The Greatest Non Hits

Driving and Cryin: Fly Me Courageous

β€’ Chris & Tim β€’ Season 3 β€’ Episode 14

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Embark on a musical adventure with us as we unearth the hidden gems of Driving and Cryin's "Fly Me Courageous." With the two of us lending our wit and wisdom to the conversation, we're peeling back the layers of this pivotal '90s album, leaving the hits on the shelf to shine a light on the tunes that truly make the heart of Southern rock throb. From the band's intertwining history with The Black Crowes to Kevin Kinney's distinctive vocals, prepare to rank and revel in the tracks that set the scene for a generation.

Our chat veers into the therapeutic realms of beachside musings and the simple joys of barbecues and natural cocoa beans, all while tipping our hats to musical icons and dissecting genre-blending sounds. We're not just talking music here; we're talking about the art of healing through lyrics, the inspirations that drive artists to create, and the profound cultural moments that songs can capture. It's a roundabout conversation that's as rich and surprising as a hidden track on your favorite album.

Then we get down to brass tacks in our musical review, discussing what makes a song resonate with fans and the eclectic nature of a band that defies easy labels. As we consider the energy that fuels their performances and the cultural pride they evoke, we can't help but wish for that extra dash of cowbell. So, grab your headphones, and let's celebrate the enigmatic allure of Driving and Cryin together, with plenty of laughs, debates, and shared love for the songs that soundtrack our lives.

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Speaker 2:

All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris, and playing the song for you on Driving and Cryin' fourth studio album, fly Me Courageous, is my co-host, tim. Thank you for listening. This is an album by the band Driving and Cryin'. This is probably our last Atlanta band for a while, but nevertheless this is probably our last Atlanta band for a while, but nevertheless they're a creation from the mid-80s and this album was released in 1991. The band's been around for a long time I think their lead singer, kevin Kinney, is touring solo at the moment but nevertheless, a blast from the past. This album is probably the band's most commercially successful release to date. 1991, around this time early 1991, was the start of the Persian Gulf War and even though the title track had a patriotic chord to it, I think it started to resonate with a lot of people. So it was an album. In 1995, it went gold. So anyway, we're going to listen to the whole album in its entirety and then rank all the songs With the exception of the hits. I think we're just going to make Fly Me Courageous the one hit. I think. Another one was listed as a single, maybe Around the Block again.

Speaker 2:

The band had a couple of big songs prior to this, from the album Mystery Road, which I think was the third studio album. It came out in 89. And this is when they started to gain a lot of momentum. This is a really good A couple of the songs Straight to Hell and the other one, the other big one from that one, honeysuckle Blues. That's right, honeysuckle Blues. Anyway, two really good songs. But on this album I'm going to say the title track, find Me Courageous, is going to be the one hit. Everything else is. We're going to listen to all of them, rank them and rank the top three, as we always do, but in the middle is where all the fun happens.

Speaker 2:

We're going to listen to some sound clips.

Speaker 2:

We're going to play all the songs. We're going to yuck it up. We're going to talk to Tim. He's going to give us his thoughts. This is a band I've been following since around this time and I haven't listened to them in years, but they just popped back into my memory and I just thought this would be a great time for us to listen to this, re-listen to it, and it brings back memories for me. And Tim's listened to it. I mean, it's no talk, talk for him, but he likes it. I think we're going to listen to everything. Like I said, he's going to listen to everything. Like I said, he's going to chime in. We're going to listen a little bit here.

Speaker 2:

I think an important thing to know about this band is they have a lot of overlapping with a couple of other bands that we've done podcasts on, most notably black crows. Jeff sullivan, drums, percussion, played drums on the mr crows, whatever. This the the iteration of black crows. Before they became the black crows, he was the drummer for that band. He performs drums on this album. Buren Fowler, guitar player. He was a guitar tech for REM. He later left them to join up with Kevin Kinney, originally from Milwaukee. I think all these guys are from the South, with the exception of Kevin Kinney. He's from Milwaukee, the Wisconsin area.

Speaker 2:

And let's see Tim Nielsen bass. They had another original lineup, we don't have to get too deep into that, but on this album, George Marino.

Speaker 3:

Tim.

Speaker 2:

Superglue Ray assistant engineering. I should make that your nickname Superglue. That's Tim's last name, tim Superglue. Jeff Workman engineering production. Us Billboard. I'm getting all this from Wikipedia. It peaked at 90 on the US Billboard 200. Build a Fire. That's right, it was a single. Actually, Build a Fire went higher on the charts than Fly Me Courageous did Okay. I mean we can take that one off the table. Sure, why not? The Innocent was number 31 on US Mainstream Rock. Fly Be Courageous is 19.

Speaker 1:

Let's see what else we got here.

Speaker 2:

I saw a good documentary on them a couple years ago. I think he busted his nose. I think, kevin Kinney. That's how he has his unique and distinct voice. I think it gives the band a little bit of character. I think Tim's doing Zorba the Greek. Now I'm not sure what that is. Let him finish up, alright, alright, so all right, all right, so we're in when he packs. You know he's gonna. He's packing it in, he's coming back. He's scurrying back, dropped his guitar pick. He's adjusting his mic. He's getting all ready. He can't wait. You know, he's just he's getting it all together. Adjusting the chair. Before we go any further, we do have a sponsor Again. Makoko is going to be our sponsor. All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners, tim. How you doing bud?

Speaker 4:

I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

Speaker 2:

Good.

Speaker 4:

I had a little Makokooco yeah had a little uh berries. Shout out to the tea drinkers here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we're, uh, we're eclipsing, we're uh instagramming what's going on yeah, yeah, full, full eclipse, uh, on the day that we're doing this one. So shout out to you. Uh, yeah, everybody in the Totality band.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that little jam was for you.

Speaker 2:

We've been waiting for you All right. That's what they were saying about the eclipse. They're like I'm so tired of waiting for you to come around the universe.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, great album. I mean. I think it's got a lot of hooks, it's got a. It's kind of like a surfer Southern jam jam going on here.

Speaker 2:

I'd agree.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Southern rock yeah, it's southern rock, yeah, there's there's like hints of like breakups and war and all kinds of stuff there's war well, there's that whole. I don't what is that. We're just I don't know what. There's some sort of a weird thing on this instagram I'm sorry, follow us on instagram.

Speaker 4:

Greatest sound hits on instagram.

Speaker 2:

There you go exactly um, yeah no, we're uh no I was gonna say this was written during well, they know it was green was the rem tour in 88 okay uh, driving and crying opened up for them. So they were pushing Mystery Road and they're opening up for REM, for their green tour, orange Crush, and then the war was coming on, saddam had done his thing, or whatever, and so fast forward to 91 and it's operation.

Speaker 4:

Get your VCRs out, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Schwarzkopf, desert Storm, storm, that kind of thing. And this was sort of like a find me courageous, was like a big uh, like a pro war anthem in a way. Even I don't think they intended it that way, but it just sort of mother america is brandishing her weapons. She keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions. So and it was like a. It was sort of uh, I don't know kind of playing both sides of it maybe, or I think they were clearly on the against side right reality well, yeah, most people, most people are, but I mean it was at the time we considered it was.

Speaker 2:

You know it was a righteous thing at that point. You know, things kind of gone south, went down south sort of after 91, but yeah, at the time it was, and then kevin had a.

Speaker 4:

Kevin has a bunch of uh name tags and hairnets himself.

Speaker 3:

Okay doesn't he?

Speaker 2:

uh, he was working for a sewage a sewage plant uh, well, yeah, at the beginning of their career, like in 86. I think he was working at a sewage plant in Milwaukee. He meets a guy.

Speaker 5:

Poop again.

Speaker 2:

He meets a guy named Mark French or something, or Fred French.

Speaker 4:

Fred French. That sounds like a cartoon name? I don't know Kevin. Kevin's out there, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, anyway, that's what leads them to Tim Nielsen, the bass player, Paul Lenz.

Speaker 4:

They move to Atlanta shout out to those MARTA riders out there, get on that MARTA that's right.

Speaker 2:

So they were in the Atlanta underground scene from probably like 85 86 and then 87 88. They, you know, hook up the REM little five points. You know five points exactly. Anyway, this was like sort of like the top of the mountain for them. Yeah, a little, five points Exactly. Anyway, this was sort of like the top of the mountain for them. We're going to listen to it. Any last words before we dig in. That's for you, tim.

Speaker 4:

Do we have any words?

Speaker 1:

Are there any?

Speaker 2:

I mean, I don't know what about our pal?

Speaker 3:

Right Now my boss. He reprimanded me and said some very vicious things and I'm very hurt about this, what do you? Mean hurt. You were hurt by his words or you had an injury. Well, I sustained an injury, but I was initially hurt with his words.

Speaker 4:

Words don't hurt Sticks and stones let's go.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you're not hurt by my words right now. Okay, all right, so this is around the block again.

Speaker 4:

Steam that cowboy hat off. Let's go all right turn it down a little bit.

Speaker 2:

See, they're driving right now. Sometimes they're crying.

Speaker 4:

I always find writing in the sand is very therapeutic.

Speaker 2:

I think so.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Especially when it's between your toes, it's a hot day out.

Speaker 4:

You're grounding, you know Exactly. Take me around and around, around and around.

Speaker 5:

Around and around and round. They go around again, they just go around again. You know, I invited Rita and Marv to a bar with you on Sunday.

Speaker 2:

I won't be here Sunday and someday, 12 men in robes that you gotta defend, that's a pretty cool lyric.

Speaker 4:

It's a good line, a little punkish, it is punkish, it is punkish yeah.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, oh, you think it's Barbershop Raga, you think it's?

Speaker 1:

Barbershop Raga A little bit it is.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, it's hardcore Raga right now. Yeah, if there is a thing they're in the pocket, they're doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 5:

If you don't change your face, I'm going to change my face. If you don't change your face, I'm going to change my face. They go around, they go around, they go around again. They just go around again. You know. I invited Rita and Marlon for a barbecue on.

Speaker 3:

Sunday.

Speaker 5:

I'm going to make my own salad A little macoco.

Speaker 4:

A macoco on your barbecue food? Why don't?

Speaker 3:

you, let me fix you some of this little macoco drink All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount.

Speaker 1:

Nicaragua no artificial sweetness. Alright, all right, all right.

Speaker 3:

I can't read it. There's no words on it.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, bill, all right.

Speaker 3:

This is Chain Reaction. I'm changing, thank you, and I've got to be fair to myself, lisa.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to Mick Jagger.

Speaker 5:

Shout out to Mick.

Speaker 4:

Jagger Broomer Neighborhood.

Speaker 2:

More Cowboy, please yeah it is good use of cowbell, good pickup.

Speaker 4:

I'm hardwired for cowbell.

Speaker 2:

You got fever, you got a fever.

Speaker 5:

And the only prescription is Maracata.

Speaker 2:

Oh, shout out to Burin. This must be beer-ing right here. I wonder if that was Kevin Kinney that did that part. I don't know.

Speaker 4:

So he was with REM and then he was like I'm out.

Speaker 2:

Well, he was a guitar tech, and so he's like I'm out being a guitar tech because I want to be an actual guitar player in a band and I got this gig, yeah Right.

Speaker 4:

All right, that's a good gig. I think so yeah.

Speaker 5:

It's uh.

Speaker 4:

It's tolerable. You tolerating it. I don't know. It's got a little bit of a. Who does it remind me of? I'm drawing a blank here.

Speaker 2:

Dun dun oh.

Speaker 4:

Got no Satisfaction is it's kind of like Huey Lewis mixed with Want a New Drug. Yeah, want a New Drug Mixed with like the band Mixed with, like Mixed with the other guy. Who's the punk guy?

Speaker 2:

David Bowie? No, he's not. Uh um sex pistols. Johnny rotten? Yeah, maybe I don't know well this guy.

Speaker 2:

I mean in as a human. They're very different people, I assume. I mean these guys talk about the Trail of Tears and Native Americans. They're pretty thoughtful. Johnny Ryan was just like I just want to get drunk and piss everybody off. I don't think these guys are. I've got you on the loose. I left you grooving. I've got you on the beat. I don't think these guys are. No, no, glenn Quagmire, I don't think they are. Is that what? I got? Some driving stuff, though? Am I driving? Okay, I got that.

Speaker 4:

The brilliance of an angel covers like some girl in a circle of a driving. I guess it's a. It's a wheel of a car, but it's behind like a big metal yeah, weird clouds yeah, Weird clouds yeah it is.

Speaker 2:

I got you a little intel on this album cover.

Speaker 5:

Won't you take it easy, Push me out of ooh, won't you.

Speaker 3:

Oh, don't do that, please, please, don't Right.

Speaker 1:

Push me out of. Ooh, won't you Take it easy on me?

Speaker 2:

Let's see there's an article by Garrett Shields April 8th 2020. Just today, oh wow, that 8th 2020. Just today, oh wow. That's interesting, Isn't that weird? Fly Me Courageous holds a profound meaning. It resonates with listeners on a personal level Inspiration from the concept of triumph and resilience in the face of adversity. It's kind of cool.

Speaker 4:

Serves a reminder in the darkest of times, always a glimmer of cool.

Speaker 2:

Serves a reminder in the darkest of times, always a glimmer of hope. Kenny regarded it as a reflection of the band's collective journey, as they were battling eternal conflicts and attempting to navigate the ever-changing landscape of the music industry. Its personal struggle blended seamlessly with the introspective theme of the song, creating a powerful anthem that struck a chord with countless listeners. Pretty cool, yeah, I'd agree and more cowbell yeah courageous yeah it's a it's a pro courage song, so I mean, yeah, that's good, right that's positive.

Speaker 2:

Courage is a good thing to have. I mean, we are out in the wild right, I mean this is sort of Wild. Yeah, yeah, I mean we could shelter ourselves in this nice little cocoon of a sound room.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, what are we on here?

Speaker 2:

This is Look what you've done to your brothers lately your brother, lately I'm punching right now. You want to punch me right now? Shout out to Brother Derek.

Speaker 5:

Your streets are filled, confused again, which one is your enemy and which one is your friend. They're crouching down to your mother lately.

Speaker 1:

Look what you've done.

Speaker 5:

Look what you've done.

Speaker 3:

Look what you've done. Fucking crazy man, you sound insane. Did you realize that you should be?

Speaker 5:

to be medicated. I caught in a trap caged in my wall. You threw me scrap. Shout out to Step Brothers.

Speaker 2:

To be medicated? What Shout out to Step?

Speaker 4:

Brothers Out on the bridge Dancing around.

Speaker 5:

Look what you've done to your brother lately. Look what you've done. Look what you've done. Look what you've done to your brother lately.

Speaker 3:

Lately, lately, fucking crazy man, you sound insane. You realize that, dude?

Speaker 2:

you could be medical. Get a breath. Fuck you, Brennan.

Speaker 3:

I know you touched my drum set and I want to hear that dirty little mouth admit it Out of my face.

Speaker 5:

I'm going to roundhouse your ass. You swear on your mom's life.

Speaker 4:

I'm going to roundhouse your ass.

Speaker 3:

Out of my face. I'm going to roundhouse your ass, look what you've done to your brothers lately.

Speaker 5:

Look what you've done. Look what you've done. Look what you've done to your people lately. Swear on your mom's life Of all your wrongs. Look what you've done to your sisters, lately Sisters now.

Speaker 4:

Jeff Sullivan Really Probably lets everybody Play with his drama.

Speaker 5:

I'm sure he's cool with that that you didn't touch it, then that's because he fucking touched my drum set, because I know how it doesn't start before why are you so sweaty?

Speaker 3:

I'm going to the car. Brothers, don't shake hands.

Speaker 5:

Brothers, gotta hug.

Speaker 2:

Alright, okay, there we go. So that was look what you've done to your brother's hand. Alright, okay, this is the one that Tim was doing for you.

Speaker 3:

Anyhow, if you think that I'm going to sit around and wait for you, you can.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to Sad Linda.

Speaker 3:

Wait for you.

Speaker 4:

Forget it. I like this one. It's touching.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 4:

It's like a melancholy crush song, right.

Speaker 3:

Now my boss. He reprimanded me and said some very vicious things, and I'm very hurt about that. What do you mean hurt? You were hurt by his words, or you had an injury. I'm very hurt about that. What do you mean hurt? You were hurt by his words or you had an injury.

Speaker 5:

I'm sorry, are you crying, am I?

Speaker 3:

crying no, I'm not crying.

Speaker 4:

Aw, I held her hand to the morning sun. Yeah, a crush. I'm so tired of waiting for you. I've got a crush on you. I'm so tired of waiting for you.

Speaker 2:

Come around again.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to Tim Nielsen there on the bass. Yeah, yeah, good tone on the guitar here.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to the letter writers out there.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, keep it going, you're a dying breed.

Speaker 4:

Keep those letters coming. Keep them coming.

Speaker 2:

We'll take some shout out to tim nielsen just because he hasn't been Shout out to Tim Nielsen, just because he hasn't been shouted out yet. Yeah, he's playing bass on this.

Speaker 4:

Really Not bad. Rounds it out. It's tolerable.

Speaker 2:

There you go. Frank French is the guy's name from earlier. I think he had a big hand in the early iterations of the band.

Speaker 3:

I've got to be fair to myself, Lisa All right.

Speaker 2:

here's where they start getting silly. All right, See, if they didn't just sort of like die it out, it would have been over for me with this song. Now they came back and redeemed themselves with this part.

Speaker 5:

Call the fire department. This it was out of control.

Speaker 4:

That's. That's what's fun about this kind of music. What's that? Just these outros, you know, take the song for face value, but then yeah, and then like really cool little trick there yeah, they're kind of.

Speaker 2:

It's kind of flowing the way the songs are. It's not like a super intense driving song followed by a crying song. Right, it's uh, they were driving the beginning and then now they're crying and they're gonna start driving. It's a driving song followed by a crying song.

Speaker 4:

Right, they were driving in the beginning and now they're crying and they're going to start driving again. You've got to get out of the car to cry before you can get behind the wheel again to drive, right?

Speaker 2:

yeah, see, they've gotten out of the car and now they're crying and we're going to wait for them to get back in the car and drive again, unless you had internal windshield wipers, like it would wipe your cheeks off and you just hold the wheel.

Speaker 4:

You have glasses, that just Some kind of wiping contraption. Just cry Drive.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, you lost me. You don't have to sit in the next couple of plays, but I think I sort of knew what you were talking about.

Speaker 5:

Somehow I knew they'd try it, to find it and defy it and to buy it. Oh, let's go dancing. Oh, let's go dancing said the firefighter hurricane that's cool fire. So what so, let's dance. So what so, let's dance. Can you hear it crashing?

Speaker 2:

I stopped a freight train with a grain of sand.

Speaker 5:

I split a mountain in two with a flake of snow.

Speaker 2:

I split a mountain in two with a flake of snow, still they won't believe me.

Speaker 5:

Split a mountain in two with a flake of snow Very jingly jangly guitar here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I like the jingle jangle.

Speaker 4:

It's very jangly.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, I said what do you know about revolution, when all I was taught was patience and waiting and making a statement, dancing- let's go dancing, dancing.

Speaker 3:

Let's go dancing, dancing.

Speaker 4:

Thank you, garth. Hey, that's enough guard. He's all about hurricane dancing. This is like a good new orleans dive bar song. It sounds new orleans-ish. Yeah, george Marino did some good mastering on this, I think so. Yeah, geoff Workman, farewell.

Speaker 5:

My special love.

Speaker 2:

All right. The Dumpster Fighter from Beavis Special.

Speaker 1:

The outro.

Speaker 2:

This is the innocent.

Speaker 4:

What is he saying here?

Speaker 5:

Nothing in common.

Speaker 2:

It was like the Declaration of Independence, and he changed the words around. There's all kinds of political stuff going on.

Speaker 4:

Two wings, same bird people Okay yeah.

Speaker 2:

We still don't know what that album cover's all about. How could we have missed that? We still don't know what that album cover is all about.

Speaker 5:

How could we have?

Speaker 2:

missed that? Okay, they're driving now. Hey, look at me. This is a world where nothing is solved.

Speaker 4:

Well, innocent until proven guilty, Don't run.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to the runners here. Yeah, shout out to the runners, of course. Shout out to the runners here. Shout out to the runners, of course. Shout out to the Adidas wearers. Jeff Sullivan's rocking it, I think, on this one.

Speaker 4:

Always Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Big bass bombs coming through.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Nielsen's basing it now.

Speaker 3:

Dancing.

Speaker 2:

Garth is digging this Sounds like Pat Benatar. I'm just a caveman, it's just key rock and, yes, your.

Speaker 4:

Honor, I'm ready. It's just key, rock your Honor and yes, I'm ready, Thank you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I'm just a caveman. I slipped and fell on some ice. It was later thought out by your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me. Every time I get a letter on my fax machine, I'm wondering did little demons come in and type these things?

Speaker 1:

I don't know.

Speaker 2:

My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts, but there is one thing I do know. That is when a client such as mine slips and falls on some ice in front of the public library, he is entitled to no less than $2 million in punitive damages and $2 million in compensatory damages.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, I don't know.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you're like, I don't know what to call it. There's nothing more to be added to it.

Speaker 5:

There you go.

Speaker 4:

I love this one. This is I've been a big star by this one. This is good.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, okay, it's.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, because it's driving. It's driving. The drive-ins are better than the cry-ins Fair. This is one of those Feel-good ones, deeper and deeper, oh god.

Speaker 5:

I've been watching you from the mountain, oh God. All of your evil ways? Oh no. But when I lost?

Speaker 4:

All right, okay, we're cool. We're cool here. You brought me uptown.

Speaker 5:

But I brought you down, you said goodbye and I said don't be too long, cause it's together, we'll rise again, again, again, kevin Kevin.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it was Kevin Kinney, but his stage name is like Kevin, like the difference between his name and his stage name is just the I in Kevin, kevin, what am the I in Kevin Kevin.

Speaker 4:

What am I missing, kevin Kevin? The I, you're missing the I, I, I, oh, oh.

Speaker 5:

I On the inside track. You're coming so close. It's just the one of us, the two of us. It takes all of us To get it all together. We're right. I was woken in the morning sun, the heat bearing down on me in the backseat of my car. Have we left the best of ages?

Speaker 2:

lying around. Remember that cat and the pool guy.

Speaker 5:

Greg Bob John. How are you guys? Oh Rebecca, good to see you. Come on in.

Speaker 4:

This is definitely like that.

Speaker 5:

Get in the pool. Everybody come on in grab a drink. Get those clothes off, let's get in the pool. Get in the pool. Everybody come on in grab a drink. Get those clothes off, let's get in the pool.

Speaker 2:

Get in the pool. Remember that time you lost it.

Speaker 5:

Get in the goddamn pool.

Speaker 4:

All right Together. We can get you in the pool. Have some celery ranch dip, yeah.

Speaker 5:

See, this is all feel good, I miss the way she moved me, I miss the way she smelled, I miss the way she tasted. You talking to me, but I've got my thoughts to tell hey, get in the fucking pool.

Speaker 3:

No, man, you can't talk to Brad.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to Arlo Pair. He was Richard Pryor's character in Moving.

Speaker 4:

Just having a tough day. Shout out to the movers out there.

Speaker 2:

Well, they're driving. They were driving and crying in Moving.

Speaker 4:

So much crying. Tearducts are a crazy thing, aren't they Also? You have, like like really big eyes, yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's, it's tough, all right, this one is Lost in a Shuffle. This is really driving and shuffle.

Speaker 4:

This is really driving. This will be going in my Spotify shuffle playlist. It might get lost. It might get lost, ah, okay, all right, but it's going to be there. It's going to be there.

Speaker 5:

Rock and roll, bang Lost in the shuffle that kind of like yeah, lost in the shuffle.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I'll get out if. I need some money. I didn't see this live. They are good yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's just like they're a live band. I think that's what they're going for. Yeah, with all this, the live Thing, they're still touring now.

Speaker 4:

It's not the deepest. I mean it is deep music, but it's Superficially deep.

Speaker 2:

Okay, yeah.

Speaker 4:

I don't know, the style of music maybe makes it less deep, I don't know. They've just got so many styles that in one song even it's just it's. You could almost be like Pickle Lane sometimes with this band. I just don't, you could almost be like Pickle Lane sometimes with this band. Uh-huh.

Speaker 2:

I just don't. They're not committed to all one thing.

Speaker 4:

And I'm not sold on his voice, but Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

I think it makes a lot more sense if you live in the deep south and, like you're driving in a on a canopy road. Yeah and it's, it's, yeah, it's almost as if you have to be in the aesthetic of Deep South in order to yeah. And their fan base is almost entirely in Georgia and South Carolina and North Carolina.

Speaker 4:

That's like their. I had never heard of this band until you mentioned them, right.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, because nobody. They're lesser known almost everywhere else, but they still pack them in and they're. They have a.

Speaker 1:

They're lesser known almost everywhere else, but they still pack them in and they have an enthused fan base.

Speaker 4:

They come back.

Speaker 3:

They have a fan base.

Speaker 4:

They go, go to each city, they come back.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean, they're fans. Yeah, like REM, they're big fans of them too. They're well-respected within the industry.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

They're considered contemporaries with one another For sure. Yeah, this is. Build a fire, this is. We could make this one a hit too. I'm thinking maybe we should Call the fire department Fire.

Speaker 3:

Farewell Fire.

Speaker 5:

Farewell Fire, fire.

Speaker 4:

Come on through fire. So this is a hit. No, you can't make this a hit. This is going to be in my top three if this is not a hit, Okay.

Speaker 2:

Well, it was a single. It wasn't necessarily a hit. So it's our show. We can make it.

Speaker 3:

I don't think it was a hit. Okay, it was not a hit.

Speaker 2:

Okay, all right, it's just Fighting Courageous, that's it. It shouldn't be a hit.

Speaker 4:

You're hearing it for the first time. I've literally never heard this song. I love it, though.

Speaker 2:

Any call and response going on.

Speaker 5:

You're my boy Blue. How come he's only one with a ball? So won't you let me? I wanted to ask you some questions about.

Speaker 2:

Won't you love Sing along. Won't you come Sing along. Won't you come To build a fire Start anew, something new.

Speaker 5:

Oh, this place is cold. I let my laugh pump Start again To the end. Won't you come To build a fire? Got you here to turn around. Take your butt into the wall, walk with a thousand steps, take you on the far too edge. Walk feet down the piece. Eat your past. You'll find your meat. Turn around and head out south. Tell you what it's all about. Don't you come to build a fire, don't you?

Speaker 2:

come to build a fire. Don't you come to build a fire. Don't you come to build a fire. Don't you come to build a fire? You feel the fire? Good bass playing.

Speaker 4:

Just saying let it out, give it some air man Play with it.

Speaker 5:

Nice.

Speaker 4:

Nice Shout out to.

Speaker 2:

Tim Nielsen. That was a good performance there.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, all right, oh gosh.

Speaker 4:

I think we're at the end. Man, is that Rush Hour? Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, all right. Oh gosh, I think we're at the end. Man Is that Rush Hour? Oh my gosh, rush Hour here, what is sunshine in there?

Speaker 2:

I don't like that. I don't like that analogy. I like that metaphor, hey.

Speaker 5:

You know, we left this England place because it was bogus.

Speaker 2:

Time is a flat circle, yeah they are literally driving right now. Yee-haw.

Speaker 5:

Now you're starting to sound like Ross.

Speaker 3:

Perot with it. You want to punch me right now ah I should have tried to learn this one.

Speaker 1:

That would have been fun.

Speaker 2:

I could have played it at half tempo. Yeah, you're more of a flow tone, yeah.

Speaker 4:

They're showing their mean side now, so mean they're so.

Speaker 2:

You can see Burin's, probably just got looked at in his face.

Speaker 4:

He's gnashing his teeth.

Speaker 2:

Garth is feeling the naughty. Garth is feeling the naughty.

Speaker 1:

Oh.

Speaker 4:

Oh, this punches. This punches above weight here, here, yeah, they're punching above weight. It's almost like Motorhead. It is Motorhead-y. Yeah, where's the cowbell?

Speaker 2:

Where's the cowbell?

Speaker 4:

Where's the cowbell?

Speaker 2:

Oh, cowbell would have been.

Speaker 5:

God, I could have used a little more cowbell.

Speaker 1:

Oh man 20 more seconds countdown 10 you just can't wait for this to be over, oh gosh of course he's gotta.

Speaker 2:

He's gotta scream it out, all right.

Speaker 3:

Okay, we're done, all right I called it in, so I called it in End of story, all right.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we called it in, so we're in.

Speaker 4:

Milwaukee, that's good. No, good one. Fargo fans Fargo fans, fargo fans.

Speaker 2:

Shout out to the Fargo fans. Oh man Shout out to a decision that Tim's got.

Speaker 4:

Really.

Speaker 2:

For number three, oh God.

Speaker 4:

Oh crap, oh crap. Oh, is that the crap? Oh, we need you to know.

Speaker 3:

You're going to shit when he realizes it's shit.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 4:

I'm going to say let's Go Dancing number three.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's a nice one.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, it's got the Americana revolution thing going on. Yeah, gotta hurt me in my pocket Stop watching dancing things on Netflix and get outside and dance. Okay, that's right Under the moon and stars and shit. Get out there. What's your three?

Speaker 2:

My three is going to be the Innocent. Oh yeah, I did like that one actually. Yeah, I mean, it was just it rocks. I like that guitar thing going yeah.

Speaker 1:

That was cool. Yeah, it drove. It was a, yeah it drove.

Speaker 2:

It was a driver. It wasn't a crier and it committed and I liked it.

Speaker 4:

First kid was a crier, second was a driver. All right, mine too.

Speaker 1:

Ooh.

Speaker 4:

Look what you've done to your brother lately that was a good one that's good, it's good, it's a good song.

Speaker 2:

I like the transition changes on that. That was good. My two is gonna be around the block again around the block.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, again Nice oh.

Speaker 2:

Mr Christian, are you listening?

Speaker 4:

Special Christian Special.

Speaker 2:

Alright, that was my number two. What's your number one?

Speaker 4:

Build a Fire. Alright, let's go.

Speaker 2:

Build that fire. Yep, build a Fire, that's a good one. Uh, that's my number one as well nice yeah, it's uh, I mean what can you say it's yeah, won't you come sing along? Yeah some good southern southern raga.

Speaker 4:

yeah it, they could have extended out some of these songs. It's only a 40-minute album.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah.

Speaker 4:

They said their piece.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they kept it tight.

Speaker 1:

It was concise.

Speaker 2:

It works. It's got a great balance. It's patriotic without being word shanty, that kind of a thing, true. So, all right, good stuff, man. Well, I'll put a bow on this. Thanks for indulging me on this one and any last words.

Speaker 4:

Well, we'll let Norm fade us out, you know. Thanks for listening. Hope this was a great night. You know, Shout out to our day, our morning. Shout out to the Billy.

Speaker 1:

Madison fans this has been the best night of my life alright, goodnight.

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