Josh Hardy is a messenger, a North Dakota songsmith.
Glide magazine calls Josh a true son of the heartland whose bold defiance in riveting delivery
channel the essence of American music. As the son of a small-time police chief and preacher,
grandson of a South Dakota polka legend, Josh has released several internationally acclaimed
albums that included a US in European touring. And when Josh is not on the road, he resides in
Madison. And tonight, Josh Hardy is right here in the air on Maxine Gradio. Josh, welcome to Maxine
Gradio. Hey, thank you very much. Good to be here. Oh, it's so great to have you here.
What's your t-shirt? It's a pretty cool design on there of a click cartoon.
Yes, that's Genevieve Hayward. Oh, who is that? She's fantastic. She's from the Fox. No,
she's from Sturgeon Bay, but she lives in Nashville. She should check her out. She is outstanding.
Genevieve Hayward. I'm going to write that down.
Hey, it appears the last time you were on the show, it was November of 2023 and you were here with
Blake Thomas. Yes. Yes. So we honestly, we are so happy to have you back here. So let's start at
the beginning. We'd like to roll it all back before we go forwards. We want to get to know you a
little bit. We heard this great history about you. But here's something I didn't know. You actually
started performing at five years old. It's true. Recorded your first record when you were
nine. Your second by eleven. How in the heck did you do all of that? How did you start playing
and why? I had a great agent. I was on top of it. Yeah, wow. You're like the
sheldon young of music. Exactly. Yeah. No, my dad, like I said, he was really involved in the
church. And so there was a church band that used to go out to the old folk songs. And I used to
hang around it. In fact, I've still got this music stand. It's this old iron and oak thing.
And I used to sit underneath this music stand when they would rehearse. And so I knew all the songs
and they were supposed to play one Saturday afternoon in a place called Bethany Homes in Fargo.
And somebody got sick and they couldn't do it. And so me and my dad went and that just kind of
started this thing. That is so cool. Every Saturday and we started like on the retirement home
tour. And then we moved on up to like the Lions clubs and the Alcs clubs. And before we knew it
is pretty much any place in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota that had a bot luck.
Interesting. Go back there. Go back to nine years old. What was the name of the album?
And what was the music on it? It was mostly like country gospel stuff. It was called a little
bit of love. A little bit of love. Is that streaming their own channels right now?
Well, you know, actually, I just found the master tapes this week.
Yeah, it was cool. Like I've often told people that you know, like everybody's always talking about
like the analog and digital argument, you know, and stuff. And I've never really remember
recording on an analog at all. But it turns out it did when I was nine. And so I've got these tapes now.
Wow. Where was that at the studio? Yeah, it was actually in the same. I was actually in the studio.
I was looking at the dates. And they included some kind of like a schedule in these master tapes.
And I was there the same month as Johnny Lang when he recorded his first record called Smokin.
Wow. Yeah, it was this place called media productions in Fargo.
You keep good company. Yeah.
I love this so because you're talking about gospel. And we also mentioned polka music.
I'm still having a hard time understanding how the two may go together or maybe don't.
Dancing. Dancing maybe. Yeah, I think one one came the night before the other.
Well said. That makes perfect sense. I am stealing that line for you. That's really good.
Oh, well, you know, tell us about an Ed Schultz interview. Is it the Ed Schultz I'm thinking of
at 11 years old? He was big Eddie. Yeah. But at the time, he was just the newscaster in channel
6, I think in Fargo. Wow, really? Yeah, he was just Ed Schultz. He was, yeah, he was on,
he was the sports guy in his wife Marine was the newscaster.
Oh, wow, that's incredible. We nervous. Not really. I think at that point, I was like 11 or 12
years old. And I was probably pretty cocky at that point, you know, because you're already a
successful. Yeah, I had two records. I hardly ever went to school because we were playing
wearing sunglasses. Not that it was I should have been. But I had a pretty classy suit, though,
in a leather tie, like one of those leather ties that I'm going to have. That was back in the 80s,
wasn't it? Oh, yeah. I had one of those, but I didn't pull off to look very well.
I don't think anybody did. I mean, unless you were Don Johnson. Yeah. Exactly who I wanted to be.
Oh, my well, let's get to some of my music in the layer with Josh Hardy presented by the
Aaron Weber group. The first song you have for us tonight, it's called You and I. And it's from
your long list of lies album. Tell us about this song before you play it.
Well, like the rest of the record, it was it's a breakup song. It's a breakup record.
You know, it was it was probably one of the easiest records I've ever written, you know,
like everything. It was real. It was really, you know, and everything is, you know, comes
pretty quick, you know, in those times. Wow. Well, let's check it all right now. You're live in
the layer presented by the Aaron Weber group, move to Madison.com. It's Josh Hardy on Maxi on Civic Media.
You know, it's a breakup song, it's a breakup song, it's a breakup song, it's a breakup song.
Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it. That's what it was coming to.
When we talk again, tell ourselves One more chance and everything. Go on
And we talk again, tell ourselves One more chance and everything. Go on
Be all right. We're looking back at we bow. There are overs what this must come to.
Gotta picture you, keep to myself reminding me, the time has been time to hold on.
Trying to hold on. And now free years went by, think to myself, what would I do?
If somebody else then what comes to mind? How lonely am I?
When we talk again, tell ourselves One more chance and everything. Go on and be all right.
We're looking back at we bow. There are overs what this must come to.
When we talk again, tell ourselves One more chance and everything. Go on and be all right.
We're looking back at we bow. There are overs what this must come to.
Coming to.
Very nice. Josh Hardy live in the layer here on waxing civic media. 844-967-2789-844-965
Party. If you want to call and ask Josh a question, he would love to answer it.
Don't forget you can call or text inside the civic media app.
Josh, I want to know what brought you to Madison from Fargo, North Dakota.
Hey, girl. Hence all the breakup songs.
Oh, that's true. Well, what's kept you here?
You know, I don't, I mean, I suppose a lot of things. My intention when I came to Madison,
my intention was to live here for two years. And that was 20 years ago.
No kidding. Madison has a habit of sucking people in.
It really does. It really does. I mean, you know, in 2012, my girlfriend at the time,
my wife now, we left. I started touring a lot. And kind of the goal of that was, I mean,
to play and to travel. But the other part was kind of to find a place that'd be like the next
chapter. And, you know, there were, there were some places on the list that we thought about
moving to and everything. But, you know, nothing, nothing really clicked all the boxes that Madison
does. Is there any comparisons between Madison and Fargo?
They are both places to music that stands out to you or not so much.
Oh, no, I mean, I mean, Fargo, to be honest, Fargo really does have a really cool scene.
You know, it's so far away from everything that it kind of comes up with its own sound.
And to my knowledge, like secretly Canadian is from there, the record label.
Okay. I think they're out of Bloomington, Indiana now. But that started there. And like,
there was a band called Godhead Silo that was really huge from there. I mean, Peggy Lee.
No kidding.
He's actually from Fargo. I used to play in a Mexican restaurant, like every other week,
that used to be the little club where she got her start back in the 50s.
Is that his call?
Is it anything like the movie Fargo?
Oh, no.
No, okay.
Yeah, no, I mean, really, I mean, if you get, if you get 20 miles outside of town, like that accident
gets real thick, I've worked pretty hard to get rid of it.
South Dakota had accents or North Dakota.
North Dakota. Oh, oh, geez.
Oh, geez.
Let me tell you.
It's a little Canadian little Wisconsin.
It sounds like it's definitely got Wisconsin. Yeah.
I mean, it's definitely like a Scandinavian kind of thing.
Oh, North Dakota has accents, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's definitely a little bit of Northern Wisconsin rocker, the Uper's there.
There you go.
Yeah, I think, I think like the Uper accent is probably a cousin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Josh, you have been a member of the folk alliance,
founding member of the Wisconsin room,
an organization that promotes Wisconsin artists.
Tell us about a community building and why you feel that's so important.
I think because nothing, nothing moves forward without it.
Yeah.
And, you know, kind of like we're talking earlier, you know, the idea of having,
you know, people who are excited about what they're doing and the thing that they're a part of
is more powerful than anything else.
You know, and in folk alliance is really cool, you know, because it
it takes, it's as implied by the name, you know, the folk music thing and stuff.
It's not really, it goes much further than that.
What it really is, it's just kind of a grassroots organization.
People who don't have record labels, people who don't have a tour bus, you know,
people who just want to play music and they've got something to share.
They've got a story that they want to get out.
And this is like a big clubhouse.
And it's for networking.
And I got to be part of it thanks to the Mad Folk Society, Darlene Bueller here in town.
Oh, yes.
She's the first one that brought, actually she brought Blake and I down there
years ago when it was in Memphis.
And I thought it was amazing because, you know, it's this huge trade show.
You've got 1200 musicians.
And now at this point, I mean, it's probably, I mean, that's got to be larger.
Oh, yeah, it's got to be like 3000 industry professionals.
You've got musicians.
You've got radio people.
You've got record promoters.
You've got booking agents.
You've got concert promoters.
People who host house concerts.
People who book clubs.
And they're all in this hotel for five days.
And it's like this great big incubator, you know?
And they're, I mean, you can, you can go and get your teeth checked out if you need
because, you know, musicians don't have a ton of money, right?
You know, you can get ear plugs and you can also go to these panel discussions
and you can learn about the business.
Like because the thing that I think that is such a caveat for so many musicians and stuff
is that there's also this horrible, terrible business side that nobody knows about.
You know, nobody can do their taxes.
You can go there and you can get a tutorial on doing your taxes correctly, you know?
And then at night, three floors of the hotel.
It's a huge hotel.
And three floors, all of the rooms turn into concert venues.
Oh, that's so cool.
So you just wander through the halls and there's, and there are hundreds of
shows going on and stuff.
And like, I've done, I've done like rounds with people like Willie Porter,
Peter Mulvey, and Tim Graham, like all of these huge heavy hitters, you know,
people who demand a much bigger ticket price than I do.
But everybody's kind of the same because everybody's there just trying to,
you know, trying to network and get to the next level and just building that community, you know?
You could raise your price, you know, you can get a couple more bucks.
You know, I'm working on it.
Yeah, yeah.
So now the Wisconsin room is about promoting Wisconsin artists in Europe.
Tell us how this has helped kind of Wisconsin artists and getting over to Europe.
Well, it's more, I mean, honestly, it's more so about, you know, like,
through the folk lands community and in the states, I try to move it over to Europe as much
as I can. So far, I've only been able to help one dude over there a little bit.
But one is not zero.
Yeah, you know, you've got to eat somewhere you started.
Yeah, and I mean, it kind of happened by chance.
Like the only reason that it happened is because it was, I was there and a friend,
you'd probably know Mark Croft.
He was going over and we were able to connect and we played some shows and we had a fantastic time.
And that was kind of how that, you know, began.
And so, so now, I mean, pretty much where it's at right now is I'm kind of like, I just try to be
an open book, you know, I've spent, I started touring over there in like 2011 and it's,
it's not that hard, you know, it's, it just takes a little bit of elbow grease and it takes
a community.
If there's one piece of a visor, maybe two pieces real quick to give a musician out there
that is looking to play shows in Europe to book those international tours.
What's, what's the secret sauce?
What's the ingredient they need to know?
I don't expect to make a lot of money.
You know, I mean, I, I call it somebody, I think, I can't, I think he was in the UK
somewhere.
Somebody referred to it.
I was talking to a guy late one night and, and he described it as, you know, the idea
because we were talking about this thing about, you know, bringing people over that it's not,
you know, that hard that you can kind of go over and make a vacation out of it and you can
make some music out of it and everything and they called it a busman's tour or a bus driver's
tour, you know, it's like when the bus driver goes on vacation, he's still driving, you know,
and so it's like you kind of, you know, you pay your way kind of and everything.
You're not going to make a lot of money, but you can do it and you can meet some amazing
people. I mean, I, I have met, I have, I've met some wonderful people.
Yeah.
You know, it sounds amazing.
I would imagine you could make enough money, you know, to pay for your lodging and some food
in your belly.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I mean, and then you know, I mean, if you want to, I mean, then there's, you know,
there's steps to take and then you can start, you know,
yeah, welding it and not just play the ball.
One person that's very successful in touring Europe and are all around, actually,
is Brett Nuski.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
That guy is amazing.
And it's just the way he markets himself to do this.
It's pretty cool to watch him do that.
Yeah.
So actually, Nuski is a great example of, of like you asked like the one, the one piece of advice.
And I guess that would be watch what Brett does.
Because like he and I have had tons of conversations about it.
I mean, he and I, we shared an agent actually in Switzerland for a long time.
And, you know, and that just happened because we were having a breakfast up in Sturgeon Bay.
You know, and you just start swapping stuff.
And he's, he's so organized.
He carries this little, like he's like, like old school in the sense that he carries around one
of those little meat notebooks, like this big, you know, like he writes everything down.
He writes it all down and he keeps in his pocket.
And like you start talking and he's like, oh, wait, you know, and he pulls out this little notebook
and he writes it down.
But yeah, I mean, that, and that guy, well, I mean,
he works harder than anybody I know.
He, he, he works circles around me any day of the week.
I bet he'll hear this and be like, oh, thanks.
Yeah.
But he'll, he'll throw it back at you.
Yeah.
You owe me, Brett.
Oh, good.
Very good.
Let's get back to live music in the layer with Josh Hardy.
This next song you have for us tonight is the title track from your album, Holding On.
Oh, boy, is this a song about losing your sanity on the road?
Oh, it sure is.
Oh, no.
No, no, I mean, it's, I think it's kind of a song about getting to the brink.
This was, I wrote this song in like 2014 and we had just done, I, I mean, gosh, it was,
it was almost a year of totally constant, five months alone in Europe.
And I don't even remember how many shows there were.
I mean, it was crazy.
I know that we came home on December 14th.
And the last show that I played was in this big tent.
And it was actually what country shows in the UK.
And it was raining.
And it was like 45 degrees.
And it was one of the, like, you know, and all I wanted was just a cup of coffee.
You know, like, I mean, you know, black tea is cool for a while.
But it's one of the cool.
Yeah, I just wanted to go home.
And at the time, we didn't have a home.
And so we actually got to Atlanta where my wife's family was and they had a spare room.
And we just crashed in Atlanta for a number of weeks and I pulled the curtains
and sat and wrote some songs.
And this was the first one that came out.
Oh, I can't wait to hear it.
Let's check it out right now.
Josh Hardy is live in the layer here on Maxine Gradio.
The song is called Hold on or holding on.
Maxine on Civic Media.
I've seen the country, oh, I've been around.
I've seen the sunrise from a thousand places, from the thighs, a little town.
I've seen the clouds, and the clouds, and the clouds, and the clouds, and the clouds.
And all of this stays the same.
I turned the dial on the radio, and the voice has never changed.
I keep holding on, holding on for now, I keep holding on for now, I keep holding on for now.
You think I'd know better, maybe realized by now.
Somewhere between right and wrong, there's a place to settle down.
Why, why, why, why, I keep answering to myself.
Why not go on, oh, take a little rest, but I keep holding on, holding on.
Hold on for now, I keep holding on, holding on for now.
How long, how long, till the sun goes down, and I'm gone.
I keep holding on, holding on for now, I keep holding on for now.
I keep holding on for now, I keep holding on for now.
Hold on for now.
Josh Hardy live in the layer here on Max and Concevic Media, presented by the Aaron Weber group,
Terry. Yeah, how about Josh, tell us about this is incredible.
Opening up for BB King when you were little, young?
No, no, no, no, no. I was an adult at that point.
Okay. Well, I mean, adult. I know, as an adult this weekend, right?
Never grow up. Well, BB King, wow.
Yeah, how did you get a gig like that, and did you get to medium?
Nobody meet, nobody gets to meet BB King.
Oh, man, he had this entourage of these dudes, and they were probably 12 of them,
that were all I would assume they had played football at some point.
They were all dressed in harmonies, and they all had nine millimeters under their arms.
Wow. Wow. Okay, BB is protected.
That is eye-opening for sure. So if you didn't get to meet him, he probably didn't get to tell you
any secrets or give you any advice or anything. I didn't. No, no.
I mean, he did say thanks on stage, which was kind of cool.
Oh, yeah, because he could have ignored you.
I guess it stops again. Yeah, I did get to touch his guitar.
Oh, wow. That was on stage during sound check and stuff.
So I, well, or the stand-in, you know, but yeah.
Still, what a cool story. Yeah, it was really cool.
You know, I was, I played in this little cafe all the time called the first,
the full circle cafe, and the woman who owned it, Deb, she was also kind of a promoter in town,
and she called me on a Monday, and she asked me what I was doing on the weekend.
And I said, nothing, you know, I wasn't playing.
And she said, well, do you have 45 minutes of original music?
And I said, well, yeah. And she said, well, I mean, if you've got, if you've got
Saturday night open, would you like to open up for a BB King?
And I was, I kind of picked myself off the floor.
And I said, well, yeah, absolutely. I'd love to.
I would imagine no matter what the plans were that night.
They would have canceled. They would have canceled.
They would have canceled BB, yeah.
Yeah. And, and so like, she told me the details, like, she, you know, it paid like a hundred bucks,
and she told me to be there for soundcheck at five, and a hung up, because that's the way,
you know, business was done back then. And, and actual telephone.
Yeah, an actual telephone. Luckily, my phone was not turned off at the time.
Like, you know, disconnected.
But, but then I hung up the phone, and I was like, well, shoot, I guess I better write 45 minutes of music.
Oh, no.
Because that, awesome. Because at that point, I had not written a song. I didn't have anything.
Oh, no.
And so I sat there for the next, like, four days, and I wrote 10 songs,
and I played them that night. And it was great. And I mean, I mean, I don't know if it was great.
I had a, I had a wonderful time. And I, I recorded my, my first record of my adult life,
you know, about a month after that. And, and that was, I mean, it was that show that did,
is directly responsible for everything that, you know, has kind of come afterwards.
Thank you for sharing this.
Well, you got to find Ole Lucille.
I did.
So speaking about songwriting, tell us about the Steel Bridge song foundation
and without cursing. Tell us about the creator, Pat McDonnell.
The Steel Bridge is, it's in Sturgeon Bay, right?
It is in Sturgeon Bay.
Isn't that a little motel where it all goes down?
It's the holiday music motel.
That's it.
Yeah, it is legendary.
It is absolutely legendary.
And I mean, you know, Pat McDonnell, just for being Pat McDonnell, Pat McDonnell,
is absolutely legendary.
But he's, he's legendary for this too.
I mean, you know, I love the focal lines.
I think it's, it, it's a fantastic outfit.
And I, I love the experience.
But the Steel Bridge song festival and,
in love on holiday and, and dark songs,
is an experience that I mean.
Gosh, I almost, you know, like it, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's incredible, you know?
I think for Steel Bridge, you get, you know, we'd get 54 usually writers up there.
And everybody stays in the motel.
It's kind of like the focal lines in that way.
But everybody stays there.
And at, we get there on Sunday, you have dinner.
Sunday night, you go into the warehouse.
And he's got a, a Jameson bottle set up on this little platform.
And it spins and we place, spin the bottle.
Oh, wow.
And so everybody stands in a circle.
And he spins the first one.
Pat does, you know, lands on somebody.
And then, you know, so you're the number one.
And then you go, you spin it.
Number two, number two goes and spins it for three.
You're creating your band.
And then you've got your group.
Yeah.
You've got your writing group.
So cool.
And so that goes for everybody in, in, in the room.
Everybody gets busted up into groups of three.
And you go and you start writing.
And you write a song.
And then the next day, you go to one of the three recording studios that are on the premises.
And you record that song.
And by the end of the week, I mean, I think usually there's, you know, 40, 50, 60 songs.
Wow.
And then there's a show on Friday and Saturday night at Third Avenue Playhouse.
And it's, you get to watch this show with all new songs.
Please tell me this is still going on.
Well, it's not happening at the moment.
Okay.
That's what I had thought I heard.
Yeah.
How many years were you going there?
I went there from 2015, I think, until the end.
Have you ever, have you ever seen Daniel Stoffel's naked?
Do I have to answer that?
Oh,
man, criminator.
No, you don't.
I hope it comes back.
Me too.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've heard so many good things about this.
And,
okay.
Well, let's get back to live music in the layer presented by the air and Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight.
It's called Out of the Dark.
And this was written at the Steel Bridge song festival.
That's correct.
That was it.
This was actually written the first year that we went online.
It was written during COVID.
And what we, because we couldn't be together.
And so we still did the bottle spin.
And we wrote the songs on Zoom.
And then everybody had like a little recording studio at their house.
And so we, we multi-tracked it.
Everything we built these songs.
And then after that, we made videos.
Talk about adding a challenge into this whole thing.
Yeah.
And, but it was great.
I mean, you know,
Steel Bridge, I've, you know, made everybody there.
Not only a better songwriter and a better musician.
And made people better people.
And it also like you got your video chops up, you know,
and you got to learn pro tools.
And it was fantastic.
That's awesome.
Sounds like fun.
Out of the dark.
Josh Hartley,
Art Hardy, excuse me.
Josh Hartley, live in the layer on Max Inc. on Civic Media.
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Pay me silver, pay me gold.
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I'd look strong, mood, I'm afraid of walls below.
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It's not as simple if you pick it apart.
Nothing looks the same.
We walked from before.
But I'm at an impasse which wrote a lie tape.
Should I take credit?
Just keep casting the blame.
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It's difficult to make decisions when we're on the road.
You can pray for a pretty outcome.
A pray for what comes.
Love is the only.
Love is the only bridge.
Love is the only bridge that leads you.
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Damage on all could lead to collapse.
To see how the rail of enforcers react.
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Under the rust I could use some repair.
No one watching it's easier not to care.
But I have a limit some might say.
Still in my resolve I traded for peace one day.
Love is the only.
Love is the only bridge.
Love is the only bridge that leads you.
Love is the only.
Love is the only bridge.
Love is the only bridge that leads you.
Out of the dark.
Out of the dark.
Love is the only bridge that leads you.
Out of the dark.
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The next song you have for us tonight.
It's called English Rain.
And it sounds wet and cold.
Is this song about being on tour?
It sure is.
You guys are back thousands of day on that.
How about it?
It's actually I think you know I think it's a song about being on tour and wishing it wasn't on tour.
Yeah.
I think anybody that you know doesn't say that sometimes you just don't want to be there.
They're not telling the truth.
Yeah.
Well, let's hear it.
Yeah.
English Rain is Josh Hardy live in the layer on Max and Concevic Media.
Oh, walking in the English rain.
It ever occurred to me or maybe just didn't think.
It's just another avenue turned on to what'll be.
Maybe sometimes I just want to go back home.
It's too late.
But I know.
Oh, if I die.
I don't stay a while.
Oh, don't know.
I might find.
Yeah.
Mirrors on the back roads.
If I try to look into.
It's the only home broken picture of a life that I once knew.
All the midnight summaries like a train whistle loud and clear.
Like a circus ride running wild and free echo cold through the air.
Sometimes I just won't go back home.
Oh, it's the life that I know.
Oh, if I die.
I don't stay a while.
Cause I don't know in my mind.
Circle grows and nobody knows where the end's gonna be.
Sometimes I just want to go back home.
It's too late.
But I know.
Oh, if I die.
I don't stay a while.
Cause I don't know in my mind.
I don't know.
Josh Hardy live in the land here on Mac.
Hey, if you want to call and get a quick question and you can do that right now.
844-967-2789.
Yeah.
I had to ask you about this.
I've gone to a couple of fundraisers for this particular organization.
And you said this is really important to you.
It's underdog pet rescue.
So tell us why this link should be important to everyone else too.
And let me say what it is underdogpetrescue.org.
Why is that so important?
Oh, aside of because it just is.
You know, in the same way that no is a complete answer.
This is just a really important thing.
And I mean, there's so many dogs out there.
There's so many pets out there.
There's so many animals out there that just need a home.
And we've got them.
Like we as humans, we've got the ability to help them.
And we should.
I feel like animals help us more than we can help them sometimes.
Absolutely.
I mean, my wife and I started doing dog rescue just around COVID.
And I mean, there's no way that, I mean, I'm sure nobody came out of that whole thing unscathed.
But I would have been in a much worse place if it hadn't been for those dogs.
How many pets do you have?
We have none. We just have the dogs that we foster.
Wow.
My dog, Dottie, my little chihuahua mix came from underdog.
Really?
Lauren, the director here in Madison.
She is fantastic.
Absolutely.
And they got a new place opening, a new vet clinic and shelter opening up on North Stone Road.
Oh, that's so cool.
Soon, I think. I don't know.
I think it's soon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's a wonderful organization.
Give them lots of money.
Give them lots of money.
And lots of love to the pets.
Perhaps.
No.
Josh.
We don't mean to laugh.
No. Cause we've all been there.
Everybody can connect with these dogs.
Yeah. Absolutely.
That's just how it is.
Okay. Let's hear it, Jimmy Kay.
It's live in the layer on Maxine on Civic Media.
I'm here to come around.
I've been waiting for you to come around.
I've been waiting for you to come around.
There's a long list of things I'd like to say to you.
I found the splurred with every word and I know you, I.
I know there's nothing left to prove.
You've got everything to keep me around.
I've got no time slowing down over there I go.
I can soak in my feet back on the road.
It's been a long time, it's been a long time.
It's been a long time coming down.
I've been waiting, waiting for you to come around.
I've been waiting for you to come around.
So now we're going to lay in a bit.
We made it, there's no turning back.
We can't recall when wrong.
We can't change the fact that we've been rolling on.
We've been rolling on now for too long.
It's been a long time, it's been a long time.
It's been a long time coming down.
And I'm through waiting, waiting for you to come around.
Through waiting for you to come around.
I'm through waiting, waiting.
Yes.
Josh Hardy live in the layer here on Maxi from Civic Media.
Just a quick reminder, Maxi and Heavy is coming up at 10 o'clock tonight.
We got a conversation that Im Shell did with, I'm sorry guys.
Somebody.
Yeah, would you kindly, as I teach you my nose.
Anyway, we've got about five minutes left, your rocker and Terry.
Okay, so busy guy always.
So give us a little peek into your summer plans, booking tours, recording albums, tanning.
I don't know, going to the beach.
Do you even have time to do something like that?
I live close to a beach on my nose.
Okay, got it, got it.
Are we going to see a schedule from you?
Or are you working on new music?
A little bit of both.
There's a tour schedule coming up to Josh Hardy.com soon.
You can also get there via Josh Hardy Music on Facebook.
And on the Instagram as well.
But there's a new record that will be popping up as well.
I can't wait.
Maybe you'll have to come back.
I'd love to come back.
You guys, I just invited him back so there.
Are you planning on doing some US stuff, Wisconsin stuff?
Are you going back to Europe?
All those things.
What's your favorite country to play in Europe?
Where's the most enjoyable for you?
I mean, I feel the most at home in the UK in Ireland.
Both of those places are, I mean, there's just a culture of music that happens there.
You know, a lot of places they prefer.
You don't use a microphone.
You know, especially in Ireland.
You play a show.
And you get done.
And it doesn't matter how late it is and stuff.
And they clap.
And it gets done.
And they're like, are you done?
And then everybody reaches behind their chair
and they grab their own guitars and stuff.
And that's when it really happens.
That is so good.
Wow, that's pretty incredible.
You know, when we were touring in Iceland
and this guy came out of the audience
and he was like, well, everybody does poetry in Iceland.
And so the band played music while he recited poetry.
It was pretty cool.
Over the music.
Oh, that's cool.
Well, hey, the last song that you have for us tonight is brand new.
Oh, new.
And it's called a little help from a friend.
Is this about a therapist with benefits?
Well, I mean, I mean, there are definitely benefits
to seeing a therapist.
So yeah, I mean, I think this is one of those things
that being a dude I don't often like to talk.
And you know, it's all right to talk.
It is okay to talk, yes.
Thank you for saying that as I'm in a room with all the boys.
Well, let's hear it.
Right now is Josh Hardy live in the layer here on Maxink on Civic Media.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I could have all the will in the world.
It won't do me no good if I keep trying to carry the weight by myself.
The good intention that best leads me sitting on the edge
but what I'm trying to be in order was.
But I've preached myself blue in the face
and tried to find and prove my place for every turn I made was for the worst.
I've taken so much time to translate my own mind
and I don't know what it means because you don't know my words.
I can take a little help, a little help from the friend.
A fake battle I'll be in the air.
Every time the walls close and then
it's all right to take a little help, a little help from the friend.
If they can seem like the best,
if they javut from somewhere in the past,
if I slow down and look between the lights,
this reminded me sometimes hard to find.
I can take a little help, a little help from the friend.
A fake battle I'll be in the air.
Every time the walls close and then
it's all right to take a little help, a little help from the friend.
So right to take a little help, a little help from the friend.
Beautiful.
Josh Hardy, live in the air.
Josh, thank you so much for coming in tonight.
It was great to see you again. I love the music, man.
Thank you very much.
Send us a new EP. We'll get it done in the air.
No, he's coming back in. Hello.
Okay.
Coming back in with a new EP.
Oh my goodness.
All right, hey guys, fun show tonight.
Thank you so much for listening.
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