Marta Hansen Live in Studio (Hour 1)

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Dude!

Welcome to Night Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Happy Friday everybody great to have you with us here tonight.

I am Pete Schwabba sitting across the state tonight as I am in Madison still From my co-host Greg Bach who comes to us live from a radio park Racine.

Hey, buddy

Hello, dude.

Oh, we are dude dude, dude How are you tonight Pete?

I'm doing well, you know

I wanna get something off my chest right away here, Dom.

Feel

free.

You okay

with this?

I'm nervous, but yes,

it's

okay.

So I go down the street to one of the local eateries here in Madison.

One of my favorites, love it, but I've talked to Ednausium about how tipping people that work behind the counter, I feel like they should be paid properly.

They shouldn't be shaking down customers for extra money.

Okay.

Here's what drives me even more crazy is when I add a tip and then I go out and I see there's no table that hasn't been unwiped.

There's a bunch of dirty tables.

I have to go back up and I say to the person I just tipped.

Hey, can these tables are kind of messy?

She's like, all right, I'll wipe them off.

Like, I just tipped you.

And now I have to eat at a dirty table.

It really irritated me.

And I'm like, I'm not a guest in your house.

This is a restaurant, you know.

Am I on an island here, fellas?

No, it's okay.

It's a contract, you know, you've paid for services.

Like in every regular world, services when it comes to a restaurant includes sitting at a clean table or a clean space where you can enjoy your meals.

So I understand the frustration there.

The attitude that she slung, not very cool.

That made it worse, yeah.

That being said, I've definitely been there where I have given some attitude to customers who probably didn't deserve it.

immediately feel bad and my later years learned how to apologize to say like, Hey, you know what?

I'm sorry.

Here's a free this or I'm sorry.

You know what I mean?

But yeah,

that's not cool.

She shouldn't have pushed that attitude on you.

And that's, that's unfortunate.

And, and that's the thing is that they're stuck in the middle because I don't feel like, you know, the, the, when people get, we talked about this before when people get upset, like, why should I have to tip these people?

I'm like, you're not tipping those.

workers, you're doing it based on management or corporate's decision to institute this extra thing because they don't want to pay them more.

So don't be like, and this is not me talking to you.

Like, like, I don't want to be mad at them.

I want to be mad at their bosses and their overlords because they're the ones who are doing it.

It's not like they walked inside.

Hey, guys, instead of being paid like two or three dollars more an hour, how about we just like ask people to tip us for getting them a cup of coffee so they can be upset about it?

you know, that

feels

really good.

So I mean, it's, it's, it's a very unique, it's, it's a new unique situation in my opinion.

But I don't disagree.

The simple request to clean out the table should have been not not met with

Well, and I shouldn't have had to make it.

That bothered me in the first place.

But then, yeah, then the attitude.

But what to piggyback even on that is that I don't see this going away.

Where is the outrage from the general public?

Like we're paying high enough prices as it is.

The prices in the restaurants are going up.

Now

we have to continue to tip.

It's kind of a silly thing.

I'm a champion of the

working masquerade.

I know you are.

And but the thing is, is people are just starting to put together that now because we're talking about it more and more.

And it was like a year, a year and a half ago was really fun to be like, why should I have to tip them?

Blah, blah, blah.

But it's like, first of all, you sound like a monster when you get upset about tipping a 17 year old kid.

But also let's have the bigger conversation.

Why aren't their businesses paying them more?

Well, if they don't like it, they should get a different job.

Well, that's fine.

But that's not what we're talking about right now.

We're talking about this topic.

And

don't be mad at them.

Don't divide.

None of us are billionaires.

No.

And the thing is, you shouldn't be mad at her for the tip question, but you definitely are valid in being like...

or like, you know, just turned off by the whole, you know, I asked you a simple thing.

I just need the table to be clean.

That should be a given.

I don't need this.

So, but I also come back and say to myself, maybe she's having a bum day as well, you know, not invalidating how you feel.

It's absolutely true.

I've been there before.

I've both been the customer and the, the giver of attitude, but I also want to say, you know what?

I don't know how her day is going either.

So hopefully it's gotten better.

And you were the only person that she slung attitude at.

I wasn't even mad either.

I was just kind of like, when she said it, I was just kind of like, okay, like, I get that.

I was not a great mood when I went there.

That's why, you know, whatever.

But, you know, we'll figure

it

out.

At least you didn't leave like a Yelp review or something.

That could have been.

Thank you for reminding me.

That's the first on my

list right now.

to slam them on you.

All right, despite our start out of the gate here, folks, this is casual Friday.

That was kind of a casual complaint.

But

I

obviously struck a chord in YouTube, Greg.

So I'm happy about

that.

I

feel like we've sort of bonded over that.

But it is great to have you here tonight, folks.

It is Friday, and we want to hear from you tonight.

We want you to be part of the show, 855-752-4842.

Phone lines, text lines, always open, especially on casual Friday.

And we have a terrific show tonight, Greg.

I don't know if you knew that.

Well, before we get to casual Friday, I think we need the proper introduction to cap casual Friday.

Friday's here and the week's in the rear view.

Whether you're still on the clock or already mentally checked out, Pete and Greg are here for you.

So kick back and grab something to snack on.

It's casual Friday with Pete and Greg.

I totally am checked out because I forgot we had an intro for casual Friday.

Pete.

Hey, Pete.

I know, I know you did, but I'm here for you, buddy.

Cause when he started playing the music, the look on your face was what?

But it is casual Friday.

We have a

fantastic show for you folks tonight.

Uh, first and foremost, we have a wonderful guest coming up after the five 30 news.

This is a friend of yours, right?

Pete Marta Hanson will be in studio, not only to talk about her music, but

performing.

She's a friend of mine through the show.

Yeah, we just had

her

as a guest.

I think it was a Terry Bauer referral about a year ago and Marta came in and sang this song called The Lasts.

It's hard to say, but it's called The Lasts.

It's about these moments that are gone in your life.

It was a beautiful song.

So she's very talented.

She'll be in here.

She's a piano, all things piano.

She's a great piano player.

She fixes pianos

and she has a new

album out.

So we'll talk to her

about that.

She's going to perform.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And then in the second hour, a couple of great things, we're going to be taking another Dom Lee quiz.

By the way, Dom Lee is in Madison right now on the ones and twos here.

How are you doing today, Dom?

I'm doing pretty good.

I'm waving at Pete.

He's waving away.

Yeah, this is amazing.

That's great.

Rub it in.

That's great.

Rub it in.

I don't care.

But Dom has created yet another, uh, quiz for us that will probably test our, well, it's not going to be testing our age, just our know how of the news.

Yes, it's, yes, real or fake.

That's, that's what it is.

Great.

That will be in the second hour.

And then we'll wrap everything up with the nightcap as we always do every single night.

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But you'll have to stick around to hear more about that on Monday.

So the show is jam packed, if you ask me.

I think it's a lot of show for a casual Friday.

There's

nothing casual with

this.

We take our casualty very seriously.

I think, without further ado, though, we should probably get to the question of

the

night.

Let's talk about the question.

Okay question question question question question question this question question questions

Who is your favorite solo singer-songwriter?

That's a very simple question.

Does it have to be so can it be because it says artist can it be artists?

Oh sure artist.

Okay.

I just want to make sure I want to stick.

Yes.

I

like rules.

I like rules

That's a good way to go through life, I think.

So your favorite, you know what, it's interesting.

I wrote Artist, but I was thinking singer-songwriter.

If you want to put like Pollock or something like that.

But I think Artist is like a, typically a musician, but listen, this is Casual Friday.

You just share with us your favorite solo artist, folks.

But why I thought was one of those, some of those aren't singers and or songwriters, they are musicians.

Sure.

It could be

Kenny G, or... Kenny H?

Who's the guy

that

does classical gas?

I don't know.

Yeah, just your favorite artist, musical artist, maybe?

But text that in and be part of the show, folks.

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You know how to get ahold of us through the app and stream.

Greg just reminded you of that, so be part of the show and let's rock.

You want to get to the first new story of the evening first casual new story?

Absolutely.

That's right first casual.

So everybody lay back because we're about to get casual with our news

Greg I don't

yeah,

I feel like this should be a joint intro Melania has won our hearts through film

now

And apparently, according to, I don't know, forums, headlines, tabloids, whatever, she was the first lady to Jeffrey Epstein, and she had to call a press conference today to debunk those rumors.

I don't know how

I

feel about it.

Well, I mean, it's really just another thing to me.

You know, this article we have here in The Daily Beast, I like the...

I like the title of it.

There can only be one reason for Melania talking Epstein.

It's not good.

And it's basically to do what they all do.

They say, I didn't know him well.

I didn't know him well.

I don't know these people.

It's all.

But really, when it comes down to it, like, basically, she did a press conference today that's, you know, in her wonderfully dulcet speaking tone, saying, I didn't know these people.

I barely knew Giselle.

Just Glaine Maxwell, not Giselle.

Glaine Maxwell.

But the emails say otherwise.

She has emailed Galane and she has spoken flatteringly and nicely.

I mean, it's one thing to like say, Hey, I'm going to come to the party.

Do you need me to bring some dip?

But these emails portray a portray, I should say, a friendship here that goes beyond what she is admitting to.

She called her G. Yeah.

Yeah.

What's up?

Yeah.

Exactly.

And of course, once again,

And every time they've tried to divert attention to from this topic, which is the Epstein files, or as Jimmy Kimmel calls them, the Trump Epstein files, whether we're talking about Venezuela, whether we're talking about Iran, whether we're talking about this, they always seem to pop up with new and, and, and favorite pictures of either Jeffrey Epstein with Trump and Melania, or all four of them together hanging out like, I don't know what's the word I'm looking for.

I think I have it written down here.

Oh no,

friends like their friends.

Yeah, I mean I I bet I could go through my photos from the last 20 years and Maybe find a couple photos of me and someone who I barely remember the name But I remember them.

This is like there's pictures of them several

And these have just been debunked, but they just keep saying stuff, thinking people will believe them.

And you know what?

Some people will.

So why not say it?

But the motive of her to say this or what's behind it is still kind of people.

You know, and the Daily Beast did say that they're like, it's not good.

OK, but I didn't really get it.

They were just sort of reporting what she did.

There's still some speculation about who put her up to it.

Did she go rogue?

I don't know.

But none of

it is

a good move, in my opinion.

I can't imagine a world where she just said I want to do a press conference without talking to anybody.

That's just not something that any First Lady president, anybody in the family, you talk to like 15 layers of people.

You vet the speech.

You say on Monday, I want to talk about this on Thursday and you spend all the days doing this.

I don't see there's a version where she just like, get a podium.

Go to the East Room.

I'm going to talk right now about this because that would not be something she could be allowed to do.

Anybody.

And that's not just her.

It's anybody in this sort of position of power.

And she wants the victims to testify under oath.

So that'll

sit well with her husband.

Yeah, that was the other thing.

That was the other thing too.

It said this article is really, really good.

It also speaks to Pam Bondi's firing because she couldn't do anything about it.

But, you know, Casual Friday dictates we talk about the news and the news is this and this is ridiculously crazy.

Absolutely.

We're going to come back in just a minute, folks, and tell you what is.

what people don't want to buy anymore because it's too expensive.

This is Casual Friday.

Nightlight with Pete and Greg.

We're coming right back.

I mean, what a perfect play-in on our question of the night is who's your favorite solo musical artist, more or less.

And he's on my list, dude.

Well done, Don.

You knew that, though.

You knew Greg and I both liked Crochi.

Did you

know Crochi before you?

Personally, no, I didn't.

No, sorry.

No, I did.

I did.

I like a few of his songs Thursday, right?

Thursday's a really good song.

We're

not gonna help you on this one trying to hang out the trying to hang out the old guys it's like when I was a kid you go to the garage my dad sprang like yeah totally I I understand taxes you're seven I understand taxes is a seven-year-old I will prove it to you guys all right

Fair enough.

You Google, and we'll, but we gotta get to another story, Dom.

So hit the button, and then you can Google Crochi.

Wow, he's just

getting

demanding and very like, you do your job, son.

When

I'm in person, I crack the whip.

That's how I roll.

Yeah, so I can tell, I can tell.

All right, let's go for that second story.

Greg, you

go

with this one, yeah.

Yeah, so the...

There was there is a popular movie chain or movie theater chain called the Alamo Draft House.

And I don't know if I think there's one in Madison, maybe there's not any around me.

I have a friend who goes to them all the time.

But this is a great great story in IndieWire that's entitled the absolute hell of watching a movie at the Alamo Draft House in 2026.

And the basic gist of this is that when the Alamo Draft House came out like in the mid 2000s, it was really put as it's

There was something very artistic, independent.

They were very much like, put your phones away, and they did it in a very funny way.

They would have movie stars and directors doing videos saying, if you don't put your phones away, we are going to destroy you where you stand.

It spoke to the heart of independent film lovers, but you could still see big-time movies there as well, and it was really beloved, and there's 40 locations all over the country.

The problem is, post-COVID,

due to the fact that the company now has switched hands a couple times.

It's gone from this truly independent type of feel to more corporatization.

There's a term they use in the article that I can't say over the air, but I love it.

We'll put the article in the show notes so you can read it.

This is a really funny but really telling article, Pete.

And let me know what you think about it as far as like.

you know, going from this place of like, oh, the Alamo Draft House is the absolute best place.

But now people are looking at like, oh, it's just like any other corporate theater.

And now people have to order food on their phone versus having a wait staff.

And it's just really showing in this article of funny history and the downfall of it was once great.

Yeah, I have to be honest.

I did not.

I had heard of these places.

I'm familiar with like Flix Brewhouse, which I guess is a similar outfit.

Yeah,

maybe came along after maybe not, but I don't know.

I've never been to an Alamo draft house.

I love it in theory.

I love the idea of it.

I like picking my seat out ahead of time and paying me

a

little extra because I don't have to rush.

When you pay a little extra, it's you get

audiences that are more receptive, they're there truly for the movie.

What

I get in Christmas City, USA a lot are teenagers just want to hang out and they go in there and talk.

So I don't have much patience for that.

So I love the idea of this, but it's a shame that like a lot of stuff when it gets takeover when they get bought out or whatever, there just isn't that same level of care to the to the product, I don't think.

Well, they've also had a bunch of problems with people like wanting to like their employees at a lot of locations who want to start unions and the company that owns Alamo Draft House has done their their best to crush these these endeavors.

I mean, it really is just turning into a corporate model is all it really is done now and it's really kind of a shame because the thing is you've never been there and I've only been to one once and this was a couple years ago so I didn't even get the full like layout but like

pre COVID, it was something to behold.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a little more expensive, but you were getting a full blown experience.

And I just, it's a bummer because like it says in the article, you know, the once.

Firmly anti-phone company that would like make fun of you and make sure you need to turn off your phone and shut up and enjoy the movie now It's not only telling you to order your food on the phone But telling you to police other people in the room by way of your phone

Come

on.

So you're basically gonna like order your food and be a tattletale use your phone That's what you gotta do if you want to enjoy so I'm just it's like all right Well, then we don't need them here because it just sounds like it's another

Whatever there's nothing special about it anymore.

I'm here to watch a movie not be part of crime stoppers

Yeah, if I stop if I stop someone who's being a nuisance.

Do I get a free bag of popcorn?

Do I get something?

What do I get or I'm just looked at as a tattletale

do our jobs for us and we'll charge a little extra That's great

ask for tips

I'll give you a tip Greg.

I think it's don't don't please don't read into that.

Can we

Greg, things are getting really expensive.

How expensive are they getting?

Well,

according to, I think this was on, I don't remember, USA Today maybe, but we saw

it on

Wise Brother.

Beer at Concerts, they compile a list of things that people are just not paying for anymore because they're too expensive.

And they asked, what is something you've officially stopped buying in 2026 because of that fact?

And Beer at Concerts was number one.

Geez, I

mean Beer at

Concerts.

I don't go to concerts anymore, like I will, but I'm not going out to see live music on a regular basis because it is expensive, but sporting events I put right up there too as number one.

Oh, yes.

Absolutely.

Oh, my gosh.

Concert tickets.

Like, I'm going to go see Steven Wilson Jr.

in Madison in a couple of weeks.

And I remember buying a ticket and saying out loud to myself, oh, it's only $75.

What?

Why am I impressed with that price?

And if I have a beer at that show, I'll get one beer.

It will be domestic.

It will be in a can.

And I don't want to pay more than $10 because, like, baseball beer has gotten expensive, way expensive now.

This isn't just groceries.

I mean, there are groceries on this list, but we're looking at things like car washes, nail salon services, copy of gas station, computer parts.

Well, Netflix, man, they're going to like $25 a month.

And that's like, you could make the argument that that's worth it because if you watch all the good shows, it costs you pennies.

But people watch whatever, it's not all good stuff.

Or they're re-watching a show they've watched a thousand times.

Guilty is charged.

It's it's getting it's it's getting expensive out there folks and we know why

Hey answer our question folks be part of the show.

Who's your favorite solo artist?

Let us know this is nightlight with peach wabbit and Greg Bach Marta Hanson is in studio next glad you're with That could be an answer to tonight's question.

What is your who's your favorite?

Solo musical artist David Bowie.

He'd be up there for sure.

Welcome back to nightlight

That

song can have two people in there.

Who is it?

Actually three.

Three.

Who else?

Is that Mick Jagger?

David Bowie.

Niall Rogers produced it.

Stevie Ray Vaughn plays guitar on that track.

Oh, no kidding.

Stevie Ray Vaughn?

That was before he died?

Mm-hmm.

It was actually before he became famous.

Actually, he recorded that before he recorded his first album.

Let's dance?

Mm-hmm.

Bowie asked me part of his band.

He's like, no, I got a band.

I'm good.

Wow.

Uh, yeah

Man, that's impressive.

That's Greg Boggs, folks.

He is coming to you live from Radio Park in Racine.

I am in Madison tonight, as I was last night.

I'm in town for the Wisconsin Film Festival, and if you have not checked out this outstanding film festival here in Madison every spring, this is like the 28th annual.

It's such a great time and an outstanding selection of movies.

I'll be here all weekend hosting Q&As and introducing films.

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We can use it for the social media, right, fellas?

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

We love using pictures for the social of

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Absolutely.

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You know, with these two great film festivals, Wisconsin and Milwaukee, if you're a true cinephile, you have a month of movies, independent films, restorations, all kinds of great stuff.

So we are fortunate to have two great film festivals here within like 80 miles of each other.

That's great.

Love

it.

Yeah.

So we have our guest, Marta Hanson will be along shortly.

We'll get her set up in here.

She just arrived, probably had to deal with some parking here in.

in downtown Madison.

Dom, is there a show at the Overture Center?

There is, yes.

What's the show, do you know?

I don't know, but it was starting to fill up when I went down there, so it's starting to pack up.

And

was that song you played?

Was that Crouchy?

Was that Thursday?

That was Thursday,

yes.

Did

you know that song, Greg?

See, I told you.

I told you.

I didn't I didn't I did okay calm.

Sorry.

Sorry.

I was

just really hyped for

that It's one of those things where I know a lot of songs But I don't know their titles like you say like oh, I love that song like I don't know the title of it Yeah, whatever, but yeah, it's a no I love I love Crochi and I get sad when I think about him cuz he does he died so young I want to know I'd love to know okay, so here's the problem

though.

Okay, like Jim Crochi dies tragically we don't know what he could have done he could have made a

Hollywood musical he could have made the greatest album that ever we don't know but also I always think to myself but he could also have done a disco record he could also be like a county like like we we build them up in our minds that like oh my gosh that the genius has snuffed out like yeah but that genius also may have said like oh you know what we should do don't let immigrants listen to my records you know I have no idea what they could have said but you

know that's a very pessimistic view Greg

It's not a pessimistic view.

It's an it's a realistic view based on our experience with the living rock legends We have now in our life like you know like a I don't know his name rhymes with shmeric Mlapton, you know something like that.

So

yeah except Eric Clapton songs just to play devil's advocate here What crotchie sang about?

Working at the Car Wash Blues, Roller, Speedball Tucker, all these great, he was like a lot like Springsteen, a man of the people.

At least he was, I think he died at like 30, maybe not even, but I find it hard to believe that would have changed, but you're right, anything could have happened.

Anything could

have.

We enjoy the music that we have right now.

Exactly.

And it's beautiful.

His music is timeless and gorgeous.

Beautiful.

And that plays perfectly into our question of the night.

Who is your favorite musical solo artist?

We talked about this a little bit a few days ago, and I thought it would make a great question.

And speaking of solo artists...

Our guest, Marty Hansen, has arrived, so we will be with her momentarily.

But Dom, how are we doing on the text line there, buddy?

We're doing pretty good.

We have a few texts in here for the question of the night.

Would you read a couple?

All right, absolutely.

We have Brett from Brown Deer.

He says, my favorite solo artist was Stevie Ray Vaughn.

There you go.

Nicely done.

We also have

Monica from Mount Horrib, the piano man, Billy Joel, and Stevie Nicks.

Perfect.

That documentary on HBO about him, five hours.

And I watched every single moment.

Like, I'm sure there's more.

Give me more.

Give me more information about Billy Joel.

Anything else?

So yeah, I love Billy Joel.

My wife watched that too.

She said it was outstanding.

It's still on my list, but he's one you can't.

You know what, it seems like Billy Joel kind of gets forgotten about.

Um, he's a huge star in a list or blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.

But I don't hear his name mentioned much anymore, maybe by his own doing.

And he's not out in the public spotlight.

He's, he's still tour.

Uh, he, he, he, he tours.

He basically only does Madison square garden now.

He goes to the garden when he wants.

He sold it out like 50 times and he still plays all the old hits.

He just has not written a song in like 30 years.

He's like, I was done.

I'm done writing songs.

I don't need to do anymore.

And the thing I love about Billy Joel is that he is an amazing piano player.

And after he stopped doing pop music back in the 90s, he decided to write this really complex classical music.

And there's a lot of artists out there who can say like, oh, I can do this because I'm Billy Joel or I'm whoever.

He said, no, I'm not talented enough to play this.

I'll have this guy play the music I've written

because he's

good at it.

I'm not good enough to do this.

But yeah, I mean, I heard someone once refer to him as a poor man's Bruce Springsteen and I was so mad because I thought like you just like.

If he wrote like two songs or had two hits, I get that.

But the man has a triple album of best of.

That's not a poor man's anybody.

He's Billy

Joel.

And it's different stuff.

Yeah, that's not a good cop.

Billy Joel certainly can stand on his own laurels.

Tyler in Wisconsin Rapids says the traveling minstrel that sang of all the trials and tribulations King Arthur experienced during his search for the Holy Grail.

Is that a Monty Python method?

That's I think that's a.

Yeah, but

I don't understand what Tyler, I don't understand what that has to do with

our question.

It's his favorite artist.

Oh, the traveling minstrel.

Of course.

I'm sorry.

It

was not capped.

Not to get all grammar police here.

I'm sorry, Tyler, my bad.

Oh, everyone's just annoying Pete tonight.

Wow.

Don't get on my list.

That's all I'm saying.

I'll tell you someone who's on my list, but in a good way.

We have

her

here in the studio.

How do you like that transition, Greg?

That's wonderful.

WBA, are you listening?

Clip it down.

Marta Hansen joins us in the studio speaking of solo singer, songwriter, artist.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

How are you?

I'm doing very well.

Thank you.

It's great to have you here.

Better late than never.

Was traffic bad?

It was yes.

OK.

Not awesome.

The belt line.

the belt way, the belt loops.

Some prairie.

So 151 in East

Wash

was a pain in the patoot.

And then they have special event parking tonight too, I think maybe for the orchard.

Yeah,

it's the line break festival is happening right now.

Oh, okay.

What even

is that?

Line

breaks.

I have no idea.

Greg, he's just looking at their website right now.

Oh.

Yeah.

Well, it's great to have you here.

Thank

you for being,

you know, you're only our second since this new iteration of Nightlight.

You are our second in studio guest, because I typically do the show from home now.

Greg is in Racine.

Yeah.

Dom is here.

Yes.

I'm just here

to

crack the whip, clean up those empty beer cans in there.

Well, that's exciting.

Yeah.

So it's great to have you here.

Thank you.

So we're a little pressed for time, but we'll have time to hear one of your new songs.

Tell us about your new

album.

It is a...

100% cover album.

So when I perform live in addition to my original music, I specialize in acoustic stripped down versions of my favorite 90s rock

songs.

Yes.

And I do like

cool arrangements of them.

So I was like, I need an album that actually reflects.

what I do live, which is just me and a piano and me and a ukulele.

I do ukulele songs too.

And so I have an album with all of my most popular covers coming out May 8th.

How is Greg, I mean, how do you, Greg probably knows more about this than I do, but is that tough with the licensing?

It's actually not that hard.

If, as long as you know where to go, like there's a website's easy song, Harry Fox, a whole bunch of it, and you can, I mean, it's not cheap, but it's obviously important to pay the artist.

So even if they have a lot more money than me, I still got to do.

So yeah, you just, you go through and you get your song and then those systems find all the songwriters and the company that it's through and you pay for, you know, an estimate of downloads and stuff like that.

Streaming, it's through streaming.

So like Spotify and stuff, you don't have to do it through that, but you have to do it for any downloads or physical copies.

So.

Wow.

I feel like I'm learning a lot here now.

This is amazing.

Yeah, if you

need help licensing covers, I'm your girl.

I can help you out.

That's good to know.

Now, where do you, like so, if you have, okay, so if you were doing a covers record, that means you must play a lot of covers in your time out there on the road

and doing

shows and whatnot.

How do you go about saying, all right, I'm making an album of covers.

I've got.

12 or 14 or however many you're putting on the album, I've got to start whittling it down.

Where do you start with the decision on which ones will be actually put onto an album?

Is it a matter of like the copyright was a little bit cheaper or is it like, no, I need this song because I love playing this song.

No, it's just

the ones I like the most, honestly.

And I've got 16 on this one.

So yeah.

Nice.

Yeah.

So it's all my favorites and the ones that get requested most.

When people, when I'm out performing live, I, you know, wanted to make sure I put the most popular ones on that.

And I'm in my favorites, the ones I enjoy doing the most.

That's great.

Yeah.

I will say cover tunes are, I'm a bad guitar player, but that's kind of how I learned how to play the guitar.

I would just listen and try to play my favorite tunes and that keeps you going.

It's like, it's fun to do your own interpretations of

that.

I

know you're going to sing something that I feel is ambitious, but it's probably no big deal to you that we'll hear in just a few minutes.

But Marta, Greg also had a song called The Last.

Yeah, one of my originals.

It's one of your originals.

And you were on the show and you performed that here.

And it's about those moments where they're gone.

All of a sudden, the last time this happened, that my child was in the house, regret.

And I bawled.

We

were

driving to Steve's point to take my daughter there.

And that song, it was in my shuffle, my playlist.

And I lost it.

It's such a beautiful song.

Thank

you.

Where can people find out more of your

music?

MartaHansonMusic.com.

OK.

My website has, you know,

everything.

And then I'm also on Bandcamp.

And then you can do Marty Hansen music on Facebook and Marty Hansen music on Instagram as well.

So yeah, my son's

graduating.

Bandcamp is an amazing, Bandcamp is an amazing place.

I love Bandcamp.

It's great because Spotify is like those are all like necessary evils, you know, but I don't actually make any money on spot.

It's like just their

because that's one of the, you know, tools

in

the toolbox.

But Bandcamp

is so great

because it pays its artists a lot bigger of a chunk for direct downloads of our music and stuff.

It's

just a

cool, like, more indie market for small musicians, such as myself.

Love that.

So,

yeah.

Do you have any live performances coming up around the Madison area or places, other places in Wisconsin?

Yeah, so...

I will be playing at a couple of the some, I'm still kind of working on my schedule, but I definitely have down a couple of the some prey farmers markets, which are super awesome.

Um, really fun to go to those are in, I think I'm playing June 6th and

I don't

remember the other date, but it'll be on my website soon.

Okay.

Um, I'm going to be doing a album release event, which.

Um, I'm nailing down the date, but I think it'll be May 28th and that'll be in

some

hurry at Glass Nickel.

Um, and

then I might don't tell people, but I might be playing a little something with another person that I can't mention, but maybe at the mama awards this year.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay,

folks, you heard that.

Don't tell

anyone.

I didn't tell you

what, I didn't tell you who.

I said nothing other than I'll be there and maybe playing camp.

She's hoping no one shows up.

All right, Marta Hansen is here in the studio, folks.

Just our second guest ever on the new interation year of nightlight.

And she's gonna perform live in the studio when we come back.

This is Nightlight with Peach Wabba and Greg Bach on the Civic Media Network.

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Dom Lee is working the board tonight, producing the show.

And you have just joined us, folks, at a great point in the show because we have a live studio guest right now.

Her name is Marta Hansen.

She is a singer-songwriter from the Madison area here.

She has a new album out.

Tell us the name of the album again, Marta.

Yeah, the album is called Stripped.

So,

hence they're

all 90s and a couple early aughts, covers of rock songs that I love that have been stripped down.

and rearranged in my Mom Rock ethereal stuff.

I forgot about Mom Rock.

That's a great, yeah.

You said that last time you were here.

Greg, let's hear, what do you say?

Should

we hear

Mara?

Let's go for it.

Let's hear

what you got.

You're going to tell us what

you're going to perform, Mara.

OK.

I'm going to be performing my cover, my arrangement of Carmel Police by radio.

Oh, I'm in.

That's ambitious.

Yes.

All right.

Mom Rock, take it away.

Mara

Hansen.

Very

nice.

Fantastic.

Wow.

Thank you, thank you.

That's great.

Oh

my gosh.

I love those very, I love covers like that, songs that have huge like arrangements in their originals and then someone just says, I can just put this on a guitar piano and you'll be great.

Strip it down.

That was wonderful.

You

stripped

it, she

stripped it down.

That's the name of the album.

So what other songs do you cover on the album?

We've got about a minute or so.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, Mike, I was just asking what other we have about a minute left.

What other covers do you have on the

album?

I've got Nirvana all apologies I have feel good ink by gorillas a really cool version of that cornflake girl by Tori Amos

nice