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Welcome in to another exciting episode of the
scene.
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I am your host Bubba Sartz, and with me today,
soulful r and b singer, my friend, Kenneth
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Perrin.
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Kenneth, welcome back to the show.
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Thank you.
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It's good to be back.
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Appreciate it, Bubba.
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Yeah.
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It's it's absolutely my pleasure when you
mentioned wanting to come in and kinda redo
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yours.
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You know, I I'm not necessarily gonna go back
and pull the old one down, but I figure we can
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give a little revamp and especially now that
we've had an opportunity to meet in person and
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to have you up around my hometown in Deadwood,
South Dakota and to have you perform at
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Kathmandu Campground during the Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally.
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Not your typical rally music for sure, but I
know that Lynette sure loved having you, and it
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was a great time to just be able to to relax
with you, you know, somewhere where I'm very
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comfortable.
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So we have your backstory.
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We kinda know where you're coming from and
everything.
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But tell me a little bit about, you know, since
the last time we talked.
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Oh, jeez.
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It was probably back in February or March.
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It's been a busy summer since then.
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So give us a quick recap of the summer, and
then we'll pick it up from there.
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Yeah.
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Sure.
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No problem.
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Wow.
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Since then, I've been on tour currently am on
tour, the second leg of the Melodic Heart and
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Soul Tour.
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So that's been a lot of fun exploring some
different cities, different venues, and just
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getting to meet a lot a lot of cool people like
yourself in person.
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And also have released a new single called
giving you giving you all.
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It's currently doing really well on radio and
continues to get heavy rotation, which is
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something that I've really never had before.
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It's, like, the first time.
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So it's just a good feeling to be able to
release something, put it out there, and have
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people really, really, really like it just
based on audio alone.
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No videos, no gags, no gimmicks, or anything
like that.
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Just strength of the of the song itself.
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So really excited, man.
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Really excited.
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Yeah.
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That's that's great.
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I'm I'm really proud of you and happy that
things are happening for you.
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Obviously, you've been in this music business
for a long time.
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You've seen it change a lot as as we all have.
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And now getting to you know, you've just stayed
on your grind.
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You you have continued to, you know, perform
and write and release new music, and it's not
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easy.
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And, obviously, we talk about it a lot here on
the scene projects, the struggles of the
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independent artist in the in the age of
streaming and everything that it does.
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But radio is still very much alive.
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And and it's yeah.
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I I think maybe a little bit easier than than
in years past to to kinda crack into radio
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because you have a lot of you know, there's
still independent stations that are out there.
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But I think that the major players are maybe
paying a little less attention to it as they
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start to dedicate more into, you know,
streaming or wherever their attention has gone
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and their money to.
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Let's not forget Payola.
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It it is not just a thing of the past.
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It's still very prevalent, although under maybe
another name.
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It's really great to see someone like yourself
who's an independent artist just continue to
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have success and to build on that success year
after year.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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So, Kenneth, what did you think of South
Dakota?
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I loved it.
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I loved it.
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I loved it.
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Probably one of the purest places I've ever
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people, the food.
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Everything is fresh, and everything is just
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I mean, if you wanna go to a place and just
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the place to go to for sure.
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And I I really had a a great time.
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And Day at Wood City is really fascinating
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There's so much there to do.
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I mean, I was just there just pretty much,
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spent a little bit more time because there's so
much to do, so much to visit, the different
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arenas where performers perform.
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That was interesting to see, and appreciate you
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That really helped out quite a bit because,
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walking down the street and really not knowing,
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going to.
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Amazing city.
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Amazing, amazing city.
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And and one of my favorite weekends there is
coming up here in October, the Wild West
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Songwriters Festival.
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The whole town is just full.
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There's actually two concurrent, festivals that
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One of them, the Wild West Songwriters Fest,
which is kinda sponsored Edward Chamber and is
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an official event.
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And then we have the Trails of Tales event that
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So you literally have the entire of Main
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There are there is live music everywhere, a lot
of, you know, kind of not necessarily cowboy
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music, but it's it's guitars and singer
songwriters and that vibe.
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It is by far my favorite weekend in Deadwood.
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I think it's the best weekend and the best
events that they put on.
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It might not draw the most people because
you're not really bringing in the headline acts
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and it's, you know, shutting down Main Street
where you're walking up and They have several
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events during the year where they close that
street, put a big stage down at the lower end,
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and then it's it's, you know, ten, fifteen
thousand people with their chair set up and,
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you know, drinking open container and and
taking in the music.
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This one is a little bit different than that,
but for me and what I love, obviously, the
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independent musician and the grind that that
is, I absolutely love this weekend.
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You you're gonna meet so many people, other
artists, and really is a great networking
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opportunity, but we're it it builds in the
audience every single year as well.
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And there's, you know, a 100 to 200 people at
most of these, you know, kinda writers rounds
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that they're doing and really blessed to be a
part of it.
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I think we're going to be a bigger part of that
with the scene project this year and doing more
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in person interviews and and really having that
to bring to the table.
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And, it's just it's a great vibe, Kenneth, and
you got to see, the Deadwood Mountain Grand and
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the big stage up there.
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That's where they kinda do the end, their their
big ending performance in concert and announce
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the winner of their regional songwriter contest
as well.
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So a a really amazing, town that absolutely
loves its live music, and and I was very
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fortunate to to not just, you know, grow up
there, but to to be welcomed back even though I
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don't live in the area any longer, time after
time, and to really have some deep, deep
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friendships with people around that area.
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I'm glad that, know, you completely unplanned.
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You know, you talked about the tour I gave you
around town.
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I just happened to walk out of where I was and
to see you across the street and give you a
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holler and kinda chase you down and, to to to
have a chance to show you around my town.
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It it was really great.
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It was it was amazing.
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And thank you also for the support during the
Kathmandu campground show too.
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That was, like, a huge, huge help as well just
with the setup and everything, and it really
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kinda helped make the start of the show really
just kinda kick off with a bang because I had
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everything I needed and just kinda help
facilitate in between with Lynette and I and
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just 100 a plus all the way, man.
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So I really appreciate that.
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And that was really awesome too just to kinda
entertain in a small inner intimate setting and
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new fans and be able to kinda share share music
that way.
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So I I will say, though, they they were a
little bit of a of a tougher crowd.
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It kinda took a minute to kinda get them going,
but I felt like the more songs I kinda chose
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that were sort of maybe a little bit more
Kathmandu friendly, I should say, the better
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the show became.
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So I just had to keep a keep a ear out for
that.
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And that and that's true anywhere you go as a
performer.
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You know?
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You have to kinda be aware of where you are,
who you're singing to.
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And sometimes your set list may be one thing
when you start off, but then engaging the crowd
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and audience, you have to kinda flip the switch
and, you know, kinda change it to make sure
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that they're kind of vibing and feeling what
you're putting down, basically.
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Oh, and I think that's a great lesson for,
yeah.
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I think that's a great lesson for younger
artists as well is that it's great that we
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have, oh, I'm gonna play these songs, and this
is gonna be the show.
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But, you know, the famous Mike Tyson quote, you
know, everybody's got a plan till they get
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punched in the mouth.
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And granted for us musicians, usually, we're
not getting swung on physically, but that that,
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you know, that kind of dead air after a song
and realizing that, like, okay.
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That plan that I had maybe isn't the perfect
fit for this environment, and and I need to
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make some adjustments.
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I I think that's a really important, thing that
young artists can learn and to bring to the
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table.
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And it's it's a key to being a successful, paid
performer, especially when you're like us,
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Kenneth, where you are playing, more cover
music usually than you are originals and you
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you have a little bit longer of a show that
you're performing, you have to bring these
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people in.
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And to bring them in, you can't just kind of
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something new all the time.
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You have to bring them something familiar.
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And what's great about Catman two and and
during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally especially
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is that you get people from all over the
country, all over the world that land in this
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one tiny little town, Sturgis, South Dakota for
that week.
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And so you could be singing to someone from
Australia and right there in South Dakota and
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Florida and California and anywhere in between
those places all at the same time, and it makes
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it for a really fun a really fun gathering.
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Very fun.
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Very fun.
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Laid back.
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Very friendly environment.
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Just everybody's just there just to really have
a good time.
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It's almost like one big campground family
almost.
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You know?
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So yeah.
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And especially that one, a lot of these people
have been coming there year over year.
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This is a family reunion for them.
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This is the one time a year they get to see
their friends from across the country and and
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they're meeting there.
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So, there is there is an element of that, and I
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and everything that it brings with it.
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This year, I will say, was a little bit of a
down year.
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Last year being the 80 annual, it was kind of a
real you know, everybody came last year.
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So this year was a little bit thinner on the
crowd side than years past.
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But, yeah, it's still a great time and a a
great intimate setting, like you said, to
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connect with people.
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And I feel like when you have those smaller
crowds, you're able to to connect on a deeper
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level.
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Totally.
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Totally.
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Totally.
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So, Kaneeth, you know, we're we're here coming
into, you know, kinda quarter four of the, of
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2026.
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You you've had a lot of success already this
year.
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Things have gone, I would say, very well for
you as far as, you know, an independent
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musician being able to stay out and touring.
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And, obviously, it's not cheap to travel right
now by any means.
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But talk about, you know, what you're looking
forward to in the last couple of months of 2026
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and then moving in now to to 2027.
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Sure.
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So, yeah, definitely, 2026 has been a great
year.
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Really blessed.
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Just really amazed at how much things feel like
they're starting to pay off.
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You know?
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Because like you said earlier, there is that
grind over the years.
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There is that grind over time.
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But now it feels like, okay.
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It seems like things are finally beginning kind
of beginning to reap what I've been sewing for
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the last few years or so.
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So the end of twenty twenty six, the latter
part of it, working on new music for projects
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for next year, but primarily just kind of
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This time, we're still kinda regionally, you
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I was slated to go to New York next week to do
a radio show interview, but with logistics and
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stuff, it just didn't work out, so I have to do
that by phone.
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But I think that's really the only out of state
place that I probably will be performing in.
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Rest is like states as they say, and then, next
year, hopefully, to start going back out East
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Coast, Midwest.
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Hopefully, South Dakota again, if all is
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So, we'll see.
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I will tell you, you are always welcome at
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Lynette would be more than happy to have you
out there anytime, and I would look forward to
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seeing you out there as well as it's a staple
in, in our year as well.
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Really, really excited for you.
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I think it's it's just wonderful that you get
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of that.
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I mean, California's got enough gigs moving up
and down the state to keep you busy.
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And as the winter sets in, it gets harder and
harder to reach, you know, especially the
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Midwest, the Upper Midwest here in the Great
Plains and the Northeast get to be a little
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touch and go with winter weather settling in.
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So I I think you've got a great plan.
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I think that you've you've executed on that
plan and you continue to do so year over year.
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You're really an inspiration not just for me,
but I think for any independent artist out
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there to look and to say, hey.
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It's possible, but it it it's a lot of work.
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And it it it it must be nice.
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It it must be, really, really hard too.
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And I think that's what people need to to
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There you go.
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Because it you're essentially pretty much
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And like that, you have to pretty much stay on
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But if you love what you do, you know, sort of
like a labor of love.
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So, you know, there's the doctor Jekyll, mister
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Some days, you really, really are just like,
oh, this is great.
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Captain Deadwood.
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This is the dream.
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Other days, you're like, no.
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My computer crashed.
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I can't get my songs back up or my voice is
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I can't sing.
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So, yeah, just whatever comes with music
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overlook all the negative and and stick with
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the positive.
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I you had the biggest smile on your face the
entire time I saw you in South Dakota, and I
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hope I hope you carried that with you as you do
back there.
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And and those moments, those highs that we get
playing music and getting to travel and to see
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all of these places that they carry you through
the low points, and they continue to be
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something that motivate you to wake up and to
continue working every day.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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Yes.
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For sure.
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Awesome, Kenneth.
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Well, we've had your website kinda scrolling
across here.
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You can go to kennethparin.com, find all of his
tour dates.
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If you wanna book this man, I highly suggest
you do.
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If you're a venue owner or you're a fan out
there who's looking to bring him to yours.
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Kenneith is k e n n e I t h, Perrin, perrin.
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That's .com.
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You can find out a lot more information on
here.
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Make sure you go stream all of his music and
bring him to a city and a venue near you
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because I know he'd love to see you.
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Kaneeth Yes.
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Thank you so much for joining me again today.
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I I truly appreciate your friendship now and,
getting to see you.
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I hope I get to see you again soon, and, thank
you once again for being part of the scene.
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Thank you.
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And I appreciate everything that you do for us
independent artists, being that you are an
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artist yourself and musician.
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Thank you, Matt.
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Thank you.
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Truly my pleasure, Kenit.
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Have a great day.
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Alright.
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You too, man.
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Welcome in to another exciting episode of the
scene.
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I am your host Bubba Sartz, and with me today,
soulful r and b singer, my friend, Kenneth
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Perrin.
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Kenneth, welcome back to the show.
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Thank you.
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It's good to be back.
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Appreciate it, Bubba.
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Yeah.
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It's it's absolutely my pleasure when you
mentioned wanting to come in and kinda redo
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yours.
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You know, I I'm not necessarily gonna go back
and pull the old one down, but I figure we can
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give a little revamp and especially now that
we've had an opportunity to meet in person and
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to have you up around my hometown in Deadwood,
South Dakota and to have you perform at
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Kathmandu Campground during the Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally.
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Not your typical rally music for sure, but I
know that Lynette sure loved having you, and it
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was a great time to just be able to to relax
with you, you know, somewhere where I'm very
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comfortable.
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So we have your backstory.
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We kinda know where you're coming from and
everything.
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But tell me a little bit about, you know, since
the last time we talked.
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Oh, jeez.
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It was probably back in February or March.
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It's been a busy summer since then.
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So give us a quick recap of the summer, and
then we'll pick it up from there.
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Yeah.
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Sure.
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No problem.
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Wow.
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Since then, I've been on tour currently am on
tour, the second leg of the Melodic Heart and
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Soul Tour.
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So that's been a lot of fun exploring some
different cities, different venues, and just
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getting to meet a lot a lot of cool people like
yourself in person.
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And also have released a new single called
giving you giving you all.
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It's currently doing really well on radio and
continues to get heavy rotation, which is
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something that I've really never had before.
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It's, like, the first time.
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So it's just a good feeling to be able to
release something, put it out there, and have
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people really, really, really like it just
based on audio alone.
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No videos, no gags, no gimmicks, or anything
like that.
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Just strength of the of the song itself.
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So really excited, man.
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Really excited.
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Yeah.
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That's that's great.
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I'm I'm really proud of you and happy that
things are happening for you.
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Obviously, you've been in this music business
for a long time.
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You've seen it change a lot as as we all have.
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And now getting to you know, you've just stayed
on your grind.
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You you have continued to, you know, perform
and write and release new music, and it's not
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easy.
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And, obviously, we talk about it a lot here on
the scene projects, the struggles of the
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independent artist in the in the age of
streaming and everything that it does.
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But radio is still very much alive.
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And and it's yeah.
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I I think maybe a little bit easier than than
in years past to to kinda crack into radio
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because you have a lot of you know, there's
still independent stations that are out there.
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But I think that the major players are maybe
paying a little less attention to it as they
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start to dedicate more into, you know,
streaming or wherever their attention has gone
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and their money to.
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Let's not forget Payola.
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It it is not just a thing of the past.
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It's still very prevalent, although under maybe
another name.
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It's really great to see someone like yourself
who's an independent artist just continue to
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have success and to build on that success year
after year.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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So, Kenneth, what did you think of South
Dakota?
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I loved it.
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I loved it.
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I loved it.
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Probably one of the purest places I've ever
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people, the food.
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Everything is, like, homegrown.
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Everything is fresh, and everything is just
just very kinda easygoing smooth.
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I mean, if you wanna go to a place and just
destress and not worry about anything, that is
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the place to go to for sure.
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And I I really had a a great time.
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Really enjoyed it.
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And Day at Wood City is really fascinating
because of the history.
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There's so much there to do.
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I mean, I was just there just pretty much,
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spent a little bit more time because there's so
much to do, so much to visit, the different
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arenas where performers perform.
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That was interesting to see, and appreciate you
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That really helped out quite a bit because,
otherwise, it's just me and friends just kinda
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walking down the street and really not knowing,
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going to.
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Amazing city.
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Amazing, amazing city.
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And and one of my favorite weekends there is
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Songwriters Festival.
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The whole town is just full.
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There's actually two concurrent, festivals that
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One of them, the Wild West Songwriters Fest,
which is kinda sponsored Edward Chamber and is
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an official event.
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And then we have the Trails of Tales event that
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So you literally have the entire of Main
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There are there is live music everywhere, a lot
of, you know, kind of not necessarily cowboy
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music, but it's it's guitars and singer
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I think it's the best weekend and the best
events that they put on.
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It might not draw the most people because
you're not really bringing in the headline acts
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and it's, you know, shutting down Main Street
where you're walking up and They have several
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events during the year where they close that
street, put a big stage down at the lower end,
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and then it's it's, you know, ten, fifteen
thousand people with their chair set up and,
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you know, drinking open container and and
taking in the music.
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This one is a little bit different than that,
but for me and what I love, obviously, the
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independent musician and the grind that that
is, I absolutely love this weekend.
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You you're gonna meet so many people, other
artists, and really is a great networking
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opportunity, but we're it it builds in the
audience every single year as well.
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And there's, you know, a 100 to 200 people at
most of these, you know, kinda writers rounds
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that they're doing and really blessed to be a
part of it.
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I think we're going to be a bigger part of that
with the scene project this year and doing more
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in person interviews and and really having that
to bring to the table.
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And, it's just it's a great vibe, Kenneth, and
you got to see, the Deadwood Mountain Grand and
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the big stage up there.
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That's where they kinda do the end, their their
big ending performance in concert and announce
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the winner of their regional songwriter contest
as well.
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So a a really amazing, town that absolutely
loves its live music, and and I was very
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fortunate to to not just, you know, grow up
there, but to to be welcomed back even though I
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don't live in the area any longer, time after
time, and to really have some deep, deep
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friendships with people around that area.
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I'm glad that, know, you completely unplanned.
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You know, you talked about the tour I gave you
around town.
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I just happened to walk out of where I was and
to see you across the street and give you a
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holler and kinda chase you down and, to to to
have a chance to show you around my town.
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It it was really great.
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It was it was amazing.
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And thank you also for the support during the
Kathmandu campground show too.
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That was, like, a huge, huge help as well just
with the setup and everything, and it really
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kinda helped make the start of the show really
just kinda kick off with a bang because I had
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everything I needed and just kinda help
facilitate in between with Lynette and I and
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just 100 a plus all the way, man.
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So I really appreciate that.
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And that was really awesome too just to kinda
entertain in a small inner intimate setting and
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new fans and be able to kinda share share music
that way.
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So I I will say, though, they they were a
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It kinda took a minute to kinda get them going,
but I felt like the more songs I kinda chose
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that were sort of maybe a little bit more
Kathmandu friendly, I should say, the better
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the show became.
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So I just had to keep a keep a ear out for
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And that and that's true anywhere you go as a
performer.
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You know?
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You have to kinda be aware of where you are,
who you're singing to.
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And sometimes your set list may be one thing
when you start off, but then engaging the crowd
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and audience, you have to kinda flip the switch
and, you know, kinda change it to make sure
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that they're kind of vibing and feeling what
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Oh, and I think that's a great lesson for,
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I think that's a great lesson for younger
artists as well is that it's great that we
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have, oh, I'm gonna play these songs, and this
is gonna be the show.
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But, you know, the famous Mike Tyson quote, you
know, everybody's got a plan till they get
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punched in the mouth.
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And granted for us musicians, usually, we're
not getting swung on physically, but that that,
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you know, that kind of dead air after a song
and realizing that, like, okay.
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That plan that I had maybe isn't the perfect
fit for this environment, and and I need to
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make some adjustments.
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I I think that's a really important, thing that
young artists can learn and to bring to the
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table.
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And it's it's a key to being a successful, paid
performer, especially when you're like us,
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Kenneth, where you are playing, more cover
music usually than you are originals and you
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you have a little bit longer of a show that
you're performing, you have to bring these
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people in.
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And to bring them in, you can't just kind of
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something new all the time.
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And what's great about Catman two and and
during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally especially
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is that you get people from all over the
country, all over the world that land in this
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one tiny little town, Sturgis, South Dakota for
that week.
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And so you could be singing to someone from
Australia and right there in South Dakota and
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Florida and California and anywhere in between
those places all at the same time, and it makes
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it for a really fun a really fun gathering.
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Very fun.
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Very fun.
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Laid back.
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Very friendly environment.
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Just everybody's just there just to really have
a good time.
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You know?
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It's almost like one big campground family
almost.
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You know?
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So yeah.
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And especially that one, a lot of these people
have been coming there year over year.
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This is a family reunion for them.
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This is the one time a year they get to see
their friends from across the country and and
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they're meeting there.
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So, there is there is an element of that, and I
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and everything that it brings with it.
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This year, I will say, was a little bit of a
down year.
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Last year being the 80 annual, it was kind of a
real you know, everybody came last year.
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So this year was a little bit thinner on the
crowd side than years past.
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But, yeah, it's still a great time and a a
great intimate setting, like you said, to
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connect with people.
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And I feel like when you have those smaller
crowds, you're able to to connect on a deeper
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level.
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Totally.
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Totally.
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Totally.
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So, Kaneeth, you know, we're we're here coming
into, you know, kinda quarter four of the, of
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2026.
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You you've had a lot of success already this
year.
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Things have gone, I would say, very well for
you as far as, you know, an independent
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musician being able to stay out and touring.
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And, obviously, it's not cheap to travel right
now by any means.
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But talk about, you know, what you're looking
forward to in the last couple of months of 2026
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and then moving in now to to 2027.
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Sure.
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So, yeah, definitely, 2026 has been a great
year.
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Really blessed.
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Just really amazed at how much things feel like
they're starting to pay off.
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You know?
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Because like you said earlier, there is that
grind over the years.
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There is that grind over time.
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But now it feels like, okay.
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It seems like things are finally beginning kind
of beginning to reap what I've been sewing for
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the last few years or so.
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So the end of twenty twenty six, the latter
part of it, working on new music for projects
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for next year, but primarily just kind of
focusing on on touring.
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This time, we're still kinda regionally, you
know, within the California area.
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I was slated to go to New York next week to do
a radio show interview, but with logistics and
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stuff, it just didn't work out, so I have to do
that by phone.
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But I think that's really the only out of state
place that I probably will be performing in.
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Rest is like states as they say, and then, next
year, hopefully, to start going back out East
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Coast, Midwest.
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Hopefully, South Dakota again, if all is
willing.
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So, we'll see.
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We'll see.
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Yeah.
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I will tell you, you are always welcome at
Kathmandu.
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Lynette would be more than happy to have you
out there anytime, and I would look forward to
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seeing you out there as well as it's a staple
in, in our year as well.
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Really, really excited for you.
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I think it's it's just wonderful that you get
to stay out here and to to continue to tour all
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of that.
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I mean, California's got enough gigs moving up
and down the state to keep you busy.
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And as the winter sets in, it gets harder and
harder to reach, you know, especially the
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Midwest, the Upper Midwest here in the Great
Plains and the Northeast get to be a little
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touch and go with winter weather settling in.
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So I I think you've got a great plan.
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I think that you've you've executed on that
plan and you continue to do so year over year.
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You're really an inspiration not just for me,
but I think for any independent artist out
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there to look and to say, hey.
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It's possible, but it it it's a lot of work.
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And it it it it must be nice.
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It it must be, really, really hard too.
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And I think that's what people need to to
understand about the independent musician life.
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There you go.
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Because it you're essentially pretty much
running your own business.
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And like that, you have to pretty much stay on
top of everything from start to finish.
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But if you love what you do, you know, sort of
like a labor of love.
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So, you know, there's the doctor Jekyll, mister
Hyde to it.
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Some days, you really, really are just like,
oh, this is great.
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Captain Deadwood.
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Yes.
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This is the dream.
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Other days, you're like, no.
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My computer crashed.
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I can't get my songs back up or my voice is
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Yeah.
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I can't sing.
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So, yeah, just whatever comes with music
territory, you you name it.
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But I think you have to love it enough to kinda
overlook all the negative and and stick with
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the positive.
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So yeah.
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For sure.
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Yeah.
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I you had the biggest smile on your face the
entire time I saw you in South Dakota, and I
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hope I hope you carried that with you as you do
back there.
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And and those moments, those highs that we get
playing music and getting to travel and to see
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all of these places that they carry you through
the low points, and they continue to be
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something that motivate you to wake up and to
continue working every day.
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Yes.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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Yes.
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For sure.
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Awesome, Kenneth.
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Well, we've had your website kinda scrolling
across here.
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You can go to kennethparin.com, find all of his
tour dates.
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If you wanna book this man, I highly suggest
you do.
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If you're a venue owner or you're a fan out
there who's looking to bring him to yours.
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Kenneith is k e n n e I t h, Perrin, perrin.
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That's .com.
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You can find out a lot more information on
here.
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Make sure you go stream all of his music and
bring him to a city and a venue near you
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because I know he'd love to see you.
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Kaneeth Yes.
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Thank you so much for joining me again today.
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I I truly appreciate your friendship now and,
getting to see you.
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I hope I get to see you again soon, and, thank
you once again for being part of the scene.
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Thank you.
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And I appreciate everything that you do for us
independent artists, being that you are an
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artist yourself and musician.
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So really appreciate that.
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Thank you, Matt.
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Thank you.
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Truly my pleasure, Kenit.
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Have a great day.
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Alright.
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You too, man.
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Thank you.
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Bye bye.
