The Last Revel Just Bet EVERYTHING on This Album (Americana will NEVER be the Same)
From Dive Bars to John Mayer: The Last Revel’s Journey is Unbelievable!
Three musicians.
One relentless vision.
And a record that feels like the point of no return.
From Midwest dive bars to sharing stages with John Mayer, The Last Revel has always played like there’s something at stake.
But this time…it’s different.
They locked themselves away in a legendary studio.
They called in heroes to push them past their limits.
They bet everything on one album — the fastest, rawest, most unapologetic music they’ve ever made.
Curious how far a band will go when there’s no Plan B?
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Don't overthink a punk song.
Speaker A:It's just punk as hell, man.
Speaker A:You just gotta let it rip.
Speaker A:It's everybody pitching in.
Speaker A:It's everybody just playing as fast as they can.
Speaker B:Definitely is one of the most fun I've ever had recording a song.
Speaker A:It was challenging to get ourselves mentally prepared to wait another year to release it, but also it seemed worth it.
Speaker A:Like, now was our time.
Speaker C:The last rebel.
Speaker C:This folk slash Americana band blends string band grit, indie rock, edge, and three part harmony so tight that they will stop you in your tracks.
Speaker B:Yeah, I remember being sitting in a nasty basement practice, and I look up and like, holy.
Speaker B:I'm gonna be opening for John Mayer.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:I will never forget stepping out on stage and seeing one guy look straight at me and go, where's John?
Speaker B:By the end of the set, he was dancing along the stuff.
Speaker B:So it's phew.
Speaker C:I love it.
Speaker B:2018, we all got just super burnt out from living out of a van 200 plus days a year.
Speaker A:We're gonna be more transparent about how much we can handle.
Speaker A:It felt like a really honest and comfortable place to start again.
Speaker C:Baby, this is not our last revel.
Speaker D:Exactly what is the reaction that these people had after Covid at these first couple shows?
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker C:Americana music transforms the world and unfortunately, too many are unaware of its profound impact.
Speaker C:Americana musicians are the unsung heroes and here you'll join us in exploring these passionate artists and how they offer and hope for the future.
Speaker C:This show makes it happen in a fun and entertaining way.
Speaker C:You'll discover new music that you'll love, Hard earned lessons from the road, the story behind favorite songs, a big dose of inspiration for you and your friends, and a good laugh along the way.
Speaker C:I'm Ben Fanning and my co host is Zach Schultz.
Speaker C:It's time to get Americana curious.
Speaker C:Hey there, everybody.
Speaker C:Welcome back to Americana curious.
Speaker C:This one moves fast.
Speaker C:Real fast.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker C:Ever heard of band live and thought that's bluegrass on steroids?
Speaker C:Well, that's the last rebel.
Speaker C:Born out of Minnesota state.
Speaker C:Yes, that Zach's alma mater.
Speaker C:This folk slash Americana band blends string band, grit, indie rock edge, and three, three part harmony so tight that they will stop you in your tracks.
Speaker C:They've lit up the stages from bourbon and beyond to Palisade.
Speaker C:Bluegrass open for heavyweights like John Mayer, trampled by turtles, Goose and Ryan Bingham, and earned a rep as one of the most electrifying festival bands in the country.
Speaker C:And today we are joined by Ryan Aker and Vinnie Donatelli, two Members of the band, songwriters, multi instrumentalists, and the force behind the band's raw, heartfelt sound.
Speaker C:We're going to talk long tours, new albums, and a really interesting history.
Speaker C:Their powerful new record, Gone for Good, is on their way to you.
Speaker C:Let's get Americana Curious with Ryan and Vinnie.
Speaker C:Fellas, welcome to Americana Curious.
Speaker A:Thanks for having us.
Speaker B:Thanks for having us.
Speaker D:We're bringing it to Minnesota today, boys.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker D:I actually met you at the Trampled by Turtles Avett Brothers show last fall.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker D:We met in the hallway and talked to a quick second, and I said I was going to do my best to try to get you guys on here, because you guys.
Speaker D:Rip.
Speaker D:Anyway, I want to start about Mankato.
Speaker D:Minnesota, for our listeners is not a big town.
Speaker D:It's not a big, big college.
Speaker D:When I went to school, there was called Mankato State.
Speaker D:That's how small it was.
Speaker D:Now it's Minnesota State.
Speaker D:Tell me how that small of a town you guys start jamming.
Speaker D:How that becomes the birth of the last revel.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, gosh, it was back in.
Speaker A: think we met Vinnie in, like,: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Lee and I had been playing music for a couple years before that.
Speaker A:We met our freshman year in college and kind of played, like, indie rock, blues, rock stuff and kind of, like, started some bands and played some bar gigs and stuff like that.
Speaker A:And the wheels started kind of coming off that group, and we just kind of wanted to do something simpler and like, kind of just kind of gravitate.
Speaker A:Gravitated towards, like, kind of this, like, acoustic folk genre.
Speaker A:And I picked up the banjo, and Lee and I started writing songs kind of in this and that kind of, like, genre.
Speaker A:And Vinny.
Speaker A:I think Lee and Vinnie met at an open mic in town.
Speaker A:Or maybe it was just a bar.
Speaker A:Bar, open mic situation.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I think I met him originally through some other mutual friends of ours that we were jamming with, that we were trying to do, like, a super traditional bluegrass thing with that we had one gig with.
Speaker D:That's one more than I had at Mankato.
Speaker C:What did you get together and say?
Speaker C:We got the need for speed, to quote Top Gun.
Speaker C:And you're like, we gotta.
Speaker C:We want to do this, but we just want to do really fast or what?
Speaker A:Yeah, I think what.
Speaker A:I mean, I think what attracted the three of us together was like, we were approaching this, like, kind of rootsier sound, but not in a, like, a very traditional sense.
Speaker A:And, like, right off the bat, like, Vinnie.
Speaker A:Vinnie had this very punk edge to him back in the day he, like, when we met him, he had this mohawk and he weighed like 110 pounds.
Speaker A:And he like never had a shirt on.
Speaker A:And like, we just knew right off the bat I was like, okay, this isn't good.
Speaker A:This isn't.
Speaker A:We're not looking for like a super traditional fiddle player to like, we're not writing the lurk.
Speaker A:We're not writing traditional bluegrass songs.
Speaker A:Like, we have a kind of.
Speaker A:We're trying to do this like indie rock, folk, Americana edge to it.
Speaker A:So we knew right away that it was like, okay, this is a different.
Speaker A:This is a different angle than like, you see like these traditional bluegrass bands.
Speaker A:So I think that that's kind of like the initial glue that kind of like got us playing for sure.
Speaker A:And I mean, yeah, I think there is an aspect of, you know, we watched bands like Trampled by Turtles come to town and, you know, they're playing as fast as they can and it's not like this traditional bluegrass thing.
Speaker A:And I think we were really inspired by that and like, oh, well, I mean, these songs kick ass and it's not this traditional way.
Speaker A:So like we could do something like this.
Speaker A:And you know, I think that was kind of like the first, like initial sparks of inspiration to get going.
Speaker A:And yeah, we like took some of these songs that Lee and I had written together and some like, some like old folk tunes that we were like, that we liked and we just kind of like arranged them in our own way and started doing these open mics in town and it seemed to like click really, really quickly.
Speaker A:Like people seem to really like respond to it positively, which was like a first for all of us, I think.
Speaker A:Like playing music, it like it never had clicked like that before internally and externally.
Speaker A:So like going from, you know, these first couple of mics and like people giving us like really good feedback, it felt like, oh, okay, we.
Speaker A:The first step is here.
Speaker A:Like, we see.
Speaker A:We see this like clicking with people.
Speaker A:So that was kind of like the like origin story of sorts for us.
Speaker D:And then there was.
Speaker D:I was just going to say.
Speaker D:And then there was sort of a brief hiatus where you guys kind of stopped doing it.
Speaker D:So how did it come back?
Speaker D:I mean, we just knew that we needed to be jamming at a high rate.
Speaker D:How did that.
Speaker B:I mean, I feel like that's.
Speaker B:That's skipping over a lot of.
Speaker B:A lot of.
Speaker B:A lot of miles there.
Speaker B: m time to place in Mankato in: Speaker B: Until about, I think,: Speaker B:It just kind of.
Speaker B:Kind of weighed on all of us.
Speaker B:And Lee expressed that he wanted to kind of go do some other things, and I wasn't quite sure that he even wanted to be playing music anymore.
Speaker B:And we.
Speaker C:Sorry, what was that moment like?
Speaker C:Because after you spent that much time on the road, you're basically family.
Speaker C:And then the family member's like, hey, I want to leave the family.
Speaker C:Yeah, you won't break this family up.
Speaker C:Or.
Speaker C:Yeah, thank God you said that, because we were all thinking that or what was going on.
Speaker A:Go ahead, Vinny.
Speaker B:There was a little bit of both.
Speaker B:I mean, I feel like we, like, Ryan and I, tried to kind of mess around with some other stuff and see if, like, we couldn't get the ball rolling in a different direction.
Speaker B:And ultimately, it just didn't really feel right.
Speaker B:And then Covid came around and just had us really hang it up for a minute.
Speaker B:And, yeah, for a second there, it was just, like, pretty.
Speaker B:It was a pretty sad period of time, kind of period of grief and a period of learning.
Speaker B:And for me, personally, I wasn't really sure that we were ever going to be getting back together to begin with.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B: And then when it was that: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, we got together again.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A: gue gave me a call the end of: Speaker A:And he.
Speaker A:God, he was down in Nashville for a while trying to do a solo thing.
Speaker A:And, yeah, you know, I.
Speaker A:I don't want to speak too much for him, but he went through some, like, some big life changes during that time.
Speaker A:And I think kind of, like, I think enough time had gone by and enough, like, growing had gone by where it felt appropriate for us to just even, like, reach out and say hi again to each other.
Speaker A:And he brought it up.
Speaker A:He's like, well, like, what do you think about just, like, trying to get together and just, like, playing some shows again?
Speaker A:And, yeah, I was in the same boat as Vinny, where I was like, I could.
Speaker A:I had, like, completely let go of the idea of this ever happening again.
Speaker A:I kind of had moved on, like, personally.
Speaker A:So it's like kind of one of those things where it's like you finally let go of something and it comes back to you.
Speaker A:And, yeah, I mean, I think everybody was like, really excited initially to, like, oh, well, let's just try it.
Speaker A:It was more personal at that point.
Speaker A:Like, well, let's just get together and play some songs again because we have so much history together.
Speaker A:And, like, you know, what if we tried to record some songs and what if we tried to play a couple shows just to see how it went, how it's going to go?
Speaker A:And, like, you know, we burnt.
Speaker A: rnt ourselves out so badly in: Speaker A:So it was like, okay, let's take some control back and be like, we're going to play what we want to play as far as, like, number of shows go and the type of shows go.
Speaker A:And, like, if we're gonna.
Speaker A:We're gonna, like, be more transparent about, like, how much we can handle.
Speaker A:And, like, it felt like.
Speaker A:It felt like a really, like, honest and comfortable place to, like, start again.
Speaker C:You're like, baby, this is not our last revel.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker C:We are.
Speaker C:It ain't over yet.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, like, the.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A: n, like, this early spring of: Speaker A:Our Midwest neck of the woods, like, Madison in Minneapolis and then some shows out in Montana.
Speaker A:Like, we just kind of wanted to just, like, go to where we know our fans have been and just, like, see what happens.
Speaker A:And I think, like, we were all pretty surprised just by.
Speaker A:By the, like, a core fan base kind of getting excited, excited again.
Speaker A:And, like, we sold out the show.
Speaker A:Our, like, reunion shows in the Midwest, and it really caught us off guard.
Speaker A:Like, we kind of just assumed, like, okay, well, like, probably a lot of people have forgotten about us or kind of moved on or whatever.
Speaker A:And we were kind of surprised to learn that, like, the, like, the core fans were still there.
Speaker A:And then, like, a lot of people seem to discover us over Covid and stuff like that and kind of fell in love with the music.
Speaker A:So it's like.
Speaker A:It's like.
Speaker A:It almost felt like, in a way, we never really, like, we didn't miss a beat, and we kind of just like, stepped back into this situation.
Speaker A:It's like, oh, these people still.
Speaker A:We still have this connection with people, and that was really inspiring.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:I imagine that you, at this point, you guys have now grown better as musicians that you're coming out with this almost newer sound, maybe faster.
Speaker D:What is the reaction that these people had after Covid, these first Couple shows.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was cathartic, and, yeah, it was.
Speaker A:You know, we.
Speaker A:We really, like, were really blown away by this connection people showed up to these shows with and, like, just, like, singing their hearts out.
Speaker A:Like, we.
Speaker A:It was like, those first couple of shows, we didn't even have to, like, sing our parts or anything.
Speaker A:Like, everybody was just singing all the songs for us.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:And it was really.
Speaker A:It was really surreal.
Speaker A:It was very cathartic.
Speaker A:And just, like, it became this.
Speaker A:It was like a tipping point where you, like, in our minds, like, oh, this is.
Speaker A:It had grown to something that felt bigger.
Speaker A:Bigger than what we were doing before.
Speaker A:And, you know, and it was.
Speaker A:You know, we were stepping out of this Covid time, and I think that was a big release, too, where people were just, like, they needed that just as much as we did.
Speaker A:And, yeah, I think, you know, I think it was exciting to kind of, like, re.
Speaker A:Approach writing together and recording together with, like, this new set of skills, because all of us were working on our musicianship in that interim.
Speaker A:So I feel like we.
Speaker A:We, like, we approached it with, like, a new bag of tools, which was really fun.
Speaker C:No, you know, I love that.
Speaker C:And one of the reasons we have this show is so you guys don't get burned out, because we want to bring more people to your shows, and you don't have to do 200 shows.
Speaker C:Maybe you have to do 199 shows.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker C:That one show is packed full of Americana.
Speaker C:Curious how in the world so.
Speaker C:So this has been.
Speaker C:And I love the way that Vinnie was building up the truth attention.
Speaker C:Just like, drag.
Speaker C:It was like.
Speaker C:It was a dark time.
Speaker C:We.
Speaker C:And then all of a sudden, boom, we get back together.
Speaker C:People are showing up.
Speaker C:They remember our songs.
Speaker C:Then you're opening for John Mayer.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, that was.
Speaker C:What was that like, Strange.
Speaker C:What was that like to go from, yeah, not even a band to.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, we are now Mankato to mayor.
Speaker C:Yeah, to mayor.
Speaker C:So what's it like?
Speaker C:And how'd you.
Speaker C:How'd you get there and what was it like?
Speaker A:Yeah, so I'll give a little.
Speaker A:Little backstory, and then I'll let.
Speaker A:Maybe I'll let Vinnie kind of, like, talk about what that felt like and stuff.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:So we have had a connection to a venue here in Southwest Montana called Pine Creek Lodge.
Speaker A:And it's in paradise valley.
Speaker A:It's about 10 minutes south of Livingston here.
Speaker A:And the venue owner, Chip, has been a longtime supporter and fan of the band.
Speaker A:And we played.
Speaker A:You know, we played probably 10 shows there once.
Speaker A:Every summer.
Speaker A:And it's just like, it's.
Speaker A:It's a huge, like, foundation of, like, our fan base, and just, like, it's a cornerstone of the summer as far as, like, shows go and stuff like that.
Speaker A:And Chip's been a huge supporter of it.
Speaker A: And in: Speaker A: we played with John Mayers in: Speaker A:In the.
Speaker A: In the summer of: Speaker A:The Yellowstone river flooded, like, way over the banks.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker A:Like, kind of, like, really decimated some smaller communities here in Montana and, like, put some people out of their homes.
Speaker A:And John Mayer owns a home in Paradise Valley, and he has for at least 10 or 15 years.
Speaker A:And him and Chip are friends because John Mayer owns his home nearby this venue.
Speaker A:And John Mayer approached Chip about doing three shows to raise money to help people who are displaced from the Yellowstone river flooding.
Speaker A:And Chip said, yes, let's absolutely do it.
Speaker A:Can I offer, like, local bands or bands that he's fans of or friends with to, like, open up these shows to kind of bring in a sense of community?
Speaker A: where we enter the picture in: Speaker C:Let's go.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I remember getting the call from Chip and being like, he's got to be messing with me.
Speaker A:Like, this is a joke, right?
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:But he was not joking.
Speaker A:It actually happened.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That was a pretty surreal experience, for sure.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I remember being in a nasty basement practice for my little side projects, and looking up and just being like.
Speaker B:Like, I think we were practicing for, like, a set at a brewery, something pretty low stakes.
Speaker B:And I look up and like, holy shit, I'm going to be opening for John Mayer.
Speaker B:Everybody else in the band is like, what?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker D:Why?
Speaker C:It would feel like this lot to me.
Speaker C:There's nothing more Americana than that.
Speaker C:Story number one.
Speaker C:You guys have a connection to your local community.
Speaker C:You have.
Speaker C:You grew your own fan base.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:You didn't buy a bunch of Instagram ads and try to get people to listen.
Speaker C:These are people that knew you.
Speaker C:They loved your music, and you built up that trust and relationship with Chip at that specific venue.
Speaker C:And then, you know, the community is.
Speaker C:Is in serious need.
Speaker C:And John Mayer is like, hey, I'm.
Speaker C:I'm here to.
Speaker C:To help.
Speaker C:And it all came together and.
Speaker C:Yeah, like, it was a big.
Speaker C:A big success, right?
Speaker C:In terms of the.
Speaker A:Yeah, in terms of money raised, it was a huge success.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was a really special.
Speaker A:It was a really special thing.
Speaker A:And it felt kind of like.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:What you're saying, it's like this is.
Speaker A:This is the.
Speaker A:This is the work we put in for 10 years and like, the reconciliation and the healing we've done personally between each other and like, you know, getting past that and be.
Speaker A:And like, playing shows again, it's like it felt like, like a reward for, like, all this hard work.
Speaker A:And like, you know, we're forever grateful to Chip for, like, giving us that opportunity because in all reality, like, we have no business opening up for John Mayer in any other setting.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, it didn't make any sense otherwise.
Speaker A:And it was funny.
Speaker A:Yeah, Seriously.
Speaker C:Opening for Dud and Company next week.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker A:But it was funny that.
Speaker A:That show.
Speaker A:That show was like a lot of people from out of town.
Speaker A:I think a lot of, like, John Mayer fans from all over the country, all over the world bought these tickets.
Speaker A: I remember it, you know, it's: Speaker A:And everybody was like, give us mayor.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Yeah, but I think, yeah, I think by the end of our set, yeah, by the end of the set, we won him over.
Speaker A:And like, you know, I think by the end of the set people were really, really digging it.
Speaker A:And yeah, it was just.
Speaker A:It was a very, like, bizarre highlight of our musical careers, for sure.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I will never forget what, like stepping out on stage and seeing one guy in particular look.
Speaker B:Look straight at me and go, where's John?
Speaker D:That's.
Speaker B:But yeah, by the end of the.
Speaker B:By the end of the set, he was dancing along the stuff, so.
Speaker D:Yeah, well, I know.
Speaker B:Tagging on daunting.
Speaker D:Yeah, I know.
Speaker D:Tagging onto that.
Speaker D:Kind of winning them over is that.
Speaker D:You guys were playing Bourbon and Beyond last.
Speaker D:Last year.
Speaker D:I got a friend, friend of the pod, Jerome.
Speaker D:I'll give a shout out.
Speaker D:He.
Speaker D:He attends every year and he sends me the list, who should I go check out?
Speaker D:You know what?
Speaker D:And I said, you gotta go see the Last Revel there.
Speaker D:Him and his wife both texted me immediately after the set saying just how tremendous the energy was.
Speaker D:And it.
Speaker D:He was sending me pictures and videos and it was in like a kind of a covered tent, it looked like.
Speaker D:He said, yeah, you couldn't.
Speaker D:You couldn't fill one more person into this tant.
Speaker D:He said it was amazing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:That was a fun festival.
Speaker A:That was kind of a funny show because, like, we played at, like, two in the afternoon on, like, I think it was the opening day or, like, you know, early on in the weekend, we played two in the afternoon, and it's, you know, 115 degrees in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker A:We're just, like, dying, sweating our asses off.
Speaker A:And, like, you know, I remember being like, all right, well, maybe we won't have a huge crowd for this, you know, but we're gonna get through it.
Speaker A:And all this stuff, like, the whole.
Speaker B:Day leading up to that too.
Speaker B:It's just kind of like a little bit.
Speaker B:A little bit chaotic trying to get in.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's a huge festival.
Speaker A:It was nuts.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:And we were playing in the drink tent.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:That that typically on paper, seems like a set location that's like, well, we might get glassed over.
Speaker B:It's fine.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But at least we're here.
Speaker D:Pictures I saw there wasn't.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Act.
Speaker A:But then we step into the tent to play our set, and we look out, and there's like, two or three thousand people here.
Speaker C:Like, what the hell?
Speaker A:This is complete opposite of what we thought was about.
Speaker C:I have access to beer.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:That helps.
Speaker A:And shade.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:So I gotta ask you, so even even though I'm bald, if I grow my hair out, I have a gray streak in the back of my hair there?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Talk to us.
Speaker C:When did you discover your gray facial hair?
Speaker C:And that is a surprising story maybe, of something that it's led to along the way.
Speaker A:Gosh, probably four years ago or so.
Speaker A:It just kind of showed up out of the blue.
Speaker A:It's just like, really.
Speaker A:Really kind of gradual at first.
Speaker A:And then all of a sudden, like, you know, half my.
Speaker A:Half my facial hair here is white.
Speaker A:And I went and saw a dermatologist, and he told me it's.
Speaker A:It's a benign case of vitiligo.
Speaker A:It doesn't affect my health at all or anything.
Speaker A:But, like, there's pigment on my face and my forehead and the side of my head or that pigment's gone from my skin for whatever reason, and it affects the color of the hair that grows in there.
Speaker A:And it doesn't affect my health or anything, like I said.
Speaker A:And it's, like, relatively common.
Speaker A:You know, I think it's like 7 or 10% of the population has it or gets it later in life or something.
Speaker A:And, you know, I kind of just figured I'd grow it out and embrace it because I, you know, I hate shaving my face every day.
Speaker A:And I just, you know, just felt like, you know, I don't want to hide from who I am.
Speaker D:People sometimes say, must die that.
Speaker A:I get that a lot to get.
Speaker D:A cool rock star look.
Speaker A:Yeah, I get that a lot.
Speaker C:Like, any color.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, I get that a lot.
Speaker A:I get like.
Speaker A:Did you get struck by lightning, like, the guy, like, yeah, great.
Speaker A:Is that a bandage on your face?
Speaker A:Or like, do you love snorting drugs?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's some ridiculous, ridiculous people out there saying some stuff like that.
Speaker C:Was the world drawn to it?
Speaker C:They see you on stage, you're like, oh.
Speaker A:Like, I do think.
Speaker A:I do think it helps our bands, like, recognition, honestly.
Speaker A:And I'm, you know, that's a burden I have to carry, but I'll do it.
Speaker B:Someone's got to.
Speaker A:Someone's got to do it.
Speaker A:I think, you know, it's, you know, it's definitely my calling card now.
Speaker A:And I, you know, I.
Speaker A:I deal with, like, some rude people sometimes, but, you know, it's just who I am, so I just gotta just go with it.
Speaker C:Americana, baby.
Speaker C:Again, authenticity.
Speaker C:Being you and that thing that people might not get is now the thing that, you know, adds more notoriety potentially and attracts.
Speaker A:Yeah, there you go.
Speaker D:Let's.
Speaker D:I'd love to get in.
Speaker D:I want to talk about Gone for Good, because.
Speaker D:Holy bleep.
Speaker D:From the first note.
Speaker C:So Midwestern the way we got it.
Speaker D:We've been listening to it, and I don't know.
Speaker D:Is solid Gone, the first song on the track listing.
Speaker D:I don't know how we get it.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:From Vinnie's first fiddle.
Speaker D:That freaking thing rides the whole way.
Speaker D:I mean, it is fantastic.
Speaker D:And I know you recorded it at.
Speaker D:Well, Dave from Trampled produced it and it said, I've always get this name right, but Patchy Durham Studio.
Speaker D:I mean, legendary.
Speaker D:Nirvana did In Utero there.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:The Jayhawks have recorded their Soul Asylum.
Speaker D:It's legendary.
Speaker D:And it's not like in the city.
Speaker D:It's in Cannon Falls, which is a ways away.
Speaker D:So tell me about the recording process, how Dave got involved and how excited are we for this?
Speaker D:Because people are going to be blown away.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thanks, man.
Speaker A:Yeah, we reached out to Dave.
Speaker A:Oh, gosh.
Speaker A:A couple years ago before this whole process started.
Speaker A:We reached out because we knew he's produced records for friends of ours.
Speaker A:And, you know, we've.
Speaker A:We've always admired the guy and, like, I've always admired, like, his steadfast commitment to just, like, the song is what matters.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:And he's like, never really Faltered as far as like just bringing quality songs to the band and the band has just put out such good music for so long.
Speaker A:So like we knew it was like, okay.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He does produce records.
Speaker A:Let's see if Dave wants to do it.
Speaker A:Because we've just been a fan forever and he was really excited right away and definitely wanted to do it.
Speaker A:And he suggested Pachyderm.
Speaker A:He suggested Pachyderm.
Speaker A:And we've always heard of it but have never like seen it or toured it or anything like that.
Speaker A: walked through in December of: Speaker A:Yeah, it's a beautiful place.
Speaker A:There's like this very large, like Frank Lloyd Wright style, like living quarters on the, on the property.
Speaker A:And then there's a smaller studio space that's like detached from the property.
Speaker A:So we could stay there and like sleep there, eat there and record there.
Speaker A:And we didn't have to leave or do anything like that.
Speaker A:It was like really all just like centrally located.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A: ded Gone for good in April of: Speaker A:No, wait.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:2024, right, Vinnie?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, it's 25 now.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:So it's been a year you recorded that thing and then afterwards you're just like tweaking it.
Speaker C:It's like a little.
Speaker C:It's like a work of art that you're just constantly.
Speaker A:We actually like, oh, go ahead, Vinnie.
Speaker B:We got done with it and kind of record time for us, I think, and we just wanted to do our best to try and get.
Speaker B:Pitch it to different record labels and see if we could get some support pushing this album.
Speaker B:Because we felt really strongly about it and thought that we're kind of at a spot in our career where it's like, you know, we gotta continue to grow and like really make as concerted of push as we can to get our music in front of people.
Speaker B:So that kind of porting process took a bit longer than I think we were expecting it to.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:But at the same time, I don't know the timing for releasing 30 tigers.
Speaker A:Yeah, 30 tigers expressed interest.
Speaker A:We got like, not moved by them, by the way.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, we're excited that we got a soft yes from them in that summer.
Speaker A: it has to be in the summer of: Speaker A:So we.
Speaker A:We kind of were like, you know, there was a decision to make, like, okay, are we okay weeding waiting another year to release this record?
Speaker A:But we get to do it with this record label that we admire and like, all of our heroes put out music with this record label.
Speaker A:And it was a pretty.
Speaker A:It was pretty easy to be like, okay.
Speaker A:We put in so much effort.
Speaker A:We knew.
Speaker A:We knew, like, musically, like, this is the most concise record we've.
Speaker A:I think we've ever made.
Speaker A:It's like the most teamwork involved.
Speaker A:Like the most.
Speaker A:Just like one last rebel effort.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:So it.
Speaker A:Like, we put all this effort into it.
Speaker A:Why would we stop short of, like, teaming up with this.
Speaker A:This record label we admire?
Speaker A:So it was like, it was challenging to kind of like, get ourselves mentally prepared to wait another year to release it.
Speaker A:But also it was.
Speaker A:It seemed worth it.
Speaker A:And so far it has been for sure.
Speaker C:What are the.
Speaker C:And so just for our.
Speaker C:Because our show, we've got fans that listen.
Speaker C:I mean, we're not the musician interviewing the musician thing.
Speaker C:We're.
Speaker C:We're.
Speaker C:We're in that.
Speaker C:We're understanding the business and so are our fans and our audience, and we love the music.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:What is the benefit of the record label?
Speaker C:Like, obviously they've got a.
Speaker C:They got a big brand out there, but I think a lot of people might be saying, well, why is it worth waiting to get your awesome music out in the world on an album that is incredible, wait a full year because of what this label is going to do.
Speaker C:So what.
Speaker C:What, you know, what's your hope from that standpoint?
Speaker A:Yeah, I think.
Speaker A:Oh, go ahead, Vinnie.
Speaker B:You could.
Speaker B:You could start this one.
Speaker D:Tough question.
Speaker A:Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker A:They have so much outreach as far as, like, they have so many connections and outreach as far as, like, radio goes.
Speaker A:Streaming services goes.
Speaker A:Like record.
Speaker A:Like, like physical record stores go.
Speaker A:Like, there's a.
Speaker A:There's a European radio element to what they do.
Speaker A:And these are all, like, tools that we just have no access to.
Speaker D:Heavy.
Speaker D:They can put the money behind the promo, promotion and stuff.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And they have connections to, like, a publicist.
Speaker A:Publicist, like a PR company that we hired to, like, help promote the singles and promote the record.
Speaker A:It's just the.
Speaker A:The capacity to reach more people is like.
Speaker A:It almost feels infinite compared to what we could reach on our own.
Speaker A:And, you know, I.
Speaker A:I have, like, no doubt that, like, if we chose to do this Record on our own.
Speaker A:It would be like widely accepted and appreciated by.
Speaker A:By people.
Speaker A:But I think like the capacity to just like connect with more people is greater through this process.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, I read the quote that you made.
Speaker C:Feels like there's no going back.
Speaker C:Is that what you said, Ryan?
Speaker C:You feel like there's no going back after this album?
Speaker C:Like you have.
Speaker C:Like you're kind of burning the boats with this one.
Speaker A:Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker A:I'm sorry, Vinny.
Speaker A:Did you have something to add?
Speaker A:I didn't want to.
Speaker A:I don't want to cut you off.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:I was just.
Speaker B:The thoughts kind of evaporating quickly.
Speaker B:But I think that just mostly it's gone.
Speaker B:If it comes down something, something.
Speaker B:Oh, the.
Speaker B:I just wanted to mention too, like, the way that this record, like in kind of a functional way, the way that this record deal works too, is not like the same as a conventional record either.
Speaker B:Like, it's a publishing deal, I think is technically what it's called, or a label servicing deal.
Speaker B:I don't know what the technical word of it is, but we keep our masters.
Speaker B:They're kind of coaching us through how to use a larger budget to promote it and give us kind of resources around it.
Speaker B:So it's not like also we were like kind of selling our soul to the devil, so to speak.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Just working with a larger entity to kind of aid in the release.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's like the opposite, like nightmare scenario scenario.
Speaker A:You hear about record labels just like completely screwing artists.
Speaker A:It doesn't.
Speaker A:You know, we have.
Speaker A:We have artists we admire that have put out records with 30 tigers and it.
Speaker A:You know, we only get good feedback from everybody we know who's worked with them.
Speaker A:So it's like.
Speaker A:It feels like a very like non predatory.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Just to get the word out more and.
Speaker D:Yes, that's what we need.
Speaker D:Hell yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker D:There aren't a lot of bands from Mankato, Minnesota.
Speaker D:We got to get the names out.
Speaker C:That's what you talk about Mankato being the place to get the word out from.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:So this is.
Speaker C:This.
Speaker C:I would like.
Speaker C:Where I was going with that was I read this quote about.
Speaker C:Feels like there's no going back.
Speaker C:Like this album, you guys are putting a lot into it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:And this adage came to my mind of how you're burning the boats.
Speaker C:Like really?
Speaker C:This is the sound, this is the pace, this is the vision for the last rebels music.
Speaker C:And this is where.
Speaker C:This is it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It really feels like from the first step of like Reaching out to Dave Simonette and getting him on board.
Speaker A:Like, once that was solidified, it was like, oh, like, this is gonna be a big shot for us.
Speaker A:So, like, we better.
Speaker A:We better do.
Speaker A:We better deliver.
Speaker A:So, like, with that mentality, starting arranging and writing these songs, it was like, nobody bad.
Speaker A:Nobody wants to show up with a bad song to.
Speaker A:To produce a record with Dave Simonette.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, that bar was set, really, like, right off the bat, it was like, the pressure's on.
Speaker A:No crappy songs.
Speaker A:And, like, so that.
Speaker A:That immediate first step was like, okay, we are, and we are.
Speaker A:We're, like, bringing in a hero of ours.
Speaker A:Like, it's bringing up the.
Speaker A:It's elevating the game.
Speaker A:And, yeah, working at, like, this is the most professional studio we've ever recorded.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That's a big aspect of it, too.
Speaker A:So, like, those first couple steps just felt like a big leap for us because we always self produced.
Speaker A:We always.
Speaker A:A lot of our records, we made it like a cabin in Northern Michigan.
Speaker A:Like, and I love those records, and I love that process, but, like, there was just so much more of, like, a serious, professional approach to this right off, right out the gate.
Speaker A:And then with all that mentality, the music's done.
Speaker A:We recorded it, mastered it, everything's ready to go.
Speaker A:And now this record label, we get involved that we admire and love, and it's like all these steps come along where it's like, oh, man, this is.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is a big swing for us.
Speaker A:It's like, it's out of our comfort zone, but it doesn't feel like something we're not ready for, if that makes any sense.
Speaker A:Like, it feels.
Speaker A:It feel like it was good timing.
Speaker A:I'm glad we didn't do this five years ago or seven years ago.
Speaker A:It's like, now is our time for.
Speaker C:For our listeners, I think it's important them to understand, like, you've been creating your music, but now you're going next level with it.
Speaker C:You're going all in.
Speaker C:This is what bands that really believe in their music, or, like, you say, you're taking a big swing, you're laying it on the line, you're taking a big risk, and the.
Speaker C:And the listeners need to listen to, need to understand.
Speaker C:So they support these bands, they support the music, and it's not an industry plant situation where it's just being rolled out.
Speaker C:You guys are really doing.
Speaker C:You're sacrificing a lot to go for it.
Speaker C:And that's inspiring.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:I think there's there's what I'm.
Speaker A:What I'm really excited about.
Speaker A:I think I.
Speaker A:I think a lot of new ears are going to be listening to this in the next, you know, year.
Speaker A:And I think what I'm really excited about is this.
Speaker A:We're not, like you said, industry.
Speaker A:Industry plant kind of thing.
Speaker A:Like, we're not a band that just showed up fully formed and, like, delivered.
Speaker A:And it's like, you know, huge pop stars right out the gate.
Speaker A:Like, there's a story here, and there's.
Speaker A:There's five albums before this one that kind of got us to this point.
Speaker A:And I think.
Speaker A:And I've.
Speaker A:You know, I've discovered bands kind of like, you know, a couple of albums deep, and you fall in love with this music and you go back, it's like.
Speaker A:It's like treasure hunting.
Speaker A:You go back all these older recordings, these older records, and you find little tidbits of, like, who they are now and the album that you fell in love with.
Speaker A:And I think.
Speaker A:I mean, I.
Speaker A:I think that's.
Speaker A:There's a story here that I think people are really going to, like, latch on to because, you know, we grew up in this band.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker A:And I think, yeah, it's just.
Speaker A:It's the.
Speaker A:It's the most last Rebel record ever, for sure.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:My understanding is.
Speaker C:And you were just building on, going big for this one.
Speaker C:You changed your songwriting process.
Speaker C:Are you adapted?
Speaker C:You went to the Absaroka Mountains.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:There was like a.
Speaker C:You were exploring silence and in space to sort of dig deeper for this.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think.
Speaker A:I mean, I think we all.
Speaker A: ow, when we hit the bricks in: Speaker A:I think we all grew as songwriters.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Yeah, I.
Speaker A:I personally, you know, moving out to Montana.
Speaker A:Yeah, I.
Speaker A:I've used.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm so lucky to live in a place that's.
Speaker A:There's so much wild public lands to explore and so much to do out here.
Speaker A:And that is.
Speaker A:I definitely think that's like.
Speaker A:Has a positive impact on just, like, my creative process and like, my subconscious just having room to think.
Speaker D:You can almost hear the wilderness in some of these songs.
Speaker D:Like, it's like, you know what I mean?
Speaker C:A little bit of a tangent, but not much.
Speaker C:We were.
Speaker C:I was at.
Speaker C:We were at a dude ranch.
Speaker C:Yes, we did that.
Speaker D:Not me.
Speaker C:My daughter.
Speaker C:My daughter.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Daughter's like nine years old and her Horse is Roca, named after the Absaroka Mountains.
Speaker C:And she had, like.
Speaker C:And she never really had been around horses a lot, but she like a spiritual connection with this horse named after that mountain.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker C:And then when I read your.
Speaker C:Some of what you talked about, that being in the mountains and your connection and hearing the music, for me, I felt like there was something there almost in a mystical.
Speaker C:Mystical.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That means a lot to me.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Vinny, do you have anything to add about that songwriting process for this?
Speaker B:I mean, I certainly don't live.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I live in the city in Minneapolis, which there's plenty of, you know, plenty of local beauty and natural beauty within the city that I live in.
Speaker B:But I feel like the songwriting process has certainly been one that was inspired by kind of a more meditative nature, I think.
Speaker B:Whether it was Ryan's experiences with backpacking and hunting through the Absarcas and through the mountains in Montana, or my experience of just kind of, like, spending a lot of time sitting by the Mississippi river, just watching it, listening to it.
Speaker B:Spent a lot of time the previous summer walking my daughter along the Mississippi river, actually running with my daughter along the Mississippi river, where that was kind of the only way that she could fall asleep for nap time.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I discovered that one day that I was.
Speaker B:I could take her for a little run, and she'd fall asleep, and I just need to continue to run as long as I possibly could.
Speaker B:And that experience of just kind of hitting the same trail every single day and watching the leaves turn and watching things grow and come.
Speaker B:Come through.
Speaker B:Come through the dirt and recede into it was definitely, definitely a point of inspiration of just, like, noticing our time as our time spent as being part of a larger kind of system.
Speaker B:And whether or not that that's, like, directly translated into what I wrote about in the songs is, I would say probably not, but in my personal lyrical contributions.
Speaker B:But I would say that more often than not, my songwriting would start from a place of, like, go for an hour and a half, jog with Adeline, wake up next to the waterfalls in Minnehaha park, and then, cool.
Speaker B:I have a little bit of quiet time, walking back to my house, and then pick up my violin or my guitar and try to kind of make sense of that extra bandwidth.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, so Americana.
Speaker C:Get inspired.
Speaker C:It's like melting in the soup.
Speaker C:And I believe there's even an influence somewhere of a mule deer.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Is that correct?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Go on.
Speaker A:Yeah, that song.
Speaker C:Go on.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:I Think it is officially the fastest song the band's ever recorded.
Speaker A:I can see there.
Speaker C:Are mule deer that fast?
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker A:No, they're not.
Speaker A:I mean, they're fast as hell.
Speaker A:They're not that fast, but they're.
Speaker A:They're like ghosts.
Speaker A: solo deer hunt in the end of: Speaker A:And yeah, it was like an exceptionally cold, kind of long day.
Speaker A:I was by myself.
Speaker A:It was the day before Thanksgiving.
Speaker A:And we have a late.
Speaker A:We have a long season here in Montana, which is really nice.
Speaker A:And I was out there by myself.
Speaker A:Didn't see anything all day.
Speaker A:But I told my.
Speaker A:I like, I forced myself, like, I'm staying until last light because, you know, it's the end of the season.
Speaker A:I'm just gonna give it a full day.
Speaker A:And sure enough, like seven minutes before last shooting light, this buck comes out not even that far from me, probably 200 yards or so, chasing these other deer around.
Speaker A:And you know, they're in their rut that time of year, so they're really focused on mating and fighting for territory and stuff like that.
Speaker A:And I'm looking through my binoculars and this.
Speaker A:This mule deer buck has one of it, one side of its antlers broken off.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:I mean, it was.
Speaker A:I was immediately fascinated.
Speaker A:He wasn't like a giant by any means.
Speaker A:He was just kind of like a middle aged, middle of the road buck.
Speaker A:And it was like the last light, I was up there by myself.
Speaker A:And I remember thinking, like, okay, well, I'm gonna take a good shot at this guy.
Speaker A:And if I miss, and at this time, at this point, he's like 300 yards, which is a little bit of a longer shot for me.
Speaker A:And like, if I miss, like, I miss and like, that's fine.
Speaker A:And that's my day.
Speaker A:And like, it was a cool experience either way.
Speaker A:And if I get him, well, cool.
Speaker A:Then I.
Speaker A:Then I got my buck for the year and I got this cool story behind like this guy who broke an antler off and sure enough, I take my shot and he like just falls over.
Speaker A:And like, I was like.
Speaker A:Part of me was like, shit, because I'm up there by myself and it's like five minutes from the sun going down.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And that experience of like processing that deer on the mountain by myself and like hauling him down in, you know, in quarters, back to my car, about three miles back to the car.
Speaker A:I like, in that process, I started writing Some of these words were coming to me about just like that experience.
Speaker A:And I nicknamed him the Twilight Fighter because he broke an antler off, and I saw him right at the end of the day, and it just.
Speaker A:That whole experience just kind of stuck with me.
Speaker A:And when it came time to, like, write for that, for the song, go on like that, that experience kind of came right through.
Speaker A:And Lee.
Speaker A:Lee helped me kind of put the.
Speaker A:Put the chorus together and put the last verse together.
Speaker A:And Lee and I have this interesting relationship where he sings quite a few songs that I write, and Vinnie also does as well.
Speaker A:But this one specifically, Lee helped me kind of finish the chorus in, like, a fashion he would sing, and he wrote the third verse for it in the same kind of similar fashion.
Speaker A:So, yeah, it's like one of those tunes where it's like.
Speaker A:It's really collaborative, it's really fast.
Speaker A:Like, it wouldn't be what it is without the band.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:It's like, certainly one of those things where it's like, this is by far the best version of this song.
Speaker A:And, you know, because it is just so multifaceted, it's everybody pitching in.
Speaker A:It's everybody just playing as fast as they can.
Speaker B:I remember recording that, too.
Speaker B:It's just like a pretty unique and powerful experience.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:We maybe took three stabs at it.
Speaker A:I think maybe that's about physically all we could handle.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And I just remember it's like, Dave, they've been just so amped up about it as we get.
Speaker B:Got done with the first.
Speaker B:First take, and all of us were just kind of like white in the face.
Speaker B:Just like.
Speaker B:Like, everyone is clearly emotionally, like, way over threshold and just like.
Speaker B:Just like, just white knuckling it the entire time.
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It definitely is one of the.
Speaker B:The most fun I've ever had recording a song.
Speaker B:For sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I remember getting done with.
Speaker A:Yeah, which is also awesome.
Speaker A:I remember doing.
Speaker A:Getting done with like, a third or fourth take or whatever, and we're like, oh, man, that was great.
Speaker A:But, like, there's little mistakes here and there's like, you know, can we do it better?
Speaker A:And Dave, this line.
Speaker A:Dave said that kind of like, this advice he gave for us.
Speaker A:He's like, don't overthink a punk song.
Speaker A:And, like, that was kind of all we needed to be, like, you know what?
Speaker A:That was the take.
Speaker A:Even though it's like, you know, minor things here and there that aren't, like, quite perfect, but when it's like that breakneck speed like this just.
Speaker A:It's just punk as hell, man.
Speaker A:You just gotta let it rip.
Speaker C:I've got one more quick question, then I'll let Zach close it out with one final one.
Speaker C:People come to your shows, they see you perform.
Speaker C:My understanding is you got a pre show ritual around improv, like improvising music or something along those lines.
Speaker B:I first, I personally.
Speaker B:Ryan actually pointed it out on the last tour that we were at.
Speaker B:I don't think it's like as a group thing, but I personally have this habit of kind of like nervously making up songs and kind of clapping, clapping along to it and.
Speaker B:Well, I guess we all kind of.
Speaker B:If it's good, we'll all get into it.
Speaker B:If it's stupid, it'll just be me.
Speaker B:But Ryan pointed out on our last tour, it's like, yeah, man.
Speaker B:Every time you start, you know, singing one of your kind of like weird Vinnie songs before.
Speaker B:Before the set, you get all the yips out and you get into it kind of.
Speaker C:You play better at that point, I guess.
Speaker A:So you start.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's tough to explain.
Speaker A:I mean, it's what Vinnie, some.
Speaker A:What are the.
Speaker A:Some of the subjects?
Speaker A:It's like really.
Speaker A:Just like really random stuff sometimes Vinnie's singing about.
Speaker A:And it's always.
Speaker A:It's almost always really funny.
Speaker A:And I appreciate Vinnie for this.
Speaker A:Like, you know, we're 30 minutes from the show or 20 minutes from the show or whatever.
Speaker A:Like, Vinnie brings a sense of levity to the green room and like, we all just get a laugh and we like, sing along.
Speaker A:It's like I have voice memos on my phone of just like the most ridiculous crap you've ever heard of us just like singing and like passing these.
Speaker A:Passing these little ditties that Vinnie wrote, like on the spot, and we all just kind of latch on.
Speaker A:We'll sing a little version of it or whatever.
Speaker A:And it's just.
Speaker A:It's just really nice to just be like.
Speaker A:Just take the like really super serious edge off for a second and be like, hey, man, we're just having fun with our friends.
Speaker A:And like, we try to.
Speaker A:We try to bring that sense onto stage with us.
Speaker A:And we always.
Speaker A:If it's.
Speaker A:If it's a really good Vinnie tune, we'll all go on with like smiles on our face, you know?
Speaker D:I love it.
Speaker D:I'll just say my final thought is I.
Speaker D:I was listening to the new album very loudly in my garage yesterday, and I know it's probably illegal that a lot of people heard it, but they're getting ears on it.
Speaker D:So it's it.
Speaker D:They'll.
Speaker D:They'll hear it in July as well.
Speaker D:But go check out the last Revel.
Speaker D:And thanks for coming on the show.
Speaker D:Dude, this is awesome.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you, guys.
Speaker A:Appreciate it.
Speaker B:Yeah, thanks for having us.
Speaker A:Cannot speak of Harley?
Speaker A:Face it?
Speaker A:Haunted by the ghost I'm chasing?
Speaker A:Shadow in the night?
Speaker A:She found a light but couldn't share it.
Speaker C:Thanks for joining Zach and I for this episode of Americana Curious.
Speaker C:Subscribe where you listen to your podcast so you are notified when a new episode is released.
Speaker C:I'm Ben Fanning, and it's been great sharing these artists and music with you.
Speaker C:Until next time, stay Americana Curious.
