Coming to you from the studios at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66, it's the Rock and Roll Chicago podcast. Hey everybody, it's Ray the Roadie. And this is Hollywood Mike.

How you doing, Mike? You know, I can't complain. How's your socket, by the way? I haven't asked you about that in a while. You know, it's healing up pretty good.

Is it? Yeah, I'm back to chewing on that side of my mouth. Good for you. There's this hole in there though, so every time after I eat, I gotta, you know, stick my finger in there and pull food.

Finger goes all the way in there? Pretty much. Into your sinus and stuff? No. No? No, they plugged that hole pretty good, thankfully.

I'm glad you're doing better. Not to gross you out or anything here. That's kind of disgusting that we're talking about this in front of our guests here in the studio.

Yeah, they don't know about your dental incident. Yeah, yeah. And it was pretty, it was actually comical.

I wish they would have rolled tape on that because he literally had his knee in my chest. Wow. You know, yanking on that tooth and pulling it out.

I should have been there when I can. We could have videoed it. Yeah.

Yeah, put it right on our YouTube page. Okay, let's stop boring these people. Okay, let's do that.

Who do we have in the studio, Rick? Today we have Southbound. How are you guys all doing? And gals? Doing great, thank you. Fantastic.

And they are not an Allman Brothers Tribute Band. No, they're not. They are not.

How many times do you guys hear that? I don't know. Once or twice has come up. There's a Carrie Underwood song by the same name too that people kind of think about, you know, kind of relate that to it as well.

Oh, okay. So what do you do? We've got a pretty wide range. We do everything from Johnny Cash, Travis Tritt, to like Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, a little bit of everything.

What did I miss there? Well, Gretchen Wilson. Oh, of course. Lindsay Speakoff, yes.

Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town. Miranda Lambert. Miranda Lambert, yes.

Well, before we get this thing going, I want to play a little game that I called Third Grade. It's your first day in class. Get up, introduce yourself, tell us who we are.

But first you have to cry that you want your mommy and you don't want to start. You know how that is, right? Oh, yeah. I'm a fourth grade teacher.

So I'm familiar with that. It's okay. I'll change it to fourth grade.

You're pitching to us here. And I'll give you a hint. The person that was just speaking, that's not Dan, Dan, Mark, or Patrick.

Oh, no. I would be Lindsay. Oh, sorry.

I'm Lindsay Warden, and I do lead vocals and mean tambourine for Self Bound. I enjoy the tambourine very much. I do not play guitar, but I would love to someday.

And I joined these guys, God, what, a year? Just over a year. It's been a year. Yeah.

Just about a year ago, we had our first public performance at Evenflow in Geneva. Yeah. Nice place.

Yeah. So that was kind of our first little adventure out into the public eye, wasn't it? We went up there for the open mic that night. You get it.

Yeah. Yeah. We went up there just basically for a photo op kind of thing, you know, just get some pictures and maybe a little video for our Facebook page and everything.

So, yeah, we had our little 15 minutes of fame there. I got some great pictures. And actually, we're very fortunate because our drummer, Patrick's fiance is actually a photographer.

So she actually takes some great shots for us. Yes, she does. Because I went to your Facebook page.

Actually, I went to your website as well. The pictures are fantastic. Whoever your photographer is.

Kim does a great job for the band. And we all really love her a lot. Especially myself.

Good answer. Yeah. That was Patrick, by the way.

Mark Tater. I play guitar. Some leads.

Did you say Tater? Tater. So you're actually in a country band. Your last name is Tater.

Yeah. You can't write that. You can't do it.

Can't mix this stuff up. I play the electric and most of the acoustic guitar parts. And pretty much part of the rhythm section with these two guys here.

Dan and Patrick. Well, you didn't talk about the song you sing. Oh, they let me sing one song.

One. I've been politicking to get another one in there. But usually when we need to clear the bar out and it's time to close, they'll say, OK, Mark, it's time for your number.

And your song is? Buy Me a Boat. So you're singing and they're unplugging. They're getting out of there.

They're like, the lights are on full blast. Everybody out. So I'm Dan Noby.

I play bass. And the funny story about Lindsay is that she's my next door neighbor. And we were auditioning.

We probably went to, what, seven or so auditions of female lead vocalists. We wanted to get a female vocalist to pair up with Dan Harville over there. And, you know, kind of a little reluctant to invite Lindsay because there's some picky members in the band.

You know, I didn't want to invite her out for an audition and then have it go poorly and then be seeing my neighbor every day and saying, well, we're playing this weekend. Sorry, you're not part of it. It'd be really awkward.

So finally, we got through like seven auditions, weren't finding the right person. And I said, hey, Linds, we're still we're friends. We're neighbors.

Why don't you come out for an audition? I'm one of the four votes. Can't guarantee it. Let's see how it goes, you know? And she came out and she just nailed it.

We looked around. We were all like thumbs up. Like, hell yeah, we don't need to debate this one.

This is really, really easy. And I was like, it's been really good since then. You know, just fills up the band really well.

Yeah. Thank God. That would have been awkward.

Right. Yeah. Even more awkward than telling her that I've been standing outside your bathroom window listening to you sing in the shower for the past month.

And we decided to invite you down. It's really creepy and weird, but yeah. We also hear her singing around the bonfires in the neighborhood, too.

But yeah, it's a good addition. Well, the funny thing is that when he asked me, I was terrified. I'm like, I can't.

I can't do this. I know. So this is the first band you've ever been singing.

Yes. Were you like a karaoke queen or just a bonfire queen or whatever? Back in my younger years, I loved karaoke. Yes, that was like my favorite thing to do.

I also sing on a praise team at my church, but that was like the most I'd ever, you know, and I was always very stiff and rigid and tense. And the boys will tell you that over the past year, I've come a long way with my stage presence. Make sure you get a wireless mic and look out.

Now I just let go and it's so much fun. And I just can't imagine not doing it. I really can't.

Wait till she gets that electric tambourine. Yeah. My birthday's next month.

You know, and they actually have the tambourines where you can sync them up with your lights. So when you hit the tambourine, it changes colors with your lights. Now that's pretty cool.

Oh, see again, my birthday's next month, June 28th. I'll start an Amazon gift list. Now we know what's next on the list.

I'm Patrick. I play drums for Southbound. I've been with these guys for about, I think we, what, two years now, I think we're running.

And yeah, it's pretty interesting for me. I used to play in a multitude of bands, genre-wise, blues, rock, heavy metal for years. And it was really cool to come into this scenario, meet these guys and play some country.

I mean, it's something I never would have did 20 years ago. So pretty cool though. These are great, great, great group of guys.

It's never what it did, Patrick. And girl. Never would have done.

I never would have did it. So, so what was the, what was the appeal? What was the, what was the draw? What made you go from hard rock and heavy metal to playing a country band? So I grew up, number one. The band, the band I played.

No, no, no, you can't do that. You're either a musician or you grow up, you can't do both. Okay, well, I grew up, I grew up and got a full-time job and became responsible.

I think that was the big thing, right? And I wasn't playing music for a few years. There is this, this band dating site, I call it. It's called Band Mix, right? And, you know, you put your profile on there, you know, people call you up and they, you know, say they want to play in a band or whatever, you know, so it's pretty cool.

That's how these guys found me, right? So, but I think that the appeal was, number one, I wasn't playing and it was an opportunity, right? But I actually realized after practicing the music and understanding it and kind of like getting into the groove of country, it's actually a lot of fun to play. And when you're surrounded by a group of good people, it makes it even more fun. So, you know, back in the, as we were talking about prior, back in the early 90s, you saw a lot of that happening.

You're like, what happened to all the heavy metal guitarists that were out in Los Angeles last year? Oh, there they are. They formed country bands and the proof was in the music videos. They're wearing leather pants and tiger stripe t-shirts and long hair playing Jackson guitars.

But no, that's country music coming out of those speakers. It was kind of the funniest thing to see. Yeah.

And they all moved to Nashville. Yeah, they did. And they all went to Nashville.

Definitely a change in the genre there. For sure. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.

But, you know, it's all American music, though, you know, everything stems from the blues. I think country music is one of the things that we can say is fully American. You know, when you, you know, when I go to other countries, they don't just call it country music.

They call it American country music because there's, I mean, there's no German country music. I mean, I'm sure they've got their own form of folk music. But when they're talking about country music, they talk about the stuff that we're producing here.

So some of the songs that we picked up and put on our set list, I'm playing them, learning them, thinking this is country. This is kind of more like rock. And there's nothing.

This is doesn't follow this typical one, four or five format of your daddy's country. Right now. While those songs are a blast to play, too, for sure.

But a lot of the modern country that we put in our set list is also kind of disguised as country and it's almost like rock and metal. Some of those chords and the progressions like Jason Aldean, Jason Aldean stuff. Oh, yeah.

His band slams, man. People have been doing that for, you know, country. Country artists have been doing that for decades.

I mean, there's, you know, there's sometimes you listen to a song like by Alabama. Right. And their stuff sounds like Skinner.

Right. And Skinner. Yet Skinner doesn't refer to themselves as a country band.

They refer to themselves more of a southern rock band. So there's a lot of crossover there in the whole bit. In fact, there was wasn't it an Alan Jackson song, Gone Country, where he says some of that stuff don't sound much different than Dylan.

And that's the truth. That's the truth. It's got to translate live, though.

It's got to be fun for people to listen to, fun for people to dance to. And they have the energy. And that's kind of what we frame our set list around.

Everything's got to be fun to play, fun to listen to. And people have to recognize it and know what it is and like it and be out there. We've seen people line dancing to songs.

And I think I did not know this was a line dance of songs. I would have never guessed. They will line dance anything.

Yeah, there are people who will get up and line dance to absolutely anything. And they're serious about it, too. You know, you know, they're about the line dance because they all kind of look at each other with the hands on the chairs and they stand up, you know, almost like they're standing at attention like soldiers and they count it off.

It's great. It's like shit's about to go down. So who started the band? Who was the person that made the first phone call? Oh, well, I was going to introduce myself.

My name is Dan Harville. Oh, we forgot about the other Dan. It's always a late one.

I thought it was a goofer. We had Dan Harville. I play lead guitar and lead vocals, male lead vocals on the songs.

And Lindsay and I swap off on the lead vocals. And whenever one is singing lead, the other one's singing backup vocals. And that was one of the crucial things like Dan was talking about earlier is like we were trying to find a female vocalist for the band that could sing harmonies.

We had several people come in here. They call them karaoke queens that could sing great, but they didn't have a clue on harmonies. And Lindsay fit that bill perfectly.

And I knew she had never been in a band before, but I could tell from her personality, I said, she's going to fit right in. This is going to be great. And it has worked out fantastic.

But yeah, as you were saying, you were asking about playing this kind of music and everything like that. I grew up, my dad's from Alabama. I lived in the South until I was about 10 or 12 years old.

And then so I was listening to real country music back then. Um, and then moved to Chicago and I got into the rock scene. I started playing guitar.

I was about 14, 15 years old and played in bands from there until I was about 35 on the north side of Chicago, hitting all the little joints and all that kind of stuff. But, you know, playing original rock, trying to make it big as a rock star. And that didn't happen.

So, you know, you get married, buy the house, move to the suburbs, all that kind of stuff, put the guitar away for about 15, 20 years. And then started hitting the open mics for the blues shows and stuff like that, you know, and, uh, get my feet wet again after my daughter graduated from high school. It's like, yeah, let's do this.

And then I, we actually were contacted by, uh, another gentleman that, uh, kind of got us all together. Um, then Dan knows him pretty well. They had played together for a while, as he said, you know, they found us all on band mix, I believe, which is a site for musicians.

And, uh, it just kind of gelled, you know, we got in together and it's like, yeah, let's do this. I didn't want to do the old classic rock stuff anymore. You know, it's like, it's be the background noise.

Everybody is conversations. I wanted to do something with energy and, uh, you know, get people up out of their seats up on the dance floor, having fun, interacting with them and all that. You know, it's, it's a wonderful feeling, all that energy coming off the floor there.

And, uh, it's just worked out so well with these guys. Yeah. The last thing the Chicagoland area needs is another classic rock band.

Oh my gosh. How many, how many of them are there really? I mean, there's just, it's, it's endless, but you know, Hey, you know, it's, you like the music and, uh, there's some venues that just want to play classic rock all the time. But at the same time, I have bar owners telling me, you know, thank you for not playing journey tonight, you know, because they've heard it like eight times already.

Yeah. And we all know what song I'm referring to. I don't know.

So, so when you guys put the band together and you're, you say, okay, we're going to be a country band. Uh, what were the song ideas? What did you think you were going to do? Uh, we started, we actually try to be very democratic about it. And when we got head to four members, we said, uh, okay, uh, Dan, uh, Harville and their vocalist said, well, the Aldine and some of this stuff is in my wheelhouse.

So we said, okay, everybody pick out one of the four or five songs and we'll vote on a couple of them. And each set list, everybody's submission gets a couple of gets votes and the top two get added to the set list. So it started off and it was a pretty wide range.

We had some Southern rock on there. We had country on there. We had some, a blue song and then, and then just to build a set list, we started with nothing.

So it was seven, eight songs. And then from what, what works best from there. And we just said, adding a couple at a time, um, see what the crowd responds to once we started playing in front of people.

Right. But so we didn't specifically start out to be a country per se band. It was because we had such a wide background of music.

Um, but I think very early on, I realized what you just said that there's about a hundred classic rock bands out there and blues bands. And, uh, I think you're, I think you're shooting really low. There's about, there's about 10,000, somebody, somebody told me that, uh, from a two beer time.

He told me I went out then, uh, we know those guys. Yeah. Yeah.

Fun guys. And he goes, well, there's, there's a hundred classic rock bands out there and he goes, but there's only about 20 bands doing this. I think there's not going to be another one in Illinois, Northern Illinois.

How much of a demand is there going to be for what we're doing and what our stir is. But yeah. So we didn't start out specifically to be a country band, but we started, you didn't, but we just kind of gravitated towards it and realized I started learning these songs and thinking, these, this stuff is fun.

This is fun to do. I can have a metal and a hardcore kind of background myself when I was younger and, you know, starting to learn these things. I never thought I'd be on stage playing Elvis and it's a blast and you can make it no matter what the genre is, you're putting the energy into it and having a fun.

And, um, so we kind of came along to where we're at now. Yeah. We kind of a little bit all over the place as far as our song selections, but, uh, everything works.

Every people know the songs well and songs that, uh, people haven't heard a whole ton of, and then some things that people know that don't even listen to country music, no inside and out. Right. Right.

You guys tend to play, you know, of the, of the country selections. Do you tend to play the newer stuff that's on the radio or is, or is it a. It's a mixable. Combination of everything.

Like, like what's an example of like an older country song versus a newer country song. Jackson by Jackson. Yeah.

Johnny Cash and June. Great song. Exactly.

Right. Great song. Awesome prison.

Yep. Yep. Yep.

Good hearted woman. Yellow hearted woman. Yeah.

Wow. Really? Yeah. I'll see.

Now you have a different level of respect for me now. No, that's good. Yeah.

Yeah. But there's. Yeah.

But then we got that to Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan and, uh, Chris Stapleton. Now I like Jason Aldean and I like Chris Stapleton for sure. Luke Bryan.

He kind of represents that section of country music for me. That's got a lot of dubstep and a lot of, a lot of production and stuff into the, into the rhythms and everything. And that's the kind of thing that I, I tend to kind of stray away from, but if it's done well, you know, it's, you know, people, there's no denying how much people love that guy.

Right. Very popular. If you want to see something funny though, there's, um, there's a comedian named Chris Porter.

You ever hear him? Chris Porter. He's this comedian from Kansas city. And his persona is he's pissed off at everything.

Right. And, uh, he goes off on this tirade for like five to 10 minutes about people that like Chris Bryan's music. If you ever want to see one of the funniest things you've ever seen about somebody giving their opinion about music, just, just go and watch, uh, Chris Porter on YouTube that his sexuary starts talking about Luke Bryan's music.

Some of it is annoying. He, he, he ends the whole thing by saying, if you listen to Chris Bryan's music, you're going to get, or Luke, Luke Bryan's music. You're going to get cancer.

Yeah. And when you listen to it, it was kind of, you don't know if he's being funny or maybe he had a run in with him at one time because he's kind of, he's really kind of going off on it. I'm the poor guy, but it was pretty funny though.

All right. So what's your favorite song? Cause you know, you're going to play it. So now all of a sudden he's going, okay, not my favorite song.

Favorites. I mean, there's a lot, there's a quite a few of them in our set list that we do that I, that I'm really fond of. Um, like, um, we do Tennessee whiskey, Chris, Chris Stapleton version.

I said that started off as a George Jones song about that. Not many people know that, but yeah. Um, one of Mike's favorites.

Yeah. If I never have to sing or hear that song ever again, but did it start off as a George Jones song or was it, or was it actually written by, um, was it at a James? I don't know who wrote the song, but I know that George Jones actually made it famous. I thought it was, I thought it was like a spinoff of an edit James song is what it was.

Yeah. I'm not familiar with that. Yeah.

Something. Yeah. Um, we'll find that somewhere later.

Wrote it, Linda Hargrove, Dean Dillon. Oh, okay. Okay.

But anyway, um, no, we do it. We do a few Chris Stapleton songs. I really enjoy doing, um, Luke Bryan.

We do a song called country girl that the crowd just loves, you know, um, trouble. T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Oh, I love that song.

That's a lot of fun to do. And that was done by Elvis who was my very first rock and roll hero. So yeah, love that song.

Hot off the presses. Tennessee whiskey was first recorded by David Allen Cole for his 1981 album of the same name. And then George Jones who took it to number two on the country chart in 1983.

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So I'd love to hear something. Oh boy. Look at, Ooh, look, there's a guitar.

Jackson. I'd say Jackson. Jackson.

Oh yeah. Yeah, baby. We should just bring our guitars and leave them here.

So there's no excuse. So we just bring them with, I've got an extra one. We can just leave it right here in the studio.

And you don't have to sing right into the microphone. You can back off of it and it'll pick it up. Kind of ambient.

Is that a word? We got married in a fever. We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out. Oh, I'm going to Jackson.

I'm going to mess around. Yeah, I'm going to Jackson. Look out Jackson town.

Well, go on down to Jackson. Go ahead and wreck your hell. Go play your hand.

You big talking man, make a big fool of yourself. Yeah, go to Jackson. Go comb your hair.

I'm going to snowball Jackson. We'll see if I care. Well, when I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow.

All them women gonna be teaching what they don't know how. Oh, I'm going to Jackson. It goes to my coat.

Yeah, I'm going to Jackson. In Jackson, a pony. Downtown like a scalded hound with your tail tucked between your legs.

Big talking man in Jackson. Man, I'm a jerk head fan. Well, when a fever higher than a pepper sprout.

We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out. Oh, I'm going to Jackson. And that's a fact.

Yeah, I'm going to Jackson. Ain't never coming back. Well, we got married in a fever higher than a pepper sprout.

We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out. Oh, I'm going to Jackson. And that's a fact.

Yeah, I'm going to Jackson. Ain't never coming back. All right.

Nicely done. Very nicely done. I like that.

I've always liked that song. Yeah, that's a good one. It's fun.

A little bit of a, I could be wrong, but a little bit of a Willie Nelson quality to your voice. Oh, OK. I'll take that as a compliment.

So any original music at all? Or just pretty much doing cover stuff? Not yet. Yeah, we're wanting that. We're wanting to go in that direction.

But right now, it's just covers. So we're just getting ourselves out there. So, you know.

Right, right. So do you find that when you when you're trying to book the band, are you kind of pigeonholed to specific clubs that are only catering to country music? Or are people all over the place deciding to book you? No, we've actually been playing all different types of genres. I mean, places, venues out there.

Yeah, we've kind of been doing the grand tour of northern Illinois. Oh, yeah. And a lot of the regular spots.

Yeah, I've seen I've seen like sidekicks, I think. Side outs. Or side outs.

Yeah, it's kind of our home base where all three of us are right from just a few miles away. Gotcha. OK, yeah, probably Sundance Saloon.

Sundance, 30 Nelly's, the legendary Broadstop, all those places. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Firewater, yeah.

The Broadstop, man. I'll tell you what, that's like a rite of passage. That's what I think.

It's kind of like, did you make it or did you not make it if you play in the Broadstop? I don't know. That's the question. That's the question.

It's a big stage. It is. It's a big stage, big venue, too.

But how many of you were in the original Broadstop before it burned down? Oh, I definitely was. Yeah, I definitely was. I was in that one, yeah.

It was a lot smaller. Yeah, that was the Broadstop was along the route when I was in high school, back when the drinking age was 18 in Wisconsin. So so, yeah, I've been in the old Broadstop.

That's how I found it. From 94 to 50 over to Lake Geneva. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. So who's doing your booking? Which one are you? There's always one person who usually does it, right? Yeah, Dan, Dan Noby, the bass player. He does most of the booking.

We, Mark and I, fiddle around with a couple venues here and there. But yeah, Dan does most of the booking. Right.

It's been a good turnout, really. It's been kind of taking care of itself pretty well. You know, we got the word out.

Like we started with side outs and that kind of opened the door for us. And then since then, we've been just able to book them pretty fast, you know. Right.

Patrick, you booked it last year. We did this past Saturday. And I think we're just having fun, you know, like played for two and a half, three hours without a break.

Just like once we get going, like there's no stopping, you know, it's like we're having fun or people are dancing. And it's kind of contagious, you know, you get that going and people say, I want to come. That's what's fun, too, is we start seeing faces like, hey, we saw them at the broad stop.

Hey, we met you at the firewood or whatever. And it's hard to see when people show up at like, all right, hey, building up a following. It's a lot of fun to get that going.

Yeah. What was your favorite gig so far? I think side outs a couple weeks ago was a really good show. Just the energy level is really good.

On the outdoors. I mean, I prefer the outdoor stage to the indoor stage, but yeah, that's always a great place to play. Different.

Building energy. Yeah, it was fun to play Sundance. They've really they really cater to the bands up there.

That was it was a really good time. Have you played? Did you play outside or? Well, have you played outside and inside there? No, we used to. We played there once in December, so it was.

What's that you're talking about at Sundance? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The indoor stage.

Yeah, we we played the my band played the outdoor stage over the summer. A little different. I kind of like the inside a little bit better.

It's when you're inside. People tend to get dressed up a little bit more. And when you're outside, everybody looked like they were going to a barbecue.

You know, it gives it gives it a whole different, different attitude there in a little bit. But so have you guys played there a lot? Sundance. Yeah, Sundance.

No, just once. Just one time there. Oh, just one time.

Yeah, because I told the people on the podcast last week, if you go into the men's room, there is a promo poster, Lori Morgan on the wall. Did you see that? Yes. OK, I was I was called to play guitar and I don't even remember the name of the band.

It was some local country band that needed a guitar player that night. They said, yeah, we're playing Sundance Saloon. And this was in like 1993, 1994, something like that.

And we go there to play a one hour set and we opened for Lori Morgan. And that poster that is hanging on the bathroom wall is the promo poster. It's been hanging on the bathroom wall in the same spot since like 1994.

They just stuck it in a frame and left it on the wall. She's pretty cool. So is there one show that you would like to forget? One? Just well, it could be more than one.

None that went terribly. You know, just like any other band, we're going to have mistakes here and there. But we've gotten to the point now from the first six or eight months that we were together.

Now, if we make a mistake somewhere along the line in practice, rehearsal, whatnot, we're on stage, we press on, we can, we know the songs inside and out. So, well, that kind of covers them up. So there's always a little bit like, but nothing like, oh, that was everything about that was bad.

I'm also known as Mr. Positive. So here's a good one. You want a story? This is a good one.

We're at Doc's a couple of months ago. There we go. And we're running sound ourselves, right? Brought our own sound system.

Because that's always a good idea. We're slow learners, I guess. But anyhow, so we got it all set up, did our sound check.

It was kind of a, we did like a, just a quick line check and hit the set, right? Just a pretty fast setup and got going. And the feedback was just awful. And a buddy from Doc was just talking about how the acoustics are interesting in that room.

And so my mind, I'm thinking it's like, it's got to be something about the room dynamics. So I said, hey, push the mains out a little further away from the mics. And that didn't help at all.

Like, oh, shit. Now what? And so I'm looking at all the meters, like, I don't see anything wrong here. So I said, hey, we can't hear the singers.

Like, yeah, I know. Because if I turn it up, it's going to mean feedback. And I also got a choice.

We don't know if it's no singing or no feedback, you know? And God forbid, you can't tell guitar players to turn down. Well, yeah. So I started saying, we're going to have to turn it down a little bit.

And then all of a sudden, I looked over and I noticed two of Mark's guitars, two lines were lightened up pretty good. I was like, wait a minute. Oh, he left his acoustic on.

Oh, damn. He's usually very good about turning his acoustic off. He left the acoustic on.

So we shut that down. And the crowd started cheering, like, yeah, OK, now we're ready to go. Oh, and that's what it was.

But yeah, there was an intense couple of moments where I was like, oh, God, do we have a show or not? What is going on? Yeah, that was bad. Yeah, no, yeah. Because everybody starts looking at each other.

No, it's your fault. No, it's your fault. No, it was playing well.

It was my fault. And even the crowd's going, we can't hear him. Like, yeah, right.

I know. And then you've got my ass off. And then you've got the drunk guy who keeps yelling free bird, you know, actually, he was there.

Yeah, yeah. I can only imagine that. He's one of my followers, too.

You must hear that. You must hear that. I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah.

But I mean, you know, the average guy that goes around and does that. I've never heard that before. Yes.

Yeah. And they all tend to look like him for some reason. No, but, you know, I can only imagine that the average band probably hears it once or twice a night.

But a country band has to hear it, you know, or a southern rock band has to hear it about 12 times until you finally give them a little bit of it or something. We do give me three steps. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's as close as we're going to get tonight. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

It's like, I got your free bird right here. No charge. So how about another one? How about one that you are singing lead on? That I'm singing lead on? Yeah.

Let's hear Lindsey belt something out. White liar. That's white liar.

I could do that. That's right. Don't put it that close.

Don't put it that close. Just kidding. Pull it away.

There you go. There you go. All right.

Because you got a belter over there. So we'll kind of shorten it up, though. Yeah, that's fine.

So truth comes out a little at a time. It is precious like fire Slips off of your tongue like turpentine And I don't know how I like her What you do, I wouldn't want to be in your shoes If I ever found you out You better be careful what you say It never really added up anyway I've got friends in this town Hey, truth comes out a little at a time And it's precious Slips off of your tongue like turpentine And I don't know how I like her Went out to a bar and walked some lady to her car But your face says poor deal Cause my cousin saw you on the street With a red-eyed knife beneath Turns out you don't fly too well Hey, truth comes out a little at a time And it's precious like fire Slips off of your tongue like turpentine And I don't know how I like her Here's a bombshell just for you Turns out I've been lying to you Hey, truth comes out a little at a time And it's precious like fire Slips off of your tongue like turpentine And I don't know how I like her Not in this case. Very nice, very nice.

How's your headphones? Very good. Nice job, guys. That's great.

Who recorded that song? Who recorded that song? Yeah. That's Miranda. That's Miranda Lambert.

Yeah. That was her acoustic version of that one. There's like a radio version that's a little more rocky, and then she had a YouTube, a live YouTube performance.

Did you notice the other three guys linked arms and just swayed side to side? They were coming back and forth. Yeah. They were all kind of standing over there like this.

For those of you who can't see this, I was, you know, the three monkeys. Yes. So where can people find you if they want to find Southbound and see you guys? I was going to say, he's going to want to take that one.

Martin. Online, we are wearesouthbound.net. And on Facebook, Southbound Band, Chicagoland. Yes.

And we have an Instagram, Southbound Band. Southbound underscore Chicago. Yeah.

What's that? Oh, and plenty of upcoming shows. Yeah. Where are you guys going to be? Next show, May 27th at Keefe's Reef Street.

Oh, yeah. Outdoor. First outdoor show in a while.

Keefe's Reef. Hopefully it'll be nice. You know the place? Yeah.

Have you played there before? No. Oh, it's unique. The stage is like a chopped up bus or camper.

I've seen it. I've been there plenty of times. Actually, I take that back.

It's a pontoon boat that they turn sideways. That's perfect. And then there's like a camper or something behind it where they cut the side of the wall out of it, and that becomes like your drum riser.

And it's got the old 1970s railings from like a two flat or something like that in the city. It's really unique, and it's all completely outdoors right along the river. It looks good.

Now I'm even more excited. Yeah. And hopefully what I liked about it the most is I love old cars and motorcycles, and when we played there, I mean, the place was just filled with vintage hot rods and old Harleys and stuff.

It's a pretty good time. You guys are going to like it. We're hoping to do Immortals Destination Places for the bikes and the boats.

Deore, Nikos, where there's a constant going. Because I ride, too, so I've seen a lot of these places from the motorcycle. Have a beer or two and a meal.

I have to hit the next place. Right, right, right. There's always bands playing.

So Keefs is definitely one of those. After that, we're playing Empty Barrels on a Saturday night. Yeah, that's June 3rd.

Yeah, June 3rd. And again, Nikos on Father's Day on June 18th. That's that place I've been looking forward to playing for a couple of years.

First time I've seen a band play there, I'm like, oh, they really did it up right. This looks like fun. Oh, yeah.

This is going to be a good time. We've got the Montrose Beach in Chicago. Oh, nice.

Yeah. July 16th, I think. July 9th.

Don't you have your friend with you? I do, but I do not have my reading glasses. That's so little. July 9th.

The truth comes out. July 9th. It's there.

Montrose Beach in Chicago. July 9th. Right on the lakefront.

That looks like a good one. Diamond Gyms in East Diney on August 5th. August 5th.

There's a place that you guys should check out, because I think you'd go over extremely well there. You were talking about the destination places for bikers. It'd be a little bit of a haul for you guys, but you'd have a good time.

There's a place out in, I believe officially it's Shanahan, which is right on the border. It's I-55 south as you're going into the Joliet area. So you're literally about 15 minutes away from it right here, where we are.

And there's a big bridge that goes over the Des Plaines River, and down underneath the bridge is a place called the Big Basin. And it's kind of like the Broken Ore, but even more so, where most of the people that show up to see you are going to be showing up by jet ski or boat or whatever. Nice.

I mean, they've got more boat parking than they do car and motorcycle parking. It's really, really cool. And you go a little bit further west to Seneca right along the river is Boondocks.

Yeah. And they've got indoor and outdoor stages. And what about shooters in Shorewood? Scooters.

Oh, scooters. I guess technically it's like a roadhouse type kind of a bar, but they're starting to open it up for all kinds of different genres and stuff. Well, if there's any talent agents out there listening, we'd love to know.

Or any talent agents that want to sponsor our podcast. Any talent agents that want to sponsor. Absolutely.

Yeah, exactly. But, no, we have a – our band, we've got a 10-person band. The 10th member of our band is our regular sound guy.

He's got his own sound company, but he's also the guy that does sound at Big Basin. So I kind of have a hookup for you if you guys are interested in that one. And those places, too, we think the strength of our set list is we play cater to – there's a little bit for everybody.

We play some 60-year-old, 70-year-old country music, and then we play stuff that's on the top, top charts now. Right. And then Southern rock and then classic rock.

We've got Lynyrd Skynyrd in there. We've got Steel Wheels. Right.

We've got a mix of everything. And even if you don't know the songs, when we're playing them, they've got a groove. They've got their fun here.

So it's not like, what the heck is this? When's the song going to be over? Nothing like that. And so it's a pretty nice mix. We like to think we have – We've got a couple of them in there we might weed out a little bit.

But not bad. That was the appeal because I went and looked at a bunch of your videos online and a whole bit before we came here. That was the appeal for me was that you play a mixture of older country and the newer country.

Yeah. Some of the newer country I like. Not all of it, but the older country I absolutely love.

Because I found that the country bands in the Chicago area all tend to be new modern country. True. Because we're in Chicago.

I mean, come on. This isn't Tennessee. This isn't West Virginia.

Right? So they're listening to the B-96 radio stations and stuff like that where they're playing all the new Top 40 stuff. Yeah. But the appeal for me was listening to the older stuff.

The second song I ever heard in my life was Kiss an Angel Good Morning by Charlie Pryde. Oh, I love that song. Yeah.

The first song was Lean on Me by Bill Withers. But yeah, I was raised on all that stuff. And my mother's favorite artist was Charlie Rich.

So Charlie Rich was always being played throughout. Yeah. So I love the old country stuff.

Yeah, definitely. Well, all righty, guys. Thanks a lot for coming out.

Thank you for having us. Hopefully, we'll get out and see you somewhere this summer. Yeah.

I think I've already been told two of us are going to Empty Barrels. Oh, all right. We've been told that? Yeah.

I told my girlfriend who we were interviewing, she goes, oh, they're going to be at Empty Barrels on June 3rd. Oh, that's right. Sorry, honey, you don't sound like that.

Yeah, that was kind of a... Maybe we should just edit that out. We're going to Empty Barrels. You can edit this, right? Most definitely.

Paul, help me. All righty, guys. Thanks for coming out.

Thanks for having us. Thanks for playing. Yeah.

What a cool venue, too. It's really nice to be here. Yeah.

Thanks. We look forward to this place opening up. Yeah.

This is going to be amazing when it opens up, by the way. Yes. This is so cool.

So glad you guys are doing this tribute. It's definitely needed. This is... Yeah.

We're in awe. We were just thinking, how are we going to plug this place tonight? There it is. There it is.

Our thousands and thousands of... Our thousands of followers know now. Yeah. Welcome stuff.

We were worried that we would be doing this and recording in somebody's basement. That was... Oh, it's not that we haven't done that. Yeah.

In other places. All righty, guys. Thanks.

Thank you. See you later, guys. Thank you.

Well, I don't know about you, but I think I'm heading southbound. Southbound. I like those guys.

I do, too, especially Tater. Can you believe that? Man, what a great name, man, for a country band. His last name is Tater.

I love it. I love it. I like the fact that they play old country as well as the new country because, as you know, I'm more of an old country man.

Well, yeah. I mean, I like the mix. I mean, I'm more of a newer country than older country, but I do like older stuff, too.

Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, when it's all we had was the old country, I wasn't a big fan. Yeah, right.

When it started getting a little bit more rock and roll-y, that's when I started to like it. You know, that is the one thing that the newer country has done. It's kind of made country music palatable for everybody.

Right. Right. It's pop.

It's basically what it is. Right. It's not outlaw country anymore.

It's more of a pop genre. And people that even say that, you know, I didn't like country music 10 years ago. Oh, yeah.

But now they say, yeah, I like country music. I've liked country music for a while now, but, yeah, maybe I'll go 25 years ago. I didn't like that stuff.

I just didn't like the Merle Haggard's and Tammy Wynette's and stuff. It just didn't do anything for me. Maybe we'll have to start up the Harleys and go see them out at Keith's Reef.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. That'd be a fun time.

That would be a good time. All righty, then. Thanks, everybody, for listening.

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