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I am rocker here with Jane.
We are getting ready for live in the air tonight.
We have the lower fifth.
Are you ready for this, Jane?
I am so ready for this.
I've already had a chance to talk to these two wonderful people
and I couldn't be more excited to hear what they have to say.
All right.
Well, founding members, Luke Jorgensen, Cory Swadley and Paul
Matt started working together in 2010 to write and perform
songs that drew from and built on their eclectic musical
roots with the addition of Audrey Pesticelli.
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Is that like a street in New York City?
I dont know where the name came from.
How does that name come from?
Is it like a musical thing?
I'm a drummer.
Maybe I'm very stringy.
we have come up with it is
he used to play with the band name
lower expectations.
And then
When he tried to legitimize the band
he had to change it
and we went with a lower 5th
which is
a 5th of the root basically
and in basic musical terms.
Is that like a sad note or happy note?
I mean what is it?
You know I don't think it's actually
a thing we had Jeremy join the band
who like is music teacher
and music theory.
He's actually trained in music
and he's like that's not a thing.
A legit thing.
We just always explain it that way.
Well there's always a 5th
to the root note.
For sure.
And if it's going to be the lower 5th
and you're just playing it in the lower octave instead of
well anyway.
One of those things.
Lower expectations.
Well we digress right?
Yeah.
There are two stories to the lower 5th
and the first with the band's founder
and leader Luke Jorgensen in 2010
and then after it's sudden passing
in 2018 tell us about the evolution of the band.
Sure.
So early on when Luke was the leader
he would bring friends together,
bring musicians together,
wherever he had a show
and they weren't always the same.
But once we all had the opportunity
to play with them,
we basically put them in a position where we're like,
you don't have to call a guitarist anymore.
You don't have to call a bass player anymore.
And slowly we all just
congealed around him that he had a solid band
and then after his tragic passing
we were kind of all put in a position where
we had to decide.
Can we continue this?
And so my first place was to look at my dear bandmates
and say, will you give me a year?
I will try to learn his lyrics.
We'll try to learn his songs because I was not a lead singer.
I like to sing, but it wasn't my focus.
Wow.
And so I was like, I will learn his lyrics,
which unfortunately he never wrote down any of his lyrics.
He would change them all the time.
A lot of transcribing.
So yeah, a lot of painstaking sitting at a computer
in my basement, crying my eyes out,
trying to learn what he was trying to say
and learning the messages behind his songs.
And so anyway, I put myself in that position,
sometimes opportunities thrust upon you
and it was like, okay, this is my chance.
I want to carry the song.
And so with that, there was also other space in the band
that would need to be filled.
And so something that Luke had always encouraged Audrey to do
was he wanted her to sing, but it wasn't her thing either.
No, I was stubborn about it.
She did not want to sing at all.
She wanted to hang out in the background.
And so when I was taking over leads,
well, naturally, then there had to be a backing vocalist
because I was solid with Luke and backing vocals.
And so Audrey stepped up and was like,
I will learn the backing vocal role,
and forced my lead playing, because I was always a lead player.
Luke was always rhythm.
Then Jeremy, our trombone player, all of a sudden,
was like, well, I can play acoustic guitar.
So he starts playing acoustic, Audrey's singing backups.
I'm singing leads.
Paul has always been a singer and player.
So he started singing some backing vocals
and then we added Michael Berger,
which was this other element that could add as a soloist.
And we're going to talk about all those people,
actually a little deeper.
Yeah.
So that's kind of what happened was we were all put in a position
where we had to find what was missing
and what can we re-evaluate or what, you know,
we had a chance to reaffirm what the lower fifth was.
And growth.
I mean, you guys are kind of taking on new roles
of things that you hadn't done previously.
I think that that's an interesting side note
to all this in the story.
Exactly.
Continuing in Luke's honor with the message of hope and togetherness
and talk about that for a second.
Luke had just a very unselfish way
of trying to bring everybody around him up.
He would offer to record people for free.
He would offer people opening gigs.
He would try to bring people together to make bands.
Like festivals and stuff.
Yeah, who was putting together festivals.
He would raise money every holiday season
to give to a family that was in need.
He was always trying to bring everybody up.
And so with his passing,
it kind of left this void in our musical family,
our greater musical community of everybody
still wanted to have that feeling.
So it kind of put us in a position like we need to carry on that.
We still play his music.
We talk about togetherness.
We talk about how we want music to be all inclusive.
Everyone has the right to feel good about themselves
and about where they're at in their lives.
And so we try to offer that to our fans still
as an opportunities.
Come out, feel comfortable, have fun, let loose.
Yeah.
And dance.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, it was definitely a hard decision to make, you know,
after navigating that just amazing, just awful grief, you know,
and such a shock to us all, but we had a decision to make.
And, you know, it didn't seem like an option
to not play his music, you know,
and not keep his memory going, not keep his legacy going.
Well, that's pretty cool.
We figured it out, but yeah, it was hard at first.
We worked together and we figured out with our community
and within ourselves.
And, you know, yeah.
Because, you know, I mean, when bands break up even, you know,
their music sort of discontinues.
You don't hear it like Led Zeppelin.
John Bonham passed away, and we still hear Led Zeppelin,
although they never really continued kind of.
But, you know, losing a member like that
and keeping that alive and keeping his music alive
and his mission and dream, that's pretty cool.
Because, you know, he was an incredibly respected person,
you know, here in the music scene.
Well, let's get to some live music.
Let's kick it off.
The Lower Fifth Duo.
It's presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The first song you have for us tonight,
it's called Life and Death.
And it was written by Luke Jorgensen.
I mean, tell us about this song before you play.
Sure. So, I mean, this was one that we've always enjoyed playing this song
just because of the vibe of it.
It wasn't so much about the lyrics.
It was just the vibe of it.
But once we had to sit down and actually transcribe the lyrics
and get the song ready for us to sing it,
it was like, wait a second.
He was really kind of telling us something kind of deep.
Yeah.
Because he did sing about life and death a lot.
And he packaged it in such a happy, like fun way.
It's almost silly.
But it's so deep at the same time.
Wow.
I'm ironic.
Yeah, totally, totally.
So, this is a song that we...
We start a lot of our shows with this song in particular,
because it kind of embodies this feeling that the lower fifth
wants to evoke with our audience.
Yeah, truly.
Yeah.
Wow. Well, let's check it out.
Live in the layer.
You're listening to Maxing Gradio.
This is the lower fifth duo, Life and Death.
Well, I left in a sense down in Georgia
to a girl who said her name was Anna Lee.
And she said, with a smile,
she should have been worthwhile.
And I found myself better live to leave.
So, we rode to the coast to see the ocean,
trade some whiskey, fall some alligator tea,
rode that 35 to Memphis,
and that 30 back to Texas,
and I found myself better live to leave.
Singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
singing high,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
falling,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
blowing,
full of hope and smile and sunshine,
with a home in a solar can't be beat.
I found God, then I lost him,
and I took the train to Boston,
and I found myself a bit of life to leave.
Singing, hi, hi, hi, hallelujah.
Oh, oh, oh, it's my prayers.
We can leave all this behind,
save some trouble, save some time,
singing songs about my life, about my dead.
Singing, hi, hi, hallelujah.
Oh, oh, oh, it's my prayers.
We can leave all this behind, save some trouble, save some time.
Singing songs about my life, about my death.
Singing songs about my life, about my death.
Singing songs about my life, about my...
That is the Lord of Fifth Jewel, that was life and death.
What a song.
It is a great song. He was a wonderful songwriter and he always had a message in him in the songs.
And until we really dug in, because he would change the lyrics a lot.
And so as a backup singer to him, I would always have to sing just a little bit late.
Because I didn't know what he was going to say.
And sometimes as just purely musicians, I know as a drummer.
I hear the singer, but I have no idea what they say.
I know all their songs back and forth, but I couldn't tell you what the lyrics are.
You got something else going on, right?
I can imagine if all of a sudden you're in the band and you have to go back and you're like,
oh, wow, I mean, I didn't even know this was about this.
And I've been playing this song for a long time.
Wow, that's just a really interesting concept, I find.
We are here with the Lord of Fifth, Audrey and Cory.
And everybody down to the trombonist sings in Lord Fifth.
And Audrey has become a focal part of the singing core.
Is this like being in a choir? I mean, your rehearsals like choir practice?
Not so much that, but we just try to give everybody an opportunity to sing out,
to say what they want or to be a part of it.
And so we're fortunate that everybody can harmonize pretty well together.
Yeah.
And it's not always a coordinated effort as much as it is just like a collective effort.
It's like food.
I mean, does everybody, you know, does each person there on their own note?
Certainly, yeah.
Who picks, like, how do you pick?
Like, I sing the low, you know, I sing the high.
It kind of just happens naturally, honestly.
Like, you kind of took, or you took Luke's register.
Yeah.
And we kind of just like, it happened pretty naturally.
I want to say, you know, there was some like, oh, that didn't work.
Let's try it again.
Kind of a thing.
But we really did fall into like something that sounded pretty good.
Like, pretty fast.
I feel like it did happen pretty naturally.
I was always a high harmony to Luke.
And so then I had to sing a little bit lower.
And then Audrey naturally was able to come in and sing that higher harmony.
I see.
And Jeremy was more of a lower register.
Paul sings in like a bass register that he's playing his own down there.
You can't even tell half the time he's singing because it's at that register
that kind of gets lost in the bass notes.
But he's always paddling away.
You're like a baseball team.
Who's on second?
Yes.
What's on first?
I don't know who's on third.
No, he's got all the beer.
I'm in the stands.
What do you mean by you're become a focal part of the singing core, Audrey?
Well, it was honestly.
So I played with my dad for a long time.
That's how I started playing these like he's kind of just handed me a bass one day.
And I would sing with him a little bit.
But honestly, I was pretty nervous.
And it was hard playing bass and singing at the same time.
I didn't even still like to coordinate that and to do it confidently and do it with conviction.
I think I always wanted to do it right.
And it took a while to get the nerves around that and find my space in the band.
And pick songs that worked with my voice.
And I took over a couple songs that Luke used to sing, which feels pretty good and important.
But it's just kind of finding a new space in the band.
A new way of thinking about things and...
I'm based doing it with conviction, basically.
And that was a hurdle for a while.
You can be modest, but I think part of it too is whenever she sings, the audience reacts in a very special way.
It's really cool.
We say that it's become a focal point because she won't sing a whole set or anything.
We just have every few songs.
We throw in a really cool cover or a song that she wants to sing.
The audience just responds.
And I think it adds to her confidence.
But it also is just endearing to us to see the audience just react in such a way to Audrey.
It's very humbling.
It's really cool.
It's a nice little showcase within our sets.
It's every four or five songs.
Audrey Peshatelli and the crowd is my scaper back on stage.
I'm playing bass now.
Audrey, tell us a little bit about yourself.
What's your backstory?
You were just briefly talking about getting started in music.
I grew up in Illinois in a town called Sandwich.
Really?
Yeah.
And so my dad was a musician.
I know.
I know it's still love sandwiches.
But yeah, my dad has been a musician just forever.
And I kind of joke like he needed a bass player and so kind of handed me a bass.
I just started playing with his band Red Horse and played with him for a long time.
Yeah.
And then I moved here about 14 years ago and still kind of played with him.
And then it just took a while to find my footing in Madison.
And I actually started playing or going to the up north.
And just like the music scene there started playing with a cool guy named Lefty and just
kind of went up and said, hey, you want a bass player?
And started that way.
And then you know, been in like in bands ever since and just kind of got this really amazing music
committee that's here in Madison.
Why did you come to Madison?
Because there was nothing going on in Sandwich.
Why did you pick Madison?
My sister moved here after college.
And she kind of moved here and she's like, this is just such a cool city.
And like, yeah, her boyfriend at the time got me a job.
And I'm just like, you know what?
Let's try this.
And I just kind of took a gamble and moved up here.
Then you found the music scene.
Yeah.
And then I found the music scene.
And like, I'm just so glad I did.
Like, I just, I love this town so much.
And I love like the opportunities that's given me and just the community that I found here.
And I work in restaurants too and just like working in that like scene.
And it's just, yeah, Madison is a foodie town.
It really is.
Yeah, I love it.
What would you say, you know, in favor of choosing bass guitar to, you know, younger kids who are in school these days?
You know, it's opposed to some of the other instruments.
Well, I tried, I mean, I said my dad's a musician.
He plays mandolin and guitar.
And I tried mandolin and I tried guitar and I tried banjo and nothing really stuck.
And then I picked up the bass and I'm like, oh, there's four strings.
And you play one at a time.
Like, I can handle that.
You know, it just, it just made sense with like my vibe and just that, you know, that low end and just the groove.
Like, it just really, yeah.
It really just, you know, it made sense to me.
But I would really encourage like any, I didn't do it.
And sometimes I see or like talk to a young person.
It's and they like say, I want to learn bass.
It's like, do it.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, and Corey, like, you know, you play guitar and bass.
I think it's just so informative to, unfortunately, I'm a run-frict woman.
I just play bass.
But like, I think it's just so informative and so important to just like kind of know how that works and have that have a feel for it.
Because it's, you know, you use a drummer too.
You know that that, that's solid rhythm.
It's just, it's so important.
It's so good to have a feel for that.
Well, you know, bass tells you drums tell you when to dance and bass tells you how to dance.
Exactly.
Who likes this?
Well, let's see.
Let's get back to live music in the layer with the lower fifth presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight, it's written by Corey Swadley and it's called Luke's Song.
And is this a song of advice from Beyond the Grave?
It is actually.
Yeah, it's origin is a pretty special story.
It was our drummer Paul, his wife Kelsey.
I was having some pretty vivid, pretty amazing dreams where she was communicating with Luke after his passing.
Wow.
And I get a call from her one morning and she's like, you won't believe it.
I had this amazing conversation with Luke last night and I was able to write down some of the words and he's encouraging us to move beyond where we were when he passed.
And so I took those words and reorganized them and turned them into this song.
And so we call it Luke's Song.
Wow, Luke's Song.
Live in the layer, you are with the lower fifth on Maxine Credio.
Don't be sad, just because I'm gone.
Celebrate times while what we have all done.
Hope kept us going through the darkest of our days.
It's time to move towards a life that's full of love.
With family by our side we can stay as one.
Music in our hearts will never be alone.
Take a chance to time is now.
Grab a friend and show them how.
Spread the joy of love and dance with music we are one.
Take a chance to time is now.
Grab a friend and show them how.
Spread the joy of love and dance with music we are one we are one.
Forgive and forget as time has moved on.
Memories and times when I had done you wrong.
Hold onto those feelings when things were the best.
Remember those times and forget the rest.
With family by our side we can stay as one.
Music in our hearts will never be alone.
Take a chance to time is now.
Grab a friend and show them how.
Spread the joy of love and dance with music we are one.
Take a chance to time is now.
Grab a friend and show them how.
Spread the joy of love and dance with music we are one we are one.
With family by our side we can stay as one.
With family by our side we can stay as one.
With family by our side we can stay as one.
Music in our hearts will never be alone.
Take a chance to time is now.
Grab a friend and show them how.
Spread the joy of love and dance with music we are one.
Take a chance to time is now.
Grab a friend and show them how.
Spread the joy of love and dance with music we are one we are one.
That is really good song.
The harmonies are just totally amazing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm Rocker.
I'm here with Jane.
You are listening to Maxing Credio Live In Thepowerlen with the Lord Fifth.
We have Audrey and Cory here.
Tell us about that singing installing performance and I know and play acoustic guitar and I know
her expecting a baby.
Yes.
Congratulations in order.
Definitely.
Tell us about your tromboneist.
So Jeremy came into the band back in 2016 just after Audrey joined the band and Luke always
wanted horns in the band.
And when Jeremy joined it, beyond just being a horn player, he's just an incredibly knowledgeable
musician, very humble, kindhearted person.
Yeah.
And he's classically trained.
He's a music teacher in the medicine school district and he's just got a lot of knowledge
that he was able to share with us.
But there was a talent beyond what we knew right away because he came in to display trombone.
But then we find out that he can sing.
And he's great at organizing harmonies and stuff like that.
He can help us sit down at a piano and pick out the fifths of the thirds or who is who is where.
He dumbs up down.
He laughs.
That explains it all.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, he's nice.
That's a great feature.
He takes me aside sometimes.
He's like, okay, this is how it should be done.
And let's do this.
Let's augment that.
He levels up for sure.
Yeah.
But with that, he plays acoustic guitar when he's teaching most of the time.
He doesn't sit with a trombone and he teaches music class to a bunch of elementary school kids.
So he plays acoustic a lot.
And so when we were like, wow, we need to add another element so I can play solos and not drop the rhythm.
Right.
And so he would, he'll switch mid-song, set his trombone down, sing and then grab his acoustic and start playing that.
So I can play the solos out and then he sets it back down, grabs his trombone and we're right back at the chorus at the end of it.
So that is handy.
Yeah.
He's a very good man to have in the band.
He's a very close friend, brother from another mother.
And him and his beautiful wife, Kelsey, are expecting their second child any day now.
I think she's due June 5th, but when we were with him a week or so ago at our last show, he's like, she's ready.
Any day?
Yeah.
We're very excited to have another family member come into our musical world.
Well, let's get back to live music in the layer presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The north, the up north bar in Madison is one of your favorite places to play and you release an album called Live at the up north.
Briefly tell us about the up north and why it's your favorite place to play.
Sure.
So the up north gave us an opportunity to play early on when we were trying to get a foothold.
We got three minutes.
Okay.
I'm letting you know.
So if you want to play the taunt song.
Got it.
Well, very quickly, they just have an awesome music scene there.
They gave the lower fifth a chance to play and we started playing there weekly.
And we started monthly and it was where we gained our crowd and our sound.
All right.
So we wanted to record a live album there.
So we've got that and I've got one here for you today.
Yeah.
And this is the song about it.
Nice.
Let's hear right now.
It's live in the layer with the lower fifth jewel.
This is the up north on Maxing Radio.
There's time to see, there's time to think there's time to sit, have a drink, there's no need.
To wait in line, just come inside and have a good time.
We're all here to sing and play and we wish and wake.
For today and we're drinking and laughing, ears will bend.
I'm glad to be here with my friends, the up north.
Have a good time, the up north.
Music and rhymes we all want to win the shake of the day.
The up north, music and friends the up north.
Smiles and grins now that we're here.
Let's party.
At the up north, we always say that every day, Saturday forget your troubles.
Just done one because we're all here to have a good time.
Those seats filled but not for long because we're dancing and clapping.
Singing songs and when we're together, circle never breaks.
We sing in honor for those who've passed to make sure.
The memories last, let's raise your glass while we say.
We sing in honor for those who've passed to make sure.
The memories last, let's raise your glass while we say.
The up north, have a good time, the up north.
Music and rhymes we all want to win the shake of the day.
The up north, music and friends the up north.
Smiles and grins now that we're here.
Let's party.
Like it's Saturday.
We sing in honor for those who've passed to make sure.
The memories last, let's raise your glass while we say.
Singing in honor for those who've passed to make sure.
The memories last, let's raise your glass while we say.
The up north, have a good time, the up north.
Music and rhymes we all want to win the shake of the day.
Shake of the day, the up north.
Music and friends the up north.
Smiles and grins now that we're here last party.
Like it's Saturday.
That is the up north.
You're listening to Max and Gradio Live in the Lair with the lower fifth.
Hey, let's take a break and we'll be right back and we'll hear some more songs for you guys.
Sounds wonderful.
Perfect. Thanks, Rocker.
We're listening to local music from Wisconsin.
This is Max and Gradio.
We are local music.
All right, happy Saturday night everybody.
We are into part two of Live in the Lair on Max and Gradio.
I am Rocker here with Jane in the control room.
And we have the lower fifth right here in our studio performing live.
In the flesh.
And we're going to be chatting Corey and Audrey from the lower fifth.
Corey, let's get to know you a little better.
Oh boy.
How long is the show?
How did you get started in music?
And what's your backstory?
So I got started in music just because of my family.
My grandfather, his brother, my great uncle.
They all play music, my dad, my uncle.
I always idolized my dad.
And he was always a musician that could play lots of different instruments.
And we spent a lot of time as kids watching them play.
And once we were old enough, we became roadies.
And once we could learn the equipment seriously.
I know the feelings.
There's not many kids in middle school that on a Wednesday night at two in the morning
when dad's van rolls in.
We all get out of bed and we all go carry the equipment into the house.
And so it was like we were we were a part of it.
And then we got to go to the shows when we were old enough.
And then my brother started doing lights and sound.
And I got into the playing part of it.
And so we were just it was just around us as kids.
And what band was your dad in?
So back of the day he was in a band called SpeedTrap.
That was a band that did a lot of shows.
They played a swad for a while where it was like Steve Woody and Dan.
My dad's name was Dan.
The Indian restaurant.
What's that?
The Indian restaurant.
No Woody and Dan's no Woody and Dan.
Oh boy.
So he was in that group for a long time who played in just a bunch of bands back in the 80s.
He was in Rochelle and the Red Hot Ratlers for years.
Oh sure.
When they did their whole climb all the way up to their fame of winning the whole dag
and all that kind of stuff.
Right.
So they would always bias instruments.
They were not the type of parents that were like you need to take lessons.
You need to do this.
It was just it's here if you want it.
Yeah.
And so we spend a ton of time as kids in the recording studio going downstairs.
Yeah, the mixing console and all the instruments.
Oh, right in your house.
So we just would go down and play and record.
So at a young age we were introduced to it.
But I found in some friends in particular that he really liked teaching and he would show me songs
and show like right little tabs out for me and stuff when I was pretty young.
And so I took to playing guitar.
It's probably around middle school.
And then freshman year hit and his brother gave us a cassette tape of Zeppelin 1 on one side
and Zeppelin 2 on the other.
Yes.
And that changed my life forever.
Right.
It was just like yes, I want that.
And then my dad got me like a left handed Gibson Les Paul.
Wow.
And it was.
How hard is that to find?
A left handed one.
It was tough.
We found it at a ward brought.
It had a busted off headstock.
A glued back on whatever.
It didn't it didn't matter to me.
I was playing a right handed guitar upside down until that time.
It was determined.
I was like I'm going to play it a matter of what.
So anyway, it was it was just something that was around and it was available and it was
a way to feel confident and express myself.
So music was a good avenue for that for me.
Now you also play in some other bands, right?
You do some double timing with the mascot theory?
Yes, they do.
I played a band called the mascot theory.
You got it.
And that's with Eric Gelen and Nick Fry and Nick Fry and Paul Metz.
So Paul Metz plays in the mascot theory and he's in the lower fifth.
That's where the mascot theory was looking for when he was looking for a new guitarist.
It was natural.
We were all friends anyway.
So I was like, you know what?
I think it's time for me to give this band a shot and it was a very good fit.
Well speaking of the mascot theory, Eric Gelen, he was recently in the hospital for a procedure
and he's on his way to recovery.
But there is a caring for Eric fundraiser coming up.
Can you tell us, I can tell you firsthand that those help a lot.
Tell us about the upcoming benefit for your band mate.
Sure.
So yeah, with what he went through, we really wanted to try to give back.
He's another musician in the community here that just gives himself to music.
He does a lot of charity events and things like that.
That's right.
Plano Fest.
Plano Fest.
He works with Keep Wisconsin warm and the heat for heroes funds.
He does, he's just a tireless man towards helping music bring people up.
And so when he went through this tough situation, we thought, let's do something to try to help him.
So we created a fundraiser that's going to be on July 6th.
Sunday, July 6th at the high noon saloon here in Madison.
Nice.
We're going to have the prairie flowers are going to play.
We're for Matthew Hart is going to sing for us.
Lower fifth is going to play mascot theory is going to play.
It's going to be a whole afternoon of music.
Doors are at noon.
Events from one to six.
Oh, I love those after noon events now.
Yeah, so we're super excited.
Fourth of July weekend, we want to squeeze a little bit of energy left out of everybody.
So that that Sunday, July 6th, we're super excited to come together, raise the money.
We're going to try to do a raffle and all that.
We just want to help him and his family kind of recover from this tough situation that he just went through.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, it's not like the old days where his dad used to play to one in the morning, right?
Yeah.
No, it's nice to play an afternoon on a Sunday sometimes.
Well, let's get back to live music in the layer with the lower fifth duo presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight is called Lonely Without You.
Sounds like a song written on the road.
Yeah, it was it was inspired.
A friend of mine was sharing with me some stories of his travels.
And I used those stories as some inspiration for me to write this because I'm very happily married and I'm not on the road much.
But you still sometimes have to channel those inner demons to be able to write heartfelt music.
And so this song kind of comes from a place of when you're alone, you sometimes realize the things you've done wrong.
Yeah.
And you just hope that maybe she'll give you a second chance.
That's that's kind of what this song is about.
Oh, boy, all right.
Let's hear it.
Lonely Without You, this is the lower fifth.
You're listening to Maxing Radio Live in the layer.
Alright.
Yeah, I'm not on the road.
Yeah.
I'm not on the road that I'm playing.
It's a song written on the road.
Yeah.
That's the lower fifth.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the heart trick.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
Though I've made much choices,
a mirror gaze it hides.
Found some friends along the way
to confide.
Anger and frustration
yet to find my past
found so little to carry me through.
Life's so lonely without you.
Life's so lonely
It's so lonely without you.
Life's so lonely
It's so lonely without you.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
Through the highways and deserts
to the mountain tops
a glow of love's wonder
leaves these little spots.
Well my friends they try to
give me a place to lean
one is never greater than two.
Life's so lonely without you.
Life's so lonely
It's so lonely without you.
Life's so lonely
It's so lonely without you.
Life's so lonely
It's so lonely without you.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
That I bet it on.
So leave your worries.
I won't be a lonely stranger.
Please smile and no brand new.
Angle and frustration.
Yet to find a past.
But I know your love will carry me through.
Live so lonely without you.
Live so lonely, it's all lonely without you.
Live so lonely, it's all lonely without you.
It's all lonely, it's all lonely without you.
It's all lonely, it's all lonely.
Live so lonely without you, it's all lonely without you.
Nice, we are here with the Lord fifth live in the Lair on maxing radio.
I'm here with Andre and Corey and Sunday July 27th.
The Lord fifth will be performing on the sugar maple stage at atwoodfest 2025 on Madison Z side.
Find the schedule and more at atwoodfest.com.
How excited are you guys to play atwoodfest?
I know Jenna Jonas is excited to see you.
She's going to be playing with Paige Kleber who is right before you guys.
I actually play with Jenna, I'm your other band as well.
Jewels in the jams.
Jewels in the jams, but she comes with us sometimes and she is just a jam truly.
So that's I was exciting to see.
I'm really cool to share the states with her.
Nice.
We're very excited to have that opportunity and thank you rock for helping us get there for sure.
That's awesome.
You're going to be in Monty's parking lot.
That's where the sugar maple stage is.
I spent a lot of time in that parking lot.
I'll tell you chocolate shakes and waffle fries.
That's what I'm having.
I love it.
Nice.
You have a song called bananas, but it was called locked inside.
Why the name change on that?
Is there a story behind that?
Yes.
So the song locked inside.
There was kind of a meaning behind it when I wrote it and once the horn arrangements were put in place,
it was then changed to bananas because what Jeremy and Michael were able to pull off and Paul as well,
they do some really intricate cool work in that song.
So they changed it to be bananas because of how they feel when they have to play it.
It's bananas.
It is bananas, but the meaning behind the song is kind of where it started.
It was locked inside.
What was locked inside?
It was a song that I wrote about not being comfortable being yourself.
Sometimes musicians, at least for me, are writing more of a self-reflection song that you're almost singing to yourself
that you want to get yourself out of the box.
So that song was about just kind of being stuck in your own head, not being sure how to be yourself.
And I think that resonates well with the lower fifth because we really want everybody to know that we think we all deserve the right to feel good about ourselves.
Well, let's get back to the live music and the layer with the lower fifth duo presented by the Aaron Weber group.
The next song you have for us tonight, it's called Pickin' and Have a Fun.
Is this about daydreaming, about music at your 95?
Yes, definitely.
Yes.
Actually, the song came to me as I was walking into my former employer.
I was walking into my day job.
You know, he's decided a desk for the last 20 plus years.
And I was happy to have a day job because it kept the lights on, but I was always, you know, weekend warrior playing music.
So that's kind of what this is about.
All right, let's check it out.
Lower fifth right here.
I am glad to be working, but picking this here key, music is the only job for me.
Only job for me is picking and having fun.
I'm just trying to get a rise out of everyone and I am hoping we can dance this night through and through.
Place to escape for me and you.
Drinking and having fun is not the only way to survive.
I like paying bills and working my 95.
Showing up every day, just leaving these lights on.
Music is a life that I should love.
Only job for me is picking and having fun.
I'm just trying to get a rise out of everyone and I am hoping we can dance this night through and through.
Place to escape for me and you.
I'm just trying to find my place to hide.
Who knows someday, I might get my wish, my beautiful lady and I, we might land this so big fish.
Something to pair them bells and leave our time alone.
We can spend our time doing what we love.
Only job for me is picking and having fun.
I'm just trying to get a rise out of everyone and I am hoping we can dance this night through and through.
Place to escape for me and you.
Place to escape for me and you.
Place to escape for me and you.
That is the Lord 5th.
Right here, live in the Lair on Maxing Gritio.
The Lord 5th, they're performing around Central Wisconsin coming up here.
June 11th at Horacon for Music at the Market Concert Series.
July 26th in Bearaboo at the Tumbled Rock Brewery.
July 27th at Edwood Fest.
August 23rd in Bearaboo back to the Tumbled Rock Brewery.
You guys play a lot of breweries and August 28th in Sox City at the Vintage Brewing Company.
We love those outdoor beer guards man.
It's pretty easy to spread our message of hope and love and togetherness when everybody is just having a cold beer.
The best part is part of the pay is some beer, right?
We get to sample everything, right?
Wine, beer, man, you guys play them all.
Is there anything that you do to spiritually keep Luke's presence in the band?
I think that just continuing on with this message but also playing his music.
I think one of his main songs, the siren song that we always think of is the song Hope.
Yeah.
And that's something that we like to do at every one of our shows.
We want to play Hope.
The audience knows that they like the word, or they love the message.
They all know the word.
They all sing along.
So yeah, we certainly love that song.
All right. Well, you know what? Let's check it out.
This is Hope Live in the Lair.
This is the Lower Fifth.
Oh, now lift me up, hold on to me.
Oh, now take away the things I don't need.
For a while, for a while, for I take my final breath.
Hope you're not leaving hope.
You're all that I have left.
There's a need.
There's a soul.
There's a way to carry on.
There's a whisper in my breath for you.
All I need is what I take.
You're what I said.
Oh, now lift me up, hold on to me.
Oh, now take away the things I don't need.
For a while, for a while, for I take my final breath.
Hope you're not leaving hope.
You're all that I have left.
There's a need.
There's a soul.
There's a way to carry on.
There's a whisper in my breath for you.
All I need is what I take.
You're what I said.
Oh, now lift me up, hold on to me.
Oh, now take away the things I don't need.
For a while, for a while, for I take my final breath.
Hope you're not leaving hope.
You're all that I have.
Oh, now lift me up, hold on to me.
Oh, now take away the things I don't need.
For a while, for a while, for I take my final breath.
Hope you're not leaving hope.
You're all that I have left.
Hope you're not leaving hope.
You're all that I have left.
Hope you're not leaving hope.
You're all that I have left.
Wow.
That is the Lord 5th.
You are listening to Live in the Lair.
A Maxine Credio, Cory Andre.
Thank you so much for coming down.
How do we keep up with the Lord 5th on 9
and keep up with your shows and your music and your plans
and all that good stuff?
Sure. The best way would be to find us on Facebook,
find us on Instagram.
That's kind of where we're at right now.
Is keeping up the information on the socials
and I think that that would be the best way to keep up with us.
Or just come on out and see us at a show
and we'd be happy to tell you where we're going to be.
All right.
Thank you.
We're done.
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