Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Thunder and Rain Band at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky

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Hi, you unto, Yes, that's true. Why were you you?

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It's it's the pipe Man here on the Adventurers pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here.

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With Thunder and Rain.

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Nice and don't take this offensively, but at this venue,

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I don't like you guys. You guys I like, but

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every year there happens to be issues at this and

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Louder than life because of those words.

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I'm not gonna say, because like same beetlejuice is that.

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Well, we're not responsible for the weather. It's a part

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of our contract.

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I'll bet you.

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Though. There's some people out there. They're conspiracy theorists. I

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think you are trying to control the weather.

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There's definitely some unhappy wedding couples that think we controlled

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the weather, and they're guests who tease them for hiring

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a band with our name.

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Yes, right, and you know what you should do like

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in your show, you should like, I don't know, figure

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a way that you can make it like thunder and

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Rain like during the show.

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Yes, that would be cool.

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That did happen very early on with this band.

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We opened for an artist named Peter Rowan and like

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right before a very last song, this huge clap of

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thunder in the Colorado Mountains just like like bam, right

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before the last song, and everyone was like staring at us,

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like who did that? So if only that could happen again,

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maybe it'll happen today.

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No no, it won't. No no no no no no

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no no no no.

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I think we're in the clear today. It's a beautiful day.

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It is.

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I think it's because you're wearing a slipknot shirt so

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you're throwing the weather gods off.

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Yes, I've charmed the weather gods today.

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There it is.

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So tell me how somebody comes to Bourbon Beyond and

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where's the slipknot shirt? Only because listen, I'm a huge

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They're in my top five for sure. I'm like, sure,

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Oh a slipknot shirt this week?

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I'm excited now.

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Yeah, I know you're getting pumped for next week.

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Oh I was yelling out fucking Sligher during fish Ah.

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Yes, yeah they need a little of that too, I know.

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Right, Yeah, So I want to hear about that, because,

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you know what, it's cool to find out people like

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different genres, Like it's so stupid the gatekeepers out there.

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Yeah, ooh, you can't like that. Yeah, because you like this.

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I mean, music is music. It's the best erapy and

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there's different vibes.

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Yeah, absolutely, Well, I do love slipknot, I love metal,

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and I do love people's faces when I tell them

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that because I play the banjo, so it's a little unexpected.

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You should just start another band, all of you, where

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it's banjo in the metal band.

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Yeah, to a metal version.

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Those guys on YouTube that did the I think they

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did like psychosocial or something with a banjo, and then

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they did the ACDC songs. I can't think of their name,

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but I think I've seen that millions of views.

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Well, my previous head engineer at the station, who was

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also one of my best friends, he passed away, but

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he was He had a country rock duo, but he

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also had a metal band in the eighties and he

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sang Neil Diamond. You swore it was Neil Diamond. So

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he always used to say, I love metal, I love country,

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and I love Neil Diamond.

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There you go, can't go wrong.

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There it is, can't go wrong. So tell our listeners

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how you're not metal. Tell them a little bit about

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your music.

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Okay, well we are not metal.

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I mean, we kind of have a cool swagger like

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we are, but I guess we're bluegrass, but we have

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to walk the line of that because there's so many

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different versions of bluegrass. The super traditional, there's the billy strings.

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He's got a metal he's got like a metal vibe.

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Yeah, we'll use the term.

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New grass sometimes because we we're a little bit more

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poppy though. Aaron brings the pop music to the group,

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and so we have more like pop lyrics, modern day stuff,

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but then the old timey music and I like it.

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Next, you said new grass.

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That sounds so cool, Like we need to spread that out,

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We need that to go viral because that is cool.

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I'm just thinking about, like my lawn just got freshly

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mode and that's your music.

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Yeah yeah, Hey.

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Smells goods are singing.

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Yeah, it's a good day.

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Hell yeah.

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And so how did this all start?

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Well, the band was formed twelve years ago this month, rats, Yes.

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You're only eight years from your overnight.

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Success exactly, so close.

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And for the band originally formed in Colorado, and then

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I formed it originally and then in twenty twenty I

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ended up moving to Nashville and the band had disbanded

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as it were, and you know how the pandemic sort

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of changed everything for everybody. So I decided it was

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time to move to Nashville and met these two gals,

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Laura and Amelia, and they we were just having beers

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one afternoon and talking about stuff, and I just realized

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we should be a band together, and we can. And

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I really had missed making bluegrass or string band music

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because I when I first moved to Nashville, I tried

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to do like a solo thing and made some more

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pop poppy rock music, but I really missed being in

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a string band. So I asked these gals if they

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wanted to reform the band with me, and that's what

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we did, and we're on your three of being together.

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So wow, that's cool.

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Yeah, and you guys still love each other, like yeah,

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the kill r yet, So we're gonna be this is

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the band forever.

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Yes, love is a strong word.

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I told them, like, this band is no not happening

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without you guys, mostly because now our signature is are

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harmonies together and these gals are really smart. They're smarter

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than me, so without them, I can't do it.

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See that. I love that it's your unique sound.

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Now it is it's definitely our unique sound, like I

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think we didn't used to be. We actually, I think

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have a little bit more bluegrass cred because Laura, who

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plays banjo, who loves has wearing the awesome Slipknot shirt.

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She plays very scrugsy style banjo, which helps our street

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cred a lot in the bluegrass world.

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And you know what, I agree.

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I think I do personally feel like bluegrass is metal

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in some way.

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It totally is.

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When I see some really good blue Glass Wethers that.

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I was watching something yesterday and like, man, they're way

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faster than a metal band.

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Man.

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Like, it's like bluegrass is the speed Metal of the Woods.

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You got the analogies for everything.

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That's pretty good. I just made it up right now,

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yes sitting.

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That's the name of our next album, speed Metal of

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the Woods.

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It's freaking cool.

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You know what's cool?

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That day's yesterday. I said something and he literally wrote that.

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He's like, that's gonna be the name of our next song.

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I don't even remember what I said, but you're.

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Out here naming people's art right here, right Yeah.

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I can't play the art, so I might as well

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name it exactly. I tried, but I sucked, so now

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I do this.

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I suck at a lot of things, so this is

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the one thing I'm kind of good at.

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There you go, That's why I'm here.

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And where did it all start for each one of you?

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As far as that time you knew music, that's what.

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You were going to do?

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Oh, it was like day one for me.

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Yeah.

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No, Like I'm the youngest of four kids, and like

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all my older siblings played music before me.

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The earliest recollection I have is being three and going

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to violin lessons with my sister and just sitting there

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and listening and like begging my mom when we got home.

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I would beg to like play my sister's violin and

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sometimes she would let me. And then finally, after about

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a year, she's like, all right, you can get a

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violin too, And so I got a violin and she

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enrolled me in lessons or whatever, and I showed up

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and I already knew like the first like book of

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material because I'd listened to my sister do it and

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like absorbed all that.

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So she was like, oh, you actually like really want

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to do this.

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I was like yeah, literally, So like I've always known

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that like I wanted to do music.

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I love that that's a true artist, because every true

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artist I've ever met, or that's how it started.

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Like oh yeah, it's not like, oh well I decided

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why I was like twenty nine to start playing music.

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it was like it's something that I studied for a

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long time. And then I really got interested in like

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fiddle music and bluegrass music when I was like nine

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years old, I think was the first time I learned

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a fiddle tune. And Alison Kraus was my gateweight drug

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as she asked for a lot of us love her,

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and so yeah, it just kind of like going.

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I got to see Robert Plant with Alison Krause together.

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Yeah, I saw them. The only time I've ever been

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to Red Rocks was Robert Plant Alison Crouse one of

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the best shows ever. So and I saw Alison Krause

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and Union Station here in Louisville in April. Yeah, Laura

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and I drove up and saw them.

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So yeah, very impressed with how you say, Louisville, Louisville.

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We've been hard.

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I've been praying them listen, I've been practicing for fifteen

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years doing these festivals. But I'm a Yankee, so I

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still have a hard time with it. I started at Louisville.

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I'm yeah, that's the thing.

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I grew up in Louisville, Colorado spelled the same wage

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l O U I S V I l l E.

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That's right, yeah, and we like pronounced that s and everything.

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So yeah, I've had a native Kentuckian that schooled me

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on how to pronounce it, so I'm trying not to

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mess it up.

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Nice, Okay, who next? But first you have to pronounce

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the town, Oh, Louisville.

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I'm from Georgia, I know how to see. I didn't

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start getting into music seriously until I was about thirteen.

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I started taking guitar lessons, But I grew up in

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a musical family too, and my dad played in a

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gospel band and he let me, when I was fifteen

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come and strumley guitar on the stage with the band,

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and that that was really fun and cool. And then

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I picked up the banjo at sixteen and loved bluegrass

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after that and just been trying to get somebody to

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let me play with him ever since.

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Nice and you found the perfect partners for that.

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Yes, I sure did.

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It took me a while to find It's been a

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while since sixteen year old me found the banjo. But

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found these gals and all is well nice.

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Yeah.

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I started playing guitar on the same time Laura did.

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But I didn't come from a musical family or a

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bluegrass family, because I grew up in Rodondo Beach, California,

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which is why I say Louisville, which is terrible.

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You're from Rodando.

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I'm from the Verdondo Beach, California, that old wild West.

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Oh yeah, I had to find blue grass in a

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just backwards way canyon. We never really left Rodonda Beach.

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That was the problem, one of the problems.

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Wow.

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But I was writing songs from a really young age,

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and my parents were very supportive of my writing and creativity.

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And this is a cute story, but when I was

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in first grade, you couldn't do the talent shown till

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you were in second grade. And I had rewritten this

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whole Disney song to be about myself, and my mom

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begged the principal to.

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Let me do because she was like, she wants to

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do it so bad, And.

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He let me do it, and I galloped up on

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a stick horse in like a cowgirl outfit and sang

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a cappella in first grade. So I was always born

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to do this. I always wanted to be up there.

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But I think the one country act that actually got

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through to me in Redondo Beach, California, because there wasn't.

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I was raised to think country was dumb. Now I

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know it's awesome. But the one country act that got

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through to me.

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Was the Chicks. The Dixie Chicks nice and when I

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met these gals, that was kind of my vision for us.

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So I was like, we could be the Dixie Chicks.

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Let's go there, you are here, we are.

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You're the new and improved Dixie Chicks.

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After a thunder and rain storm.

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That's right, that's right. And because the band name has

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been this way for so long. A lot of women

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bands have women themed names, We're just the freaking weather,

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which isn't that Mother Earth?

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Right?

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Well, not only that makes sense, because like I'm divorced

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twice and I could tell you.

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Thunder and rain it tracks, doesn't it cut?

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Yeah?

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It definitely does. Like that just describes both marriages the.

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Person second one, no, actually same, thema Piperman.

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Well, Raish's thunder, Who's rain?

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The funny thing is on my radio show, I call

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them thing one and think Thing one. Well, actually, if

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she ever meets you, she'll say you probably know me

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as Thing one. Wow, I don't hide it. But now

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thunder and rain hmmm, I would.

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Say it's thing one thunder or raining.

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One is rain for raining on my parade, and Thing

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two was thunder because she was even more batshit crazy

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than Thing one. Oh man, I love you guys, energy,

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I love your music. I'm glad you're here at Bourbon Beyond.

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Thank you.

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Check you out.

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How do they connect to you on socials, on the web,

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and more importantly, how they buy your merch? Because they

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can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch.

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Yes, you must.

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In order to listen to this wonderful show and hear

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all about Thing one and Thing two, you're gonna have

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to buy some thunder and Rain merch.

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You can buy the merch on.

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Our website www dot Thunder and Rain music dot com.

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You can listen to our music on Spotify, Apple Music,

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band Camp. You can buy the songs digitally off the website.

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That is a really good way to support us and

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then you can follow us at Thunder and Rain Underscore

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band on Instagram. You can type in thunder and Rain

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band on YouTube and find our YouTube channel. Just make

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sure you add band whenever you're searching for us or

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else you may find Thunder and Rain meditation music, which

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is lovely and we hope that helps you go to sleep.

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But we want to wake your ass up.

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Nice and I'm gonna add a bonus for them. Okay,

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so if they do buy merch from you guys, then

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they could be entered in a contest to win to

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become Thing three.

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Whoa are we helping you find your next date?

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Hey? Whatever works.

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I'm a good wing woman. Okay.

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Nice dates are not hard hard. It's ones that you

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have to second date with that's hard. And that's what

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it is. What you learn after a couple stupid mistakes

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is you're like, maybe I should think first, close down

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the emotion, close down the heart, think first, and then

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open that valve, not the other way around.

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Yes, it's good not to be too open hearted effort.

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You got to keep those walls up, gotta stay mysterious.

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Besides women like that.

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Oh my good, darken, darken moody. That's whatever girl likes,

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no doubt, play hard to get.

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We can't access your emotions, let us fix you.

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And I I've been that way too, and I've come

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to a conclusion I don't want to fix nobody anymore,

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you know, and that save syndrome shit, and that doesn't work.

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Projects are objects, That's what me and my friend always say.

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And if you're not people, and if you do fix them,

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all you're doing is fix them for somebody else.

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Exactly, yes, exactly exactly.

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Sometimes you got to get a second hand man, That's

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what I that's my advice.

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To everybody out there. Get yourself a secondhand man.

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And my advice is to listen to thunder and rain.

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Yeah, and not out your window whatever you listen to music.

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Exactly Scott, not this guy, but this guy too. Oh

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this is good. But yes, you're gonna have that in

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the background exactly exactly.

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Like that could be like that could be like your

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backing tracks. Yes, at somebody's house. Yes, why that's somebody's house.

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It's the thunder and rain.

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Like whenever it's thunder and raining, which happens every day

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in Florida, you need to turn on thunder and rain band.

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That's right band Smith.

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Yes, I can't speak now. That means we're done.

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Thank you guys, thank you for having us, thank you

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so much, thank you.

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My pleasure, and thank you for being on the Adventures

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of pipe Man yay.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man

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