kind of us our guest on the radio today in the studio with us welcome back my
friend. Thank you. Awesome to be here. Awesome to be here. You were here. How long
ago was it when you were in the studio? Six months, six months, like that. Yeah,
we had a song out. Maybe that was for if I was a beer. Right. You had that. I
think you did a Christmas song for it. Yeah, we did the snow angel. That's right. That's
right. That's right. So fun. That was so fun. Love being here. Thank you. So time is
going by for you and you've been working pretty busy. It sounds like
extraordinarily. Yeah, it's been great. The lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky to be so
busy. And we just came out of studio. We can a half ago. Yeah, we can a half
ago and just put together a new album. So we haven't even released the current
album. Wow. You're always working on it. Yeah, I mean, and it's it's funny. I was
watching. I was at a show and one of the artists was like, I know my label does
want me to do this, but this song isn't even, you know, it's not even he played it
was so cool, you know, because you know that your heads in that song right if you
come out of studio. So it's really fun to see him do it. So yeah, we we dropped
the full album May 3rd. So the minute that's out, then it's like, well, it
cats out of the bag. You know, what do we do next? So then comes a lie. You need
more songs. So you're not resting on your laurels. You can't know. No, no, no, no,
you can't at all. Can't at all. Yeah. So refresh my memory. Where are you from
originally? Come from St. Louis, Missouri. Been there my whole life. I've been
traveling the country like crazy promoting music for a solid year now. So I
just didn't know no end inside. I was just talking that, you know, we have a
schedule up through November right now. So were you in, were you home when the
eclipse happened? So I was just, yeah, I was just getting ready to tell you, I went
to Southern Illinois. And I had this is so funny. I was scheduled to do a radio
spot. And I'm like, oh, April 8th, and it turns out we were in Southern
Illinois for a radio spot scheduled to be on the air at 2 30 and the eclipse was
at 155. So traffic was entertaining. And traffic out was wild. But I was there.
We actually got my Instagram and Facebook. I was there and filmed how it just
got dark. The bird started singing. The bugs, you know, the crickets and
everything are all going nuts. And then it just saw the sudden. It was daylight
again. It was cool. It was pretty cool. Oh, interesting. That's right. A song about it.
I actually sang total eclipse. I wondered about that. It's like, I don't know that song,
too. So that was not a good thing for the listeners, you know, like, but how do you
not try? You know, put on your inner body. So anyway, yeah, you're here to sing about
and are talking about a new song called Yeah, imagining. Yeah, imagining is a song
that perfect timing. Like, you know, you get up this morning. It's like a little crisp
out. And then this afternoon, it's going to be in the 60s. And it's nice, nice
springtime and everything's going to get start getting green. So it's just a song about
when you're, you know, younger and you meet a girl. And it's you put yourself in this
spot pretty quickly. You know, you meet a girl, you're 17 or so. And you don't really
know what you're doing, you know, and you're kind of shy. And at least for me, and all
you can do is kind of grin when they're talking. And you're just this total dork, but, you
know, inside your picture and how your life could be, you know, it's like, you almost
have this real in your head of, you know, I could, I could just see this working out.
And it's about that. It's just about, you know, doing cannonballs into the, into the
lake, just trying to not go in when your mom's calling, you know, and, and then it's kind
of takes you to your reflecting on those times when you used to think about that, you know,
it's a perfect spring. Summer song. 100%. That's what it's for. Yeah. Yeah. So that's
why we helped. We wanted to release it in the winter. And it was like, no, I don't make
any sense at all, you know? Yeah. Perfect timing. Candamash on WRC.
She had her long legs bangled from the edge of the dark. We were nearly 17.
Lies were shining brighter than the water that was listening. And when she laughed,
when she smiled, all I could do was grin. Even though it didn't look like I was doing much,
I was imagining, I was imagining, I was imagining, I was imagining, I was imagining, I was imagining,
then it was time to go out and try to find reason to make it never晕, swinging
RO. Jumpin' in man I was candid by on champion, when she laughed, when she smiled,
and all I could do was grin, even though it didn't look like I was doing much,
I was imagining, happy me, just happy, holding hands and stepping on feet, happy me, just happy,
something lies in the code of chains, and all the things that we could have been,
I was imagining, I was imagining,
yeah it's summer came and that summer went, that was the best dang summer that I
have spent, I could still see your dancing, that hot summer miss, sun hello blowing,
when she was heaven singing, with that laugh, and it smiled, now all I could do was grin,
when I think back to the summer when, I was imagining, happy me, just happy,
holding hands and stepping on feet, happy me, just happy, something lies in the code of chains,
and all the things that we could have been, I was imagining,
I was imagining,
she had a long legs dangling from the edge of the dark, and we were nearly seventeen,
oh I like it, imagining,
on WRC already, yeah you can kind of just feel the warmth, you can feel the, maybe the
awkwardness of being that age, yeah, yeah, 100%, do you sing harmony with yourself on those songs?
I do, I do, and it's kind of funny, it's so hard to do harmony, so we just came out of studio,
and you know when you're doing your song for the first time, some of these players are just so
good singers, they can just sit there and one take, just do it, and I'm like, how?
So thank you to my producer, he suffers through with the keyboard, and I'll be like,
having my main verse, and he's like, you want to be right here? He's in the key, I'm like,
all right dude, one line at a time, but it's, you know, it's like sibling harmonies,
how your own vocal can really blend well, so he's really cool, and I in no way claim to be
a professional harmony vocalist, but I, you know, I always think about, remember Billy Joel?
Yeah, well, he had a song for the longest time. Yeah, and it's like, he did all of those vocals,
did you know that? He's like, yeah, oh, the low, and he was like, that was like the first time anybody
had ever, to my knowledge, I was like, at least in my head, it was like the first time anybody had
that multi-track approach, you know, before that, you know, we were just talking about like, you know,
you had free bird and all that, they just were like, going, and you had a splice tapes together,
he did all of his own harmonies on it, so that's just always stuck in my head, it's cool.
Pretty impressive. Yeah, and to be, yeah, so he's, he's incredible, but, uh, yes,
dance your, your question the long way, yes, I do my harmony vocals, it's pretty fun.
And you have a good, uh, staff behind you in the studio, it sounds like.
Oh my gosh, yeah, thank you so much to everybody on there. Um, they've becktold the producer,
and he's been producing my music for 15 years now, and he's just fantastic. He, uh,
we were, we were recording, and I, uh, on the new songs, I'm like, you know, I, I want to make
sure I can actually do these every night and not blow my vocals out, you know, so I'm like, should
I drop it down? He's like, no, no, man, the energy is so cool when you're just going for those
notes and stuff. So we're doing it, and sometimes you just kind of want to riff on it, and I'm like,
I'm doing a take on the bridge, I just go ham, and he never does, he like stops. He's like,
yeah, no, no, no, let's, uh, he just like stopped me right in the middle. Back off.
Yeah, take a take a break, man. But, uh, no, he's, he's fantastic. And also, um, that song,
we just had their imagining, um, we did that one where you can now pre like engineer the sound,
like on a keyboard, and we have a guy that's just phenomenal. He'll, he'll have like, I'll have that,
you know, like, that's how I write it, just with bar chords, right? And then he's like, oh,
got it. And then he adds all this other stuff. One guy figures out all, it's like, uh,
it's like a Mozart putting together an orchestra piece, right? But he does it not on sheets. It's
like, it's really live. So you hear it and it sounds kind of, um, I don't know, uh, not polished at
all. I don't know. You want almost like a kid's instrument on some of it because he's not really
trying to make it perfect, but, but it sounds amazing, right? And, and then you, you sing over that,
and then you have the band that can do pieces like the drummer can do their set in their home studio
in office and pieces together on that album. I heard it and I was like, mm, not liking it. I mean,
I was like ready to completely start over and they was like, dude, it's not broken. You know,
he's like, you're just not understanding the process because it's changed, okay? So I basically
got back together in the studio with everybody and we barely tweaked it at all. And then I love
how it turned out. So the next one we did, he's like, hey, instead of going through all that pain,
why don't we all do it the old school way? So we did just like you picture in all the movies,
we got in the studio, everybody's in a big room, and it was so much fun. You know, it's like the
experience, like when I hear the song, the experience of it is so cool because like, we'll replay and
Mike is playing on guitar, and I mean, I'm in the sound booth and he could, he and I could see
each other through a little glass window and I'm just like going, yeah, you know, just like, yeah,
I'm like, do some Billy Gibbons, man. Keep it going. Yeah, last time we were talking, we were talking
about, you know, like, you know, that. And he has all this. And I'm like, get those, get those
double sound to get some of that, you know, that pinched, pinched harmonics and he, he just went
ham on this, on this recording. It's so cool. Can't, you can't hear for a minute, but anyway,
that experience of being in person just gives it a whole different energy and I think you capture
it in the music. So yeah, I think it probably sounds a little bit more real. Yeah, it's organic.
And yeah, and for myself personally, it's like going to a concert, you know, we were talking about
off air. I love listening to my own stuff, you know, it's like, it helps me to remember the words,
frankly, you know, like to hear my own music, when you hear music on the radio, it gets in your DNA,
and that's why they have those shows, you know, it's like, you end up memorizing lyrics without
knowing it, right? So it's like, sometimes I'm like, oh, man, when I'm playing my own music,
I don't hear it all the time. So I end up listening to it. And every time I do, it's like,
why you go to a concert, you relive that concert of, oh, yeah, I'm like, we're just going nuts
on that. And so and so was going like other drums. The guy was just going crazy. And every time
you hit the Tom Tom's, I'm like, yeah, that's that sound I want, you know, he's like, look at
him, he's going, got you. He just goes down. Does that put the pressure that will, you know,
your life in the studio, you know, you don't want to make any mistakes because, you know,
one person messes up. Yeah, I know it's a good pressure. It's a good pressure because it makes
everybody just perform up a level. But then, so what's funny is you do it and you're like,
nailed it. And then there's like hours of, you know, hey, Dave Polly, could you take me to
the second bar on blah, blah, just go ahead and hit me at this. And then they just start going
and they just go, okay, got it, take me to the and they just do this forever because they hear
these little nuances and they do a track right over it to fix whatever, you know, it was not what
they thought was, you know, or they'll finish and go, hey, at that bridge, let's come back around
and I'm going to try it with, and they'll do something on the drums. So you, there's pressure,
but there isn't. You know, I mean, there's an eraser. Yeah, you're not going to ruin it if you
put anything is, you know, I can't, I mean, really honestly, I can't even tell the difference from
when we do it to these, you know, some people can hear every instrument in a song and they're looking
for that. Hey, I just kind of hear the overall feel and like it. And, you know, so they do their
thing and I literally just kind of sit on the couch and the back kind of wait in front of the next
song. I'm not that biggie. Do your magic. Yeah, absolutely. Well, you got your guitar
in hand. Would you play one for us here? I'd love to. I would love to. All right. So yeah.
Can't do much on WRC already. Oh, live.
I wish I had a little more time with you that night.
I wish I'd had a little more love to give.
I wish you'd given me one more chance to make things right. Oh, I wish, wish, wish. I wish I did.
I wish the song could bring you back to me with all the summer days and sweet memories.
I wish the stars could see that all I ever need is one wish.
Bring you back to me. Oh, I wish, wish, wish. Oh, I wish, wish.
That the world would stop that you'd be there with me. Oh, I wish, wish, wish.
I put on my lonely star that you were wishing to let start with me.
I wish the world had seen the routing on the wall.
I wish the world had known a little more.
I know you wish it's well they might have all come true.
Oh, I wish your wishes were of me and you.
Oh, now all the things I miss, I could wrap up in one wish.
For you and your love and your tenderness.
Oh, and all the nights I'd cried as I'd look up to the sky like we used to on a blanket as a kiss.
Oh, I wish the stars could see that all I ever need is one wish.
Bring you back to me. Oh, I wish, wish, wish.
I put on my lonely star that the world would stop that you'd be here with me.
Oh, I wish, wish, wish.
I put on my lonely star that you were wishing to let start with me.
That you were wishing to let start with me.
Oh, I wish.
I like it. Good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, a little bit reminiscent and I was that listening to almost like a rock vocal
with kind of a country sound. Yeah, that's funny. You said that.
Yeah, yeah. And yeah, I mean, what is what is country music right now? It's like all kinds of
things, you know, but you and I were talking about I got a lot of rock and roll in my back pocket
on my brain, you know, and I grew up on ACDC and Aerosmith and you know, all that stuff.
And I referenced that in my conversations, but you know, I just love the music and yeah,
it's all over the place, you know, good stuff. Is that one that isn't out yet?
That is not out yet. No, I said it's kind of fun. I'm just going to throw it out stuff that nobody's
heard. It drops on May 3rd with the rest of the album on Welcome to My Rodeo and that's called
I Wish and a WRC Oh, exclusive. Yeah, there you go, baby. Yeah. We're in the studio with
Oh, we're having some fun this morning. Yeah, we're trying to capture some of the magic while we
are on commercial break there. But yeah, we were talking about your influences and Elvis was one
of the first ones, wasn't he? Yeah, we were just talking the very, you know, we didn't say this,
though, very first time I ever sang. I was at a wedding and the lady said, hey, can I sing a song?
I'm like, not my thing. And I think it was, oh, what was this song? Oh, it's
sorry. Hey, nice dead airtime, Kenny. Oh, I forget which one it was, but there's like so many
Elvis songs and I was telling my sister had an Elvis album, The Vinyl, and she had a fog hat.
And you just said how your song has some rock and roll in it and stuff, but we're then talking
about Elvis and you guys already do your medley again. I'm a little sister. Yeah, that's right. That's right.
And your big sister, I took her to the show, I went to Baltimore candy along, came to Danny and
Ace, let blind out the door. This is the donju. This is the donju.
Well, we were trying to do these in a country, country version, and then it goes like, how do
we want to do it here? Yeah, that's right.
One through a party in the country, grizzin' bands down that gang in the web, bam,
there's none left, no check, boom, bam. The whole rhythm section wants a purple gang,
there's a rock, never bothered, there's a rock, never bothered, there's a whole set of
blind, with dance until the jail has a rock. I just love all that stuff, it's so cool.
It wasn't one, listen.
A little bit of they go. Heartbreak hotel.
What's that start?
We'll send some money.
Oh yeah, but I was sent to my baby, left me, I find a new place in 12,
down at the end of lonely speed, it's a hot break hotel.
I feel so lonely, I feel so lonely, I feel so lonely, I could die.
The bell-lapse tears keep flowing, the dust clung, stressing black,
the winds so long, down lonely street, they'll never come back, I feel so lonely.
So watch my backup.
I feel so lonely, yeah, I could die.
Perfect.
A little bit more so, yeah. So he's in everything, isn't he?
Yeah.
That was President?
Yeah, he's in everything.
Yeah, he really is.
Yeah, he and between him and Hank Williams, and you talk about country music,
a couple of guys that influence many, and still hear people cover in their songs.
That they got all the ACDC and all that.
Anyway, we're off on a tangent, baby.
Talking about candlelight.
I take influences.
Another influence.
Another influence.
Not really, no attention, he's country-fighting.
Yeah, country-fighting.
I wonder if how you'd country-fight this.
So, uh...
You know what I'm talking about?
The whole...
Herbana style?
Yeah, and just...
What else could I be?
All about Jesus.
What else could I write?
Well, I don't have the right.
In the song, in the song, we hold as one.
In the song, in the song, married.
Barried.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wish that I would like you.
The easily amused.
Sunshine free's a burn.
I'm choking all the ashes of a runaway.
In the song, in the song, we hold as one.
Married.
Married.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All alone is all we are.
All alone is all we are.
I kind of love all that.
Tremendous.
Yeah.
It is a...
I don't know, sorry, I'm off on a rant.
Lots and fun.
Yeah, in the last time we played music trivia when you were here,
so we'll have to maybe do that before we let you go.
We've kind of gotten off a little bit of a gadget there.
I was going to bring it back here to a song if you wanted.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, but I don't know how much time you have.
I don't know what it does.
Sure, sure.
We need to take a break, but we'll...
Let's take a break.
Kenny, settle down, man.
One of our favorite guys to have in the studio, man.
You're not Mike Shai, that's for Shai.
hanging out in the studio with Ken Dumasher.
Good buddy back in the studio with us.
Always have a good time when you step by.
Lots and lots.
This has been fun.
Yeah, I think we keep saying,
darn, why didn't we keep the mic on?
We were rocking out.
We were.
Oh, yes, but you're doing well.
You're staying busy playing a few shows, are you?
Yeah, like we were just saying, I'm out going to radio stations.
I'm just touring the country for several months
on this song I'm edging.
Just going out and playing it live on the air,
playing the other songs on the album on the air.
May 3rd, we have the full album gets released
on all streaming platforms.
Radio can play as well.
It's just, you know, you know how the process works,
certain songs, you like target to get across the country on the air.
But yeah, that comes out May 3rd,
so I'll be playing all over the country on that.
And then, like I said, the new album is already in the works.
Awesome.
Oh, we've been playing your songs for a few years.
So what's been the most successful radio song?
Actually, as far as like on the charts,
the if I was a beer made top 40, which was exciting.
And then drink about that was actually played more
on more stations, but only charted 42,
which is still, when I say only compared to the other,
it just didn't quite beat it.
But it was like played more,
but there were just other songs played a ton.
But it's super excited, super excited.
Be anywhere near that.
It's just unbelievable.
For an independent artist, that's so cool.
Oh yeah, no, for an independent artist,
as our as our promoting team was like,
dude, that is like the gold standard.
You know, it's like, you know,
and are you are you satisfied with it?
Of course you're elated, but of course you're like,
what's up stairs?
What's further up there?
You know, today they had,
imagining was number 19 on the most streamed on play MP,
which was cool.
I posted that because I'm like,
any list that starts with Dali Parton at number one.
And I'm in this list in the top 20.
I'm going to go ahead and brag about that.
You know, it's like, look at that.
So imagining, you know,
depending on what you consider like what's doing the best,
the music videos, imagining is just doing really well.
I mean, it's upwards to like 100,000 views.
You know, it's climbing more than the others.
And stream wise, they're all doing great.
So yeah, it's been exciting as I'll get out.
Yeah, I really like that.
And imagining, I could hear Tim McGraw or somebody else.
I know what's funny.
Cover that.
You know what's funny?
That song, I was sharing some intimate brain thoughts of,
you know, they're like, how do you write a song like that?
And I said, well, if I was going to really tell you,
now Tim McGraw had a song, she had it alone.
No, that's my song, my bed.
Ha, she had a barbecue stain.
Yeah, her white t-shirt.
Uh-huh.
Labor Day weekend.
Yeah, yeah, what is that song?
Something like that.
Yeah, something like that.
Hard, don't forget.
Something like that.
I don't know.
It's just this light, beautiful song,
right?
I've always, like, love that.
My kids have that, that they play all the time.
I just love that song, right?
Put you in this feel, even I'm talking to you.
I kind of like my shoulders drop a little bit.
I just feel really comfortable.
And I love that, that spot.
So you get yourself in a head spot,
and then you write a song.
I would say this title track to the song,
we were just talking about.
You kind of get into it, a space in your mind,
and then you write a song.
You can't write a sad song if you're like, at a party.
Very well.
You know what I mean?
And you get into this melancholy state,
and you write a song like I wish.
And so anyway, I also had some kid rock in my head
when I was writing that, you know,
that whole all summer long.
As a matter of fact, when we shot the video,
completely by happenstance, I thought he,
well, I don't know if I'm giving anything away.
We shot ours at Percy Priest Lake in Nashville.
And it has a lot of the same feel in my head
as like a kid rock video, you know what I mean?
So you get influenced by all these favorite artists.
So to answer your question,
yeah, I appreciate that, and that's the secret.
Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.
Ken Dumashe and the studio winners today.
And how about singing another song?
I would love to. We were a minute ago.
Excuse me doing that whole.
You know, talking about influences and having that,
you know, what is could I be?
So excuse me, I just drank my coffee wrong.
The title track to welcome Nairobiot has a lot of that in it.
So if you listen to it, you feel like where are these songs coming from?
This is from a rocking side of my brain.
I've been your truck and put it in dry.
Pick up a few friends, you know, know your life.
Follow the dust in the flash and tell lies to the glow
that's got at last all night.
Get yourself close to the stage.
Feel the beat bolstering through your veins.
Then hold your head back and close your eyes
as I see your guitar.
Feel the sky.
Welcome to Mount Rodeon.
It's a rocking old fantasy.
Welcome to Mount Rodeon.
Come on, come on, take a ride with me.
We got bullhorns on limbs and you might get a little dust
in mud on your jeans.
Here at Mount Rodeon.
Yeah, we've got no rules to keep you down
to hold your glass tied as you're bumping around.
Pull some trouble mixed with the good time.
Chase it down with a heavy bass line.
The place is getting hotter.
The devil's begging for some water.
As flames start shooting from the sandal ring.
One of the bullhounds up is extreme.
Welcome to Mount Rodeon.
It's a rocking old fantasy.
Welcome to Mount Rodeon.
Oh, come on, come on, take a ride with me.
We got bullhorns on limbs and you might get a little dust
in mud on your jeans.
Here at Mount Rodeon.
Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon,
Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon, Rodeon.
Welcome to Mount Rodeon, here's a ride and no fancy.
Welcome to Mount Rodeon, come on, come on, take a ride and see.
We got bullhorns on limbs and you might get a little dust
in mud on your jeans.
Here at Mount Rodeon.
Yes, man, you can bend some strings here.
You know, that song usually if I put my meter on this,
ever strings out now.
Oh, I bet.
It's a show starter and it's a guitar ender.
Oh, no doubt about it.
So what about the family?
They're doing well?
Family's doing great.
Yeah, my wife, she's not in the next video,
which she was and there's a long story too.
And she's like, that makes me look like I died in the video.
And I'm like, yeah, but she's doing fantastic.
And she supports everything.
And she doesn't know it yet.
But honey, we have another song some.
And so get ready for those videos.
Yeah, she's been great.
She's been like my star in all the videos.
Kids are all amazing.
My son is an extraordinary at playing piano.
So he doesn't know yet, but I've got my eye on him
to see if he'll go out on tour with me at all.
He's so gifted at it.
Has he been on any of the tracks in the studio?
No, he just doesn't.
He hasn't figured that out.
And he's still pretty young to figure all that out.
But at the same time, he's like a savante at it.
He's just so, so he's helped me actually.
More than he knows, we have a song.
On the song, he's like, why don't you go from the D to this B minor?
I'm like, wow, I do that.
And he's just like, well, I'll try it.
I'm like, oh, and he's so funny.
He hears my songs.
And he's like, a lot of your songs do the 145.
And he always throw in the six minor.
He's just talking total Nashville numbering.
And I'm like, yeah, because that's, you know, and he goes,
just skip that one and go.
So he'll just like throw out these little quips.
And I'll be like, hmm.
And I tinker with it.
He's just brilliant at it.
So I think music theory from your son there a little bit.
Yeah, he really just picked up on it.
It's very anybody that does music.
My daughter, she's really good at piano.
But, you know, it's not something she wants to, you know,
air quote, do.
She'll just play piano for herself.
My sister grew up playing piano, mostly just to, you know,
for her own feels good.
It's healthy.
I play music every day.
And I didn't grow up doing music.
I grew up drawing.
And every day, if I don't grab a guitar,
I just, I'm just not in a healthy, happy state, you know what I mean?
It's just really, it's like a way to tune your brain up.
And it's funny how everybody's brain works differently, you know?
That's, you have music and somebody else has exercise
or whatever the case might be.
For sure.
And I really think music, though, like I had a really bad concussion
when I was coach and soccer.
I'd tripped over a kid and just punk.
I mean, bounced off my head and raised me to the hospital.
I didn't break my head.
But, you know, they sent you home with, like,
you're dizzy for a long, long time, right?
And I, the only way I could stop not feeling badly was to play.
I would take, I literally would sit down to look at emails
and take out my guitar and just be like,
and I would look at an email and be like,
okay, and I could focus just by doing this.
And I literally was doing this.
And I was like, I did a thing.
I was like, hmm.
Stand at the rings and look, just figure things out.
Feels like I'm in a country song on the rodeo clown.
I keep molding through, putting on a good show.
I can't take much more.
I think I'm ready to blow.
So just push me.
Just a little bit more.
Let's see.
Won't you get?
Let's see what's in store.
So it was funny.
It was called push me.
That's right.
Just falling.
But just that kind of stuff,
I saw a documentary about how we can,
how you can hurt your brain and have some of the wiring
in your brain get hurt, damaged, and it doesn't always heal.
And I can, I feel like I just totally attest to that kind of stuff,
like found a new way to make my brain completely heal.
And if I don't do it, I'm a mess.
I don't feel like, you know what I mean?
It's like something about music.
And I think all of us just love music.
And it also triggers memory.
Who knows how it works?
It's like, you hear a song and you're instantly back there.
You know, like the Tim McGraw song.
You hear it.
And you feel like you're living what his memory was.
So that long, long, long story with a song like imagining.
I'm hoping that makes people think about,
oh yeah, I remember when I met this girl,
or this girl had this guy that just kind of smiling at her,
but you know, whatever came of it.
And you just can remember all those formative memories.
Yeah, I think that's why you can remember songs from when you were young.
Sometimes easier when you're older.
That's true.
That's true.
Although there's some great songs out now.
You know, it's like, I'm sorry, I'm going off on another tangent.
But yeah, most definitely.
I get in the studio with our good friend Ken Dumascha,
a WRC, a radio.
And keeping him company with some good sounds and some fun.
Oh, he's, I'm not cheating.
Oh, they're always giving me quizzes on the radio.
So he's got his play sheet there, okay?
I was just writing down some of this.
So music trivia, we did this the last time you were here.
Right.
Had a lot of fun with it.
We did rock last time.
Oh yeah, what have we been doing this time?
Country.
Let's do some country.
Oh, let's do some country.
I might struggle a little more.
Virgil?
Maybe.
We'll see.
Can we start?
Yep, go ahead.
Well, I'm walking to the room
and an out $100 bills and it kills and it thrills
like the horns on my silver-hattle grill.
And I've bought a bar, another round of crown.
Everybody's getting down in this town.
It'll go and be you the same.
Big and rich?
Yeah.
So I settle in my house
and I'll ride into the city.
I make a lot of noise cause the girls they are so pretty.
Riding up and down the road where my old stony ride
and the girls say,
save the holes or ride a cowboy.
Everybody said, save the holes or ride a cowboy.
You got that one, right?
I know that one.
Okay, so you got one.
All right, here we go.
So one for one.
One for one.
Well, I ain't rich,
but a dang sure one to be.
Working like a dog all day and walking to me.
I wish I had a rich uncle that'd kick the bucket
and I'd be sitting on a pile like a warren buck.
I know everybody says,
money can't buy happiness,
but it can buy me a boat.
It can buy me a truck to pull this.
It can buy me a year,
he wants ten hours down,
a zelba boat and two.
Yeah, I know what they say.
Money can't buy everything.
Maybe so.
But it can buy me a boat.
Buy me a boat?
You were smiling, you knew that?
I do that.
You're on radio, man.
You got to tell people.
Well, I was just wondering if I said it, you'd quit, so.
The thing is like, name that tune
and if you get it fast, then we stop.
All right, oh, next one.
All right, I'm sorry.
I was singing until you kind of were like,
yeah, I get it.
Oh, wait a minute.
Okay.
Yeah, seven teens, you don't know
left much about life.
You're just living.
A lot of care has seemed as around the fire,
but you're in it.
So you're jumping right in,
and fade too far, and you give it all.
Yes, you got the best of me.
The Larry Church.
You broke my heart and all that's left to me.
Oh, here's living in this guitar.
Every night a different town.
She follows me around, but she gets what's best of me.
She got the best of me.
She got the best of me.
I comes.
Oh, yeah, look how I know that you know.
Now, Luke comes sings it a whole lot.
No, I knew the song, but I couldn't buy it here.
It's very good.
Right, so that's two to one.
Well, yeah, I didn't get the fairy.
Yeah, we're not, yeah, you know, you're the host, but.
Let's see.
All right, here we go.
All right, we have time for more.
Yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Let's see.
Maybe you look foolish.
Wow.
Beautiful.
Crazy.
Maze me.
The way that's dancing.
And I'm afraid to take chances.
And where's my home sleeve?
You get it?
Yeah, I was looking at it.
Beautiful.
Crazy.
Is it beautiful?
Great.
Leave us.
Uh, no, uh, look home.
Luke comes together.
Yeah, look home.
Look at that.
You can mess it up here.
But yeah, so you get that.
No, I didn't actually.
All right, all right.
Yeah, typewriter around typewriter around.
Let's see.
Too many new country songs here for me, you know?
Now, I'm, I'm gonna go two different ways.
And I like all those guys.
They're great.
They're great.
All right, so.
I'll see.
The earth train coming to roll in around a bit.
Haven't seen the sun.
Shine, shine, shine, shine, shine.
Also, press blue.
Oh, yeah.
All right, you're winning now.
You go, you go older in there.
All right, well then I'm gonna mess you up.
I'm gonna take my horse down.
All town road.
I'm gonna run until I can no more.
Old town road.
Little mass accident.
Shut the door.
You got there, right?
Uh, so what are you uppers?
I think I'm up four four two or something like that is in there.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Well, here I'm gonna mess with you now.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just sitting at this bar soon, drinking as reality starts to sink in that you're so
pretty.
You're out of my league.
You'd never see yourself with a guy like me.
If I was a bear, I was gonna say it.
I think that might be somebody's song I know.
That was so risky to throw my song into that mix and he'd be like, I have no idea.
That is not familiar at all.
I get your song, right?
You know what?
You know what?
Let's stop on that.
That's awesome.
Good job.
You wanted it.
Oh, man.
Always fun to have you in here, my friend.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're great.
Yeah, never for a lack of energy.
You know, things like that.
You're a natural, but we wish you best of luck in your future.
Thank you.
We have a favorite quote from Phil.
You're not shy of the mic.
You're not a mic shy.
Thanks, man.
Thank you so much.
And we hope imagining does real well.
Thank you.
You've already made the video for that.
Yeah.
Check it out.
It's a neat one for me because we kind of ventured into some new territory.
We had a casting director find somebody that played a younger me and played a younger
version of my wife and filmed it at a lake and just really did a lot of thinking behind
it.
And you can see there's a Polaroid camera that's my mom and dad.
There's the 70s blanket that they're on.
It's my mom and dad.
Really?
Oh.
My sister bought me when I was a real little kid.
It's like the boom box with the cassette player.
Oh, cool.
So it's filled with my father-in-law's tackle box.
It has all this authentic 70s stuff.
So it's shot like a 70s video.
And then at the very end, as a spoiler alert, the two are walking off the dock and it becomes
me and my wife.
So it's a, to me, it's got a lot of mental meaning, but some actors playing in the video,
though, you're probably like, that guy, you know, he's cooler than me.
We did.
It's like, I'm imagining I was a lot better looking when I was young, so I'm going to get
some really cool dude.
It's up to me.
I know that.
So yeah, rewrite my history.
Oh, again, how can people find your music, Ken?
Yeah, you just, if you just look up Ken, it's D-O-M-A-S-H. And you go to my website.
You can find all of my links to Facebook.
I Instagram all of these radio, like my whole journey, you know, I'm just trying to put
that out there so people see it.
You can go to any streaming platform and look up, we'll have, like I said, May 3rd to
have the whole new album of the out, so that'll be fun.
So look forward to it.
Safe travels to you, my friends.
Thank you so much.