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Doug Town Hollow is a Madison original.
Founded by singer and guitarist J.T. Sparks in 2022, the band features bassist Mason,
Mamo, Aminstal, drummer, Brian Bentley, and lead guitarist Tim Hobb.
We are going to get a live preview of the new Doug Town Hollow album, Rivers, Roads, and
Bridges.
To be released, December 22nd at the Harmony Barron Madison, and here in the
Lair with us tonight, right now is J.T. Mason, Brian, and Tim.
Doug Town Hollow, welcome to the Lair on Max Inc. Radio.
Thank you.
You know, you guys went out, you guys went out to, you came down, you sound checked here.
Got all set up in the studio.
Where'd you guys go?
What'd you guys do?
What was for dinner?
Well, we walked around State Street a little bit and found a bite to eat at the
Parthenon Euros.
Oh, yeah.
Classic State Street joint.
And then we stopped into Paul's Club.
Oh, yeah.
Just a little harder for a little bit.
And the tree.
Yep, yep.
Paul's Club is a regular pre-game for a pre-show for me.
Yeah, I believe it.
I always have a nice cocktail before I come up here.
Yeah.
I was amazed at how long that tree has been living inside that bar.
It's real, too.
Is it, did Paul's Club used to be in a different place?
Do you remember?
Was it always in that location?
I believe it's always been in that location.
Oh, man.
They had a fire at one point.
Oh, okay.
It was concerning.
But they got that cleaned up.
And the tree survived.
And the tree survived.
Oh, James Travis Sparks.
JT, you have this incredible all-star band behind you.
Ready to go.
But let's get to know you a little bit first.
Who is JT Sparks?
And how did you get started in music?
What's your backstory?
Oh, my backstory.
Well, I started learning about music, I guess, in the fourth grade.
You know, and play the trombone.
I bought a guitar.
I bought a bass guitar when I was probably 14,
and played with my brother.
And by the time I was a senior in high school,
I was playing bass in the jazz band, which was great.
And then the first couple of years at college,
I played in a variety band,
and that's really where I learned to jam.
And I just played the bass.
I didn't sing.
I wasn't writing songs or anything.
And from there, you know,
I was played in a few bands.
And then I bought a sixth string eventually
and started writing songs.
This was in the early 90s.
And so, yeah, I'm just trying to write songs, you know,
as they come along for...
When did the songwriting bug hit you?
At what stage was that?
Well, I bought a sixth string.
I was living in Tucson, Arizona,
and brought it home.
And pretty much the first thing I did was try to write a song.
Yeah.
And it's just, you know, I don't know.
I don't think about it now.
I don't really know where that came from.
Other than, you know, I've always been a bit of a writer
and some poetry and that kind of thing.
And, but I had never, you know,
really had voice training or anything like that.
You still have your first song?
Did you ever wrote, laying around somewhere?
No, yeah, maybe.
Maybe somewhere.
Written down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Written down, but not in memory.
I'm in napkin.
Yeah.
Now, back to the, to the trombone.
Now, was that something that you were in school?
So you decided to take music?
Did your parents have any influence on you?
How did you get started in music?
Yeah, well, you know, was that when they used to have
music in public schools, it was just.
You laugh.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, you know, my brother played the saxophone
and I played the trombone.
Why trombone?
I honestly don't know.
Probably because they needed more trombone players
and they had enough trombones, you know,
but something about the brass.
And then, you know, it turns out it was a bass cliff instrument.
So when I would learn,
when I went to move to the bass guitar,
then I could read the music already, which was helpful.
Now, what is dark down hollow?
I mean, is that a place?
What's the story behind that?
It is actually a place, but I didn't know that.
We didn't know that until after we chose the name.
And so Brian and Mason and I, when we were first getting together,
I was talking to Maggie from Harmony as well.
She gave me this too.
She said, so we each had a piece of paper.
And we just wrote down like five or six or ten words or phrases that sort of,
you know, were evocative of the band or the idea of the music we were trying to do.
And then we traded pieces of paper and wrote down another few phrases and words.
And then did it again.
So then we ended up with, you know, 25 or 30 words and phrases.
And we started just, started cross mixing them around and ended up with three or four band names
that we liked.
And then we started asking other people and got some input.
And Dogtown Hollow was the one that stuck.
But then afterwards, I found out that it is actually a place down in Southern Illinois.
On the Mississippi, there is a Dogtown Hollow road.
So maybe we'll take a road trip down there and play a gig somewhere.
Band photo.
Yeah, right.
All right.
Well, let's get to some of my music in the layer with Dogtown Hollow.
Hold on, stick around here, presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The first song you have for us tonight is from your new album,
Rivers, Roads, and Bridges.
And it's called You and Yours and Me and Mind.
That's a lot of ampersands.
Tell us about this song before you play.
Okay.
This song is one, I lived out of Maine for a little while and this was one I wrote.
I remember specifically that I was walking the dog as I often did and would get ideas for rhymes or
couplets, you know, and so I think the first lines of this song came to me when I was out walking
the dog I'm specifically remember.
And it was kind of a darker start to the song.
It's Empty Kans and broken hearts, Kans and bottles.
But it ends up to be actually a positive song like sticking in there, you know,
like have some hope even though times are not going well, which for me at the time things weren't
going well. So that's kind of where it came around to.
All right, let's hear it.
You're live in a layer, smack sync on civic media with Dog Town Hollow.
Can't be choosers, don't cryin' out loud, but that's what the grandmaw used to say.
And then one thing, you'll wake up from another all-nighter,
like the sports rider, your pants with a bit tighter.
Oh, will you, and yours, and me, and mine,
we're all bound to walk ahead, lad.
Oh, let it do, and cliche, leave it alive to be there where they're all but
we're all bound to walk ahead, lad.
And it's strong, poor relation between cause and end of fear.
And then one thing, you'll wake up and the sun's a bit brighter,
you'll wake up from another all but we're all bound to walk ahead,
lad, oh, you, and yours, and me, and mine, we're all bound to walk ahead,
lad, oh, will you, and yours, and me, and mine, we're all bound to walk ahead,
lad.
Very nice, smack sync on civic media live in a layer with Dog Town Hollow.
844-967-2789, 844-96 party, you have to call or text some questions.
And just for the record guys, the Dog Town Hollow Road or town that you were referencing
is actually in Southern Illinois, a very unique area right next to the Mississippi River,
but just above the confluence of the Illinois River.
And there's also just for the record is a Dog Hollow Road in Green County, Wisconsin,
between Monroe and Argyle.
Okay, well, great, thank you for looking that up.
I'm a fan of place names.
Yeah, thank you.
You look up my name on the Google, you'll find me writing essays about place names and stuff.
So that's great, thank you.
Nice, excuse me, tell us about Dog Town Hollow and your inspiration to create it.
Well, I wanted a band to play music.
I lived in Madison for quite a while, 15 or so years from the late 90s to about 2014.
And then moved away for seven years and then moved back here.
I got a job at UW and moved back in 2021.
What kind of work did you at UW?
I'm a writer for research institute, which means mostly I'm a rewriter for people, I'm an editor.
But yeah, it's interesting and good job, stable so far.
And also, you know, you guys evolved from Jim James and Jim James and the damn James.
So how has this been different?
Because I know that how many of these people are in that band?
Three out of four.
Three of four.
But it's less in evolution than it just happens to be these are the guys that I knew when I moved back to town.
And so, you know, I think Mason and I probably got together first.
And we're just jamming to my living room a little bit and then Brian involved.
And then the three of us played at least one gig as a trio.
And then we were fishing around and Tim showed up a bit on the lure of playing with us on lead guitar again.
So how can you not?
I mean, that's such a great band name, Jim James and the damn James.
Yeah, people do seem to remember it.
It just rolls off the tongue.
Yeah, right.
I love it.
Well, let's get to know your bandmates.
And we'll start with the heart, bassists, Mason, Mame Moam and style.
Mason, you were in the Lair a few months back with Lake Wave's trio where we first
experienced your awesome bass playing.
Tell us again how you got started in music.
I mean, what's your backstory?
You know, what role did your parents have?
Let's let's find out who you are again.
Sure, sure.
Yeah.
So I grew up in Colorado and I told the story last time I was on the.
Yeah, it's important that I tell it again.
I forget under under what after what James just said.
I started playing, I decided to play music in middle school in sixth grade,
which is the first year in Colorado.
You can start playing instruments.
And I want to play trumpet.
You said that we don't have enough trumpets for everybody that wants to play trumpet.
So I went across the hall and joined Mrs. Wano's orchestra class and picked up the upright bass.
My uncle plays upright bass still in the Eugene Symphony Orchestra out in Oregon.
So that was a kind of a reason why I went out there.
And I would be remiss to say if Phil Lesch didn't have a huge impact on my journey, musical journey.
Yeah, and I'm hearts out to Phil Lesch, hope to see in the spaceways, bad and beautiful.
Talk about the guitar or the bass that you currently have.
This is a guild starfire too, which is iconic was iconically used by Phil Lesch in the late 60s.
It's a big hollow body bass.
It's got these bisonic pickups on it that are really, really crunchy and very cool and very
nice. And it's a big wooden body that gives a lot to bite and all that good stuff.
Yeah, that's a lot of character.
A different bass than you played last time in Lake Waistreo.
Yes, that's correct. That was more of a five string.
Not as it's kind of more of a blank slate.
You know, I brought in a lot of pedals that that time.
Oh, yes.
And so I kind of used that to like kind of drive a spaceship.
This is more of a it's kind of more of its own instruments.
That one is like it's a collection of instruments that make, you know, the sound.
Do you have a big collection of basses?
I don't, but I do have one coming in from Germany next week that I'm very excited about.
Oh, that's a custom order.
And I'm really looking forward to having that.
What is it?
It's a five string 32 inch scale purple bass.
So nice.
Purple like your head.
Yes.
I'm sorry, rock.
Do you get a chance to play the upright?
I do and I have an upright.
I haven't.
I don't play it as often as I'd like.
And I mean, it's my own fault.
You know, it's right there.
It doesn't move.
It's never, it's never not in a mood, you know.
So it's it's my fault.
I love the upright bass.
It's never not in the mood.
I love it.
So I got to, I got to take the, you know, take the step to play more often than I do.
So I love that thing.
Wow.
All right.
Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with Dogtown Hollow,
presented by the Aaron Weber group.
On the next song that you have for us tonight, it's called Let's Go Sills Maria.
Is this a song about hope, retreat, reconnection and Frederick Nietzsche?
It's almost like you have notes.
Yeah, let's go to Sills Maria.
So yeah, I was watching a documentary that kind of compared Nietzsche,
Freud and Marx kind of all live at the same time.
And so Nietzsche wrote one of his most famous books in a little town called Sills Maria,
which is on the border of Switzerland and Italy up in the Alps.
And it just struck me as like, oh, let's go to Sills Maria.
It was like an aspirational thing.
I wanted to have something different than what was going on, I guess you could say.
And I was also, I will say, give credit where it's due.
I was listening to the Nashville Sound album by Jason Isbel.
And he moves between chords in a certain way that I liked and wanted to have something
that moved a little bit.
So yeah, I've never been there.
And it's not really about Nietzsche, although it does have a line about the eternal return,
which is one of his ideas.
But so anyway, let's check it all right now.
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You know, we're here with JT Sparts of Dogtown Hollow and tell us about why you believe building
the musical community is needed now more than ever and what does growing the scene look like in
your mind? Those are two good questions. I think it's needed now. Well, not just
the music scene, but I think the art scene in general, frankly, after this week is something that
people will need whether they want to admit it or not. You know, artists reflect society in a way
that shows us the good, bad, and ugly about everything. And so I think it's just really necessary,
especially I don't know how political we want to get here, but you know, in the face of people
being oppressed pretty openly, or at least the threat of it, you know, tries to keep people
in line in a way that's preemptive. And I think that music and other kinds of art bring people
together in a way that not other things, you know, other things just don't do, not that they can't,
you can't build community in other ways, but I think music is just a great way for people to get
together and kind of get in the same vibration, you know, and like you're literally sharing vibes
when you're making music and playing music and watching music and I just think it's a great
way to bring people together. Do you think that in this current political environment that we're
in is good? That's that mission right there is going to be a little harder going forward?
Well, you know, I think it's already harder after the pandemic and you know, you don't have as many
venues and people don't go out and see live music as they consider home and and scroll on their
phones and watch streaming shows, you know, and so the live music scene in general is already
different than it was 10 years ago, five years ago. So I think it'll be hard harder, you know, depends
on how, you know, how local venues can get people out. And so I will just say to, you know, support
your local venues, right? Mason often shares a post that says, only you can prevent empty venues.
I like that. Nice. I think it's even though more important in this time that we build that
community, support the local venues, the local music scene and local artists as a whole.
Yeah, and let people know that they're welcome, you know, like sometimes people aren't feeling
welcome right now. And that's important to at least for us to like let people know that it's,
you know, a safe space is a thing that's overused, but it's it's a true thing, you know, we want to
let people know that they can come and be who they are when they're at a show, you know,
rocker, we've said this week after week that we're lucky here in Madison anyway,
yeah, that it is a very inclusive, welcoming music scene for the most part. It's not perfect,
but it's better than it is around other places in the country and here in the state.
Mm-hmm. So I think what you're trying to say is that is that like where people are horizontally
thinking left and right, they're very far apart out on the poles of the left and right,
but music is maybe a glue to bring people together to start thinking vertically and find out
that they're kind of more in the same space than they are wide apart. Yeah, you know, if you're
thinking vertically and horizontally, then you're basically thinking spherically, right? So you're kind
of creating spherical thinking bubbles and networks that are more spherical bubbles in networks.
Do we just smoke something to continue this conversation? Sure.
We're sponsored by Honey Bee Cannibus Company. Well, let's see, let's get back to,
let's give the shredder some Tim Hobb, League of Tars, get your butt up here. We're going to
ask him a question. He said, you better only have one question for me. I said, I think you can
answer this question. It's a three-part question, too, Tim. It's a three-part question. Who are you?
What is your backstory and what role did your parents have in you starting playing music?
Well, I am Tim Hobb. I've lived in Madison since 1991. I grew up in small towns in Missouri.
I was born in Kentucky and I had a mom who sang, who had a gorgeous voice and she still does at
times. My dad, he didn't have such a good voice. He was a pastor. He was a listener. Yeah, he was a
Methodist minister and so he had to lead the song sometimes. It was people who tried to out-sing
him so they didn't have to hear him singing. Oh, funny. But he loved singing. I gave him props for
that. Then I just learned to play piano in my grandparents basement. They had a piano and I would
just go down and play a piano and kind of taught myself a little bit and then played trumpet.
Well, it kind of stuff. Yeah, and then I decided I wanted to get something where I could sing and
play at the same time. So I got guitar at 15 and since then it's just taking me a lot of places,
which has been a lot of fun. I played a little mandolin, too. So you started in Missouri? What part of
Missouri were you in? First one was washing to Missouri, which is 60 miles west of St. Louis.
It's on the Missouri River. So as a kid, it was great because you could go down as long as the
parents didn't find out. You could go down to the river and play. You need to go down the bluff
and over the railroad tracks and then you'd get to the slews and stuff and we'd go hang out there
and it was just a ton of fun. Nice. And then you went to Kentucky, you said, right? No, I was
born in Kentucky. Born in Kentucky. What brought you to Madison? I met a guy who was living up in
a farmhouse. My friend, Chuck Lamont, he lives in Austria now. He's a musician. And he and
another friend came down to St. Louis to visit some people who lived up above me in the apartment.
The woman came down, got me, we ended up playing music all night. He played banjo, I played guitar
and then we decided after that, I'd come up to visit, came up to visit and we decided we'd go
over to Europe and busk on the streets. So nice. Yeah, did that and then just never stopped.
Nice. Wow. Come to Madison, never leave except to go to Europe to busk. That's usually how it
works. That's perfect. I used to do it on the streets here with catfish. Oh yeah, yeah.
That was my fish, Stevenson. Yeah, that was my beginning in Madison really. I used to play with
Todd Cambio and catfish. Oh yeah, probably right out here on St. Street, right in front of the
overture center. Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with Dogtown Hollow presented
by the Aaron Weber group. The next song we have is called a Skull Hegan Bound. Is this a song about
Ted the Hitchhiker? Yeah, sort of. Like I said, I lived out in Maine for a while and I drove from
mid coast Maine up into the hills of Western Waldo County, which is about 18 miles every day for work.
I taught at a college out there and one February day, it was very cold and windy and I saw this guy
hitchhiking by himself and I was by myself, which like if I would have had my daughter with me,
I wouldn't have picked up this strange dude walking along the street or along the road. Anyway,
I picked him up and you know, it was cold out. He didn't have a hat. He didn't have mitten. He just
had this old army jacket at a Batman patch on the on the side and he didn't quite know where he
was, but he knew he wanted to get to Skull Hegan, which was another 30 miles like up and over the hill
and then up to the Kennebec River and then up, you know, I ended up saying you need to get to the
Kennebec and then just take a right and just like follow it up for stream, you know. Anyway, I ended
up pulling over at a gas station. I bought him a pack of smokes in a can of coke cola and tore
a page of my gazetteer and sent him on his way and wished him luck and then immediately went to
my office and wrote down a bunch of notes of what just happened and that turned into this song,
which is pretty much a non-fiction song. And I'm really excited to hear this song too because
you've busted out the harmonica. Ah, beautiful. Your live in the layer,
presented by the Aaron Weber Group is Dog Town Hollow Live on Maxing Cradio.
The H-22 from my gazetteer, I had only yet get out of here.
I was home in the air, he was headed my way over where I'm only in heaven.
Still blue as just like the sky, I'm an open-knock's rage we dear friend.
An armoured jacket with a Batman dance, I was a bride that he did change.
He's into the town, the world's been red, still coming down, hearing all the Katie and the town.
He's got to be getting mad, some time though you need his ride in a storm,
and it's lit up and made an evil tune. He's going to do that chin-a-picks through,
he's going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around, he's coming down, hearing all the Katie and the town.
He's got to be getting mad,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around, he's coming down,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
when it's turned around, walked away,
with each one of you, my hesitate,
I only had to get there from here,
home in the air he was headed that way,
I could grab me where I went on a main highway,
he's going to town, he's coming down,
he's covering ground, hearing all the Katie and the town.
He's covering ground, he's covering ground,
hearing all the Katie and the town,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
he's going to be going to watch you roll the Rolling City,
the town where I'm spinning around,
a kid down the street, so I actually was like a older guy, maybe 17,
had a drum set, and when he would play,
the girls on the street would stand outside his window,
and I thought, oh, that's how you did it.
Yeah, that's the trick, right?
15 years old, I bought the kid the next day.
Yeah.
It didn't work.
But I really love playing drums.
Yeah, it's either guitar or singing, dude.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Now, outside of a band, I forget,
are you one of the owners of the Harmony Hero Menace or not?
No, I'm not.
No, okay.
No, that's Pam Barrett.
She's from Bingbong.
You can ask that question next week, Jim.
I'll just write it down there.
If I can remember here.
What other bands have you been in?
Bingbong, your dogton hollow.
What's your past year around here?
Dogton hollow, Bingbong, Jim James and the damn shames.
Head pump, the Elizabeth Shaffer band.
There's a few more and probably not.
Elizabeth Shaffer, boy, I haven't heard that name in a long time.
I just came across her CD.
I'm going to have to go burn some songs,
bring them in for throwbacks.
I'm trying to get her to do a reunion.
And head pump, whoa.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy.
It was the...
Oh, I can't remember that guy's name.
Bill Bluntz.
Bill Bluntz.
Yeah, he was in there Bluntz.
Bluntz.
Blunt Rapture.
Yes.
Yeah.
I remember a couple of Michelin Street block party shows.
Oh, yeah.
Weed stock.
We did all that.
Oh, yeah.
You got a round, man.
You got a round, man.
All right.
Well, let's get back to live music in the air with Dogton Hollow,
presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Stumble in the Streets.
This is in a country love song, isn't it?
It is.
It is.
It's very country, man.
Very, very love.
Yeah.
All of that.
It's...
This is actually a new song.
Maybe we've played it out once before, but this is our sort of debut for this one.
This is a love song.
Break up song.
Love song.
Get back together.
No, it's...
Yeah, neither one.
It's just, you know, I got a great lady in my life and I just wrote a song.
Actually, okay.
So here's...
I was listening to some Hank Williams Jr.
Oh, here's the truth.
And Whiskey Benton Hellbound, which is a fun song to sing for my vocal range,
but I didn't want to, like, it's a downer, right?
It's not a great song thematically.
Like, what if I kind of kept the way that he sings in that vocal range,
but just write my own song and make it a positive love song instead of negative,
get drunk and, you know, sort of...
Now, do good things.
What's wrong with that?
Well, you know, it has moments.
Just keep it positive.
All right.
All right.
Let's get back to life.
Let's hear it.
The player presented by the Aaron Weber group is Dog Town Hollow on Maxing Radio.
Oh, it's a matter of finding life between blue, lush, and red.
Oh, but when I stumble, oh, and find you smiling all alone, oh, oh, oh,
I'm here to tell you, oh, you don't have to be here.
Oh, well, that was a fine night.
The tender touches in the moonlight,
I'll leave your drawers on the floor, right?
But I'll need them anyway.
Oh, but you know, I ain't lying.
This hair's a nightmare,
to have and hold on it,
all the way to the grave.
Yeah, we'll be living well,
but all water from a deeper well.
Oh, maybe stop stumbling in the street,
I want to leave.
Oh,
it will be taking flight
Oh, what's your hero's restaurant?
Oh, we got all the love in it,
and anybody could come.
But if we just stumble in the street,
sometimes life is bittersweet,
but when you're out on the big water,
you just ride away.
Oh, but you know, I ain't lying.
This hair's a nightmare,
to have and hold on it,
all the way to the grave.
Yeah, we'll be living well,
but all water from a deeper well.
Oh, maybe stop stumbling in the street,
I want to leave.
The hair will go on and on and on,
all the way to the grave.
Very nice.
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GT your new album,
Rivers, Roads and Bridges.
It's out on streaming platforms,
and you're having an album release party
at the Harmony bar in Madison on Friday,
December 22nd from 5 to 730.
Tell us about the new album
and the party you're throwing.
Yeah, well, thank you for the opportunity to talk about it.
So it's not just my project,
even though they're my songs,
it was really a group effort.
I want to give Kenny Kepler a shout out.
We recorded at his studio over on Amazon.
Oh, yeah.
A sound garden.
And Kenny played with us a bunch of times.
One Brian was doing other things,
and so he's been a great help.
Yeah, it's just a collection of songs.
Like a lot of those,
some of those songs have been sitting around for a while.
We went in,
and I think we recorded 10 or 11 songs,
and we just picked these six to start.
And the plan is for the next year,
we'll do another album,
an EP, you know, six songs,
and then,
but, you know,
we don't have any vinyl out.
There's no,
because it was too long to put on a seven-inch,
but it wasn't long enough to put on 12-inch.
Yeah, yeah.
So maybe,
after we get another EP out,
we'll do a full vinyl release.
We'll see.
But it's been fun.
It's been, you know,
like we put out the damn James record in 2004.
So,
this has been 20 years since I put on any music,
even though I've been writing songs the whole time.
Well, more shows are coming in 2025,
but two Madison shows are in the books.
Cargo Coffee East in Madison on January 10th,
and Up North Bar on January 25th here in Madison.
And so,
let's get back to live music in the layer
with Dogtown Hollow,
presented by Aaron Weber Group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Fly Away.
And,
does this song actually use
a movable six-chord model
after a bird call?
Yes, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Bill,
I'll talk about this.
And I'll say that Cargo Coffee is a solo show
that I am occasionally challenging myself
to play solo acoustic shows.
But,
yeah, I was walking the dog.
You know, I was talking about
walking the dog in written songs before,
and it was,
it was been a spring day or something,
and it's either a robin or a card on,
just, you know,
kind of like the intro to So What,
if you know that Miles Davis tune,
So What,
it has that just kind of a,
you know,
and that six-chord is just a nod.
It's not a really a rock and roll chord,
but I liked it.
It sounded good.
It was something different,
and again,
I was kind of homesick.
I was living out of the East Coast
and thinking about home,
which is, for me,
the upper Mississippi River Valley,
so,
which is a major flyaway.
So I used it as an opportunity
to also talk about birds.
Can you spell Mississippi backwards?
I-P-P-I-S-S-S-I-S-S-S-I-M.
Very good.
L-P-I-S-S-S-S-S-I-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S.
All right.
Let's hear a flyaway.
This is Doug Town Hallow here
maxing radio.
You are live in the air.
Circle around the moon, circle around the sun
Get that old hand in one
You don't melt a known hole in the flyaway.
Flyaway.
It's a blue moon of your ears
Hold your eyes, listen for the rhythms of
Riverside and flyaway
You miss a sipping flyaway
It's a blue moon of your ears
Hold your eyes, listen for the rhythms
Hold your eyes, listen for the rhythms of
Riverside and flyaway
You miss a sipping flyaway
So here we were again
At the riverside
It's always and goes well
Till you decide to flyaway
Hold your eyes, listen for the rhythms of
Riverside and flyaway
You miss a sipping flyaway
It's a blue moon of your ears
It's a blue moon of your ears
It's a blue moon of your ears
So cool.
Remember, album release showed December 22nd at the Harmony bar.
And how do we keep up with Doug Town Hallow online?
Before I forget, I want to say that we're splitting our other album release party
with Two Trick Pony, which is a Van Kennedy and Michael Moody and Bob Boyd project.
Oh yeah.
Another group of great local musicians.
Superstars for sure.
Yeah.
So it'll be a double dose of local roots rock and that'll be fun.
We played a couple shows with them before.
The dog and pony show you can call it.
Or a double dip if you will.
That's right.
That's right.
We got about five minutes here.
How long is rock and roll?
Roll, roll, roll is about two and a half to two forty five.
Oh, perfect.
And then we got a few seconds here.
How do we keep up with it online?
Yeah, so Facebook and Instagram.
We don't have a website right now, but you know, social media.
We're on both of those and it's just at Doug Town Hallow for either one.
Okay.
JT Mason, Tim, Brian.
Thank you so much for taking the time to come into the studio tonight.
Appreciate it.
You really appreciate it.
We have time for one more song.
This song is called Roll, Roll, Roll.
Tell us about this song really quickly.
Oh, really quickly.
This is a really basic two-chord song.
I wanted to sound like Dale Watson a little bit.
And just write a, you know, Johnny Cash meets John Fogarty, sort of rocker.
So basic root track song, but it's fun.
And people can sing along to it.
And it's about growing up on the Mississippi River.
And just enjoying that place.
You know, that sense of place is really important for a lot of people.
It is for me.
And so this song kind of pays homage to that.
All right.
That's here.
This is Roll, Roll, Roll.
Doug Tom Hollow, you are in the lair on Maxine Corredio.
And I grew up on that river, climbed up that old hill.
I think it's on, you don't know.
But someday you will know life down on the river.
It's tough as it is sweet.
Well, people down there to rivers on the cliffs.
You'll never be behind the rock.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
It's rolled right down that stream.
You got it.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
Living your own dream.
You got it.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
Spinning like a paddle wheel.
You're going to roll, Roll, Roll.
The good life is what you feel now.
I won't cross this country.
I'm from a deserts to the sea.
One thing that I've found is a little said to you.
Free as you go out on the river.
We'll be just who you are.
It takes up a bit of courage.
That'll take you far as you roll, Roll, Roll.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
It's rolled right down that stream.
You got it.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
Living your own dream.
You're going to roll, Roll, Roll.
Spinning like a paddle wheel.
You got it.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
The good life is what you feel now.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
It may be clear as mud.
Then to that river.
It's your own flesh and blood.
And you can tell the children.
And the children's children too.
All that you have done to help.
What that river does for you is you roll, Roll, Roll.
Living your own dream.
You got it.
Roll, Roll, Roll.
Living your own dream.
You're going to roll, Roll, Roll.
Like a wheel within a wheel.
You're going to roll, Roll, Roll.
The good life is what you feel now.
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