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Madison, singer, songwriter and comedian Chloe Louise is no stranger to Magsync Radio.

Having appeared on Magsync Radio back when the artist had to perform in a room that

doubled as the station over in its office. Chloe Louise, she's been here three times.

She's been writing and performing for many years and recently she started to stand up comedy

and ironically right downstairs from us at Comedy on State. Recently she has joined Magsync Radio

to help bring this show to you every Saturday night. But tonight Chloe Louise is performing

guest for our live from the Mag City. Chloe, welcome to Magsync Radio.

Thank you so much for having me in this capacity. That's awesome. Thank you. Is this

cooler? Do you remember the old room that rerecorded you in? It had a desk. It was very small.

I definitely remember it. This is grateful to be here at any time, but this is definitely the

upgrade. It's pretty beautiful view here. Wow. Chloe Louise, tell us how you got started playing

music. What's your backstory? Well, my backstory is that I was always a kid who sang and loved

musicals and always did community theater. That kind of thing. I started writing songs really,

really early. As soon as I was probably like seven or eight when I really started writing song or

figuring out that song words could be put together in a way. I also I guess didn't really have a

good grasp on that not other like other kids weren't doing it. I guess. So I just thought like

everyone everybody's writing song. Yeah, I thought I had a little yellow tape player Yamaha and I

would like have my dad would give me blank tapes and I could record my own songs and stuff when

I was really I think about that a lot. Like I don't know where it came from or like how I was

able to. Yeah, no, for sure. So I was just about to ask you what your parents role was in your musical

upbringing. I think my dad's listening right now. So hi dad. Hi dad. Hi dad. And he it's funny

because you know I get asked this a lot where with my parents it's like my parents aren't musicians.

I don't know from a musical musical family. I didn't take lessons growing up that kind of thing.

I was in like school choir and stuff. But all my instruments all that stuff was all self-taught

and the oldest of four kids. We always had music like around and my parents have always been super

supportive. But do they have a record collection? Sort of. I feel like I feel like I'm calling them

all right. Well, who was in their record collection? Let's call them out. I know. Well, here's

that my mom has a record player. But she's listening to like I got her like Chapel Rowne forever.

I know. So I don't know like like that's pretty cool. Yeah, good taste. Yeah, my parents have really

good taste. I listened to a lot of different stuff. My mom really shaped like I think my songwriting

even more so because she had me really young. We you know, I was listening to maybe things that

other kids my age weren't just because of that. A lot of you know, I know she loves when I talk

about how she listened to a lot of M&M in the minivan and Kanye and so like that. So it was a lot

of like I figured out you could fit a lot of words into a lot of you know, songs. So I that's

probably why my songwriting now is just an overload of lyrics and just because I listened to a lot of

stuff a lot of Abba a lot of I mean, I don't know just so much Elena's more said. Yeah, so much.

But Julie Andrews in the sound of music is really who taught me this thing when I was really little.

So you were just talking that you were in community theater. Yeah, I was I was in I did a lot

of community theater. I did like an example would be when I was younger my dad took me that was

another thing is my parents were never like stage parents, but my dad always drove me to like

auditions and my he would like drop me off a rehearsal and pick me up all the time and I did,

you know, I grew up into forest. So I was in like the drama club there and I had a really

influential theater director who was my theater director from the age that age seven until,

you know, we were close until she sadly passed away a few years ago. And she like I would then go

also go to Madison for auditions and like community theater, which was, you know, that was like

cool when you were younger because it was like I don't know the Madison productions were always

bigger and for example, I auditioned to be, you know, in Annie in Madison when I was younger.

And I made it to the final two and I learned a lot about, you know, like auditioning and stuff,

but I, you know, out of 150 girls or something, I made it to the top two to be Annie and then I was

one of the six orphans, but that also meant that I was, you know, 12 years old going to rehearsals

six days a week and I really learned like discipline in a way that was like, you know, I mean,

I had to go to auditions and be like around adults all the time judging you and you would be like

a kid being like, here's my sheep music and, you know, I just had to learn with like adults

rejecting me to my face, that kind of thing. Not that I honestly, I mean, I worked really hard as a

kid and I got to be in a lot of really cool musicals. I also got to do a lot of, you know, theater

productions where I was. Well, you're a two time rising star finalist. Oh, yeah.

Mama Ward nominations and you were with Sunday night records. Yeah. That was back in 2017.

What was it like competing in the scene back at that time? Oh, yeah. I mean, I was in the rising

stars competition. Yes, 2016 and 2017 at the overture center here. And I was so, I mean,

I played songs just like I'm about to tonight and I was, you know, there was a lot of people who

were really like trained and really talented and I kind of came in there like, hey, all

again, I saw dress like, how's it going? And man, you know, I made hold where you at that time.

I was in, I don't remember early 20s or something like that. So you're young in your career.

Yeah. Yeah. I definitely, it was one of those things where I just like, I got to make a lot of

really great connections through that. I've gotten a lot of cool opportunities through doing rising

stars. I've gotten to perform at the Frosty ball. I got to the Frosty ball. Hell yeah. Oh, heck yeah.

That's it. You can end your career now. Well, let's get to live music from the man city with

Chloe Louise presented by the Aaron rubber group. And the first song you have for us tonight is

one of your latest. It's called handle with care. And you must not have heard that there's a

three foot drop test. No. Okay. Tell us about this song. This song. What's funny is that I wrote this

song. I've been writing like happier stuff this summer, which is crazy. Yeah, that's crazy.

For somebody who came from the drama club. Yeah, for sure. Literally. But yeah, I've been writing

happier stuff. So sometimes songs just are what they are. And sometimes they have double meanings.

And sometimes they don't. But like, this one is pretty, it's kind of just about wanting to follow

your heart and being like open to new things after going through, you know, my personally,

going through a separation and divorce is like a lot. So you then moving forward and dating

new people and whatever, it can be a little tricky and scary. But you just kind of do it anyway.

And yeah, that's what I wrote that about. All right. Well, let's check it out.

Handle with Care. This is Chloe Louise. You're listening to Live From the Mad City.

I'm Maxine Cretio.

My favorite, I dress it quickly turned to black. If you ask where I've been, I would say pretty sad.

I met someone new. He's nothing like his dad. Been seeing things differently. I don't feel bad.

Picking pedals does he not or does he like me? I don't know, but I like the way he's got me acting.

I don't know if I know what the heck is happening. Is he in me or is this something I'm imagining?

Am I imagining things?

I don't know if you even think I'm nice. They got me checking my phone in the middle of the night.

Maybe I don't want to know if you really mean it. Maybe instead of leaving, we could just fall asleep.

I'm laughing like a kid. The jokes they always hid. A man may give me laugh is something I hate

to admit and we could hang out. Let things come so easily and never seem to work before.

You bring a lighter energy.

Something I hope that you can see right off the bat.

Is that I'm seemingly different, seeming them a best.

And a few times you and I, you have even crossed paths. Now I'm staying cringing with you.

You would just forget that. Been kind of down, but these days you got me smiling.

But got to shine, spending my prime. Time and hat and never to fit the cool thing or two.

My perfect timing and you're cool and I like it. You provide a silver lining.

I'm laughing like a kid. The jokes they always hid. A man may give me laugh is something I hate

to admit and we could hang out. Let things come so easily and never seem to work before.

You bring a lighter energy.

I don't know where we'll go, but all I know is I want to go if you look at me.

I'm laughing like a kid. The jokes they always hid.

A man may give me laugh is something I hate to admit and we could hang out.

Let things come so easily and never seem to work before.

I don't know where we'll go, but all I know is I want to go if you look at me.

I can see how you'd handle me cautiously.

Chloe Louise right here live from the Mad City on Maxing Radio.

Chloe, I saw that you had a show posted on Facebook April 11, 2020 at the cargo coffee.

And that was just after the lockdowns, right?

Yes.

And it was announced during the pandemic.

And the show was to be streamed from your living room.

Tell us about that time and kind of immediately jumping to action and performing when you had

one of those shows that were probably canceled and you decided to stream.

And that really changed the whole music scene.

Yeah, that is so funny because I played a show at cargo last night in person.

And we talk about that a lot just during that time.

Yeah, I mean, I played a show.

I remember on March 6th, on March 7th.

And then I like never saw live audiences again for a long time.

So then I played the virtual shows were awesome.

It was a really fun time.

I remember like still doing full glam because it was like on camera and it went everywhere.

And it was kind of nice because I have family.

I had family like on the East Coast.

I had family in California.

Yeah, family that all got to watch it.

And people were feeling really generous back then too.

I remember like, I got a Venmo was pretty awesome at the time.

I was like, everybody got a Venmo back there.

And like cargo was so cool about that.

And they were like posting and so yeah.

That was the cargo coffee and they kind of pioneered a streaming series.

Yeah, I got to do it live.

Booked it from cargo as well too.

So I did a couple that were like from your living room.

But then they kind of did it where it would be like me and one friend that

got to come and they would yeah, you know, it would be virtually you were still on stage.

But there was nobody there.

I know that was that was strange doing those shows.

A audience list shows.

But I would be like people out there were watching, right?

Yes, it was it was pretty incredible to be able to still do that even during that time.

That was so like crazy and wow.

At a time where we didn't really know if we.

I remember we were doing our shows.

And in fact, I think one of your first shows was during the I was going to say

the pandemic that we were there, you know, in that studio.

Because that's where you were I remember specifically someone being like,

oh, yeah, it's good here in here anyway.

Like you have to be in the separate room.

Like it was kind of like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the layer, the devil's layer.

It was it was a separate room and what every girl in her 20s wants to go

is going out with two men in the devil's layer on a Saturday night after dark.

You know, that's right.

Yeah, I'm picking up your like I'm following in your footsteps.

Totally.

Tell us about your band, the heartbreak club.

You guys played summer fest, hardly stage.

Are you ever going to get that band back together?

That was a great band.

Yeah, we I had like the greatest.

I mean, half they're still my good friends, my close friends.

I say it.

Oh, I sound so dramatic.

I actually have to come up with a better story so that it doesn't sound as bad as it is.

Because it always is like, oh, we broke up this summer.

But it wasn't that it was that like a lot of my new stuff I'm doing.

I've just been literally doing on my own in my room.

Making it from scratch, myself, all that.

And they I my bandmates are like really incredible talented musicians who

have all these opportunities.

And it just kind of felt like the right time.

We all I played with the same people for eight years.

And that's like a Hollywood marriage.

And especially in the season, that's crazy.

But and we're all I mean, I got a text from Lawrence about an hour ago.

I got you know, most of them were at my show last night.

Like we still are, but yeah, as far as like having full live band shows,

I'm not really sure when that's happening next.

But it's I always feel like it will.

We're just kind of taking a break doing.

But they're kind of doing all there.

I get to kind of be a fan of them more.

And instead of being the frontman, I guess,

I've been really enjoying watching.

I mean, I'll talk about Lawrence all day.

But you know, he is one of those people who like when I met him,

he was he was he was he's in this most incredible drummer.

But he's so shy.

And now he is doing these projects and do it being a frontman.

And I'm like, I kind of I don't know.

It's a good time to just kind of watch and support my friends.

Well, let's get back to live music from the man city with Chloe.

The Wii is presented by the Aaron Weber group.

The next song you have for us tonight.

It's called North Patterson.

I mean, I'm imagining this song is about the happenings on this East Side Madison street.

It is. I like the getting to sing this on this show is very cool.

Yeah.

Yeah, North Patterson.

I this is a true story.

Do you live over there or something?

The boy lived over the rocker and the boy lived over there.

We get it. We get it.

And he might.

Yeah, I was dating somebody.

We broke up and he was very good friends with my friend, Connor Brennan,

who you've played on the show before his band Woodrow,

former band.

And he just had a new album come out yesterday.

Go stream it.

Please, Connor Brennan's new album.

But he I went to one of his shows.

This was right before the pandemic and me and his good friend had just

broken up and I had been talking to their group of friends and they'd been like,

so are we going to hear like a bunch of songs about?

Let's call him Greg about Greg now.

And I said, you know, musicians, it takes a minute to process feelings.

It's probably going to be five to seven years before you hear anything.

And it has been five to seven years.

Wow. Perfect timing.

Yep. And I wrote the song.

And you know, I've only named dropped somebody at a song once.

And it wasn't and you know, it wasn't the guy who got the name drop.

It's his best friend, but that's okay.

I wrote a song.

This is exact.

This is what happened.

North Patterson.

They all lived in this house together.

All right.

Well, Greg, you're still safe.

You're listening to Live From the Man City with Chloe Louise.

And this is North Patterson.

And it's been five years since I met you downtown with your friends singing at that place.

The karaoke kid.

Do you remember what you did?

You played it so cool friend of a friend you say things come to an end.

And I don't know you know, but I think I knew you'd done.

I'm thinking about all those years back on Patterson, the northern half at smoke outside

with your friend Jack.

And I always like Jack.

I talk so sweet behind your back.

The best summer that I had at any ask me about if you would hear a song about you.

I said in a year or two or ten night, think about you then about how I was in love.

With Jack's friend on North Patterson.

Remember that video of you on the beach playing ukulele?

Was it for me?

I pretend it might be because it might be.

We could say that we were kids, but baby, we're 26.

I ran to you and you ran and hid.

I'm thinking about all those years back on Patterson, the northern half at smoke outside

with your friend Jack.

And I always like Jack.

I talk so sweet behind your back.

The best summer that I had at any ask me about if you would hear a song about you.

I said in a year or two or ten night, think about you then about how I was in love.

With Jack's friend on North Patterson.

I'm thinking about all those years back on Patterson, the northern half at smoke outside

with your friend Jack.

Hi Jack.

I talk so sweet behind your back.

The best summer that I had at any ask me about if you would hear a song about you.

I said in a year or two or ten night, think about you then, how I was in love.

With Jack's friend on North Patterson.

Oh I was in love with Jack's friend on North Patterson.

You're listening to Life from the Mad City on Maxine Gradio with Chloe Louise.

Chloe, you're getting back to music after taking a break.

Why were you gone and talk about coming back in your new direction?

Yeah, so I, you know, I, something, you know, me and you have bonded over a bit.

It's a little bit of near death experiences.

And so my son was born in 2022 in June.

He was born with a permanent brain injury.

He has HIE, which is hypoxic ischemic in cephalopathy.

And so it is, you know, you wouldn't maybe know it just by meeting him or whatever,

but we, you know, we kind of had a rough go at the beginning and he spent about 30 days in the

NICU and I spent about the last three years recovering from it. So I, you know, I really kind of

went through a weird phase where I just, I don't know, nothing felt like, it felt really,

really shallow and lame to be singing about like boys and bars when I was like going through

this really weird time of my life. And it didn't feel authentic and it felt, I don't know,

it was just a weird time. And then, you know, I eventually started working on a new project

all by myself, like just it started with me being like, I could probably like make my own

tracks. Okay, I could probably record my own vocals. Okay, I could probably, and it just went

from there. And now I like accidentally have a 16 track album. So yep. And that I started working

on that in February of 2023. And yeah, I kind of wrapped that up this year. So I'm working on

getting that out. And I just, I guess I, it really was like a concept project of just going through

what I went through and dealing with a lot of different, you know, survivors guilds, a lot of

different like feelings with that. And watching my son go through, you know, having a kid with special

needs is a whole other ball game. But he's now three. And he is just like, how's he doing?

He's insane. His name, his name is Everett. Is he listening to me? Maybe. I don't know. He's with

his dad. And so I don't know. Well, maybe, but I kind of I'm like, he's heard me on here before,

definitely. He's come to shows. He's been on stage. I mean, I was puking in the alley of the

frequency. Or well, it was not the free. It was barley pop at the time. But when I was, when

this was happening, when I was early pregnant, I was puking in the alley like during sound check.

That's a story for you. He's been on stage literally since womb. So for you, you know,

when you're writing music, what comes first? Melody, lyrics or concept?

It kind of depends, but probably like that one that was brewing for 10 years. Yeah, that one

was like concept, right? That one specifically. I had this weird hook in my head that was like

me, me on the North half of Patterson. I even back then when I was dating him, I remember having

it in my phone, like North half of Patterson, North half of Patterson. And so I knew I would use

that someday, but yeah, it's weird because it's like sometimes there's songs that I literally write

in 15 minutes. And they're the ones that get I've had, you know, been playing now for 10 years,

because they are people's favorites. And then there's songs that like that where it starts off

as a concept. I knew of someday I would write that. I didn't know when. And then with what I've

been working on this year, it just kind of fit. I guess I had to put like a set my happy song in there.

Semi happy. We can't have a full happy song. We need a semi happy. Well, let's get back to

live music from the man city with Chloe Louise, presented by the Aaron Weber group. The next song

you have for us tonight, it is called can't help yourself. And it's an unreleased song that you

wrote for a competition in 2018. And now you're singing it at Nate man's upcoming wedding. I am.

It's I played a show with him at Cargo last night. And you know, they have you say once your next

gig. And we both were like Nate's wedding is our next gig. But we are that I mean, I don't want

to share too much of what they're doing. But I mean, imagine your Nate man got to make his

perfect open mic lineup of, you know, Madison musicians. And we all are getting to do some more

than you are performing. Yes, yes. But I was funny. When I reached out to him, I was like, if you,

you know, we're, you know, I'm getting to sing a couple songs that are whatever. And I'm like,

you know, I had to ask him and he picked this one and it's such a deep cut and it's weird.

But I'm planning on putting it out this year, talking about full circle. I wrote it back then,

but it just kind of makes more sense now. It's also my mom's favorite song of mine. So

Well, let's check it out. This is can't help yourself. Chloe Louise, live from the Mad City,

I'm Maxing Radio.

Don't want to risk a love like this or look ahead too far. But here we are.

You can help yourself if living through pages looking at real estate. I can't help myself.

I'm reading about engagements and can maybe one day it'll be me and you 82 sharing coffee and

reading the news on Sunday mornings. You can't help yourself. You can't help yourself.

We look at movie times trying to pick which one to see. You say fine we could see the romantic comedy.

Just to make me happy. And you heard our favorite corner store clerk.

He passed away last Saturday. Hard to read that day.

You can't help yourself, living through pages looking at real estate.

I can't help myself. I'm reading about engagements and can maybe one day it'll be me and you 82 sharing coffee and

reading the news on Sunday mornings. You can't help yourself. You can't help yourself.

And you say maybe someday you could be my wife.

And I say hey what are you doing every Sunday for the rest of your life.

You can't help yourself. You're flipping through pages looking at real estate. I can't help myself.

I'm reading about engagements and can maybe one day it'll be me and you 82 sharing coffee and

reading the news on Sunday mornings. You can't help yourself. You can't help yourself.

It'll be me and you 82 sharing coffee and reading the news on Sunday mornings.

Beautiful. Wow what a great song. Can't help yourself. That is Chloe Louise.

You're listening to Live from the Mad City on Maxine Gradio. We will be right back shop local.

Eat local. Listen local. This is Maxine Gradio. We are local music.

Welcome back to Maxine Gradio. We are live from the Mad City right here on WMDX 92.7. I'm

rocker here with Jane. And tonight we have Chloe Louise live in the studio. I've been really

good so far. Thank you. And we've got some lots of good questions and a bunch of songs left to play.

Chloe let's talk about something funny. All right. You have started doing stand-up comedy and your

next show is coming up November 1st at the Monacoa Brewing Company at 3 p.m. right here in Madison.

What inspired you to do stand-up comedy? My trauma. Your trauma? Yeah. Is that really funny?

You cry so I guess yeah I mean I wanted I am a huge stand-up fan. I used to work at the

comedy club here on Shade Street and I just yeah I love comedy so much and I've always kind of

incorporated like comedic aspects into my music and my lyrics and stuff but I yeah I decided

just kind of on a whim at the beginning of the summer to do stand-up and yeah I got to I've

done it a few times and then I was realizing that like it's kind of it can be a little difficult

to kind of like get in with the people who have been doing it a while and I've been doing music

for a while but the comedy scene is like a whole different thing. Yeah I was gonna say you know

what's the difference in the audience? I would say I mean is it scary get in front of those

people because I would do this I would do this like a hundred times over then like like music I

can play like a hour-long show no problem I do a three-minute set and I am yeah scared it's scary

it's different I don't know it's really different but it's really fun too it's like a different

challenge for me and yeah it's been it's it's been cool and then I just decided to kind of like

start producing my own shows because and you the comedy pop-ups right yeah I think we need to talk

so I that's an interesting title yeah I used to in 2021 I had a podcast called I think we need to

talk and it's yes it's kind of it was like a comedy mental health podcast and so that's always

been brewing like I would have comics on and interview them and stuff and not just comics musicians

a bunch of people but different walks of life but that's kind of where that title came from because

yeah it is kind of just like it kind of encompasses a bunch of different things but I think we need

to talk is like yeah it could be a breakup it could be anything but um I think we need to talk

about comedy I think we need to talk about it so it's just yeah kind of that way whoever's on it

it's like never really like pitch and hold into a theme they couldn't talk about what they want

I mean when you got up there for the first time and you decided to comedy all right and you

and you start it's like silence right what's that like um well to be uh what do you start with

do you get something to get them to laugh right away yes well I I did this thing where I was like

I you know it's my it's I'm new to this and because I'm a musician I'm used to singing and

getting a reaction and I would do like a thing where I'm like if you know these songs sing it back

to me and I would say like a Taylor Swift lyric and then the crowd would sing it back and it was

kind of like okay now I know my demographic um and then just things like that like I don't know I

I can't the most of the things I talk about I cannot talk about here but um just for you know

censorship issues and such but um yeah I definitely have I don't really I don't hold back in my

comedy at all I tend to be a little more discreet I would say in my music with things and then in

my comedy I'm so let it all lose oh I let it all lose let it all hang out yes well we got to go

check you out the Manakwa brewing company in 3 p.m. on November 1st yes seat Chloe Louise doing

stand-up comedy well let's get back to live music from the man city with Chloe Louise presented

by the Aaron Weber group the next song you have for us tonight is called SOS and it's made with

collaborator Lawrence Gan who is aka Johnny millionaire tell us about this song before you play um I

wrote this uh driving back from St. Louis visiting my friend Connor he's his he's from St. Louis

area and I was driving back in September of 2021 and I wrote this in my car and then um left it

there for like a year or so and then when I came to Lawrence and Lawrence had been getting into

the production side of things more and he was like can I make a track for this song and I was like

yep and he did and uh we premiered it here he came and he came with me yeah and then um yeah so now

I sing it acoustically sometimes without him but yeah it just is really special because it was like

I don't know we just made like a fun like we just kind we both have a respect for like certain

kinds of pop music that's very like Avrilovie and very like 2001 different sounds and I feel like

he made that with this song and I I mean he's the first person I sing send new songs to always so

it was fun working with him this way well let's hear it this is SOS Chloe Louise live from the man

city i'm maxing radio

and i made a world that i'm completely different

i've got thick skin and long blonde curls yeah i'm more indifferent

i just said listen

in a made-up world the worst things have happened to me they could be cured but you know they won't be

but that's just my reality

but i make it look easy

i'm just one flight when the rest of my life i should go home but i just want to drive

and i'm so sick of being called a survivor all i want to do is run away and live by the water

in a made-up world i don't care how people see me

i don't expect as fast as i'm not quite as needy

and i leave people when they leave me

and i don't sing every feeling because i'm just a flight when the rest of my life

i should go home but i just want to drive i'm so sick of being called a survivor all i want to do is run away

and live by the water i'm just one flight when the rest of my life i should go home i was so bad as

wife i'm so sick of being called a survivor all i want to do is run away and live by the water

i'm just one flight when the rest of my life

i'm just one flight when the rest of my life i should go home but i just want to drive

i'm so sick of being called a survivor

i'm just one flight when the rest of my life i should go home and live by the water

why

i want to live by the water too

you know you're like, Jake me with you i mean we got four lakes so there's a lot of water we can

work by i think yeah

Chloe Louise right here and live from the mad city on maxing radio

uh Chloe you have some new music coming out in December and you're wicking on some new projects

yeah tell us about what's new what you're working on

yes the next like full album i want to put out is um it's called theater kid uh which yeah

and um the reason it's called theater kid is just that because there's not really any rhyme or reason

to it it's very like mixtape as far as like styles and um there's not really like usually when

i make something it's like really cohesive and i don't know if this is necessarily cohesive or not

um they're mad about it the live in studio i was we i was waiting to see like some kind of car accident

outside there i'll haunt you just an impatient man i'm sure anyway but i yeah so i but i've also

been lately been working on like a lot of more like acoustic stuff um before i kind of went through

like my stuff that's coming out is very like there's a lot of synth there's a lot of pop sounds

and a lot of it's big and then the newest stuff i'm working on is like the exact opposite where it's

just a guitar and so i really want to put out an EP that's those songs as well

wow have you ever like do you ever play electric guitar yes oh okay i was i was i was trying to

think back i'm like i recorded with electric guitar on my like album and stuff

well let's get back to live music from the man city with Chloe Louise presented by the Aaron

Weber group the next song you have for us tonight is called dirt it's your newest song and it was

just written for your upcoming project and i don't even want to guess what this one's about

i would actually like if you did well you know it's it's like it's like you know it's like the

the mud joe right our jokes are you know dirty but if they don't go over your head that's your fault

exactly yeah exactly that's exactly what this is about

you could play me any love song i could tell you all the lines that i find remind me of you

yeah they do every time like a jukebox on shuffle i've got so much on my mind started to believe

that every love was just on borrow time i told you that i wanted to see the milky way you say

funny that you say that i've got it back at my place where the sky is big and all my

restless thoughts seem to be seen do you feel the same

i've got so many things about me that i'd like to hide but you picking up the pieces underneath

you see the shine i don't want to say it first because i don't want to wind up hurt you seem

to think i'm worth the work between the diamonds i see dirt

you're picking up the pieces of a mess you didn't make you tell me that i'm pretty even when i

cry all day i don't always know what's next to read the right thing to say when you see the

path i know baby you're clear the way i've got so many things about me that i'd like to hide

but you're picking up the pieces underneath you see the shine i don't want to say it first

because i don't want to wind up hurt you seem to think i'm worth the work i see dirt

you see diamond i see dirt

after we drive let's park somewhere pretty

yeah

whether we share die a coke in the woods or at my favorite bookstore in the city will you go with me

will you go with me

you

i've got so many things about me that i'd like to hide you're picking up the pieces underneath

you see the shine i don't want to say it first i don't want to wind up hurt you seem to think

i'm worth the work i've got so many things that i'd like to hide you're picking up the pieces

underneath you see the shine i don't want to say it first because i don't want to wind up hurt

you seem to think i'm worth the work you see a diamond where i see dirt

Chloe Louise right here in life from the mad city on maxing radio

Chloe what has been the key change in your music over the past decade oh wow um

oh well the subject matter with the boys that they're about probably the songs are about uh

no i would say like thing is is that like no matter what at the core of my songs it doesn't really

matter what the track sounds like it's always been about the songwriting so that has remained

the same the thing that's changed is that i feel a lot more empowered to just like say what i

want to say and also i make music for myself versus like you know the thought of like how someone

else is gonna and like interpret it and it's always ends up being better that way like people

tend to relate to that stuff way more than if you're thinking too hard about like what are my friends

gonna like to sing along with that my show is the whatever it's when you stick to being um it

just like writing what you care about and what you're feeling and what you know it ends up shining

through i think what do you think um was the mean thing that they changed your empowerment feeling

um i would say probably my son being born and going through that and kind of a trauma yeah i mean

you should be honest i know we make jokes about it but it really is that it's like you know you get

you you go through something like that as you know and it's like all you want to do is be able

one of the things i thought to myself during that time um was like i just hope i get to make

music again i get to make music my friends i hope i get to make shows again all those things

and so to even just like be here talking about this and singing is pretty cool considering

you know my little dude and i neither of us were supposed to make it off the table and he's thriving

and like it's pretty awesome yeah i'm getting back to playing music is a great motivator on your

journey kind of in health right yeah absolutely i realize you know what you really what really

means a lot in life yeah and getting to share some of that stuff you know uh like with other people

who have been through similar experiences and that kind of stuff it's been um it's really special

it's cool and uh you just recently got back from mazura are you gonna are you gonna be booking

shows down in mazura um well i think um my yeah i i do spend some time in mazura uh i was gonna say

i you know i wrote a song about living by the water i don't run away to the water now i run

away to a field in the middle of nowhere but um far out in the middle middle of nowhere uh you guys

know um i um i uh i it's that far out huh um i fly into the springfield airport and then i get picked

up in a truck and then i get taken about 45 minutes right yeah and that's where um i got the

Ozark county i don't know i'm going like i really don't it's so funny um yeah no it's the

around that area well how do we download your music and keep up with collie Louise online um i

you can follow me on instagram hey collie Louise uh i post all my shows all my stuff there and my

stories that kind of thing also other things and my new songs and stuff i always them sharing

on there the behind-the-scenes stuff um and then yeah i post stuff you can just follow my personal page

on facebook is better just because that's where i actually fall stuff so just collie Louise everywhere um

i'm on spotify apple music all the streaming platforms uh my song just came out 914 handle with

care please listen and uh yeah i love maxink and i love rocker and jane and thanks for always

putting me on there you have been you've been a supporter of me for a long time and uh it's pretty

cool to like maybe we don't come from the same jams the same style of music but you've always

respected me and like rooted for me and that's really really i love all music we love it

collie Louise thank you so much for coming into the studio and to play for us tonight and we

really appreciate it um we have time for one more song tonight it's called survivor's guilt yes

and uh is this a new video game oh man it made my way that if that's the case baby i'm leveling up

uh what's this song about uh this really is the umbrella song of my project that i made you know

during my time of healing uh with my son postpartum and recovery you know sometimes it's like

you know we we kind of had a situation that was a little bit uh you know there's scenarios where

we made it and other people didn't um and that's its own version of survivor's guilt it's like

looking at what's going on in the world yeah why am i still here why am i still you go through a lot

of that when you as you know you talk about that as well it's a lot of like even you know i've

kind of gone through a lot of um extremes in the last especially decade and it's always like

what the heck why am i still here and i think it's probably just to you know sing songs on

maxing radio and try and you know make people happier than they woke up this morning i guess and

more making you so crushingly sad with my sad songs one of the two make you feel something

well let's check it out uh you have one more song this is called survivor's guilt you're listening

to Chloe Louise live from the mad city on maxing radio

count the days since i've been outside i don't want to tell the truth so i like pay the price

but it wasn't my crime i've been catching my breath my whole my whole life i almost feel like

there's too many options getting second opinions now and baseline exhausted and it's starting to

feel like everyone's watching i can't help but i hate them if i shared this song with you would you

miss the girl you knew would you want to know the truth i survived she died that tune and i

feel like screaming that all of my feelings out loud at the top of my lungs either can't hear me or

you don't believe me or with myself that i want yeah statistically speaking we seem to be

needing something bigger than just to give us a feeling besides stop leaving i don't want to

get back to us feeling i feel i get from a pill yeah i know now that i'm not

to blame because you took advantage i hate to be graphic but you're not worth me saying

i started to think that the hard times are over i don't think i got it back that i'm sober

i'm looking back now that i'm looking older like in this bar my story got colder usually

all right things they're catchy and molirical i don't believe in jesus do believe in miracles

usually all right things that are catchy and molirical i don't believe in jesus i believe in miracles

i mean it hasn't been easy most days i walked uphill but i'm moving on leave it all in the

song of you courts and survivors killed wow very cool Chloe Louise live from the mad sitting

thank you so much for coming down we really appreciate it wow well let's talk about you know

what next week next week next week you know what it's me and my wife Alice it's our 28th anniversary

so we're gonna be we're gonna be out celebrating and rob robberts is gonna be here spinning local

music on maxing radio next week and then we are back the week after that november first rob robberts

it'll be back in the studio with me Jane you're yeah i'll be an Illinois but i may take a phone call

though all right and we we're gonna have the guest bad wolf and lily slay will be for performing

live from the man city that all happens november first and of course next week rob robberts will be

in i'm rocker here with jane we had Chloe Louise thank you to manis and up off and Susan

Messino they were excellent excellent show and we have plenty coming up make sure to send your

music in music at civic media dot us and we'll see you in a couple weeks