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 here be Hollywood Mike.

Here be. On a here be. Here be.

Yeah, here be. Yeah, so. Getting that rap going down again.

Yeah, here be? I don't know. What is a here be? Is it like a Furby? Might be. Yeah, is a Furby like a Chia Pet? You know, I didn't see any Chia Pets during Christmas this year.

Not a one. I didn't either. I think people are sick of the Chia Pets.

They might be. I don't know. But I mean, it was like a staple.

You know what it is? Because now you got health nuts eating Chia seeds all the time, so there's no seeds left for the Chias. That's true. Yeah, I don't know.

That's true. Like I've always said, do you ever see a wild corduroy? No. Yeah, because that's why you don't see corduroy pants or anything anymore.

Yeah, there's no corduroy. They're all gone. They're extinct.

God, you know what I had to do today? What'd you have to do? I had to find another route here because the bridges are out again. Yeah, you were saying that the other day. Yeah, so I either have to go through Lockport or I have to go around the entire city and come back around here.

Wow. Yeah, it's a pretty good trip. I don't know.

I mean, you know. It's an enjoyable drive in the cold. It is.

That's right. That's right. At least you made it here.

I made it here. Safe and sound. Yep.

Yep. And I want to hear some good country music. How about you? Me too.

So let's hear it from good country. So we're going to pick on somebody right now. We're going to pick on somebody else because we don't want to hear anybody that's been here like several times before, and two of you have.

That's right. 50 percent of them. And she didn't even remember.

Yeah, she didn't. That must have been before the liquor license. Or after the liquor license.

We never had a liquor license. No, we never did. So we couldn't do that.

Yeah, it was it was pre. It was it was pre when, you know, told us we couldn't do it anymore. That's right.

That's right. So what's going on, guys? How you all doing? Fine. How are you? Yeah.

And we have we have we have a ghost sitting back here behind us just paying attention, monitoring the guitars. So the guitar players don't play guitar. All right.

So why don't you go around the room? Let's do this like kindergarten style. Go on the room and introduce yourselves and tell you what. Tell us what y'all do in the band.

And we're going to start with somebody who hasn't been here before. Sure. This is Nate Good.

I play rhythm guitar and backup vocal. Actually, good, good country. I was going to go.

So one of these other people is named Country. Yeah, OK. That's what it is.

Nate, that's what it is. I was looking at the name of the band. I was like, good country.

I was like, OK, there's got to be like a thousand people. You know, how are you going to find them online by just saying good country? It's going to pull up every radio station. Yeah, yeah.

OK, so that makes sense. I like to put a band together. Just call it Crap Country.

Crap. There you go. Yeah, well, actually, I believe country and rap would be crap is crap.

That's what it is. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. But no worries.

Well, thanks. Yeah, go ahead. Continue.

So I actually play rhythm guitar or sorry. I keep saying rhythm. I usually play lead guitar rhythm sometimes and do backing vocals.

Yeah. Now, when you go into Guitar Center, do they have the lead guitars on one wall and the rhythm guitars on another? Yeah, the lead guitars are in that classroom. OK, as soon as you walk in, that's usually locked.

Oh, the ones that are thousands and thousands of dollars. That's what it is. That makes sense.

OK, all right. Next. All right.

My name is Mike Good. Nate and I are brothers. So we're in the band together, of course.

And that is, you know, good country. I have been here before and I'm glad to be back. I mostly play rhythm guitar in this group and sing lead vocals and harmonies when everybody else will let me.

OK. All right. All right.

Yeah. Hi, guys. I'm Chris Stark.

There we go. Chris Stark. I'm the drummer.

I thought he was Chris country drums. Yeah, I was waiting for country. No, no, there's no.

No, I could I could stick in the middle name on the Chris country stark. But yeah, that's a story for another day. Or John Stark.

But of the Night's Watch. Yeah, John Stark. That would be my brother.

Not to be confused with Tony Stark. Oh, that's right. But who's that superhero? Iron Man.

An Iron Man. Yeah, I hear that quite a bit. But yeah, I've I've known Mike for a few years.

Pretty close to maybe pushing six probably right now. And I, I admire the style. So that's that's why we're, you know, we're still together.

And we we play very well together. And, you know, we help each other out as much as we can. And how do you all feel about that? I mean, he's just, you know, just saying it.

But, you know, it could be it could be truth or it could not be truth. Well, and I think, you know, Chris is on to something there. We have like, you know, after playing together for so long, you know, six years, we've got something that kind of gels together and comes across in the music.

And that's one of the things that we really focus on with this group is like, if you're not singing along, you're going to want to dance. You know, we're trying to be crowd pleasers. You know, we're not really focusing on what we want to do.

We want to do what the audience wants. Gotcha. Gotcha.

Well, that's all fine and good. But I was trying to beat you to say something bad about him. I mean, you didn't take the bait.

I mean, you know, I'm just kidding. I've never heard a bad thing about Chris. I can tell.

We actually we actually take pride knowing exactly what we're going to play and knowing that's exactly where, you know, what Mike's going to do next, what Nathan's going to do next, when what Carrie's going to do next. So, you know, we we we pay attention and we just and we feel good about it. I don't know.

I get the feeling that Carrie's the one person in the band that, you know, after after going, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom for like hours on end, she's just going to go off on a tangent. You're going to look at her. But we're not playing metal.

It does, because I know it does, because I was listening to some of your music on the way here. And I can't remember what it was. I think it was a I think it was a what was the song? It was How Do You Like Me Now? And you guys have a reel.

And I was listening to the bass and it was really it was kind of bass heavy. And I was like, that's not how that goes. The critic.

Yeah, yeah. So so elaborate, please, Carrie. Oh, elaborate.

Wait, I learned all my lines. Note for note. What is he talking about? That's right.

Yeah. I mean, when you're playing live, yeah, I do take liberties because you want to keep people moving, want people dancing. And and I love playing this stuff because, yeah, you're right.

I've spent how many years of my life playing industrial and metal and and tons and tons and tons of dance. So it's really nice to sink my teeth into a lot of the stuff we do is old and classic, too. So it's line dancing country, but it's also classic country.

And I love learning how those old school guys played. So I do try to keep it true to form. I think it's Chris Stark's fault.

Yes. And Carrie's the other person that was here before. Yes.

With the gingers. That's right. And she didn't remember.

Well, I was drinking that day. See, I told you. See, I know.

I can tell. Today's a coffee day. Yeah, yeah.

Now, I have to agree with you on that last statement because it's no it's no secret. I've said it many times on this podcast. I have absolutely no use for any country music after 2000.

I I really don't. I used I used I met my wife. Chris Stapleton, though.

Yeah, well, you know, but I don't really call him country, though. That's the thing. Yeah, because, I mean, he can be blues.

He could be rock and roll. If you hear the stuff that he's doing with Slash right now, it's absolutely amazing. It's it's not country music.

It's one of my favorites. And I do like him. I do like his music as well.

But because of that, it's kind of a it's a getaway from the country music that you hear on the radio nowadays. Yeah, which I don't call country at all. No, I mean, I listen to outlaw country in my car all the time.

And that's that's it. Right. That's my favorite.

Right. Even the even the artists that are considered to be traditional style country today are not really traditional style country. No, it's Nashville Bon Jovi with a slide guitar.

Yeah, you're exactly right. And they can take a Taylor Swift, any Taylor Swift song and throw a fiddle in it and call it country or it's pop. You know, what do you want to be today, Taylor? You know, tell us, Tay-Tay, what do you want to, you know, kind of thing.

And you won't hear that at our show. Yeah. But you will dance.

There'll be lots of line dancing. They don't let me line dance. I'm visually dyslexic, which makes life really interesting and line dancing impossible.

Visually dyslexic. Yeah. So if you want to watch me back up a truck for entertainment.

That's why it took her so long to get here. Now we know. No, I'm parallel parked.

I'm from the city. Good. Wow.

Wow. Okay. Well, fantastic.

Wow. That's fantastic that you're visually dyslexic, but I've never heard that before. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's a new term. That's new to me, too. Yeah.

Wow. Okay. Well, anyways, so tell us, why is country music still more popular really than ever? Why? You guys are out there talking to country music fans.

What's the appeal? I mean, everybody is into country music. Well, and, you know, I saw playing in previous bands. You know, we were doing, I was in different bands doing rock, classic rock, blues, funk, all kinds of things.

And at a lot of these gigs that I'd be at when they'd shut, you know, we'd shut down for a break, they'd put country music on and people would still be dancing and singing along. I kind of took a look from the outside in, you know, looking in on what I was doing and kind of thought to myself, I was like, you know, I'd really like to do a country band and put it together with people that I know are going to appreciate that kind of music and appreciate what we're trying to do and look for, you know, songs that people either want to sing along to or dance to. Right.

And just really focus on pleasing the audience. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, that's good. That's good. I mean, let's talk about a timeline for a little bit because I'm a huge country music fan.

I've said many times, again, the first song I ever learned out of playing guitar was Kiss An Angel Good Morning by Charlie Pryde. I'm a huge country music fan. And, you know, right around, what was it, the late 70s and early 80s, there started to be a pickup in country music.

It kind of died down a little bit. And of all things, it was John Travolta that turned everybody on to country music. Urban Cowboy.

Oh, wow. The movie Urban Cowboy and everybody and everybody learned about, you know, Mickey Gilley's place. Right.

And country music all over again. And that went on for maybe about 10 years and it started to die down again. Right.

And then all of a sudden come along guys like Garth Brooks. Right. And Garth Brooks made country music palatable for everybody because it was like, it was almost like you put a cowboy hat on Billy Joel, you know, in his performance and the whole bit.

And from there, it just kind of kept riding a wave until the record companies decided to add dubstep to it. And but, yeah, you know, I don't know. I think, is it the stories? I mean, what the stories to the lyrics? What is it is the appeal, you know? Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, I mean, honestly, that when you listen to country, you're dealing with all the matters of the heart and you don't get that in a lot of other types of music.

I mean, it's it's day to day life. It's it's working class. And I think that's the appeal is that it really talks about the affairs of the heart.

Right. Oh, that's true. And technology being what it is, their pickup trucks no longer breaking down.

And the medical field has extended the life of their dogs. That's right. So now they're all happy and you get party music in the whole bit.

That's right. Yeah, that's the reason that's that's why every song is a party song now because nobody's truck breaks down and no dogs die and nobody's nobody's drink until they pass out drunk in the bars anymore. So, you know, because they're depressed or anything like that.

So they give me a gummy had to come up with the. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

Now, interesting. Interesting, though. So how did this whole thing come up? Come about? Who started this whole this whole thing? Oh, this should be good.

Oh, I see what you did. I saw what he did. Yeah, I had the idea for the group when I was I was still playing with a couple other bands.

And again, the idea kind of came around is like, you know, I want to do something that really pleases the audience without taking your clothes off, without taking my clothes off. Exactly. Yeah.

And I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Heidi, my better half over here, that's also our band manager. She's waiting in the wings again, holding the guitars.

Yeah. And she's saying, yes, without taking his clothes off. Thank God.

She thought I was having a midlife crisis when I came to her and I said, you know, I really think I want to start a country band and really focus on doing classic country and focusing on, you know, the guitar parts, the vocals make it really sound good. And just, yeah, just have a good time doing it. So I'm not a midlife guy.

Why? Why is that? Because he's never played country or listened to it before. Oh, OK. He was always a rocker and a blues and everything else.

Yeah, I grew up, Nate and I grew up playing Metallica and Stevie Ray Vaughan and, you know, the heavier Hendrix stuff. And, you know, the guitar technicality between the two of us has been there for a long time. But we kind of took that skill and refocused it in a different direction and said, hey, let's try doing country.

So you guys are literally a personification of an Alan Jackson song. Yep. If you don't cover that song, you have to now.

Going country. Yeah. Wow.

OK. So who was the first phone call to you? Did you hold auditions or how did you put the band together? Well, Chris and I were kind of bouncing the idea around what we wanted to do. And we eventually came to the conclusion, hey, let's kind of do some country.

And then I called up Nate and I said, hey, do you want to play some lead guitar on country? And, you know, it's it's a it's a big step from, you know, he he's got the whole Dream Theater set up with the Mesa Boogie. He's like, no, what are you, stupid? No, but he's a metal player. You know, I said he is having a midlife crisis.

I'll join you. Yeah. So, yeah, we got together and started practicing and things kind of started really coming together.

Nate built himself a custom Telecaster that's sounding nice and twangy. That was my that was my next question. Did you did you just OK, all this gear has to go over there because now I have to sound country.

I got I said I got to get a compressor. I got to get a Telecaster. I need a fender amp.

Cowboy hat. Yeah, that's right. I tried the cowboy hat.

It does not look good on me. And my wife agreed. So there is no cowboy hat.

But I could talk gear all day and it was an evolution. So I've had a Tele for a long time, but always played more rock and blues based with it. Um, so I had swapped out the pickups.

It was it's a Mexican Tele from late 90s, early 2000s. And I swapped out the pickups, put custom shop fender pickups in there, got a wiring harness that was pre-wired. Right.

And then got a new new neck with stainless steel frets on it because my old one I was like I was going back and forth, refret or get a new neck. And the price is about the same. Yeah.

So, yeah, I got a new neck on it. And then the right now we're running primarily ampless when we play live. So the pedal board was an evolution.

Yeah. Tried the compressor. Got the hell you say.

It's one of these guys. It's everybody now. It saves the back.

I can save the back for sure. It sure does, man. But God, it was that or lug the the Mesa Mark V around.

And I'm like, yeah, I'll just buy a pedal. Well, you know, you see this. That's a fender ramp over here, right? I guess.

That's a lightweight. That's a lightweight one. I'll tell you what.

They're making they're making some fantastic lightweight fender ramps right now. Yeah. Oh, that's that's pretty cool.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. I was going to say we are we are making a slow evolution back to amps that I picked one up right before Christmas.

So I've got one ready. But Nate and I are working on finding one for him. You were looking at those.

The Morgans. Oh, AC 30 type style. Oh, yeah.

I know which one that's going to give you. That's going to give you that. What's his name? Brad Paisley.

Yeah. That's going to give you his sound with the telecasters through the AC 30. Yeah.

Yeah. That's pretty cool sound. All you need to do is put a compressor in front of that at that point.

Yeah. And I found out, you know, doing research into it, I found out he actually doesn't use a compressor. Oh, really? Yeah.

Wow. Go straight in. Good for him.

That's awesome. Yeah. It's but so much of it's in the hands and the player.

No matter what I buy, I'm not going to sound like Brad Paisley. Right. It's a good picker.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

Absolutely. OK. And so, Mr. Drummer, you you were the first or you were kind of the next phone call then, I guess.

Yeah, pretty much. Mike and I just stayed in touch for the most part. And then we said, just let's let's do it.

Yeah. And it just evolved really quickly. Any experience in a country band before? Oh, yeah.

Oh, OK. I was with Gone Country for a while. OK.

Not to be confused with this one. Right. Right.

But that that actually cut my teeth on a country band and trying to learn to play a little straighter than what I usually am accustomed to. Right. Right.

And then I met Carrie, you know, years ago. OK. We played in Gone Country.

Oh, no. OK. OK.

Yeah. So we met her at a monster jam. And, you know, we just she actually picked up on one of the Michael Jackson songs that we were doing.

Oh, wow. And I think it was just Billie Jean, I think, was what we were playing. So that was just a kind of beat.

And I think that that appealed to a lot of people. And then I just, you know, I just it was the more simple stuff that I had. And I actually learned from that song, playing that song, you know, to just tail it back a little bit and just kind of get in a comfort zone and be the click.

Right. So I've learned that I've taken that all the way up to here and just kind of pride myself on just providing a nice, subtle play like you're supposed to backbeat and to allow these guys to get their notes in, to get their vocals in, to get their lyrics in, to get their breathing patterns the right way. So I'm not rushing and they're gasping for air.

No, that's fun. Make them do that every once in a while. It's great.

So but yeah, it's been it's been a lot of fun, you know, playing country music. And I think it's, you know, it's definitely one of my wheelhouses. And when did the whole band start? What was like your first year? Oh, last year.

Oh, just last year. Oh, really? Yeah. We haven't really been together for a full year yet.

OK. Our our big I mean, we started practicing last winter and really got our our songs together, got our set list together. But our first big show was Madcatz in June last year.

OK, OK. And we did a full was it a two hour show? Three. Three hour show for our first show.

Wow. So so we had a lot of work to do to come right out of the gate. Yeah.

But we you know, we pulled it off and we had a lot of shows last summer. You know, things always kind of slow down in the wintertime. But, you know, we're using that to practice and learn some new tunes.

Right. Yeah. Right.

And from what I can tell, you guys have played some pretty cool places like Bub City, stuff like that. That's that's a cool place to play. That was a great place to play.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot of fun there.

OK. Well, I think it's that time. I think it's that time as well.

We haven't done anything. We haven't talked about their set list or anything. So we're going to let them play their set list.

That's right. Well, not their set list, but kind of all three hours. Yeah, that's right.

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All right, we're back. And the first time tonight, we've got good country. The only two things in life that make it worth living is guitars that tune firm feeling women.

I don't need my name in the marquee lights. I got my song. Got you with me tonight.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love. Let's go to Luke in Rock, Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys. Between Hank Williams' pain songs and Newberry's train songs and two eyes crying in the rain.

Out in Luke in Rock, Texas, ain't nobody feeling no pain. Maybe let's sell your diamond rings, buy some boots and faded jeans and go away. This cold tie is choking me.

In your high society, you'll cry all day. We've been so busy keeping up with the Jones four car garage and we're still building on. Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

Let's go to Luke in Rock, Texas with Waylon and Willie. That successful life worth living's got us feeling like the Hatfields and the boys. Between Hank Williams' pain songs and Newberry's train songs and two eyes crying in the rain.

Out in Luke in Rock, Texas, ain't nobody feeling no pain. Let's go to Luke in Rock, Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys. That successful life worth living's got us feeling like the Hatfields and the boys.

Between Hank Williams' pain songs and Newberry's train songs and two eyes crying in the rain. Out in Luke in Rock, Texas, ain't nobody feeling no pain. Very good, ladies and gentlemen.

Man, I'm so glad you guys picked that song to do. That's one of my favorite songs of all time. I absolutely love that song.

Friggin' Chris Kristoff. Aw. Yeah, I love that song.

Is that a tear? It is. Oh. Look, see, I saved it for you.

So I was actually surprised by that because I didn't think you guys were going to go way back to like classic country. Wow, that's pretty good. Give that a shot.

So I guess this is their fucking show now. I guess, yeah. It's quickly how it changes.

You know, you put the guitars in our hands. Yeah, I know. Holy crap, yeah.

So we're running the show now. So like, what's the, I guess, what's the oldest song that you guys do? Yeah, that's a good question because we do a version of Man of Constant Sorrow, which is technically a folk song from the 30s. That is true.

Wow, that's good. 30s or 20s, yeah. Wow, you guys do a version of that? Yeah.

All right, all right, do it. Do it. That one's a little different.

We do it with the electrics and kind of pump it up. Do it. Yeah, do it.

Do you have your swag with you? Do it. No, I don't have my swag with me. Oh, OK.

Oh, no. Yeah, no, I got to hear it. Oh, let me pull this up.

You guys start off with the chorus and the whole bit. It was that movie it was in. Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? Brother, Where Art Thou? One of my favorite movies.

It doesn't. That's another one of those movies. No matter where I'm flipping through the channels, no matter where the movie is, that's the movie I'm watching right now.

I love that movie. It could be the last five minutes, whatever it is, I'm watching it. I always want to go out and buy some pomade.

Yeah, yeah, some fop. Are you a dapper Dan or a fop guy? Dapper Dan. Dapper Dan, yeah, that's right.

I'm a dapper Dan, man. Yeah, I'm a dapper Dan, man. That's what I'm pulling it up.

Change up the words a little bit. Had to cut about three verses out because it's a long one. Oh, that's a long song.

My favorite part is, you stole from my kin. I like, the sirens turned him into a horny dude. It's raining hellfire.

Dang, we're in a tight spot. Damn it, now I got to watch that movie again. Yeah, and probably half the people listening to this podcast have to because they're like, what the hell are they talking about? You got to go get all the references now.

All right, I got to hear this. Yeah. Woohoo! Damn, that's the Socket Bottom Boys.

Yeah, man, that's pretty cool. I wasn't expecting, I didn't expect it to rock up that much. I heard the beginning of it and I was like, okay, I know what they're going to do.

They're going to, they're going to turn this into Up on Cripple Creek. Because that's what it sounded like, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was pretty good.

That was good, man. Okay, thank you. How'd that come to fruition? Well, we wanted to do Maniconstance, that one took some work because we originally went, okay, let's play it like it is off the record.

And then we were looking at each other like, this song goes on forever. Oh, God, yeah. It does.

It is a long song, yeah. So we cut three verses and added, I don't do the math, six guitar solos. Yeah.

Turned it into a rock and roll song. And then, gosh, I bet you people love that. Yeah, it always gets people dancing.

Yeah. And singing along, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so who's the music director? Who kind of makes the final decision on these things? Well, we all kind of, we all kind of work together, you know. Everybody's got an opinion when it comes to, you know, if a song is working or not. Even the drummer? Wow.

Man. He's the cruise director. Okay.

You know, I always talk about, we do a version that's sold at the Grundy County auction, which, you know, Chris was trying to slow it down and make it really a little easier for us because it's such a fast song. The more that we slowed it down, the harder it got to sing. Oh, yeah.

Because you need that breath to make it through those lines, you know. I was like, okay, this is one that we have to, we have to keep the speed up. Absolutely.

And you got to have the, you got to simulate the auction. Yep, that's right. You have to.

Yeah, you can't, you can't do that. Oh, that's pretty cool. All right, so that's probably your oldest song.

What's your, what's the rest of your setlist like? We do have a few newer ones, but it's, you know, we do some Chris Stapleton. We do Parachute. We do Tennessee Whiskey.

Everybody, a lot of people do Tennessee Whiskey. It's a staple, you know. What do they charge for it? See, that's the thing.

That's the thing. Mike charges for it. I charge a hundred bucks for Tennessee Whiskey, and god dang it, I've gotten it.

You've gotten it. Yeah, I highly suggest, I highly suggest you start doing that. It costs a hundred dollars in the tip jar for Tennessee Whiskey, and I got it.

I've gotten it several times. Yeah, that and Freeberg. Yeah, I got, I was lucky one night, and somebody wanted us to play Tennessee Whiskey, and he had just been to the gambling boat and won.

And I said, it's going to cost you a hundred bucks, and he walked up to the stage. I swear to god, he looked at me like this. He looked me right in the eye like this, no smile on his face, reaching for his shirt pocket, and smacked it down on the stage like it was a trump card.

I was like, all right, it looks like we're playing Tennessee Whiskey for you, which I don't mind doing, but you know. Any original stuff? We haven't had a chance to really work on much, but Nate and I have some ideas. I think that we've been kind of floating around back and forth, but nothing quite put together yet.

Yeah, a lot of 90s and early 2000s country. So from Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, some of the newer stuff is Luke Combs. Yeah, we do some Luke Combs.

We've also touched on, we're doing a Brothers Osborne tune, which I think was early 2000s, but that one's got the cool. Yeah, see, you forgot to take the guitar back from him. Becomes the conversation piece.

Becomes picking and grinning. Hey, it would fit what they're doing. That's true.

That's true. So where are you guys playing? Coming up next Friday, we've got Mad Cats, and that's if the podcast comes out next week, then it'll be this Friday with Mad Cats. Yeah, that's right.

So Mad Cats, Friday night. Where's Mad Cats? Palatine. Yeah, Palatine.

Okay, nice. Yeah, yeah. Good people, good food, really intimate and nice sound system.

So say that again, Carrie. Sorry. So we're at Mad Cats on Slade next, well, this Friday.

And that is just a great little bar with wonderful intimate setting, great sound system, awesome food, really nice people. Yeah, good prices on drinks, too. And if anybody at Mad Cats is listening to this, we are looking for sponsors.

You can't pay for that kind of endorsement right there. So there's another member of your band that is missing tonight, though, right? Yeah, Rosie. Rosie, and she's a female singer.

Yes. Yeah, so you guys got to have, you know, you got some chick country music. What kind of stuff are you doing? Everything from the Gretchen Wilson to Carrie Underwood, some nice old Dolly Parton.

Oh. Some Reba McEntire. So there's all kinds of good female songs there, too.

Oh, wow. That's fantastic. I don't think I'd call her old Dolly Parton.

I don't think she'd like that. She wouldn't like that. Dolly Parton would come.

Yeah, the song was old. Dolly wasn't old. She was too.

Dolly would come here and start kicking somebody's ass if you called her old Dolly Parton. It wasn't me. Chris Stark said that.

Always blaming it on the drummer, for sure. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

So you got Mad Cats coming up? Yes. What do you have after that? Saddle Up. Yeah, the following Saturday.

Saddle Up on Valentine's Day. Nice. Nice.

If you want to get you some line dancing, come out to Saddle Up on Valentine's Day. It was the pause in that sentence. The pause in that sentence is what was the important.

If you want to get you some line dancing. That was the important. That's another cool place to play.

Bring your ladies to Saddle Up. Yeah, that'll be a fun night. We got word that the line dancing instructors will be there for our show.

That's good. People want to learn how to do some line dancing. I thought they were there all the time.

Have you played there yet? I had played there previously with another band, but they were there for a portion of the night. But I think if we keep people dancing with our tunes, you know, they'll probably stick around. Yeah, we played there the night that the Blizzard came through.

And it was really cool what they did. They took our set list and they printed it out, like almost poster size, and hung it on the front of the stage so the line dancers could come up and look at your set list and decide which ones they want to dance to, and which ones they want to go get a drink in a little bit. So have your set list and everything ready to go for it.

And the instructors were there that night, so it was a lot of fun. Excellent. Man, I think I love your band and I haven't even heard you guys really yet.

I think I got to go out and see you guys. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of fun. You said, when is that date at Saddle Up? Saddle Up is on Valentine's Day.

Oh, it's on February 14th. February 14th, it's a Saturday night this year. Yeah, excellent.

Okay, I might have to bring my girlfriend out. I call my wife of 30 years my girlfriend, so don't freak out, everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So how can people find you? We've got our Facebook page, which is Good Country Band. Because, yeah, if you do search for Good Country on Google, it just gives you everything in the world. But if you search for Good Country Band, you can find our pages.

It's Good G-O-O-D, not an E at the end of it. Good Country Chicago, sorry about that. Good Country Chicago.

Correct, no E, don't complicate it. No E, yeah, no E. It's Good Country Band. Oh, Good Country Chicago, gotcha, okay, okay.

Heidi had to correct me. Yeah, she handles the business end of things. Yes, yeah, and what about the Facebook page? You have a Facebook page? I think you do, okay.

Good Country Chicago also on Facebook. Are you guys on Spotify or anything like that going on? I know you guys got some videos, because I picked up some reels and some videos in the hall. Yep, some stuff on YouTube.

Mostly Facebook. Mostly Facebook, yeah. But we've taken the time to set up a video, you know, for a lot of the live performances.

So there's some video to see out there if you want to check it out. Nice, nice, nice. I'm sure my kids are going to probably be at Saddle Up on Valentine's Day.

I'll guarantee they're going to be there. So yeah, I'll make sure that they hear this. So how about you guys take us out with another song? You're listening to the Rock and Roll Chicago Podcast.

All set. One, two, one, two, three. Thanks for coming out, guys.

That's good country, everybody. Yeehaw. Thank you, thank you.

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