Carbon Leaf

0:00We've returned to the corner that's defined by you to the range of the ride JIQ, you're Sir Carbon Leaf with the boxer. I'm sitting here on the phone with

3:23lead singer from that band from Carbon Leaf talking to Barry. How's it going today? How was that? It's showing Nashville that we, well, it's showing Ann Arbor, Michigan, and it's showing that there was no flight back to Richmond, so we had to stay in. What happens for a band in that situation? Do you guys, does the label pay for the hotel and you guys, you know, just trash the hotel afterwards? Yeah, right. Well, fortunately, it was going, you know, coming from a gig, not going towards it, so we didn't miss anything important, but normally it was the airline, so they covered the... Now, I first shared a view of American Music Awards

4:23a couple of years back. You guys want a big contest to perform on that show? Yeah. As soon as I heard it, listen to the boxer, went on my computer, downloaded the boxer, and now you guys are giving away free on your website. How come? Are we? How we really? You can go to your website and download like half the old stuff, nothing off the new album, but I mean a whole bunch of old tunes. How do you know what the need to do that? I don't know, you know, when you're at our stage, you know, which is still, you're still getting out there in front of people, heard of you, you kind of need to, you kind of need to accept some, you know, getting people some of our music, you know,

5:10a big thing for other people, and doing that is a good way of kind of greasing the wheel, and you can't just treat it. At our stage, it's hard to treat the music like such a sacred cow that, you know, suddenly you don't have millions of dollars in promotion. Your music is your calling can tell people that come to this who might not have heard of us, and they really appreciate that, and it motivates them to get enthused about sharing it. And, oh, and generally, if people still

6:04want to own things, they'll buy the CD, they'll come out to the show and they'll be featured or something. Yeah. Yeah, it just builds. You say a band at your stage, well, you're starting to get some publicity, and no lifeless or neighbors played on American Talk 40. Right. How long ago was that? Like for a band of your stature? I guess it was like a month and a half ago, not like the AMA, where you have all of these stepping stones, and very often it's not going to define your career. It's not going to make a, you know, it's not going to make or break you. When these, yeah, these small having a lot of little different things. So, you know, it was

7:04cool fit in, and well, let's play that song right now, lifeless or ordinary. With me above the but it's you and there's no other I to believe in.

7:55I know me very well, at least as far as I can tell and I know what I need. Into my life, will it tuck the bones of me? Tuck the bones of me, I flew away by storm and slide, then shut the bones of me, shut the bones of me, by the way, I do know why, stay away, I will keep tongue tight, then slide, lifeless, ordinary, live a life extraordinary with me. It's too much before I hands could even touch to greet a hello. So much for going slow, a little later on that year I told you that I loved you dear, what do you know?

8:48As you weren't prepared to hear, I'm a sad man, I'm a broken boy, I'm a toddler with a complex toy, I'm falling apart, till the earth were shown your heart, with magic payments to my life. When it took the bones of me, took the bones of me, I flew away by storm and slide, then shut the bones of me, shut the bones of me, by the way, I do know why, you stay away, I will keep tongue tight, but honey, I understand, honey, I understand, I won't make it a matter, I understand, I understand, I understand, honey, I understand, you dance the joy, that neither second chance to go into my life,

10:31will it tuck the bones of me, tuck the bones of me, I flew away by storm and slide, then shut the bones of me, shut the bones of me, by the way, I will keep. Sitting around the phone with Dair from Carp and Leaf, you just heard life less ordinary, what do you think of when you hear that song? Well, I think of, yeah, I wanted to be that way, and it is kind of about, and it's very obvious, kind of the kind of tongue and cheek desperate

11:18to push someone that's there, you know what I mean, and that we needed to work on immediately, and I danged out the music in about an hour, and then I took home, took home the music and and I just, it's a happy song to me, kind of that translates, I think, to the crowd as well. Cool, you say you've been working on, are you going to be working on a new record real soon? Is it going to be more rock like this past one, or are you getting a back to the Celtic stuff? I know, I think it'll probably be more of a, for Indian Summer, we wrote a bunch of

12:05the material that we had had, and the stronger songs were not those, they were the ones that would turn up on Indian Summer, and trying to maintaining some kind of, and that shocked a lot of people, I guess, when, when Indian Summer came out into them, you know, with the next record,

12:55you know, I'm thinking it's probably going to be more on the lines of a rock album. Another song, either Raise the Roof or This is My Song. I don't know, this is my song, it's a pretty good rocker, speaking of rock. This is My Song, speaking with Barry here from Carbon Leaf, may have you noticed an increase

17:13in people at shows lately? Places where no one was come, we come to see this, but now we're, we're going to make a lot of fun, knowing that you can go to Seattle and, and, and have that be one of your biggest, it's where things are growing. I mean, we played in, places that blew us away, we had no idea,

18:04that we would have that many people out, just like in, um, Columbia, Missouri, you know, we had a show of time opening for another band. We do this thing on the show, ever, we call five questions. Just five quick question, one word answer. iPod or CD? iPod. Landon or McCartney? Alcohol or marijuana? Alcohol. Song you've written your most proud of? Lifeless or ordinary? Cool, and one word, Carbon Leaf. Awesome, thanks so much, Mary, I really appreciate it.

18:50Yeah, thank you, I appreciate the exposure.