Bones Unfiltered Podcast : Music Edition Episode #10, featuring Appalachian Moon

In Episode #10 of the Bones Unfiltered Podcast : Music Edition, we welcome Appalachian Moon, an electrifying band that blends Country, Southern Rock and Blues.  From their home in Knoxville, Tennessee, the band shares their storytelling, and what it means to carry the Appalachian spirit into the future.  Join us for this raw, authentic musical journey.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

There we go. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the next edition of the Bones Unfiltered Podcast. I'm your host, Bones. Today, welcome to the next edition of the Bones. Oh now I get to hear the echo.

SPEAKER_04 0:30

Hey, gentlemen, welcome.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

That may not work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:35

We may have to try something. I might fix it. Did I fix it?

SPEAKER_02 0:39

Let's see. Ah, yeah, I think you did. Yep, whatever you did. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we know we're just a few minutes behind schedule. However, we're having some technical difficulties, and we are trying it. We've been trying for 30 minutes to fix it. So I don't know what the fuck's going on. It's technology, and y'all know me and technology are like oil and water. So we're trying to get uh Blake back in. But until then, once he gets back in, hopefully he can we either can hear and we can't see, or we can see and can't hear. So I don't know what's going on with all that. But here he is. Let's see. All right, Blake, can you hear us now?

SPEAKER_07 1:21

Yes, I can I can hear you. I just moved to my cell phone. So can you hear us? Your sound is good, but it's okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:28

Well, you know what? I I guess we'll run with it, ladies and gentlemen. We we tried our best, we tried to be as professional as humanly possible, and shit happens. But anyway, uh again, I'm Bones. I'm your host for today's episode, and I'm with the incredible award-winning country southern rock and blues band uh that is known as Appalachian Moon. And they are a mother and son band that have been around for a long time, won lots of awards, and they're up for a lot of awards with the um Southern Lights Entertainment awards that um I get to be a part of this year at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. So I'd like to welcome all of you all to the show.

SPEAKER_07 2:12

Glad to be here, and I'm the mom. I'm the mom.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

Yeah, he's the mom. He's the mom. He he he just got a haircut. He used to have really long hair, and the the facial hair, we're not real sure. It he used to work in the circus. I mean, it it's a big old, it's another whole show talking about that. But anyhow, we would like to get down to business and we'd like to talk to these uh family about all of their experiences in the music industry right now. We got uh several people already popping in. Val is here and uh Gerald from uh Outlaw Whiskey's here. Thank you, Gerald, for dropping in for these awesome peeps. That you're also gonna see them in November when we have this show. But for starters, what I'd like to uh ask and talk about in before actually, you know what? Uh let me let me back up because actually, before I get started, I would like to take a quick moment of silence in very much respect for the passing of Lori's husband and for the loss of a child from Blake uh down below me. So, for if you all would, could we have just a quick moment of silence for their family and give thanks to God for what time they had with their family? All right. So, thank you all so much for the moment of silence for their family. We greatly appreciate that. And now I'd like to uh kind of get started and talk about we talked about award shows. Now it's my understanding, Lori, that you all have have one already won some awards, and y'all are also up for award shows. I think there's two different award shows this year where y'all are up for different stuff. Is that true? Yes, yes, awesome. Now, what have you all won in years past? Not counting the one that I'm gonna be in with uh uh Southern Lights Entertainment, but which awards have you already currently have? Kind of tell me a little bit about where you went, where was it held, what you all won and whatnot.

SPEAKER_04 4:19

In the North American Country Music Association International, uh that is called NAC May. Uh, we won Entertainer of the Year and Band of the Year, Song of the Year, um Vocalists of the Year.

SPEAKER_10 4:35

Um, this is for multiple years we've won, uh we spotted on that. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Oh, so this is a multi-year thing.

SPEAKER_10 4:43

Yeah. Yeah, multiple multiple years. We've we've uh we've had the honor of of uh being a part of NACMA, and uh it really has been an honor. And every time we go, it's a lot of fun. Um it it's it's a lot of musicians all getting together and uh behind the scenes, you know, we're we're all playing music at the bottom of the hotel and having a good time till the early morning hours, you know. And and you know, we're all you know, various musicians from all over the United States and really all over the world. There's a lot of musicians uh, you know, that take part in this. And uh so it's a lot of fun. But my favorite part is definitely that you know, we get to do it with the family, you know what I mean? And uh oh heck yeah. I I I couldn't be any more blessed to play music with my with my family, you know, my mom and my brothers, you know, and uh, you know, I they just mean the world to me uh to be able to do what I love. And you know, they they're the ones who kind of guided me up into even really knowing exactly what that was. And uh but that it's always been music, you know, it's always been music.

SPEAKER_07 5:48

And so of course we've all you know started from different genres, but we we've been able to come together on the core of uh of what defines us as far as genre goes and where it all started. So, yes, we each came from different genres of music. My mom started in one genre, and then my brother, and then me as well, and my younger brother, who's not with us today, he also has his own specific genre that he and the compact of all of these genres and our blood and create something different. And I think people like that. I think people like the uh you know, the conglomeration or whatever the word is. I think they like the addition of everything that we do, all put into one, and it and it it sounds unique to even the genre that we release songs in.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

That's really cool. Now, Lori, what what genre did you start with? What was your favorite when you started?

SPEAKER_04 6:47

I can't say I have a favorite actually, but um I grew up on um Western, you know, country western music. Um I was born in Memphis and grew up in East Texas, and and daddy always played it around the house. And uh I gotta start, you know, playing at Louisiana Hayride, and it was all country music back in those days. And then uh then I branch out and get into some little punk rock for a while and then rock and roll. Yeah, so yeah. I love all kinds of music, and I do gossip music.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

I do too. I do too. That's awesome. I would have never thought you just said punk rock, you just totally blew my mind. Now, Shane, Shane, same question for you. Like, what what genre was your favorite when you first started? What did you bring to the table?

SPEAKER_10 7:36

Well, surprisingly enough, I started with punk rock, you know. You two fucking man. I think uh I I think there's a lot uh stuff involved in why that was the case, but uh, but it it definitely, you know, something about the uh the kind of wild style that you know is a little bit out there and uh I I really liked certain punk rock that was really you know bass guitar heavy. I really love the various bass lines that you know of certain punk rocks. Yeah, like MX, you know, like you know, just you know, dancing rhythms and stuff, and uh, you know, so I I I really fell in love with the bass and uh and that's what you know, and I was already uh playing guitar a little bit before uh my older brother Blake. He uh he he picked up the guitar first and uh and he stopped playing with me, so I had to you know kind of catch up to him a little bit, you know. I I was wondering why he, you know, he was so interested in the guitar, so I had to find out for myself, you know, and so we've always kind of like you know bounced ideas back off of each other and gotta be motivation, you know, like you know, so uh, you know, but uh then you know, so like he said, we've all started in different genres, but eventually, even I came you know around to his genres and what he was liking, even though at the time I might not have appreciated it as much, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 8:56

Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

So eventually I can't yeah, I and I think what's interesting about ladies and gentlemen, about this band too is I I I I started researching them and doing stuff, and I mean you'll find videos where this young man here will be playing the guitar, but he also play the bass. This young man plays the guitar, plays bass. This young lady, so I mean it's like they they are just so eclectic with all of these instruments where they can pick and choose. I even saw one, Lori, of you picking bass, just the bass lines on the like the the the uh the e-string and stuff on a regular guitar. I mean, it's just like the improv that they do when they do their music is just is is actually just astounding. Um Blake, what about you? Blake, what did you what was your favorite out of all of it that you brought to the table?

SPEAKER_07 9:48

Uh you mean uh genre?

SPEAKER_02 9:50

Genre wise, yes, sir.

SPEAKER_07 9:51

Uh I've always been into I think I think I grew up on bands like Shinedown, um like great band Cornell.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Oh man, he's awesome.

SPEAKER_07 10:03

Start off in the grunge era, you know, the 90s. Oh, but as far as that goes, uh from grunge, I went straight to um you know, Razner, Perfect Circle, Shine Down. It was really into sort of the heavier rock scene, and and then I found uh John Mayer's more raw stuff, not the pop stuff that he does, but the more raw uh guitar heavy uh showing his actual talent. And uh it it really influenced me a lot. And that actually sent me backwards, it reflected me back in to Steven Ray Vaughn and and some of some of those amazing guitar players and influenced my style a little bit different. So that that's sort of, I guess, where where I came from.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

That's awesome. Yeah, that is that is awesome. Now, Gerald from Outlaw Whiskey asked the question are they playing at the award show? Yes, they are, Gerald. So you are gonna get a chance to meet uh this fine band in person as well, is same as me. Uh god, god willing, I'm still here by that time. I hope so, because I'm very excited about meeting all of everybody so far. Everybody that I've interviewed is just outstanding people. Um, it's definitely people I'd like to surround myself with, and I was very blessed, just like I'm blessed that you all took the time to actually come on a no-name podcast like mine. I really appreciate it. Uh, Miss Pamela's in here. Hi, honey.

SPEAKER_07 11:30

Hey, Pam.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

And they're all gonna say hi to you, too, Sugar. Hello, hello. Hey, I do want to say you today.

SPEAKER_07 11:38

If somebody says something in the chat, uh I if you don't mind, can you let me know what they say? I am terrified to change the screen at the moment because it's oh no, yeah, because of all the problems we have.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

No, absolutely. I certainly will. As long as y'all don't mind me every now and again interrupting. I love to drop in the fans. I've got a fan in here, her name's Valerie. She literally is been, I think she's only missed one show of that I've ever done. She is in everything, so she is a heck of a she's she's not just a fan, she's a she's turned into a friend. So I'm really blessed that she's in here too. And thanks, thanks, Pam, for coming in. I know you've been very busy, honey, but thank you so much. So, but anyway, back to the show. Um, so so this this fine band here has won already won tons of different awards and different stuff. Now, we are blessed at especially at the Southern Lights Entertainment for the upcoming our first premiere show through Miss Pamela Little, who she's done an outstanding job so far starting to set all this up. But this band here, not only are they going to perform as well at this show, but they are up for a plethora of different stuff as well. So, for band wise alone, they're up for band of the year, which yours truly here gets to present the nomination for or the uh the awards for the uh band of the year or entertainer of the year, however they're gonna end up describing it. But I get the privilege of doing that, and these fine people here are up for that award as well. They are also up for people's choice awards. We have Miss Lori down here, who's up for female vocalist of the year. We have this fine band is up for album of the year, which will be the album um for the song out of the album of the year, uh, it'll be okay. And then they are up for the Southern Legends Ward, and Miss Lori is up for Southern Legends Ward as well. Awesome. And then we of course we break into the young men here, and I mean they're up them themselves. You have um, let's see, Blake. You're up for rising star of the year, you're up for solo male vocal or uh yeah, male artist of the year, songwriter of the year for his song Appalachian Crossroads, which we're gonna play that video for you all here in a little bit, so you get a sample of that. And then he's up for Song of the Year, which is for Appalachian Crossroads, Mad Hatter, Sacrifice, and Red Flag. So he's got a ton of songs that he's up for, and then we can't forget Shane. Shane's up for Songwriter of the Year for his song Find the Zen. Then he's also up for um Song of the Year for Weight of the World and Um I Belong, and of course, Find the Zen, and he's up for guitarist of the year. So I mean, I I tell you what, the pedigree with these with these fine folks is just off the chains. So I'm very blessed and very honored to have him on the show. And uh, I can't wait, I can't wait to see y'all and meet y'all in person. Uh Miss Pamela, she got on here and she said, you know, please everybody go to uh Southernlightsentertainment.com. Definitely go there, check it out because, like I say, you're gonna see all of these peeps, everything I just talked about. You can go and vote on it. You can vote now and vote often all the way through September before we do the tally. And then, of course, the award show again for those that may not have heard, November 14th at Oak at the historic Oak Grove Theater in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. So we're really looking forward to that. If you're gonna go to the show, book now. You can also apparently they got a lot of shit going on. So book your hotel.

SPEAKER_07 15:27

Well, multiple votes today. You can also vote multiple times, which is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

Yes, yes, y'all, for your votes. We really appreciate the votes. Absolutely, and yes, they are awesome. Thank you so much. Let's see. Uh oh, that that was questions, not for that. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

Oh, and this is Rogue Dog Glyla. You gotta see Rogue Dog Gly here.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

She's actually our mascot. Well, and that's so funny that you that's so funny that you say that because I'm fixing to show you. I was gonna ask about her, um, which we'll get to here in a minute, but I do have some preloaded things. One thing that uh that I find is very interesting, and I'm gonna add this to the stage, is you've got the beautiful Miss Lori Lynn here. Look at that. If you notice, if you notice her hat. Now her hat is not her husband's hat who passed because he was apparently he was a he was a strapping lad, and he and his head was a little bit bigger than hers. However, she did take the band and she added the peacock feather to give it a little pizzazz for her, love that and kind of carried that on. So that hat is in homage of her uh her husband that we had that moment of silence for. So I wanted everybody to be able to see the hat. Not to mention everybody, y'all know that I love these kind of hats myself. So when I saw it, I was like, just like fell for that hat. I was like, that is badass. So she's done a great job with that, and I wanted everybody to just get a good look at that hat.

SPEAKER_07 16:54

Rattles band there, you know.

SPEAKER_10 16:56

Yeah, be careful rattlesnakes.

SPEAKER_07 16:58

I wish oh my god.

SPEAKER_10 17:01

Hey, I was actually uh uh across the lake uh with my girls the other day. We were kayaking, uh doing some rock climbing across the river over here, and uh came across a rattlesnake in one of the the rocks and one of the crags there, and and uh it it was really big mama, and and I just thought I heard paper around me, and I'm like, oh man, I turn around and and there she is, just all curled up, and I'm like, oh, you know, I mean, scares me pretty good, but you know, we're we're real respectful of our wildlife around here, so you know of course I back up and you know I let her do her business, and then you know, I do my business over in the other direction, you know what I mean? So that's right, but yeah, you gotta watch out those rattlesnakes around here. We got a lot of wildlife, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Now I want y'all to tell me tell me a little bit, Shane. Since you're talking, I want you to tell me a little bit about this photo and uh kind of where it came, like why was it taken? Where were you at? Kind of give me a little bit of history behind this photo here. Oh, I love the expression on your face, dude. It's hilarious.

SPEAKER_10 18:05

Thank you. Yeah, so uh that's me and my mother, uh if you can tell, and uh we look just alike, don't you see? I can see the resemblance, yeah. Yeah, so but uh this this right here, we were we were playing uh this we we were playing a benefit uh thing for uh we were at uh college. Ron State, I believe it was. Oak Ridge. It was out in Oak Ridge, and uh we were out there, it was such a beautiful day. It was a little warm. I'm glad I wore like a flowy shirt, you know, which I prefer a nice button up, you know. But uh but you know, that's that's one day we we got to kind of donate some of our time and uh and and we we met a lot of really good people and uh so it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

That is that's awesome.

SPEAKER_10 18:50

Yeah, I'm really honored, like I said, to be able to play music with my family. So, you know, my mom, you know, anytime anytime we get to go out and do anything, it you know, we always make the best day of it, you know.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Well, and I think it's great that you're doing it with family. I I I mean, I think that is just just out of this world. I mean, there's nothing better than family. So you all get not only the joy of making music, which everybody loves, or at least most people do anyway, but you all get to do it with your family. So you get a double banger to me, and that's just that's something to be proud of and to definitely take advantage of every moment you got because time is precious. Now, I've got I do got pictures of Blake, so I'm not gonna leave you out, Blake. However, Blake sent me something that I thought was pretty interesting, and I had never done this, so I was trying to learn how to do it, and so far, knock on what it took off. I'm gonna play you a little something for Blake. Blake also does a lot of stuff on his own, and he sent me some stuff that kind of it's like a little TikTok summary. He does a lot on TikTok, and I'm starting to do TikTok, but he does a lot. So, since he does so much on TikTok, he kind of sent me his little summary that I want to play for you all because that way you can check him out on TikTok, you can follow him on TikTok, along with uh obviously you're gonna follow Shane, you're gonna follow Miss Lori, you're gonna follow Appalachian Moon. We want we want follows on everybody's stuff. But let me uh let me add this to the stage.

SPEAKER_07 20:10

William Blake Henry, but most folks online know me as Jive Mind. I'm a singer songwriter out of Kentucky, blending acoustic soul, blues, and Americana into honest hard up music that tells real stories. My songs are born from lived experiences, love, and heartbreak, feeling, and my community values that authenticity and emotional story telling above all else. I'm also a full-time musician and a full-time specialist at one of my songs as server, and the other one, of course, is not, but he faces his own job. Balancing that fatherhood and a creative career isn't always easy, but it's the most meaningful work that I can do, that I can think of. If you're someone who appreciates music that speaks from the heart and that isn't afraid to be real, you're in the right place.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Yeah, I love that. I love that. And I want to add something to that for y'all of you all listening. Um, it it took a lot of a lot of nuts for me to to ask him. I had a little help from his mama, kind of giving me a little reassurance because I'd already talked to Miss Laurie about this. Uh, you all saw in his little snippet there that he's got two sons and they were handicapped. And sadly, uh tragically, one of them had passed away. Well, you all know that I also do a secondary podcast where I deal with special needs and special Olympics and stuff like that. My the whole thought process behind me trying to do this this new podcasting show, too, is to give people like his son Zach uh a voice to talk and brag about theirself uh if they can. And if they can. Even maybe even if it's so much as just being with dad on the screen and letting people see them and let them feel like they're a part of what a lot of people get the opportunity to do. I wanted to give that to these people because I think a lot of handicapped kids, because you know I have one, I think a lot of handicapped people, not just kids, but people in general get looked over and they are remarkable. And I wanted uh give them a platform because I do a lot of podcasting listening myself, and I haven't really come across anybody that I feel like actually gives them a platform. So I'm not saying I'm the first, I'm not saying I'm some pioneer of it, but I want to be a part of that train. I want to give them a platform to talk. And in the future, I'm not sure exactly what day more to come on that, but Blake is uh he's gonna get on and share his story because his story that he told me is is absolutely remarkable. It's it's it's uplifting, it's sad, it's everything, but it helped mold him into the man that he is today. And I'm very blessed that he is uh strong enough that he can get on and do this show. So in the future, I look forward to the Bones Unfiltered Podcast, uh special needs edition featuring uh Blake Henry. So more to come on that. So thank you so much, Blake, for uh sharing your story with me earlier. And I look forward to letting you share it to everyone that's willing to listen. I'd be honored to now we can get back in to some different stuff here. Let's see if anybody says anything. Yes, Blake is amazing, Pam. You are right. Thank you, Pam. And uh Miss Wolf, uh Wolf Fair is in. Hey Wolf, thank you, honey, for coming in. I do a lot with Wolf. Um, she does podcasting as well, for those who don't know. Uh however, I have a hard time. I don't know if it's because I'm getting old and cranky, but I if I get much more than four people in a podcast room, I get overwhelmed. So I feel like I can't hear people, but um, but anyway, so back to what we're talking about. Um, I want to kick this over now to to uh to Lori. Lori, you um obviously you've done a lot with the Nashville Songwriters Association.

SPEAKER_08 24:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Um you know, I mean, I don't even know all that much about it, but I would love to hear uh can you kind of for those who don't know, who may be ignorant to the Nashville Songwriters Association, can you kind of explain to them what that's all about and and how you came about doing it and um and what all you have done and with your I guess accolades through them or whatnot?

SPEAKER_04 24:42

Well sure. Uh I've met so many amazing people. Uh started out in the Knoxville Songwriters Association and um count countless people. So how how it how it goes is they have like uh meetings, weekly meetings, and they get together and uh share songs and they'll do uh a group uh well you'll hand out copies of your song and a group critique as such, but it isn't to make you feel better. You think it uh and it's not well it's not too scary actually, but uh everybody uh has goodness in their heart and shares with you what you might can do to make it better. And they'll write it on a sheet of paper anonymously, you know, so you don't really know what well on your uh copy of your song that you paned out and then you hand it back in and uh at the end of uh when you get done singing and playing your song live for them, then you get to take those papers home and read them, and then it'll give you pointers as to what you know they think you should keep or toss or change like that. But also it's all a big network too. Um I spend a lot of time in in Nashville now too and singing uh as well in different uh singer-songwriter nights. And it's uh well, but just going back to all the the amazing people I've got to meet. We're all like one big family. It isn't a competition thing in the musician world either to me, it's or to to my sons. It's all we're um it's one big family. And uh whenever any of my friends are are on stage, you know, playing, I'm I'm there front row, center, and and I will stay to the end just to cheer them on because it's just it's where my heart's at, you know. I I preach love and and uh community, love and community, and it's it's it's fun.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

That is awesome.

SPEAKER_04 26:49

Now of course there are people that's made it pretty good, you know, with their songs. So I'm not one of those people, but you know, I keep oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

You've been in there long enough, you obviously doing something right, or you wouldn't be here. So let me ask you this have you ever played or any of the three of you, have you all ever played at the bluebird? Is it the bluebird? Is that the yeah, the bluebird? Yeah, no, have any of y'all ever done that?

SPEAKER_04 27:15

No, but I played at the grand old opery once upon a time, a long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Wow, no doubt.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

Yeah, that was cool.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

Yeah, now when did that happen?

SPEAKER_04 27:22

Back about 19 well back in the 1900s, let's put it that way.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Back in the 1900s, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

See, it's how I'm still 39, you know.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

I was around in the 1900s.

SPEAKER_04 27:35

It was back in the 1900s, it was, and um I back in my days way back in my day when I was a little uh uh knee hide of a grasshopper, you know.

SPEAKER_10 27:46

Hey, I I was made back in the 1900s.

SPEAKER_07 27:49

Well, so was I little heads, I believe it fits that description right there.

SPEAKER_04 27:56

You're I got to go up and down up and down uh music row back in those days with the guitar, you know, my guitar and walk in and out of different places and uh uh uh you know talk to different music producers and record labels. And I met uh Billy Cheryl, and he's the one that got Tanya Tucker and uh Tammy Wynette started, and he believed in me and uh got me a spot on the Grand Old Opry for the Gospel Hour. And I wasn't a regular on the show by any means, but uh it was quite an honor and opportunity, so it's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

That's really cool. Shane, what'd you get up there, man? I heard some noises, mate. I thought it was your hat was still alive, maybe. I thought it was my dog.

SPEAKER_10 28:45

That was your dog, oh yeah, yeah, it's still squealing a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

See, we delighted, that's why I was like, holy shit, he didn't kill it. He just skinned it.

SPEAKER_10 28:53

I like to wrap them around when they're still alive. That's right.

SPEAKER_07 28:58

It creates more heat that way.

SPEAKER_10 29:00

You saw my cat jump up here a minute ago, too. Like she she's always on my shoulder. Yeah, so I mean, I got rabbits too. They got me a little bit today.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

Oh, they sure the hell did, didn't they?

SPEAKER_10 29:12

Yeah, well, we were cleaning a lot, and they you know, they were just a little hyper.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

Got a little got a little excited, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 29:19

But don't we all? We all get a little excited sometimes, so I I get it.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

So so so Lori, I I've got a I've got a question. I've been intrigued about this. Okay, I I want to know what's the story behind the fella in the hall of fame at the Commodores that you were sitting near. That what like tell me about this fellow. What what what transpired with all this? Oh, there was more than one. See, my research only took me down one rabbit hole. Well, let's start with let's start with one first, then we'll go to two. How's that?

SPEAKER_04 29:51

The famous Jerry Foster.

SPEAKER_07 29:52

That's it, that's the one I was thinking of.

SPEAKER_04 29:54

The famous Jerry Foster, yes, he is he's an award-winning dude from way, way back, and he's a very dear friend of mine. And I met him one night when I was sitting at the Commodore in Nashville, and um I he said it was my red dress, but anyway, I I don't know. But anyway, so he wanted me to come sit next to him, and I look lonely, and and I was because I'm I've been alone for a long time, so anyway, I I I come and I I sit next to him and um we become really good friends, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:29

Maybe it was that red dress that you were wearing in the music video of Crossroads.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Well, we'll we'll when my play that video we'll we'll circle back and we'll see if that is the red dress you're talking about. So who's who is secondary secondary fellow number two?

SPEAKER_04 30:48

David Anderson.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

Sitting now at the same place or somewhere different?

SPEAKER_04 30:53

The same place, same place, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Sitting on the other side of you, or was that the two different uh occasions?

SPEAKER_04 30:59

And he is an amazing award-winning songwriter, too. So yeah, you'll have to look them both up. They're I will absolutely super duper accolades.

SPEAKER_09 31:09

They're they got a they got a pedigree, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

They got a pedigree. They do, they nothing about it. They're just dear friends of mine, just dear friends of mine. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

Yeah, they're good people though. Just want to take a second to welcome Wolf Verin and uh thank you, Wolf, for coming in. My my boy that I manage, uh James Lucer, dropped in. He's in the studio right now, but he just dropped in to kind of see what was going on. He says, What's up to everybody? So does Miss Judy. Miss Judy's another one that has been in uh so many of my podcasts, she is so supportive. Um, I heck she's even bought merch. I mean, she Miss Judy is just she is something else, kind of like Val. I've got several people that are just near and dear to me, and I talk to them a lot. So, thank y'all so much for coming in and checking out these fine folks that we're with. I agree with you.

SPEAKER_07 32:00

There's my son Benjamin Michael. I I by the way, I can see the chat now. I see Benjamin Michaud, that's my oldest son. Oh, what's up, Ben? Thanks for coming in. I live in Strunk, Kentucky, and so we have a local here in in the chat.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

Oh, that's cool. So we have two. Excellent.

SPEAKER_05 32:19

Yeah, hey Ben.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

So so Shane, what what's up with what's up with the hat? Tell there's gotta be a story behind it.

SPEAKER_10 32:27

Well, well, it's uh you know, I it actually had a it had more of a tail to it. It's a coon skin tail, but uh, but that that's hungry and ate a little of it. And it ate some of it, you know. We were on the road one day, and uh yeah, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Uh mom won't pull over because you know we still got a little bit of traffic to fight to get there, so I had to cut off half of it. No, one time we were in a show and uh actually had a bass guitar uh slapped the back of it and uh almost hit me in the head. But if it would have hit me in the head, maybe it would have cut off a little of my my my locks with it, but it just got that tail.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

So instead it got the tail.

SPEAKER_10 33:05

Yeah, it got this it got the tail and cut off. It's a it is a coon tail, but this is actually uh this is uh rabbit skin, rabbit fur.

SPEAKER_07 33:12

And uh I do I do have a lot of rabbits, but uh you know you don't eat them, and I I try to tell them the benefit of rabbit meat, you know. All you gotta do is add some skin to your diet. Rabbit meat's enough, you know.

SPEAKER_10 33:25

I just don't eat meat, actually.

SPEAKER_04 33:27

So we still got oxtail nailed to the barn you could put on it.

SPEAKER_10 33:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. Yeah, we we uh we get we got all sorts of animal parts around here, you know.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

So it'd be pin the tail on the shane. Is that what we play? Pin the tail on the shame. That would be a fun place, you know.

SPEAKER_10 33:45

But I I I got my own tail to go with it, you know. I got lots of hair under here, too. We should adopt that.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

I got some hair too, you just can't see the shame. That looks like pubic hair, though. It's so curvy. That's where yeah. Scott Brayley, welcome in, bro.

SPEAKER_07 34:08

At least in the last show, at least I said Shane the Shredder instead of Shane the Paint, right? I know that there you go.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Shane the Shredder, that does sound more badass.

SPEAKER_07 34:18

That was that was a better nickname, I think, than Shane the Pain. That's probably legit.

SPEAKER_10 34:24

We gotta roll up what we're giving, so you know, we don't always get to choose.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

So we've got a good time. So, Shane, what are your motivations? What what what gets you what you get you jazzed up every day?

SPEAKER_10 34:37

Well, you know, yeah, it's funny you ask that. Uh, because every day when I wake up, I get jazzed up just for being awake, you know. And uh and I and and I see that I wake up in the morning, sun's coming up, it's usually pretty early. I got my cat, she'll generally be pulling at my eyelids or like my lip or something like that. And she really wants me up with the sun. So I get it. Literally, she's just up and you know, it and and I just I I'm I can't I can't uh I can't really put it into words how thankful that I am that I'm given life and a chance to experience whatever this is. It's not always easy, you know, it's not always fun, you know, but uh but you know, here we are. And I'm very thankful, you know, that we get to spend that I I I've had the opportunity to be with the family that I have and also to meet and it spend periods of uh you know life with the various people that have been a part of my life and my path, you know, and and uh I just feel really lucky every day, really blessed, uh, you know, and I know that uh what whatever's going on, you know, here this strange reality that we're a part of, you know, that you know, I no matter what's happening, I feel I feel I feel my creator right here, you know what I mean? Like right here, you know, and and so uh that's my motivations, you know, and and that bleeds over into my music and my pastimes, uh the things I love to read about and talk about and do, you know, like it, it's it's all related to that, you know. Like uh, you know, my my main motivation is just you know just spreading the love that I I've been given in my own heart, you know, spreading the joy that I've been given, and you know, but other people might not always see it, but you know, hopefully I can at least, you know, my my light can be a little contagious, you know.

SPEAKER_07 36:27

I hope maybe I'm maybe I'm jumping the gun here uh for bones, but I I wanted to express the appreciation and the wonder that I have for the other avenue that you uh that you travel down uh with with your sound healing.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

I was just gonna ask about that.

SPEAKER_07 36:50

I had a feeling I I jumped again. So that's all right.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

No, that's all right, brother. That's all right. You're a talker like me, so we're gonna be we're gonna be both going go, go, go, go, who I'm gonna get in. I'm gonna get in. Well, yeah, tell us, Shane, tell us about this sound healing business. I'm I'm actually intrigued. Sure.

SPEAKER_10 37:06

Um, so I uh been working up uh quite quite quite a lot of uh vibrations uh lately and uh the resonantbody.org uh is a website you can go check out, uh kind of see a little bit of what I do. Um it's a resonant, like resonance, you know, but resonant body, thesonantbody.org. And uh it's it's it's a beautiful, beautiful expression. That whole side of what I do there is a beautiful expression of what I want to offer life. And and it's really the background of it is is based on on healing. And even if that's a moment uh of of peace for somebody, you know, if I can provide even just a a distraction from all the distractions of life, so people can just remember that you know they can breathe for a second, and you know, everything's gonna be okay, you know. Sometimes, sometimes we forget to breathe, and you know, we get so lost in our head or in our thoughts. And so a lot of what I do with the resonant body is to really help people get back into a center, you know, with sound. And even if that's you know, if you're just having a stressful day or you know, anything like that, but it it it goes even deeper to you know, much, much deeper topics, you know, much deeper traumas, you know, that that people have built up in their life, you know, our traumas we we hold in our nervous system, we hold in our muscles and our connective tissues, you know, and even greater than that, memory itself is is uh is is an elusive thing, but most likely it seems that it's it's much like a uh memory stick, you know, like we use for our computers and and uh like kind of like electricity. And the way that electricity flows is not through the wire, but it it's actually around the wire. The electrons, you know, and and and the displacement of the electrons happen like like this across it's more like a fluttering, but the actual electrical surface is around the wire, you know. That's why we can't, you know, encase you know, electrical wire and and and lead insulators and things like that, because you know, then you know we it won't it won't hold the charge, it won't pass across the information, you know. And and so the same thing's true with our body, you know, in in that in that way we can really feel that we all have a vibratory resonance, and we're all electromagnetic beings or magnetoelectric beings. And uh, you know, and whenever we have stress, it could be mental stress, but that mental stress will sit somewhere in the body, the way we hold our shoulders up, you know, what we feel that pain in our stomach, and over time that can really build up uh, you know, a lot of tension, um, you know, a lot of inflammation. And over time that turns into disease, you know. And uh, you know, there are things that we can do about it, you know, with our diet and with stretching and things like that, but you know, we're bombarded daily by all these, you know, all these stresses from every aspect, all these toxic things from our food to our water and even our air. And, you know, so you know, sometimes it's it's hard to find that that space that to actually reset for a moment, you know. So that's that's kind of what you know I I'm really hoping to share with the world and you know, with the people around me, um, and especially, you know, with my loved ones, is uh, you know, that that it's okay to to rest for a second, to come back to center. And sound is the most primal way to do that. Uh, sound is the basis of everything. Uh sound, you know, we have our musical scales. Well, light is no different. Light is 42 octaves above the range in what we hear sound, you know. I mean, that's amazing if you think about that, you know. Oh, hell yeah. So if you go, uh, uh, uh, uh, 42 times eventually you'll see light coming out, right? Like, can you imagine that? And then you'll see the different spectrums of light, and then it gets up into you know, all the higher radiated qualities. But whenever you get into physical matter, that's 10 to the 13th power higher uh, you know, in frequency. So physical matter itself is you know, it's extremely high-pitched sound, you know, just way above what our ears hear, obviously. You know what I mean? So, you know, that's if you if you if you see life that way, you know, it's like a huge symphony being played out, and all just in different spectrums, and our senses only pick up portions of that. So the whole symphony can only be viewed a portion at a time for whatever sense can perceive whatever section is happening, you know.

SPEAKER_02 41:31

But you know, I uh that's interesting as shit, man. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_07 41:35

I told you. I told you that was the that was the button. But biologically was the button.

SPEAKER_10 41:42

That was a good button, too. But but even our cells biologically, we they what determines whether a cell is healthy or not, uh above any other thing, is is voltage, you know, and voltage is you know, if we can modulate and understand our how to self-modulate voltage in our body and areas that are inflamed and stressed, you know, that that voltage is it's not getting proper voltage to it, you know. And if you can return the proper voltage and it has the proper minerals in it, just like a battery, we're we're just like batteries, you know, then we can kind of come back into proper being, you know, and resonance can really help to shake a lot of that loose, you know, so that inflammation that's no longer there, it's almost recalibrating, you know, the body, you know, like literally, like if you take a tuning fork and hit it and you place it next to a guitar, you know, say it's an A tuning fork, boing, and then that A string on that guitar is going to start resonating like that, you know, and the other strings are gonna slightly resonate because they're slightly in tune with it. But the point is, is it's entrainment. And so you can take that single vibration and entrain various parts of the body, you know, uh that that might need a little lift, and that can help to unblock certain, you know, uh actual physical manifestations of stress, you know, in in your fascia and things like that, your connective tissues, uh, even your just the feeling of sound itself on your skin. If you know you've been to a concert and been right in front of the speakers, that that can be an extremely powerful experience, you know. And you know, that first time you went to a live show, you know, and you felt that speaker, the that bass and those subwoofers on you, and you're like, and it almost took your breath away, and you're like, whoa, you know what I mean? Like there's a real visceral, like a real reaction. It's not just a heady concept of, you know, like I could, you know, put across a lot of words, you know, that that mean a lot of things that a lot of people probably you know turn off, you know, at a certain point. But um, but but really it's a real thing that we experience, this experience of of matter and life and the world around us, it is everything. And and and and what a beautiful thing to be a part of, you know. That's why I'm thankful, you know, like how amazing and strange and and amazing, you know. But uh, but I'm you know, I I just want to share my understanding uh of of how uh I have seen things work in my life and the people around me uh you know to to help battle some of those previous traumas and and some of those actual bodily sensations that uh that aren't comfortable to us to kind of change some of those because over time that that can change a lot.

SPEAKER_02 44:21

That's really cool. Dude that's interesting as fuck now let me ask you this I don't know what the hell the thing's called you probably know but say it's a bowl and you have the you have the thing where you you you do that and it starts making that that vibrating high pitch do you do this that too is that part of that kind of part of your deal too yeah I've got tons of stuff like that actually lots of toys are you capable right now with the device you're using to show uh to show your setup down there um hey it's I don't show excuse me oh I can definitely hear that vibration but yeah I can I can I let's watch some I can't say the full thing because my camera's connected but you can see some of them and I've got I got some really big ones in the back back there. Ronnie's in the chat Ronnie gets and Jeremy uh agrees with you hello hello and Jeremy's back that he completely agrees with you yeah Jeremy's a cool he's a good buddy of mine man he's a cool fucking cat so welcome Jeremy thanks for coming in Scott Braille was also in I'll take a moment to just tell everybody that he is uh he's very supportive he used to be a manager for a band I forgot old Dirt Road I think is the band he was with but now he's kind of more of a promoter so Scott thanks for all you've got in brother I appreciate it from here that's that sound is so melodic to me dude I I love those sounds that's just it it if you're stressed and you hear that kind of shit to me it's just like total with the vibes. Hell yeah bro me too 30 seconds I'll be right back all right brother I appreciate Ronnie joining in too he's a pretty amazing friend as well well yeah Ronnie thanks for being in brother I really appreciate you very much for coming in too and supporting them then yes they are a beautiful and talented family I could not agree more. Now Miss Laurie obviously you had already showed me the baby beforehand she was little but I had to put it in there because not only was it I wanted to know about her but obviously um again it shows your your epic hat that you um that you created and I just I love them both.

SPEAKER_04 46:46

Now tell me a little bit about this uh little little Lila she's a Yorkie and I used to travel with a shihsu for many many years and she passed away last year and uh so I got me another little puppy and and she's uh she just turned one and she goes with me pretty much everywhere I go so it's it's kind of nice to not be alone and you don't have her with me so she's she's my little buddy well she is definitely just adorable as I'll get out. I thought I had one more of her but uh maybe her hair color changed she was silver I mean she's silver now but she's back in 10 then yeah I guess that kind of happened to me too the hairdresser knows me too I don't know why I started getting gray hair at 20 but good grief. That damn that's a shit ton of stress what's genetic it's genetic though because my mother's brother uh uncle Don he he was whiteheaded by the time he was like 25 or 30 he was he was solid white too so it's in the genes. But you know what some people can rock that shit some people look really good and then some some look like they just crawled out of the fucking crypt so I mean it just depends on you know how it is I'd like to think I'm somewhere in the middle I think I think you're all right brother I think you're I think you're still you're safe my daddy their grandpa had the prettiest white hair though he he had beautiful white hair so he Blake got it from both sides of my family my mom and my dad now I just I know it's a little hard for me to tell yours really it doesn't look white though you're you're more of a platinum aren't you we will not even uh we won't we won't we won't go there oh that's right it's in there it's in there but you don't be just 39 you know it's really hard to know Benji Benji is my oldest son and he already has gray so it's part of it how old is he very much friendly 23 he's 23 and he's already gray he's 20 I thought he was like I don't know twelve I I'm confused that well I'm sure you'd like to keep him that way you know it's a whole lot better than the other way too fast.

SPEAKER_07 49:15

Now Shane you had something out a second ago while your mom was talking what it was it something you were going to show or were you just taking a drink I didn't I didn't oh I was just taking a drink yeah okay oh I thought you were letting the fucking genie out of the bottle or something like that what's going on over there man that's right yeah yeah it's it's this it's this uh it's just my little my uh water decanter yeah that's cool as shit man yeah always clockwise you know what I'm saying mine's better unless you're in Australia then you gotta go counterclockwise right I call this exercise in a bottle the more you drink the more you gotta pee see so and that may it forces you to get up and move around so that's a win win right there unless you got like one of those camel packs where you can just drink water from the tube and I guess it makes it unless you're stuck in traffic if you're stuck in traffic that's awful yeah that makes me remember you know there was a time when we used to travel with with uh with you know Bruno who's passed but we used to go from Knoxville where we lived all the way to Tulsa where my Oma and Opa Oma and Opa is is a German uh way to say grandma and grandpa but they they were just stationed there they weren't German in fact Oma was more a Cherokee than anything but we had um there was one point in the early days where we would travel in a Ford Ranger a little red Ford Ranger and it had a camper top on the on the bed and I remember man there's just you talking about having to having to stop and and uh and make water best wagon seat but I remember being on the interstate and they you know there's a gap of air between the front cab and then the back camper.

SPEAKER_04 51:08

So they can't hear you knocking y'all got sick that one year oh I was cold so bad.

SPEAKER_02 51:15

I had to just make water that best wagon said I had to make water so bad that I was knock on her so hard I gotta go you know so we we probably had the music up so lad he couldn't hear good memories oh yeah boy well that's I travel with a bucket now oh I don't know I would do what you gotta do empty two right well my I we didn't call I had a great grandmother that I think that us kids had trouble saying what was it oma for the grandparent so we called her momo is what we ended up calling Momo.

SPEAKER_07 51:53

Well no that's a good Momo I think of that that trend that happened a couple years ago on YouTube. Do you remember that weird do you remember that trend Momo I don't know if I did and you say it was on YouTube look it up Momo creepy just search it that way.

SPEAKER_02 52:11

Anyway I think trying to say Oma I get it that's okay that's cool that's cute well I'm gonna uh take this moment to uh give everybody a voice break for just a second and we're gonna go ahead and play we're gonna play a video and the first video I want to play is of Miss Lori Lynn and she's uh this video is called bent so I want to play this video and let everybody kind of see Miss Lori Lynn and ask we're all three in it we're all three in it too and you're all three in it but yeah so that that works out even that's an even better.

SPEAKER_04 52:51

So uh let me pull this up and bring it to the stage and ladies and gentlemen let's take a look at Death by Lori Lynn Not just broke down just broke down to I can I'm sorry to buy a pick at a grim I loved it that is I gotta tell you something I gotta tell you something about that tell tell I listen to here I've got so many questions that I got to well you know the rope that I'm swinging around I have no clue about what's going on with this rope and I just see something hanging around I'm just you know trying to you know be feisty for the video whatever you know I'm shaking this thing around I did not know that Shane and his daughters had a deer strung up with it gutting the day before and it slung back and hit me in the face numerous times and I did not know.

SPEAKER_07 57:23

So yeah that was our our the barn in the backyard actually like yeah we we we put some time into that video we all had a part in in in editing and adding some footage to it and you know some b roll uh oh there you are hey we all had some time put into that uh into that video and uh we we didn't hire anybody we did it uh we did it ourselves and it was it was a lot of fun it was so it looked like it looked like a lot of fun yeah now do you all still have that farm?

SPEAKER_02 58:01

Yeah you're sitting on it right now they are I'm I'm in container well yeah yeah you're you're you're with me in the bluegrass state that's right nothing wrong with that you know gotta get your hick on a little bit you know every now and again I did too wolf I loved it too it was yeah I I just love how bluesy your voice is Lori it's so it's just so melodic it's the blues is just I tell you what here lately I've been hearing we had Tumblr on one time one day and he's bluesy and I haven't heard a lot of blues in a while so this has been kind of it's been a nice change of kind of reviving that.

SPEAKER_04 58:43

So it's important to me it's always been super important to me to try to be different. You know I didn't want to sound like anybody else you know that's that's kind of the way I was brought up when I was a kid and and all the you know the musical you know life that that I even had back then was uh I didn't want to sound like anybody else. Don't ever hold your voice to sound like someone else who yourself and some who who you sound like so even though I spend I spent most of my life in you know country music I still have all the other influences you know that so I I I can't say all the time I'm one genre because I'm I'm Lori Lynn or I'm Appalachian moon. I I don't want to be just one thing because I want to reach everybody. I don't want just one little corner of the woods you know one little neck of the woods I want to I want to love everyone you know and and influence people or influence that's maybe that's the wrong word. I want to love everyone wherever they are in whatever walk of life they're in.

SPEAKER_02 59:50

Yeah we we we always influence people always I would say well hopefully it's good you know yeah yeah exactly yeah I would say with with my mom the closest it's hard to quantify her voice anyway but I would say with my mom and and yes my phone has ADHD as do I but I would say that the closest thing I could quantify my mom to is like a mix and and and then elevated above it a mix between Stevie Nicks and Bonnie Ray oh dude I can totally see that's good yeah yeah yeah I can see that 100% and SpongeBob and Spongebob SpongeBob SpongeBob well you were uh you were definitely you were definitely in it Shane I was about ready to just just kill the it just let you sing because you were going to town brother I was loving it yeah I love it man hey I can't help it I was loving it brother I can't help it's crazy I don't know we're not it's broken we're badly feed we've heard mom's voice but the if you've had the opportunity to hear and I think I'm pointing in the right direction yeah you're probably pointing the wrong way there you are over there I was pointing the wrong way too I think it's reverse I think it's mirrored it is my brother's guitar feels all right and if if you so wait would it be this one yeah you're good or at least you're me I don't know fuck everybody else you're pointing the right way to me that's all that matters he just kidding he plays beyond uh beyond rules and beyond uh theory and you know uh something I've really I put a lot of time in and and I'm not gonna sit here and promote this book but I put a lot of time into this book right here.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:32

Well if that's promote that motherfucker I don't get to for people speaking of ADHD like me who don't want to sit through theory lessons and and have had a hard time with that their whole life um my brother and I both have really just just dove into patterns because that's how we that's how we see the world that's how we see uh life in general we see patterns and so that's that's how this book sort of helped me but regardless he has always been that way anyway and he has some insane skills with his guitar and if you haven't had an opportunity to hear him come to our next show so you can see what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:13

Hey and that's right back at this guy here right back at that guy because he uh oh wow and then this this lady here should my goodness gracious so where where are the days where y'all held each other down and was trying to make each other what eat each other spit or we're gonna break out some blackmail fucking stuff and and there's some there's the little brother too don't forget about the little brother we got a little brother a little brother I know Jacob yeah yeah we go to him when he was about 12 I think man you know every brother has a certain rite of passage coming into this world you know we have to and uh give him a rite of passage and eating cat food or dog food is part of that you know like builds character you know you know well shout out to Jacob for not being able to be here but shout out to him well shout out to you bro and you know what yeah yeah there's nothing to say that we can't have these fine folks on again and have Jacob on next time too so yeah he also his uh his credentials too uh he's also uh he does like he makes his own bass music and his name Spectrum with two use Spectrum and uh he's got some some sweet stuff and uh he's local DJ around the whole Knoxville area in East Tennessee here. And uh he's big crowds. And he's played festivals, big crowds. I mean he's he's a pretty big name so he's worth checking out and uh he's got the rhythm in his soul just like all of us here you know we can't help but express dark hair and like ringlets is like whoa got all over his head.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:47

He's like a lion hair like that. I'm so jealous you know I wish I had curly hair like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:53

Blake what are you doing Blake you are like me man you can't sit still can you I can't I'm I'm sitting here fidgeting my fucking foot you can't tell but I'm bouncing like a motherfucker.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:01

My wife has to I had to well first off I I the stand I'm using only fits the iPad and I'm using the iPhone and the smaller iPhone so I've got to carry it okay there we go I've had to carry it I had to check on the baby's oh well that's definitely very important so we will not got curly hair like Jacob and oh head of curly hair one he has a long curly hair just get one every now and then I would say you're welcome to meet them too he wouldn't leave us alone afterwards so all right well let's I'll tell you what let's take a let's take uh this moment to uh let's throw another video out there uh this one I think is this one's gonna get you're gonna get some uh musical stylings from Shane yeah oh so here we go

SPEAKER_02 1:06:01

Hell yeah. Now now where exactly, Shane, where are you all at when you is that uh you all it's like personal studio? Where were you at when you shot that?

SPEAKER_10 1:06:09

Yeah, that's in our it's one of our music room areas where we have a bunch of music equipment all set up and uh I mean we got a lot of music equipment built up over the years, so it's kind of multiple rooms of it. But uh but uh yeah that's that's in our what we call our den there, you know. So it's it's where we go and play, practice our music together, you know, when we have get togethers, big family time and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:31

So now now, Blake, how often do you get do you get home to the house and see your your mom and your brothers and kind of do little jam sessions? Yeah, Blake.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:43

Poor little mom.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:46

Oh, now we can't now we can't hear him, so we gotta listen to it.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:48

Oh no, we can't hear him.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:52

Mom would say not enough. That's what mom would say. She'd say not nearly enough. That's right. That's right. A time or so a month if if possible, if not every other month. Um, you know, with a special needs kid, it gets complicated.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:07

And the other complications of life. But uh Blake's a good sister, though. Yeah, I'm a good sister.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:16

But we play shows together all the time, though. So we get to see each other in our shows. Yeah, honestly.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:22

We don't get to get together and really practice as much as I'd like.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:27

But blow in and blow out, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:29

Yeah. So, but when I do get to the house, uh, I feel like we have to pack it all in, you know, over time, over the weekend, just get every little bit of time we can together musically. And and that's always fun, regardless. But you know, uh when we get to practice at least a month at a time, or a couple times a month, sometimes more, depending on the time of year. Holidays, you better believe I'm gonna get home.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:58

Between nine and five.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:00

Yeah, exactly. You better believe I'm gonna find a way home on the holidays.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:05

Um, but it's Mother's Day, Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:10

No pressure. No pressure, no pressure. I'll see you then. Better have a gift too, bitch. Better have it. I'll be there.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:22

I told him it was Mother's Day last weekend, too. Oh, didn't he?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:30

Yeah, you're right, you're going right. Oh, we better take that door out of the picture. Here we go. I did it. Look, I told mom it was Mother's Day last Sunday, and then I'm sorry that I couldn't be there. And in reality, it's next weekend. So next weekend, I do plan to be home. But uh when we are able and when we get a chance, we like to jam as a family any holiday. Oh, yeah, every holiday. Now, other than that, we use an application that is available on all devices, including computers, laptops, or Android. It's called Sonobus. And it's got very low latency. I'm not I'm not trying to make an ad for Sonobus.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:11

Hey, actually, I'm gonna just drop here. I'm actually working on a new multimedia app right now. It's a creation and collaboration studio that will be for audio, like a digital audio workstation, but like mixed with like DaVinci Resolve video editor stuff, but also makes a Photoshop. So everything like your whole workspace is like all your project needs instead of opening up like 10 different apps and having 20 different subscriptions to different things, that it's all that in one app. And you know, I've I've been working on that for about six months, and uh pretty soon it's gonna be coming your way. Uh, it's called Flowforge, and uh it's you know, so you can let your creativity flow. And like I said, it's a creation and collaboration studio. So uh you'll you'll be hearing more about that probably within the next couple of months.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:02

Listen, everybody, if you're if you're ready for him to release something like that, then go ahead and put a thumbs up in the chat because he needs to go ahead and let it go and let it release it. He needs to go ahead and do so.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:14

Well, you ain't wrong, Blake. He's smart as for sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:18

I don't know where they got that from because I I don't know. Uh it wasn't me. That's what I was saying.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:25

I learned everything from my family. We have a certain way of thinking that's different than most people, but the issue with he and I both is that we have issues finishing projects, so we need we need to know if you want those projects. So that's yeah, there you go. I see a thumbs up. Thank you, Ronnie. I agree, it's time to go. Time to let it out.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:47

Let it out release the kraken.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:49

Release the release the cracking.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:52

Release the cracking.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:53

Hey, I gotta tell you, there's one more of us. I have a daughter.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:58

Oh, you have a daughter too? A daughter, yeah. She's the oldest one.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:02

Yeah, and she has no, I don't think so, but she'll be watching this later. I know she will.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:07

Now, does she is she musically inclined like you all, or does she go a different route?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:11

She is. Nope. They're all musicians and singers. I tried to hoping for doctors and lawyers so we'd have some money in the family, but we're all starring musicians.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:21

That sounds boring, doesn't it? But her name's Leah.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:25

Her name's Leah Lynn.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:26

And she's a pretty good lawyer when you think beautiful, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:30

Yeah, she's got a great voice.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:32

Beautiful singing voice, and she helps me in writing a lot of times. If I need to bounce off something, you know, yeah, she is.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:42

She is.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:43

She got her master's degree too.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:45

Shout out to her too. Yeah, and Blake, don't you? You have a degree too, don't you? Do you not, sir?

SPEAKER_07 1:11:50

I have two. I have one in multimedia uh design, and then I have one audio production, absolutely. You know, in the small town that I live in, there's not a ton of opportunities for that, but uh that doesn't mean it's not possible that I would find opportunities online somewhere. But uh here where I'm at, there's just uh there's not honestly, there's probably seven total businesses and a 30 mile radius, so you know. That doesn't mean I can't use it for the band. I still use it for a band.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:26

That's awesome. That is fucking awesome. Let's do uh let's let's throw another video at everybody. What do you think? Let's see. Which one? Um how about this one? Let's see. Uh well, I thought I had labeled it good, but apparently I suck at life and didn't label it good. Well, we will start with this one then. This one is from Appalachian Moon, and it's called Mamie.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:05

Mamie?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:06

I think that's what it was titled.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:08

Oh, came out.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:09

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:10

Yeah, that's the way we played with Mamie Lou on WDBX. Mamie Lou, that's what it is. A cutoff that yep, yep. Yeah, Mamie Lou and uh we got to play on WDBX together. It was a it was a great spot. We had a great time, and uh yeah, that was fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:25

Hell yeah. Well, and it's I don't know why it's not playing.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:29

You just pass forward a little bit. Usually there's a loading thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:32

Oh, that's oh, that's right. This was the one that I knew that was the lady that you all that went before you all. Yeah, yeah, she was right before us. So that's really good.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:42

Mammy Lou is amazing. You gotta check her out. She's a a Nashville artist, a Nashville area artist, too, and she just absolutely fantastic.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:53

So there we go. All right, y'all are getting sent in. Yeah, I forgot about that. Now, see, this is where my editing skills, which I do not have music, would have been nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:03

A bunch of great live shows coming up for you. There we are. PJ Jacobs on Monday, Cage Coward on Tuesday, Josie James, and Lily Hart on Wednesday, Kirk Flatto. Oh, great art on Thursday. That's a cool, cool display of all the barley's. Now, what was on the plates?

SPEAKER_07 1:14:22

Uh also mentioned the common brand, actually. The different artists that come there, some of the more famous names. They're called the Blue Plate Special. They're located on Gay Street in Knoxville, Tennessee. It's a radio show.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:36

Oh, that's interesting. I've never heard of them. I'll have to look them up. Really cool, really cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:41

Very communicate, a community-led uh, you know, radio station that really supports local artists and you know, get getting uh, you know, artists a voice, uh, a many different types of artists, just a kind of a voice on the scene, uh, but also getting their music out there. And they they've got some really good stuff, a lot of uh like like uh Blake was saying, a lot of big acts that have been on there, but also you know, a lot of the homes homegrown little little acts as well. You know, I love that they support that. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:10

On February 5th is our next installment. We'll chat with them here in just a couple of minutes after a couple of songs, but right now, just give a big welcome to Appalachian Moon.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:24

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:27

What do we start with? You remember?

SPEAKER_10 1:18:24

I think they were having an issue with the sound in the beginning there, getting us uh equalized properly.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:29

That was great to me.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:30

I see your foot, your foot tapping, you know, like you're used to your belly. Foot tambourine, yeah. Yeah, you didn't have it on there, did you?

SPEAKER_10 1:18:39

Yeah, I didn't have it on that show, but usually I'm wearing a foot tambourine, yeah. So that's kind of ingrained in me to be like, you know, when I'm dancing around stage, I always have my foot tapping to the beat. We're usually adding to the beat with our our foot instruments and stuff, and depending on what all we got going on, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:54

Yeah. Now I got the um I just saw something that's kind of humorous. Well, it is to me anyway, it may not be to you all. But um, I thought I would show it since I found it real quick. It's it's the uh my latest album that I had dropped. Um this was this was an epic album that I recorded. Um I'm not really a good musician. So um but I did put out an album and I'm trying to find I just saw it a second ago. Let me go back to my recents, I think that's where it was. Nope, it wasn't. Well, that was anticlimactic, folks. I was uh I was trying, I just saw it, and uh and and I I'm trying to still find the. I thought it was amazing, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:38

I it's really awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:39

I I think it's well you thought it was great, I did too. I did too.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:42

I I liked it. But it just was way too short.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:45

I couldn't, I didn't get enough of it, you know. I agree, and while I'm looking for my album cover, um, I'm gonna let you look at something that's a a little bit better to look at than me while I search for it. Well, tell us a little bit about this picture here of this fine looking lady right here.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:08

Isn't she wonderful?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:12

Yeah, I don't know what her problem is. She looks pretty scary. Pretty wonderful story behind walking down the street.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:21

Have you ever seen that movie Nightmare on Elm Street?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:24

That's it.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:26

Nothing to do with this picture.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:29

Oh, oh, okay. Well, I was needing a good logo, and Blake, you know, helped uh put that all together. He he did all that actually. Well, the logo is my signature, right? And then wait a minute. What's on my tattoos? No, that's a different one we did. Okay, never mind.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:51

But anyway, uh you were thinking of the butterfly that I drew that you got.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:55

Yeah, the butterfly and the guitars uh is one of my tattoos, yeah. Yeah, but anyway, that's my signature right there.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:02

Yeah, I think it's a great photo. It's uh that's why I had to share it. That one was compliment to Blake, and I thank him for giving me that one because that was that was a really good one. It's a really good photo again. Uh but I did find my album. So, ladies and gentlemen, for those of y'all that want to hear the non-musical stylings of bones, I come out with this epic smash album.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:26

Let's hear it.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:27

Master of Shitters. The story behind this album cover was I was at a wedding and I actually was coming out of the shitter, and the guy taking the fucking photos did that. And then one of the uh guitarists from the band that I was with, he uh he made this.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:46

So I thought it was quite uh I took a picture of somebody coming out of one of those the other day at um at a concert. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:54

As long as it wasn't me.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:56

I look like I own that shit, though, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:58

I owned it.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:59

You did, you did.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:00

I owned that shit, no pun intended.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:03

You did. Well, that sounds good.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:05

That sounds like a joke. That sounds like a joke, my mom would say at one of our shows. Well, he likes to say the most embarrassing jokes in the middle of our shows.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:16

Well, it's fun. It's fun.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:19

As long as you don't mention the word tiger, we're probably gonna be okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:22

I've got really good stories, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:25

No, you don't say once upon a time.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:33

Hey, I'm sorry, I had I had to step away. I was getting a call. It was nature.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:38

She'll probably mention that I used to keep particularly hidden things for a teenage boy and a stuffed tiger. That's probably what she'll bring up. So I beat you to it. Now we don't even talk about it. So let's go.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:49

Oh, yeah, yeah, we do, we do, we do, okay. No, no, no, no. But anyway, no, no, no, no, but anyway, but anyway, closet and it needed mended. It needed I would have never known, but I was trying to be a good mother, and so I took the tiger out of the closet. You did, and then I was gonna mend the hole and the tiger, but inside the hole had magazines.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:13

Okay, we can move forward now. You know what?

SPEAKER_10 1:23:17

We we've all grown up, that's been like 40 years ago. You know what?

SPEAKER_04 1:23:21

Uh no, you're making me older than a town, my brother. But I was told now, I was told very strictly those were collectors items magazines. They were collectors items. That's what I was told. They were collectors items. Hey, it's not more money.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:38

It's not my brother's fault that those were in the house.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:42

No, it was it was not my fault. I found them elsewhere, and we were fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:47

Now, for whatever reason, when I try to click these, it automatically loads it and doesn't let me see at first. And since I am you can tell I wear glasses, so I'm half fucking blind. Apparently, I didn't do my job and I didn't label this, but I think this is the video I was looking for. But if I'm wrong, it just please God, don't let it be porn. That's my band. That was one of my other bands that I had on. Sounds great though. I like it. Oh, they they are awesome. I am trying my damnedest to find I I don't know what the hell I did with that. There's one video that I won, and I cannot, I'm so inept. I guess I I fucked it up, but I I'm gonna keep looking for it. But until then, I want to know what the story is with this, because this picture right here is fucking it's cool, but it it just screams there is a story behind this. I don't know what the hell that I want to.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:46

Yeah, we gotta talk about this.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:48

Well, that I own that chair, it's in my bathroom. It's in your bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:53

Yeah, that's how big is your fucking bathroom.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:56

God damn, no, her bathroom is next level.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:01

It's gotta be.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:02

Yeah, look at the video bent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, put that on. Put that on.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:07

I was like, and the video bent.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:11

Yeah, and we have to do a video, mom. You know, I told her I said we have to do a video. Yeah, you saw your song bent in the bathroom because she just had it remodeled.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:22

Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, it was nice to finally get the floor fixed, it didn't have a hole in the bottom anymore. So you didn't have to mention all that. Well, hey, remodeling's good, you know. It wasn't like senseless remodel, it was now it's like a castle.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:40

It was like some social media influences bad.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:43

It's like my mother and grandmother would call it the uh elite powder room, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:48

The elite powder room.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:50

Yeah, my mom would say.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:52

Well, that's a bad idea. That is definitely one of the coolest fucking chairs I think I've ever seen. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:56

I like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:57

So it definitely uh screams, I think it screams your personality perfectly. So I can understand exactly why you have it. Now uh let's see. The I found, I think this one is uh tell us a little bit about this this right here. I thought this was a really great photo of the three of y'all.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:17

Thank you. That was uh open chord. Uh we did a package with open chord where uh we did a show, you know, three uh maybe uh four to six songs, and um, and they did some photography with it.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:34

Promotion and open cord, it's promotion.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:37

Oh, that's what I meant. I'm sorry, promotion. Open chord was the stage that we performed on. Promotion was the one that uh took this picture, and she did a really good job.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:47

And I just want to really bring attention to my forearm there. Do you see how how meat it looks? Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:55

I work out. You are like Popeyeish, buddy. I mean, you got you got that shit going on. Dude, I told you I ate my spinach, man.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:01

That's right, he's very proud of himself. Uh I'm I'm just playing.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:05

Now, the only question that I have, Shane, is this picture is a little illusional here. So, yeah, the question is, is one forearm much bigger than the other, though? That's the question that we all want to know.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:19

Listen, we we gotta leave some things to the imagination, okay?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:25

I would I would literally say his right forearm is much bigger than much larger, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:30

No, now if you actually look in the picture below, they're pretty even, you know. I've been I've been I've been trying to work on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:37

Switch hitting, you know, I feel you.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:40

Whoa.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:45

Holy Jesus.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:50

You can just call me shining, you don't have to be so formal.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:53

It's it's showing right now. Let's do it all like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:00

Oh my gosh. That was awesome. You're a hidden. It's hilarious. Let's see. Um, this picture right here. I think this picture's a really great photo, too. And this obviously was in your barn. It has to be. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:21

That's in one of the stalls there.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:23

Jane's daughter Caree actually took that picture. Really? It took us maybe you know four or five hundred shots to get that one. I'm just kidding. She did a great job. That's exactly yeah. It was she did a really great job with that one.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:38

Yeah, I think it's a a very stellar photo. We can even step on the body. It's nice, man. I mean, it's a y'all got a really nice setup based on that music video.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:48

I don't know if you know the story behind that barn, but that barn was built literally from scrap pieces of wood that were thrown away by people. Um no. She's always mom's always wanted a barn, and there were different periods of time during uh my brother's life and and my life, in which we pitched in. But her and Shane, my brother Shane, uh truly put so much time into that barn based on wood that had been discarded. And that it and isn't that a beautiful um comment about life in general, you know, that sometimes even things that are discarded can create shelter for some of the most beautiful beings on the planet.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:34

Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:35

Yeah, no, it it really was a good, uh, you know, enriching time, you know, when we went all get to get out there and working and tell you what, mom's the best manager you can have, and she knows what she's talking about, too. He's mean, he's so mean. Oh, she she cracking it, whipping driver, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:54

Slide driver.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:55

No, no, no. She's fun. We always have a good time out there, really. We did. We always had a good time building everything and our little projects.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:03

You remember like when me and you were raking leaves, Shane, and you thought that uh it'd be a good idea to throw some star foam in there with the gasoline and like uh pile of leaves on fire so they get rid of the leaves. I remember that, and then I got scarred. You still got scars, but yeah, isn't that the same thing? What do they call that? Like a Molotov cocktail.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:27

Oh, yeah, the Molotov cocktail.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:29

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:30

That's basically what it is, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:30:32

Hey, we loved fire growing up. I've always been attracted to fire, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:35

But whatever, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:37

Me too, bro. I am a pyro fucking motherfucker, dude. Yeah, I love a fucking fire. And I used to love fireworks till I blew myself up, so I don't do those anymore. Because apparently we didn't have we didn't have yet, but there's still time.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:53

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:54

Yeah. Now let's see if I can dude the one video I'm trying to find. I I guess I fucked up and didn't, I guess I didn't upload it, but let's see if I can find this other video here because um I thought this one was pretty comical. Actually, it's not let it must have taken it as a picture, it didn't let it move. That must be what it is. That's probably why I can't get to it. Let me see if I can uh get it as a picture, and then we'll see if it moves on its own. I doubt it, but that's what the problem is. It's not illuminating on here. Let's see. Uh this is Blake at his finest. Oh, it is moving. There you go. He is jamming. There he is. He is jamming like a motherfucker.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:40

I was fixing tell that story. So you played it by that time I was thinking it. Well, tell that story. Tell us what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:47

Besides the fact that he he did he lost his shoes, he was dancing.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:54

Barefoot blake, yeah. He said it didn't fire.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:58

That was back in what 2007. Gosh, I was living on the west coast. Um I I don't know how to explain. So a buster, you know, a free performer. I did that for a living for many years of my life, actually. Uh I was pulling in between three and five thousand dollars a month just playing on the beach or playing on the harbor on the west coast. It was my heart. Um for real. It was literally, and still is, um my motivation. When you can reach someone on a visceral level immediately, then you can I don't know, something very addictive about that. When you're playing music and you're able to reach someone, uh, there has been so many times, especially with the song uh Leave This Mess Behind or Athletes and Crossroads, where you're playing the song and the people passing you by stop. You know, uh sometimes even a few blocks away, they'll come closer and they reach and you you reach them on such a spiritual, physical, emotional, and visceral level that they stop and you see tears in their eyes. It means more to me than I know how to express, and I miss it more than anything else in my life. There's not much that trumps that period of time in my life when I was literally playing for tips on the street because I would see you know for tips. Ah I know I play for them. Just a tip, just a tip, just but just a tip but that immediate reaction from people from your original music or even from covers that people can feel your spirit that you're giving and sacrificing as you play changed uh the way I look at music as a whole. Being a busker and a street performer made me understand in a better, more real way how important music really is. And that that uh gift that you saw there was uh Ocean Beach in San Diego, California. And um it was the beginning of the evolution of my music as a whole. It changed everything in regards to how I saw it and how I felt about music and how it performed.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:26

There was one story I gotta I gotta bring out, and that's when I come to California. You didn't even know I was coming. And yeah, um, I because I I didn't know how to get a hold of you at the time, and so I flew in there to see my daughter Leah. And um I uh Leah and I were walking uh Seaport Village and I just uh felt drawn to keep going. I could hear someone singing, but I couldn't quite make it out, and I was drawn down that way and kept going. And oh my god, there was my son, there was Blake, so out of all of California, there's my son Blake out there playing. It was it was amazing. And he he felt that I was in the in the area too. He could feel me, and he goes, I think my mom's here. And then then we we made eye contact, and that was so cool. But that's not that's not what I wanted to bring up. What I wanted to say was there was a man in a wheelchair. I don't know if he didn't have legs or I don't remember, but I remember he was homeless and he gave my son his food to eat.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:38

Oh, that was nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:39

A homeless dude gave gave my son, he didn't have nothing to give, but he gave what he had to get.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:46

Let me comment on that a lot. I was making I was making enough money during that time period, and that this story matters, I think, more than anything I've ever brought up. Let me get some liquid. Hold on. This story matters more than anything that I think I brought up so far in that regard, and my heart is to the homeless period. But I was making, like I said, three to five grand a month, and uh a third of that to almost a half was rent. If you live in San Diego, you know what I'm saying. Oh god, that's expensive as hell. But I was making a lot of money. I didn't need his sandwich, I didn't need this man's sandwich, and uh and I'll never forget Jeff. His name was Jeffrey, and he was probably that dude, six foot four, maybe six foot five, huge, tall, lanky fella, alcoholic, one of my biggest fans, always wanted me to play Hotel California, but he was he was just a true fan, someone that would come and sit with me all day. And when I say all day, I'm saying six to seven hours a day. This man would sit and listen to me. And when he brought me his food that day, that my mom witnessed it, that was everything he had to give. And that's the beauty of that's the beauty of some of these people that we shrug off and that we brush off as as if they're just all addicts. Yeah, sure. There are plenty of homeless addicts in the world. There are. And these people that I met when I was especially on Harbor, what what mom was talking about was um when she came to visit, I was actually playing on San Diego Harbor. Oh, okay, wrong. Right near the oh, I forgot the name of the aircraft carrier. Midway. The midway aircraft carrier.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:49

Yeah, it was next to the midway.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:50

Yep, right there. And there's a parking garage that amplified me. It made my sound travel, oh, at least three blocks away. But when I'm singing and there's this echo from this garage behind me, it just would reach people so far. It was perfect, the perfect busker spot. And thank you, Jeremy. Yes, they're called buskers, you're right, like you said. Um but I got there's a small group of people, and Jeffrey was one of them, and he has since passed on. But I want to I want to make that point really crystal clear is that they're not all degenerates, they're not all problems or not things that you can just move along to the next city. Some of these people are people that have a spirit and a heart that is stronger and more pure than most of the people you meet every day. And this is one of those people, and I just wanted to I wanted to highlight that because what she was talking about was someone that has been there for me when I was in that area for a couple of years. He was a strong base of my local community, and I loved him.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:06

Well, and uh I want to take a second to thank I want to thank uh and point some people out too, because not only is my buddy Jeremy uh and uncle uh Donald D. Dyer that's in here, which I'm gonna get to your question in a second, Donald, but both of them, as well as this for sure that I know for sure the young man right below me, Blake, were all military people. Blake was in the Marines, and I just want to take a second to also salute, take my hat off to all of the men and women who have made this country to where we can have podcasts, we can, we can sing, we can do stuff, we can we we we we are the freest nation around, so it's for people like you all and people like Jeremy and Donald Dyer, and you know, truth be told, maybe even I don't know if you went as far as to find out, but maybe even that guy Jeffrey may have had he may have been military military as well.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:04

He was army, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:05

So so thanks to all of you all, uh anybody who served, and Shane, I don't know if you did or not, but but um I I know I haven't, but I did public service, so I did EMS for over 20 years, so um until I retired. So um, but you the military mean very, very much to me. Um, now as for Donald's question, Uncle D asked, um, how many original songs is there in your all's music category or catalog, excuse me.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:36

Mom, I'm gonna let you take that one. But before you do, I wanted to mention I've removed uh some of my original music that we performed together from Spotify for the moment that may change, uh, but there's some there's some issues there. Now, mom, I'm gonna let you answer the main question there.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:55

How many original songs? Probably thousands of them.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:00

Thousands and thousands of original songs, how many we actually play in our set? Or our catalog, well, yeah, your catalog.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:08

Well, yeah, well, a catalog is a lot during our set.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:12

Yeah, they're well, we change things a lot. We have so many songs that we've written, like individually and then collectively, and and so any given set at least we we at least do half of the show that is original music, but a lot of places when you hear a lot of covers, and the way we do covers is we really rework uh things in our in our own way, you know. Um, and uh so we like to kind of highlight things in a different way. Um, but but yeah, continue on, mom. Talk about all our originals there.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:41

Maybe six or seven apiece. Is that close, Mom?

SPEAKER_04 1:41:46

Probably. Well, okay, it just all depends on the venue we play in. You know, because uh we don't use the exact same set list everywhere we go, and there's some venues that want to hear well, we read the crowd, you know, what what type of people are there, what type of music we think that they'd want to hear. And you know, we try to mix in some uh originals as well, uh if we can. And um I I don't know, it just it depends on uh you know the crowd and the place we play. If we think that they're responding to our originals and we play another one here and there, and but we always play a lot of covers too.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:27

Yeah, but like we read the crowd, right? We keep it interactive, yeah. But as far as release goes, uh we we have not released yet. Love you, Ronnie. Uh you get some rest, and I'll talk to you later. Love you, Ronnie. I haven't to go to bed.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:44

Love you, Ronnie.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:46

Um I'm sorry for my voice. Um I'm just now barely getting it back. But as far as originals that we have, we have countless. As far as what we've released right now, under Lori Lynn is our released uh uh group of songs. So when you look up Lori Lynn on Spotify, that's what you'll find. I've taken mine down uh for personal reasons. I'm not happy with how Spotify is being I'm not happy with the way Spotify is uh preferencing yeah, I can see it's a little glare, but I can see it, Lori.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:28

And I was actually asking you about that. So, as you all can see, that was her new album. It'll be okay. Um, yeah. Um, I was actually gonna even ask him about it. So when did that drop and um how long did it take y'all to make that album?

SPEAKER_04 1:43:43

Uh last year, uh it's when it was done, the end of last year, and there's nine songs on it, isn't that right? I don't know how to count them again, I forgot. But I'm releasing them just a little bit at a at a time. I haven't released all of them, just releasing a few at a time, like um, and then just trying to promote some of them as we go, and it'll be okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:08

Which ones are on Spotify right now, mom?

SPEAKER_10 1:44:10

Modern song marketing is uh complex uh topic itself, but you say it's out there uh being okay in Ben.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:19

Um I don't know how much it isn't isn't bent, yeah. Bent's out, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:29

It'll be okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:31

Thank God Ben's out. Because if not, I left that fucking cat out of the bag. I didn't even think of maybe I should have asked before I put you in.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:42

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:44

There's some more gonna be dropped out of it too soon.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:47

So okay, I can see it without glasses. I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:51

My buddy Mike Clacy just dropped in now. He uh uh is actually off the west coast, he is in Washington, so he's real about 30 minutes from Portland, Oregon. So um he owns locked and loaded records, he's in here saying hi and whatnot. Hey no buddy, he's he's a good he's a good dude, and he also is a blues singer. He is uh and he owns some restaurants and stuff out there on the west coast. So he's a he's a cool cat.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:17

Yeah, of course, Mike knew me as dive mine back then, but it's he knows who I am.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:22

Oh, I was oh, I was gonna say I guarantee Mike knows who you are. He's he's pretty uh well-versed with everyone for sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:31

Even a lady needs to fly was the last release that that was just put out there.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:37

Just oh, that's right. That's one of my favorites, Mom. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:40

Even a lady, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:41

Listen, Outlaw, Michael Outlaw is how I know how I know Mike, and I know him from TikTok, actually.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:48

Oh, I met I I met him on TikTok too, I think.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:52

You did. I brought you guys into one of one of his streams. Yeah, see, Mike, you know, Mike. I'm reading if you see me looking here, that that's where I'm looking at the chat. But yeah, no, like we have had quite a few conversations, me, me and Outlaws. That's what I know you guys. Um, but back when I knew uh Mike, and well, I mean, I still do, of course, but back when I was more active on TikTok, hey, he and I talked about quite a few times about releasing some stuff together. He's got a studio of his own, and uh distance is the only issue. Yeah, yeah, now especially now that you're back all the way over here. Uh if you want to contact uh Bones, he can give you the contact information for uh CD from Loryland. And next event, Mom, what's our next event?

SPEAKER_04 1:46:45

Let's see, tomorrow night we're playing 35 North. Oh, that's right. Farragut a Gold Star. Yeah, that's in Farragut, Tennessee. It's like a suburb of uh Knoxville. And then where are we playing at Friday?

SPEAKER_02 1:47:00

Well, see, Uncle D. Uh we're playing at waterfront.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:04

Waterfront.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:05

Waterfront Maraville, Tennessee. Yeah, yeah, and you never know, Uncle D, he he gets around, so and he's only in Cosby, Tennessee. So I don't know how far that is from where y'all are gonna be playing. I'm not very several hours geographically. I'm challenged a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:21

That's not too far. Donald, if you ever uh know a venue or want to play with us somewhere, you please uh bones and then he'll connect with us and we can make it happen.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:32

We do have a website, it's Appalachian Moon.org, just Appalachian Moon.org. And that's uh that's our band website. Uh and it's constantly being updated with some stuff, but uh you know, you can you can find out socials and uh all that sort of thing up there, just get a little glimpse of videos and whatnot, and uh have access to you know buy my mama coffee, you know what I'm saying? Well, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:56

Yeah, so we're always down to collaborate as well or or open, uh open or or you know, close or mainstage, whatever. But uh, you know, if you guys are have a show and you just want a band that can help lift you up, we're with you, and vice versa. If you need a headliner that you feel is in our our bracket, then please let us know. Yeah, we're always down.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:20

We can help, we can really lift people up, but we also know how to get down. So, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_07 1:48:25

We get down, we get up, get down.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:28

Well, we always post on social media or we we're playing at, you know, uh like on Facebook and Instagram. I'll post uh make posters and uh where we're gonna be playing at and what time. So it changes. We're playing somewhere every week, you know, two or three shows at least. So um look us up.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:48

Check us out, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:49

Appalachian Moon, uh, or music by Lori Lynn or Lori Lynn. Uh I changed my name on TikTok.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:57

I'm my I'm just my name now. So that so my William Blink Lori Lynn and then Shane is Earthwalker generally.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:05

And um I'm the resident body.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:08

Oh, okay. Resident Body, the resonantbody.org. And then, of course, uh, used to be Jive Mind, but I've changed it back to my real name based on my upcoming album. Uh that's a little more personal. So William Blake Henry is who I am now. You'll want to check that out.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:23

That's gonna be awesome. The music video that I was I had trouble finding. I if I've if I pulled this off, I'm gonna give myself a pat on the back because we all know how challenged I am with technology. I think while y'all were talking, I had to go back into Shane's email to make it happen. But I think I've re-downloaded this song. I hope this is the right fucking one. But if so, I'd like to play another song from this amazing band. And please be the right one. And it is this is XR. This road, this song's called Crossroads.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:56

We're here. Open chord stage. This is Appalachian Crossroads.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:04

Very well shot video, too. Looks really nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:06

Yeah, they did a good job. Oh my gosh. That's Jacob, the baby boy on the back.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:16

He's got hair like me.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:18

Real curly.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:19

Mama said before my first spiral too. My left hand had careless fingertips. My eyes. The one by cold. How did I get here?

SPEAKER_07 1:50:42

Or my regular.

SPEAKER_06 1:50:43

Yeah, I'm not sure I'll level. Whatever choice it brought me. I feel like I lose a control. And now I'm standing on the reclay I wake. Somewhere on the door. So in the fire point to last and death. With a man in dark gold. If it was a fight, maybe he could see the fold. Here I stand. Here I stand. That's the apple that's the road food. I find the film of the rocking chair. Mama singin' around me in care of the blue.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:07

There it is right there.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:10

My tiny feet would have a beef fair. Unless you can find a soft roots way fair. Fifteen years fast in vital flight. Walking down the road in the middle of the night. Now I'm dead. Somewhere on the guy. Oh death, I got the five baby.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:53

Woo!

SPEAKER_02 1:53:54

That was clean as fuck, y'all.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:58

Hey, that's that's that's just the tip of the iceberg of what you're gonna hear on his new stuff coming out, man. Tell you what, he's got he's got you know, he's written from a lot. Everything he's written from is lived experience. And uh, you know, William Blake Henry, uh, he's honestly he's he's the songwriter of my dreams. And I mean that. He he is a he's a wordsmith. He's a wordsmith, and and uh he knows how to give he knows how to paint a visual picture and really knows how to set the scene and the mood and give you that background information and and make you feel that that pull at your heart, you know, and uh so so you you really gotta watch out for his new stuff coming out. Uh it's uh you're you're really gonna be blown off your feet. Uh everything he's got. I mean, everything he writes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:46

Well, and I think y'all are amazing. I think that each one of you all are like a very pivotal piece of a puzzle that if if if any one of you all were not in that puzzle piece, it would be an incomplete project. So uh I think you all all bring what you all bring to the table is just absolutely outstanding. And look at my beautiful brother in there.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:06

Look at that picture of my beautiful brother.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:08

Look at that spectrum right there. I love I mean I have to love his hair because mine is a movie. He's got it all the way down. Mine's not that far. Mine's uh mine's just about a little past the shoulder, but uh he's got a new baby. Well, congratulations to him. That's fucking awesome. Judah.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:30

His name is Judah, the baby. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:38

Yeah. And I will say, uh, from someone who has a degree in audio production, he is wonderful at combining uh different music and connecting it all to make a complete show in such a way uh with his yeah, it's seamless. Not only is it seamless, but he can build, he can totally create a build into the drop and make you feel every moment, and he's great. I I may not be able to create dev music, and yet from our bloodline comes someone who can take the same thought processes and theories that we use in our own music and the way we write music, and transfer that into the type of music he plays, which is and and and performs based on DJ talent. And I he's not the kind of DJ that I do occasionally when I host karaoke or host music, right? He's an actual DJ, like he will he will actually be like an MC, you know, and that's and I want to drop this too.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:47

He's he's not just a DJ either. Uh he does DJ a lot of uh big events and does a lot of big things like that uh as a DJ, and he's great at mixing, you know, uh all the songs and putting the effects and like really just taking it to another level, kind of recreating and re-imaging. Yeah, but but he is actually a producer too. He is a producer and he's a sound designer.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:10

Exactly, but he can produce live, and that's yeah, that's another level of talent that may not be the same as what I do or what because I I use an RC505 uh Mark II looper and I loop all the different instruments when I play with solo shows. My brother, he does his own sound healing and he has his own thing. My mother creates her own songs, we all have our separate things, but he takes that same energy and places it into audio production, which is like I said, take it from someone who has a degree. I'm an audio producer, and that's literally what I have a degree in. Uh, and yet he can do that live on the fly, and that's that's talent that you you just don't see often. A lot of times you have people that build their sets um in their home studio, and then all they do is push play live. He doesn't do that. What he does is he gets out on the stage and he creates these transitions and uh lines it up to where it's just perfect for building the type of energy that he wants to build, like he crafted from scratch. And I'm I'm so proud of my little brother. Both of them actually.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:27

I can only imagine if if what we're seeing from all of you all, I can only imagine too if you threw your your sister in the mix. Oh yeah, oh yeah, she yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:37

Yeah, it's one one complete whole, you know, wave of uh, you know, you better have brought uh you know an extra pair of bridges, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 1:58:49

When we're all on stage together and we're playing music, it it just does something to me that uh I I can't, you know, we can I can't I can't help it. It's because it's magical, it's purely magical. It's uh uh maybe another word, you want to use anointing, it's just something really special that that not every family's got. And we're really, really, really blessed to have that.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:16

Yeah, you all are. Because family's everything, and to have you all so in tune with each other and producing this great music, I mean that's I wouldn't go that far. There's a lot of people that uh don't have that. That's true. There's a lot that don't. Now, this song That's true. Let's see what's going on here. That's my brother's song right here. Uh hell yeah, let's go into that.

SPEAKER_07 2:03:54

Yeah.

unknown 2:03:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:03:56

See, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, that's so fun.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:01

Dude, I tell you what, that's fucking jazz. That was and that open court looks like a nice place. I mean, it is.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:08

It's cool. If we can replicate those lights, we'd be in business.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:12

Oh, yeah, they have a they have a nice setup. They have a really nice setup.

SPEAKER_10 2:04:16

Hey, respect to those bands who are setting up those lights for their shows all the time. Uh we're definitely that's the next thing that we're trying to hope for. That and also a subwoofer at some point in time, but uh those are some expensive setups if you want to get the stuff that actually works, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 2:04:32

Right. Yeah, I cannot I dude. I priced it for James, you know, because he's 23, he doesn't have anything, so I looked into it and I was like, my gosh, man, how they expect a 23-year-old kid to save up money and buy as much shit as you need to have your own sound. And not that's not even counting lighting. It's like fuck.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:53

Well, I mean, honestly, it's you you have to be a in a position in your life where you place the income from the show back into the business. And that's it. Until you get to a place to where you have what you need, and then you can create just like any business. Isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 2:05:13

Just spend money to make money, but it's hard to spend it when you're not you know, until you're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:19

Well, and when you got young families too.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:22

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's a very good point. Yeah. I mean, it's when you got other priorities that take precedence, it's it can make it kind of rough. Thank you, Miss Janice says great performance. Thank you, Miss Janice, and thank you so much for popping in. Wolf says she can't wait to see you all at the award show because she'll be there as well with her uh Wolf Podcast. Uh she was actually nominated one of the uh podcasts that were nominated for podcast of the year. And uh she's she's a really, really great lady. She's currently up in uh St. Louis uh doing getting content and shit before she moves back to Kentucky.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:56

Are you on uh uh TikTok Wolf and Facebook?

SPEAKER_02 2:06:01

She's on uh I'm pretty sure all those. But she also does she does that thing too where she does the um oh what is it called? The video game scre uh where you stream, you know, like on kick, which is what we're on too. But it's kind of a platform for more gaming. However, it's very popular right now, and apparently it has a lot of uh it it's not just used for gaming, even though that's a big proprietor. Now let's see, before I go back to that, let's see if I've got any more uh or how are you all doing on time and stuff? Are you okay?

SPEAKER_07 2:06:37

Yeah, I may have to leave you in about 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:43

We're at a two-hour, six minute mark, which and we've and we've dropped some viewers, so you can tell after about two hours it gets a little rough, but uh I do want to show this photo because this is a interesting joke. Exactly because of our jokes.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:01

Oh really good jokes. That's why they laughed.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:08

Now, this photo, this is a great photo of Blake. It's a black and white, but it but the way it was shot, it has just a hint of the uh like blue in the eyes, a little bit of blue on the uh the one side of the photo. This is a really good photo right here. You look like you're at a fucking GQ magazine. That is a good shot.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:28

Actually, that is GQ, like that's GQ is fucked.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:31

That it was a mix, and uh it was up to the highest bidder, it's either GQ or Abercrombie, but GQ actually went out on that one.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:41

Side note. And the one to my mom earlier. I can I can do those.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:47

But your eyes, the way you captured your eye, the way your eyes look in this are is really fucking it's cool as fuck, man. It's a great thing.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:55

It's a normal style of hat that I wear. I'll do a baseball cat sometimes, but I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:02

So you like more of the scully cap kind of style.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:05

Any of that, yeah. Any anything to wear the problem is with this type of hat, the one that I have. That one wasn't mine, I borrowed it. Long story there. Not gonna get into it. But I borrowed that hat. The one that I have is made of wool. So the problem with that in the summer is it's very warm. Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:25

Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:26

I I will definitely check that out because I'm gonna uh but yeah, so that's my normal style or baseball cap. Uh most people who have known me for more than a few years have seen Well, you you showed that picture of me on in California on the uh as a bus or on the street and show my spiky hair. That's what it used to be. But now what you're seeing right now is about average. So normally yeah, I either don't wear a hat or I or I wear that that hat like the picture.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:57

So standing straight up it kind of falls over now.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now he's got a little bit of that wave to him, you know? Well, you know, you gotta get that.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:07

That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_04 2:09:08

Oh, that's it. It's a pompadour.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:10

You gotta get that blue pill for your hair. And then it wouldn't it wouldn't tip over there.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:16

Oh no, wait, hey, we don't need the ladies after him anymore than already are. We don't need any more ladies after him.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:28

And the last photo that I had. Nope, nope, sorry, nope, nope. It's a great shot.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:33

That's a great, that's just a great shot. That's a great poster shot. That's a great thing.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:38

Yeah, we're looking right into the sun. That was hard to do, but you know what? We did it.

SPEAKER_07 2:09:42

This picture was taken at uh Ironworks Skyway at Ironworks Grill. One of the most beautiful venues we've ever played at.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:52

I I just love it. Right there on the river. Oh, right on the river. You got the little system outbuilding out in the back side there on the other side.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:00

It's beautiful. We played a few days ago and they just built a brand new stage. Brand new works. And I would I would love to see you guys there, even if we're not playing. Just go check out Ironworks. It's a really good place.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:15

So that's Ironworks. I'm gonna have to check that out and make sure that I'm putting to get to play.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:21

Have you heard of that?

SPEAKER_02 2:10:22

Which one?

SPEAKER_04 2:10:23

Bald River Falls without any hair.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:30

I've seen it. Yeah, it's a tourist destination. It's really pretty way up in the mountain on a large mountain creek, flash river. It's really pretty. Beautiful location. Really great for hiking. Yeah. It's great for hiking, that's right. It's it's what it's known for, actually.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:53

And there's bears. You gotta go here bearing.

SPEAKER_07 2:10:56

Barely. Hey boo-boo.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:59

And they run across the road.

SPEAKER_07 2:11:00

Get off my pit meal way to bed.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:03

Let's do one more song for everybody. Since this one had, I didn't know it had extras, so this is awesome. Let's do one more for everybody.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:10

I'm not Joel's profit.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:12

That's my mom.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:13

I'm bad at fit. That's a red dress, yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:16

Oh, that's the one that we're carrying back to.

SPEAKER_07 2:14:30

Man, see any drummer makes my arms die. I'm sorry. I've just got to give respect.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:36

I know we played that song twice, but we had to. It was a great song. I'm ready for it. Was that the red dress? That was the right one, right? Yeah. That was it. Well, no wonder he sat next to you. Hell, any fucking man would. I mean, you look great in it.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:49

That's my mom.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:50

He's a really good friend. I got some really good friends in the music business.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:55

It seems like it. Well, you all got you all got a pretty impressive pedigree for yourselves as well. So you all should be very proud of everything y'all have. And I was very blessed that you all took time out of your house day to uh be on a no-name podcast like mine, but thank you. Oh no, honestly.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:13

We were honored to be on your podcast.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:14

I had a fucking ball. I hope you all did too. I hope I did you justice. Um I just want to take a tip my hat and say thank you to Wolf Vare because if it wasn't for Wolf, my ass couldn't have done what I just did because she had to help me learn this platform. She had to learn me how to fucking put videos on and pictures. She was the one that fucking helped me with all that shit. So let's get it. Wolf. Love you, Wolf. Wolf's the goat for sure. And uh and much much love to go, uh, to to goat, to the goat wolf. The wolf that ate the goat. Much love to go.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:50

Oh no, not the goat.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:52

She's like a little sister to me. But um, but damn, I I I had so much fun. And I know I know Blake, we need to wrap it up because I know you got you got to take care of the little ones and um and know you gotta get up at the wee crack of dawn to uh to get them off the school and all that other shit. But uh I want to tip my hat to you because you know having a handicapped child, uh thanks for considering and and uh I'll get with you. We'll definitely want to have you on your show because I think your story will help others. Um thank you for listening and allowing me to ask such a hard question and taking in its stride and and then giving me the story, which I was honored to hear it. But um you're you're an incredible father and you should be incredibly proud of yourself because dealing with handicapped children is is very hard. Um your life is never like normal and uh it takes a special person to do that. And I I think personally, I think God gives handicapped children to people that he knows are strong enough to handle it. He wouldn't he wouldn't give a handicapped child to somebody who he didn't think could handle the situation. So you are obviously blessed because he chose you because those two wonderful kids that you had needed an awesome father and needed someone to help them guide them through life, and he knew you could handle it, and uh they're damn lucky to have you as a and an awesome brother, brother too. So, but I love y'all thank y'all so damn much for being on my show. I can't thank you enough. I had a great time. Um, sorry, we did get off to a rocky start. I I'm trying to not do that, but I I don't know if it's me or if it's just fucking happen chance. But once we got once we got the ball rolling, it seemed to pick up and everything was okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:17:42

So uh well I had you connected to my interface, but this works just fine. So uh you know, uh occasionally the the technology does us justice, but then when it doesn't, that's okay. We got the phone, so we're good.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:00

Yeah, yeah. And Shane, I gotta tip my hat again to you too as well, because it uh before I could get a hold of him, you I mean you came through with with exactly what I needed to be able to make this podcast better. So I couldn't have done it without this guy right here. So I'm glad I could be of help, man. Dude, you were man, and you were on X.

SPEAKER_07 2:18:20

You literally sent those videos.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:23

So quick. He was and then Blake, of course, you know, you you you helped me with a little bit of insight too to uh make me look uh like I knew what the fuck I was doing.

SPEAKER_07 2:18:34

So last minute, but at least it it started.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:38

It all it all worked out. Well, it was good having him. Hell yeah. Oh, there he is. I think he was like deuces, bitches. I'm out.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:48

Yeah, my dog's barking because we got possums in the in the the vents under the house.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:54

Oh no, she's right. I'm making me a possum tail next. I thought she was barking because we weren't, you know, I wasn't giving her any accolades or didn't get let her get in there and do her thing. So she's doing her how she ain't nothing but a hound dog. And Lori, it's been a pleasure talking to you several different times, setting this up on the phone. You are you are so amazing. So um, thank you so much for um taking my calls and helping me make this a reality. So um I can't I can't thank you enough. And I cannot wait, man. I hope, I hope, and hope that nothing happens to where we're all uh November 14th, 2026, Oak Historic Oak Grove Theater in Oak Grove, Tennessee. Be there or be fucking square because all the four of us are gonna be there, but you're gonna hear them and their musical styling in person. Oh, did I say something different? Yeah, but that's close. So you can't it's at the Oak Grove Theater in Oak Ridge. You know what? I think I fuck that up every damn time I said it, so we'll have fans go into goddamn ten buck two or something, I guess. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 2:20:02

But anyway, Oak Ridge is about halfway between me and my mama, so that's that's kind of the perfect distance. So I'm gonna go. Oh, it might take me about 50 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 2:20:21

Yeah, it ain't gonna take you long because you're about three hours from me.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:24

So I got one more shoe left, Lala.

SPEAKER_02 2:20:27

Oh, damn.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:28

She's throwing my shoes at her. No, I'm throwing them at her to shut her up.

SPEAKER_02 2:20:33

She's all like looking like, oh shit, I done pissed her off. Wearing out her shoes.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:38

Oh, yeah, the other night. She was uh she yeah, she was just trying to tell us someone was getting the rabbits, but she couldn't verbally tell me, and so I you know, was gonna I was yeah, she was in trouble. She barked all night and she was in so much trouble. She was trying to tell us something was trying to eat the rabbits, and that's what she was trying to tell us.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:03

And isn't it amazing how I'm just a mere human? Oh, she's so smart, yeah. All of our animals are. We're just we're just surrounded by like genius animals.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:12

Jane's the smartest animal I know. I'm just smart, but they're just the smartest animal on the farm.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:20

My dogs are smart, they're just a bunch of fucking pussies. So, like the other day, my my male dog, he's he's the biggest weenie out of all of my girls have more testosterone than he does. And um, but apparently he woke me up at 4 a.m. because he he knew 30 minutes before the storm hit that it was coming, and I'd forgot to tell the wife the storm was coming, so I had him in the basement. Well, she went, she goes to work at 4 a.m. So she let him out or a little bit before four. So she led him out to potty. Well, she put him up in the back room, and he fucking bark and woke me up at about 4:15. And I went in there, I was so pissed. But then as soon as I opened the door, he went in the basement, so I knew what was happening. The storm's coming 30 minutes later, yeah. It was the storm, yeah. They're pretty amazing. Animals are they're pretty fucking cool. And so is he a weenie? Yeah, I was a great hound guy, Jeremy, but uh I haven't had any in a while.

SPEAKER_04 2:22:10

He's a weenie.

SPEAKER_02 2:22:12

I'm confused, Bones.

SPEAKER_07 2:22:13

Was he a weenie or a pussy? Because you said they were both.

SPEAKER_02 2:22:15

Well, actually, you know what? He uh I guess he's he's both actually. He's he is multi-talented, he's a weenie and a pussy, all rolled into one. He's like he's like a pig in a blanket, like a hermaphrodite of some sort.

SPEAKER_04 2:22:29

Oh, I was gonna say Andirondack, like an Andirondack cherry just kind of kicks back.

SPEAKER_07 2:22:34

Yeah, that's yeah, there you go. There you go. That's about the most Christian way you could have said that.

SPEAKER_02 2:22:39

Yeah, that's that's uh a hell of a lot more elegant than the way I just said it. I think I would have just said something like that. But uh it was a pleasure, and again, well gone, thank you. Blake, I will get with you about the special needs podcast because that's uh I'm gonna do the wife this weekend. And again, I just did it again, didn't I? That sounds so good. Um, but I'm gonna have her on the show this weekend because she kind of wants to talk about our experience, and it's Mother's Day, so I figured it's fitting. So um, yeah, probably within the next week or two when you're available, I'll check with you and see what's good. We'll uh just let me know. We'll get together.

SPEAKER_07 2:23:18

Um say three and seven is a good time, or after nine. So either way, so if you're we can we can even do it early, too. Yeah, we can do it. So I mean if you need to record it and then you know release it after, some other time is better. So it's up to you. I'll make time.

SPEAKER_02 2:23:37

Hell yeah, brother. And again, for the uh the entire group of you, if you um shit develops, y'all got new new stuff to that you want to release or talk about. You you Jacob becomes available. Hell, even if your sister's in town, if you all want to do it again in the future, just holler at me because I would love the invitation's always there. I would love to have y'all back because I had a really good one. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 2:24:02

And to be more to to say something a little more crass, just to be fun. He he had a side mention there. He's like, I did it again. What he's talking about, he's like, I did my wife this weekend, and I told him on the phone.

SPEAKER_09 2:24:16

I caught that.

SPEAKER_07 2:24:17

Yeah, I told him on the phone, I was like, Well, it's better that you did your wife than not your wife this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 2:24:22

Yeah, I was like, Yeah, I'm gonna do my wife this weekend, and then I went, Oh, well, that didn't sound real good.

SPEAKER_07 2:24:28

That sounds great. That's yeah, that's what you should be doing. That's exactly the way it should sound.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:33

Hey, listen, you got some responsibilities, man. That's right, yeah. That's right. Every now and again, you just you know, you can't.

SPEAKER_04 2:24:40

She's worked so hard, she's got one eye.

SPEAKER_02 2:24:43

She's cute. Now, which one's that one? This is the old one.

SPEAKER_04 2:24:47

She's very old. Which one is she? Kiki. Her name's Kiki. She has one eye.

SPEAKER_02 2:24:53

Yeah, she's a gremlin. She's a gremlin, it's a mogwai. Yeah, just don't get her wet, and you'll wake up with about 50 of them in your house.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:02

She's like God, she's like the elder Ewok.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:06

She used to make a lot of money. Probably is about 50 of those over there.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:10

I used to breed and sell them. Well, you know, yeah. There was good money off of them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:25:17

Oh, hell, I bet, yeah, I bet you did. And you having that farm, that's the perfect setup for shit like that. She's a better way to make better money.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:25

Bones, thank you. I am gonna have to uh bow out. I appreciate the opportunity uh to talk with you guys. I appreciate it, brother. I had a great time.

SPEAKER_02 2:25:34

Had a good conversation earlier today, too. So it was really nice. Thanks for sharing the some of the stuff you did. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:42

Absolutely, it was my pleasure. Thank you for having us. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 2:25:46

Thank you. I'll see all of y'all.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:50

Okay, thanks. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 2:25:52

You got it, brother. No, thank you, brother. I appreciate you, Lori. Pleasure, honey. You're you're just a doll. You're a doll. You all have a safe one and look forward to seeing you soon. And keep up the strong work. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_04 2:26:06

You too. You too, good luck in all your endeavors.

SPEAKER_02 2:26:09

I appreciate it, honey. Thank you so much. See ya. Alright, ladies and gentlemen. Well, there you have it. We're gonna wrap up. But that was Miss Lori Lynn and Blake Henry and Shane Henry from the awesome band Appalachian Moon. Hope y'all enjoyed the presentation. Um, I am learning, so a lot of the other artists that I've had on here, as y'all can probably tell, I am um I'm getting a little bit better. Not much, but a little bit. So uh my old ass is starting to get it. But um I'm so honored that they were on here. I hope I did them justice. I hope I did a good job. Uh I'm learning. Thanks again, Wolf, for helping me because without you, I would this podcast would really suck. So um, so thank you so much, everybody, for taking time out of your days. And um I just look forward to the next episode. So um until we meet, uh again, go real quick, go to Appalachianmoon.org. That's their website. Check them out. They're also on Facebook, they're on all sorts of different platforms, and as you heard earlier, they're also on streaming platforms um as well. And then you can check out now, currently, uh, my podcast uh on Buzz Sprout is being uploaded um when I can. I've I'm maxing out what I've the package I bought and what I can drop each month. So some of the artists that uh I have already done, you haven't seen your stuff yet. However, it is coming. Um I just have to space everything out a little bit uh because I'm only allowed so many hours of upload per month. So I'm going to max those out every month to catch play catch-up from all the episodes I've already currently done. So check it, check um check that out on Buzz Sprout. You can check, you can always see the videos on Bones Enterprises LLC period on Facebook. They're always up and always on there. Bones Warren, my personal page. I also a lot of not all of them, I think, but some of them I have put on there. Um also go remember to go to www.southernlightsentertainment.com. Check out Miss Pam Little's page. Um, because again, she uh she's the one hosting this awesome award show, which these fine people were on, along with all the other artists that I've already uh had on the show. Um and we've got many more to go. So uh those that are interested, please reach out to me and let me know that you want to be on the show. I'd be honored to have you. Um, but again, go to Southernlightsentertainment.com, vote now, vote often. Uh you got all the way until September before we do the tallies of the votes. And once we do that, it'll be locked in. They'll find out who the winners are gonna be for all the categories, and then we'll see you at the show on November 15th at the historic Oak Grove Theater in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. And yours truly will be presenting entertainer of the year. So also, I do have a new website. I don't know if I have set it on any podcast yet. Uh, the website is we're still tweaking stuff, but it's up, it's functional, it even has a merch store. That is www.bonesunfiltered podcast.com. If you buy merch, um I would just say thank you. And the merch is actually through Fourth Wall, but I get support royalties for every sell that I make for any product that you see on my site. So once you go to order from Bones Unfiltered Podcast dot com, it'll take you there to check out. And I get royalties on that, which will also help support the show so I can help the podcast grow and just uh maybe slowly make a little bit of Jack to where I can uh afford to pay for things like StreamYard and Buzz Sprout and insurance for business and all that, all the shit that comes with having a business. It'll just help me um kind of make enough money to pay for that kind of stuff so I can keep bringing these podcasts to you if you like and enjoy them. Thanks to everybody who tuned in today. Much love and respect to all. And uh check out Wolf at Wolfvare uh Records. Uh she's on Facebook, um she's on all the platforms too. Uh find her as well because she's got a really good show. Um and and sometimes we collab together. So um definitely check her out. And I guess that's really it. I guess we'll wrap this up for today. So everybody, y'all have a safe night out there. And we look forward to the next episode, which hopefully this week will be one for the special uh needs edition uh featuring my wife. So more to come on that, but hopefully that'll happen probably on Saturday. So I look forward to seeing everybody. And again, uh you heard this show today. Blake is uh he's in the same boat as me to a degree. So he is gonna be on the special needs podcast in the future as well. So I look forward to that. That's gonna be a really good episode. So again, from bones saying be good or be good at it. Peace. See y'all next time.