The Sheepdogs' Ewan Curry
From our archives in 2012:
Ewan Curry from The Sheepdogs joins the podcast for a relaxed chat about the band’s journey from bored university students to rock ’n’ roll success. He talks about finally embracing their dream, developing their harmony-driven sound, and grinding their way from small Canadian bars to US tours. They also touch on their latest self-titled album and how live shows shape their music.
Chapters
- 00:00 - Introduction to Country Fried Rock
- 03:10 - The Evolution of the Sheepdogs
- 08:25 - The Journey to Their Self-Titled Album
- 11:47 - Recording Process and Challenges
- 18:13 - Transitioning to New Creative Directions
- 19:34 - The Evolution of Our Music and Touring Plans
Mentioned in this Episode
- Atlantic Records
- Athens, Georgia
- Australia
- Beck
- Black Box Revelation
- Black Keys
- Buffalo Killers
- Chad Blake
- Chicago
- Cream
- Country Fried Rock
- Ewan Curry
- Gregg Allman
- Humble Pie
- Jimi Hendrix
- Joel Carrier
- John Fogerty
- Kings of Leon
- Kinks
- Lollapalooza
- London, England
- Monster Truck
- Nuci's Space
- Osheaga
- Pat Carney
- Peter Frampton
- Philadelphia
- Pink Floyd
- Portland
- Rolling Stone
- San Francisco
- Sasquatch! Music Festival
- Saskatoon
- Seattle
- Sheepdogs
- Tenacious D
- The Allman Brothers Band
- The Beatles
- The Full Tones
- The Twisted Hearts
- The White Stripes
- United States
- Winnipeg
- Yukon Blonde
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Transcript
Welcome to Country Fried Rock, where we talk with musicians to find out what inspires their creativity.
Speaker A:Country Fried Rock Music uncovered We apologize for the audio quality on this week's radio show.
Speaker A:It doesn't really meet our standards.
Speaker A:It's a good conversation.
Speaker A:Thanks a bunch for listening.
Speaker A:My guest today on Country Fried Rock is Ewan Curry of the band the Sheepdogs.
Speaker A:Welcome.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:Good to be here.
Speaker A:We're really excited to have y' all with us.
Speaker A:What kind of led to the development of the Sheepdogs as a band?
Speaker B:It came out of, you know, a bunch of young men who were bored with going to university and the kind of direction that our lives are going at about 19, 20.
Speaker B:So, you know, we just wanted to do something completely different.
Speaker B:And I think that it was, like, the secret dream to being a rock band that we had always sort of harbored, and we just finally went for it one day.
Speaker A:So when did you get into music originally?
Speaker B:Growing up, I played a lot of music.
Speaker B:My dad's a musician, so I played piano and played the old licorice stick for a while as well.
Speaker B:But I always wanted to play guitar.
Speaker A:So when did that come around?
Speaker B:In high school.
Speaker B:My high school had, like, an acoustic guitar class that pretty basic, and you'd learn how to play, like, you know, scales and stuff like that.
Speaker B:That was kind of my first chance to just get my hands on one.
Speaker A:Well, so at what point did the guitar become something that was a little more appealing than scales?
Speaker B:I always liked rock music and always centered around guitars, but probably when I was in, like, seventh or eighth grade, I got, like, a Jimi Hendrix best off, and it kind of blew open a lot of doors.
Speaker A:At what point did you start playing for people outside of the school classes and your family?
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I guess my first sort of, like, public performance was, like, I was in a couple musicals in high school.
Speaker B:It's kind of embarrassing because it's, like, the most corny music ever, but it was my first chance to sing in front of people.
Speaker B:That was sort of the first public foray, but not necessarily the one I want to be remembered for.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Well, so then, at what point did your guitar and your band develop, you know, early on there to where it was something that was happening for the public?
Speaker B:Well, we had our usual, you know, open stages and battle of the band kind of appearances, and.
Speaker B:And probably around the time that we started being able to play shows in our Hometown and get 100 people out to the show was probably the first time that, okay, we have something that's worth coming out to see and paying a small amount of money to go see.
Speaker B:That was probably the first indicator.
Speaker A:Were you all playing cover songs at that point?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I mean, we definitely did cover songs to sort of fill out the set.
Speaker B:But even from the get go, we would try and do original material, which I think is pretty indicative of a lot of bands nowadays.
Speaker B:I don't think there's as many straight cover bands, but we had a good mix going on.
Speaker A:What did y' all like to cover at the time?
Speaker B:We would do.
Speaker B:We played most of the stuff off the first Kings of Leon album, Young Manhood album, Black Keys, White Stripes.
Speaker B:Sort of the rock music of the time.
Speaker B: Like this is like early: Speaker B:Kind of the rock music that emulated sort of more the roots elements of rock that we liked Cream or Beatles or Hendrix and things like that as well.
Speaker A:What developed for you all as it led towards the Sheepdogs?
Speaker B:A large part of it was.
Speaker B:Was for us just basically learning our instruments.
Speaker B:Because I had a very low amount of things I could do on a guitar.
Speaker B:And Ryan sort of just had to learn the bass and Sam learned the drums from the first day we ever jammed.
Speaker B:So we were really, really bad.
Speaker B:A lot of time in the basement and toiling away.
Speaker B:I don't think we played publicly for about eight months because we were terrible and we knew it.
Speaker B:We just didn't want to subject anyone to that.
Speaker B:Over the next four years, probably we were sort of developing our style and learning how to sing and play our instruments and figuring out what we could do and what showcased sort of the best of our abilities and all that.
Speaker A:Well, four years then is a long time to develop who you are.
Speaker A:Where did that end up musically?
Speaker B:We sort of hang our hat on the fact that we have vocal harmonies, you know, three part harmonies, and sometimes four, with the addition of my brother who plays with us live now.
Speaker B:And then also, you know, just having rock music that had upfront guitars but still had sort of melody and thinking about bands like the Beatles and the Kinks that had a premium on melody.
Speaker B:You know, we wanted to have all the riffs and groove and everything up.
Speaker B:Good rock music.
Speaker B:But we always wanted to have nice melody and harmony as well.
Speaker B:It was sort of figuring out how to put all those things together.
Speaker A:Well, yeah, because that's a little different then than like the more sparse sound like that early Black Keys stuff or the White Stripes at the time.
Speaker B:That and the White Stripes.
Speaker B:Those songs are really easy to learn because it's guitar licks and and especially the White Stripes is the little drumming you can do.
Speaker B:But, yeah, we wanted, especially when we became four piece, when Lee had joined us, we definitely wanted to have a fuller sound.
Speaker B:We didn't want to have a stripped down thing.
Speaker B:We wanted to have two guitars and multiple voices singing.
Speaker A:How was that working for you all in terms of playing live?
Speaker B:I mean, it was very intertwined with playing live because that's predominantly what we were doing.
Speaker B:We were practicing in the basement, and then we were trying to gig as much as we could.
Speaker B:Whether it was gigging around Saskatoon or taking a road trip to Winnipeg or.
Speaker B:Or going on the road and finding a bunch of terrible shows to play across Canada.
Speaker B:Everything was kind of centered around a live gig.
Speaker B:That was how we determined whether new songs would make the cut or what things worked and what didn't.
Speaker A:At what point did it lead to we need to make a record?
Speaker B:We were making records all the way along.
Speaker B:But when you sell a few hundred copies, a thousand copies of an album, there's more interaction going on with actually playing live, because you can immediately get feedback and you see what keeps people's attention.
Speaker B:We were going into so many of these gigs where there was no expectations.
Speaker B:There was no, you were the night's entertainment at that bar.
Speaker B:And so you had to kind of win people's ears.
Speaker B:They'd kind of stop in and hear what the music sounded like, see what the COVID was.
Speaker B:So we were all about doing things that would catch their ear and draw them in.
Speaker B:I think that's a big part of shaping our sound.
Speaker B:We're very conscious about pleasing an audience, and I think sometimes if you just record, it's very much sort of pleasing yourself.
Speaker B:And I think we have kind of a nice balance both areas.
Speaker B:Hey, this is Ewan Curry from the Sheepdogs.
Speaker B:You're listening to Country Fried Rock.
Speaker A:We apologize for the audio quality on this week's radio show.
Speaker A:It doesn't really meet our standards.
Speaker A:It's a good conversation.
Speaker A:Thanks a bunch for listening.
Speaker A:So at what point did it expand beyond the smaller clubs and bars across Canada?
Speaker B:That's really.
Speaker B:I mean, certain areas, like Winnipeg in our hometown, we started being able to do like, you know, a few hundred people and, you know, sell out a theater or something like that.
Speaker B:But right across the country, it kind of has only really been the last couple years that things have kind of moved to the next level.
Speaker B:We really felt like we kind of plateaued in terms of where our success was going.
Speaker B:And certainly, you know, we were in this whole big Rolling Stone competition.
Speaker B:Last year, that certainly gave us a huge shot in the arm.
Speaker B:And now the crowds are much bigger and get to play all these cool, you know, summer festivals and stuff, too.
Speaker A:What led to getting involved with that competition?
Speaker B:It was not a public thing where, you know, we submitted or, you know, we saw the ad in the back of a magazine.
Speaker B:It was like an insider, only, like, I think Rolling Stone was working in conjunction with Atlantic Record to curate the competition.
Speaker B:So they put out the call to sort of all the industry types, you know, management, such.
Speaker B:One of those people was our now manager, Joel Carrier, and he passed along our album to one of the A and R guys from Atlantic, and it made it in the final cut.
Speaker B:And they asked us, you know, is this something you'd be into?
Speaker B:And, you know, where we were at at that point in time, you know, couldn't really pick and choose about what we wanted to do as it pertains to our music career, because we just didn't really have one.
Speaker B:We were all struggling to make money, we were all broke.
Speaker B:We were all trying to work jobs back home and still trying to tour.
Speaker B:So an easy decision.
Speaker A:And so then what changed for you all after that?
Speaker B:You know, just the demand.
Speaker B:All of a sudden we were getting gigs, we were getting played on the radio, especially in Canada, and people were really excited about it.
Speaker B:And it kind of affirmed a lot of what we had believed, although you never know until it actually happens.
Speaker B:But we always believed we had this good sound and we had a good band.
Speaker B:And anytime people came and saw us, they always went away saying, you guys are great.
Speaker B:Really, really enjoyed it.
Speaker B:You're doing something we just don't hear.
Speaker B:The one thing we never had was that publicity, that widespread advertisements.
Speaker B:It kind of gave us what we needed.
Speaker A:Have you noticed anything different with the types of audiences that are finding you?
Speaker B:There's a little bit of difference.
Speaker B:It's always been pretty diverse.
Speaker B:We've got underage kids that grew up playing Guitar Hero and learning about Pink Floyd and that fun stuff.
Speaker B:And then there's baby boomers at the other end of the spectrum who grew up who tell us that they were at whatever show that the Allman Brothers played or something like that.
Speaker B:There's all varieties in between.
Speaker B:There's lots of just 20s and 30s something guys and gals.
Speaker B:And I love that it's diverse like that.
Speaker B:I wouldn't want it to be for just a hipster audience or just for hippies or anything.
Speaker B:I want everybody.
Speaker A:With this most recent record, the Sheepdogs, even though it's self Titled.
Speaker A:It's not your first record?
Speaker B:No, it's our fourth full length album.
Speaker B:But you know, it's the first album that when it got released it was actually in stores and especially outside of Canada and around the world.
Speaker B:So we went with the self titled thinking.
Speaker B:It's kind of like an intro.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:What led to that recording process?
Speaker A:So before you actually got into the studio, where were you all of like, okay, here's what's gonna happen.
Speaker B: ell, basically it was a crazy: Speaker B:Going back and forth across the continent and even overseas.
Speaker B:We took a trip to Australia.
Speaker B:I think we went for like two or three days and came right back.
Speaker A:Oh my gosh.
Speaker B:Chance to get jet lagged.
Speaker B: At the end of: Speaker B:And along those last few months we had basically organized with Pat Carney that we were going to do an album.
Speaker B:And it just became an issue of when are we going to have time?
Speaker B:We're very busy and so is he.
Speaker B:So all of a sudden this two weeks in January of this year got earmarked for recording.
Speaker B:And so it was kind of like I'd be on a tour bus and trying to go through demos and figure out what the are we going to record.
Speaker A:How did you all end up choosing to work with him in the first place?
Speaker B:We definitely want to work with somebody interesting and you always want to work with musicians that you respect and like and admire.
Speaker B:And we met him in New York at a show and had a mutual friend and we're chatting and you meet a lot of people and they're, you know, they're nice or fake nice or whatever.
Speaker B:But Pat was immediately like asking us, you know, what are you guys going to do next?
Speaker B:He's very curious as to what our plan was.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker B:We just threw it at him, you know, why don't, you know, why don't you produce it?
Speaker B:I'm too busy.
Speaker B:But, you know, eventually it worked out, you know.
Speaker B: vered the Black heath back in: Speaker A:Did you all go in to record with him with everything demoed out already?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I mean, it was really all over the place.
Speaker B:Some songs had been recorded, you know, in their entirety earlier, so we knew what the arrangements were and others were, you know, like a chorus and a riff and needed expanding.
Speaker B:So it was kind of all over the place.
Speaker B:But our attitude going in was everything we did all last year was, you know, by the seat of our pants and just kind of having to roll with the situation.
Speaker B:And, you know, nothing was ever ideal.
Speaker B:You know, we play three different parts of the continent, you know, in a weekend.
Speaker B:You know, Friday in the west coast, insane Saturday in the east coast, and flying all over the place.
Speaker B:So our attitude was just, you know, it's not ideal, but let's make the best of it.
Speaker B: ed out because I think that's: Speaker B:And by being adaptable and just trying to be tough and work with whatever is going on, you know, that's how we had success.
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Speaker A:Find out more about Nucci's at n u c I.org hey, this is Ewan from the Sheepdogs.
Speaker B:Check us out@www.thesheepdogs.com.
Speaker A:We apologize for the audio quality on this week's radio show.
Speaker A:It doesn't really meet our standards.
Speaker A:It's a good conversation.
Speaker A:Thanks a bunch for listening.
Speaker A:And so then, as you all got into actually recording with him, how did that process go for you?
Speaker B:You know, it was pretty simple.
Speaker B:I mean, initially, we just set up all in the same room.
Speaker B:And the first couple tracks we did, we knew pretty well.
Speaker B:So we didn't even wear headphones, let alone a click track.
Speaker B:We played them live, and we knew what we were doing.
Speaker B:People always say that it's easy to mix us because we're just basically clean tones.
Speaker B:And I think musically, people know their role.
Speaker B:You know, the drums and the bass or the rhythm and guitar parts.
Speaker B:We figure out how to have two guitars that complement each other and stay out of each other's way.
Speaker B:When we got into some of the more songs that were being developed, a lot of that was getting a guide track down and then building on top of that.
Speaker A:What was the time frame between having that actually recorded and hearing some mixes coming from that?
Speaker B:You know, we would get rough pretty quick.
Speaker B:It was mixed overseas by a gentleman named Chad Blake.
Speaker B:He's a very good mixer.
Speaker B:And when we were getting the mixes from him, we were in Australia.
Speaker B:We were in Australia touring with John Fogarty and having to try and download these mixes and communicating with Pat, who was in the US and Chad, who was in London, England.
Speaker B:It's a difficult thing because when you're on the road, you don't always have access to one, good download Internet speed and two, a good speaker system that you can kind of sit down and listen to.
Speaker B:It drives you insane.
Speaker B:Like we're listening on all these different stereos.
Speaker B:You have no idea.
Speaker B:You know, you're freaking out because the bass sounds weird or, you know, too high end or something.
Speaker B:So it's.
Speaker B:It's tough.
Speaker B:You know, mixing can be stressful.
Speaker B:Even if you're not there just because you hear it and you're, you know, you're trying to communicate through email.
Speaker B:You know, what needs to change.
Speaker B:That was all involved.
Speaker A:What did you all notice that had changed the most?
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:You know, there's a lot of colors and stuff on there, but most of it is stuff that we put on.
Speaker B:It was keyboard sounds and guitar tones.
Speaker B:You know, I think there were certain things like, you know, those little vocal effects, like, you know, maybe making a vocal effect, you know, sound washed out a little bit, or, you know, having that kind of filter, that dirty filter, or like, you know, that slap delay.
Speaker B:But that was no surprise.
Speaker B:I mean, we know we employed some of those techniques on when we mixed our own stuff too.
Speaker B:So I like that stuff.
Speaker B:You know, I like the gritty kind of sounds track, like Feeling Good.
Speaker B:You know, the drums definitely have some processing on them.
Speaker B:It totally works for the track.
Speaker B:I mean, there was nothing where we got it and we were like, good God, you know, he turned it into a monster.
Speaker B:No, I think we were happy with the direction he was going in.
Speaker A:Since the record has come out, what has been happening for you all with your music?
Speaker B:Well, I mean, it's been.
Speaker B:We've been doing this long US tour that we're kind of coming to the end of right now.
Speaker B:You know, that's been a big thing for us, is trying to get beyond the long list of Canadian bands that don't really ever have much of a US presence.
Speaker B:We're very mindful of trying to make a go down here in the US So that's kind of been the first thing we've been doing since about mid September.
Speaker B:We've been touring the US and then next we've got the Canadian tour after that.
Speaker B:There's a lot of things along the way, whether it's like making music videos or, or, you know, just overseeing all the little details that go into being a band.
Speaker B:Is Just a lot of going on and hopefully, you know, Europe and Australia and the UK and all that stuff is going to come up soon as well.
Speaker A:This is the first time y' all have headlined through the States.
Speaker A:How has that gone for you all?
Speaker B:It's gone great.
Speaker B:I mean, we came into it with tempered expectations because we haven't done a headlining tour before and we're going to markets that we haven't played before.
Speaker B:And the crowd's actually been really, really good.
Speaker B:I mean, it's definitely a different scale than in Canada, but, you know, we're playing smaller venues.
Speaker B:But to see, you know, full house, full houses and places we've never been to, it's really encouraging.
Speaker B:And then, you know, a lot of the markets, like, you know, your Chicago's and New York and Seattle, San Francisco, Portland have been fantastic.
Speaker B:So it's really encouraging to see that, you know, if we keep coming back and put in the hard work, you know, we can definitely build something up here.
Speaker A:Have there been any places that have been pleasant surprises for you?
Speaker B:You know, Chicago, I mean, I heard people say it's tough town and we had a full house at the Double Door, which is a nice venue and, you know, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker B:I mean, there's so much great musical history in that town.
Speaker B:Philly was another place like I heard, notoriously tough for new bands.
Speaker B:We had a really rowdy crowd that was just so excited.
Speaker B:And that's its other thing is that it's not just the numbers, but it's the type of people that come out.
Speaker B:It's not like a too cool for school, you know, arms crossed, sort of taking it in crowd.
Speaker B:It's like people who are coming for a good time and they're having some beers and they're really cutting loose.
Speaker B:That's what I like to see.
Speaker A:Have you had anyone on support with you on this?
Speaker B:Yeah, we've been playing mostly with Black Box Revelation.
Speaker B:They're a band from Belgium.
Speaker B:And then we also did a week run with the Buffalo Killers, who are from Ohio.
Speaker A:I love them.
Speaker B:They are fantastic.
Speaker B:I wish they would do more.
Speaker A:Yeah, they have a fairly newish record out too.
Speaker B:They do?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like it came out about the same time that ours did.
Speaker B:They're really awesome live.
Speaker B:They sing just like they do on the record.
Speaker B:Oh, cool.
Speaker B:I like Joe Walsh.
Speaker A:When you all are doing Runs Through Canada, do you choose, you know, buddy bands to come along with you?
Speaker B:Yeah, we do.
Speaker B:Last winter we had this band, Monster Truck that are friends of ours, like a hard rock band.
Speaker B:This year we got Yukon Blonde, who are from the west coast of Canada.
Speaker B:We like to have bands that we think are good and that make for a good bill, and then usually our friends as well.
Speaker B:The thing is, you don't get to see.
Speaker B:You either see the band every night or you never see them.
Speaker B:It seems like when you're on tour.
Speaker B:Hey, this is Ewan from the Sheepdogs, and if you want to check out our new album, go to thesheepdogs.com or get it on itunes.
Speaker A:We apologize for the audio quality on this week's radio show.
Speaker A:It doesn't really meet our standards.
Speaker A:It's a good conversation.
Speaker A:Thanks a bunch for listening.
Speaker A:Have you all done a lot of festivals while you've been on this latest run?
Speaker B:Yeah, this summer we did.
Speaker B:We did Coachella and Sasquatch and Lala and Oceaga up in Montreal.
Speaker B:So a lot of the big ones, those are great.
Speaker A:Did you get a chance to catch anyone else playing?
Speaker B:Yeah, we do our best.
Speaker B:I mean, sometimes you're in and out and allow you to see anybody, and other times, you know, I think Sasquatch were there for the whole weekend.
Speaker B:So I got to see Beck and Tenacious D and Charles Bradley.
Speaker B:Those are probably my top three people I saw there.
Speaker B:Coachella, I watched the Black Keys.
Speaker A:It's been a really intense couple of years for you all.
Speaker B:Yeah, it definitely has.
Speaker B:I mean, we went from, you know, a band that would, you know, save up and hit the road for like a month and then come back and be completely broke and have to sort of pick up the pieces before they could go on the road again and, you know, broke and all that kind of stuff to one that's operating pretty, pretty smoothly with a lot of promise.
Speaker B:And basically, as a result, we haven't been home in about two years, and we're living out of a suitcase and all that stuff, too.
Speaker A:What would you hope to bring in or help you all continue creatively?
Speaker B:It kind of comes down to, you know, being able to play good live shows.
Speaker B:Are we happy with our live shows?
Speaker B:And are we, you know, playing good audiences and performing well?
Speaker B:And so far we are.
Speaker B:I feel real good about that.
Speaker B:And then the other side is, you know, we're getting to make interesting albums and music that we think is good and that we'd want to hear.
Speaker B:And, yeah, I feel like we are there as well.
Speaker B:You know, we made our first major label album and it went really well, and we're happy with it.
Speaker B:And we're already thinking about the next one, too.
Speaker B:I Mean, we might throwing around the idea of maybe doing a little EP of sorts.
Speaker B:And if not, we already got ideas kind of building up for the next album.
Speaker B:And so as long as we get to keep playing good shows and making good music, then we're happy.
Speaker A:Do you all throw out any new songs live that maybe haven't been recorded yet?
Speaker B:Not just yet, because, I mean, we had to learn all these songs from the album.
Speaker B:And then we want to keep playing some of the older songs that people like and that go over really well live.
Speaker B:We're very cognizant of get the people what they want, life, because they're paying the money.
Speaker A:But so what works in keeping those early fans now that you've had these great things happen?
Speaker B:Well, the good thing for us that we didn't have that many fans.
Speaker B:But, you know, I think people respond to the same types of songs.
Speaker B:It's not a bigger divide.
Speaker B:Like, I don't think stylistically we've changed that much.
Speaker B:I mean, there was a bit of a reaction, I think, among some people to our first single off this new album.
Speaker B:You know, that maybe we have gone into sort of streamlined approach.
Speaker B:But when you listen to the album, you see that there's a lot of diversity there.
Speaker B:You know, we try to play old stuff and new stuff and we mix it up and, you know, we try to pay attention to what people are asking for.
Speaker B:But you just gotta realize that you can't please everybody.
Speaker B:And I think we do a pretty good job of mixing it up.
Speaker B:And we don't get too bogged down in new fans versus old fans.
Speaker B:We didn't have like this grassroots, giant, grassroots audience that we had.
Speaker B:And then all of a sudden, you know, cell phone commercial gave us, you know, a pop mainstream audience or anything like that.
Speaker A:As you all move forward, then if you could design a bill or bring in some of your other buddies in different ways, what would you like to do?
Speaker B:I love being able to pick bands that we can tour with, you know, whether it's like our friends Yukon Blonde and Monster Truck or Buffalo Killers and things like that.
Speaker B:But I mean, there's plenty of other bigger bands that we'd like to play with as well.
Speaker B:And, you know, and maybe even something like in our own provinces.
Speaker B:There's not really a music festival of newer bands there.
Speaker B:They have some festivals like a folk fest and there's a smaller hippie fest.
Speaker B:That's fun.
Speaker B:But I'd like to see a little more of like a sort of younger new music vibe festival through at this point in My life.
Speaker B:I just trying to keep up with everything that's going on in front of me before I branch off into these other adventures.
Speaker A:You know, if you could get on the road with someone who is at the next level from where you all.
Speaker A:What would be a fun or a good mix?
Speaker B:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker B:It's tough to say.
Speaker B:The bands I like are.
Speaker B:You know, they're all old and going away.
Speaker B:But, I mean, people are always saying, you guys should play with the Allman Brothers, you know, as if all we have to do is just call up Greg and say, hey, man.
Speaker B:Hey, buddy.
Speaker B:We hop on the bill.
Speaker B:That would be a pretty cool one if somehow we could, you know, get the blessing to open for those guys or something like that.
Speaker B:I mean, we got to do the Fogarty opening tour.
Speaker B:It was pretty.
Speaker B:Pretty sweet.
Speaker B:We opened for the Kings of Leon on a Canadian tour.
Speaker B:You know, they're superstar, you know, younger bands.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:There's a lot of bills out there that'd be nice to get on.
Speaker B:You know, there's so much politics involved.
Speaker B:Very much such a headache, you know,.
Speaker A:And that's why it's almost more fun to talk about when you're not talking reality at all, because the reality of it is so much more complicated.
Speaker B:And if that's the case, then, like, you know, can Humble Pie.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Like, can Peter Frampton get his hair back pre Blonde Perm, Back when he had straight black hair when he was, like, 19 and he was in humble pie, he was a fourth.
Speaker A:You've got a lot going on with the tour and stuff.
Speaker A:Do you have anything else going on with the album, though?
Speaker B:Yeah, we're working on our next video, which is painful.
Speaker B:It's painful for us because we just hate music videos because they're always the same thing.
Speaker B:You know, the band performing with a boring story kind of intercut.
Speaker B:We're trying to make sure that the content that we release is interesting and worthwhile.
Speaker B:You know, working on that.
Speaker B:It's basically tour.
Speaker B:You know, once the album comes out, you got to hit as much territories you can and promote it.
Speaker B:You know, it's very early stages where we're talking about maybe doing a little ep, come out in between major albums.
Speaker B:Lots of ideas kind of in the works, I think.
Speaker A:Very cool.
Speaker A:Very cool.
Speaker A:Take it easy and drive safe, y'.
Speaker B:All.
Speaker B:Thank you very much.
Speaker A:Bye, bye.
Speaker B:Bye bye.
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