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Brand new from JinMill Hollow. That is Denver. My name is Rocker. I'm here with Jane.
And we have JinMill Hollow in the studio. Madison Americana Jam Band. JinMill Hollow is
celebrating their 12th year anniversary in 2026 by releasing a third studio album called
A Fool's Dream. And that it may be. But the band will throw a party on January 30th at the
Burrow on Madison's East Side. And here to talk about 12 years. The new album and release
party is JinMill Hollow co-founder Dan Plurred and Joshua Juice. Juice. Dan Juice.
What up Rocker? Thanks for having me. Thank you MagSync Radio, guys.
God to be here. Appreciate it. While you know the last time you were here,
you mentioned to me that was back three studios ago. Normandy Lane, over on the West Side,
that was back when it was called the Devil's Lair. I recall that, actually. Yeah, you guys
played back then. It feels a lot longer ago than just a few years. Isn't that crazy? That was just
June 2021. Just after the pandemic was kind of slowing down a little bit. Yep.
Things were starting to go back to normal. Dan, before we get into the band,
tell us a little bit about yourself. I mean, what's your backstory? How did you get started
playing music? Yeah, I born and raised here in Madison. My music actually started in,
you know, like elementary school orchestra. I was playing the cello and I would take it home
and I would turn it on its side and pretend to play it like a guitar. So it's really a nice
at an early age. Something about that wasn't right. And I knew that there was a different path
that I knew. When you were playing, when you're playing the cello as a guitar, what song were you
playing? Stay away to have enough. Nice. That is a fair way. Yeah. So after that, Mark actually,
in the band, we started taking guitar lessons at around the same time from the same instructor.
Oh, wow. And then played in our first band together,
shout out to blue water. That was, I don't know, junior year of high school, maybe senior year of
high school. I went out in college to take some music theory classes and some, you know,
dabbled in musicology stuff and played guitar in my dorm room and houses that I lived at.
And that was kind of where it took off from me. What was your parents' role in your musical
like bringing absolutely nothing? They, the, the, the Apple, the Apple did fall far from the tree
in that sense. Oh, you know, we have, we have juice over here. And you play Mandolin?
I am the Mandolin player. The Mandolin player. Do you play banjo too?
I do not play banjo. He doesn't play banjo, but yet. I mean, I have, you know, I've tried
on him before, but I wouldn't consider myself a player of the banjo, you know? Okay. All right.
Well, Mandolin, I'll tell us a little bit about how you got involved in music, how you got your
star. What's your record? I started with piano lessons, so I said, can my mom, we were talking
about earlier, my mom was like a church piano player, you know? Oh, yeah. And I liked piano lessons
and I, I liked it. And I was good at it. You know, some people like kids like don't want to practice,
but I was good at it. So I didn't. I've played lots of instruments since then. And you, once you
start learning instruments, you can only keep learning more, you know? Okay. So I'm, I'm handling
piano. What else you got in there? I was a guitar player for a long time. I was in high school. I was
a drummer and like all the marching bands and the high school bands and stuff. So I was drummer too.
So yeah. Wow. That's pretty cool. Mandolin's kind of my, I learned mandolin for this band
specifically. Really? It was kind of like a new thing. I tried. Yeah. Wow. What a great story.
Oh, well, tell us about Jean-Mille Hollow. It started out as an acoustic duo. You were just
saying kind of with your friend Mark Norman. Yeah. So I had booked a gig a solo show at the
up north bar, just on the other side of the capital and realized very quickly after committing to
that that I did not have the material available to play a set solo at the time. So I leaned on Mark
and said, Hey, you want to join me? So we basically were just playing some traditional stuff, some
stuff by bands that we, you know, grew up enjoying. And so that first show was just the two of us
in our basketball shorts playing acoustic guitars. And, you know, we really didn't think too much of
it except that it was fun. And being long friend, long time friends since third grade, we'd always
kind of had that. We should be in a band together. And it started progressing and rolling, rolling
downhill in a good way. And what was the next instrument that you added? That would mean juice.
That was juice. All right. Juice lived with me early on in the band. And Mark, it would come over
and we'd be practicing stuff. And juice was in his bedroom playing along with the mandolin.
A junky old mandolin. I had it hanging out my walls of decoration. And I took it down. I was
like playing around along with you guys in my room, like trying to do it. We didn't even really know.
I guess at one point we probably, we probably heard it and said, what are you doing over there?
And slowly, we were just like, well, you know, it makes sense. You know, he knows what we're doing. So
why don't you come play a show? And of course, that was probably at the up north. And then we,
you know, played for many years there regularly as we were, you know, developing.
Like every Monday for a while. Every Monday. And we did a big go theory. It's pretty fun.
And then, well, let's give the drummer something. Yeah. You guys ran into Joe Murray.
Yeah. And actually first, we had a co-home player, Justin Gersner, who was also an up north
regular who joined. He backed out of the band a little while just due to time conflict. And Joe
Murray, I played with Joe Murray in a band called Seaside Zoo. And I said, hey,
oh, is that not the grateful dead one? Yeah. I heard of that. I said, Joe, why don't you,
why don't you come join the band? And his ears perked up. And the rest is history as this.
He was a good fit. He was also, uh, Elf lettuce. He was. He was. He was. He was in Elf lettuce.
Yep. All right. Yeah. Well, my brain's still working. What? What is your secret to staying together?
Because you guys been together now 12 years. Yeah. Um, obviously we're friends. And I think as much as,
you know, we love being together, being on the road and playing. We also know that there's
a need for our separate time and spaces and other projects. And I think that definitely helps us
remain grounded in that it's still always fun to go come back to genuine. We never have like
drama or fights like all our friends bands. We hear about the old, these guys are going to fight.
Like we've never had that. Yeah. I think when we rehearse, we have fun. It's like fun.
Yeah. And we'll just back off to our separate abodes when the right time calls.
Exactly. I think I read you guys have done more than 600 shows.
Correct. Yeah. We're in probably around 650 now. So, so who drives and who navigates?
Early on, it was me in the silver bullet. Yeah. The silver bullet makes it up here.
Silver bullet on the second album. That's the name of our second album.
The busted bullet because it broke down. Yeah. Where, uh, it actually broke down on the West
side of Madison. We were on our way home from a show. Uh, Mackie's hideout in. Oh, during a snow.
Snowstorm, uh, of course, we made it all the way back to Madison. I drove that night.
Actually, you did. Yeah. You made me drive because you were getting sleepy.
Uh, and, and, and we made it back to Madison. Thankfully, we didn't break down in the middle of
Illinois or something. Uh, but on the West side of Madison, and I remember I called Mark
after it broke down and I said, Hey, man, you got to, you got to, I know you just got in bed
and you're comfortable, but you got to come back and pick me up because the van broke down.
And he did. And that was that. And since then, Mark has been the one that's driving.
So, well, that's how it changes the transition. Yeah. Uh, Jin Milhado is releasing their
third album, a fool's dream on January 30th, 30th at the Burr Oak. Uh, what does a fool dream about?
Well, a fool's dream is just a line in a song I wrote kind of. I don't know if it's like,
has that deepest meaning. We're just trying to come up with names of the album. We try like names
of songs or lines from songs and stuff. You know, so we're kind of like a fool's dream.
There's probably an underlying, you know, you know, so a fool's dream is leaving
a real, a real album name. Yeah, like, like, we know what we're doing. Yeah.
Well, our a bunch of kind of guys getting older, so trying to make it as musicians in the
world. And also, maybe it is a fool's dream. We don't know. Where was this recorded?
Lunar Lava in Fort Atkinson, Jeff Peterson, the owner and main engineer and Kenny Lizer
are a good friend. Oh, yeah. Did a lot of engineering and production from, uh,
wheelhouse, right? Yep. Wheelhouse and Joseph Feber band. Uh, and is there final going to be
available for this? Possibly down the road. Yeah. Currently, uh, CDs will have CDs and then
obviously streaming platforms. Uh, where? What streaming platforms? About five? Yeah, it'll be
on, I think on everything. Probably all of them. We CD Baby and they, uh, they kick it out to all
the pertinent, um, sites. Did you ever go to Cafe Carpool? You were in Fort?
I don't believe we did. I've heard of that place for years and years and years. Next time.
Yeah. Yeah. Classic place. Been around forever. We spent all day in this studio over there.
We weren't really doing much else. Yeah. Uh, Jimmy Johns across the street. Yep.
The album release party for a fool's dream takes place on January 30th at the Burr Oak. Uh,
tell us why you chose that venue. It's the right size for us. Yeah.
It's, it's intimate. Um, you know, we're not, we're not feeling the high noon saloon and we're okay
with that. So, um, it's a perfect little, little spot on the east side. That's our, you know,
neighborhood that we all love to hang out in. So that date available. That was, yeah, we worked out
personally. Yeah. That's always important. It's always a big deal. Yeah. What, uh, what can people
expect in your show? Um, we're going to probably do a spanning of the whole 12 year career of the
band from early stuff, culminating in a lot of the new album stuff. Um, so it'll be all over the
board in terms of genres and, um, like this album, for sure, there's all different. We play
every different kind of music like people like what kind of band are you? I don't know. We play
yeah. Funtry rock, you know, like, so it'll be a little bit everything. So a little bit of everything.
A little bit of everything. Uh, how can people keep up with Jim Milhollo online?
We do have, uh, the website Jim Milhollo.com and all your socials, Instagram, Facebook,
basically type Jim Milhollo and anything. It should come up. Yeah. We do, we do have some videos
in YouTube and obviously, well, that worked on my typewriter. Um, maybe, yeah, try it. Got an
ethernet cable in there. You don't know until you try it's suit up. Uh, damn, Lord. Joshua,
thank you so much for coming in to take the time to talk with us tonight. We really appreciate
it. Uh, let's listen to another song from your new album. This is the title track, uh,
a flute or from the new album, Fools Dream. This song is called Watermelon Back One. Uh,
is there some hidden innuendo that's going to go over my head? No, no, the story with this tune is
kind of weird, but we were joking around one night about how as long as the music is good,
a song can be called and about whatever. Um, and then Mark just started writing this somewhat
gibberish tune. And it turned into tune that this song often closes our shows. It's, um,
we played this song almost more. Yeah, it's probably one of the more, more played songs that we do.
So we different than the last song you guys heard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Well, uh,
let's premiere right now the brand new Jim Milhollo from their album, a Fools dream.
This song is called Watermelon Backpack. You're listening to Maxing Radio. We are local music.
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