התמלול המלא של Figure Eights (A Music Podcast) Episode 77 w_ Nick Leet "Detours" Solo Album Preview

Salem like 78 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.360 minded dude. Love the way he views the world. I 79 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:02.639 love his guitar playing. 80 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:03.199 Oh my gosh. 81 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.480 When he sent me that track, I was like, I 82 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.920 was in Soma City Heaven. And if you're a fan 83 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.600 of Kevin you know that that's his Soma City was 84 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:14.040 his debut record back in the nineties. He was so 85 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:17.079 freaking cool, so really cool to have Kevin on this. 86 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.920 Dan contributed as well with guitar and backing vocals. 87 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.079 He played some super cool stuff. 88 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:29.279 He's a great dude, obviously, Minneapolis legend over here in 89 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.079 the Twin Cities, and quite an honor to have him 90 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.360 jump on on the record and lay down some cool 91 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.959 parts and some great backing vocals. So that was Cold 92 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.959 Winds Up next is remember their names. The song doesn't 93 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.279 need much in terms of prepping. It kind of speaks 94 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:47.800 for itself. 95 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:06.439 Wheneverything is said and done, it will still be right 96 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:08.120 and wrong and. 97 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.600 Disasters head it's ted. 98 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:19.040 Found it on the backs of others against We're finally 99 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:23.079 showing our cous country that is lost. 100 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:31.319 It's weird, we're remade bad name. 101 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:59.759 The competing since Nickol's division and blood of boy. 102 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:01.959 You know what trade is? 103 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.560 I was gonna trade. 104 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:13.079 When everything stood and ash nothing was built to last. 105 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:21.000 Weeding fool the youth do have it's we will remain. 106 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:23.680 Name. 107 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:30.600 When everything is said and done, there will still be 108 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:31.960 right and wrong. 109 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:48.759 After disaster's head, it's died. After disaster's head. It's after disaster's. 110 00:09:48.080 --> 00:10:21.080 Head is to how did we get here? 111 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:27.960 That slowly roading like the years in our lives and 112 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.840 the bars on the flag. 113 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:37.399 We'd like to think we had no way and no one, 114 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:43.919 But slowly and faster we gave it all. 115 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:06.840 You couldn't get ad attack, quel challenge, you can get busy. 116 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:15.159 We'll continue to cry, judging people buy the color of 117 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:16.519 the skim. 118 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.559 Slowly then faster people. 119 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:37.879 Uh time, Maybe we all had it color. It's clear 120 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.840 now as nothing to do. 121 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:45.200 With barely. 122 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.159 We gave it away. 123 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.000 The only way forward is through. 124 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:35.240 Now is the time for decisions. We shake where it's 125 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:43.360 on fire. We stir our phones because it's hard to 126 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.960 be alone. Slowly then faster. 127 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:50.639 Walking. 128 00:12:52.840 --> 00:13:02.879 While me we are coming. 129 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:14.320 It's clear now there's nothing to do with barely word. 130 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:17.519 We gave him away. 131 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:33.840 The only way forward is true, maybe way ouside coming. 132 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.360 It's clear now there's nothing to do. 133 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.360 With very word. 134 00:13:46.639 --> 00:14:00.200 We gave him the only way fo It's true. 135 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.320 That was remember their names. 136 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.200 With Jim Sol on backing vocals, followed by slowly then faster, 137 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.519 which also has Jim sol this time on bass guitar. 138 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:24.200 And then my good friend Andrew Hira, he of Billy 139 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.200 Pilgrim and Smoking Nova's and solo fame. If you've been 140 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:30.759 following high End Stress for the last handful of years, 141 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.879 you probably have heard me shouting from the rooftops the 142 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.480 magic and wizardry that is Andrew Hyra. 143 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.039 Andrew was in a band and is in a band 144 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:42.039 called Billy Pilgrim. 145 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:44.639 There were in Atlantic Records in the nineties and my 146 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:49.080 first band, Standard Thompson. Our first show in Surre, North Dakota, 147 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.919 at our high school. We were playing some three chord 148 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.720 yelling punk rock stuff and we didn't have enough songs, 149 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.360 so singer Mike Jelden and I sat down Who's Now 150 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:02.679 in Dakota Shakedown. You probably have listened to that episode 151 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.679 of the podcast as well. But we sat down and 152 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.639 did a handful of acoustic songs just to kind of 153 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.960 open for ourselves, to make the show longer. And one 154 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.159 of the songs that we had played was this song. 155 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.879 There was a I think it was called Current Visions 156 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:20.919 and you could buy the CD at Target and it 157 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:25.159 was

like a record label compilation that had the Jayhawks. 158 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.960 I think Blue was on there, which is amazing. Obviously 159 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.879 the Goo Goo Dolls were on there. I think Reverend 160 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.960 Horton heat. I don't have it in front of. 161 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.320 Me, but Billy Pilgrim is on there. 162 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.159 And Mike and I heard sweet Louisiana Sound and we 163 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:42.080 were both like, the song is really really damn cool. 164 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.120 So we learned it. We played it at our first 165 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.279 ever show and years later. 166 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.279 You know, I go down to Ottaw, Illinois to play 167 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.919 shows there often usually solo acoustics style stuff, and my 168 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:59.360 friend Dave, who runs the Songwriter series, I was telling 169 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.799 me about this this great musician that was coming named 170 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.159 Andrew Hira, and I'm like, okay, yeah, that's cool. 171 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:04.679 What's that like? 172 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.120 And he's like, he was in this band called Billy Pilgrim, 173 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:13.080 and I was like, wait, wait, wait what? And so 174 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.320 thanks to Dave for making the introduction there. But it's 175 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:21.399 become kind of a mutual admiration society. Andrew likes the 176 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.960 high end stress stuff and I've obviously loved Andrew's stuff for. 177 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.759 A very long time. Didn't even realize his name. 178 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.639 I just knew Billy Pilgrim, and you know, he and 179 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.720 Christian Bush are Billy Pilgrim. Christian Bush went on to 180 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:38.799 start the country super stardom act Sugarland. 181 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.080 Also quite a nice guy. 182 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.440 But Andrew Poultz co wrote never got that far and 183 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.639 saying on it on the last High on Strus record, 184 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.320 hold Me and and around that point we were doing 185 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:57.559 more and more writing and collaborations, just really having a 186 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.559 good time with it and you know it. Some points 187 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:05.200 we talked about doing an EP and ended up playing 188 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:08.599 some shows and Jim and I Jim Soul and I 189 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.079 from Hyan Stress also we went down to Atlanta and 190 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:16.559 played some shows with Christian and Andrew and Matthew Taylor. 191 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.079 Who's something you got to check him out to. 192 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:26.519 But it's just amazing, amazing, amazing musicianship out of those 193 00:17:26.599 -->

00:17:29.000 two cats tell you what just watching them work on 194 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:31.680 new songs together face to face, you know, sitting on 195 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:32.799 the couch with guitars. 196 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:36.839 There is some magic to what Andrew and Christian do. 197 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.400 And you can listen to records, you'll be like, these 198 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.400 are great songs, and this is some amazing singing. When 199 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.480 you are in a room with that, it is a 200 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:50.599 freight train. I can't even describe just the level of 201 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:56.000 skill emotion. I've heard Andrew described as singing with his 202 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.000 whole his whole body. That is a thing. 203 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:03.839 He's just a brilliant, brilliant singer guy, also very like minded, 204 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:08.279 which I can appreciate these weird times and really glad 205 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.920 to know them. And on that song, slowly than faster, 206 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.759 it's kind of a weird time. You might recall I 207 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.839 live in the Twin Cities and in twenty twenty we 208 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:21.119 were going through a pandemic. I don't think you've forgotten 209 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:26.920 that bit, and George Floyd was murdered, which was horrifying 210 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:32.720 and terrible, and the city was in a loss for words, 211 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:36.920 to say the least. And the policeman who killed him 212 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:42.160 is now in jail, and during this time, there were 213 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.839 riots and protests and all sorts of things going on, 214 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:51.319 and you know, there were tanks going down the street, 215 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:56.400 and there were people coming into town and raising problems 216 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.599 as well, and it was just a weird time. This song, 217 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:05.119 the last one you just heard, actually wrote that during 218 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:09.200 the riots, so I could hear helicopters flying over my 219 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:12.240 house and all that was going on. My family actually 220 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.240 went out of town just to get away, and I 221 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.759 stayed back and wrote that song while that was going on. 222 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:24.519 And that's really what that's about. And Andrew played some 223 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:29.920 amazing stuff. That harmonica on there is fantastic mandolin guitar. 224 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.240 He kind of does it all. So I'm glad I 225 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:37.799 was finally able to put that one out. That one's 226 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:40.559 from twenty twenty. Just been kind of sitting on it 227 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:44.000 and really proud of it. And it kind of came 228 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.319 from a honest and strange place and one that I 229 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:53.519 definitely won't forget. So that was slowly then faster with 230 00:19:54.039 --> 00:20:00.440 Andrew Hira and Jim Soul. This next one, jeez, I 231 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.039 need a running order in front of me. What kind 232 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:05.720 of operation is this? Edge of Town is up next? 233 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:10.640 Also featuring Andrew Hyra doing all those wonderful Andrew Hyra things, 234 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:11.559 including Ebo. 235 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.759 This one's called edge of Town. 236 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.559 Darkness on the edge of town. When you have what 237 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.240 you wanted bonus never enough, then what is. 238 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.640 Love to is my mind? 239 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:43.839 Ain't it funny? All the lies that we tell ourselves. 240 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:56.400 It's quite on the edge of town can't seem to 241 00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:58.680 pass the storm inside your head. 242 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:03.279 You know it's what you chase saying, but it's never 243 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.240 far enough to run yourself. 244 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:19.519 The friends you had all been lost, You arth they. 245 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:24.880 Were heading a last seen all the dusty road, and 246 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:29.400 I believe in love truths have the too. 247 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:57.160 Darkness on the edge down last two months gone right 248 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:03.440 before your rise. You never know what is wrong. Nothing 249 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:15.319 makes sense well to sweet this guy's the friends you've. 250 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:19.640 Had have all been lost steal and if they were 251 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:25.119 here at all, last seeing on the dusty road, be 252 00:22:25.680 --> 00:23:00.599 even long lies that they too. The friends you've had 253 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:02.680 all been lost, You. 254 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:04.799 Arf they were. 255 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:09.559 Sea steer road. 256 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:38.240 It's edge of Town with Andrew Hira. 257 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:43.680 That one was written probably that might have been twenty nineteen, 258 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:46.799 even twenty nineteen, twenty twenty somewhere in there. 259 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:49.960 Later on twenty nineteen, I think, but. 260 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:55.039 We live in a weird, divisive time, and that one's 261 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:59.599 about growing up in a place that does not share 262 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:06.680 your views and values and slowly watching your old friends 263 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:10.920 uh kind of branch off and suddenly disappear. 264 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:13.920 And you know, as life goes on. 265 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:17.359 It's interesting. I think when you're younger, you're really like, 266

00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:19.720 you want to hold on, right, you don't you want 267 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:22.480 everybody to like it. You want to hold on, and uh, 268 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:24.759 you know, I think as people we all want that 269 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:29.039 even later as time goes on. But I think you 270 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:31.920 start to understand too at times where relationships kind of 271 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:36.319 run their course. At times, sometimes people are put in 272 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:40.160 your life during certain times for certain reasons. I truly 273 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:42.759 believe that. I don't know what that is exactly, but 274 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:46.480 I I feel that and I've and I've noticed that 275 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:51.680 throughout my life as well. But yeah, there's there's certain 276 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:55.359 times where things are just broken. And uh, if you 277 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:00.920 if you're looking at things completely different from a values 278 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:06.000 morals standpoint, you know, I wish you nothing but the best, 279 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.960 But I'm gonna I'm gonna go this direction, and and 280 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.920 that song's about that and about other people go in 281 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.519 the other direction on me as well. So uh, that 282 00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:18.720 was Edge of Town. I'm a big fan of that song, 283 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.799 so thanks to Andrew for that. This next one's Jim 284 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:24.480 Soul unbacking vocals. It's called playing tricks again. 285 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:44.240 Maybe someday seeing the world through someone's side. 286 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:51.480 Sometimes if heels like key, then Nancy's your heart playing 287 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.559 tricks again. 288 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:05.519 Some days are trying to hold onto that old fire. 289 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:11.839 Sometimes appeals is good enough, but that's just true. 290 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:21.400 You'll call in love, go on to leave. 291 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:30.200 When you're making friends with the ghost is what you 292 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:34.720 fear the most is seeing your. 293 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:40.519 Mind gotta leave it all behind. 294 00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:57.720 Maybe someday I'll understand. Don't you want to impress? 295 00:26:57.799 --> 00:26:58.920 Don't give a damn. 296 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:05.039 Sometimes you feel like giving it, but that's just your 297 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:07.200 mind laying tricks again. 298 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:19.160 Sometimes it seems all so clear, so motionous, keep enough 299 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.119 to fear. 300 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.799 Sometimes it seems so enriched, but that's just your mind 301 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:28.519 laying tricks again. 302 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.799 Gold on to the oath. 303 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:44.880 When you're making friends with the ghosts, because once you 304 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.519 fear the most, it's. 305 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:49.799 In your mind. 306 00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:55.240 You gotta leave it all behind. 307 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.720 Jim Soul, I love me some Jim Soul. 308 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:24.559 Who doesn't love some good Jim Soul Jim's been in 309 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:29.000 High on Stress for most of the band's life. He's 310 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:34.079 been on every record other than Moonlight Girls. He's been 311 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:36.319 doing great things. He also does solo stuff. Go check 312 00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:39.480 out his record. You can find it streaming. Jim sol 313 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.119 solo record. He covered one of my songs, one of 314 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.680 my unreleased songs. So thanks Jim. 315 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:45.319 That's on there. 316 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:47.359 And he even let me play bass on a song. 317 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.519 I didn't even have to strong arm him too much, 318 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:52.559 but it was an honor to play his record, and 319 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:58.519 I thank him for playing on this solo Shenanigans. This 320 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:03.440 next song we're making our way through. I've been thinking 321 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:04.920 what do I like best? What are the songs that 322 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:06.799 I like best on this record? Cold Wins is one 323 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:08.839 of them, which you heard earlier, featuring Kevin Salem and 324 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:09.480 Dan Murphy. 325 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:13.480 Edge of Towns up there for me. This is another 326 00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:13.960 one of them. 327 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:15.880 It's called The Valley. It was written in December. A 328 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:19.920 lot of these songs were written between the some slightly 329 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:23.599 before Hold Me In came out up until this December. 330 00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:25.960 And it's. 331 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:30.599 I think we've lost something as a society. We've you know, 332 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:38.000 cheering on death without forgetting what that means. Who's impacted 333 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:42.720 by death and cheering that on publicly. It Yeah, it's 334 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.519 doesn't sit right with me. I don't love it, and 335 00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:50.920 I just think we are living in those the aforementioned 336 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.000 device of times, and I wish we weren't. It's the 337 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:59.160 strangest time I've seen. But this song is kind of 338 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.960 about what's going on in the world, people cheering on 339 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.640 death for whatever reason. And I got Dan Murphy on 340 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.319 this one as well. He actually appeared with me. We 341 00:30:10.400 -->

00:30:12.880 played this thing called Morningside after Dark that was put 342 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:18.279 together by the late great Lorie Linden from Zuzu's Pedals. 343 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:20.160 I've talked about her on here as well, but she's 344 00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:23.839 from Zuzu's Pedals. She's an author of the book Pedal Pusher. 345 00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:26.799 She sang backing vocals on which this moment gone on 346 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.319 the High End Stress record, which was the first single 347 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.000 on Hold Me In. And she was just a fantastic person, 348 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.759 a great supporter of our band, and which was quite 349 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:42.599 an honor for us because just just a brilliant person, magnetic, 350 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:47.519 great person. And she passed away last summer. It's been 351 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:50.279 a weird ten months, a lot of loss in so 352 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:53.440 many different ways. But she passed away and there was 353 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:57.240 a tribute show at Morningside after Dark. It was a 354 00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:03.279 series she put together of writers, poets, singers, like all 355 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.480 sorts of stuff. And last time I played there, I 356 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.400 did wish this moment gone. And she's sang backing with vocals. 357 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:16.039 This time we were doing a tribute episode, tribute show 358 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.839 of her old morning Side after Dark, and Dan came 359 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.519 up and played guitar on the song with me and 360 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.240 also played it on the record. So this is one 361 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:29.880 of my favorites and quent honor to have Dan Murphy 362 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:31.920 had been a fan of Dan since I was literally 363 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.960 in high school. Don't tell him, but I had to 364 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:35.920 give my Soul Asylum shirt to my son so I 365 00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:38.960 wouldn't accidentally wear it around him. True story, Dan, if 366 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.799 you're listening, I had to give that shirt away. It 367 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:43.920 would have been too awkward for you to show up. 368 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:47.200 And I'm wearing this shirt so my son now owns 369 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:50.119 it to good hands. This next one's called the Valley. 370 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:10.680 Everyone has lost their minds. Everyone has so much to 371 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:21.119 say with words you can't take back. When they leave 372 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:26.039 the station, then along down the tracks, let it go. 373 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:32.039 Word just flow down from the Valley. 374 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:47.720 Below everyone just finds inne of me realord imagine they cancious. 375 00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:53.519 Let it be, knowing what everybody is. I was thinking, 376 00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:58.559 turn it off, tune it out. 377 00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:00.960 It's driving. I am to drinking. 378 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:02.079 Let it go. 379 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:51.079 Versus flow the down from the valley glow? Which way 380 00:33:51.200 --> 00:34:02.799 is the direction? Now? The road is already made? How 381 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:09.920 do we fix what is broken? How did we get 382 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:11.880 here in the first place? 383 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:14.000 Let it go? 384 00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:26.079 Words flow down from the valley blow, Let it go, 385 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:31.360 Urges flow down from. 386 00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:40.639 The valley glow. Everyone has lost their. 387 00:34:40.960 --> 00:35:18.360 Mind, walking along, handful of saying, headphones on, trying to 388 00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.239 see what I can stand? 389 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:31.119 Went through the trees, forgotten cold. It's the longest my. 390 00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:57.079 On the quietest road, chest fold, the sparse, forgotten name. 391 00:35:58.719 --> 00:35:59.320 Ain't it just? 392 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:00.639 He can me. 393 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:07.280 To be somewhere else again? But there is no con 394 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:17.360 trump this side. No, it's life, slide of hand, trying 395 00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:19.360 to see what we can stand? 396 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:23.000 How high is high? 397 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:25.280 How? 398 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:33.800 How far come? How far can go? 399 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:43.679 Same life? Wait? Until far? 400 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:47.519 How fuck? 401 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:22.079 How high is high? 402 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:25.159 Hell is? 403 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:29.360 How far have you come? 404 00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:36.639 How far can we go? Sa? Hi? 405 00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:39.840 The wind? 406 00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:44.159 How far have you come? 407 00:37:45.800 --> 00:38:38.760 How fun can be? One thing. 408 00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:01.280 That was night walker featuring me playing some weird Phil 409 00:39:01.400 --> 00:39:04.320 Collins keyboards. Yeah, that's right, and. 410 00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.119 My daughter Mary leak Ton backing vocals. 411 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:11.559 It's she's a gymnast who sings and then sings more 412 00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:14.440 and then sings even more than that. She's I was singing, 413 00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:16.920 and I put her to work, put her in front 414 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:18.800 of the mic and said, we need some backing vocals. 415 00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:19.360 Let's do this. 416 00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:22.719 Last week, that song actually got radio play in Virginia, 417 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.440 which was kind of cool because that was her first 418 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.440 time on the radio and she was super excited about it, 419 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.079 and so really fun

to be able to work with 420 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.480 my daughter on that song and put some Phil Collins 421 00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.199 keyboards on it. And also just a note, Henry Leet, 422 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:44.719 my son, did the album art for this as well, 423 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:48.519 so it was a family affair. I should have had 424 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:50.480 my wife play the kazoo. I don't know what I 425 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.800 was thinking. Next time around, she will play the kazoo. 426 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:59.400 But that was night Walker. Not much to say on 427 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:03.519 that other than back back when I was a teenager, 428 00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:05.840 I would go for these walks in my small town 429 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:07.880 from one end to the other. It's about a mile long, 430 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:11.280 and I've referenced this town in many different ways on 431 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:13.800 many different songs. If you listen to our music Memorial 432 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:18.360 Day from like the coplit parade talks about the town, 433 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.559 it shows up a lot as most people who write 434 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:26.159 songs kind of drawback from where they came from and 435 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:29.000 where they were raised and things that went on at 436 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:29.440 that time. 437 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:33.920 And so Surrey, North Dakota gets a lot of. 438 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:43.000 Love from a songwriting standpoint, and that's what I'm singing 439 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:43.360 about here. 440 00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:44.519 But I used to go for these walks. 441 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:48.199 I'd put on put on my headphones, get some sunflower 442 00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:51.960 seeds and walk at night from one side of the 443 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.280 town to the other. It's about a mile long, this 444 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:58.639 entire town, about a thousand people, tiny, tiny place that 445 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.719 I grew up and just have these fond memories of 446 00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:07.119 listening to the music that I loved. And I'm really 447 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.519 thinking of it. What were some of the things I 448 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:13.280 was listening to back then? Well, first of all, a 449 00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.039 lot of podcast guests, to be honest, That's kind of 450 00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:18.519 the beauty of this thing is I've been able to 451 00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:21.000 talk to a lot of these people that I've been 452 00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:24.039 fond of their work for years. But in the headphones 453 00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:27.239 back then, there was a lot of all shout out 454 00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:31.239 to Scott Reynolds there, who is a podcast guest. Knapsack 455 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:35.119 was being played a lot. Shout out to Blair and 456 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:40.639 Surgery there. I don't listen that much anymore. It's just 457 00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:44.320 a little too hyper but less than Jake Hell a 458 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.800 rock review album. Not quite my cup of tea these days. 459 00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:51.480 But I think I've got too much going on in 460 00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:56.239 my head to listen to all those horns. But Stephen 461 00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:59.719 Bradley did that record. He was my first guest on 462 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.079 this podcast, so kind of neat. So it all kind 463 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:05.960 of ties together because these are some of the if 464 00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:08.039 you look back on the guests on the show, a 465 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:09.840 lot of that's a lot of what I was listening 466 00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:12.360 to on these walks that I would take kind of 467 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:14.360 by myself in the middle of the night, and I 468 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.679 were talking about it. So that was night Walker featuring 469 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:23.000 Mary Leet of my daughter Fame. This next one is 470 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.920 also one of my favorites and probably the least like 471 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:31.559 any song I've ever released. It's called Take two, and 472 00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:35.920 it's called Take two because back in I don't know, 473 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.760 must have been twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, I started putting 474 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:42.000 the recording studio together, and I put it together as 475 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:45.360 a Demo Studio. High End Stress is recorded. 476 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.159 With a lot of great in a lot of great 477 00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:49.280 studios over the years. 478 00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:49.920 OBT. 479 00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:52.360 That was the first three records. 480 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:55.599 Moonlight Girls, cop By Parade, and Living Is a Dying 481 00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.800 Art were all recorded there. Recorded three my old band 482 00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.840 reference Standard Thompson. We did three albums at O'll Bet 483 00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:05.199 back in the day as well with John Tranbury who 484 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.199 was the original High End Stress bass player and played 485 00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:08.039 on Moonlight Curls. 486 00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:10.400 And then we did. 487 00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:15.079 Leaving Minneapolis at the Sound Gallery in Minneapolis which is 488 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:18.920 no longer there sorry, by target Field, scariest fire escape 489 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:22.760 you'll ever stand on. And then we did Hold Me 490 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.920 In at guitar Player Chad Studio Triple T. And Chad 491 00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:31.360 has become an amazing not only an amazing guitar player 492 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:36.840 but and friend, hey Chad, but also an amazing recording engineer. 493 00:43:37.159 -->

00:43:37.880 So he's. 494 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:41.320 He recorded Hold Me In, He's recorded a lot of 495 00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:44.880 great stuff, and quite honestly, we're working on this new 496 00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:47.480 High End Stress record, and because I wanted. 497 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:50.639 To learn more and more, I've been sitting behind him. 498 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:56.039 Awfully close, very very close Chad to watch what he 499 00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:58.360 was doing as he was engineering a high end Stress 500 00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:59.960 record because I wanted to learn. I wanted to get 501 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.239 better at this. So originally it started out is I 502 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.119 don't care it'll sound decent because I've got some decent gear. 503 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:08.800 But it's simon on. 504 00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:10.519 I'm like, I want to get better at this. So 505 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:13.320 I really shout out to Chad for allowing me to 506 00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:18.199 stare over his shoulder and giving me tips, and really, 507 00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:22.280 you know, he isn't on this record, but his spirit 508 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:27.880 is there on the recording side, even selling me one 509 00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:28.719 of his microphones. 510 00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:31.000 So shout out to Chad. 511 00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:33.280 This next one, take two, is originally one of those 512 00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:36.119 demos that was recorded when I didn't know what I 513 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:39.280 was doing, and it was kind of weird. It was 514 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:43.039 an example just kind of a trying it out, sampling 515 00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:44.199 it out and see what I can do with it, 516 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.400 and it ended up kind of cool, and I sat 517 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.199 on it for years, and then Andrew Hira heard it 518 00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.039 and really liked it. And it's funny because it sounds 519 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:58.199 nothing like High on Stress. It sounds nothing like Billy Pilgrim. 520 00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:01.960 But it turned out kind of cool, and I wanted 521 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.760 to get it out because I think it's an interesting song. 522 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:07.440 So shout out to Andrew on this. He played a 523 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:10.840 whole bunch of stuff, and this one's called take two. 524 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:19.599 Take it from me, Take it from me, because I'm 525 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:27.280 taking notes that if you want something, you better start 526 00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:28.480 letting me know. 527 00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:53.000 Call my blood. 528 00:45:58.639 --> 00:45:59.079 For some. 529 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:24.920 And you solf comfort. 530 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:32.800 You don't my letting the show. But if I wanted 531 00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:38.239 joey advice, I would let you know. 532 00:46:41.440 --> 00:46:52.880 Way someone called my blo. I've been way someone to sappen. 533 00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:02.159 You had a change. 534 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:12.400 To give me ground control, but chin had no sweet 535 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:14.280 Just let it go. 536 00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:32.039 Skipp me ground control, Skip me ground control. 537 00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:10.599 I'm not here. 538 00:48:11.960 --> 00:48:16.480 Smoking around in dusty shoes. Better leave me where I 539 00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:22.880 am just hanging on. I was born to soon running 540 00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:24.760 circles in my room. 541 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:28.400 Better leave me where I am just hanging a. 542 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:31.119 Curse on. 543 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.119 Swe freeze. 544 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:36.880 I'm gone. 545 00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:07.239 Lost one slowly road, feeling you no longer hole. I 546 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.400 guess it's won't bring you back home. 547 00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:17.400 Feeling someone lucky the cold diamond Kentucky with. 548 00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:20.880 My on five. 549 00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:28.559 It's slowly the wild. 550 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:44.360 The fact as snow knows me like to the fact 551 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:49.119 its snow, one knows me lack to. 552 00:49:54.480 --> 00:50:05.239 You're the only one that's made it clear. Good time 553 00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:10.119 has come back, gone and June no longer. 554 00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:41.840 Not Here to Lose, not Here to Lose. 555 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:45.679 It's it's I've been I've been writing songs for a 556 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.880 really long time, and uh, I have a tendency to 557 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:53.760 go towards the first person and what I'm experiencing at 558 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:56.239 a given point, and I still do that. 559 00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:01.639 I also report what I see and. 560 00:51:01.719 --> 00:51:04.519 Then sometimes in the case of this, this is more 561 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:06.840 and less about me and more about. 562 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.599 What I'm observing with other people. 563 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:13.760 So don't worry about me on this one, ladies and gentlemen. 564 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.800 But this song is called not Here to Lose, and 565 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:19.400 where that came from from a song standpoint, it's not 566 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:26.239 about the situation specifically. But Jeffrey Brower, he's a He's 567 00:51:26.280 --> 00:51:30.400 a High End Stress fan out of Atlanta, Georgia, and 568 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.559 posts videos of himself playing guitar and his porch playing Dakota, 569 00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.800 the High on Stress song. So I love that and 570 00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:41.119 he should keep doing that because it always makes me smile. 571 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:43.559 But he came out to see Jim and I play 572 00:51:43.599 -->

00:51:45.920 when we went down to Atlanta for that Duoh show 573 00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:50.440 along with with Andrew Hyra and Christian Bush from Billy Pilgrim, 574 00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:52.159 and he was at those shows or one of the shows, 575 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:56.159 and he was going through it last year. He had 576 00:51:56.239 --> 00:51:58.360 some family stuff going on that was pretty rough, and 577 00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:02.000 he was kind of reporting on it social media wise, 578 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:04.039 and he always said, not here to lose, We're not 579 00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.119 here to lose, as they were fighting through some things. 580 00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:09.639 And I was inspired by that to write a song 581 00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:12.679 because I love that not here to lose. I've it's 582 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:16.320 been a weird year, to say the least. I've I've 583 00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:23.159 lost five friends, and not not due to politics well 584 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.639 that too, but lost five friends who passed on since 585 00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:33.400 she's I think July, and I can't say that's ever 586 00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:35.599 been the case of my life up until this point. 587 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:37.719 And I'm sure as time goes on it happens more 588 00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.840 and more and more because that's what happens. But kind 589 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.559 of hard to take. Lost my job last year too, 590 00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.320 right around when all this started to happen, just due 591 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:50.280 to weird economies that seem to be getting weirder? Am 592 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:50.639 I right? 593 00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:51.480 Who's with me? 594 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:52.400 Jesus? 595 00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:54.599 Well? 596 00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:55.480 Weird times it was. 597 00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.480 It was not good and uh, and this record has 598 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:03.079 really helped a lot with that. I spent a lot 599 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:09.119 of time last summer writing and adding and redoing vocals 600 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:11.880 and remixing and all sorts of stuff, and it really 601 00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:17.519 taught me. It really taught me to focus and be 602 00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:20.880 able to do things on your own. I think is key. 603 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.400 And if you think he can't do something, see if 604 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:26.800 he can do it. I never thought I would be 605 00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:29.840 able to put a record together that I recorded on 606 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.440 my own with some guests. Of course, we've the guests 607 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:37.480 who appeared did some recording and engineering too, but a 608 00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.320 majority of the record is recorded at my studio that. 609 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:42.159 I learned how to use. 610 00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:44.559 Finally, and.

611 00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:50.480 Weird here, Weird Year for everybody. Weird Year. Shout out. 612 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:54.800 Shout out to my friend down there at Atlanta. He 613 00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:56.519 bought me a piece of pizza the next day after 614 00:53:56.559 --> 00:53:59.480 the show too, So forever friends. Anybody who buys me 615 00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:03.400 a slice pizza if I'm in town, we're friends of forever. 616 00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:08.239 Speaking of friends forever. On that track, Brent Brann appears. 617 00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:11.000 I've known Brent since I was fifteen years old. He 618 00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:13.159 was the guy who would be like, your band needs 619 00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:15.679 to record, your band needs an album, your band needs 620 00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:18.000 a music video, your band needs to move to Minneapolis. 621 00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:25.280 He's the biggest supporter non related in my life since 622 00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:27.960 I was fifteen years old and I say non related, 623 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:30.199 but in reality we are related. I've told him we 624 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:31.880 are family at this point, and he stuck with me 625 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:36.079 and he appears on a piano and organ on that 626 00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:41.559 song and did a great job and recorded some songs 627 00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:46.440 on guitar and bass on some of his records. We've 628 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:47.800 worked on some songs recently. 629 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:49.880 I hope to do more. I love that guy. 630 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:54.000 He's one of my favorite people ever and it's cool 631 00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:57.000 that he's on this And the song got played on 632 00:54:57.079 --> 00:54:59.000 the radio the other day, So shout out to Brent, 633 00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:02.079 Shout out to the radio. I hope more people will 634 00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:08.679 spin the record and yeah and infinale. We've got one 635 00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:11.159 more song left that I'm going to tee up here. 636 00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:13.639 But thank you for listening to this. Hope you'll like 637 00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:15.840 the record, Hope you'll pick it up. Shout out to 638 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:19.199 my bandmates Jim soul, Mark Deverage and Chad Wheeling for 639 00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:21.559 the support here. We'll work on that high on Stress record. 640 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:25.039 And I appreciate the fact that they they gave me 641 00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:27.679 some room to explore this space. I know that you 642 00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.880 always hear those band stories of like no side projects, 643 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:33.119 no nothing. We don't operate like that. Jim's got a 644 00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:37.239 solo records that he does, Chad Records bands, Marks in 645 00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:40.519 five bands here in Minneapolis. I think we're probably the 646 00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:45.079 Count of Five. And you know, no hard feelings by anybody, 647 00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.599 and that's cool, and I appreciate their support through this 648 00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:50.199 because this was definitely a project to keep me on 649 00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:54.400 the path through all the weird shit that happened last year. 650 00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:59.559 So this last song once again brings us back to 651 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:03.039 certain North Dakota and it's called Goodbye Gravel Roads. 652 00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:07.159 And I co wrote this with Andrew. 653 00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:10.440 I wrote the main guitar part in like the first verse, 654 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:14.239 and I think chorus must have been right around the 655 00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.519 same time I wrote gold Star on Moonlight Girls, our 656 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:20.599 first High on Stress record, And this was also written 657 00:56:20.599 --> 00:56:22.440 around the time of Dakota, which was on Hold Me. 658 00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:24.280 And so some of these songs have just kind of 659 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:27.679 made their way back and are released. And I never 660 00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:29.639 finished this one. I just had that verse and chorus 661 00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:32.840 had kind of the weird guitar part, and I sent 662 00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:36.360 it to Andrew. This was probably twenty nineteen as well, 663 00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:39.639 and said, can you do anything with this because I've 664 00:56:39.679 --> 00:56:41.760 got this part and this part and then maybe this 665 00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:46.079 part go at it and I was in San Francisco, 666 00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:47.960 and I said a hotel room in San Francisco, and 667 00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:51.559 I got a text from him that says, check your email, 668 00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:57.280 and I checked it, and holy shit, dude ran with 669 00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:00.320 it in the best possible ways and it sounds really cool. 670 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:04.840 He had his friend Steve Fontaine contribute as well, did 671 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.760 bass and programming stuff, and he mixed U when I 672 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.280 mix the record, but he mixed this song specifically, So 673 00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:15.679 cred to Steve out in Palm Desert, California. Steve has 674 00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:20.239 worked with Andrew a lot on his solo stuff, production 675 00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.480 wise and playing on it. And he's also done remixes 676 00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:28.480 for David Bowie, Aerosmith, Madonna, and Kesha and a whole 677 00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:32.760 bunch of other people, which is kind of awesomely weird. 678 00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:36.280 So way on the bottom of his resume, if you 679 00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:39.320 look with a magnifying glass, you will see Nick Lee Detours. 680 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:42.639 Thank you, Steve, and this is the last track on 681

00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:46.920 the record. It's coming out next Friday on band camp. 682 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:50.360 You can download it. You can check it out. CD 683 00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:52.679 is coming soon limited runs. You can do pre orders 684 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:54.719 of CDs. I would love it if you'd buy a 685 00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:57.800 physical copy because my son Henry did the artwork. Come on, man, 686 00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:00.480 you gotta support the kid. Come on, what are you 687 00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:03.719 thinking anyway? Thank you for listening to this episode of 688 00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:07.559 the Figure Eights podcast where we did a little uh 689 00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:11.920 listening for the new solo album Detours. This is the 690 00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:15.280 last track, Goodbye gravel Roads. 691 00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:25.360 Forget the feeling you were born in the wrong place 692 00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:32.679 on these old dusty roads. Road mad Bess, leave me. 693 00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:40.239 Away from this disgrace to a new zip code. I've 694 00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:48.480 been always so long, Just wanna again. I'm gone, goodbye 695 00:58:48.599 --> 00:58:49.440 gravel rope. 696 00:58:50.000 --> 00:59:05.440 So now fin and myself I didn't live, man again 697 00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:12.440 on the lost side town sliding now. 698 00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:14.800 With down. 699 00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:23.440 I've been away so long, just one lookin. 700 00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:26.880 I'm gone, good bye gravel Roots. 701 00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:49.840 I'm out there on the edge of it now, out 702 00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:54.119 there with the distant storm clouds. 703 00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:59.119 Were lighting and Bazin's way to the ground. I'm out 704 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:01.360 there on the edge of it now. 705 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:04.760 They're on the. 706 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:10.440 Edge of it now, and they're with the distance of 707 01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:13.320 clouds were lightning. 708 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:18.239 It finds us way in the ground. I'm out there 709 01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:23.880 on the edge of it now. They're on the edge 710 01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:24.559 of it now. 711 01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:33.679 And every day waking up trying to keep your head up, 712 01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:40.760 let's low things down, the grounding in your coffee cup, 713 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:44.000 trying to keep from giving up in. 714 01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:51.800 This post office town. All along you chase these grad 715 01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:52.639 little room. 716 01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:03.639 Haunting. 717 01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:08.599 They're on the edge of it now, they're on the. 718 01:01:11.719 --> 01:01:15.519 Humping down, on. 719 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:21.920 The show it. 720 01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:31.880 Now forget the feeling you were born in the wrong place. Home, 721 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:33.719 these old dusty roads,