Ep 253 D-Rox (Desiree Megrant)
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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 your man, Hollywood
Mike, one more time.
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Your man. Your man. Well, it sounds like you're glad to be back.
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I'm absolutely, you know, I missed you. You did. I missed, yeah, I missed you and I missed the
show and I missed all the people that we're talking to because I'm just having a good time.
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Well good, that's what it's all about. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I started a new job, I'm getting
a new dog and everything.
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That's right. I'm picking him up Friday. Are you? Yeah, I'm picking him up Friday.
I can't wait. I'm going to go pick him up. And I think I told you, his name right now is Arnold and
I think I'm going to keep it as Arnold.
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Yeah, like Arnold Ziffel. Yeah, actually, it's actually Arnold Drummond because he had a brother,
so they named him Arnold and Willis. And one of the funniest thing is when I first met him, he
jumped up right into my arms, right? And I said, what are you talking about, Willis? And the lady
comes over and says, that's so funny because his brother's name is Willis.
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We named them Arnold and Willis for that reason. So technically his name is Arnold
Drummond. Well, very cool.
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Yeah, that's what it is. Start practicing cleaning up the yard. Yeah, right, right.
We have somebody in the, we have somebody in the studio with us tonight. We do. A very
special guest, everybody.
I want you to welcome my friend, Desi from D-Rocks. Hey. Hello, hello.
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How you doing? The fans are here. Good, good. Hello, Ray.
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Yeah. Hollywood Mike. Yeah, that's right.
See, look at that. I mean, we all have all kinds of, we both have different kinds of names. Right.
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I've got like 52 names now, I think. I've got three. Yeah, you do.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah.
So, well, we should probably just start there, everybody. It's D-Rocks, which actually stands for
Desi-Ray Roxanne. Yes.
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Which is a cool name in itself. So why the hell would you, why would that? Why would you
shorten that? Mike, thanks, mom. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. D-R-O-X, not R-O-C-K-S, although she does R-O-C-K. Okay.
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Did you understand that? And R-O-L-L. Yeah, there you go. L-M-A-O.
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Yeah. So how you doing? Great. I haven't seen you in a while.
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It's been a while. And I was so happy to see you. Was that a birthday party for you? That was
not.
It was a birthday party for a 60 year old. Oh, is that what it was? And you were just, you were in
town, you were hanging out, you were jamming and playing some tunes. Yeah.
Booked some gigs for the summer and was excited to have my friend's band, Wing It, open up
for us. Oh, okay. So that was, that was their second show ever.
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I missed them. I got there. A couple of rockers, but yeah, we had a wonderful night.
And wow, the energy that was in the room. You know, the energy in that little hole in the wall
bar is always spectacular. Yes.
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Yeah. And Brian from Gus Dills, if you're listening, we're looking for sponsors. I was just going
to say, yeah.
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We're looking for sponsors. Gusto's Bar and Grill. Yeah.
Yeah. So we're going to go back. We're going to go back and we're going to tell everybody,
because that's what this is all about.
People want to know about you. People want to know you. And what about you? You still
rocking? Oh, absolutely.
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All right. Oh my God. Constantly.
In fact, that's why I showed up to your show so late. I was out in, where the hell was I? I was in
Pontiac. We played, we played a concert in the park in Pontiac, which we got rained out.
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We ended up in a theater in Pontiac, which was pretty cool. And then we finished up there and I
went out to see you because I knew you were in town. Nice long drive.
Well, thank you. A little bit. Absolutely.
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It was a nice surprise too. Yeah. It was a lot of fun.
It was, but I'll tell you what, so we're going to go, we're going to go way back. We're going to go
way back. So I've knew, I knew your family for years before you and I officially met.
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I heard. And I, and I think I've told, I think I told Ray this story before, but I don't think I've ever
told this story before on the program. But my daughter was about three weeks old and Desi's
mom and dad owned a coffee shop called the Magnolia Cafe.
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And obviously Louisiana, state flower, Louisiana, Magnolia, gotta go there for breakfast. Right?
So we did. And we walked in, I think it was, it was the very first time I walked in the place and
her mother, a lovely woman that everybody refers to as Miss Peg, right? Walks in and she takes
one look at my almost newborn daughter and says, oh, what a little peanut, right? We have,
that's been my daughter's nickname.
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She is now 22 years old and in our house, she is peanut because your mother gave her that
name. I've told her before over the years, I've told her before. So every Sunday I would, we
would go back there and, and every like every other or every third Friday or whatever, just at
least once a month, I would go to the coffee shop on Friday afternoons and sing and play guitar
with your father.
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You did. I did. You did.
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Yeah. That's super cool. Yeah.
For, and your father had a friend, I can't remember his name, that had an AM radio program.
Larry. Yes.
And yes, the second you said that, I remember that. And he would show up every once in a
while and he'd be there and, and he'd be recording us and everything. I don't know if he was
using that as a radio show or whatever, but yeah, he was always there.
And these two guys were teaching me how to play the blues because I was just a rocker at this
point in time. I was, I don't know, 30 something. And they were teaching me how to play blues.
So I used to go whenever I could and just play guitar with these guys. Cause they taught me
how to play blues. You know, Mike, that was before I became D rocks.
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Oh really? So what were you, what were you before that? Just teaching myself guitar. That's it.
That's all you were doing.
Your mother used to tell me all the time. I've, my kids are musical and I know, and I know that
your brother plays drums, right? But she kept saying, I have a daughter that plays guitar. I have
a daughter that plays guitar.
And I, I didn't meet this daughter that played guitar for years and years. And, and, and that's a,
and that's a small world, right? I never told you that story before. No, I wasn't at a bar.
Was I drinking? I mean, I'm sure it was, I'm sure it was on a motorcycle ride or something like
that. I told you that, which, which is the way that we met, which is this even stranger than that,
because we showed up and you had a friend and I won't, I won't mention any names. I can
mention my friend's name, but I'm not going to mention anybody's names if they don't want to
be mentioned.
But you had a friend that was dating a friend of mine that I had known since fourth grade. His
name, his name is right. So I, I, I'm talking to Mark and I'm meeting his girlfriend and putting
two and two together.
And the strange thing about it is she was my cousin Ed's business partner. So I'm sitting, we're
sitting here on this, on this motorcycle ride, we're sitting here on this motorcycle ride and, and
I'm meeting all of these people that have, you know, like, like seven degrees of Kevin Bacon are
going on. And then she introduces me to you and we're talking and stuff.
And you know, again, one thing leads to another, putting two and two together. And I said, wait
a minute, you're Ms. Pegg's daughter. And that's how we met.
I had to tell the story because it's crazy. It had to have been five years. It had to have been a five
year period between me meeting her mother and father and hearing about her.
And then by chance, meeting her on a motorcycle ride to Starved Rock. Well, it was a ride to
Starved Rock. Yep.
It was. That's right. Yeah.
It's a blast from the fat bastard right there. That is crazy. Yeah.
It was a long time ago. He's still printing for me today. Is he really? Yes, he is.
So he's doing all your D-Rock stuff and everything. My cousin Ed. I got a hat.
I got hats coming. Hey cousin Ed, um, we're looking for sponsors. That's right.
Is, is it still Helene printing? Elite. Elite printing. Elite printing and promotions.
Okay. Well, elite printing and promotions ran by my cousin, Ed. Yep.
We're looking for sponsors, brother. That's right. And what's going on, man? We got to go for a
ride soon, but anyways.
Yeah. So, I mean, that's the whole story. So going back 2002, 2003, whatever, you're just
teaching yourself how to play guitar.
Uh, right about 2006, I bought a guitar in East Charlottesburg, Pennsylvania. A couple of years
later, I moved back home to Illinois. About a year after that, my dad passed away.
So that was around 2008. Yep. Uh, my brother, whom we were talking about, talked me into
starting to play music out live at the bars.
I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
And then I did Gustos being my first place, um, that hired me, O'Brien. And that was 2012. 2012.
Yes. So it's been about 13 years. I just jammed at Gustos again, 13 years later.
Yeah. 13 years later. Yep.
Yeah. That's where we were. Or so you couldn't find anywhere else to play or.
No, it's a good old watering hole that. Yeah, it is. It's always good to come in and knock it out of
the park.
And when I'm heading back to Florida, knock it out of the park. There you go. You know what it
is? It's like judges.
Okay. It's a neighborhood. It's a, it's a neighborhood bar.
You know, water and hole been around a long time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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Yeah. So boy, I didn't realize it was, it was at that particular point in time. Cause I thought you
were playing a lot longer than that.
Doing a lot of open jams. I'd just show up and play someone's keyboards, docks or, you know,
doing the Uptown jams on Thursday nights. Right.
So that's how I got in. You know, when I came back home from living down South for like 15
years, that's how I got back into the music scene that way, doing karaoke contests, winning for
Brett Michaels, doing a lot of the open jams that you guys were at. Wait, so you were doing
karaoke contests for Brett Michaels? He put one on in 2011.
Brett Michaels did? Yeah. Brett Michaels put on a karaoke contest. He did.
With all the proceeds going towards the children's diabetes foundation. Okay. Where was that?
It was five bars North of 80 and five bars South of 80.
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Wow. Okay. Freak was actually doing the whole MC on the whole ordeal.
You know what? I seem to remember that. Okay. All right.
Yeah. And you won the whole thing. Out of 16 contestants, I won.
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What song? And I sang Every Rose on stage with them. Really? Yeah. Wow.
Really? Yep. Was that the song you competed with? That was not the song I competed with, but
that's the song I got to sing on stage with them because I was the winner. Because you were
the winner.
What was my songs? Oh, Alicia Keys Falling and then Bobby McGee. That's always a good one.
And that's what I won the contest with.
Alicia Keys Falling. I can hear you doing Bobby McGee. I don't think I've ever heard you do Alicia
Keys before.
Oh, that's the R&B. That's the R&B in me. You know, and you are versatile.
I will say that's the one thing that I've always said about you. I've seen you do country. I've seen
you do metal.
I mean, shit, I saw you do Billy Idol the other night. I mean, she is, she's very versatile. There's a
whole nother side B for Florida and the beaches too.
It's, you know, Jimmy Buffett and Bonnie Raitt and, you know, Zac Brown and all of them. And
always my originals. Okay.
And always my originals. Right, right, right. So between 2006, so we're talking less, I mean,
we're talking less than 10 years.
You went from teaching yourself how to play guitar, booking gigs, finding your sound and just
going, shit, I'm going to Florida and make a living doing this. Yup. And I don't get cold no more.
I don't shovel snow no more. And I do earlier gigs too. The Midwest 9pm, 10pm start.
Right. But it allows you to work on your original stuff. Absolutely.
I'm getting ready to start my second album, Mike. Are you really? Yes. We haven't gotten to the
first one yet.
Well, it's been a long time coming, so. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, I'll tell you what. We like to, we like to throw a bunch of songs in here every once in a
while. Why don't we take a quick break and we're going to get you set up because we're going
to have you play a few of them.
All right. How about it? All right. All right.
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All right. We are back. I'll tell you what we've got.
We've got Desi here in the studio. I can't wait to hear her play. I love her stuff.
I love her stuff. She's going to play a song right now called two wheels to the water. And as she,
as you probably, as you, I had to refresh your memory about the time that we met.
Yes. I also remember sitting at a picnic table at starved rock. We went on, we went on a ride,
you know, how they made the burgers outside and everything and sitting over the balcony and
we're sitting at a table, just drinking a couple of beers.
And you were sitting down next to me and you told me about the idea for this song that day.
And then about two weeks later, we went to, uh, where was the place that the jam that you
used to host? Um, Jess kickers, kickers. That's right.
And you played it for the very first time. And I actually played the song with you when I heard
you. And I was like, Holy shit.
I have it on recording. As a matter of fact, that's when, um, Oh, what's his face. Uh, Dave, um,
spotted, spotted Joe pie was, was around.
He's, he's passed on now too. Yeah. But spotted Joe pie, he would always do some recordings at
kickers in the early days.
Yeah. Yeah. So this is the first like original I've ever heard her, uh, play before.
So she's going to do it right now. You know, you know where the song originated from was, uh,
the boondocks Tiki bar down on the Illinois river in Seneca. So not long after I started playing
out, Rhonda booked me right away.
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And I was playing there like twice a month down at boondocks Tiki bar and Seneca on the
Illinois river. And you know, all Sunday and Saturday, all the bikes come in and the boats. And,
and that's where this song came from two wheels to the water.
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I really do wish you were playing guitar. Cause you got the good riff. Sure.
Then it's time to flow some more. There's a party on the sand where the water meets the land.
Our bikes warmed up and running Headed to where the fun is Take two wheels to the water No
one's feeling tired Guitars playing by the fire And false thoughts are coming Oh these guitars
they'll keep strumming As the girls all leave their seats We'll start picking up the beat They're
not shy about dancing We all need a little summertime romancing As things start getting hotter
We head back to the water What do you think about that Hollywood? There's a party on the
sand Where the water meets the land Our bikes warmed up and running We're headed to
where the fun is Take two wheels to the water Let's go boys There it is There we go Very cool I
wasn't expecting the end I was in it, I was bopping over here I was all up in it I do love that
song, it's a great song Thank you I remember when you wrote it too I mean you were so proud
of it You had a smile from ear to ear I went and we saw you guys Actually a bunch of us rode
And I think you played What was that place way out west Where the walls are built with the
crushed cars Cycle Silo Yeah you played Cycle Silo I think I have a video of that somewhere You
were playing like a white ovation guitar You rode out that day? Oh yeah the day that the guy
next door Was making the free sweet corn on the grill That was a great day It rained a little bit
but that was a great day Yeah It was a lot of fun out there So who was your first influence? My
dad, Elvis Your dad was Elvis? No He was an Italian cowboy though I love Elvis actually But my
dad My dad my biggest influence My mom has always been a singer She likes to sing along But
dad was just an amazing amazing Musician And he was fantastic On the piano Chords that
Liberace played You know my dad was just a classical Blues Always learning Always listening to
Steve Vai, Steve Morris You know one time He went hunting down in Tennessee My dad Bow
hunting And ran into Ted Nugent My brothers were so excited They were like dad you met a
rockstar Little did Ted know He actually met a rockstar too That's my dad Yeah definitely Your
dad played a little bit with the Everly Brothers My dad played with So many Him and his
brothers had a band And Oh yeah They met Jerry Lee Lewis And all of them Frank Sinatra My
dad would be 93 This month actually he would be 93 What a great guy I'm so glad to know that
you did know him Oh my god he was a fantastic guy Yeah he was a fantastic guy Ed And yeah I
would go out And we would just Play music I showed up one day And they were there And I was
like wow I got a guitar in my In my car and they were like Go get it So I went I got it and it was
some cheap You know I think it was a Fender Stratocaster Or something if I remember correctly
And I didn't know what I was doing but I was like okay I'm just gonna Play some licks over the
chords that they're playing And they stopped playing And your dad and Larry looked at each
other and said They were talking about me as if I wasn't there that was the weird thing They
were talking It's like yeah you know what What's really cool is you know for a young man Like
him he doesn't try to play too fast or anything And he doesn't strum the strings too hard Yeah I
like that and they're literally just talking Like that And I'm over here like Okay and I kept turning
around to make sure They weren't talking about somebody that was standing behind me That I
didn't see is what was going on And so Like I said at least once a month for a couple of years I
would go down and You know he'd show me a couple of things Every time I'd be there he'd
show up With a different guitar and show me some of his guitars And he had some fantastic
guitars oh my god Fantastic guitars He did yes he did Sounds like a cool guy He was a teacher
But he wasn't a teacher if that makes any sense He simply Taught me how to play different
things on the guitar Just by talking about it Not necessarily showing it to me just talking about it
And then I'd go home and I'd say well let me Try what Ed said and I'd do it Patient and kind and
You know very complimentary You know And he taught me how to play He taught me how to
play with my thumb Oh yeah Yeah I just sit on the chair going No I'm just kidding Oh god No he
taught me He taught me how to wrap my thumb Over the top of the neck and use my thumb
To fret the low E and sometimes even the Even the A string and he says look at it It frees up all
the rest of your fingers to do something else He tried to teach me that a little bit too You know
man Only like two years after I started teaching myself Guitar Did he pass away Oh wow That
was a tragic day we won't go down That road but I remember that Clear as day I do I remember
that clear as day So anyways And you have brothers and sisters that also You know my brother
Dusty He plays he's a multi instrumentalist As well I've only seen him play the drums Drums,
bass, guitar, acoustic Electric either one He likes to dabble around on You know other stringed
instruments too But yeah He's a really good multi instrumentalist As well Now my brother
Dominic He gave it up some years ago My sister she gave it up some years ago She started with
piano and sax Talking about Dawn Yes Dawn I started with piano and sax too I do too I'm going
to miss her man We hung out and had a great summer already Dawn is a bartender At Gusto's
Friday nights 21 years Wow Put herself through nursing school a couple times Raised her kids
Yep she's my hero So she played piano and sax And I played piano so we did our lessons at
George K's Dusty was on bass My brother Dominic was on guitar And then they filter out of it
And then as I, I'm the baby So as I got older Dawn gave up the sax When I hit sixth grade I hit
the sax And then I played the saxophone And piano for the next like Seven years in school I got
two of them at home too Then you gave it up for a while and you went back to it And it's like
what the hell I'm going to do this And you got the bug and you started doing it Exactly And you
talk about that a little bit in Heart of a Country Girl I do You have a lyric in Heart of a Country
Girl I got a late start but the rhythm's always been in my heart Play it Alright I'm a kickin' Kickin'
head Banging boots Stomping son of a gun I got these 12 strings tuned up And baby I say
grace and please And thank you ma'am Going on down to Dixieland If you want to know what
I'm about I'll tell you who I am Hey In this rock and roll world Beats the heart of a country girl I
sang with mom and dad From a pew At an old gospel church I even sang with Rhett Michaels
You know I love my Hank and Murphy In this rock and roll world Beats the heart of a country
girl I got a late start but the rhythm's always been in my heart I'm calling Hollywood up Saying
put D-Rock's on one of your stops I say grace and please And thank you ma'am Going to the top
of Dixieland If you want to know what I'm about I'll tell you who I am Hey In this rock and roll
world Beats the heart of a country girl I sang with mom and dad From a pew At an old gospel
church I even sang with Rhett Michaels You know I love my Hank and Murphy In this rock and
roll world Beats the heart of a country girl That's where Hollywood Mike comes in with his lead
guitar With a nose whistle I can put a nose whistle in You know guys, that song Ray and Mike
That song is on rotation On Sebring Florida's Top Country Station 99.1 WWOJ Sebring's Top
Country Station I saw that, that's so cool That's pretty cool And by the way Radio Station, we're
looking for sponsors Well I ain't getting paid for it yet But hopefully someone will hear it and
pick it up No kidding, no kidding So if people like the song Where can they get it? I'm on Spotify
I'm on the iTunes I got Distrokid CD Baby Under D-Rocks D-R-O-X Acoustics A-C-O-U-S-T-I-X
Restless Ways Album You can find that on all the platforms That are out there Spotify, CD Baby
Amazon The Amazon music, yes The Restless Ways album is out there There is 11 songs, 12 12
songs out there A real album, not an EP Not an EP, a real album It's a real album So the Radio
Station Is it like a local station? Yeah Just in that city and it's not really going They stream They
stream as well And it's their town Radio Station 98.3 up here is our CCQ Right, right 99.1 on that
area down there So I imagine it reaches a couple towns You know So it has potential to go
more corporate Yes And go nationwide if people like it Yeah, that's pretty cool So when did this
first album come out? This first album came out in I want to say I started the first song Restless
Ways Was 2015 December 17, 2015 Wow, right to the day And I, well I remember writing it I got
it wrote down, you know And I remember Playing it Performing it At the Rustic Inn for the first
time Oh yeah, no kidding With my Harmonizer pedal Yeah, Restless Ways And then from there
it was like a month or so later Coming into 2016 I wrote Heart of a Country Girl Two Wheels to
the Water Chris Corvo helped me on a couple songs We wrote my Whiskey song Never Learn So
when I was creating this album I'm like It's kind of like I grew up with my mom being a cook,
right? Right, yeah Well I want the whole shebang in the album I want my Whiskey song I want
my Motorcycle song I want my Reggae song I want my Military song I want my Ballad You
know, and then the little R&B There's a mix of all of it On that one album I don't know where it
all came from You're versatile, it is amazingly versatile I listened to the entire album In
preparation for this, I found them all Excellent! I did, I found them all I was sending him links
and stuff To listen to it and everything So where does the inspiration come from? It's just out of
the air? Yeah, just ideas I sit down and when I really take focus And just concentrate on it It
comes to me I come up with a hook You know, something that's Just runs over and over And
then I try to build off of that Right, right, right Usually the melodies come first And then the
lyrics kind of follow for me Some people, the lyrics And then they have trouble with the melody
Yeah, mine just kind of come melody first With that little hook that just I can't let go of, you
know Yeah, I identify with that Because it gives you an idea of something to talk about You
know, rather than making it up out of thin air Exactly Or something like the color blue, okay I'm
going to write about the color blue Okay, at least now you've got a direction to go in Exactly She
beat you to your question You didn't get the chance to ask it Which is fine by me So what's your
favorite song on the album? Oh, my favorite song is Probably Restless Ways Yeah? Yeah Let's
hear a little bit of it That's my ballad Yeah Speaking of what you're going to write a song about I
didn't know what to write a song about When I was sitting in traffic on my way to Build the Argo
Tea Cafe Downtown Chicago One cold morning, two hour ride To go 35 miles And I'm like,
what? I gotta go to Florida It only takes one song I didn't even thought about Florida then I was
just thinking about I know it takes one song Yeah That's all it takes is one song I'm like, what do
I write about? Me, my daughter How about I just write Something that everybody Can relate to
And that's how it came about Alright, cool Ever caring about nothing On a path of selfdestruction
Never staying in one place Too long Alone and brokenhearted Not knowing where
it started Can't remember who was right or wrong Again I lost my reason Only thinking about
leaving Feeling my restless ways Again Oh So I run away from feelings With nothing to believe
in Then one day you walked right through my door Didn't know just how to love you Put
nothing else above you I wish I could've given you more Again I lost my reason Are you thinking
about leaving Feeling your restless ways Again I've been trying to stay strong I've been running
way too long I found my reason In you I found my reason Gave me something to believe in You
gave me something to believe in No more restless ways Isn't that pretty? Very nice I'm gonna
cry I thought you were crying Wow Don't cry That was good I heard the album version of that
song But that song really hits more when it's just you And the guitar Okay, now this album
When you finished these twelve songs When did it come out then? Was it in 16, 17? Oh no, so a
little bit after that And I added my song Salt Life That I wrote when I was down in Fort Myers
Beach Okay And I wound up adding that to it So over a compilation of the last Probably eight
years Oh, okay Maybe nine years I've got twelve songs on this album Okay, and you've got
another one coming out, right? Mm-hmm And she's only got six months to write that one
though Alright Because that's what they say about this You have your entire life to write your
first album Then you've got six months to write your second one Oh, well, don't rush me When
you're under contract Don't rush me Right, right When you're under contract The studio's
expensive Yeah, they are If you're hearing it, I need a sponsor Right Hey! We get to sponsor
first That's right Yeah, no kidding Wow, that's great That's cool That's good So how far along
are you on the second one? Well, I've got one, two, three, four songs And one of them is already
recorded That's a song I wrote after the hurricane Called Washed Away Okay Which you can
find on YouTube I do have a couple music videos on YouTube Yes, all those Part of a Country
Girl, Salt Life, and Washed Away I'm coming up on three years that I wrote that song After
Hurricane Ian wiped us out Yeah So You've been there that long? Eight years Wow Eight years
2018 But you come back every summer? Yes Yeah Yes, thank God Fortunately, my mother's still
alive And I like my brothers and sisters So I come up Not to mention a lot of the people The last
three, four years I tell you guys My Midwest fans that I've met down in Florida Have kept me on
an endless summer tour For the last three summers, for sure I've just come home and Then I
go up to Michigan and Minnesota And Wisconsin and Delaware All over Lots of Michigan Yep,
some Indiana in there Ohio So people will go to Fort Myers on vacation Yes And see you and say
Hey, would you go to Delaware? Yes And you're like, yeah Give me a bar, where do you want me
to go? We pull up that little goo-goo calendar And we see what's going on Wow, that's nice
That's good Very cool Just keep moving around and working Yes That's fantastic Well,
unfortunately, to all our listeners She's leaving tomorrow for Fort Myers So if you want to see
her You're going to have to go there So you're going to have to plan a trip to Fort Myers Until
next year Until next summer sometime Facebook, D-Roxanne Migrant I got put out of my D-Rox
music page I got put out of my Desiree page That I had for so many years So I started another
one D-Roxanne Migrant Follow me Yeah, absolutely Please do Please do God, I don't want you
to leave I'm going to miss you again It's a long winter up here It sure is It sure is But I told you
how talented she was Yeah Well, we might be going to Fort Myers Yeah Permanently?
Eventually Yeah Yeah Okay, you've been saying that for a while I'd like to start the winter I want
to do a cheetahs Yeah In the winter And come back here in the summer Oh, yes Yeah, but you
can't play and sing guitar like that though No, no You can manage me Yeah, there you go You
could That's right We could still do this You know, through Zoom We could Yeah, absolutely
Yeah, fantastic Well, I don't know if there's anything left to be said I don't know Sounds great
Yeah Unless you want to sing us one more I'd like to introduce Boots on the Ground To all the
people out in the listeners out there Yeah All righty, why don't you take us out with that one My
tribute song to all our veterans Past, present Past, present and future Boots on the Ground I
remember when she wrote this one too You remembered a lot tonight Yeah Sounds a little
different when I do it acoustically United we stand Here in a foreign land Your family's back at
home Your kids, they're almost grown Memories come By mail or phone The only life you knew
Is this red, white and blue Boots on the ground Loneliness all around The sun is setting fast We
must not ever forget our past Fight for what we believe Wear this flag upon your teeth Why
these stars and stripes so proud There's Boots on the Ground Nothing comes for free In this
land called liberty There's thousands on that wall Who beckon to their call When those terrors
framed And those towers fell You put your boots back on And you gave them bloody hell Boots
on the ground Loneliness all around The sun is setting fast We must not ever forget our past
Fight for what we believe Wear this flag upon your teeth Why these stars and stripes so proud
There's Boots on the Ground Should we make them get on the iTunes and Amazon Music to
hear the rest of it? Well, let's see.
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That's not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. The only
thing we have to fear is fear itself. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
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And let me close out with this. I'd like to thank our servicemen and women all around the world,
Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy, first responders, and our canines. Yeah, there's
Boots on the Ground Loneliness all around The sun is setting fast We must not ever forget our
past Fight for what we believe Wear this flag upon your teeth Why these stars and stripes so
proud There's Boots on the Ground God bless the USA And God bless you guys.
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Hey, back at ya. That's gorgeous, beautiful song. That's my friend Desiree Roxanne Meaghan.
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She's my friend now, too. D-Rox, thanks for being here. Thanks for being here.
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Thank you so much for having me. I was looking forward to this all week long. Thank you.
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Thanks. The Rock and Roll Chicago Podcast is edited by Paul Martin. Theme song courtesy of
MNR Rush.
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