Three Concerts That Transformed Our Lives - Interlude

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It was a night in Mexico.

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It was the year that Old Crow was the headliner and Langhorn Slim opened up.

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I didn't know much about Langhorne.

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I had never seen an artist get on somebody's shoulders at the stage like Langhorne, go out in the crowd high fiving.

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And I've got a video of me getting a high five from Langhorne.

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Yeah.

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One of my favorite nights of music that I ever experienced.

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Americana music.

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Music transforms the world and unfortunately, too many are unaware of its profound impact.

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Americana musicians are the unsung heroes, and here you'll join us in exploring these passionate artists and how they offer inspiration and hope for the future.

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This show makes it happen in a fun and entertaining way.

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You'll discover new music that you'll love.

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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.

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I'm Ben Fanning and my co host is Zach Schultz.

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It's time to get Americana curious.

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Hey there, everybody.

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Welcome back to Americana Curious.

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Today it's just Zach and I.

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Or not just Zach and I, it is Zach and I.

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We're here for what we're calling an interlude, which we are going to be on this together, sharing something with you.

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We're not interviewing Star today because we're kind of taking the place of that wood.

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The star is our stories and we have concocted an idea around the top three concerts that shaped us.

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You'll know if you know, you've been listening to the show, you know, we love our live music and so we're digging out of the archive and we're going to share with you what our top three, three concerts are, not just from an enjoyment standpoint or performance, but, but the ones that actually shaped us to be who we are today, bringing you this Americana curious.

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And we're going to start with Zach and we're going to trade out.

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Zach, what you got?

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Okay.

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All time.

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Now we're talking number.

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I'm going to rank them because they, they go in a ranked order for me.

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My first time seeing Bob Dylan, high school, age 17.

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He's, he's probably 60 at that time.

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But I am going through an obsession all through high school and teens of Bob Dylan, and I'm the only one in my high school probably listening to Bob Dylan.

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But he came to town with Paul Simon and it really, it was also one of my first concerts, so got to see my favorite legend at the time and he wailed at Canterbury Park In Shakopee, Minnesota.

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And I'll never forget it.

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Well, he's a Logos.

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He's a local boy.

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Right.

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He's a Minnesota native, Duluth.

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His blood runs with Minnesota Rivers.

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How did it shape your 17 year old self?

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I guess that it confirmed that when you're in high school and people are trying to make you listen to pop or something, everybody's listening to something that the other people are listening to.

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I was not like that.

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Still, I'm not.

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To the day.

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I was listening to Bob Dylan.

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When I would get in the car with my buddies, in my car, they had Bob Dylan playing and it was.

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This is.

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What is this crap?

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It confirmed that I was listening to good music and they weren't.

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Yeah.

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Shout out to my friend Corey, who introduced me to Dylan at a young age.

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And I listened to it too.

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I didn't see him at a young age, but yeah, I was right, man.

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This guy is completely different than the music.

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Yeah.

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And the top off with Paul Simon playing together.

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Not a bad.

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Not a bad combination.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Powerful.

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Mine, My first real concert, I lived in a small town, Alabama.

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Alexander City, Alabama.

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16,000 people.

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And there were some older guys in high school and I was in high school.

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And they invited me to go with them to my first real concert at Legion field in Birmingham, Alabama, to see U2 Octung Baby.

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Oh, and we had Digital Underground opening up and Big Audio Dynamite.

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And I'd never been to a show of that magnitude, really, of any show.

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And my heart was just like thumping in my chest.

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Not from excitement, but from the base.

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Just reverberating.

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Yeah.

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And it was incredible.

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There's this one part of the U2 concert where mysterious Ways was being played.

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And this belly dancer comes out and she has all these like little shiny discs on her.

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And the spotlights of the arena were hitting her.

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And as she twirled around, it was like throwing off all this amazing light.

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And it shaped me because I'm like, man, I have.

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I felt energy and music like I'd never felt before.

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And I understood it on a different level from just hearing it on the album.

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It was what does live actually do from the impact standpoint.

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And yeah, I never look back.

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So what's.

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What's your next one?

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All right, well, I'm gonna go with the next one that shaped my life because it led me to you, my friend.

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Girls Just Wanna Mexico.

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Not only the idea of a festival kind of taking over the living behind like a Lilith Fair.

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Lil Fare hadn't been around for a long Time.

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ale lineup in Mexico with her: 1500

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And not only is the music good, the settings great, but the inclusivity of that event that first year was amazing.

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And I got to meet you, which led us to this.

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That's right.

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What it was transformative in so many ways.

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Yeah.

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And, yeah, it transformed us to making this darn podcast.

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And now we're 20 episodes in.

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Congratulations on our 20th anniversary together.

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And it's gone pretty darn well.

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My next one is a pandemic one.

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Y'all know, we were all kind of starved for live music during the pandemic, and our friends, David Brothers, which, by the way, Zach and I have also attended Avid at the beach in Mexico.

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But this is a different show because of all the social distancing and we hadn't had live music in a while.

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And the Avid's announced that they're going to be at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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That's right, in Charlotte.

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And they have these little.

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These little squares drawn out.

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And my family and I, my, My daughter and my.

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My wife, we decided to go up for it.

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And we thought, hey, we can take our lawn chairs and we can put out.

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But then literally the day before the concert, they're like, North Carolina's changed their rules.

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You actually have to be in your car to enjoy the concert or on top of the car.

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And we switched and we borrowed my dad's pickup truck.

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Yeah.

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Put up our chairs in the back of this thing, rode up there, went inside, and really, we were really far from stage.

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But it was a really special night.

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And having experienced that with my family in such an uncertain time and just that familiarity, I really recognize a music, and live music can give us comfort on a completely different level.

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And so thankful to Avis for taking a risk that night.

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Yeah.

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It's funny that you say everybody was clamoring for live music during that time, because I wasn't at that show.

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But it was so important to just see live show.

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I mean, we as a family live streamed it.

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And I remember them coming in around the track in.

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In that car.

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Yeah.

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And it was driving around.

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I imagine being there was better than live stream, but yeah, that was.

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You could see a little better probably than me.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Such a weird time.

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All right, so I'm going to combine a couple here.

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Not really, but it's just going to be John Prine all around.

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First time.

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I love John Prine.

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I'm here in Nashville for John Prine's birthday celebration.

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But the very first time I saw him, Minnesota Zoo, small venue.

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My wife now, who was my girlfriend, bought me tickets.

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We went together.

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She didn't know who John Prine was at the time, and we had eaten something terrible the night before, and we both had terrible food poisoning.

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And we went.

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And I just said, I'm not missing this because I don't know the opportunities I'm going to get to see John.

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Which led me to.

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We ended up seeing in Mexico together.

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And then I.

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The last time I saw him with Todd Snyder before he passed away, it was.

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Well, I didn't see a lot of the show because I cried a lot.

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And I.

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My wife said, why are you crying so much?

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And I said, I just don't feel like I'm gonna.

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I had a bad feeling that something was gonna happen.

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I just said, I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to see him again.

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And I didn't.

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But being here last night at the you got Gold celebration, where they honor artists come out and honor his legacy, is truly like kind of.

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You could feel him in that room last night.

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You.

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You could feel him there, which just brought back.

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I mean, everybody was just so happy and.

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But sad, you know.

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But that's John Prine number one.

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Yeah.

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And what the record show.

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John Prine is on Zach's T shirt.

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It's on his arm, on his tattoo.

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And it's been mentioned in every Americana curious episode by the artists we've had on.

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And we're not teeing it up saying, you have to mention John Bryan.

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And they.

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They are voluntarily showing up with that when they start thinking about their musical legacy.

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And no doubt John Prime's spirit as alive and well and certainly on this show.

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Oh, yeah, by the way, at the after party, I met about 65 people with John Bryant tattoos.

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So it's not.

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I'm not.

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I'm unique in my town, but not here.

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Yeah.

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Oh, John.

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The John prime world.

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Yeah.

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And y'all, if you aren't listening to John prime, do yourself a little.

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Give yourself a little treat today and check out the song that Zach's going to tell you to listen to right.

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Now, which is Lake Marie.

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That's my.

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One of my favorites of all time.

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But the.

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Probably the one that I would say to a listener, go listen to Lake Marie.

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It.

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It'll change your life.

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Well, I'm gonna.

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I'm going to.

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Right now.

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Yeah.

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I hadn't checked out in a long.

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Time, so there's a live version and there's a studio version.

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The Live version is probably the better version.

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And when later in his life he used to dance off the stage to Lake Marie, that was the.

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The closing song.

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So it's all right.

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Do yourself a favor.

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Listen to that today.

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I don't want to follow that, but I will try one of the.

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I would say the first time saw American Aquarium on Zach's recommendation.

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And I'd listened to it, and I'm like, okay, this sounds great, but, like, why is Zach pushing this so hard on me?

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And was coming to Charleston.

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And Zach's like, ben, it was not a good night.

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It was like a Monday night.

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It was not a good night to go out and stay out late.

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Yeah.

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And he's like, you're.

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He's like, he's gonna perform and he's gonna stick around afterwards.

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I was like, there's no way I go see American Aquarium.

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And he's.

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Everything that Zach said and more and his energy.

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I don't.

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At the time I thought, man, this guy's having a great night.

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Later I found out he has a great night every night.

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And his energy is just off the chart.

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Yeah.

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He sticks around in the back afterwards and meets every single person and talks to them.

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And he's not just.

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He's not like selling merch.

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He's just talking to people.

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And you would never have known he'd performed for two and a half hours.

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Other than the sweaty shirt that he wear.

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Is wearing when he's back there.

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He does perspire, but you would too, if you'd be doing that.

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Oh.

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If you're working that hard.

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My friends were.

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Could not believe it because they did not know American Aquarium at all.

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And they're like, man, this guy.

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And that kicked off a lot for me.

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One it.

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I really started listening to Zach's recommendations, which he bats a very high percentage in terms of his bands and what he recommends.

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When Zach recommends it, I listen to it.

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We won't tell the ones that I miss.

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Yeah.

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There just been a few.

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Not me.

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And.

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And I was like, hey, you know, it really connected me.

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It also.

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That also helped accelerate this podcast because we went to go see him together in Nashville at the Ryman we've sent which has led me to a private party near Charleston.

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Shot the Jim Nolte who hosted his house.

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Which is a whole nother story that without will share some time how we had a storm.

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We ended up in this small den.

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And he went.

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Did all this acoustic stuff.

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But how it shaped me was it made me one.

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I think it maybe double down on the smaller shows, the bar shows, and not just prioritize going to the biggies.

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It reminded me the specialness of that.

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And I would say I've actually started to steer clear of the big venues and really start to go independent local music and prioritize that.

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And I haven't been to.

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And that's.

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That's the bread and butter.

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You couldn't get me in a stadium.

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See, I showed.

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Starting to wind this up here.

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Do you have an honorable mention that you'd like to throw out there?

Zach Schultz: 00:14:20

I have an honorable mention performance.

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It stood out.

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It was a night in Mexico.

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I don't remember what year of it, but it was the year that Old Crow was the headliner and Langhorne Slim opened up.

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And it was one of my favorite nights of music because I didn't know much about Langhorne or.

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And I.

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I knew Old Girl.

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Everybody knows Old Girl, but I had never seen them and Langhorne in the crowd multiple times.

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It made me fall in love with him for sure, as a performer and a human being.

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And then to follow it up with Old Crow and that energy of Catch.

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I don't know how he keeps it up at this age, but, I mean, that night always.

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Yeah, that night just sticks out in my mind always as just one of my favorite nights of music that I ever experienced.

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I had never seen an artist get on somebody's shoulders at the stage.

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Like Langhorne.

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Exactly.

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Go out in the crowd high fiving.

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And I've got a video of me getting a high five from Langhorne.

Zach Schultz: 00:15:31

Yeah.

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He was on that poor guy's shoulders for seemed like an hour.

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You con that security guard, right?

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Thank goodness Slim is slum.

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Yeah.

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And a slight man.

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Right?

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Oh, my gosh.

Zach Schultz: 00:15:45

Oh, that's great.

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Yeah.

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So, so good.

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So what's your honorable mention?

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Yeah.

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1.

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I have so many a Funny Story.

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Indigo Girls.

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I was going to go see the Indigo Girl.

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So this was after.

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After the YouTube thing, and there was this girl I liked, and I'm like, man, I got tickets in Montgomery to go see the Indigo Girl.

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This is going to be a great date.

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And we got there, and she's like, I don't like them.

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And I was like, she had to go.

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This is my first time.

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So, y'all.

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I was really an Indigo Girls.

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And I thought, yeah.

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Mindset of everyone.

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It might have been like, you're Dylan Recognition.

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Like, okay, you like.

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You like Dylan a lot.

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But you're realizing it's easy to sort of be trapped in.

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Hey, I love It.

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The world must love it.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, there are people out there.

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A girl that I like, and she doesn't like the band that I love.

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And by the way, no judgment today.

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Although I was judging then, but I'm trying not to do that now.

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But she's in different music.

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But I was like, wow, people do have different preferences.

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And I want to be the.

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I want to be the open person, even if it's a live show that maybe doesn't connect with me.

Zach Schultz: 00:16:58

Yeah.

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As much I want to be fully present.

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And we've recently hosted Steve Poltz on the show, who this episode is probably going to come after that.

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Go back and listen to that, because he has this really great philosophy about appreciating the music.

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I believe he said he was like a moth to a light when he's watching a live show where he sees the light and he must follow.

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Yeah.

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There's always something to appreciate in that.

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So anyway, I had a lot of.

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So that shaped me a little bit, but kind of a fun story since then.

Zach Schultz: 00:17:36

I'm glad you ended up with Angela, because she loves the Indigo Girls.

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I know girls.

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And another side story.

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We met our first day of classes at the University of Alabama, and she was running late, and I was sitting in this English class, and she came in and teachers, like, is a smaller class.

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And teachers like, hey, I want you to interview somebody, and then I want you to introduce them to the class.

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Oh.

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I immediately knew.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:05

I'm like, I'm gonna interview her because she was cute.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:08

Yes.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:08

Turned towards like, I want to interview you.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:10

And she said, okay.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:11

And we found out that day that we liked Indigo Girls.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:14

When I entered.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:15

Oh, love it.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:16

Yeah.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:18

Can I ask a sidebar?

Zach Schultz: 00:18:19

How far.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:20

How.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:20

How quickly after that Indigo, if that girl said, I don't like the Indigo Girls.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:24

Did the.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:25

Did the relationship last?

Ben Fanning: 00:18:29

I was devastated.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:31

I was completely devastated.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:33

Like, my mind couldn't wrap.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:34

I was like, can you tell me this?

Ben Fanning: 00:18:36

Before we came down, Like, I think she was open to the music, perhaps, and like, hey, I don't really know them, but I'm gonna.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:45

Did you.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:46

Did she.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:47

Did she go?

Ben Fanning: 00:18:48

Yeah, she went.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:49

So you went, But.

Zach Schultz: 00:18:50

And she didn't enjoy it.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:52

I was looking at her.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:53

I'm like, is everything okay?

Ben Fanning: 00:18:53

She's like, I just don't really like it.

Ben Fanning: 00:18:55

And I'm like, well, we're not leaving.

Zach Schultz: 00:19:00

I have to check in on this woman and see where she's doing now.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:04

Yeah.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:04

I protect the accident.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:09

It really.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:09

I wasn't mad.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:10

I was definitely like, devastated.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:13

I had hopes for this relationship and I'm like, well, if you don't like Indigo Girls, we're.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:17

We're gonna really.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:18

We're not getting started off on the right foot.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:20

Right.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:21

Like them or you don't.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:22

It's not a band really, that you can start to like you.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:28

It doesn't work that way, probably.

Zach Schultz: 00:19:29

That's so good.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:30

That's so good.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:31

What a story are y'all.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:34

So Zach and I have got a lot more of these fun ones coming your way and a lot more interviews.

Ben Fanning: 00:19:39

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Ben Fanning: 00:19:49

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Ben Fanning: 00:19:51

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Ben Fanning: 00:19:55

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Zach Schultz: 00:19:57

Heck, yeah.

Ben Fanning: 00:20:00

Thanks for joining Zach and I for this episode of Americana Curious.

Ben Fanning: 00:20:04

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Ben Fanning: 00:20:09

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Ben Fanning: 00:20:14

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