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Bear Grease
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"Going to guess probably a year and a half to two years ago, maybe. And it was shut down. No, it was still operating when we bought it. And but it didn't look not even on the scale. It looks like today. It was just needed to updated, like say we owned a peach shop next door. So actually, my following law said, you know what, Claude and he said, 20 days, he said, yeah, I just buy that bowling alley too. And I was like, yeah, you lost your mind too. You know, so well, next thing you know, we come up for sale. So we bought it. And then we bought it, we shut the doors. And did a big remodel. I mean, we got it all turned down to the bear concrete. That's what was left. This is my first time to mcconnellsville, Ohio. It's a cute town of about 1700 people built on the banks of the Muskegon river in the southeast part of the state. Mcconnellsville is also where most of the 26 men indicted in operation red bud lived. If you've lived in small town America, there are certain people that stand out. They're woven into the fabric of the community and make it thrive. Their leaders, well respected, their contributors, and functional pillars of the community. We've just heard the voice of Claude Maxwell. There was ten lanes of bowling here, so we tore three out, so you know, as you see, I would get the dart board. Pole table over there. You can't say it from here, but big kitchen. So there's a restaurant here. Yes. It's very nice restaurant back here also. So back here, there's two virtual gulf base, which will be I'm sure a big hit. So McConnell's bill is not a big town. So this is going to be like a hub for people to come to or like a real social. I'm hoping it's going to be a big fit for the mcconnells build people and I know there's a lot of people excited about it because you know there's nothing really here for the kids to do. Claude is 60 years old and wears fashionable dark frame glasses. He drives the late model Chevy Silverado pickup. The back seats are folded up and the floorboard is full of dewalt tools and construction supplies. When I open the passenger door, he scrambles to clear away work gloves and cabinet hardware still in the packaging. It's clear that Claude has worked hard for everything that he's got. And it's evident he and his family are these kind of standout people. The bowling alley in the pizza place called Maxwell's pizza are side by side overlooking the river. The pizza place has a rooftop dining area that's been voted as one of the top ten best rooftops in Ohio. Both of these businesses are being spearheaded by Claude's son Cass, a really sharp and kind fella in his early 30s. Cass was just four years old on Sunday, June 16th, 1996. He thought there must have been an early morning party at their house when all the vehicles rushed into their driveway. Not to be outdone by her older brother, Claude's daughter, Adrian, started a cafe in downtown mcconnellsville called the Bluebird cafe. And I kid you not. They served me the best breakfast I've eaten in the last 5 years. The place has top notch. It's become overwhelmingly clear to me that these Maxwell's have something special. And I haven't even told you that Claude runs a sporting goods store called Maxwell's hunting supplies. So we're in McConnell's Bill. He's introducing me to a man that we've met on the sidewalk. So this is the guy that is the podcast. So we just got done. Did you hear about that that we did a podcast on that? Yeah. My boys, North Carolina is going to totally go. How is that right? Down there and he said, yeah, they're not like this just happened. Rod is literally the first person we've met on the street as we walk towards Claude's hunting store. After a slightly awkward moment, I realized that I might not be the most popular man in mcconnellsville. Not everybody was pumped about some outsider talking about operation redbud without hearing the full story. But I went ahead and asked Ron appointed question. Yeah, so who do you know Claude Maxwell to be inside this community? He's a great businessman now. What they've done in this community is outstanding. I mean, with the blue bow and the bowling alley and the rooftop, you know, pizza shop. I mean, it's just terrific what he's done. I'm proud the whole family. They're all good workers. So I mean, he's like a pillar in this community. Would that be right? Well, I hate to say that. He really is. The whole family needs to be commended for what they've done here. Yeah, I appreciate it too. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry to walk up to you on the street, just shove a mic in your face. The mcconnellsville tour continues. We're now in Maxwell's hunting supplies. So we're walking in Maxwell's hunting and fishing supplies store. You call me Gary, but I know. The store is tidy and packed wall to wall and floor to ceiling with archery targets, dear blondes, and bottles of dough estrus. Behind the counter is a wall full of guns of all kinds. The middle of the store has hunting clothing and a bow rack. And in the back of the store, you couldn't fit another jig or crank bait on the shelves. We sell, Matthews, hoyt, and the late. And then of course, you know, ravencroft bows. Several different crossbow companies we handle. Big selection of fish and equipment. Yes, and we can walk one back through here, but yeah, give me the full tour, man. What I'm about to tell you won't make sense unless you've listened to our secret agent man series. We worked hard in the podcast to hide the identity of the man that we called target number two. This was the guy that RT Stewart became very close with. The guy RT so badly wanted to tell that he was an undercover agent because he liked him so much. Well, Claude Maxwell is target number two of operation red butt. If you recall through the undercover work of RT and his partner, they brought charges against 26 men, and these guys were convicted of over 275 wildlife violations. But when you do the math, Claude Maxwell received exactly 26% of those violations. He pleaded guilty to 74. When I first heard about RT Stewart and his undercover work, I was interested in highlighting the work done by the wildlife law enforcement of this country. The freedoms that we have as hunters carry a high price tag and part of the cost is making sure that the law is followed. RT's openness gave us insight into a hidden layer of law enforcement seldom seen. The world of undercover work. His stories were fascinating, and he was very good at what he did. However, what never occurred to me. What never crossed my mind is how these stories intersected the lives of those that he chased. I never expected to talk to target number two. To be honest with you, it was almost like he didn't exist. But oh, he does. And he's not who I thought he would be. Here's Claude Maxwell. Well,
Bear Grease
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on Bear Grease
"What was left. This is my first time to mcconnellsville, Ohio. It's a cute town of about 1700 people built on the banks of the Muskegon river in the southeast part of the state. Mcconnellsville is also where most of the 26 men indicted in operation red bud lived. If you've lived in small town America, there are certain people that stand out. They're woven into the fabric of the community and make it thrive. Their leaders, well respected, their contributors, and functional pillars of the community. We've just heard the voice of Claude Maxwell. There was ten lanes of bowling here, so we tore three out, so you know, as you see, I would get the dart board. Pole table over there. You can't say it from here, but big kitchen. So there's a restaurant here. Yes. It's very nice restaurant back here also. So back here, there's two virtual gulf base, which will be I'm sure a big hit. So McConnell's bill is not a big town. So this is going to be like a hub for people to come to or like a real social. I'm hoping it's going to be a big fit for the mcconnells build people and I know there's a lot of people excited about it because you know there's nothing really here for the kids to do. Claude is 60 years old and wears fashionable dark frame glasses. He drives the late model Chevy Silverado pickup. The back seats are folded up and the floorboard is full of dewalt tools and construction supplies. When I open the passenger door, he scrambles to clear away work gloves and cabinet hardware still in the packaging. It's clear that Claude has worked hard for everything that he's got. And it's evident he and his family are these kind of standout people. The bowling alley in the pizza place called Maxwell's pizza are side by side overlooking the river. The pizza place has a rooftop dining area that's been voted as one of the top ten best rooftops in Ohio. Both of these businesses are being spearheaded by Claude's son Cass, a really sharp and kind fella in his early 30s. Cass was just four years old on Sunday, June 16th, 1996. He thought there must have been an early morning party at their house when all the vehicles rushed into their driveway. Not to be outdone by her older brother, Claude's daughter, Adrian, started a cafe in downtown mcconnellsville called the Bluebird cafe. And I kid you not. They served me the best breakfast I've eaten in the last 5 years. The place has top notch. It's become overwhelmingly clear to me that these Maxwell's have something special. And I haven't even told you that Claude runs a sporting goods store called Maxwell's hunting supplies. So we're in McConnell's Bill. He's introducing me to a man that we've met on the sidewalk. So this is the guy that is the podcast. So we just got done. Did you hear about that that we did a podcast on that? Yeah. My boys, North Carolina is going to totally go. How is that right? Down there and he said, yeah, they're not like this just happened. Rod is literally the first person we've met on the street as we walk towards Claude's hunting store. After a slightly awkward moment, I realized that I might not be the most popular man in mcconnellsville. Not everybody was pumped about some outsider talking about operation redbud without hearing the full story. But I went ahead and asked Ron appointed question. Yeah, so who do you know Claude Maxwell to be inside this community? He's a great businessman now. What they've done in this community is outstanding. I mean, with the blue bow and the bowling alley and the rooftop, you know, pizza shop. I mean, it's just terrific what he's done. I'm proud the whole family. They're all good workers. So I mean, he's like a pillar in this community. Would that be right? Well, I hate to say that. He really is. The whole family needs to be commended for what they've done here. Yeah, I appreciate it too. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry to walk up to you on the street, just shove a mic in your face. The mcconnellsville tour continues. We're now in Maxwell's hunting supplies. So we're walking in Maxwell's hunting and fishing supplies store. You call me Gary, but I know. The store is tidy and packed wall to wall and floor to ceiling with archery targets, dear blondes, and bottles of dough estrus. Behind the counter is a wall full of guns of all kinds. The middle of the store has hunting clothing and a bow rack. And in the back of the store, you couldn't fit another jig or crank bait on the shelves. We sell, Matthews, hoyt, and the late. And then of course, you know, ravencroft bows. Several different crossbow companies we handle. Big selection of fish and equipment. Yes, and we can walk one back through here, but yeah, give me the full tour, man. What I'm about to tell you won't make sense unless you've listened to our secret agent man series. We worked hard in the podcast to hide the identity of the man that we called target number two. This was the guy that RT Stewart became very close with. The guy RT so badly wanted to tell that he was an undercover agent because he liked him so much. Well, Claude Maxwell is target number two of operation red butt. If you recall through the undercover work of RT and his partner, they brought charges against 26 men, and these guys were convicted of over 275 wildlife violations. But when you do the math, Claude Maxwell received exactly 26% of those violations. He pleaded guilty to 74. When I first heard about RT Stewart and his undercover work, I was interested in highlighting the work done by the wildlife law enforcement of this country. The freedoms that we have as hunters carry a high price tag and part of the cost is making sure that the law is followed. RT's openness gave us insight into a hidden layer of law enforcement seldom seen. The world of undercover work. His stories were fascinating, and he was very good at what he did. However, what never occurred to me. What never crossed my mind is how these stories intersected the lives of those that he chased. I never expected to talk to target number two. To be honest with you, it was almost like he didn't exist. But oh, he does. And he's not who I thought he would be. Here's Claude Maxwell. Well,
The Doug Collins Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"He's the most entertaining songwriter one of them that we've got. Well, I think that leads us to a point I wanted to talk about. And we mentioned it briefly, and I think this entertainer part, sometimes when we get the idea of a songwriter. And I know, you know, I did, you know, beforehand, you have this idea of somebody sitting in a room, you know, just riding, or sort of the shy backward. The reality is except for just a few things. Many of these songwriters could have been the artist, so to speak. Their voice of their talent. But they chose to do what they do. The Bluebird cafe over the past decade or so has become the symbol of Nashville in many ways. And I think, you know, you talk about with Barbara mikulski, you've talked about it with others. But this idea of running in the side of the songwriter round. How did y'all come to be a part of the blue bird? And talk about that mainly because where this the TV shows, Nashville or others, the Bluebird has become that sort of center point for country music. Well, I love to talk about the Bluebird and the story begins in 1982 with the lady named Amy Kerwin. Amy and her buddies were part of a new generation, you know, they were, they were, they wanted a better planet, and they wanted to leave something behind. They cared about the environment and things like that. And so it started with and you've been to Nashville, go try to find a salad back in 1982. Everything else was fraud or it had pork around it or something. And he goes, we're going to have a healthier lunch place. So that's how they started it. And nobody came. So Amy started having some entertainment, but her buddies were rock and rollers, and I think they would describe themselves as cutting edge hippies. And so they had a lot of bands over there. Congressman, you can't even get a band in the Bluebird, the Bluebird on the seats, 99 people. And it was a little bit more. Let me just say the interject here. Everybody has this idea of the Bluebird, especially from Nashville to see the TV shows and everything else. Tell them where if they've never been to Nashville to Bloomberg, explain to them where the bluebirds lad. If you had out of town on green hills and you get to McDonald's, you've gone too far. It's a little bit strip mall. And the light doesn't work hasn't for 40 years. The street sign is hard to see. The reason you know that it's the Bluebird is there's a line of people, half mile up Hillsboro road. It's a strip mall. It's a strip mall, the blue bird is tiny at seats, 99 people. And so it just still isn't working. So one night, Amy had some buddies who were songwriters. And they decided to put the seats in the middle of the room, and that's where songwriter ended the round. Look, did it happen somewhere else before, maybe. I don't know, but that certainly where it was popularized. So each rider would play a hit song, the other three who weren't playing would accompany that line. And a lot of them were co writers, so they knew this stuff. But the stories about how they came up with the song or lives at its touch, stories like we're telling now, became it's almost a play with the songs as a character. It was packed, couldn't get in. And they need one. Okay. And she tried it a couple more times, packed. And it was quiet, and it was into my mind. It was like I'm talking now, and Amy went. The room's telling us something. So it became a songwriter room, and not too many months later, there were two shows a night every night. And Amy started this thing because so many people wanted to play the Bluebird, that she started an audition open mic process that still is intact today. So kids, people, aspiring writers and artists from all over the world, avail themselves of that process. And we still have specific times for open mic and the early shows are for up and comers. The last part of what cemented the bluebirds legend is publishers who needed to sign songwriters, record labels who needed to sign artists, went to the Bluebird, because the best songs in town are the most recent are being played at the Bluebird. Garth Brooks, Keith urban, Vance gill, Taylor Swift, through the years there have been so many famous career moments in the Bluebird is just there's no place like it in the world. Many have tried. There are lots of other songwriter venues that are different, some we love and respect. But there's none like the Bluebird cafe. No. Yeah, the Bluebird is just something you got to. If you go to Nashville if you have any music in you at all, you've got to go to the blooper, but you gotta call early. You gotta go on sale. They will be sold out in two or three minutes. Every show, even during COVID. Yeah, I mean, anybody who wants to go up here. And you mentioned that. So some people don't realize that this is actually a touchdown. Garth Brooks, you know, McGraw, all these folks have actually signed their who've actually been.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"Whatever. And I'd go, well, how do you think the writer feels when, under the rules that Congress has set, did you know that's the only occupation in America under a maximum wage? What are you talking about? I go, and I would explain that one penny is now 9.1 cents divided among all the writers and whatever. Same thing with streaming, it was set up to be a race to the bottom for songwriters. And this is not an exaggeration by my estimate in my 25 years of doing this. We've done over 5000 of those appointments. And eventually it mattered. I think over time Congress realized that we were right. And we also presented, you did, and the music modernization act, here's why it passed, we presented them options, starting with changing the tax code for songwriters that had been weirdly taken away from them in the 50s, and some things where we didn't have the industry fighting amongst itself. And then there came a moment with the music modernization act, where there were a lot of independent bills, and it was one of the toughest moments, you know, where you had to decide what went into the overall Bill. But yeah, we did that. We played thousands and thousands of songs from members of Congress, and I can promise you one thing. Whether they agreed with us or not, and the kind of days members of Congress have to have reading stuff that Einstein couldn't understand, we had the best calling card to play you a song that made you laugh or cry. They remembered that. You mentioned one with sense of brother. Sense of rare for those who don't know Jim is just a big gruff teddy bear. You have to get through about 16 layers of period to realize the heart of this man. But okay, you did you said 5000 of these. What were some of the tell me one of your let's go with this? What was one of your funnier ones when you went into that you remember with a member? It wanted a song that was senator Barbara McCulloch holding even Steven's guitar like she was going to play the Bluebird. She was obsessed with the Bluebird. Now y'all own the Bluebird, right? On the Bluebird cafe in Nashville, so I brought even Stevens and Chris wall and we even brought a little Bluebird thing and did a show in her office, but there were so, so many of them through the years, and again, I was pretty calculated. We tried when we could. To play a song that had meaning to that member of Congress. Was there ever one that just that the got you emotionally? I think you mentioned her early. Jamie Floyd wrote this great song. The album was nominated for a Grammy called the blade. And the song got me, but watching Jamie Floyd. Is there a better singer you've ever heard in your life? I haven't. No, she got a great voice. Beautiful woman that knows how to sing. She emotes. The song is supposed to make us feel something, and Jaime, Josh darnit would make us laugh and cry. And I think Jamie also entered our ecosystem. I learned about Jamie in a movie called the last songwriter. It's free out there if people want to go watch it. It had gotten that bad, so every time Jamie played, that it was like a knife through the heart on a number of different levels. And then there were a couple personal to me that go back to my family, the good stuff, you know, you're going to miss this, just the ones about family always got me. But I'm a big sappy fan and sometimes I would have to unclear my throat before after those songs we could make our pitch to a member of Congress. And that is on chef. What was yours by the way? Probably mine was when we talked about the house that raised me. House it built me, yeah. Yeah. Just an amazing. So for me, look, I've got so many good friends up here that just mean absolute world to me and the songs that they've written. I mean, there's so many. But that one was one. And there was another one and it was before it was one of my early trips to and it was not in D.C. actually, but it was in one of my early trips to Nashville. And oh, a guy anyway, it was the song letters from home. Yeah. And he would probably play it in the office just down the street from y'all and it'll come to me here in a minute. But it was very real to me because of being deployed to Iraq. And doing that. So it should in a different moment. And I think that's what makes music so great. And I think that's what makes these songs to me why I get so passionate about this. Why I love it so much while I steal to this day, even out of office. This is one of my heartstrings to continue to do because it is such who we are. And you know, whether it's as you talk about growing up in church, you know, singing in the choir or is my wife introduced me to something called the hoot nanny where, you know, Friday night Saturday night, everybody would just bring whatever instrument they had and they sit around in the garage and play. You know, that's America. That's at one collective voice song. But there is so many of these characters that are songwriters that have, you know, it's like, where did you come up with with this kind of stuff? And they express it so well and why you bring them to D.C.. To talk about it, you now put a face to a song that every time you now hear it on the radio, or are you listed on the Internet or wherever you listen to it, you can't help but think about the songwriter..
The Restaurant Coach Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Restaurant Coach Podcast
"And welcome to the restaurant coach podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. I mean, seriously, who wants to be average? Being average just sucks. There. I said it. Now we have to deal with it. You know what doesn't suck? An independent restaurant with an incredible, amazing, incredible culture. Now, in my third book, titled your restaurant culture sucks, which is available on Amazon and paperback Kindle and hardcover editions, shameless plug right there. It will also be available very soon on audible as an audiobook narrated by the incredible Sean Pratt, who did an amazing job on my first two books. But I digress. Culture has gotten a lot of attention lately and honestly, if you would have worked more to build an epic culture you most likely would not have 80% of the problems your restaurant has right now. Yes, culture is that critical to restaurant success. Hashtag right this shit down. Culture is what separates the good from the great from the outstanding. My guest today knows firsthand how important building the right culture is. Rick and Michelle arsenal are the owners of the Bluebird cafe and grill in orangeville Ontario, Rick had the opportunity to sit down with me and talk about the culture that he works on every day to build with his team where he has his kind of mindset and philosophy where he puts people before profits. Let's jump into the interview. Hey, welcome to the restaurant coach podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. I am so honored to be joined today from a neighbor from the great white north, Rick arsenal is here from the Bluebird cafe and grill Rick. Welcome to the podcast. I'm so happy to get you on here. Thank you, Donna. I'm very honored to be part of this great podcast. I listen to it all the time and you know you have awesome guests. I'm very honored that you chose me to be here with you today. Well, you know, I mean, I love, so I started following you. You started following me. And then of course, I try to follow back, people who follow me on Instagram. And I just tell you, your Instagram, your Bluebird cafe, orangeville, Instagram account, it is just amazing and you hit on all the stuff I really wish more restaurants would do. You really talk about and you really showcase when you do a lot of videos, you show a sense of humor, you showcase your staff, I mean, it's just a really, really great, great kind of Instagram thing. And you've really done a great job of really taking culture to that next level. Thank you. And that means a lot to Michelle and I and having read your book and listen to your seminar when you put that on for the town of orange oil, which was amazing, you know, the post pandemic.
The Restaurant Coach Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Restaurant Coach Podcast
"And welcome to the restaurant coach podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. I mean, seriously, who wants to be average? Being average just sucks. There. I said it. Now we have to deal with it. You know what doesn't suck? An independent restaurant with an incredible, amazing, incredible culture. Now, in my third book, titled your restaurant culture sucks, which is available on Amazon and paperback Kindle and hardcover editions, shameless plug right there. It will also be available very soon on audible as an audiobook narrated by the incredible Sean Pratt, who did an amazing job on my first two books. But I digress. Culture has gotten a lot of attention lately and honestly, if you would have worked more to build an epic culture you most likely would not have 80% of the problems your restaurant has right now. Yes, culture is that critical to restaurant success. Hashtag right this shit down. Culture is what separates the good from the great from the outstanding. My guest today knows firsthand how important building the right culture is. Rick and Michelle arsenal are the owners of the Bluebird cafe and grill in orangeville Ontario, Rick had the opportunity to sit down with me and talk about the culture that he works on every day to build with his team where he has his kind of mindset and philosophy where he puts people before profits. Let's jump into the interview. Hey, welcome to the restaurant coach podcast. It is the cure for the common restaurant. I am so honored to be joined today from a neighbor from the great white north, Rick arsenal is here from the Bluebird cafe and grill Rick. Welcome to the podcast. I'm so happy to get you on here. Thank you, Donna. I'm very honored to be part of this great podcast. I listen to it all the time and you know you have awesome guests. I'm very honored that you chose me to be here with you today. Well, you know, I mean, I love, so I started following you. You started following me. And then of course, I try to follow back, people who follow me on Instagram. And I just tell you, your Instagram, your Bluebird cafe, orangeville, Instagram account, it is just amazing and you hit on all the stuff I really wish more restaurants would do. You really talk about and you really showcase when you do a lot of videos, you show a sense of humor, you showcase your staff, I mean, it's just a really, really great, great kind of Instagram thing. And you've really done a great job of really taking culture to that next level. Thank you. And that means a lot to Michelle and I and having read your book and listen to your seminar when you put that on for the town of orange oil, which was amazing, you know, the post pandemic.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"And okay, you've opened up some doors here and before we get some other, I figured I did. You got your mic in Georgia. I mean, I'm still in the air force down at Warner Robin, so around making all the time making come up music. I mean, that's another amazing hotbed, but for music and with Nashville as well. But Fred, they're for just a second. I mean, I know a lot of Microsoft folks can be listening, but that you had to hear that. And here it is, WAC. I'm here with you today. I mean, you had that right? Kick back in. It was hard. It was hard because, you know, but she just get a call and you'd be like, okay, and then oh yeah. And people will let you know what they think. You could all kind of feedback. I'm like, oh, okay. And then you have to make sure you facts are right, 'cause they're correct you. This is before you could go do being search or Google search or do a search to do a quick fact check, you know? It works out. I still do some writing. I do a lot of radio and you get those callers and sometimes it's like, okay. Thank you for calling. I'm moving on alone. It does want to go. When I first, when I first started, right? You want to, you know, because you open up the lines and you're like, nobody's lighting up the lights, it's the next caller. And then you realize like, okay, I got to have this different aspect, and then you could just say certain things, it just light up. I've got you one for it. And this is and again, for everybody out there, this is just an experience we've had. I was on radio the other day when the president decided he made his announcement about the pardoning or the issue with the marijuana, the whole. I just made mention of it on the radio. I just said, hey, this just came out. You know, interesting just as a comment. The phone lines lit up. And the first two Fred, I have to be honest with you. I think the first two were already partaking when they called in. I think you were going to say that. But anyway, speaking of household Nashville, Nashville has turned into. And I know from a Microsoft event, but from a tank for Spain, but also from really, really just changed over the years. Absolutely, you know, when I lived in Nashville, the mayor of Nashville selected me to be on the airport authority. And so yeah, back in the day, Doug, when you walk through the airport, you see a little picture of Fred Humphries. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as you were departing, you know? To go to the baggage. And so, you know, it's been a little bit, you know, I make it to Nashville from time to time. And recently I was in Nashville, and oh my gosh, I looked at that airport. Wow, it's not the airport that we had envisioned when I was there over 30 something years ago on that airport authority act again might have been that youngest member ever to be on the airport board. And now I look at it and then it's music playing. And then you go to our town, you can go to you used to go to Branson. That shows where they wrote and produced, I remember when the Bluebird cafe opened up the Nashville and used to go to it and it could get in. Was that a line? Aspect. And now, you know, it's bachelorette parties. It's a foodie town. It's got good music. And it's booming. I mean, that city is booming, diverse economy, you know, from the healthcare side. And good people and still getting a little bit more expensive. It was a great family place. It was a great place to raise a family aspect. But yeah, now if you want to hear some good music, then have some good food and I won't say good barbecue because I get in trouble for the Georgia folks or maybe the people in Memphis. That's exactly. You know my favorite place in making is the crystal. I like Christmas. Oh really? Yeah, I do. I do. Homer roots there. I'm telling you, I mean, come on, you know, the crystalline making. I love it. There's a lot of good places. Well, getting into that, she goes in government and Sanford bishop. Again, I started with down here in Georgia, San from San Francisco, initially a tough race of this cycle, as a matter of fact. But you went over and you went to Microsoft. You've been over there over 20 something years now. How's it changed? What have you seen in the dynamics just in coming forward? I would say with when it comes to innovation and technology, it's constantly changing. When I first joined the company, it was about Windows, and it was about office. And now today, when you look at innovation, it's about the cloud. It's about data centers. It's about cybersecurity. It's about privacy. It's about those type of issues. When I first joined, it was about intellectual property. It's still is, but candidly maybe a little less so on that aspect. And so, you know, today I think it's about trust. It's about security. And then when you look at some of the policy issues, you know, there's a focus on criminal justice, but that's having to do with economic opportunity, as well as, you know, let's just be honest. I mean, what's on people's minds is crime. But it's also about criminal justice and other aspects and how technology data can play a role on that aspect. We focus on because we have data centers and energy, we focus on sustainability, but just energy use. And things of that nature. So it evolves and as new technologies evolve. It's there. There's gaming because we have Xbox and we have augment reality with HoloLens that's used for military purposes. So that's what that's why I quite frankly have lasted 20 two years because the every two years I switched jobs because I had a little bit of get bored. You don't get bored at Microsoft because the technology is innovation is constant. I want to bring something out. Let's get this out in the open, you know, I think early and I think it goes into this working at Microsoft. Advocacy, lobbying, however you want to put it. You know, it's sometimes it's taken and I've always said this, you know, everybody comes up to me and says, oh, that's terrible. That's what's wrong with. I said, no, I said the people who advocate and for position and stuff are the ones that are needed, you know, when you have good ones, they're needed. And it's just like every other thing you have people who are not good at it and they give a bad name to everybody else. But you know, from what you've seen from your advocacy standpoint, a Microsoft and especially in select criminal justice form, employment hiring, disability hiring. These kind of things are areas where you have the resources to help make case known not only in a federal level, but state levels as well. Does that also sort of bring it to you that you can make a difference and it's not the bad perception that everybody brings into quote advocacy nowadays?.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"And that applies to everybody. And that's what I really like about the 22 years of doing advocacy and being an ambassador for Microsoft. And okay, you've opened up some doors here and before we get some other help. I figured I did. You got your mic in Georgia. I mean, I'm still in the air force down at Warner Robin, so around making all the time making come up music. I mean, that's another amazing hotbed, but for music and with Nashville as well. But Fred, they're for just a second. I mean, I know a lot of Microsoft folks can be listening, but that you had to hear that. And here you have WAC open national. I'm here with you today. I mean, you had that right? Kick back in. It was hard. It was hard because, you know, but she just get a call and you'd be like, okay, and then oh yeah. And people will let you know what they think. You could all kind of feedback. I'm like, oh, okay. And then you have to make sure your facts are right, because they're correct you. This is before you could go do Bing search or Google search or do a search do a quick fact check, you know? It works out. I still do some writing. I do a lot of radio and you get those callers and sometimes it's like, okay. Thank you for calling. I'm moving on alone. It does want to go real quickly. When I first, when I first started, right? You want to, you know, because you open up the lines and you're like, nobody. Things lighting up the lights. Next caller. And then you realize like, okay, I got to have this different aspect, and then you could just say certain things, it just light up. I've got you one for it. And this is and again, for everybody out there, this is just an experience we've had. I was on radio the other day when the president decided he made his announcement about the pardoning or the issue with the marijuana, the whole and I just made mention of it on the radio. I just said, hey, this just came out. You know, interesting, just as a comment. The phone lines lit up. And the first two Fred, I have to be honest with you. I think the first two were already partaking when they called in. I think you were going to say that. But anyway, speaking of also of Nashville, Nashville has turned into. And I know from a Microsoft event, but from a tech perspective, but also from his really, really just changed over the years. Absolutely, you know, when I lived in Nashville, the mayor of Nashville selected me to be on the airport authority. And so yeah, back in the day, Doug, when you walk through the airport, you see a little picture of Fred Humphries. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as you were departing, you know? To go to the baggage. And so, you know, it's been a little bit. You know, I make it to natural from time to time. And recently I was in Nashville, and oh my gosh, I looked at that airport, wow. It's not the airport that we had envisioned when I was there over 30 something years ago on that airport authority act again might have been the youngest member ever to be on the airport. And now I look at it and then it's music playing. And then you go to our town, you can go to you used to go to Branson. That shows where they wrote and produced, I remember when the Bluebird cafe opened up the Nashville and used to go to it and it could get in. It was not a line. Aspect. And now, you know, it's bachelorette parties. It's a foodie town. It's got good music. And it's booming. I mean, that city is booming. Diverse economy, you know, from the healthcare side. And good people, and still getting a little bit more expensive. It was a great family place. It was a great place to raise a family aspect. But yeah, no, no. If you want to hear some good music, then have some good food and I won't say good barbecue because I get in trouble for the Georgia folks or maybe the people in Memphis. That's exactly. You know my favorite place in making is the crystal. I like Christmas. Oh really? Yeah, I do. I do. Eat Homer roots there. I'm telling you, I mean, come on, you know, the crystalline making. I love it. There's a lot of good places that I want. Well, getting into that, she goes in government and Sanford bishop. Again, I serve with them here in Georgia, San Francisco, initially a tough race of this cycle, as a matter of fact..
The Doug Collins Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"One of the things that I've always done. Especially when I've interviewed a lot of folks who people know, I want them to know the people in my podcast and whether you have a public figure that is in the news all the time or someone who's never, but around I want people to know because when I hear so much and I have a lot of different age groups listening, I want them to know that if they put their minds up they can do it. So Fred, give us a little background about where you came from, how you got here, just let us know you a little bit. I absolutely will. I'm going to do I'm trying to do the short story. Aspect, I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But fast forward, I was raised in Tennessee, raised in Nashville, Tennessee, great place for good country music and when I was growing up, it was more on the production side than it was on the go see a show, you know, get some good entertainment and Nashville has changed. And went to morehouse college in Georgia and Atlanta, Georgia. My wife of 35 years is from Macon, Georgia. I get there making a fair amount to see my mother in law. Went on to temple law school in Philadelphia, came back home to Tennessee, and like yourself, I have a commitment to community. I have a commitment to trying to make a contribution to society. And I think one of the places you could do that is in government. I worked for a governor, governor Ned ray mcwhorter. For 6 years, I did something that I really enjoyed. And I think about this when I think about this podcast, I was on radio station LAC 1510 a.m. in Nashville on Sunday. I had a talk show Doug, you probably didn't know. And I only had it for a few months because I ended up moving to D.C.. I looked forward for every Sunday, but I would tell you, like you have to do, preparation for a talk show is like, okay, I got 30 minutes. I got to figure out what I would say. I had an open line, and then I'm like, you know, okay, you want to get callers. Oh my gosh. The amount of time I spent on that for the 30 minutes was unbelievable,
The Doug Collins Podcast
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Doug Collins Podcast
"I'd go, well, how do you think the writer feels when under the rules that Congress is set? Did you know that's the only occupation in America under a maximum wage? What are you talking about I go and I would explain that one pennies now 9.1 cents divided among all the writers and whatever. Same thing with streaming, it was set up to be a race to the bottom for songwriters. And this is not an exaggeration by my estimate in my 25 years of doing this. We've done over 5000 of those appointments. And eventually it mattered. I think over time, Congress realized that we were right. And we also presented you did in the music modernization act. Here's why it passed. We presented them options, starting with changing the tax code for songwriters, it had been weirdly taken away from them in the 50s, and some things where we didn't have the industry fighting amongst itself. And then there came a moment with the music modernization act where there were a lot of independent bills. And it was one of the toughest moments. You know, where you had to decide what went into the overall Bill. But yeah, we did that. We played thousands and thousands of songs for members of Congress, and I can promise you one thing. Whether they agreed with us or not, in the kind of days, members of Congress have to have reading stuff that Einstein couldn't understand. We had the best calling card to play you a song that made you laugh or cry. They remembered that. You mentioned one with sense and brother, since the rare for those who don't know jam is just a big gruff teddy bear. You have to get through about 16 layers of the to realize the heart of this man. But okay, you said 5008. What were some of the, tell me one of your let's go with this because what was one of your funnier ones when you went into that you remember with a member. It wasn't a song that was senator Barbara McCullough and even Stephens guitar like she was going to play the Bluebird. She was obsessed with the Bluebird. Now y'all own the Bluebird, right? The Bluebird cafe in Nashville, so I brought even Stevens and Chris wall and we even brought a little Bluebird thing and did a show in her office, but you know there were so so many of them through the years and again I was pretty calculated we tried when we could to play a song that had meaning to that member of Congress. Was there ever one it just that the got you emotionally? I think you mentioned or early, Jamie Floyd wrote this great song. The album was nominated for a Grammy called the blade. And the song got me, but watch and Jamie Floyd. Is there a better singer you've ever heard in your life? I haven't. She got a great voice. Beautiful woman that knows how to sing. She emotes a song supposed to make us feel something and Jamie gosh darn it would make us laugh and cry. And I think Jamie also entered our ecosystem. I learned about Jamie in a movie called the last songwriter that's free out there of people want to go watch it. It had gotten that bad, so every time Jamie played it, it was like a knife through the heart on a number of different levels. And then there were a couple personal to me that go back to my family, the good stuff. You're going to miss this, just the ones about family always got me. But I'm a big sappy fan and sometimes I would have to unclear my throat before after those songs we could make our pitch to a member of Congress..
Backstage Pass Radio
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on Backstage Pass Radio
"We knew it was bigger than i. I felt a weight to lift off my back after. We wrote that last line and i never planned to perform this song live. It was honestly something. I needed to write for my own soul to heal. But then i was at the bluebird cafe here nashville and i was in a songwriter circle. Because my turn to play and my poems or sledding heart was racing and knew i was supposed to play this song so i did fairly got through it. Woman came up after the show and she said i lost my dad two days ago and a played some tonight and so that was the start of this unbelievable journey. I've been on for the last ten years. I knew that in that moment. If the worst experience i had ever had to walk through could somehow bring a song the life that can help others be comforted heal during their own time of loss but i had a big responsibility to share that so in the music video for it my hometown of soda at my dad's scrape sites and six months later it was on the radio and england. So it's been a beautiful journey with that song. It has just done so much for my me personally by getting on as into sharing my testimony my story over and over again has brought so much healing but most importantly hit next thing with people through music and just learning that when you're vulnerable somehow active people the permission to also be vulnerable and breakdown. Whatever walls are guarding the heart. So i am so thankful that i get to be a vessel. That brings the song of the world's there a few other artists in europe that have gone on record versions of the songs that have had a lot of success as well so i would love to sarah. He now. that song is jealous. Able didn't know they.
Backstage Pass Radio
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on Backstage Pass Radio
"Or electric drums. Oh acoustic why. Electric i mean. I haven't electronic kit. I've got a role in and they've gotten a lot better but it's just nothing electronic has gotten better. I'll say that just acoustic drums. You know it's helps you define your personality drum wise because you've got to spend the time tuning and and choosing what type of head that you like and what tom civils you wanna play the type of sticks us and all those things are variables that have to do with your unique sound. I mean i've played the same snare drum Same drum kit since nineteen eighty five. I've got a yamaha recording series kit. And i've used the same heads since nineteen eighty five remo emperor heads now so y- acoustic helped you to define your personality musically electronic drums. Don't afford you that. would you say that. This is kind of off a meanest on that same topic. It wasn't a quickfire question. But would you say that if you have a studio like like mine. It's not a huge studio. It's you know it's in the house kind of thing but do you think that an electronic kit is good for situations like that if you're not of course. I'm not going to go out and play drums at a gig or something like that. But do they suffice for the house and studio use or do you depend on what the project is on the you know. Just if it's something that i'm very very passionate about then probably not okay if if i'm hired to come in and just perform and do do some tracks for somebody than you know. Yes sure you can get away with it and especially now with the role in kisses. Have the meshhed's before they had the the hard plastic heads so there was no yeah didn't have any dynamics like now with the mess heads you can hit the head softened its it sounds soft and you can hit it hard and in the volume goes up before the plastic heads or the hard rubber has whatever they were you just you had one volume dynamics piero cat all makes and that's one of the things that i hated about electronic drums. I started to come out. But like i said the the role in meshhed's of ghana helped to correct that. And also you can tune the head tighter you know just like a regular drumhead so you can get a better action of it and again the volumes the dynamics so what would you say that. The symbols are are have progressed to on the electric kits. Like i. I'm not sure if i'm using the right terminology but the the grab you know like when you hit the you know the the crash several right and you and you grab it. Bright to mute it out. What would you say that that technology has come a long way. Where it will simulate an actual you catcher grabbing. Not sure what you call it the dream. I don't know because i don't really do that with my electronic kit now craig lemay. We spoke to spoke about him before he came over to me. You know kind of tweak. Some things out on it and he was doing that he was hidden grabbing it. And let me know that you can actually do this. But you know it's i use it just for practice okay. I'll just for rehearsal me mass income in the bedroom machen. We play at one o'clock night too because he don't buy them. But you can control the volume. So it's not something that i've actually tried to refine to the point where a mexican ado recording with it and then i might try to you know. Figure that part out. But as of right now i just don't know okay fair enough. I ask geigy also drummer of zebra. This question and i wasn't sure that the question would even make sense but apparently did to him favourite drum in the entire set. Oh it has to be this scenario. Okay just. Because that afford you the widest array of possibilities with your tone and That's the thing that you can change so dramatically. One way or the other to define. What your snare dome sound is you know dick dick drum to appoint tom's to appoint but you snare johm is the most think of the word can't think of. It is probably the drum with the most character. Would you would would that be fair. Yeah he ended. You've got such wide array of possibilities with the sound of his near joan that you may or may not have with a tom okay. Are you a country guy at all. being from mississippi basically of course not i appreciate and love the old country music. The new crap. That's out there the new country stuff. I'm not really really my thing. You know it just sounds like bon jovi with the twang to me you know. I don't make anybody mad. But i mean they're okay songs. Its formula stuff. -ture about early bird or night. Owl depends on what what year you're talking about in general in general I guess i'm still not. Oh okay now that you're working the early probably in your line of work. I'm sure you guys don't get to work at ten o'clock in the morning. I'm sure your pre early guys right. So so i guess part of you is a early bird because you have to be but if if you took all of those things out of the picture right in you're just a bomb sitting at home every night out. Yeah okay Favorite place of all time. That you've played. What's your favorite room. That just was the room for you and it can be for any reason right. it could be same tonality. it can be crowd. It can be anything. What room sticks out in your head is the man. I guess it would have to be the whisky you know just from the you know. We play troubadour the whisky anka's ariz. You know whiskey just because of the aura the styles. You never thought i'd be there. You know to do it and we did it. So that was the one that came out on stage and although and trust me it's not really that great of a club you know it's it's basically all in all but the fact it'd be on the same stays like jim morrison was on and got everybody. I mean that's just. It's a historical location. Yeah and when the first time. I walked out onstage to play. That's what i thought about is all the Wonder legends legends. This in on that stage so you have. I'd say the whiskey. And that's interesting that you say that i think a lot of people don't realize that you think of places like the whiskey as this mystical place that has you know room for thousands and thousands of people. The alamo in texas right we. We've read about all of our lives in texas history and you go there and you're like where's the rest of it you know. Just it's so small but it's been made into the big big thing in our minds. The bluebird cafe and nashville few. If you've never played in nashville. I mean that's the club. The play their yelp force. The raymond is operatives but the bluebird is a very famous place. But you go there and it's it's almost like a buzzkill because it's a little strip center with a torn owning out front and you're like really this is it you know but there's been many famous people that have played that room so visited new york. Wants an i I went to cbgb's and that place is a whole. You know i was stunned. About how much. Debt club will wasn't what i thought it will exactly so it. It's almost a little depressing. Like you be built these things up to be great places in the mind. Get there and you're just like it's a little lackluster. Like not so great. After all but anyway favorite song this is probably not going to apply to for the thai Stuff but if if you guys did support that material with a live shows what do you think the favorite song to play live would be. Oh it would have been ride right. Okay yeah just because it's it's a it's a bit of an extended song and it's got to separate solos and again it's you know. Go back and listen to it and listened to ties solos. It's just an incredible guitar solo. I mean i've listened to it a thousand times every time i listen to it. I get chills. It's just that guy just has the ability to.
The Moment with Brian Koppelman
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on The Moment with Brian Koppelman
"Me happy and feel Alive and everything thanks. Brian really appreciate your enthusiasm. thank thanks for. Thanks for sharing stories with me. I mean we're we're we're kind of in in in a similar sort of a journey that that you know we both start with zero and have to work our way to warm loving look i had to. I had to loving parents. And i was raised in a different way. But that's the thing about like we are experiences in certain ways were so different but the thing that ties people who want do this work together as you have to actually do the work like you have to clear out. The debris fine the silent place and face the fact that it's terrifying but it's more terrifying to picture yourself at seventy five having not really tried. It's more terrifying. If you really think about it if you didn't feel if you don't fill the page up today page is going to be blanked tomorrow and all that stuff yes that's it. Mortality is the great motivator. It is because why Why hide it okay. Last thing by the way you said another title that's pretty good about guy. You said a little smile and a nod. I'm just going to give that back to you to did say we'll coming from him was message. There's something about that. That's a good idea for you. What what is the purpose of the troubadour in the world. I just wanna let you talk about that for a second. You describe yourself as as that And my favorite song. I've written is a song that lyle lyles said he's gonna saying it's called texas troubadours and it's about guy towns and but you talk about troubadours in your book. Can you talk about what it is about the troubadour that that title that idea that so inspiring to you. Yeah we're attributed. I hear true we the truth. And we're not gonna dirty ourselves for shame ourself by singing bullshit. Which of course does not mean. We don't work in the arena of fiction. Of course we use fiction but we use it. Purposefully we use it to get to truth. And i think the work of the troubadour is to connect us. There's empathy. that happens when a song really connects and we become the other. It helps us to feel not alone. And i think we desperately need that and that's our job and we do it at whatever level or allowed to do it could be at. The bluebird cafe could be at bridgestone But that's where the work gets done and we accept wherever we are playing as the job in front of us and we're here to tell stories that gets you to something true. That's just perfect would you. Would you play mercy for us about this song and listening to a kind of nonstop as i was reading your book and i just want the audience. If they don't know mary go shays music. I want them to just hear a song. And so you can play us out. Thank you Sure could use a little mercy. Food service labor full rats mcgrath is almost won't be wall era.
Bob and Sheri
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on Bob and Sheri
"Cable make me sick. Had sanitizer of the bobbing share. Show erica laws. This is from north carolina. Said her father. Dan you wayne laws. Who died in two thousand sixteen completed two tours of duty in the war. Rising to the rank of staff sergeant. She kept her dad's two purple hearts two bronze star medals and nearly a dozen other medals and ribbons with his ashes at the family's homestead along be mountain ridge road near lenore north carolina. Nobody was living at the home for awhile but surveillance cameras showed somebody coming on the property several weeks ago. Charles carr who is thirty. One years old is accused of stealing the purple hearts and the other metals investigators said car took the war medals and traded them at a convenience store for a code red mountain dew. That's crazy the person who did that in the convenience sort saw the story on television and contacted contacted the local police quote. It was awful. I mean it hurts more than anything. You just feel violated because of everything that he went through in addition to the metals a Kawasaki four wheeler ended. Television were also stolen. How low a human being argue that you would steal another man's purple hearts and then get a mountain dew for them to trade a purple heart for a code red mountain dew. Yeah yeah that on top of using a loaded gun as a cat toy. I'm starting to think that human beings are not very smart. I would just say that if you happen when she said that i didn't know it was loaded. I think if you pick up a gun that's just hanging around the house. Wouldn't you just assume that below. Aren't you supposed to assume that every load colbrad mountain to a listening today. We're the only people that don't have the following things going out on outstanding warrants of probation violation or violating terms of bond. It's max that's true today. I feel myself escalating toward one of those outcomes. I do. I feel it all right. That's more in the news. Oh yes so. Many wonderful things straight ahead including why in focused on money and finances can be kind of awful her relationship. It's baden cherry the podcast. We wouldn't putting more shouldn't say on the show sent directly to your phone by texting odd. Cast to eight eight eight five sherry bob. I'm warning your straight up in a guy at what i have for you now. Okay and you're just like it at all. But hey i didn't make this world and this i didn't invent this product or this advertisement that is all over. Tv it's all over tv. And i know this. Because i've pulled a couple of middle of the night feeding shifts with our new little baby premature twins and so the the the one night They eat every three hour. So it's like six nine twelve three and so on so we did. The nine o'clock feeding and i was like i'm not gonna go to bed. I'm just gonna stay up for the twelve o'clock feeding and then i'll catch a nap between twelve and three so i- flipping channels and i come across A marathon of tv show called accident suicide or murder. It's a true crime. Show where you know they take a case that looks like it could have been an accident or possibly a suicide but ended up actually being a murderer and so they rehash like all of that and and i'm watching a marathon of that and i think that's good for one's mental health. I think watching. I have to tell you that is really dr concept i i i'm not gonna lie That's not the best thing. I would have been much better off watching a marathon of i. Don't know anything but then it's the middle of the night and there. I am wide awake in the dark. Watching this and the same commercial is coming on like every other commercial break and it's for a product. I think it's pronounced coal-lease And there's a catchy little song. And max has it right here. It hurts when you sometimes like pension. Porcupine you're sweating. You're next blue. Says the brand to soften stools all agreed number. Two should be easy to do. Trust co. laced played again. I want to play the game. It's so catchy. That's this is where we are if it hurts when you sometimes and not for you sweat new. You're next door to the loo. All this is the brand new need to soften stools. We're all agreed number. Two should be easy to do. I can't argue with the general philosophical. Take it should be easy to do. I can't argue with that. But the first time the first time the ad came on i was a little bit bleary and not giving it my full attention and it went over. It's really quick. It's a really short commercial like fifteen seconds long. It went by so fast and my brain went. You've been wait too because it satellite. That lady said pinch off porcupine. Sometimes finishing off a porcupine. You're sweating. You're next to to the lou. You need to soften stills. We're all agreed number. Two should be easy to do. Was that on a cable network. I i've not seen this. But i haven't watched a lot of broadcast television recently. I don't know it was like the usa network or whatever whatever channel carries the marathon of accident suicide or murder. There's another police commercial too. And i can't that doesn't involve pinching off a poor. Please don't say that anymore. I thought you know when when the sharman commercial with the bears came out. I thought i thought okay like we're selling the product and i get it all i could think about and i had hours of being awake all by myself to think about it. Here's what i think about the the woman singing jingle. She left her small town with a dream. And she went to nashville. And she got a job waiting tables and she slinging like fajitas or whatever and then she's going home to her apartment that she shares with three other people and she's writing songs and she's waiting for open mic night at the bluebird cafe and she's dreaming. She sang to herself. Faith hill got discovered working as a receptionist. Anything can happen if you come to nashville with a dream in your heart. And then one day the phone rang and it was her agent and our agent goes whatever her name is. I'm thinking it's kelly. She sounds kelly kelly. I have unbelievable news. You have booked a major national commercial and callie goes. Oh my god oh my god. You're kidding what four and the agent goes. okay now. don't say no and here we here's how we get to the fifteenth. Pinch off porcupine. Yeah you know you know when. I see the commercial with three guys. That are all dressed in pink and on like a bus somewhere they have some crazy pink outfits and they start singing about Their stomach problems. Those those guys are like broadway performers. But now they're seeing. I don't even want to say the d. word. But that's what they're singing about. If you listen to the voice of this woman singing the jingle so i can tell you it is..
What Difference Does It Make
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on What Difference Does It Make
"Difference does it make podcast. Don't you think. I love talking songwriters. Just getting some insight into what how to create a song. It's a big mystery to me and our guest. Today mary gauchet kind of lifts the veil in the way power. A song as creative. Mary book saved by song. The art and healing power of songwriting. Which is really a great book because yes. She talks about the art of songwriting but she also talks about. It's kind of a memoir. She speaks her truth through songs. We all the better for it and now we have mary gauchet in our. What difference does it make studios. So shall we get right into it. Holly let's get with mary goce on the. What difference does it make podcast. first question. very important gauchet correct. Yeah i'm born in new orleans louisiana pronunciation of french name. It's impossible stage name. I should have changed it in the beginning but in louisiana. It's a common name. I didn't realize i'd be up against the level of difficulty goce. Yeah i was painful that you you'd put it. I think a couple of times in your book. That correct pronunciation yeah. It's not even correct. I don't care how people say it is just how my family says it. Are you in new orleans right now. I'm in nashville okay. I'll have you played it. All in nashville. Because the place that i plays the bluebird cafe and it has not reopened yet. Laura okay. i have played several times. I played in west three times during the pandemic outside. We did a couple of one in houston where they have a very beautiful. Socially distanced setup with a four camera. Shoot that livestreams. It was awesome. They did a beautiful job there. To keep their venue alive. I went and helped him. got vaccinated in february. So i was able to get out pretty early. But tonight we're going out and doing an actual tour so that's the first actual tour. We're doing date day. Date date looking forward to eighty nervous at all so excited. Let's go. it's it's time to go to work. I'm ready all the makeup dates that have been rescheduled five six. Some of them seven times are now going to play in the venues that survived so the makeup dates have landed and it's intense. Most of us got on stage and cried. 'cause like oh my god i never imagined this could be taken away and new levels of appreciation certainly appeared especially for the mom and pop in us who are just trying to survive. I just love them so much. They've always more or less been nonprofit without them. I mean we couldn't. I couldn't do what i do. I mean not playing huge venues. I that was never my goal or my hope or my Intention i like small rooms with intimate crowds and that's usually the mom and pops and go. I love him so much. The place you normally play in national you mentioned it. That's like the blueberry. I've never had the pleasure being at the bluebird what makes that so special. Because i've heard about the song circles and the you know that's where everyone kind of tests out there material. What what is it like there. Why is it so special. The blue bird is an institution in this town and It was opened by my friend. Amy kurland a whole lot of years ago. I don't know something in the area of thirty years ago i. I don't have the statistics of appalling. They've been there but their institution and it's a place where songwriters songwriter town. I'm gonna songwriter town in its place where songwriters can go. Play here in nashville. An awful lot of the songwriters don't perform they write songs for their publishers. Who pitch them to artists do perform but the song writers are not performers in many instances so it was a place bill to host songwriters. And they're not the greatest performers in the world but the songs are so awesome to see the guy who wrote. I hope you dance or friends in low places are oh my god don schlitz. The gambler. You know he. He never made a career on the road but he can deliver his song in such a authentic way. You says it was built as a place to go see. The hit writers perform their songs and their catalog. and now i play there once when it reopens. I usually play their once a quarter so four times a year. I get to do my own. Show there. I kind of own thursday night once every four months at the blue bird. I miss it so much all right. So that leads us to your bucks bioshock. All right love the book. I love the way you you kind of. Set it up songs. That have met the most to you either whether you wrote them or whether you've heard them and been inspired by them the first song chapter when or were you talking about the song i drink. You went to a song so you went to assert a songwriting circle that you you try to debut this song and it didn't go as well as you would hope it would go. I think you referencing my Description of what. It's like to get on stage in the beginning. Yeah i guess that's that's where you had you had your you build up the courage to to step on up on stage kind of like an open mike. What was it that was driving you that you have to do this and seeing the song well you know. I just felt drawn to the art form in a way that i didn't quite fully understand it. It's also subconscious with me for so long. Because i was an alcoholic in an addict and everything that comes with that which is a lack of self.
Talking Lion
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on Talking Lion
"Got an excited. Every time you come back from nashville always have new. Demos small thing called my producer. Lives in nashville. And i do my this project. Wait speaking of of of being drunk. Musician in nashville. Did you ever play the kids open mic et too old hippies. you know. I went to open mics there. But i never played but yet for the internet that was on on the infamous children's mike. It's all i think. I played like one like during the middle of the day when i went on. Like just like my second. Like my ultimate wasn't even belmont because they didn't want to gsu mt s. You had a really good engineering program and that was super duper safety school. If like everything hits the fan. That's my friend. Actually she did engineering. It's honestly it has one of the highest unemployment rates for audio engine is a really good school if you want to. Just do the engineering. An astronaut wonder if to nashville. I went to like two old hippies. And play low up and mike and i got to go to a writers rounded the bluebird cafe. Oh my gosh like see a little bit of that. World's weird like it's so crazy. 'cause that's just like the bluebird cafes and like grenell's which is like a part of nashville that you just like drive through if you're going to the mall. He grew up. There always drive by the bird. And there's a line like down the street because you have to win the lottery basically to getting it's a small venue. It's tiny tied the cafe basically. Yeah but it's so infamous that everybody's trying to go so it's funny just to see people like in line at this like in this buji. Town greenhills like trying to get into this cafe. So weird at like so. I think i can't remember the time line. Necessarily but i think i was watching the show nashville at the time it was using. The buber cafe has a set of that show takes place in. The bluebird like doctors are are way jobs at the blue ver. I they were during that one nashville was filming the show. I probably ran into six different people on the cast at different points. I don't know what it was like fate and me ending up at the examining places. Jimmy connie britton. And or a very young lennon stella. I have met lenin on different occasions. But i met like charles esten. I met like the girl that played scarlet on one time. Yeah oh my god so they. All of them are so talented. But i just running into into them like cafes and stuff and i was like really this. Is this like.
AP News Radio
ACM Awards Take Place for 2nd Time in a Year
"The academy of country music awards will be handed out on Sunday in Nashville for the second time in less than a year I'm Margie is our letter with a preview when the it feels like it wasn't that long ago that the last ACM awards happen well that's true the last ones were in September because of the corona virus pandemic the ACM's traditionally are in April Marren Morris and Chris Stapleton leads the nominations with six each Mickey Guyton who is co hosting with Keith urban will be the first black woman to host the awards the ceremony will air on CBS from the grand Ole Opry house the Ryman auditorium and the bluebird cafe in Nashville
KTOK
"bluebird cafe" Discussed on KTOK
"On demand from Fox News and Amazon. Alexa White House says it's working to determine who was responsible for the attack on the U. S led base in Iraq yesterday that killed a civilian contractor and wounded several others. Still working through attribution with our Iraqi partners to determine precise attribution for this attack, Obviously, that's a priority. I will convey that were outraged by last night's Rocket attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Press Secretary Jen Psaki, a Shiite militia group, has claimed responsibility. The State Department says it's disturbed by reports that additional charges have been filed against the leader of Burma on song suit. She has been detained since the military coup began February 1st. Member of Congress is the U. S. Should think twice about participating in the 2022 Olympics in Beijing Republican Congressman Mike Waltzes urging the United States to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. What's introduced a House resolution this week, saying the U. S cannot in good conscience participate in the Games, warning that China could be emboldened by the legitimacy of hosting them. The resolution says the Olympic Games are a celebration of international culture and are meant to be independent of political, ideological and Diplomatic disagreements. But the Florida congressman said the game's being held in Beijing amid abuses by the Chinese Communist Party and the Corona virus pandemic would be quote immoral, unethical and wrong. The resolution comes after President Biden last week spoke with Chinese President Xi Jingping for the first time since taking office, Brooke Syngman the Academy of Country Music Awards, It's coming back to Nashville for a second time and will hold its awards show with three different venues. The A. C. M and Dick Clark Productions announced the show will air April 18th and we'll broadcast from the Grand Old Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium and the Bluebird Cafe. The show, which is normally held in Las Vegas, used the same Nashville locations when the pandemic delayed their show to last September..
Charlie Parker
ACM Awards will kick off with an all-star medley
"Tonight Your favorite country stars take three stages for a historic Academy of Country Music awards. Thomas Rhett Mayor Mars and Old Dominion Lean the Academy of Country Music Awards With five nominations, each damage have four and even pop star Justin Bieber grabbed four for his collaboration with dual urban will be hosting the event from the grand old offering and will premiere a brand new song with paint. The awards moved to Nashville for the first time marking this one for the history books. The performances will also be spread out of three venues. Operate Bluebird Cafe in the Ryman Auditorium. Also performing Miranda Lambert Taylor Swift, Jimmy Allen came
On The Edge With Thayrone
Academy of Country Music Awards will broadcast from Nashville for first time
"Them this is a first the academy of country music awards will take place in Nashville the annual event is usually held in Las Vegas in April however due to the corona virus pandemic the ACM's hosted this year by Keith urban were postponed to the fall Monday the academy along with Dick Clark productions announced the move to three different locations in Nashville the grand Ole Opry house Nashville's historic Ryman auditorium and the bluebird cafe Damon Whiteside the CEO of the academy said the move was made to ease the burdens of traveling large teams to insure the safety of the
Deminski and Doyle
Nbc, Taylor Swift and Craig Wiseman discussed on Deminski and Doyle
"Nbc's live production of jesus christ superstar bearing on the network for easter it was broadcast live out of brooklyn taylor swift got back to her nashville roots doing a surprise performance saturday night at the very intimate bluebird cafe in nashville the boot dot com has video swift was accompanied by songwriter craig wiseman among the performances her popovich shake it off and the country had better men which swift wrote and then gave to her buddies in little big town at is a liberty spend their easter and passover weekend you could see around up at popcrush dot com of fun family photos including the kardashian clan i'm erin vogt on the townsquare news network get ready for the biggest event of the year it's open house at.
The Bobby Bones Show
Nashville, Sugarland and Dan discussed on The Bobby Bones Show
"Latest from nashville and hollywood amy's thirty seconds skinny taylor swift made a surprise appearance at nashville's bluebird cafe on saturday night still stories informed songs even drink little fireball whiskey it's all going to be part of a documentary that they're doing and honor of the clubs thirty fifth anniversary sugarland finally revealed the release date of their first new album in seven years it's going to be called beggar and it's coming out june i'm amy better second skinny jannine shade tell us about dan's awkward proposal to his wife addie we're out of the beach okay the ring in the sand it was nearly dark times you drop during in san accidentally accidentally it wasn't like i you know i wrote like big letters in the sand and she walked out of the it wasn't anything like that wasn't wasn't romantic buried in the sand with just my hands to tease the bobby bones show have you had your morning cup of coffee well then you gotta grab some west rock coffee there maze of land is a best seller it's great hotter iced and it means good morning and rwanda where the company i started we keep it around the studio at all times so grab some for yourself it's your local kroger on amazon or west drop coffee dot com hello beautiful i'm amy eric founder.