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WRCO Live Studio Artist Interview: Ryan Jewel

WRCO Music Guests & Interviews · Thu Jun 27, 2024

It is with great pleasure. We welcome into the studio. Another of our traveling musicians courtesy of grassroots entertainment Ryan Jewel. How are you doing Ryan?

Wonderful. How about yourself? How are we doing? Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you for coming in here all the way from Virginia.

Front row over Virginia. Yeah. Born and raised. By way of Nashville. By way of Nashville. Yeah. Yeah. Move there in 2017. But uh, yeah, originally from Front Row.

And was music something that you always wanted to do?

Nope. No. So what was it? You know, I always played a guitar. But I was never I never thought that this would happen.

Not until I got to Cleanson started playing the bars and fraternity parties and

anywhere I could and realized I can make a couple of dollars doing it and then I built a follow-in and

it kind of just kind of kept snowballing and snowballing and graduated college. Move back to Virginia.

Built the following up in Virginia and it kept on snowballing there too. And that's why I got to

I got to decide something. I got to either go to work and use my degree or

pursue this music thing. And here we are. What was your degree in? I've got a bachelor's and wildlife and fisheries biology.

Okay. If I'm not playing music or singing, I'm I'm hunting something.

Just what I do. You probably enjoyed your little tour through Wisconsin then, haven't you? Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. I'm thinking of all the big deer I'm passing and driving right by and and all the fish and

oh yeah. Big fish jumping and everything else. I don't know why we couldn't done this in the fall.

Right. Right. I would have stayed a couple of days maybe another week. Yeah, you can come back.

I will be back. Sure. Definitely. Yeah. Did you play any sports back in high school or college?

Little football in high school and then I played two years of college football. Did you?

Yeah, I was a walk on so football. What position? I walked on as a receiver and then we got a whole bunch of

like four and five star recruits at a high school after my first year. And those names are like

Deandre Hopkins and Marta was Brian and Sammy Watkins and all those guys. So they said we like

you but we're going to put you at free safety because you're fast and you can hit and you can

jump and all that good stuff. So why receive a first year free safety second year. Yeah,

and I'm still my knees and shoulders still feel it. Do they? Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah,

that's that's one of the the downsides of the game too isn't it? Right. Yeah, I would do it again

in heartbeat. Yeah. I wish I could put shoulder pads on today. Right. I would. And that's

something. Yeah. But they didn't affect your guitar playing. Didn't hurt your shoulder. My hands

are still good. Hands are good. But now and then I get a little tingling in my fingers but we're good.

That's probably because I slipped on them around. Yeah, I know how that goes. Yeah.

Well, you've been writing a few songs along the way too. And you've had some some radio play.

And what was the first song of yours that got some radio play? Do you recall? You know, off my

second album, they kind of local stuff around Virginia. Heads on yours got some play.

What do you do with the woman that got some play? But never like charting play.

Um, and then we released my first official radio single. Heads on the same bar different town.

And that went that peaked at number 51 on the radio charts last. We we sent that to radio last

October. And it finally peaked I think this year, but in February march or something. So yeah,

that was my first official release. So it was. And that's an older now. Yeah. It's an oldie now.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. A court. Yeah. I mean, that's the new age of music and radio and streaming.

Yeah. That's old news. A half a year ago. That's old news. It doesn't make any sense. But

so be it. You've been been writing a few. You're speaking voices sound a little bit like Josh Turner.

Yeah. Yeah. You get that probably from time to time. I've heard that a time or two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I heard. I heard Josh and Scotty McCreery. Oh, yeah. Uh, I've heard, uh, Alan Jackson on

steroids and all kinds of good stuff, man. Yeah. How about you sing this one? Yeah. I'd love to.

I'd love to. And I'm going to do, uh, I'll do one off the fourth album that we, uh, we don't really

have a release date for it yet. But it's one that I wrote with, um, Daniel Leather Sitch and

Rolston Wells and Wolf Moller down in Tennessee. And, uh, it's called Barbarian Vocays.

So I hope y'all like it.

Me and my grandpa walk post to post, tighten in the fence, and patching up holes,

he'd rest in between taking me where the wild flowers grow.

One time I asked him, hey, why are we stopping? His old scarred of hands held up days,

easing bonnets said I think she'll like the colors I chose. Now come on, we got miles still to go.

For something last forever, forever means every day.

Whether it's tough or it's tender, you'll do whatever it takes. When you see it that way,

they're one in the same barbed wire and bouquet.

You built that farm up and he passed down the land. Now I'm the one with the scars on my hands,

and a woman hot like by my side for as long as I live.

When I want her to know that I'm thinking about her, I bring back a handful of flowers,

cause for something last forever, forever means every day.

Whether it's tough or it's tender, you'll do whatever it takes. When you see it that way,

they're one in the same barbed wire and bouquet.

One tart and cold can cut you right through. You want the soft bundle of green,

white and blue. Oh, for keep close what you don't want to do.

For something last forever, forever means every day.

Whether it's tough or it's tender, you'll do whatever it takes. When you see it that way,

they're one in the same barbed wire and bouquet.

When you see it that way, they're one in the same barbed wire and bouquet.

Oh, that is awesome. Yeah, people listening might have thought that was a recording.

I'm okay with that. That was live. That's awesome.

Tell me about the inspiration for that song.

He had just moved to town a month ago before we wrote that.

Him and I did a show the night before and I had just met him.

Wolf was a really good songwriter, really good singer.

He got this really high pitch, like tenor voice, something that I can only dream of.

He might only dream of my voice, too, because we're complete opposite ends of the spectrum.

Great guitar player, great writer. After the show, I said,

I got to write tomorrow once you come and sit in with us.

I'll introduce you to some of my buddies and see what we can come up with.

I'll see you tomorrow. We got into the writing room.

I said, man, you got any ideas? What do you want to write about?

You're doing the artist thing, too, so you want to write a song for you?

You want to write a song for me? What you want to do?

Well, my wife said before I walked out the door,

I had this idea of me growing up because he's from Texas.

I grew up in Texas with my granddad.

Barbed wire and bouquets kind of comes to mind with how it can be hard,

how it can be easy, but anything, it still holds everything together.

Okay, he's holding love together. Barbed wire holds everything in.

That's a pretty cool idea. He said, yeah, but my wife said,

if you're going to write it, you better not, you know what, it up.

I said, oh, okay. I said, all right, well, let's see what we can do here.

We were kind of, if we were like, I don't know if we want to write this, we don't even know this guy.

That's what we came up with. We started that song.

I think we got the first verse in chorus and started into the second chorus,

our time ran up. So about a month later,

I was in Alabama, Turkey hunting, and we finished that.

I was in a Zoom, if we did a Zoom thing, I was in Alabama there in Tennessee.

We finished this on that day.

Yes, it's his idea, but I think it's very relatable across the board.

If you had older generation, younger generation, what have you?

It's a cool love song, man.

Yeah, tying that into a relationship, bingo. Keeping it together.

Yeah. I think there's some hip potential in that one. I really do.

Well, you should hear the production factor on it.

So we've got it, we've got that we're recorded.

We've got the 12 songs on my fourth album.

And, you know, the same players that are on all of Morgan Walland stuff,

and Luke Combe stuff, and Chris Young stuff, all that stuff.

Jerry Rowan Drums, and Jeff Roach on the piano,

and Ely Toshinsky on guitar and production.

They did all, like, Luke Combe's beautiful crazy.

Kind of a big hit.

Yeah, that was.

So all those guys that played on that record are on this one.

So when people hear bar wire and bouquets on the CD,

they're going to be like, man, I can hear the similarities in that song.

So they're calling it the next beautiful crazy.

Oh, we hope so.

And I'm okay with that.

We can say we knew him when.

Hey, and that's a guy that stopped by and said one day.

There you go.

Yeah, yeah.

So when these studio musicians get together,

do they actually have music?

Do they have sheets, or do they just go in?

Well, it's in the key of E.

We have the key.

Yeah, and they do the Nashville number system.

So we go in and we'll sit down in the big,

in the main room, and listen to the demo,

or listen to the work tape, or what have you.

Whoever's producing it will listen to it.

And as we're listening to the song,

as the guys are listening to the song,

he'll write out a chart, number chart.

And it's just literally like five, six lines,

eight lines of numbers.

And it's one, four, five, six, and three, quarter,

or mine, or whatever.

Stuff that doesn't make any sense to me.

I know now, because I'm familiar with it.

But when I first, when I first cut my first record in 2019 in Nashville,

I was like, what in the world is this you're doing?

And how can anybody translate that into immediately a song?

And the guys know exactly when to play.

They know exactly when to not play.

They know the beat, they know the rhythm, they know the timing,

they know the key, all from that little chart.

And I think I've got some pictures posted on my social media

of what a number chart looks like.

It looks nothing like music at all.

Just numbers with circles on it.

They've done it so long.

It's just second nature.

It's unreal, man.

Yeah.

And they just pull it out.

I mean, we might, maybe one guy will be like,

hey, can you play this at a minute and 30?

Can you play that again?

I missed a part.

But other than that, I mean, we don't spend much time listening to it.

They don't.

I'm familiar with the songs, because I've been probably been playing them

for a year and a half at that point.

But those guys, five, ten minutes, and then go right into studio and cut it.

Cut it.

So do they play it all live together?

Or do they kind of play individually?

So that's kind of old school where you get to band playing live.

So they got their individual rooms.

And then if they need to redo a part or go back over and dub something over,

if they don't like how it sounded, then we'll, you know,

individually go through and pick it apart.

But the first two, three, four runs through it.

It's all that's everybody together.

And now I'm in the vocal booths singing my little heart out.

Yeah.

You're behind the plexiglass.

Yeah.

Tell them where to go.

That's right.

Yeah.

What can you tell us about the radio single you got going right now?

Oh, it all to you.

Yeah.

So I'm very proud of that song.

I wrote that song with Jonathan Oliveras and Aaron Pax Taylor and Joel Jorgensen.

Me and Jonathan started the idea one afternoon down on 16th Avenue in Nashville.

And he said, man, I went to a concert a couple nights ago.

And I forget who he said he saw.

But he said, like every other song, every three songs.

So he was so, he just kept saying, I want to thank my wife.

I want to thank my family for allowing me the opportunity to do this.

You know, thank you, thank you, thank you for all the opportunity.

I love y'all so much.

Forever grateful for them.

And I said, that's pretty cool.

And he's married and has kids.

He said, I want to write a song like that.

Because I think I'd be a really cool idea.

That's what that's.

Yeah.

I think I'd get you some brownie points, dude.

Because I'm not married.

I don't have kids.

So I was like, you know, it's going to be, obviously, I've been in relationships.

But it's a different level when you get when you're married and have kids.

And it's a totally different lifestyle.

I said, so you're going to have to really dig deep in this.

I said, I'll be more than happy to help out.

So we started, we started the verse and the chorus.

And we had an idea of a melody.

And I said, well, dude, I got to go to another right.

But we'll finish this some other time.

I'm looking forward to it.

Because I'm really liking the song.

I got to the next right.

And we're just kind of throwing around ideas.

We didn't have anything to write about.

Because my brain's already fried from the last one.

I said, man, we just started this song.

I mean, I'll text Jonathan and see if he's cool with, you know, us finishing it.

And he said, yeah, go ahead.

Let's see what y'all got.

And they're, again, Aaron's married and Joel's married and got kids.

And we ran with it.

And we, Joel made a demo right there when we were writing the song.

And it's just a appreciation song, you know.

And I use it kind of, my family that supported me and my friends that have turned family

who have supported me over the years and past relationships that have supported me.

And the fans now that I have, maybe the fans in the future, you know,

it's kind of one of those, I appreciate y'all songs.

Thank you so much.

And then you take it on a, on a marriage side.

And whatever their dreams or goals might be in their life, I would alter you.

You could turn into a religion song, you know, and give it to the man upstairs.

You just, it covers a wide array of basis.

Yeah.

All right, well, let's spin it.

And I'm proud of it.

Yeah, you should be.

Oh, at all to you, Ryan Jule and WRCO.

I was tough as I come, I'm a rolling stone.

Ain't nothing going to slow me down.

A two-year-old grown out of living the sun, racing from town to town.

Trying to make it live, and good old Will, I'm going to give it back to you some way.

If it was up to me, I'd never leave.

I keep you wrapped in my arms all day.

Got my backwards against the wall, the way to lose your cheer made of.

Put your dreams on hold to see mine through.

You'd be right there if I lost it all.

The lonely days and late night comes.

A sacrifice to make it all come to you.

And I'll hold on to you.

When I'm out on the road, the further I go,

Feel like I'm starting to break.

At the perfect time, you read my mind

And know just what to say.

My shoulder to lean on.

The one to be strong a few more miles ago.

That older driveway feels a far away, but baby I'm almost home.

Got my backwards against the wall, the way to lose your cheer made of.

Put your dreams on hold to see mine through.

You'd be right there if I lost it all.

The lonely days and late night comes.

A sacrifice to make it all come to you.

And I'll hold on to you.

Yeah, I'm a dreamer.

She's a believer.

It gets harder and harder every time I leave her.

You got my backwards against the wall, the way to lose your cheer made of.

Put your dreams on hold to see mine through.

You'd be right there if I lost it all.

The lonely days and late night comes.

A sacrifice to make it all come to you.

And put your dreams on hold to see mine through.

Yeah, I'll hold on to you.

Good old days.

Who's your favorite?

People still know about it when the final scores.

Who's your favorite pro team then?

You know, since being from Virginia, I like if I have to pull for a protein, the red skins, or the,

but you know, I kind of follow around the old guys that they used to play at Clemson.

It's going to say you've got some tightens and former teammates.

Yeah, Titans and the Jaguars and Texans and you know, they're kind of spread all over the place.

But Titans now a little bit more so because I can relate to it and see in the stadium and be in there, you know, all the time.

I've kind of developed a liking for the Titans, but you're getting further north.

You haven't gotten up to the central.

My mom's listening right now, which she probably is.

She's from Wisconsin.

Is she really?

She's from Elma, Wisconsin.

Elma?

Elma.

Elma Peppin.

Yeah, that's the school district.

Okay, there you go.

Okay.

He's, she's from around the Green Bay area.

So I've got ties to Wisconsin.

I've still got family up here somewhere.

I don't know where they're at, but I've never been in, I've never been to Wisconsin.

This is my first time.

This is your first trip.

All right.

Good.

So, you know, we'll get some green for the love of mom.

Go, Pat, go.

We got some former team.

What did we say?

Sammy?

Sammy Watkins.

Sammy Watkins was Clemson, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, sure was.

I'm trying to think of who else was.

It did some stints there in Clemson.

That played for the Packers, but.

Well, we'll come up with it.

I'll do it.

Oh, yeah.

It's a business.

They go, they come and go every two years.

It's like, good Lord.

Yeah.

Have you ever sung a national anthem before a game?

I never, not a big NFL game like that or baseball game.

No, I love to do it.

I would love to do it.

But I never have.

I've done some smaller stuff, but not a pro level yet.

Maybe, well, that's, that can be down the road.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah.

Not too far down the road.

Got another song to sing for us, right?

I do, yeah.

Yeah.

Let's, um, let's do another, uh, let's do another one that's

going to be on the deluxe version of that fourth album.

Another one that I wrote.

Blaine Younger and Blaine Bunting were the writers on this song.

It's called The Overnight Lose.

The weather man says sunshine again, but the way

have been feeling a france moving him.

So, it covered me up with everything that I had.

I told to Jesus and asked for your back.

They in the middle of the night, I'll reach for you,

but there's nothing on your side.

Just your pit away in the truth.

Though I never felt that time the cold,

while the lonely rolls in with the overnight love.

Yeah.

Been holding back tears like a December rain,

convincing myself nothing has changed.

When my friends are all gone and the moon light creeps in,

I'll home all alone with your memories again.

In the middle of the night, I'll reach for you,

but there's nothing on your side.

Just your pit away in the truth.

Though I never felt that time the cold,

while the lonely rolls in with the overnight love.

In the middle of the night, I'll reach for you,

but there's nothing on your side.

Just your pit away in the truth.

Though I never felt that time the cold,

while the lonely rolls in with the overnight love.

The lonely rolls in with the overnight love.

The weather man says sunshine again.

By the way, I've been feeling a front-smoving heat.

Oh, I like it.

Another one available on the new set.

Exactly.

Which I'm very, very excited to get out.

Very, very excited to get out.

What's the estimated release date?

You know, we don't really have a release date for it yet.

We're trying to push at least one or two of these songs out before the new year.

So this fall, I hope we can get one or two of them out of there.

Just to keep the music fresh.

We're getting ready to release my third album completely on digital platforms.

We've had the big release party last year.

The hard copy, you know, because I still sell CDs and have my shows.

But now we're going to release the whole thing to digital.

So there's four more songs on there that people that just streamer would not haven't heard yet.

So doing that August the second.

And then after that we'll focus on getting the new stuff out there.

We've got to get it done first.

But yeah, it's coming.

What about a Ryan Joule vinyl album releasing?

That's in the work too.

The problem with that is it's so dang expensive to press them.

And there's going to be no way that I'll ever be able to sell a record for, you know,

40 bucks, 50 bucks.

I can't do it.

I can't come to, I can't come to, I mean, I just, that's just covering the cost of them, you know.

I pretty much kept my T-shirts at $25.

I think still that's high.

CDs are $10.

There's no way I could sell a record and feel comfortable doing it at like $40.

So when I find a cheaper way to press vinyl, then it's game on.

I can promise you that.

That $25 T-shirt, that's about, I mean, only a quarter of what you pay for it.

I know, you know, rolling stones or whatever the case might be.

And when I go to those bigger concerts, I'm like, how do you sleep at night?

But I mean, you know, you never know what, how much it was to get impressed or how, you know,

how many different cuts are people are taken from those.

So if you like them, you like them, get a shirt.

But where I'm at right now, it's, I would love to have sweatshirts, but getting them made

and then selling them and having them make a couple dollar profit, I have to sell them like $50.

And that's why I've never done sweatshirts because I just can't justify doing that.

You know, that is how artists do make a little money from that.

From selling the swags.

Yeah, the merch, man, the CDs and the coosies and the hats, T-shirts, stickers, whatever.

You know, you make a little money off of that.

But really, I mean, you quote unquote, make a little money off of it.

But it goes right back into the merchandise account to get more merchandise to sell it again.

So it's just a revolving door.

You know, I'm not taking that money and going to Aruba.

As much as I like to be, but no.

Mine by a coffee, but that's exactly.

Yeah, but no, it's, you know, it goes right back into the account just to keep building the merch.

The merch account to make more and sell more.

Yeah.

Well, you got, are you on a time cruncher?

I got all day, brother.

Oh, you do.

Okay.

All right.

Ryan Jules and the studio have more coming up ahead for this break.

It is 21 before 11 here on a Thursday morning, June 27th.

Finally with you in the studio with Ryan Juleman who has the first dollar he ever made.

And he's good to our case there.

That's pretty impressive.

I'm afraid me one day.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know why I haven't done it yet.

But I think it brings me luck.

Yeah, you open the case and had a dollar in it.

And I'm like, oh, where's my wallet?

It hasn't even played a song yet.

Well, I'm not going to tip this guy.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, it's yeah, first dollar ever made.

So the S.O. Club Clemson, South Carolina.

Wow.

Yeah.

At the time, I was like, oh, just save it.

It'd be cool.

And I think it was 2011, I think it was.

And it has not blown away.

It's not been stolen.

It's not been lost.

It's not been tattered torn.

Nothing.

It's a good luck dollar.

There it is.

It's a one day.

I'm afraid.

Oh, that's amazing.

That's for sure.

Yeah.

So you have a band that you play with?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

They're all back in Virginia.

And I would have loved to bring them up here to do some shows.

And one day, I hope we get the chance to do it.

But we do a handful of shows a year.

Hopefully next year is going to be a lot different.

A lot more full band shows.

But they booked me up pretty good, pretty quick solo too.

So best of both worlds.

Solo is a little bit more money.

Oh, sure.

But full band is just a different aspect, you know.

Completely different delivery.

A lot of fun.

Have you had the chance to open up any shows for?

It's a big name.

Oh, yeah.

People are idolized.

Yeah.

I've done shows with Marty Stewart and Lauren Elena.

Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan.

Little Texas.

Joe Diffie.

God rest his soul.

Neil McCoy.

All those guys.

Yeah.

Some fun stuff.

Yeah.

And they're all just as fun as they are.

Just as fun as they seem if you seem on TV or they're just as fun as in person too.

They're encouraging too.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Me and Blake, we didn't talk about music at all.

We just, in Jason, we just have them talk about hunting the whole time.

Yeah.

And Luke's just goofy as they come.

But just they're down the earth sitting there and talk just like you and I are right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, they probably appreciate talking about something other than music when they're on the road like that.

Yeah.

It's something that interests them.

Right.

Exactly.

They're hobbies outside of music.

Music is something they're passionate about and love like myself.

But, you know, you want to get away from it a little bit.

It's still a job.

So, let's talk about something we like to do outside of music.

Yeah, most of them.

And it was.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

So, you're working on the new album, getting ready for some shows this summer.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I got a full calendar all the way to the end of the year, actually.

Um, unfortunately none up in Wisconsin, but maybe someday.

I think I would like to do that.

And I was talking to my social media guy yesterday.

And, um, you know, along the way of this radio tour, definitely going to get the names and contacts and numbers of folks like you that I'm talking to.

And, um, circle back around and say, hey, I'm going to be passing through this block of days.

Is there anything we can do or that I can do any places I should contact?

Try to get a little, you know, two week tour, three week tour coming up through this way and back down through the Midwest.

Trying to at least for next year, maybe.

Summer Fest is going on in Milwaukee this weekend.

That's right.

Some of those are good shows.

Oh, yeah.

Even a daytime gig.

I heard yesterday.

I heard there was a, there was a show like an hour and a half.

Well, I guess it's probably probably more close to two and a half hours from here.

But the thing was, it's a country fest.

The most fun you can have in a hay field or something like that.

I don't know what it was.

I mean, there was some, and it was a three day festival.

Okay.

There's a lot of them in Wisconsin.

Is that right?

I decided to know that.

Oh, yeah.

No idea.

Yeah.

But then waking up this morning and feeling the weather and how kind of mild it is, I can see why.

It's not completely blazing hot either.

Some days.

Yeah.

Right.

No, it's been very.

So I can see why there would be more outdoor, you know, three, four day concerts.

Yeah.

But I forget what name was the name of that.

Big stuff up here.

Yeah.

Well, like I say, Summer Festival going on, but Twin Lakes has one.

I know.

And Hodeig Festival up in Ryan Lander.

Oh, Claire, I think, has one.

Yeah.

So yeah, they're all, all summer long.

Well, I'm yet for those.

Maybe you can catch up.

Yeah.

Yeah, it'd be awesome.

Prairie Dushin has one come up later this summer.

Okay.

I'll see you next on the radio tour.

I'm headed to, uh, Clover.

Clover.

All right.

Clover.

And then heading over to, um.

Shawano.

You're learning the names of these Wisconsin towns.

Yeah.

And I should have known that one because my sister in law, Hillary, I was telling her all these

places.

I'm going to this place and this place.

And I'm going to end it in Shawano.

She was like, uh, it's Shawano.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

I'm sorry.

Get it right.

Yeah.

That's right.

I'm scared to say these names because I don't even, I don't want to mispronounce them, you

know.

Right.

Um, yeah.

Shawano.

So Clover to Shawano.

Clover to Shawano.

And then back to St. Louis.

St. Louis.

And then back to Nashville.

Well, back to Virginia.

And then there'll be a Nashville and probably a week and a half after that.

Yeah.

Well, you're seeing some beautiful country.

It's gorgeous up here.

Yeah.

It is gorgeous up here.

I think.

When I was, when I left St. Louis, I was in Warnton, Missouri, and then I went to, um,

Peru, Illinois.

And then I, from Peru, I can went to Hampton, Iowa.

Um, I was very surprised because I saw the same cornfield for like 750 miles.

It was very impressive.

There's a lot of records, you know.

You have some kind of record.

But, uh, man, it's all, I'm, um, I'm country.

So, the farmland and the, uh, you know, you got the rolling hills around here.

Beautiful stuff.

I want to come back and soak it all in more.

Yeah.

You do that.

Oh, yeah.

I definitely will.

You got, you got my word.

Closing number here for us.

Yeah, let's do that.

Let's, let's do one more.

It's, uh, I don't know if y'all played this.

Did y'all play St. Bar different town?

We did.

Yeah.

Okay.

Last year early this year, I guess it was.

Yeah.

Why not a little acoustic strip down version of it.

Title track to the third album.

Well, I've been north and south on 95 east and west on 40.

I found every exit sign.

Got a little something from me.

I gravel park and light.

Plank and sign.

Dollar shot.

I bet if the sender blasted talk could be the same old story.

Same jack, different glass.

Same tube, different left.

Same dollars on the wall.

Different numbers on the stall.

Same buzz, different night.

Same smooth, different strike.

Same old whaling, playing.

Different kind of hell we're raising.

We're all just passerby's lost and found a neon light.

Looking for some common ground.

Same bar, different town, yes it isn't it.

You might catch a look when you walk in.

Raise them high and make some friends.

Strips and solids start to spin.

Don't you hit that eight ball in.

Local barbies in the bar.

They come in the party star.

Five drinks they'll play the part.

Don't get too close to break your heart.

Same jack, different glass.

Same tube, different left.

Same dollars on the wall.

Different numbers on the stall.

Same buzz, different night.

Same smooth, different strike.

Same old whaling, playing.

Different kind of hell we're raising.

We're all just passerby's lost and found a neon light.

Looking for some common ground.

Same bar, different town.

That's kind of relatable, right?

Yeah, I think it's over.

And I've barbed a job.

Any time we're rolling through.

Population, bigger, small.

You seen one you've seen them all.

Yes you have.

Same jack, different glass.

Same joke, different left.

Same dollars on the wall.

Different numbers on the stall.

Same buzz, different night.

Same smooth, different strike.

Same old whaling, playing.

Different kind of hell we're raising.

We're all just passerby's lost and found a neon light.

Looking for some common ground.

Same bar, different town.

All right.

I like it.

The acoustic version.

Yeah, stripped down.

Yeah.

Great acoustic.

Yeah, I like it man.

Well, we appreciate you coming by the studio.

It's good, but.

Safe travels to you.

Thank you very much.

The only stipulation is when you're opening up for Luke Holmes.

Or he's open up for you.

We want a backstage pass.

Consider it done.

All right.

Consider it and you have my word.

My word's good.

I promise you.

So how can people look out?

Oh, all the, you know, all the social media sites as we were talking so

lovely about earlier.

We got Instagram and Facebook.

And I had to cave and get a TikTok.

But I've got a social media guy now, thankfully.

So there's a lot more up to date stuff on those sites.

So, um, you let them do the work for you.

And we just, we just have content days now.

So I get, I go and we go for hours and get videos and pictures.

And, and then he does what he does.

And, and then boom, there's a post there and a post there.

And it, it's like this is such a weight lifted.

Because I was so stressed about that all the time.

Like, oh, I got a post.

I got a post.

And I never knew what to post.

I always want to just, just play music.

Just, I want to just want to write a song.

And, uh, so yeah, you can find Instagram and Facebook and TikTok.

And my website is rangelmusic.com.

Um, I'll have a working store on there soon.

I promise.

It's not working right now.

It looks like it does until you go to buy something.

And then it doesn't work.

So, uh, you can find my music if streaming and downloading

something you like to do to, uh, the Apple Music and Spotify,

Pandora, Amazon Music, wherever, YouTube,

wherever you streamer download, you can do that as well.

So, um, yeah, I mean, got my show dates on the website.

And I try to post my show dates on social media as well.

So, um, yeah, like me, follow me, add me, shoot me a message.

Let me know what, what songs your favorite.

I get them.

I get all the messages.

So, I'll be, I'll be sure to, I'm not going to ignore you.

I promise you that.

So, send me a message, send me a, send me an email or whatever.

Let me know, let me know where you, let me know where you might want me to come play at too.

Oh, yeah.

And I'll make that happen too.

I'll try to make it happen.

Great.

Heck yeah.

Ryan, pleasure to meet you today.

Thank you.

Feel appreciated, buddy.

You bet.

Ryan Jules, joining us live in the studio here on WRC.