see your hat, but you got the killer type hat, and I do the steamer punk hats at bowlers myself. So I love your hat, by the way. I don't know where you got yours, but it is phenomenal. Tell tell me a little bit about your your hat story. Why'd you choose it? Where did you get it? What's the story behind it?

SPEAKER_02 4:27

I can't hear the narrator.

SPEAKER_01 4:32

You can't hear me.

SPEAKER_08 4:33

No, you can't hear you, bro.

unknown 4:35

Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

I can't hear you anyway. This sucks. Oh boy. Uh let's see. How in the hell do I fix this? Well, guys, I'm trying. I'm sorry. Well, that's all right, bro. I can't believe it. Yeah, I can actually hear you better now, but um I'm trying to see if there's something I can select here. This is uh, this is this is sucks. But that's all right. I'm not gonna get upset about it. We're gonna we're gonna make this work. It's gonna we're gonna get through this. It'll be alright. So anyway, hey Pam, thanks for coming in. So we're sorry we're having so much trouble, Pam. We don't know what the hell's going on. I can't get all the guys to to uh in, and I can't get all of them to hear me. So, Gerald, can you hear me better now?

SPEAKER_07 5:29

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

All right, well, now we'll move to you since we're trying to still figure out Ricky's eating, and we're trying to figure out what the why you can't hear me. So um, you're obviously the guy that actually started the band. Tell us a little bit about what what prompted you to start it, what came about to where you met all of these fine gentlemen that that have made this awesome band here.

SPEAKER_08 5:53

Well, uh it started out as two acoustic players, myself and Eric Master. We were playing a little play from Angel Call. And um next thing I know, here we are. You know, it just it just turned out so well, and uh we started building a band, and here we here we go, and here we are.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

Oh, I love it. Now, and you and you are guitarist, correct?

SPEAKER_08 6:24

Yes, sir. I play guitar, and then uh some songs I play uh Magelanel, uh six string, both string, electric guitar.

SPEAKER_07 6:34

Just a combination of all the advice.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Heck yeah. Let's see. I've tried I'm scrambling here, guys. I'm trying everything I can to try to take away some of this noise, but uh I'm I'm hey Miss Pam, while he's working on that.

SPEAKER_08 6:53

Uh big shout out to uh Pam Little and Southern Life Entertainment for uh putting on this word show coming up. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be great. We're gonna get to lose some great talent, too.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Amen to that. Yeah, I tell you what, Pam is she she doesn't like to hear it, but she's absolutely outstanding. So everything she does is just she puts all of her heart and soul into it, and I just love her to death. And it's and she's able to allow me to meet cool people like you all. Well, I've had good conversations. I just wish the podcast wasn't starting off this way, but you know, it is what it is. That's part of it being organic and live. At least if you if we'd have recorded it, we probably could have uh you know adjusted everything, but I don't know. I like live now. Ricky, can you hear me now or can you still not hear me?

SPEAKER_03 7:45

I'm starting outside my man and outside.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Yeah, Ricky's still and I guess Mike and Chad are still having issues, eh?

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Yeah, they're still having issues. Ricky, you're you're on it now. I can't hear anybody, but uh so he can't hear us.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Right. I don't understand why he can't hear. Well, I tell you what, let's uh what I'm gonna do is tell Ricky I'm gonna boot him too and have him just come back, hit that link again and try to come back in.

SPEAKER_07 8:18

Okay, uh we'll let him know.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

We'll see if that works.

SPEAKER_08 8:25

Ricky's gonna boot you and then you'll have to come back in, brother. He's gonna boot you and you'll let's come back in.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Now I brought you back in. Can you hear me now, Rick? No, still can't hear me. All right, well, I'm gonna remove you again. Oh, you can hear me.

SPEAKER_08 8:43

Well, I can do it like this, and stand here and let him do it, and we've got to get my attendant.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Okay, so he can hear off yours. Yeah, and of course, now with that I can hear myself. Oh, this is so frustrating. I'm I'm so embarrassed.

SPEAKER_06 9:04

So so, Gerald, why don't why don't you turn off Ricky's phone and let him him and Mike use your phone, Gerald? He's off.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

I may have to move remove him. Let's try that. Okay, there you go.

SPEAKER_06 9:19

That's where we're getting that feedback.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Yeah, I don't know. Uh guys, I wish I was I was inept enough to know how to fix that.

SPEAKER_08 9:28

Uh five pounds pledge hammer.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Amen to that.

SPEAKER_08 9:33

Well, which one you want to talk to? You want to talk to Mike or you want to talk to Ricky?

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Let's uh Ricky's next to you. Let's go ahead and say something to Ricky real quick and we'll just play hot potato with the phone, I guess. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

All right, Rick. So you can hear me now, right, brother?

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Yep, yep. I got you.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

All right, well, first well, first of all, dig in the beard. That's uh that's pretty bad, bad A for sure. But I was saying earlier, I I you're a man after my own heart. I saw your top hat. It's absolutely outstanding. Mine, I got a little steamer punk hat, so it's not as tall as yours, and I've got a bowler that I love to wear. But what's the story like? What what prompted you to go with the big top hat, and what's the story behind your hat?

SPEAKER_02 10:18

Well, I was having 50 pants. I bought it. That's about it.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

End of story. So it was that quick and clean. Well, nothing wrong with that. Oh heck yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, I think it's I think it's a good trademark too. It looks really good. Now, how long you been growing that beard out? Because I know that's you got that Z Z top going on.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

It's been around for about eight or nine years, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

No doubt. It's pretty awesome, brother.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Huh?

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Pamela says, uh what do you what do you want to see, Pamela? You wanna see it? She said, You got this phones. Yeah, I don't know. I started off pretty crappy. I wish I could fix it.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

We're doing okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

We're doing all we're gonna we're gonna eat through. It's gonna be fine. So now now uh Ricky, what do you uh what do you play in the band?

SPEAKER_02 11:25

I'm leading guitarist.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Uh guitarist. What do you play?

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Uh what?

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Like guitar-wise, like what what do you Les Paul? What do you what are you? What do you like to run with?

SPEAKER_02 11:38

I am a PRS person. PRS?

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

Halloween Smith.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Heck yeah. And then what kind of bass do you play, Skip?

SPEAKER_06 11:50

Um with this band I play a Mitchell uh FB705. It's a uh five-string bass. I started playing five string back in 1995. I sat in with a band on bourbon street when I was on vacation, and when I got home, I immediately bought a five-string. And I've got several five strings plus several four-strings. So but uh with this band, I'm using the Mitchell FB705, five string.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Heck yeah. Now the five string, that's interesting. I like I like the five-string bass. I can I'm not I can't talented though, I can't play any of them, but the five string. Now, now was that a big change for you, or did or did you actually start off with guitar and then went to bass?

SPEAKER_06 12:33

Or uh actually, yes, I did. I started uh started playing guitar when I was 13 years old. Um and uh when I was in college back in the mid uh 60s, um the band that I some of the guys I've been playing with needed a bass player, so uh I switched over to the bass back in 1967, I think it was. And like I said, I swapped over from a four-string to a five-string uh in 1995.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Now, now this is gonna be kind of an ignorant question, but since I'm not musically challenged, I don't know. What are the advantages and disadvantages from going from a four-string to a five-string bass?

SPEAKER_06 13:15

Well, I apologize for turning my head like this, but I'm having a hard time hearing you, but I hear you if I do that. Um, the advantage to me is that the top string on on a five-string bass is a B string, whereas normally you have an E A D and G string. This adds a B string on the top, which is a much lower frequency, so I can pull a lot of low, low, low sound that you feel in your gut from that B string. Um the only disadvantage I can think of is uh the neck width of five string bass is a little bit wider than a four-string, but I got fairly big hands and I don't have any problem with it.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Heck yeah. Now I didn't that's interesting. I didn't know that about the uh I didn't know that you got your really, really, really deep gut punch bass from that uh that fifth string. That's interesting. That's really interesting to me. So so it's even lower than the than the low E. Absolutely, yeah. Wow. Dude, that's cool as hell because I did not know that. I thought the low E was the sh was just awesome, but I couldn't imagine. It'd be neat to hear that in person then, because I've never seen one, I've never paid attention. Let's been in a room where somebody had a five string where I could actually kind of get a better look at it, you know.

SPEAKER_06 14:33

I gotcha. Well, bring your bad cell phone and come hear us.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Heck yeah, I dude. I'll tell you what, I'd love it because I you all have definitely got uh you've got a good setup, man. A good group of guys. Y'all all sound phenomenal. You all play so clean, it's just great.

SPEAKER_06 14:49

It's a great bunch of guys. I'm glad to be with them. I'm very blessed.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Oh, Pam wants to see you want to see Ricky's hat. Well, I don't know if he's even got it with him today, but we can we could see if Ricky does. If so, we could have him grab it. Yep, oh he must have it. He's gonna go get it, Pam. So you're gonna get to see it after all. And Gerald is back. So what's up, my brother? Now, what what uh what guitar do you play?

SPEAKER_07 15:16

Uh which one?

SPEAKER_08 15:19

I I carry four on stage.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Uh oh, no doubt.

SPEAKER_08 15:22

Uh I've got a uh six-string talkmania Santa Fe that I will uh to play. Uh it's got a great sound for a six-string. And I play a fender telecaster, and then I've got a washburn 12 string I use on stage. And I've got a ep phone list paul uh play on stage.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

Now is the 12 string, is that the one that's got the two different the two different uh necks?

SPEAKER_08 15:49

Uh no, sir, they're all on the same thing. They're they run the same way. Um and basically you're tuning octave below uh on the 12 string, then uh it's all you know still on that standard EAD uh G B E tuning.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Um but you just tune them octave off to get that you tune it to the octave off.

SPEAKER_08 16:16

Yes, yes. Uh it's I mean it's the same E, but it's octave lower. Uh except for the bottom tune, they're tune the same.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Now I just asked Skip what were the advantages and disadvantages of going from a four to a five string. The same question kind of applies to you now. Is is it different in the guitar world versus the bass world when you go to like say a six-string, and then of course when you go to the 12 string, that's that opens the Pandora's box up, really.

SPEAKER_08 16:46

Uh really and truth, really and truthfully, I can't tell the difference in it, Bones. Um whenever I'm playing, I've just got so used to it. And I apologize, how do you or German shepherds going crazy?

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Well, that's all right. I've got three dogs myself. I got a mine are just in the other room where they can't come in here and bother me.

SPEAKER_08 17:08

Well, we're gonna put her out, but she would chew a door down to get back out.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

So she ain't well, dude. You saw the way we just got started with this podcast. So I mean, it's like it we took a hell of a nosedive. So a dog barking cannot add to it any more to what has already gone wrong. So it's totally fun.

SPEAKER_08 17:30

Well, you got to put this down in the record book, so bones. This is uh podcast that uh hopefully there's never another one like it. This will be the one of a kind, the mint mall.

unknown 17:40

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

And Skip, he's got the best seat in the house because he's outside. You've had a you had a killer sunset behind you, and now we got this this beautiful blue sky behind you. So you are definitely uh you've definitely got the best seat in the house. Uh unless that 500-pound bar comes through the yard.

SPEAKER_06 17:57

Yeah, I've I've got my eyes out, my ears out. So uh, Gerald, you might want to tell me about all the wildlife you got here.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Oh yeah, actually, I would like to hear because apparently he was telling me about his deer, uh, you know, deer stuff earlier. And I was like, oh man, you can just walk right outside. So obviously you're sitting on some property, you're out, you're out definitely not in the city per se. So tell us a little bit about what your studio is and where your house is and all that.

SPEAKER_08 18:25

Uh well, uh actually, we're on top of Hyder Mountain up here. Um we're at about 3,200 feet up here, and um, we do have wildlife visits and regularly and through the yard and up the trail into the woods, and um, you know, it just we like it like this. We got neighbors, but old saying they're not on top of us, and uh that's what I like. Uh yeah, and we we got some great neighbors up here in Haywood County, and this is my home county, this is where I was raised at and grew up at, went to school at, played ball at. So uh, you know, it's you know, it's definitely home.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Now, Skip, were you from this county too? Or did or were you actually transplanting from somewhere else?

SPEAKER_06 19:13

Well, I'm I am from North Carolina Bones, um, but I'm from Cherokee County, which is the Lash County West, Andrews, Murphy. I grew up in Andrews, um and uh left there when I got out of high school and went to college. So, you know, I've lived all across the state, all the way from down near the coast to, of course, Cherokee County, but uh came back here in 1987 uh working working with handicapped kids and adults. That's what I did for a majority of my life. Um but I live about 30 miles away from Gerald here. I live over in uh Cullerway, North Carolina. If anybody's heard of Western Carolina University, uh I live right across from uh Western Carolina University, but I am a North Carolina boy.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Well, hell yeah. And and uh oh, there's the hat. Check that hey Pam, check that hat out. That hat is the shit. That's you're a man after my own heart. I love it. I love those hats. I bought some cowboy hats, but I just look stupid in cowboy hats. But I put on that I put on that steamer punk like what you got on there, and oh my gosh. I just fell in love with it. I love it. Yours looks leather though. Is yours leather? Yeah, it is. Man, that's uh dude, that's bad A. That's really cool. I love that. And you've just found that at a show and just bought it. That's cool. Now, um Skip, I do want to say thank you for what you do, what you've done with my son's handicapped, and I do a lot with Special Olympics. I've been doing that for about eight years. So what you what you did for a living is uh man, that's I admire you very much. And uh thank you for what you did for those. Because that's one thing that say that again, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 20:57

I said you're certainly welcome. Uh it's uh a big part of my life. Uh a lot of my heart, a lot of my soul. Uh, I had a few um sad times. Some some passed away. I worked originally at an institution that had over over 1,500 um mentally handicapped, physically handicapped adults and children. So um, but there's a lot of rewards too. I tell you what, there's a lot of love.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Oh, heck yeah. And dude, I've I've much much love and respect for what you did. I'm planning on trying. I I hope it goes well. I hope it goes better than we started here, but I I want to do the special needs podcasting when I'm not doing like you guys, like musicians. I I plan on doing a day for my special Olympics kids or just special needs people in general, because I think giving them a platform where they can get on there and kind of brag about themselves and kind of just talk about talk about how what happened with them growing up through life or what what ailments they did they've had to overcome and deal with. I think giving them a platform to be a part of of podcasting, even though I'm I'm not no Joe Rogan. They won't know no different. To them, they're still getting to be a part of something cool. So I hope it works out. I I'm really excited about doing it. I tried it with my son and it went it went over pretty well. So we're hoping to keep the keep that going. But thank you again for everything that you did for the special needs community, because that man, that's yeah, that puts you a very special place in my heart, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_06 22:24

Well, I appreciate that. It's uh you know, I did it because it just it felt right, and uh I got paid for it, but the pay wasn't really important. It was what I was doing, and when I could see growth, and then when my wife and I had kids, you know, I had a good background of watching development and stuff like that, and you know, just so bless for us to have two really healthy kids. Now they're in their late 30s and early 40s.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Oh there's Mike. Well, Mike is here, everybody. So that was Skip that was just talking. Skip is also, for those of y'all that don't know, is nominated for the bassists of the year at the uh award show that we'll be having uh the at the Oak Grove Theater here in November. So I'm all looking forward to seeing all of these guys out there. But welcome to the stage. Right below me here is Mike, the lead singer of the band. And Mike, kind of kind of tell tell everybody a little bit about how you became the lead singer, and of course, you're nominated. Y'all, y'all were nominated with so much stuff that I was like, I I'll look stupid sitting here reading notes trying to do it. So I figured it'd be better if you just tell everybody what you're up nominated for, and like I say, how did you become the lead singer? How long have you been doing it with the band, etc.?

SPEAKER_04 23:49

Right. Um, that's a real good question. Uh this isn't the first time that we've all won this kind of thing, so maybe that had a little to do with it. Um I'm like Skip. I've I've been around a long, long time and was in a road band that stayed on the road for about four or five years. And my family yeah, my family grew up in gospel, so I learned how to sing the harmonies and stuff like that, and it's always been something I really cared about. So and I've been singing in bands since 71.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

No doubt. Now, what band were you with before, if you don't mind me asking, or unless that's a sore subject.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Oh, it's not. Um, the band was called Greens Creek, and disco put us out of business because they wouldn't pay the kind of money we were making when you could get a guy with a C D or a record player for a hundred bucks instead of what we were charging. So we all had to grow up and get jobs, you know.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

Right. That sucks. But it is part of it.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

Yeah, then later, um, after a a career change or two, um we started a band called the Elderly Brothers, and that's the one Skip played with us there because we were all on the older side, but that's worked out real well. We played in that band for over 20 years.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

No doubt. Now what now, so it was you, Skip, and Gerald in the in that band, or or was it the whole group?

SPEAKER_04 25:28

This is the this first time this group's played together. Oh, no doubt.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Yeah, yeah, that's that's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

It was kind of funny because I wasn't playing, and Gerald or I, neither one had an idea that the other played. And uh really Gerald said to call me one night and says, uh, our blaze player's gonna be gone. Can you set in? I said, Yeah, sure, why not? Well, six months later he called me back and said, Well, the lead guitar's gonna be out. Can you step in? Yeah, why not? And after we started playing together, it meshed pretty well, so it just asked me to stay. Been here ever since.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

That's awesome. Now, uh obviously you're the lead singer, but you also play guitar. But I do what what other instruments, if any, that do you dabble in?

SPEAKER_04 26:16

I do play keyboards to to a little bit of an extent, but we don't have the room on stage and the people to do it, and uh uh it just wouldn't be practical.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 26:32

What did he say? He's got 900 guitars on the stage, and he changes them more often than he does his underwear.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

That's why there's no room for your your keyboards, there's too many guitars. Exactly, exactly. Exactly. Now I see it looks like Chad is the uh Chad that looks like the young and the youngin' of the group. He's the the drummer. Am I correct in that assessment?

SPEAKER_04 26:56

Or you are correct, and he's one of the best, I can tell you. And he's we always introduce him. We introduce him as the only one of us without a Medicare card.

SPEAKER_00 27:07

So too. So well, he'll get that benefit soon enough.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

I'm gonna pass that over to Chad and let him do his thing. Thank you, Bones. I appreciate you doing it for us.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

No, hey, thank you. And I'm sorry it started off like a crap show, but I was trying to I was trying to get it right. What is up, Chad?

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Hey, how are you?

SPEAKER_01 27:32

So so like tell everybody a little bit about your experience. How did you become how did these guys find you and uh how long you've been playing drums and all that good jazz?

SPEAKER_08 27:43

Well, you couldn't have true shit.

SPEAKER_03 27:47

Well, about five years ago, I guess I was looking for a band to play with and run across these guys, and it's been a good ride ever since.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

Now we won't let him go.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

Well, you say you know a good thing when you got it, right? So you gotta hold on to that. And obviously, your all's band is very methodical with the way that they have found all the players because just the short time that I've known you all and what I've tried to watch just to learn a little bit about you all, it you all are so clean, but you all play off each other so well. It's you're y'all are like a well-oiled machine, you really are. So it's not surprising you're nominated for so much stuff. And you're I understand you're nominated for drummer of the year, is that correct?

SPEAKER_03 28:34

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Heck yeah. Uh Pamela wants to know are they gonna play live? I don't think we were gonna try that, Pam, because I wasn't sure how how well it would work with all five of them. Now, one thing I'm gonna try to do, Pam, is play Gerald sent me two of their videos, and I'm gonna try to play them in a minute to give everybody an idea if I can get this right. I just learned how to do this last week. So the way this started, who knows? I may it may the the world may implode when I try this, but we we'll definitely give it a shot here in a minute once we speak to everybody. Now it's let's see. Now who am I missing? I'm missing uh well and yes, Miss Susan is definitely nominated. Now she was one that she can uh stick her head in here if she would like, so everybody can see who Miss Susan looks like. Miss Susan, for those who don't know, is actually their manager, and she is uh nominated for manager of the year this year.

SPEAKER_08 29:40

Um she's in the chair, so she won't be joining us.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Oh, yeah, that's well, that would be that would be a totally different rated show if we did that. So I think we'll and I would be divorced. I don't think she'd be none too happy about that. She probably wouldn't be too too keen on that idea. All right, we'll catch her when she's done then.

SPEAKER_08 30:03

Well, she she'll probably lay down because she had work today, so uh she fixed the mail again tonight as usual for rehearsal, and um she'll probably lay down and rest for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Well, there ain't that's much needed rest. Well, that's all right. Well, yeah, for those of you all that don't know, eventually you'll see Miss Susan. You'll definitely see Miss Susan when we all go out there to the award show, and uh and I wish her the very best of luck on uh her nomination for manager of the year. So congratulations to you, Miss Susan.

SPEAKER_08 30:35

Whenever you hear that because you're you're up for your manager of the year, also so you know.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

Yeah, somebody nominated me. I don't think I've got what I don't think I got it in to win, but you know what? I'm just very flattered that somebody thought well enough of me that because I've been trying my hardest, but as a lot of people know, and you know, because I've talked to you about it, you know, I was in the medical field for over 20 years before I retired. So now I'm learning something that is polar opposite. So it's been uh it's been very entertaining to say the least. But uh I've I've enjoyed it. And people like Miss Pamela has really helped me meet cool people like you all, and which has really helped me with the whole podcasting thing because hell, just Pamela alone has just set the precedence of people that I can bring on the show. I've got people stacked up for uh for at least a long while. So I'm very I'm very blessed and grateful to have Pamela in my life. And and then we've got certain people like this lady, this uh Miss Kathleen. I don't know if y'all can see the comments, but there's uh Miss Kathleen is uh is in this room. She literally is one of the few that makes pretty much every show. If she can make it, she's in every show I do. So she is a hell a heck of a fan, super nice lady. And hopefully one day in the future we'll get to meet her as well as meet you all in person. That that would be really, really, really, really fun and good times.

SPEAKER_08 31:59

Yeah, well, well, hello, Miss Kathleen. Uh we appreciate you being a part of it.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

Heck yeah. Now, so you you all have band rehearsals at your house. Now, do you have an actual studio for your band or is it like a spare bedroom? Is it a garage? Where do you all make the magic?

SPEAKER_08 32:17

It's a spare bedroom that uh we use uh in the house and uh got uh everything set up in there, you know, the PA uh want a part of the PA equipment set up in there. And um, you know, we got uh where it's comfortable to sit around, we sit, you know, in chairs and just have a good time and work stuff out in there.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

And have a good meal, apparently, every time you go practice, too. You can't beat that. It's always good to have a good meal. Welcome, Miss Judy.

SPEAKER_08 32:51

And uh, if you're ever down in North Carolina on a rehearsal night, you're more than welcome to stop in.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

Oh heck yeah. And then Miss Judy, I don't know if y'all know a Judy uh Vandenberg, but she she definitely knows Ricky. So she said hello Ricky Hudson, so you got you got somebody in here giving you a shout-out, my brother.

SPEAKER_08 33:13

Yeah, she's uh she's a good follower and uh friend of the band page and stuff, and uh her and Ricky go back a long ways, um from out west and Arizona area and California, I think.

SPEAKER_02 33:26

She was the uh first person I actually played or she's the kind of R and uh three Switch and play. So yeah, we're awesome.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

So she's been in your life for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Oh yeah, we went high school together.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

Oh, no doubt. Dang, that's awesome. Well, Miss Judy, welcome. Glad you could be a part of this today. Thank you so much for dropping in.

SPEAKER_08 33:58

Uh Miss Judy, uh we got your t-shirt laid out. We'll get it signed tonight for you and hopefully get it in the mail to you here uh next week.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Heck yeah. Well, you heard it right here, Miss Judy. So congratulations on that. That's awesome. Now let me ask you guys, what uh what what made you come up with Outlaw Whiskey Band for the title of your band?

SPEAKER_08 34:21

Funny thing you asked that. Uh Bones, uh you know, I wrote the song Outlaw Whiskey and Guns, and we sort of need the band name, so we just took out Law Whiskey. So the song brought the band name on, I guess would be a good way of saying that.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Well, heck yeah. And we're gonna play that. Well, we're gonna attempt to play that, let's say that. But we still have yet to hear the see who are we missing? We missed, let's see, we we did we had Mike, and of course we can have everybody cycle through. Talk to Chad, talk to Ricky. Oh, and we got skipped. So we have so we haven't left anybody out except for mama, but we don't we know why she's indisposed. So that's cool. Well, that being said, we'll take we'll we're gonna try this. We'll see how this works, guys. I'm gonna try to see if I can play uh the video of of the um whiskey and guns that he sent me. So we're we're gonna see. Let's see if I can get this right. I hope so. But give you all a little sample. Fingers crossed, and you know, and if you can get your toes crossed, do that too, because I might need all the help I can get.

SPEAKER_08 35:30

All right, so Mike won't know if he was old enough to drink before you play this.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

Oh, that oh, actually, you know what? No, the video just ended. Okay, it wasn't me. I was gonna say, I thought I was doing so good.

SPEAKER_08 38:30

A little history on that song, um Bones is whenever I wrote it. Funny thing about it, and God rest your sultan dad. We were cutting across the road here in Haywood County in Canton area, and he said, Sonia never blew this, but you know your uncle makes moonshine. I said, Yeah. And he said, I used to run it across here in a big old block dodge, uh, big block dodge across this road right here, and take it over into Waynesville and sell it. So that's where that line came from. And of course, I I love Deer Hunt, Mike does too. And uh so it just fell it fell in there together, and and we were honored. Uh I was honored back in 2022 with Songwriter of the Year for that song, and they're looking at putting it in a movie about Bigfoot and Moonshine. So, how can you go wrong?

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Heck yeah. Now, where were you nominated for the for that one in 2022? Is that what what a world show was?

SPEAKER_08 39:28

Um North American Country Music Association uh that's put on with um the um era national. I mean, it's people from all over the place coming in on that.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

Is that the that's the North Carolina chapter, though, isn't it?

SPEAKER_08 39:44

Yeah, we were in the North Carolina chapter at that time, but it was for the whole North American Country Music Association.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

That's the rest of them too.

SPEAKER_08 39:53

Oh yeah. And we you know, speaking of them, uh we actually took Man of the Year in 2023 and 2024 uh for um in that for New Country, and then uh Mike took most promising male vocalist in 2024. And in 2024, I was uh awarded uh rising uh songwriter of the year, the same year for that. So uh we've had a good run on those so far.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

And and and speaking of awards, you you're up for quite a few different awards as well. Uh tell everybody the awards that you're up for at the Southern Lights Entertainment Award show.

SPEAKER_08 40:34

Uh I'm up for Songwriter of the Year and also Song of the Year for um That song and Dirt in My Hands, which is uh another song that uh we highly enjoy playing. And Mike does an outstanding job on his tribute to the farmers. Uh it's about a little boy who lost his parents and had to go live with his uncle and learn the uh hard life of Knox uh by being a farmer and working on the farm and growing up and as it progresses out, it uh you know he has his own farm and doing his own thing.

SPEAKER_01 41:12

Heck yeah. Well, you definitely gotta tip your hats to our farmers because without them, you we would all be in a in a world of you know what. So besides farmers, obviously our military, we would definitely want to give a shout-out. I saw you fly the American flag on your on your stand there, and that's uh that is class act right there. You know, definitely love America. We love our we love our soldiers because they give us the greatest country in the world to live in, and it's all because of them. So I've maybe tipped my tip my non-existent hat to them, you know.

SPEAKER_08 41:46

Well, it you know, it gives us the freedom to do what we do, and that's play music and have fun. Absolutely now.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Who came up with the the logo that you all did? Because I noticed the logo is on Chad's drum head. Who who actually came up with that?

SPEAKER_08 42:01

Actually, our nephew, uh David Taylor, who lives over in Tennessee, uh is an incredible artist. And um I sort of bounced it off of him and said, David, this is what we're looking at. We'd like to do for a logo. And two days later, here it was. And uh we've got it on Chad's drums, it's on our t-shirts, uh, it's on the band trailer, uh, and on the back window of my truck. So um, you know, we got a lot going on there with it, and it's a it's a great logo.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

So we Yeah, it's a very good logo. Uh yeah, it's it's very nice. I was curious where it came from. So I appreciate you filling that in on that. Oh, no problem. Now we do got uh another song that we can play as well. Um and also the songs that you're gonna perform, they're performing for those who don't know, they're gonna be performing two songs as well at the award show, one of which is the sample that we just played for you. But uh what's the name of the second song uh that you're gonna play during that award show?

SPEAKER_08 43:10

Uh the second song is Dirt in Your Hands, which it's on the ballot as dirt in my hands, which you know, tomato, tomata, it doesn't matter. Um, and that's the one I was telling you about, you know, it's about the farmers and tribute to them. And uh we all just fell in love with it after we sit down and uh worked everything out on it.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

I can't wait to hear it too. Now, I think you sent me let's see if that's uh I can't remember now if that was the second one you sent me or not.

SPEAKER_08 43:42

Well, I sent you a cover of uh us doing midnight training mental.

SPEAKER_01 43:46

Oh, that's right. Let's let's see what this one is. This isn't the midnight trainer. No, there's one that wasn't I forgot to title it.

SPEAKER_07 43:57

Yeah, this is the dark one.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

The almost look like one of the gas.

SPEAKER_04 47:14

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

Hell yeah. Mike, I love your voice. Your voice is awesome.

SPEAKER_04 47:25

Okay, I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

I love it.

SPEAKER_04 47:29

We've got some more originals we want to push a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 47:35

Well I tell you what. I tell you what, yeah. Oh yeah, I got one more, the uh the Midnight Train song. I I thought I had to upload it, so I was doing that during this song, so I can put it on this computer and hopefully I'll play it here in a minute as well. But dude, I'll tell you what, you all compliment each other so much. But Skip, I see what you mean by or actually it was Mike, it was you that was talking about you you don't have anywhere for a keyboard, and you don't, because that that last video, you all got so much stuff that there ain't much room to even walk, much less anything else.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

That was the small set that you were looking at.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

Oh, no doubt.

SPEAKER_04 48:12

It really was.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

I do have a lot of money tied up in that, don't you?

SPEAKER_04 48:16

Right. On my pedal board, I've got an organ simulator. And I can make it it sounds like a B3 Hammond, you know, and I can use it in certain situations, but I don't want to use it all the time. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I can play Free Bird with it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

Hey, there you go. That's always the Yule Tide favorite. Absolutely. Some people, everybody's always hiring for that. But you know what? I mean, you got you got to give it to Leonard Skinner. They man, they put out some good stuff, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 48:49

We actually told a group in Tennessee one time that we played it so much we're not gonna do it again unless somebody put a hundred dollars in a tip bucket, and these eight or ten college kids got all their money together and put$97 in there, and we did a 15-minute version of it.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

No doubt. Oh, I bet that was awesome.

SPEAKER_04 49:09

Love it.

SPEAKER_01 49:09

I bet that was awesome. That would have been so cool. Now, where were you all at when you did when you played that? Where were you all at?

SPEAKER_04 49:17

Adventure to stealing over in Cosby. That's uh yeah, it's up for award two for best venue. That's um Mark and Digger for the TV Moonshiners.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

Oh, really? Oh, nice. I didn't realize that.

SPEAKER_04 49:30

We played for them several times a year.

SPEAKER_01 49:32

Oh, no doubt. I didn't realize that they that they were the ones behind that. That's cool. Huh. But man, I'm learning all sorts of good stuff today. Kathleen said that hat goes perfect with your beard, Ricky, and I have to agree it does. It does just it is awesome. Such an awesome beard. Who needed to be born with that hat is just perfect. Yeah, yeah. It fits his persona to a T. To a T. Yeah. I'll be copying him, but I won't have a leather one, but I'll be copying him when I come down to see you at the award show. I gotta take I've especially after seeing him with his rocking beard. Now this my beard's pretty long, but my wife don't like it long, so this is about as long as it's ever been. I don't know. I don't know if she can handle it being as long as his. I don't know how he eats anything without eating it.

SPEAKER_04 50:24

Well when mama ain't happy, you know. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 50:27

Yeah. You gotta keep you gotta keep mama happy, that's for sure. All right, well, I guess let's see. I can remove this one. Let's see if I can play that midnight train for everybody.

SPEAKER_06 50:41

Yeah, while he's pulling that up, Gerald, before we go, be sure to give everybody our website address too.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

Oh, yeah, we want to let everybody know about it. Absolutely. And if you want, you can go ahead and do that before we even oh whoops.

SPEAKER_06 50:57

Go ahead, Skip, you know it. Okay, okay, it is www.outlawhiskeyband.com. You have to get all those words in there. Outlawhiskeyband.com, no spaces, no caps, www.outlawhiskeyband.com.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

So there you have it, folks. Go there, like it, support it, subscribe to it, whatever it asks, do it.

SPEAKER_04 51:25

Yeah. Everybody needs to follow us on Facebook too, Mr. Bones. I think that that would be good if if we can keep somebody from hacking it again.

SPEAKER_01 51:33

Yeah, well, and that's the yeah, that was the big thing. I was talking with Gerald uh earlier, and uh I y'all actually have two accounts because one was sadly uh to uh hacked. Say I had my my favorite one was hacked, and Facebook did absolutely nothing to help me get it back. Oh no, you know, which is pathetic, but whatever. It is it is what it is, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 51:56

We could talk about Mr. Zuckerberg quite a bit, but I don't think it's uh appropriate in you to you.

SPEAKER_01 52:02

No, probably not, and you know, I'm sure you know he he ain't gonna change. No, he he's got way too much money to change. He don't care what my broke ass thinks. That's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 52:14

Well, mine's the same way, but I certainly don't care about his either.

SPEAKER_01 52:18

Yeah, that's right, that's right. But now now that being said, too, obviously they're on Facebook, obviously. Um, do y'all have a YouTube channel?

SPEAKER_04 52:28

We have a couple videos posted on YouTube, they're a little older from uh one of our favorite older venues was uh Unplugged Pub and Bryson City. There's there's two of the same songs on YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 52:40

Okay. And do you all stream on any music platforms such as Spotify, Apple?

SPEAKER_08 52:48

We're working on it. I haven't got it done yet.

SPEAKER_01 52:51

Oh, okay. So that's that's in the works. So there you have it. Stay tuned, guys, because they're coming to a Spotify near you.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

Yeah, we did we did we uh published a CD of six six songs a while back, and a couple three mine were on there plus these two Geralds. And uh it seems to have gone pretty well because we sold them all.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

Well good deal. Now on Gerald's website, do you all do you have a merch store or is it just just a website that just talks about the band and and all and and whatnot?

SPEAKER_08 53:28

Uh I haven't looked in a lot of pictures. Yeah, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_04 53:32

Yeah, he's he's on he's in the process of getting that done. You know, going ahead and get the pictures and the links and how to pay for it and that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

Oh yeah, that's a that's a slow going process, that's for sure. Well, definitely, guys and gals out there, you've heard it. You know, definitely look these guys up on Facebook. Definitely check them out on everything that they have just mentioned. Uh give it a like, give it a follow, because every little bit helps. That's why these guys are on my podcast. Not that my podcast is anything super special yet, but I'm growing and so are they, and and every little bit of exposure. So they're if they picked up one person from this podcast, then to me that's a win for them. Absolutely and vice versa. You know, there I may get lucky enough to find that somebody else may look me up and say, hey, I'm gonna start following Bones or b or Bones uh Enterprises LLC on Facebook. That's my business page. So definitely check everybody out. Give them likes, give them follows. Um do you all ever do lives? Do you all go and do lives on Facebook or like TikTok or anything like that?

SPEAKER_04 54:39

Oh, yeah, we've got several live on Facebook. Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:43

So so obviously you gotta subscribe, you gotta like these guys so you get that notification when these guys are gonna go do what they do best and and jam out some songs live on Facebook. You wanna be a part of that. And when you're in there and while you're a part of it, definitely uh look into the whole stars thing. I need to look into that as well. Um you know, because they can collect stars and make a little bit of uh it's like tip money on the side. So, you know, help these guys out and uh give them all the support that you can give them. Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a I'm gonna play this last song that that I got from Gerald, and this was their uh rendition of uh Midnight Train. So uh let's take a little listen to this. Uh now I don't know if y'all recognize or remember where were you all at when you all shot this.

SPEAKER_08 55:40

Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_01 55:42

Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day at the Moose Lodge. Heck yeah. So I guess that's why they kind of had that pinkish or reddish ominous look to it. That's uh that's quite a lot of color life. Yeah, quite fitting. That's right. Well, let's take a gander. Let's let's take a listen, ladies and gentlemen. I haven't heard that song in a long time. So I'm just checking on skip. You uh you still out there, you didn't get ate by no bear or nothing, did you?

SPEAKER_06 59:11

Oh no, I don't see no bars out here. I've got my ears out.

SPEAKER_01 59:16

That's a good thing. So, what was the deal on that music video with the chair in the middle right up there? Is that a the timeout chair if somebody screwed up? They made them sit there, or what was the stream with the chair?

SPEAKER_08 59:27

That's tip bucket chair.

SPEAKER_00 59:28

Oh, tip bucket chair. Oh, well, there you go.

SPEAKER_08 59:32

Yeah, we use mana bucket for uh tip jars, so uh nothing wrong with that, brother. Uh no. We we kid around about that. You know, we need some bait in the minibugget to go fishing the next day, so you know it's uh we have a lot of fun with it. And um we you know, we were talking about songwriters. Mike is one heck of a songwriter. Uh he wrote a song called uh I Wanna Be Your Rock that actually charted in on the Myrtle Beach uh beach music charts down there for nine weeks. And the story behind it, his uh wife went to the beach and Mike had to do uh four little words of work, and um so he decided to write a song, and so every month he was laughing, going getting that royalty check out of the mailbox on account of it. And he and he can't wait, she goes back down again, so we can write another one.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:38

But he's not wrong with that.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:40

Yeah, and actually the CD that we released, um Storm Is Coming, uh, Mike. We named the C D and then Mike said, Well, hold on, guys, I can write a song for that. And uh next week he came back and he had written The Storm Is Coming, which is a really, really good song, and uh plays out well. And he wrote one about Moonshining also called Moonshining. And uh and that was from Mark and Digger and that bunch down there in Cosby, Tennessee. Uh down there. We played at a place down there that they called Dirty Does in Campground. And long story short, on that, Mike decided to write a song about that. So it turned out really well and done really good.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:26

So now the the song about the storms, did did that have any correlation with the uh tragic storms that came through and really wreaked havoc on North Carolina?

SPEAKER_08 1:01:38

No, it's a it was a whole different uh ballpark on that. Um I just decided to write that song, and uh, you know, we had uh some bands around it wrote a couple of songs about lean coming through, and it it was very devastating here in Haywood County and Bunkham County.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:55

So Yeah, it's unbelievable what kind of damage it did. Unbelievable. I was down there I was down there not uh well it was it was a while a while after because they had already reopened the roads where you could pass because a lot of that area down there, some people were trapped, they couldn't even get you couldn't get in or out. So but I got to get I got a chance to go down there and see some of it after the fact. And I tell you what, it was man, my heart's go out to everybody that were affected with that. But it was really neat how people stepped up because we the one band I was with, we had uh we had a gig in in Dundalk, Maryland. And while we were in Dundalk, the guy that that reached out for us to play actually had drove a he had a like a fifth-wheel trailer or something that he pulled all the way from Dundalk, loaded down with supplies, and dropped it off in North Carolina for the relief effort. So it was it was really neat how somebody that that far away, you know, how they traveled that distance just to drop off supplies, and then here we are now. Local guys from North Carolina are going and playing a gig in Dundalk at the same you know, same place that's kind of hosted by a guy that drove down. So I thought it was really neat how everything kind of just comes full circle, you know.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:19

Yeah, it it does, and you know, that's the neat part about it. Uh speaking for Haywood County and Boncombe County where Mike's from and Jackson County, everybody was coming together and helping each other, and that's what it's about. Um, we we put on a benefit and we did an American Legion up there um in uh Waynesville and had some good bands coming in behind us up there, had a great time, raised uh a little money for everybody, and helped out a little bit like that. So, you know, that's what it's about. You gotta come together and help out whenever um it's called for.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:00

Amen to that. Amen to that. Now, with you guys, now that you've got your the new, I guess you'd say the new band, have you all done any traveling with with this group of guys yet? Or you've gone outside of North Carolina?

SPEAKER_08 1:04:17

Yes, sir. We go to Tennessee and uh this past year we played the homeowner game at uh uh South Carolina Clemson. We played it. And um and then we played a private party in Clemson, South Carolina. Uh we've played in Georgia in the past. Um of course Tennessee, East Tennessee. We've played a lot. Um we've uh you know, we've had opportunities to uh play uh a lot of places, and you know, we've I think last year we did over some over 50 some shows, and this year we're right at the verge of going over that. And you know, it's just it's good to stay busy. I mean, there's been some weekends we go two shows a weekend all month long for a month and a half.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:12

So it's no doubt. That's that's great. That's really good. And uh now do you all do travel in your cars or do y'all have a bus?

SPEAKER_08 1:05:22

No, we travel in cars. Um we uh I pull the band trailer in my truck and uh Chad and uh Skip and and Mike drive separately and Ricky's driving with us and uh so you know we just you know try to make it as convenient as possible when need be.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:43

Yeah. Now mama, when uh when Susan goes with y'all, does she um is she kind of become the kind of tour manager then on that aspect?

SPEAKER_08 1:05:52

Yeah, she takes I I tell you what, uh hats off to any band manager because you guys do a lot. stuff behind the scenes that nobody really sees but is appreciated. And that's, you know, what she does when we go to the show, she'll sit up in the merchandise table, um, talk to the people in the crowd, and you know, just interacts while we're playing. And that's another thing on our breaks, we try to come out and talk to people at the venue and uh find out what they like to listen to. And if we know it, we'll try to play it. But she's always doing stuff like that. And we've already mentioned she cooks the meals on rehearsal nights.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:36

She gets things going you know and and works hard on that for all these uh good uh uh things that goes down and she's on the phone shooting emails anything it takes she's doing what uh manager would do I would say my buddy Mike Clacy just dropped in here he said hey guys to everybody he is actually he's the owner of locked and loaded records he's actually out of uh Washington so he's near he's probably about 20 or 30 minutes from Oregon um he he's a blues guy he's a blues guy so he's uh he Mike definitely check these guys out they're called outlaw whiskey they do uh country and they do the uh like the southern rock so they've got that they've got that peppy that peppy southern rock appeal which is uh real appealing to most people so you have to check them out Mike yeah maybe some guys you'd be interested in as well but Mike he's another cool dude I'm gonna have him on the show eventually as well but um I need to need to get get that going but I've got a good list of people so I'm blessed that between people I found and Miss Pamela I've I've got quite a few and there's a girl I do um sometimes do podcasts she's Wolf Wolfvare podcast um she we do it together sometimes to try to help each other out because you know to me that's the big thing is when we're all you know a lot of these bands I just don't understand why people don't want to try to help each other succeed.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:12

I think if we work together as a family we can accomplish so much more than if you do it by yourself you know you could and you know networking is a good thing you know and it's not about uh oh I'm you know better than them I don't need to talk to them already been there done that but you know it it's like I have people come up here once in a while and say hey could you team teach me to play a guitar? Yeah what do you charge? I won't charge you nothing because I want to pass it on so you'll pass it on. You know so you know and that's why it's got to be in this uh business that uh we call music and um we need network and work together and you know everybody learn something from everybody because every day if you get up and say I'm gonna learn something new guarantee you will learn something new.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:02

Oh and Mike said he goes yes I I know who they are they are amazing and he is absolutely correct so well I didn't I know Mike already knew you so I mean there's there's a guy all the way from Washington that uh you know that that knows who who you guys are so that that says a lot about you all as a band for sure well thank you thank you so much now now Skip uh is there a reason why you have your name on your shirt is that so they don't forget who you are I don't know if Skip could hear me can you hear me Skip oh actually that's uh that's a fishing shirt right there.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:40

Oh it's a fishing shirt I thought it was a name tag I thought I thought yeah that right there is to hold your fly rod keep it from falling in the creek I see I was listening to what you're saying I just got to say something here uh I saw it somewhere I don't know where to attribute it to but uh you know artists uh artists paint with oil on canvas and what we do is we paint feelings with sound for people hell yeah that's a that's a cool analogy right there absolutely and you all do man you all you all definitely got this click all five of you just mesh together perfect you definitely found the right key players that's for sure well you know uh a little story on Ricky Ricky came off Craigslist and um no shit no i'm i i joke you not on that uh Ricky um we were advertising for a lead guitar player and I'd actually put it on Craigslist and um his uh better hat saw it and here we are you know he's been with me closing in on eight years now so he's been with us quite a while dude that's funny you found him on Craigslist that's great yeah yeah and you know I joke around that we actually got him from Grateful Dead and Z Z Top just calling whichever one pops in my head and out of introduction but but we're very grateful to have Ricky a part of us and everybody I mean Chad Ricky and Skip and Mike and uh Mike and I worked together uh uh in our previous careers and have known each other over 30 years and like you said neither one of us knew that the other played and uh that's so crazy that's so bizarre that you all didn't know you each other played but yet you knew each other like in that setting of what you all did before.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:38

I mean that's that's a pretty tight knit group it's like wow how did yeah it's it's crazy that you all didn't know that's so now what how did you find that out was that by happening chance uh well uh you know we were looking for a bass player that night my wife said well one minute my co plays and I said you're kidding me you're joking right she said no he played let me uh because Mike's wife was my wife's supervisor of their job and uh yeah so I mean small world you know um so we called him up and then um we were looking for a singer to fill in Mike came and filled in for a while and uh at first he wasn't interested in being the full-time lead singer but we're very thankful he changed his mind and came on full time because uh all bragging you know to him he is extremely extremely talented singer songwriter and guitar player yeah well you're definitely blessed you got a lot of a lot of talent surrounding y'all so that's gonna make y'all go far that's for sure Pam wanted me to give a shout out to her and yes we we definitely will and we definitely uh go to www dot southernlightsentertainment dot com. Uh there you're gonna see Miss Pamela's brand new website page which is pretty phenomenal. You're also gonna see a lot a whole plethora of different people that are nominated for things. These gents that are with me today are definitely just one uh cog in that wheel of uh different people that you'll see but go if you don't know them a lot of up and coming people click on a name go search YouTube go search uh Facebook try to find these guys check them out because you never know you they may be your next favorite band and you just don't know it yet they may be your next skinner or whatever so definitely check these guys out give them a listen it it it don't cost anything to listen and it sure as heck don't don't cost anything to give you a little bit of your time to give them a shot and hear what they got to sing about because they've got some really good talented music and musicians. So check that out you can go to uh Pam's page you can vote often so feel free to log in you can vote as many times as you want up until around sometime in September once that hits we're gonna we're gonna ex nay it and then we're gonna tally everything up because that's part of the thing that Miss Pam wanted out of her her deal was she wanted number one she wanted to have an award show to where the the people that are nominated don't have to pay to go to a dang show that they're nominated for and not only that but she also wanted to be able to have the fans vote so we're not really doing we're not really doing any like judges where things can be biased. It's all based on who votes and anyone can vote. So vote now vote often for your people because you never know you may just your vote may push them over the edge to where they win here in November on November 14th 2026 at the historic Oak Grove Theater in Oak Grove Tennessee so everybody be there or be square.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:08

And uh you know there's gonna be a lot of great talent playing down there um that night too she's bringing bands in from the contest or the ballot and playing and uh again Miss Pam thank you so much and for all the hard work you're putting out to make this thing happen and you're working hard and uh you can tell and you can see it happening. So uh you know hats off to Miss Pam and Southern lights entertainment and uh getting the same organized and people like you bones I mean going out and you know getting the word out even more to podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:44

Well I'm certainly trying we got all we got so we got off to a slow start we did we did but you know it it happens I mean it's it's one of those things oh miss Kathleen said your birthday is on the award show November 14th well Kathleen that's awesome I didn't know that and I talk to Miss Kathleen like every day and I did not know that that is so cool but you know we we appreciate your time bones we really do and hey I I'm looking forward to November 14th uh I know you're presenting award at the end of the show and I'm uh was asked to present the power couple award and uh that's a new thing I've never done that before so you know it's gonna be the first for both of us brother we're gonna be each other's support dogs uh well that's what I was telling you no you you're gonna be my emotional support system that's and if we go down in flames we're gonna go together that's right that's right and uh it's gonna be fun i i it's gonna it's gonna be a blast we're gonna have a good time and um you know i can't wait to meet y'all and shake y'all's hands and meet you in real life and where we can actually talk and not hear echoes and not hear the I can't hear him and you know it'll be nice and and also uh our mascot Heidi not barking in the background um she's uh she's very vocal for a German shepherd but we love her yeah you know my I got a German shepherd the my well her mom was full blooded German shepherd the dad was cattle dog so she's really small like a cattle dog but she looks just like a German shepherd and she's the yappy she does that whiny barky crap too it's uh quite I'm quite used to it she's well you know I I love dogs and uh you know they're literally man's best friend they you know they have that unconditional love and uh you know they uh once one comes in here it it's not a dog it's not a pet it's part of the family so Pamela wants to give Kathleen a ticket to the show for her birthday Kathleen I tell you what I yeah she goes Kathleen said thank you so much that would be let's see it'd be great to be at that award show on my birthday it would be it would be awesome to see you there Kathleen that would be so cool you know come on say hello to us we'd love meet her and uh I mean heck I'd even I'd even be willing to pay for your ticket Kathleen I don't you know that would be that would be so cool to have you there on your birthday and be serenaded by these guys along with a plethora of other people because there's gonna be a lot of a lot of people putting out some tunes out there so uh it's gonna be it's gonna be a really killer show I'm I'm really really excited. It's gonna be a fun show it really is and uh you know I I'm excited about hearing these other groups and bands and duos uh this line of form uh you know uh and there's I I can't wait to hear them you know it's gonna be fun yeah me too I'm right there with you brother right there with you and I'm looking forward to you know doing um as many as many people out there so if you're listening and you're a nominee um if you want to be on a podcast even though that you know mine's just just starting to get gain traction I mean it's uh it's not like you're gonna you're not gonna get seen by um a million people but if you want to be on a podcast show please reach out to me either you can either call me my shit's all over Facebook or you can do the the whole uh uh messenger thing sit shoot me a message because I'd love to have you you know uh on the show uh the the goal for me is to at least talk to all of you guys that I'm presenting for entertainer of the year to where I at least kind of get an idea of no know who you are going into it and uh I'd like to be able to to to do that over the course of the next several months and get that done before November so and I think we can so I'm gonna pass this back around again to uh Skip Ricky and or uh Chad Ricky and Mike and Skip's still out there I keep checking on him making sure no bears is so yeah I was getting feedback from my phone so I th you know I decided I come come out here.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:21

Well heck yeah but making sure you ain't getting mauled by a bear I keep you I keep you in the sights well Mr.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:30

Bones I certainly appreciate you doing this for one thing and it's been a very enjoyable experience.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:35

Well I hope we can do it again oh I I definitely would love it too I wish I I I apologize for the I don't know why it wouldn't let two of y'all in I mean it's I'm supposed to be able to have 10 people so there's no reason why I don't know what what happened but I know it was a rocky start thank you all for being patient with me because of that and thank you all for you know sticking through it and having to share the phone I mean it is what it is but I'm very honored and blessed that you all took time out of your day to be on my show too so not a bad thing at all let me give you the Ricky right quick there he is brother dude I'm telling you what that beard is just the shit I love it I'm jelly as hell man so jelly of that beard it is so awesome my wife would never let me have one that big you've definitely grown it a while that's for sure yeah okay there's Chad all right brother Chadwick all right brother I tell you what man the drums you dude you rock it out on the drums too brother you've got a killer setup so what do you what what drum set are you running I play a 1978 Slingerlin so you got an old old school drum set yeah yeah that was back when stuff was actually built to last forever yeah I got it I've looked up and found it and been playing it for a few years now I've got a couple drum sets but that's the one my go-to is that your that's your favorite one that you travel with and stuff yeah so what do you do just you got like your other one set up at your house where you can just practice you know I leave one here at jur I leave one set up at Jur's all the time and I have one at my house too and then you have the the your your set that you travel with yeah dang bunches bunches of drums heck yeah dude you got a heck of a setup then yeah that's a lot of money tied up in that oh for sure it's an expensive hobby but it's a good hobby that's for sure hey bones I think we all need to invest in a drumstick company because Chad goes through drumsticks like a chainsaw through a through a sapping is he that violent ones that pilot on them drums or is he just giving his sticks away to the hot ladies that are in the crowd is that maybe that's it I've got a I've got to have a my wife wants a cure for gas which is guitar acquisition syndrome she said after 17 or 18 you can't have any more I see you got your headlamp on what's up what's up with your headlamp that way I can see to get to the car. Oh well fair enough well yeah he just put that on the way out you see that bear before he mauls you well I don't think you have to worry about that with Mike he might uh burn some powder and lead you've got my back said yeah that's it uh well bones thank you again sir so much uh for thank you I appreciate you I appreciate all of you very much and again we're looking forward to meeting you in person down at uh the historic grove in uh grove in is that right historic grove theater yep theater yeah there we go okay we're all gonna be in it so I guess the end is it's an appropriate terminal we're gonna go in okay we're gonna go in but uh and I appreciate uh Pam again doing what she's doing here for um the artist uh in the surrounding area and uh promoting it and making things happen and uh for everybody that uh joined in down tonight on your podcast and uh and all the support that hopefully they come back from it and um well and again we're looking forward to seeing y'all yeah me too brother I'm really looking forward especially now after after getting a glimpse of meeting all of y'all I've had the privilege to talk to you Gerald a couple times on the phone but it was really nice to get to put see the other guys put faces to it if they don't mind I obviously you gave me their numbers to where I could send them this link to where they could do it. If they're fine if they're okay with it I'd like to log them and hold on to their numbers in my phone if they're okay with it. I promise not to share I don't share numbers right so I'm uh I'm sure they'll be okay with it sounds good uh well this not spam call or something that's right they'll be like yeah I don't know who this asshole is let's block him guys thank you all again so much for taking time out of your evening I appreciate me let me interrupt you all's uh practice uh a little bit to uh do this podcast so thank you all so very much for it's our pleasure and um I guess unless anybody's got anything else to add I think they've covered everything if you need to reiterate or if we left out any links or any possible connections where people can find you all us we can definitely throw that out there now. On the post office uh wall on the post office wall well I guess that's better than the bathroom stall so I guess that's good you know you've you've you've kind of moved on up a little bit to the post yeah just a little bit uh we tell everybody our uh C D went plyboard so uh all right gentlemen well I guess it's been a it's been a a a nice podcast and I guess we'll wrap it up because I'm sure you all are no different than me these these late nights get a little rough sometimes yes sir a little bit past it a little past my bedtime I'm having to slowly condition myself to stay up a little bit longer than I normally have been oh uh we've got a show Saturday in Canton North Carolina at Papertown Billiards we'll be playing from 8 p.m to 11 p.m there you go well there you have it guys and gals if you're in the North Carolina area where he just mentioned and you're looking for something to do go hang with these guys guarantee you're not going to be disappointed we'll try to put on the best we can well dude I tell you what that thanks for sending me those three songs by the way so I could play them on here but it but I tell you what it's man y'all got it you definitely got a good thing going so kudos to you all and and I can't wait to see the live performance but uh you know I know we still got a little ways to go I don't want to I don't want to wish my life away but it is going to be fun when the 14th finally does roll around it surely is it's gonna be a blast and we're looking forward to seeing everybody there. Heck yeah brother so all right guys and gals well there you have it that was outlaw whiskey band thanks to all of them we had a little rough start getting going couldn't get them all in at the same time which kind of stinks but we improvised and uh poor skip he risked his life for the whole Whole show being out there in bear country, and you never know. He could have been eaten or even worse. We don't know. Oh, Gerald's got my back. Gerald got my back. Thank God Skip's all right, but he uh but he was a trooper. But thanks, thanks again, Gerald. Thanks, Mike. Uh uh, Chad, and Ricky. All of y'all are phenomenal people, and y'all are definitely skilled at your all's craft. So I tip my hat to y'all. And uh until we meet here in the future, I guess we'll go ahead and uh sign this off and uh we'll wish y'all the best of luck at your upcoming show and all your shows in the future until we see you in November.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:39

Sounds good, brother. You have a good evening and good night, and thank y'all for tune in and uh follow Bones and uh his podcast on Facebook and other places.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:50

Heck yeah. Thank you all so much, Gerald. Uh, tell tell Miss Susan I said hi and it congratulations on the nomination. I wish her the very best.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:00

Okay, and you too, Bones, and uh we'll see y'all in November.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:05

Sounds good, brother. All right. Well, this is Bones from the Bones Unfiltered Podcast. Uh, definitely check me out on Bones Enterprises LLC on Facebook, or you can find my personal page, which I don't do a whole whole lot with, which is Bones Warren. You'll see me with a uh uh a steamer punk hat kind of similar to the one that you saw Ricky wear, but I think Ricky wears it a little better than I do. But definitely check us out, give a like, give follows on everybody's stuff because it helps people like me get started and grow traction and become better and put and be able to eventually learn how to do a better podcast for you all, and also these guys, it just helps get them more engagements, more uh followers, and more people that are tune in and come out the shows and support them. So that's what we all need is uh love and support. So show it and until we meet again, this is Bones signing out saying peace, Gerald, peace out, my brother. It's a pleasure, and that's a wrap.