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WRCO Live Music Interview: Six One Five Collective
WRCO Music Guests & Interviews · Wed Oct 16, 2024
We are in the studio with 615 collective, you know, I have been looking forward to this because I'm a real fan of these guys and they just happen to stop by our studios.
Aaron Goodwin is over here to live.
I'm here, yes.
I'm great.
Good, very good.
Tell me about this ensemble that you're with.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
We, it's basically Nicole's brain child Nicole way over here.
She, three years ago, we just kind of celebrated the third, the three year birthday of the 615 collective, something that she created during COVID that was just like,
hey, you know, when we get back and we play like, you know, we want to play as many shows as possible.
And what's really cool about this group is you got like four individual artists that make their own music to do their own thing.
Come together and create music together as well.
So when we go and play a show, we'll play like play some of my songs, play some of Michael's songs, some of Sarah's songs, some of Nicole's songs.
And then we have all these songs together.
So it's kind of like a variety, if you will.
We're all, we're all different, but somehow it all works together.
It's, it's, and it's literally the most fun we've ever had.
I think as an artist like, when you can like, you play a song and you kind of get your chance to like shine.
And then you can pull away and watch somebody beside, like right beside you go, like, like, just be so talented and so great.
And just have like, be a front row and be playing along this thing.
It's just so much fun.
We have a great time.
The new singles doing well.
Can you tell us about it, Michael?
Sure, absolutely.
Hey, guys, so I wrote this song with a buddy of mine, I'm Johnny Lang.
He's a great blues gospel artist.
And we wrote it a few years ago and started playing it live with the collective.
And like Aaron was saying, the spirit of the collective is just kind of doing a little bit of everything, a little bit of what each of us do.
And so people started taking it live and we decided to record it.
And we put it out as a single.
So it, Johnny had actually recorded it as well.
So Johnny Lang fans can check out his version as well, but it's been a lot of fun.
And with the collective, we have the ladies over here as well.
We have Nicole.
We have Sarah.
How are you guys doing?
Good.
Good to see you in here today.
Good to have you in here.
So I know Sarah, you've done a lot of your own stuff, a lot of solo stuff.
When you're with the group, this has got to be a new dynamic for your career, isn't it?
It is.
And I love it because I, in fact, I just released an album La, I guess two Fridays ago.
And it was amazing to have that out.
But what's cool is just to be able to collaborate.
And I, man, doing something that's like band like it just doesn't happen as much anymore.
And I think it's just so fun to have my hands and doing solo stuff, but then also being a band as well.
It's just really fun.
I just love playing with these guys.
And it inspires me.
I think the songs that we write together are really, there are songs I wouldn't write by myself.
And it's just something that we have.
It's like really cool little magical thing together.
So it's cool.
Yeah, the harmonies were there.
Did you notice that when you guys first got together there?
You know, yeah.
I mean, we started, I guess, three years ago.
And yeah, just the first time we ever sang together, it just, yeah, the harmonies were great.
And it just seemed like very homie.
So, and fun.
You know, like we have as much fun off the road as we do on stage.
For sure.
I'm sure you do.
You can put that in the book someday, right?
That's right.
Something like that.
Hey, would you sing us a song?
Yes.
All right.
Got a couple of guitars in hand here.
Yeah.
Aaron Goodman, Michael Logan, Nicole Whit and Sarah Darling.
They are the 615 Collective.
This is the first song that we ever wrote together.
We wrote two songs that day.
Which, you know, it's pretty awesome.
So I usually hate writing four-way songs because there's too many chiefs.
But these are all really great chiefs.
So, this is, this is the first song we ever wrote.
This goes out to anybody that, you know, all the party poopers in your life.
You can send them this song once we put it out.
So, it goes like this.
One, two, three, four.
I know a fun sponge when I see one.
You don't want to be one.
And everybody in here is vibing and you're being kind of walt-walt-walt-walt-walt.
Yeah, we call it a night.
Or we could hit the town and do it upright.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed.
Counting them sheep, edges ease, getting beauty rest.
Acting your edge, don't make a good story.
Knock one back.
No buzz, no glory.
No one ever talks about the shots they didn't take.
Drinks they never drink.
Hell, they never raise your oil.
It's only 9.30.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed early.
You don't want to be a Debbie Downer.
It's turn to frown upside downer.
To be a stick in the mud.
Grab your buddy, grab your buddy.
Good time to turn it up louder.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed.
Counting them sheep, edges ease, getting beauty rest.
Acting your edge, don't make a good story.
Knock one back.
No buzz, no glory.
No one ever talks about the shots they didn't take.
Drinks they never drink.
Hell, they never raise your oil.
It's only 9.30.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed early.
Woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo.
Yeah, I need to wake up in the morning.
And we can't remember where to live and say no one ever.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed.
Counting them sheep, head to Z's, getting beauty red.
Back to your age, don't make for good story.
Not one back.
No, but no worry.
No one ever talks about the shots they didn't take.
Drinks they never drank.
They ain't ever Rachel or Y'all.
It's only time for her to know.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed early.
Woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo, woohoo.
They went to bed early.
No one ever talks about the nights they went to bed early.
Man, I was right in the middle of all that harmony too.
I was getting into it, you know?
I've said like every DJ in the world wants to be a singer.
You know, so I was just kind of imagining that, you know,
it's a part of the band or something there for a little bit.
Good, good.
How much fun is that song?
The great thing about the collective is you just join.
Yeah, it's collective.
People who love music, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Elective and collective.
Yeah, sure.
Because I mean, you bring all these different personalities together.
It works.
It does.
Yeah, it's wild.
It's totally wild.
I don't think it's normal.
We try not to take it for granted because it's awesome.
We all just really enjoy each other's company.
And just have a great time organically.
It's the most fun we've ever had.
You have some shows booked here?
Yeah.
We do.
Yeah, tonight we're playing in Potosi, Wisconsin.
Potosi, brewery.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Good.
Yeah.
And then a bunch of like South days, we're running through South
Carolina and then South Carolina back in November.
So living the dream.
Living the dream?
Sure.
Yeah.
We're in the studio with 615 collective.
We'll have more coming up here from WRC.
615 collective contains an artist that we have been playing for quite a while.
She's been on the opera stage.
Is it right?
97 times you've played at the Grand Ole Opry, Sarah Darling?
I have been on the opera stage 97 times, which is crazy.
Oh, man.
Do you remember the first time?
I do.
My grandpa.
He's left us, but he got to be there when I debuted at the Grand Ole Opry.
And Vince Gill introduced me.
Wow.
And it was crazy because right before I was getting ready to do my segment, Vince was like,
hey, do you want to sing go rest high on the mountain with me at the end?
And that was my grandfather's favorite song, one of my favorite songs.
And it was just this really serendipitous sweet moment.
I'll never forget it for the rest of my life.
It was just so cool.
Wow.
Yeah, I pinched myself every time.
I'm like, I can't believe I did that.
And how do you say a song without bawling?
I'd be just sobbing, you know?
There's been a couple times where I've been on the stage in that 97 times where you just, you know, as a musician,
you can get so sort of like taken up by the atmosphere and just like, you're singing the words,
but you're like, am I really connecting?
There's been a few times just where I've just really felt it.
And you can just see people and just think of how many amazing people have stood there before you
and like the history and the aura and all the magic that surrounds it.
Because I think that's what you want to take in as you're singing is you just want to be nice to the audience, you know?
And love on them.
Like an out of body experience.
Yeah, it is kind of out of body.
Sure.
It's beautiful.
Do you guys do requests?
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
It depends on what they requested.
You know it or not?
It's not redneck woman, is it?
No, no, no, no.
No, we played it.
The only reason I say that is because we played a show in North Carolina.
And these girls came up to the stage and they were like, we have a request.
And I was like, okay.
And they said, they mentioned it to the girls in Nicole and Sarah over here.
Can you please play like it's our girlfriends like last night as a single woman or whatever.
And she was getting married and she's like, she's really wants to hear redneck woman.
And so they looked over and I was like, no.
So then they looked over at me and they're like, hey, do you know redneck woman?
Like, can you play it?
And I was like, yeah, I mean, yeah, we can we can get through it, right?
And they're like, well, we actually don't know the words.
So could you just sing it too?
So now, during our shows, I somehow redneck woman ends up on the set list as my song to sing.
Which is just not fair.
You sing lead on that, huh?
Yeah.
And it's not good.
I'm impressed.
Do you own it, man?
It's good.
It's right.
I'm so curious what you're reading.
Yeah, we're curious.
Oh, okay.
All right.
What could it be?
Here's the thing.
And I'm not just blowing smoke.
This is the best song of the decade.
Your song, kindness.
Oh, yeah.
That is so sweet.
Yeah.
It came out two years ago, but, you know, since COVID and like all the stuff that we're going through in the country right now,
we need a little kindness.
Would you sing that?
100%.
That would be awesome.
All right.
And that's something that we wrote as the collective stuff.
We have to kill a little time while she gets around.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, Nicole's getting her fiddle going here.
I'll jump in.
Okay.
Sometimes this world feels like it's learning to the ground.
It's so much noise we can lost in the sun.
We're all sleighin' dragons.
We think we're on our own.
And everybody's got a battle.
Nobody knows so.
Share a little kindness.
Share a little light.
Bigger than darkness.
It's gonna be all right.
Give a little comfort.
Give a little hope.
All you gotta do is walk each other home.
There's a little sanctuery inside every heart.
We burn bridges.
We make it hard.
Don't know who needs to hear it.
Or what you're going through.
But if you're feeling like I'm feeling,
I'll be there for you too.
Share a little kindness.
Share a little light.
Bigger than darkness.
It's gonna be all right.
Give a little comfort.
Give a little hope.
All we gotta do is walk each other home.
Whoa!
Right here where we are.
Whoa!
This is how we start.
And we share little kindness.
Love a little more.
We can leave it better than it was before.
Share a little kindness.
Share a little light.
Bigger than darkness.
It's gonna be all right.
Give a little comfort.
Give a little hope.
All we gotta do is walk each other home.
Whoa!
Walk each other home.
Walk each other home.
Walk each other home.
Walk each other home.
Walk each other home.
Walk each other home.
Oh, man.
Man, I get emotional in that song.
Man, I do.
What was the inspiration for writing it?
Oh, you know, I think we all felt like the world
and we needed to hear it.
You know what I mean?
Like they say, you write the songs, you want to hear kind of a thing.
And yeah, just I think the spirit of it was what you hope for the world, right?
And yeah, it's really connected with people.
Can we just do more kindness?
Yeah, we do.
It's just a simple, beautiful thing that we just need more kindness.
Because you don't know what people are going through on a daily basis.
So just being kind could change somebody's trajectory of their day or their life.
And it's just, yeah, it's a good thing.
And you know that as an artist too, you know, that you're hopefully lifting spirits
and things like that too, right?
Yeah, it's interesting because, you know, especially with the hurricanes
and everything that's gone on, there's this.
I received a message and someone said, you know what, your music is helping me get through,
like waiting for, we haven't been home yet from, you know, we were talking about that earlier from the hurricane.
And I thought it was really sweet.
It's nice.
Yeah.
It's a little joy, a little light.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think that's what it's all about.
You know, I think that's what music is all about.
You know, it's there to, it's a good way to escape.
Absolutely.
You have to escape, you know.
So three minute escape or where the work is.
So you guys know Freeberg?
No, it just can't happen.
Wagon Wheel.
Oh, awesome stuff.
Have you had a chance to be on the same stage and open up for some groups here lately?
You guys doing, yeah, some twin bills and stuff.
Yeah.
Belinda Carlyle, right?
We did that.
Yeah.
Belinda Carlyle.
Yeah.
Awesome.
That's fantastic.
Marshall Tucker.
Yeah.
We have lots coming up though.
It's been fun.
Yeah.
We have zero fun.
Yeah.
You guys keep me laughing a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They actually, you're going to love this because this doesn't happen for me often.
But I'm actually in the front seat and of the vehicle that we're driving.
Usually because like I'm kind of a smaller guy, you know, like my friends called me Frodo
grown up, like, you know, and so it's like, I got to, like, they let me sit in the front
this trip.
So it's my, it's my first trip in the front seat and I've been having a ball like I, I see
colors, I see signs, I see, I see, I can tell if there's a passing lane.
It's a whole new world.
You called shotgun then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't even, they just graciously gave it to me.
It's like I got upgraded or something.
Ah.
That's how you got it.
We got upgraded.
Do you guys write songs while you're driving merrily down the highway then?
Yeah.
Do you?
Well, I don't know if we write songs, but I, you know, I think like we come up with it.
We come up with it.
We start some.
Yeah.
Like I have a, I have a thing like I have six, one, five ideas like in my phone and I
always write six, one, five beside it because I never want to write a title that we came up
with with somebody else that would just be not very nice then Jerry.
Yeah.
And the title came from what the Nashville prefix then?
Six, one, five.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
It's named after, so I keep taking the mic.
It's, it's named after the area code of Nashville, which is six, one, five.
So it's a collective of artists from six, one, from the area code, six, one, five.
So yeah.
Where do y'all hail from?
Nicole.
Uh, Springfield, Missouri.
Okay.
Mitchellville, Iowa.
Iowa.
I did not know that about you.
Yeah.
You're Midwestern.
Midwest.
Absolutely.
What about you, Michael?
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Wow.
And Aaron.
Alberta, Canada.
Spirit River, Alberta, Canada.
North of the border.
Way up Yonderland.
We're all from like cold country, kind of.
Kind of.
Kind of, yeah.
Yeah.
Cold winter.
Nicole.
I don't know.
It gets cold in where you're from.
Yeah.
No, it doesn't.
Oh, it does.
Compared to where I'm from.
Do you want to go?
No, comparatively.
Not comparatively.
Do you have snow on the ground right now?
No.
No.
Uh, it's interesting though.
Do you all have similar music backgrounds?
Or do you bring, you know, like different things?
Similar and different.
I mean, I think we all kind of have a little bit of the same
background.
I think that that's kind of why we've come together so easily.
But we all have very different backgrounds as well.
And I think that's what also is interesting about the group.
Uh, because it is a little collective.
And it's eclectic, you know?
So, yeah.
Very much so.
Got another song you can sing for us.
Let's do it.
Sure.
What do you want to do?
Hmm.
I have a single coming out soon.
Do you guys want to play that with me?
It sounds great.
Yeah.
Make sure you sing along, guys.
Um, and yeah.
Nicole, you should play that.
I got a new song coming out, um, at the end of the month here.
I think it's the 25th.
It's actually already out on the Spotify's and Apple Music's
and wherever you stream music.
But, um, I wrote this song during COVID.
And I didn't really know it was about my own life until, um,
I listened to it a few months later.
And I was like, oh, I wrote my whole, like I wrote like a whole chapter
out of my life without even really knowing it.
I think that's kind of the cool thing about writing songs.
But I wrote this song.
My wife and I, um, went through a lot of issues during COVID.
Most of them stemmed from the fact that I was at home.
You know, and that was really hard on her.
Um, don't you have some place to be?
Exactly.
Uh, but, um, no, this song is, is really about like,
it's kind of a miracle, you know, um,
and going through the things that we all went through
and the things that kind of, I put us through, um,
during COVID.
And, um, this was like, we got the closest to saying goodbye
to everything, um, that I've ever been in my life.
And just the fact that we're still together
and now have a beautiful little 10-month-old baby.
Congratulations.
It's kind of a miracle.
So, anyway, this song's called Your Time Stay, because I just...
One, two, three, four.
We both said some things that we can't unsafe.
Standing face to face might as well be a million miles away.
It's on your mind, I know.
So, baby, please don't say, yeah.
You're thinking it's your time to go.
But both of it's your time to stay right here with me.
But I'm a little longer away.
Don't leave.
Let's see.
If we come back from this stronger,
so many people give it up to soon.
Leave a good thing going in the rear view.
Say it, it's time to walk away.
But both of it's your time to stay.
I know I can be hell on my heart.
It's a miracle we've even ever made it this far.
Just need a lot more roll and a little more faith.
You're thinking it's your time to go.
But both of it's your time to stay right here with me.
But I'm a little longer away.
Don't leave.
Let's see.
If we come back from this stronger,
so many people give it up to soon.
Leave a good thing going in the rear view.
Say it, it's time to walk away.
But both of it's your time to stay.
I don't want you to be the one that got away.
Well, do this your time to stay right here with me.
But I'm a little longer away.
Don't leave.
Let's see.
If we come back from this stronger,
so many people give it up to soon.
Leave a good thing going in the rear view.
Say it, it's time to walk away.
But both of it's your time to stay.
Both of it's your time to stay.
Oh, my goodness.
Good song.
Absolutely.
Nice play in there, Nicole.
I enjoyed that.
You know, often get a fiddle in here.
I know it makes me want to go back and put fiddle on the record
because the way she plays it's so beautiful.
It is awesome.
What's your goals for the band?
Where you like to be?
World domination.
Anything less than that would be a disappointment, I think.
We want to keep releasing songs.
So I think we have four or five that are coming out next year
and just looking forward to that.
And yeah, more shows and more festivals.
Write more songs.
Every time we get together to write songs,
we just write something so great.
Yeah.
We have another song called Doosies, which is hilarious.
That's coming out next year too, so yeah.
How about a number one?
A number one would be fun.
A number one?
Yeah, we want a number one.
Well, first of all, kindness should have been number one.
Oh.
Thank you.
Brothers of the highway, we played that too.
Thank you.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's in a cool song.
Yeah.
George Strait first recorded that one song.
Yeah.
I did not know that.
Yeah, I wrote it for my dad.
My dad worked for a roadway express for 32 years.
And George Strait cut it on his terminal record.
And we recut it last year.
And it was our first single.
Oh, man.
Impressive.
So is it more rewarding to have somebody else record a song?
Obviously, George Strait.
I mean, come on.
But I mean, when you do your own song, is that more rewarding?
I mean, now, I think doing our own songs is more rewarding.
But I love being a songwriter and love just being able to hear that.
And have George Strait sing that song.
It was just like a career highlight for crazy.
I can't imagine.
This is awesome having you guys in here.
Thank you for having us.
Absolutely.
One more song?
Sure.
Sure.
You want to do brothers?
Yeah.
Or Sarah?
Yeah, if you want to do brothers, right?
I'm putting one, whatever.
All right.
We don't get this kind of talent in here.
We've got to take advantage of it.
All I know is smoke on the water on the guitar.
You know?
Oh, we're switching places.
615 collective in the studio with us today at WRCO Radio.
And awesome stuff.
We're going to play on them now for a couple of years.
You guys have been together like a couple of years, haven't you, Aaron?
Yeah.
Three years.
Yeah, three.
Three.
I've been in it for a year and a half almost.
Yeah.
All right?
Close.
Yeah.
All right.
I feel like you should be playing this Michael.
All right.
You have a break.
Yeah, that's so well.
I'm just going to do a little kick off here.
Oh, it's sure.
All right.
Let's go.
Diamond on the windshield.
This is heaven starts to cry.
In his rearview mirror, his angel waves goodbye.
Oh, she knows he's got to go.
And she knows he's one of them.
Brothers of the highway, cheer it on the way.
That Detroit diesel barren ship goes through an island.
Send it for a second son.
He knows you're best friend.
Brothers of the highway, cheer it on the way.
Put the pedal to the metal.
Try to run around the rain.
Another shot of drugs type coffee goes running through his veins.
This country turns on 18 weeks.
They got to can't abandon.
Brothers of the highway, cheer it on the way.
That Detroit diesel barren ship goes more than two.
Send it for a second son.
He knows you're best friend.
Brothers of the highway, cheer it on the way.
That Detroit diesel barren ship goes more than two.
And she knows he's got to go.
And she knows he's got to go.
And she knows he's got to go.
And she knows what's going on.
But she knows he keeps moving on.
Say you're long, say you're long.
Your brothers are on the highway.
Children are here.
That Detroit diesel barren ship goes more than two.
Say they're false, say they're stunning.
We know your best friend.
Brothers are on the highway.
Children are here.
Brothers are on the highway.
Children are on the way.
Hi.
Hi.
Why that girl can whale, can't she?
That's awesome.
I love it.
615 collective.
How can people get your music?
615 collective.com is a good place to go to.
And we're on all streaming.
They can find us on Instagram, TikTok, all the places.
Everywhere.
Don't use the numbers, use the letters, we always say.
That's a good thing.
And Sarah Darling, your new album is out?
I just came out.
We have a new single called hippies and cowboys.
And just came out a week and a half ago.
And stream it anywhere on old platforms.
It's called Canyon.
Okay, very good.
And do you have physical copies when you do shows?
Do you still do that?
We are getting ready to do physical copies.
But also vinyl as well.
I love vinyl.
I'm like such a vinyl fan.
So I'll have some Canyon vinyl as well.
Awesome.
Good deal.
Nice to have you guys in here.
Thanks for having us.
Thanks for having us.
It's been a real honor to meet you guys.
It's been awesome to meet you.
615 Collective on WRCO Radio.
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