[00:02] It's very Midwestern. A lot of welps and hopes. Yeah. Was it Puff Daddy? How's he doing?
[00:09] Producer Chris might be the most interesting person you've never met. I don't think I like being touched by strangers. Chris, look that up. I'll look it up. I'm on it. You got it. You can look it up. No, I'll look it up.
[00:19] Here we go. Professionals. Did he have batting cages at birdies? Um, not officially.
[00:26] Yeah, he had shingles. I don't know if that into there or not.
[00:29] So, what do you do? You can't possibly do this for a living.
[00:42] Hey everybody, welcome in to the Hamco Live Hot Ticket podcast, part of the Get
[00:49] In podcast network. Shout out to the Get In guys there. Nate Spangle did some great coverage over race weekend. So,
[00:58] uh, his team is doing awesome. Uh, thanks for having us on the, uh, network, Nate, and get in. I'm Josh Cecil. I'm your host, editor-in-chief of
[01:07] Hamco Live. With me as always, just kidding, he's not here.
[01:13] Global icon and national treasure Tyler Meechum on special assignment.
[01:20] Yeah, I feel like you want to do a sound effect for this, Chris. Go ahead. Way to let us down, Tyler. Geez.
[01:30] I I'm gonna dock his pay. I've decided it.
[01:33] He's gonna lose 10%. 10% of zero. 10% of zero is still zero, I think.
[01:41] But in his place, instead, by God, we got some booze hounds in the studio today.
[01:48] Alec Taylor, thanks for coming by. Booze Hounds Bluegrass Band. and excited to have you guys in here. I think we may
[01:55] even get a little uh sample of some music later. I see some instruments, so I feel like Okay,
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[03:01] those guys. Let's talk about our weekends. Let's go over to the booze hounds. You guys, it seems like you guys are playing almost all the time.
[03:10] It seems like a test, too, or Josh. Sorry.
[03:14] You remember like when you first started out and you're like, man, it's just I want to play. I want to get a gig and then you hit this tipping point and now you've got gigs.
[03:23] Like how often are you guys playing?
[03:25] Um, so April 25th we started kind of like a seven, eight week every weekend thing. Um, and then we'll have a little
[03:33] bit of time at the end of July, beginning of June, a little time off and then we'll start again until the middle of November. Yeah.
[03:40] Every weekend.
[03:41] Every weekend. And are you playing during the week, too? Sometimes. Um, not as often, though. Pretty much every weekend.
[03:47] We get together on Wednesdays to rehearse. So, we're all We're playing, not always gigging. Yeah.
[03:52] On the weekdays. Um, well, your band rehearses. Oh, yeah. Rehearses. Who are you guys? Get out of here.
[03:58] Talking about Don't come to a rehearsal. There's not much rehearsing.
[04:01] Band chatter kind of, but we do a little rehearsal.
[04:04] An excuse to get get together and make some funky content online.
[04:09] That's true. Right. Right. Right. Uh, so where'd you play this past weekend?
[04:13] So this past weekend on Saturday, we kind of we had a double header. So Alec and I play as a duo called Uncle Taylor. Okay.
[04:19] And we played that morning at the Kokomo Farmers Market. And then late that night, we played with the Booze Hounds.
[04:25] Um, a private party for some friends of ours at Mezer Hotel. A little race party. Meer Hotel. What is that?
[04:32] It's just our friend's house and their last name is Meers. So they call it the Mezer Hotel.
[04:36] It sounds fancier than Sounds fancy, but Not an actual hotel, but if you need to crash, we we can get a key. Yeah, absolutely.
[04:45] Perfect.
[04:46] So, yeah, race weekend. Uh you played Saturday. Anything going on Sunday, Monday? Race was Sunday. Friday, I we'll back up a little.
[04:54] Friday, Taylor and I went out to a uh fancy Italian restaurant in Cicero and went ahead and got ourselves engaged.
[05:02] So, yeah.
[05:06] So, we are exciting. Yeah, very exciting. Very exciting. We've got a lot of It's about times.
[05:14] Okay. All right.
[05:15] That was cool. So, the gigs we did on Saturday, we're pretty excited because we were we were still very excited about it. You know, it was probably the cutest thing cuz
[05:24] when we played with the rest of the booze hounds, we were probably like seven songs in and Lucas was like, "I can't take it anymore." He got on the
[05:31] mic and he was like, "Taylor and are engaged." It was so so sweet. Yeah. So, how'd you do it?
[05:37] Well, uh, we went to Dulos. You guys familiar with Dulos? I don't know. Dulos.
[05:42] Well, it's um it's owned by our friends Brent and Jam Fernong and and it's traditional Italian tratoria and it's delicious food. Very romantic, very
[05:51] fancy. Um, our first date was in Cicero, so I thought, let's go back to Cicero.
[05:56] And we we kind of spent the day doing whatever she wanted to do, which was a little shopping, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. And then we went to the fancy restaurant. And during right
[06:04] after uh dessert, I asked her to to be my wife and she said yes, that's awesome.
[06:13] Yeah, that's great. Yeah, I've I've not Dulos. Dulos. Dulos.
[06:18] Okay. And where was where was the first date in Cicero?
[06:20] Actually, the the Mexican restaurant in Cicero. Yeah. I don't think it's there anymore.
[06:25] Is that right? It used to be Jackson Street. Yeah.
[06:28] Yeah. Over there. Right across from the boat house. Mhm. There.
[06:32] Okay. It's not there anymore. I think it's a different It's not there anymore.
[06:35] I think it's They change hands every couple years. So, I'm not I'm not exactly sure. Don't quote me on it. Yeah. Okay.
[06:41] Um but Well, I think I might be going up there tonight. So, it's Friday as we record this. Friday night, uh the new Red Bridge Beastro Cro.
[06:50] That's cool.
[06:51] So, uh John Gilmore is playing there tonight and uh we're going to like the Moon Market out at um Kotibi Park.
[06:58] Oh, nice. So, we may go out to eat there first, but maybe we'll check out Dulos. Yeah, check it out if you like Italian food. It's Do they have live music? Delicious.
[07:06] Uh, sometimes. We played there as a trio with Eric a couple years ago when the weather was nice. We played outside. So, all right. So, we've got the booze hounds. We've got a duo. We've got a
[07:14] trio. How many iterations? How many hounds do we have out there?
[07:18] We've got five. Well, we've got some honorary hounds, but we've got five on the roster. And then our our good friend
[07:25] Cory Flick will sit in us from time to time. and he plays the harmonica. Okay.
[07:29] And he uh tours around with lots of really great folks. He's been on tour with Mason Vi recently.
[07:34] Yeah. Him and them and Sierra Hull were just in Europe. Yep.
[07:37] Going on tour. And he uh actually he's going to be sitting in with us tonight at the mousetrap show. We're playing tonight at the mousetrap. Cory Flick
[07:44] will be sitting in with the the regular hounds plus one. Um but um
[07:51] yeah, he's great. He's great. So, I'd say uh there's upwards of 700 800 hounds probably in the hound pound. We I can't
[07:58] count them all. I can't even count up that high. So, uh anyone could sit in.
[08:03] If you guys want to come sit in, come on out. You know what I mean?
[08:06] Well, I know like three chords on the mandolin, so maybe I could jump in there. Yeah. Well, that's bluegrass.
[08:11] Whatever key you need, we'll stick to it.
[08:13] You could do the sound board from the side. Mhm.
[08:16] So, uh, a traditional lineup of the Booze Hounds is you're going to have what? Guitar
[08:24] mandolin. You guys are So, Taylor, you're the guitar player. The bass player.
[08:29] Just kidding. You're the bass player, but you have a guitar today. Yes. Right. They let the bass player have a guitar.
[08:34] They do. They finally did. I finally said I would learn.
[08:38] Um, you're playing upright. Yep. Okay.
[08:41] Yeah. Taylor on the upright bass. I'll play mandolin. And then Eric Real, our front man, lead singer, he does guitar and banjo. Um, he can play a little bit
[08:50] of everything. Um, but he he mainly plays banjo and guitar. And then Lucas Williams, another powerhouse singer um,
[08:57] in the band. He plays guitar. Um, and then we got Mr. Joe Faucet on the fiddle and live sound engineering. Um, okay.
[09:05] And all those guys, that's it. That's the regular lineup for them. And it's so some songs it's two guitars, some songs it's a banjo. Okay. Um, just depends on what mood. Eric's in.
[09:16] Very traditional blue then.
[09:18] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, we we we the the lineup is very traditional. Yes, absolutely.
[09:23] Instrumentation wise. Yes. And when we throw Cory Flick in there with the harmonica, it's really fun.
[09:29] It is. It's not traditional bluegrass all the time, but he does a really great job of understanding like the bluegrass
[09:37] etiquette around how the structures of the songs go. And so he he I don't know, he fits right in. It's great.
[09:43] Yeah. I mean, there's a difference between country harmonica and blues harmonica, you know, and there there's not really a
[09:50] I mean, we've never until we met Corey, we never really heard of like a bluegrass style harmonica player, but he can play bluegrass style harmonica,
[09:58] which blows us away. It's It's very tasteful and he understands the, you know, how how it kind of is set up and it's great playing with him. He pulls out a lot of fun stuff in us.
[10:09] Oh, yeah. He does.
[10:09] We have him on whenever we can. Um, he's great.
[10:12] Love that. I, uh, saw this video, uh, a bluegrass, an old bluegrass guy
[10:20] was talking about the instrumentation of a traditional, if you go, bass, guitar,
[10:26] banjo, fiddle, mando. Um, he was talking about how each of those five instruments basically
[10:34] take up a, you know, I don't know, a section of the sound spectrum. If you think of in like wavelengths or hertz or
[10:42] whatever, how each instrument is suited for a particular section of the spectrum of sound
[10:49] basically, right? And it was just super fascinating like how why those instruments are the instruments. Well, it's because they fit like they fit together so well.
[10:59] Yeah. Another another um kind of traditional thing um is like sometimes there'll be two fiddles and that way you can have somebody playing like the
[11:08] harmony notes on it to kind of fatten up that sound. And you know it kind of can be like a coral sound with two or more when you're doing
[11:15] the harmonizing. And that can make like a a stage of like five or six people sound like there's eight or nine people up on stage just because of like the places they choose to be when they play.
[11:27] Does that make sense? you kind of like what you were saying, you're covering all the grounds. You're kind of spreading out those wavelengths and it's it's interesting to see what some of
[11:34] those newgrass players are doing because um you know, they take the traditional lineup and then do wacky
[11:42] things with it, which we're always we're always about. We're always interested in, you know, watching and listening to. Love it. Yeah.
[11:50] Well, we'll come back because you guys have a pretty cool gig coming up tomorrow on Saturday. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[11:55] Uh let's go over to Christopher. Chris, how was your weekend?
[11:58] Uh, my weekend was great. I took my kids to Kalahari in Sandusky, Ohio. Oo.
[12:04] I did not see any music over the weekend, but I did see a show last night uh at the 808, the new venue on Broad Ripple Avenue to the All Ages one.
[12:14] Yes, it's All Ages is connected to indie CD and vinyl. Yeah. Yeah.
[12:18] And it's cool. They keep the record store open uh during shows. So, and they send the music, you know, from the from the venue into the record store.
[12:27] Now, if I'm shopping for uh a John Prine album and they've got uh a
[12:35] punk ska band playing at the 808, can I ask the band politely to turn it down? You may. You may ask. You may ask. Perfect.
[12:42] I just don't want that to interfere with my shopping.
[12:47] Who' you see at the 808? I saw uh Fousey, Rusty Redenbacher, uh PG and Mulakhan play last night.
[12:56] Okay.
[12:56] And uh it was hosted by a guy named Sunny Paradise. Sunny Paradise. Mhm. I'm guessing that's not his legal name.
[13:04] It may be. Really? It may not be. I don't really know.
[13:08] Who knows? But good for him if it is. Uh we'll come back to you because we've got to talk about Fousey and Rusty again.
[13:16] Uh, but my weekend, what did I do?
[13:19] Friday, I had my kids, so I didn't work at Bier Brewery. I typically work at Bier Brewery on the weekends. You also, which I also work at Brewery, not on the weekends. Usually, I'm gigging.
[13:30] Yeah.
[13:30] In fact, I'll be working there this weekend and gigging. So, it's kind of a really mixed bag there.
[13:36] All right. Uh, so I went and saw the new Star Wars movie, the Mandalorian movie.
[13:41] That was good. my son and my uh stepson, I guess, soon to be stepson.
[13:47] Um, and then what else? I had something else I was going to talk about. Monday was the or Sunday was the race.
[13:57] Oh, this is kind of cool. This kind of happened over the weekend.
[14:02] So, we post clips of the podcast online, obviously. And uh last week we had um
[14:09] Andrew Newport on and we were talking about concerts out at Deer Creek, right?
[14:14] And we're our top five subject was top five concerts at Deer Creek. I mentioned 2005 I went and saw Tom Petty and this
[14:22] was the infamous concert where the power cut off during Refugee, but the crowd kept singing.
[14:27] Power comes back on, band falls right back in time like everything was, you know, seamless, right? And uh
[14:35] that clip gets posted on online and you know I'm just kind of reading some of the comments. I try to like comment back if someone comments on it and um some
[14:44] gal named uh Dana actually I could pull it up. She said something to the effect of
[14:52] uh she was at that show Tom really loved his crew and I was like oh were you were you
[15:00] working the show? you know, I thought she was part of like the backstage crew or, you know, I I worked security out there. Maybe she was working security or
[15:08] something or whatever. Um, I didn't really look too close at who it was, but uh
[15:15] later on down in the comments, um, someone says, "Hey, you may want to look at her name. It was Dana Petty, so it
[15:25] was Tom Petty's wife." Oh my god. like, "Oh, well, now I feel silly."
[15:33] Always do your research, folks. Do your homework first. That's awesome.
[15:36] I just like you wouldn't I mean, it's just the internet's weird, right?
[15:40] Like, how in the world did she find this clip and I can't remember, you know, like Tom Petty or, you know, I don't know how
[15:48] she found it, but we're just this little stupid podcast in Indiana. I love that.
[15:53] And she somehow stumbled across a clip of it, so I felt silly, but uh that was fun. that happened over the weekend.
[16:00] Um, and then, well, I don't know if I want to announce this. I'm just going to say this. We've got an online store now.
[16:06] I built that over the weekend and launched that. So, we shirts and stuff for HamCo.
[16:14] One of the things we're thinking about doing, I'll put you guys on the spot.
[16:18] What we'd like to do is offer like a to carry band t-shirts in our online store.
[16:24] Yeah. So for bands that don't have an online store, we just carry it and you guys can Wow.
[16:31] take a split of the money. And that's cool.
[16:33] So offering that to all those bands out there that don't want to carry stock or whatever. You just need an online store.
[16:41] We're happy to carry some shirts for you and uh work out whatever. Give you a good deal. What did we say? 7030 in
[16:48] favor of them of the bands. I think we said 6535. 6530. Look, I'm going to cut you deal. 7030. There you go.
[16:56] Sorry. You saying you want booze hounds on as the first the first artist on there? Well, I wrote it on my paper. So, that's a You talk about that at your next meeting.
[17:05] Yeah. Yeah. Rehearsal. Yeah.
[17:09] There's no swimming or beer drinking or anything going on at rehearsal? No.
[17:13] So, anyways, that was my weekend. Uh, pretty low-key. I didn't get to see any live music. Um, no. Did I? No, I didn't.
[17:23] No.
[17:24] Um, I know. And the thing is, the Counting Crows and Switchfoot were playing out at the track on I guess
[17:32] would have been Friday, Thursday or Friday. Whatever day carb day is. I don't really know what carb day is. Um, I want to go out there for that, but I
[17:40] didn't get to. But oh well. What can you do? Oh, you always got next year. Yeah. Yeah. We'll go see someone else. Yeah.
[17:48] Maybe I could do uh Well, let's talk about this weekend.
[17:51] Okay. Booze Hounds Bluegrass. First of all, let's let's go to the interview.
[17:56] Let's ask the tough hard-hitting questions. How did you guys form? Oh yeah. What's the back the origin story?
[18:04] So the backstory. So Eric Lee Real, who's the founder of the band, he founded the band in 2017 with a friend of his named Louie Morris. Um they played as a duo for a couple of years.
[18:15] Then um after the pandemic, Alec and Eric finally met in 2021 and Alec joined the band and they played as a little
[18:22] trio. And then I joined in 2022 and then Alec, Eric and I played as a trio for a
[18:29] good two years. And then actually Eric was at uh Kevin Hefernton's jam
[18:36] and he met Joe Faucet that um just by happen stance our fiddle player and he asked Joe if he'd play uh nights and
[18:44] white satin and Joe Faucet can play anything and he immediately started playing that with him and so that was kind of match made in heaven. So we played with Joe for about a year and
[18:53] then in 2025 we started getting Lucas in and now we're a five piece band. So, I've been slowly Okay. rolling it up. Rolling it up. Yeah.
[19:02] Now, I think so, we've talked about this, I don't know, a year ago or more, but you weren't a mandolin player initially, right?
[19:11] Like you just Yeah. Well, what how it happened is was like um when we decided we were going to be bluegrassers, we just decided one day we
[19:20] were going to start playing bluegrass and I was like, I'm gonna buy a banjo and I'm gonna I'm gonna be a banjo player, you know. Um, so I did I went out and
[19:28] bought a banjo. And I noticed you did not bring a I didn't bring a banjo. I don't play the banjo much anymore. Um,
[19:35] uh, because I Well, I don't know why, but um um, at first it was I really wanted to play that, but then when we
[19:42] started jamming um, with Louie and Eric um, we also were hanging out with this cat Derek Carrera. Um, he studied under
[19:50] Cody Looper. I don't know if you guys ever heard of him.
[19:53] Fantastic banjo players. Um, but Derek can play everything. And I when I mean anything, I mean he everything. I've never seen an instrument he can't play.
[20:02] And we were jamming and he was like, "Man, this you guys need a mandolin on this. This is what this is missing." And uh cuz Louis played banjo, so there was no reason to have two bananas going, right?
[20:13] And uh that's a lot of banjo.
[20:14] Kind of just handed me a mandolin and was like, "Here, try this." And I was like, "All right, I'll try this." And then I just didn't put it down. It's like, you know, there was already it's like
[20:22] I don't know. um it needed it and I kind of just started doing it cuz somebody handed me one in the circle in the jam
[20:30] circle and it's kind of how it took off which is you know kind of how bluegrass is if you need a different kind of run or a different instrument everybody just
[20:38] kind of switches up you know a lot of the bluegrassers play all all different kinds of instruments which is which is awesome in a jam because that it's very helpful for you know when
[20:47] you're like I don't know the intro or the lick to this you know.
[20:50] Yeah. So my introduction to bluegrass was Ricky Skaggs growing up. I'm just a country boy. Country boy at heart.
[21:01] That's the one. Country boy at heart.
[21:03] Maybe. Whatever. It doesn't matter. I'll probably edit all that out.
[21:08] You could harmonize with it later with yourself. You know what I mean?
[21:12] Anyways, but Ricky Skaggs plays as you know like everything.
[21:16] Oh yeah. Um, yeah, that's that's very cool about the bluegrass community and it feels like I've never gone to a
[21:25] bluegrass jam because I'm intimidated, but it seems like a very welcoming I would assume a very welcoming community
[21:32] and maybe I shouldn't be intimidated but I just am for the most part. Yeah. Yeah.
[21:37] A lot of the jams that we host or we attend are really welcoming. You know, all all skill levels are welcome. Um,
[21:45] that's kind of how we learned so quickly was going to bluegrass jams because we're both I would Alec played the electric bass growing up. But when the
[21:53] pandemic hit, that's when we both picked up bluegrass instruments and Yeah. If it weren't for us going to jams and people welcoming us to those jams, we would not have learned so quickly.
[22:03] Yeah. I mean, they take you in, they want to teach. A lot of them, they they want to keep this going. They want to teach folks. And really, it's just all about asking,
[22:12] you know. Um, our first couple jams we went to, I want to say I we went with Bob with my brother and and like I don't even know
[22:20] that we played because of we were intimidated, right? You go to the first jam and you're like, dang, that dude's playing so fast he
[22:28] doesn't miss. You know, if there's a lot of awesome timing and and everyone knows, hey, that's the Tony Rice lick.
[22:34] And I I didn't even know Tony Rice was when I first started doing it. Right.
[22:37] So, I think the first jam, I don't think I got the instrument. I think I brought the instruments. I think you were the only one who played. Bob and I just Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right.
[22:46] They didn't bring them out. I finally uh But it is very welcoming. Um and it is a little in I mean with anything new,
[22:54] it's tough to get out there and put yourself out there. But um excuse me. You you should try one. I should.
[23:01] They're they're they're great and and like you were saying earlier with the three chords, it's not a lot of complicated stuff. Um, for the jams, people aren't playing, they're not
[23:09] calling tunes that like take you weeks to learn, right? It's one million complicated chords.
[23:15] Yeah. I mean, it's good like that with the jam scene around here is like they'll pick familiar songs and some of these songs you're not even you're not even privy to the fact that you you kind of know them.
[23:24] You know, they're old and you've heard them on whatever they've been used for all kinds of different or you know, like basic chord structure.
[23:30] Yeah. Yeah. In the key of C, it's going to be C, F, and G.
[23:33] Exactly. 145. Right. Yeah. A lot of those timers will tell you, "Hey, this is these are the three chords we're going to play." Yeah.
[23:39] And that's it. Or or these are the four chords we're going to play or whatever. You just feel the changes. Yeah.
[23:44] Watching guitar finger, you know, the guitar players fingers. It's it's great, man. The community really takes care of each other and they they encourage um because um it's
[23:54] it was dying out for a while. You know, there's a resurgence now.
[23:58] Sarah Alison Krauss if she come back out. Molly. Yeah. Huge. And um we've mentioned this on the show before,
[24:06] but Tyler, who's our typical co-host here, uh he makes the guitar straps or his company does, uh but he made a
[24:13] custom one for Molly Tuttle and Sierra Hull, one or the other. I can't I can't really remember, but yeah. That's so cool.
[24:21] That's great.
[24:23] Maybe we're gonna have to get some custom guitar straps. I think so. Happy engagement, boo.
[24:30] So, let's talk about tomorrow. So today is Friday the 29th. Yeah. Tomorrow the 30th uh at Bier Brewery.
[24:39] What's happening? Tell us all about it.
[24:41] Okay. Yeah. Uh tomorrow at Bier Brewery, um starting at about 11:00 a.m. we're going to have nine bands come out and
[24:49] we're going to be playing all day. It's going to be about 11:00 a.m. to whenever they kick us off the stage at the end.
[24:56] So maybe 9:30 or or later. Okay.
[25:00] Um yeah, two stages. We got we got the most wonderful sound live sound engineers. Um the most wonderful live
[25:07] sound engineers. We're very happy to have Dan Benton, Joe Faucet out there running sound for us.
[25:12] Um that's going to be really great. It's free.
[25:16] So that's huge, right? There's no tickets. It's all ages. If you have a friendly dog, friendly dogs are welcome.
[25:23] It's outside. It's It's two big stages. They just built a new stage. One of them you as you know. Yep.
[25:29] Um so great. It does look great. It's awesome. We're very excited about it. Um, and let's see what else here we got.
[25:36] Um, oh, we we actually got sponsors this year, which was cool. Um, Ke uh, uh, Center Stage Vintage Guitars where she
[25:44] was talking about earlier Kevin's Old Shop.
[25:46] Um, they're going to be hosting the jam tent. So, there's going to be like a public jam, you know, open jam. They're going to bring out some canopies and bring your lawn chairs and and your
[25:55] instruments, blankets, whatever you like. Um there's plenty of seating, but it might fill up. So, we're we're encouraging people to bring chairs. Um
[26:03] there will be an open jam tent. All of this is open to all ages. Yes.
[26:06] Um there'll be somebody there'll be I think it is Kevin and in fact Kevin will be there in most of the day running the jam tent
[26:14] and um it's it's going to be a big time here. I'll tell you some of the bands we got here. I'll tell you all the bands we got. Give us the run. All right. So,
[26:22] starting at 11 um on the on let's see, we got Tooth and Nail, which is uh Landon and Marina.
[26:30] Uh Tiana Tiana um from um Nectar Valley. Um and they're a duo. They're going to be great. They're they're going to come out and start off.
[26:38] Okay.
[26:38] Um we've done some shows with Nectar Valley. Really, really, really cool stuff. Um but they got a duo that's going to be interesting to see. I'm I'm very excited with
[26:46] they're fantastic. They just played in Bean Blossom last weekend. Oh, that's right. Yeah. with a hammer. No, Americana.
[26:53] Oh, the Americana Bean Beanfest or whatever. I hear Nectar Valley is pretty sweet.
[27:02] Yeah. Nectar of the Gods.
[27:06] All right. So, we got Nectar Valley or not, I'm sorry, Tooth and Nail.
[27:09] Tooth and nail of Yeah. And then Bloomington band Lowlanders. Okay.
[27:14] Jesse Beals and those guys. They're good friends.
[27:16] I believe they played uh beer a couple times. Is that right?
[27:20] Um maybe you might be thinking of the Lowland. They might have. I'm not sure. Lowlanders. Okay. Sounds familiar.
[27:28] They've played We played with them quite a lot. Yeah.
[27:30] Yeah. They're great. Um we love those guys. So they play all great original music. Um they'll be they'll be ones to watch for.
[27:38] And then our buddies who run uh the Winding Creek Music Festival, the bluegrass festival out by Kokomo every year, they got a band called Medicinal Bluegrass.
[27:45] Okay.
[27:46] And they're going to be there. They're really good friends of ours. Um, Bob and Debbie.
[27:51] Um, and they actually, uh, actually, the funny story, quick side note, Debbie and Bob are the reason Eric and I actually met. So, if it wasn't for Bob and Debbie
[27:59] and mentioning Yeah. And so, um, Bob A and Debbie Landing, if it wasn't for them, me and Eric might might not have ever
[28:07] met. Um, so I I got to say, uh, Bob and Debbie, thanks for helping us. Thank you. Sounds medicinal. Yes. And then uh
[28:16] after them uh two to three we got the Moon Cave Ramblers down uh Shelby Shelby County area. And um those are our buddies Joe Land and Monty and Brenda.
[28:27] They're they're great. They're going to bring some uh some really great music. Uh uh Monty, one of the members of that. He's
[28:34] been writing songs and selling them um trying to sell them to um Cats in Nashville.
[28:39] The Nashville Cats. He's got a couple going. Um we're very proud of him for that. So that's that's great. And then after that we got a solo artist Father
[28:48] Kentucky from um down from Little Nashville, Nashville, Indiana. Okay.
[28:53] He plays with the Hammer and the Hatchet. And you might have heard of them. Um great solo show is great. He's a multi-instrumentalist.
[29:01] Oh yeah. He does it all.
[29:02] He does it all. He's great. That's going to be something to watch. And then Lucas, our guitar player, he's in this other band called Coldfront. And we're
[29:09] going to have them out um after Father Kentucky on the main stage from 4:00 to 5:00. Um, awesome, awesome stuff. Aaron, uh, beer.
[29:18] Oh, yeah. Recently, like I want to say they might even be in the mix. Maybe we shouldn't announce this, but I'm going to anyway. Maybe they're uh uh starting to do like some kind of semi-residency there.
[29:29] Yeah. The third Sunday of every month.
[29:31] Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think they're going to they're locked. I don't know if locked in is a word, but they're they're definitely working on that because um uh you need to go see them. They're great
[29:39] if you haven't if you haven't. Um and then uh uh after that um five to six on the other stage is Vance Bone Break and
[29:48] the Bean Blossom Ramblers. This is a really great band. Best name on the lineup.
[29:53] You get your own line because it's so long. You know what I mean? There's a colon in it. It's it's great. You know what I mean? Um it kind of sounds like
[30:00] the sequel to a movie, right? Van Broen Break, the Revenge of the Bean Blossom Ramblers, you know. No. Um, honestly, Vance is a good buddy of ours and uh he's 14 years old.
[30:10] He just turned 15. Oh, excuse me. Sorry, Vance.
[30:13] Just last weekend, so you didn't miss it.
[30:15] Oh, hey. All right. That's weird. We got a prodigy. He's 15 and he leads that band on mandolin and he writes his own tunes and they play awesome traditional
[30:23] bluegrass music. I don't even think they last show we played with them in Tipton.
[30:28] I want to say nobody plugged in but the bass player. They did all mics. It was very awesome traditional. It was Those guys are You got to watch out for them.
[30:35] They're going to be huge one day. Um, and then we got uh Demar Demark's band, Greenwood Rounders. Um, Douglas Mark
[30:43] Conway. Uh, and his wife Julie.
[30:46] And his wife Julie. Yeah, that's their that's their band. Is that right? Um, I know he's in it. Um, and then we're going to that's when 6 to 7 on the main stage. That should be a fun time. And then it'll be Booze Hounds right after them.
[30:56] 7:30 to 9:30. and and unless we get a wild hair and play till 1:00 a.m. and
[31:04] Well, I know Jerry. I don't think Jerry's going to go for the 1:00 a.m.
[31:08] Jerry won't be there at 1 a.m. So hopefully that's great. Yeah, that'll be a great lineup. Great day. If you've never been
[31:14] to Bier Brewery, um it's 4 acres of land to just hang out. Um there's,
[31:22] you know, uh seating everywhere. There's a playground for kids. There's a dog park, of course. They have great beer,
[31:31] great pizza, great wings. Um, I think it's the best pizza in Noblesville. I'll say it's delicious. Yeah, it's wonderful. I like the pickles on the pizza.
[31:39] Sure. I know. That's pickled pig.
[31:41] Yeah. Get yourself a pickle pig. It's pretty good. Uh, that's great.
[31:46] Well, that's So, that's Saturday. That's going to be a big day. And you guys will probably be there all day, I would imagine. All day long. Imagine.
[31:53] Try and get out there. Um Tyler and I are playing. So after you guys are done at 9:30 or whatever, Tyler and I are
[32:02] over at Bar Ellis from 9 to midnight. So you could have a real nice day of live music. Yeah. Coming at you on Saturday.
[32:11] Right here in Noblesville.
[32:13] Walking or stumbling distance from each other. Yeah. Yeah.
[32:16] That's perfect. Uh all right. So I think we'll take a break. We'll come back. We got the top five. The Hamco Live top five. So, let's take a quick break to
[32:24] look at the calendar and we'll be right back. Hey guys, we're looking at the calendar. Of course, it's Friday night as I'm recording this and we've got some great music all over Hamilton County.
[32:34] Let's just look at a couple of the highlights. If you're over there in Westfield, uh Spencer and Chris are playing at the local. If you're in
[32:42] Fishers, you might go check out the Midwest Originals. They're going to be at King Jug Brewing tonight. Um, I mentioned it in the show, but up in
[32:50] Cicero at uh the Red Bridge Beastro, John Gilmore will be playing. And uh,
[32:57] tell you what, if you're looking for something fun to do with a great view, you can go to Wolfies in Noblesville and
[33:05] check out Groove Smash. And that's Friday night. Make sure you check out the full calendar at hamcolive.com.
[33:11] Saturday. We've already talked about a little bit on the program, but make sure you're around Noblesville because Bier Brewery in Noblesville. Four acres of
[33:19] fun out there. Great pizza, great beer, great food. And Saturday, they're going to have great music all day long starting at 11:00 a.m. The Bluegrass
[33:28] Festival. Of course, the Booze Hounds will be there and closing things out at around 8 o'clock and they'll play till about 9:30 somewhere in there. After
[33:38] that, head on down to downtown Noblesville. Bar Ellis, uh myself, and our usual co-host, Tyler, will be
[33:47] playing at Bar Ellis along with Tyler's dad, Papa Meech. He's going to be tickling the ivory. He'll also be playing piano. That's a little joke I
[33:55] like to use. That's That's good fun business, right, Chris? Chris gets it.
[33:59] Listen, go check out Bar Ellis. Me and Tyler would love to see you there. Come say hi, especially if you're a fan of the podcast. Yeah. Make sure you're
[34:06] checking out all the live music on hamcolive.com.
[34:09] Sunday, no exception. Some great music around town. Uh check out Midnight Drive. They're playing at Urban Apples
[34:17] in Westfield. The Hippie Dream playing at Urban Vines in Westfield. Corey Cox, great country music singer over at King
[34:26] Jug Brewing in Fishers. And of course, you've got Steve Honeyut. He'll be playing acoustic tunes, acoustic rock
[34:34] over there at Al Emporium Fishers. Uh, go check him out. But Sunday evening, check it out. We're going to push a little bit
[34:41] past Hamilton County. We're going to take you down to Indianapolis at the Hi-Fi, one of the best venues in Indy.
[34:48] Uh, we're doing a little front porch takeover. Producer Chris, who owns Front Porch Records, has got two acts. Uh, they're going to be uh out there at
[34:57] Hi-Fi putting on a heck of a show. We've got Fousey in the All-American Ghetto Band. One of our favorite humans in the
[35:04] world. Um, great hiphop artist. You want to check him out with a full band.
[35:09] Amazing stuff. Uh, and there's also Astro Tourist. U, we'll have the whole Front Porch Records lineup available for
[35:17] purchase. So, come on out. Um, tickets are how much, Chris? 20 bucks.
[35:22] 20 bucks for some good music at one of the best venues in Indy. Uh, but you'll want to check out Fousey and Astro Tourist at the Front Porch Records Takeover at the Hi-Fi Sunday evening.
[35:33] Doors open at 6. Doors open at 6 at the Hi-Fi and the show starts at 7. You're going to be home and in bed by 10:45.
[35:43] Promise you that. It's a great uh great venue, great cause, Front Porch Records.
[35:48] Make sure you're there. Now, let's get back to the show. Hey, that's right.
[35:53] Make sure you're checking out the full calendar of live music at hamco.com.
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[36:28] Look at that musical reference with what's happening in the live music scene here in Hamilton County. All right, booze hounds, are you ready? I asked you
[36:36] guys in honor of you guys being here. I I didn't go quite straight bluegrass, but I went country. So bluegrass adjacent
[36:44] um top five country sad country songs.
[36:51] Yes, Chris hit me.
[36:52] Ham top five top five top five top five.
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[37:29] Are you guys board gamers? You like games?
[37:31] Uh we'll play them at at someone's house. We don't have a bunch at home. We like dominoes.
[37:36] We like dominoes. We like it's chicken foot. Chicken foot. It's also been called Mexican train. Yeah, it's Mexican train.
[37:44] Same same thing. Yeah.
[37:46] Yeah. My fiance just introduced me to that a couple couple weeks ago.
[37:50] Hey, we'll have to get together and play some play some chicken. Chicken foot. Chicken.
[37:55] All right. Hamco live. Top five. Top five sad country songs. Alec, why don't you kick us off? Give me one.
[38:00] All right. I tell you, I I had an easy time writing this list because, you know, sad country songs is the best. Um, so, uh, my top five is 17 songs, but
[38:09] I'll just give you the top ones. Um, Jolene Dolly, I mean, it's a classic. Um,
[38:17] it's very sad, right? Um, and yeah, she's asking Jolene to not take her man. Exactly. But she's gonna because you can.
[38:25] She's gonna, isn't she? She is.
[38:26] Right. She's going to take her. He's going to take her man. Yeah. Yeah.
[38:31] So, I don't know. I think I think Jolene is the one of the sets. Great uh great song that a lot of people cover. Yeah.
[38:39] Yeah. You guys do a bluegrass version of Jolene.
[38:42] Um we've done that one before and we've got a friend our friend Michelle and Robbie who we do that with and Michelle and I will sing harmonies.
[38:50] Yeah, we used to do a mashup of that with uh what what would we It was a three for there was three songs in that mashup.
[38:57] Oh man, what we going to have to revisit too much revisit it. Have to revisit that.
[39:01] All right. So, next band meeting, you're going to talk about t-shirts and figure out this Jolene mashup.
[39:06] All right. Um, let me write it on my Jolene mash up. Taylor, give me a sad country song.
[39:15] The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. The band. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
[39:22] Uh, and that was is that Yeah, that was written by Robbie Robertson, right?
[39:26] Yeah, I think so. But, uh, what's her face covered it? Um, Joni Mitchell, I think, did a big cover of that. Okay. Yeah.
[39:33] Yeah. Yeah, that's a great one. I love Levon Helm, first of all, maybe my favorite vocalist.
[39:40] Um, and then on The Last Waltz, the version they do with the horns and everything. Get out of town.
[39:46] That's a that that Last Waltz is amazing. Yeah. Uh, and I watch it every day if I watch it every day if I could.
[39:55] All right, we got the night that drove all in. We got Jolene. Christopher, give me your sad country song.
[40:01] I'm going with uh Townes Van Zandt, Waiting Around to Die. Classic.
[40:06] Well, I don't know it, but judging by the title, it doesn't sound like a real pickme up.
[40:11] No, it's it's Waiting around to Die. Yep. Okay.
[40:16] All right. Uh, I'm going to go with um I guess Brad Paisley was the one that
[40:23] recorded the hit, but uh Whiskey Lullaby Yeah, Alison Krauss.
[40:30] Yeah, she did it. Yeah, it was her and Brad.
[40:33] Yeah, the duo, right?
[40:34] I'm trying to think Anderson. Uh John Anderson. No, I forget the name of the guy that wrote it. Um but he does a
[40:41] version. Um, yeah. Such a sad song about a couple that basically drank themselves to death.
[40:48] And uh, but gosh, great lines. Chris, do you know this song? I don't.
[40:53] Okay. So, the opening line is this is so good. She put him out like the burning in of a midnight cigarette. Get out of here. Kicked the guy out of his house.
[41:04] Put him out. That's so good. And then the uh the chorus, there's I guess it's actually the pre chorus, but the line he
[41:13] put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.
[41:17] So the story behind this, I don't know if you guys have ever heard this, but um the guy that wrote the song, Chris, can you look that up for me? Who wrote that?
[41:25] um the guy that wrote the song, they were doing like it was him and another guy and maybe one other person were getting together for like a songwriting
[41:33] session and this guy comes in and he's hung over from the night before and uh he apologizes or something like that and
[41:41] the one of the other writers goes, "Oh, that's okay. We've all put the bottle to our head and pulled the trigger every once in a while like like what a great Whoa. great line.
[41:52] Absolutely. Uh Chris, you got a name on that writer for me? Yeah, it was written by Bill Anderson. Bill Anderson. Yes. And John Randall.
[42:00] John Randall. Yeah. John Randall was the came that is a guy that came in hung over, I think. And Bill Anderson had the bottle to his head and pulled the
[42:07] trigger line. Uh okay. So that's a good one. Whiskey Lullaby. That brings us to your second one. Alec, what do you got?
[42:15] Um Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, Flatt and Scruggs. Um you guys know that tune?
[42:20] I don't. Dim Lights. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke. Yeah. It's about um um a guy and a gal and the gal wants to
[42:28] party um at the club all night and he wants to be at home and uh doesn't sound
[42:35] um very fun for him. It's uh you know, she wants to be at the club or uh whatever and he he he's like, "I'm
[42:44] done. I don't want I don't want to be there. I I'd rather be at home." So um I like a song that kind of reverses like you know, the stereotypical role is that the guy is always out.
[42:54] It's normally that, which is kind of refreshing, right? Because the the role reversal there is is it's just interesting to play with because these
[43:02] kinds of sad things happen on both ends, right?
[43:04] We can't we can't just keep pretending like it's one or the other when it's everybody, right? Um, so this is Flatt and Scruggs, you said.
[43:12] I think I think I think it's Flatt and Scruggs. I think dim lights, thick smoke.
[43:16] Every country guy has done it, you know, willingly. There's a ton of of good covers, traditional or whatever.
[43:23] Mhm. Okay. Uh Taylor, what do you got?
[43:26] Okay, so this next one, the song is sad, but it's more sad when you watch the music video, and it's Martina McBride's Concrete Angel.
[43:35] Concrete Angel. It might just be Angel, but yeah.
[43:40] What's the What's the premise on Concrete Angel? Um it has to do with child abuse and um like kids, you know,
[43:49] being hurt by their parents um and then potentially dying. It's awful sad. I know.
[43:58] Sad. Any uh any revenge in there?
[44:02] Um no. There's a bit of you know, she turns into an angel at the end, right?
[44:06] Cuz she died the child. But Oh jeez.
[44:09] Yeah. It's so funny. You're thinking of Janie's Got a Gun or Goodbye Earl. Goodbye Earl. That's what I was thinking.
[44:17] Uh Christopher, what do you got?
[44:18] Uh my second one is also Town Townes Van Zandt. Uh and in my opinion a little sadder is Tecumseh Valley.
[44:25] Tecumseh Valley.
[44:28] That's sadder than waiting around to die. I think so. Oh man.
[44:34] What if you're waiting around to die in Tecumseh Valley? Is that just the saddest double whammy thing ever? Mhm.
[44:41] Okay. I was torn on which one to go for my second one. I'm still thinking about it.
[44:50] On the one hand, I want to go All That glitters by Dan Seals because it's one of my favorite songs. But on the other hand, I want to go Rest High
[44:59] because that's just a sad I'm gonna go Rest High based on that reaction.
[45:04] That is easily one of the saddest country tunes. I mean, how many times you go to a memorial service or a funeral and that's the song being my cousins. Yeah, we'll see it.
[45:14] So many so many. Yeah, that's So that's Vince Gill which I believe he wrote about Keith Whitley if I'm not mistaken. I think that's right. Yeah.
[45:23] Yeah. All right. I'm going to go with it.
[45:25] That's Go Rest High. That's eight. Here's the top eight. And we got to whittle this down to a top five. Got some work to do here, folks. We got Jolene, The Night
[45:34] They Drove Old Dixie Down, Waiting Around to Die, Whiskey Lullaby, Dim Lights, Thick Smoke. It's a great title.
[45:43] Concrete Angel, maybe angels, Tecumseh Valley, and Go Rest High on that mountain.
[45:49] Yeah, that's the whole All right. Well, I think Go Rest High has to stay is number one.
[45:56] That's sometimes easier just to go with what stays. Okay.
[46:01] Uh, I mean, for me, a close number two is Waiting Around to Die. That That song is terribly sad. Um, terribly. That's just me. I'd say that one's got to stay in there for me.
[46:12] I don't know it, so I can't speak to it, but the title itself, yeah, is kind of depressing me.
[46:19] So, I'm gonna go with It's a dead giveaway. We'll add it. Okay.
[46:23] Um, I don't know what else. What do you guys think?
[46:30] I mean, popularitywise, I think you got to go Jolene.
[46:35] Yeah, everybody knows that tune, right?
[46:37] Is it? It is sad, but not as sad as not as sad as some of the others. Yeah.
[46:43] Yeah. I think uh Concrete Angel having not heard it, but just based on Taylor subject matter alone. Yeah.
[46:50] Yeah. Gets a It is terribly sad. Gets a spot. Okay. I agree with that.
[46:57] I just started typing subject matter instead of that's not the title. Subject matter expert.
[47:05] And we should mention Christopher, we haven't done this yet, but we will. Uh, we do a Spotify playlist of the Hamco Live Top Five and we'll add, you're
[47:13] doing it right now. You pointed out your phone as if to say I'm doing it as we speak. So, as I speak, Christopher is putting together the Hamco Live top five
[47:21] saddest country songs. All right. I chose to go with ballads. Hamco. Sad country ballads is the title.
[47:29] That makes it sound sadder. Yeah. Gosh.
[47:32] Somehow. I don't know how. I don't know why sadder when you say ballad, right?
[47:38] I love talking about word choice. Um, and like me and one of my buddies will talk about this, how changing a word can
[47:48] make something funnier like or in this case sadder. Like just the word itself.
[47:52] It's so interesting to like think about how a specific word I obsess over it when I'm writing my songs or whatever.
[48:01] Okay. Uh we got kind we leaves room for two more.
[48:06] Um I'm going to throw Whiskey Lullaby out there. I know it's mine, but it's very sad and it's like
[48:14] the music of it is even sad. It's sort of
[48:20] got this like a funeral durge feel to it. Like an Irish old Irish
[48:26] la, you know, kind of thing. Um, so let's put that in there.
[48:36] That's so good. I love that. Whiskey Lullaby. Yeah, whiskey la in. That leaves room for one more. Oh boy.
[48:43] That leaves dim lights, thick smoke.
[48:47] Waiting Around to Die. Uh, Tecumseh Valley and the night they drove Old Dixie down.
[48:54] I I don't know Tecumseh Valley as well as I would like to to be able to put a vote in. I'm so sorry, my friend. It's okay. Okay.
[49:03] You'll for you'll find a way to forgive me someday. I'm sure it'll still be on the Spotify playlist. I'll take solace in that. I've I've already forgiven you, Alex.
[49:11] Oh, wonderful. That is in record time.
[49:18] Well, listen, if I I'm just going to say The Night That Drove Old Dixie Down.
[49:22] It's one of my favorite. I used to cover it all the time. Played a little harmonica on it. So, I'm going to throw it out there.
[49:30] How How big of a harmonica? When you say little harmonica was it like like a small one? It was that. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. I could only get two notes out of it.
[49:38] Really? Yeah. That's all you need really?
[49:40] Yeah. You know, was there like a choking risk? Is there a choking risk? It was on a chain. It was on a chain.
[49:47] you know, on the uh when you had to do a draw on the harmonica, you had to be real careful. Yes. Real careful.
[49:53] That's why you grow the mustache out so it can kind of block that, right? It's similar to how whales eat krill. Is that right? Am I I actually lost it at one gig.
[50:04] Yeah.
[50:05] But the next morning everything came out just fine.
[50:08] Um there's our top five. Let's go over the Holab top five. We've got go rest high on that mountain waiting around to die.
[50:17] Concrete Angel whiskey lullaby in the night they drove old Dixie down. That's your hamco live top five outro song. Hit it.
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[51:36] Trivia. Trivia. We're playing trivia. Trivia.
[51:45] All right. Our category for trivia. So, I'm going to give you the category.
[51:49] You're going to place a bet 0 to 30. Not zero. Why would you ever bet zero? That's dumb. One to 30.
[51:58] And uh based on your knowledge of said category. and then I'll give you the question. Then we'll write down our answers and then we'll go around. We'll share.
[52:06] Okay.
[52:07] All right. So, in stark contrast to Sad Country Songs, we're going to go with
[52:12] 90s alt rock. 90s alt rock. I mean, that should be great at that, but I don't
[52:20] know. I'm gonna go I'm go with this. Okay. Everybody got your bet locked in for 90s alt rock.
[52:32] So are these are we one to 30 schmemeckles or what's the unit of betting? I I guess I should ask the uh the point system here.
[52:39] These are one to 30.
[52:46] I'm trying to think of a good term. Um 1 to 30. I'm blanking. Chris, give me a term. Glory tickets.
[52:56] Got it. Got it. One of 30 glory tickets.
[52:58] I don't know if I like that. Uh oh.
[53:02] That sounds like a show I don't necessarily want to see or be a part of.
[53:08] Um so then you would bet zero, right?
[53:11] That's why you would want to bet zero, right?
[53:14] All right. Here we go. Here's our question.
[53:18] The frontman for this band enrolled in Harvard University following the success
[53:25] of their 1994 debut album commonly referred to as the Blue Album. I'll read that one more time. I think we're
[53:33] looking for the band. The front man for this band enrolled in Harvard University following the success of their 1994
[53:41] debut album commonly referred to as the Blue Album.
[53:46] I should have bet more. I'd be rolling in glory tickets. I feel like Well, you don't want to roll on them.
[53:54] You're gonna crease them all. That's true.
[53:56] You know, that's true. And they could be dirty.
[54:01] All right, I got my answer in. Chris, do you are you locked in? Locked and loaded. Are you guys locked and loaded?
[54:07] No, I'm taking a guess. I'm just I'm panic. I'm panic writing something down. The blue album was not a bluegrass.
[54:15] Right. Right. Right. It was just a blue cover.
[54:17] What does that mean? Wasn't a bluegrass. I don't get it. No. All right, Christopher, what do you got?
[54:25] Uh, Weezer. Rivers Cuomo. Yeah. Rivers Cuomo. Weezer. Did you guys come up with Weezer? No.
[54:33] Close. Okay. What'd you come up with?
[54:36] Yeah. You're going to want to play that again when I say when I say Pearl Jam.
[54:41] I think that's a good guess, right? That's a good guess. It's wrong, but it's a good guess. Still a good guess.
[54:49] Taylor, what you have? Who' you put?
[54:53] Well, first I didn't understand the question, so I put something that doesn't really matter. Um, and now I guess I'm I don't know. Going to say Nirvana.
[55:02] Nirvana. Yeah.
[55:03] Okay. I mean, listen, that's a 90s band, right?
[55:07] I also went with Weezer and Rivers Cuomo. Here's a fun story about Rivers Cuomo. The answer, let's go to the answer. The answer is Weezer. Weezer, the blue album.
[55:18] Buddy Holly, Undone the Sweater Song, In My Garage. So many great songs, I've uh Chris, how much did you bet?
[55:27] 18. 18. I went with 25. Did you also bet 18? I also bet 18. 10.
[55:34] 10. I That's a good good safe bet for you. I feel like Yeah, I went 25. So, I'm going to win again.
[55:40] Is the guys who's asking the questions writing the qu are they the ones that got the answers right?
[55:45] I said there was someone else that wrote Joe Rudy of Rudy's Recycle Shop.
[55:49] I was about to call corruption because I I'm now negative 18 glory tickets for whatever show.
[55:55] Well, listen. I've got 25. I'm happy to give you 18. I think I only need one. Really?
[56:00] I think so, too. I don't know. All right, that's the answer. Here's a fun story about Rivers Cuomo. He's the lead singer of Weezer.
[56:08] My buddy Sean used to work for like corporate Hot Topic and this was in LA
[56:15] and they would do like signings of bands when they would come through or whatever. So Weezer was playing somewhere in LA. They stopped by a
[56:23] store, a Hot Topic store in LA and Sean was like kind of handling the I don't know the signing the event, whatever you
[56:31] want to call it. So, Rivers Cuomo sits down at the table where they have it set up and you get your album or shirt or whatever, he'll sign it and whatever.
[56:40] Um, as he's kind of waiting, he just reaches down into a bag, pulls it up, pulls out a ball of yarn and two needles, and starts knitting.
[56:52] So sweet.
[56:52] I know. Like the most un-rock-star thing ever. But I guess he also enrolled in Harvard in 1994. So maybe he's not he's an atypical rock star.
[57:01] That dude's all over the place.
[57:02] You know who else went to Can you answer this?
[57:06] Who what other famous ' 90s rock guitar player went to Harvard University. Do you know this?
[57:16] Tom Morello. Nailed it. I think I knew that one.
[57:20] Great pull. Yeah. Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine. Listen, I'm going to give you I'm going to give you 20. Glory. Take it. Snap.
[57:27] Hey, I'm up to from my original 18. I'm going to drop to zero. Yeah. Take some friends. Yeah.
[57:33] Make some friends and then take some friends.
[57:35] Actually, I think it's required if I understand the glory ticket rules. You have to take that.
[57:39] You have to explain it to us after the show. Not Not that kind of glory ticket. Okay.
[57:45] All right. Let's uh let's wrap things up here. Um we may come back. I might have you guys, if you have time, do a song
[57:52] and we'll we'll interject that in to the uh the mix. Okay. How's that sound?
[57:57] But we end every show with what are you listening to, Chris? What are you listening to?
[58:02] Uh I was listening to Hemlock Ernst yesterday. Hemlock Ernst.
[58:07] Yeah. It's the lead uh the lead singer from Future Islands. Oh, of course. Yeah.
[58:12] He has a side project uh and it's called Hemlock Ernst. It's quite good. Hemlock Ernst. Can you spell that?
[58:20] Uh, h e m l o c k. Second word. E R N S T. Can you use that in a sentence?
[58:28] Yeah. I really like Hemlock Ernst. Thank you.
[58:32] Hey, you know that uh Socrates boy, he uh he offed himself drinking some.
[58:38] I wonder if that's where they got the name. Do you know?
[58:42] Could be. That's a good question. I do not know, but I will I will look that up.
[58:46] Alec, what do you listen to? I'm uh I'm stuck on the Debutants new album, Fiddle in a Rose. Um it's I don't know if you
[58:53] guys ever heard of the Debutants. No, no, they're uh they're out of Fort Wayne. Um there's some friends of ours and um they put out great music.
[59:03] Yeah.
[59:04] And um yeah, I'm stuck on there. There there's a song on there called uh uh Steam Train Whistle. Maybe it's Steam
[59:12] Train Whistle Wine. I can't remember. Um fantastic. It's about the bygone days when trains were king and you could walk downtown and ride on a train.
[59:23] It's it's awesome. That's who I'm stuck on right now. The Debutants. Debutants. Yep. Fiddle and a Rose. Taylor, what are you listening to?
[59:30] I have been listening to I'm with Her.
[59:33] It's a three-piece uh power trio with Sarah Jarosz and Sarah Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan.
[59:39] Sarah Watkins from Nickel Creek. Is that right? Yeah.
[59:42] Yep. Okay. But we got to see them live last year and they just released their live album. It's awesome.
[59:47] And it's that's what I've been listening to. Okay.
[59:51] Uh what have I been listening to? I'm I'm on another Springsteen kick. So been listening to a lot of Springsteen. No
[59:59] particular album, just this is Bruce Springsteen.
[01:00:03] So that's where I'm at. All right. Well, thank you guys for stopping by. Where can we find the bluegrass blue hounds?
[01:00:12] Blue hounds. That's not a word. That's not your name. I like that. You can use it if you want. Blue Hounds. I'm writing it down.
[01:00:20] The bluegrass. The Booze Hounds.
[01:00:23] Bluegrass Band. Yep.
[01:00:25] Do you guys call yourself just the Booze Hounds or is the Boo Hounds Bluegrass band? We get called everything really.
[01:00:30] Josh, we refer to ourselves as Booze Hounds Bluegrass. Okay.
[01:00:34] Pretty much if you say it one way, we just say that it's something else to keep it really confusing for everyone, right? So if they say two words, we say
[01:00:43] three words. If they say three words, we say two words. It's it's kind of a it's like a stick now, you know.
[01:00:49] And it's helpful that if you know like you take the stage as the booze hounds and you bomb, right?
[01:00:57] You can come back as booze hounds bluegrass. That's right. Yeah. It's a safety net.
[01:01:02] Is this the booze hounds? No, this is booze bluegrass. They're different. They're different. They're very different.
[01:01:06] I don't know. The guy with the mustache looks awfully familiar. It looks deceived.
[01:01:11] I'll just put a mustache bald cap over it for that one. You know what I mean? Like a swimmer's cap kind of thing. Oh my gosh.
[01:01:17] It's an implant anyway. This isn't even my real mustache. Not your real one.
[01:01:22] No, you got extensions in, right? You know, Ktips or whatever they're called. Yeah, exactly. Got it. Keratin.
[01:01:30] Uh, so where can we find you?
[01:01:32] You can find us on all the socials. Uh, by that I mean Facebook and Instagram.
[01:01:37] or Booze Hounds Bluegrass on both of those. I think on Instagram there's some underscores in there, but um that and we also have a website
[01:01:45] boozehoundsbluegrass.com and you can find all of our dates there and tickets and perfect all that kind of stuff. So
[01:01:53] So be sure and check out the booze hounds Saturday, tomorrow night as I record this uh at Bier Brewery's bluegrass
[01:02:02] festival. I'm going to call it a festival. Nine acts. That's a festival all day starting at 11:00 a.m. going all the way till 9:30 potentially 1:00 a.m.
[01:02:13] if Jerry's not around. We don't know what Jerry's going to do. Uh Jerry's the owner of of Bier Brewery.
[01:02:19] Can we mention the sponsors really quick?
[01:02:20] Yeah, go for it. Oh, uh yeah, I forgot to mention the sponsors for Bier Brewery. So, um this, uh we got this two-stage sponsors, which is uh Puppy
[01:02:29] Playground and Sullivan's Hardware Store. Um, we got the main stage and the side stage named after them. And then some of the other ones include, uh, Camp
[01:02:37] Bow Wow, Fluff Bakery here in town, the shop, and Peony Festival. Camp uh, the PE
[01:02:45] Festival. They they do a lot of stuff with us out there, and they're one of the sponsors as well. I I just had to mention those before. I think it's in my blood contract with Jerry.
[01:02:58] Perfect. Well, thank you guys for showing up. Appreciate it. And uh if you haven't done so already, make sure you go check them out online on the socials.
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