Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-3-26 hour 2

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0:47 Speaker 3: There's a house on my block That's abandoned and cold

0:58 Speaker 3: Folks moved out of it A long time ago And they took all their things And they never came back

1:16 Speaker 3: Looks like it's haunted With the windows all cracked And everyone calls it the house The house where nobody lives.

1:36 Speaker 4: Once it held laughter.

1:47 Speaker 3: Once it held dreams Did they throw it away?

1:56 Speaker 5: Did they know what it means?

2:00 Speaker 6: ¶ Did someone's heart break ¶ ¶ ¶ Or did someone do somebody wrong ¶ ¶.

2:18 Speaker 3: ¶ Well the paint was all cracked ¶ ¶ ¶ It peeled off the wood ¶ ¶ Papers were stacked on the porch where I stood And the weeds had all.

2:39 Speaker 7: Grown just as high as the door There were birds.

2:48 Speaker 3: In the chimney and an old chest of drawers Looks like no one will ever come back.

3:02 Speaker 7: To the house where nobody lives.

3:14 Speaker 8: Once it held laughter Once it held dreams Did they throw it away?

3:27 Speaker 7: Do they know what it means?

3:32 Speaker 6: Did someone's heart break?

3:39 Speaker 7: But it's someone, do somebody wrong. So if you find someone, someone to have, someone to hold, don't trade it. For silver Oh, don't trade it for gold I have all of life's treasures And they're fine And.

4:15 Speaker 9: They're good They remind me That houses Are just made of wood What makes a house grand.

4:31 Speaker 5: Oh, it ain't the roof or the doors.

4:36 Speaker 3: If there's love in a house.

4:41 Speaker 5: It's a palace for sure.

4:45 Speaker 3: Without love, it ain't nothing but a house.

4:52 Speaker 7: A house where nobody lives.

5:03 Speaker 5: Without love it.

5:06 Speaker 3: Ain't nothing but a house a house where nobody lives.

5:33 Speaker 10: Oh, that is amazing.

5:34 Speaker 11: House where nobody lives. That is Eddie scholar, uh, performing the song, uh, by Tom, uh, Tom waits. And, um, that's from the new EP blind love. And we've got Eddie scholar joining us via restream. Eddie, are you there?

5:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm here.

5:49 Speaker 11: Hey, welcome to the show. I love that. I love your voice though. Your performance on that is, uh, is just incredible. So congratulations on that. And we'll, um, we'll play another track from the EP at the end of our conversation, but, uh, great to have you on the show today. I've been looking forward to talking to you. And, uh, I love, and I, I love, you know, I listen to all four tracks and, um, I love the EP, um, blind love, of course, uh, your covers of, of these Tom Waits songs. And, um, I'll ask you the obvious question first, uh, what inspired you to do this, to make this EP?

6:20 Speaker 12: Uh, well, I, I am a songwriter, but I've never really been prolific. And, uh, when I have periods of writer's block, it's when I still have a desire to create something and to perform for people. So I've gone in and out of periods where I've written songs and then where I've done more covers. And also I've learned as I've gotten older to really trust my instincts. So when I was younger, I'd get crazy ideas and I didn't always follow them. But as I got older, sometimes I would go where the spark was.

6:57 Speaker 12: And it doesn't mean everything, you know, not everything's successful or works out, but I've learned to trust my instincts more. And I just got this idea. I've always admired Tom Waits, but I can't say that I was a fanatic, but I bought many of his albums and CDs over the years. And this idea came to me to check out his songs, maybe his songs. I didn't have anybody else in mind. It just came to me as Tom Waits. So I went on streaming and I just randomly picked a song. This is the truth. I just closed my eyes and pointed and it was Grapefruit Moon, which I was not familiar with from his debut album, Closing Time.

7:44 Speaker 12: And I wanted to see if I could just sing along. And not knowing the song, I pulled up the lyrics and just started to sing along. And I realized, because I was afraid, with his approach and his wonderful performance and the way he presents the characters in his songs and the stories with the gravelly voice, I really was wondering, is this something I could even attempt to do in my smooth crooner kind of a voice? And I sang along to Great Moon and within the first verse of singing, I realized, oh yeah, I can do this.

8:20 Speaker 12: I just felt it. I just felt the lyric and the melody So then I quickly pulled together, there's a lot of songs of his that are more avant-garde and that I knew I couldn't really enhance with my approach. So I wanted to, I made a list of 70 songs. I went through his entire vast, his vast catalog. And I made a list of 70 songs that I realized I could probably do okay with based on lyric and melody and that. And then I, out of that, narrowed it down to 20 for a live show. and then pulled the EP together.

8:57 Speaker 12: So it really was without a lot of deep thought. Why am I doing Tom Waits and these songs? It came together very quickly. And as I said before, I'll get an idea, like a bolt of lightning, and I now just follow it. I just follow it. So far, luckily, this seems to be well-received. I've done a few live shows and the audience seemed to really like it. And I was very apprehensive on a year ago. I debuted the show before we recorded the EP. And I really was apprehensive about how people would, you know, there's true weights fanatics out there and maybe it wouldn't be taken seriously, but it went over really well.

9:43 Speaker 12: And people seem to understand that I was really doing a tribute to his songwriting and not a tribute to his performance and in no way trying to do an imitation because that would fail. But in honoring the songwriting and bringing attention to it, I think I'm doing a service actually because what I found is that people in the audience have told me they're really not familiar with his material. So with someone like me singing the songs and presenting it, I'm actually educating people about his artistry.

10:20 Speaker 12: A lot of the response I've gotten from friends and fans or whatever is, Oh, he has that gravelly voice. Like they know him as a performer, but no, I don't think they really know the songs. And I've performed Jersey girl. There's a lot of people who still think that Springsteen.

10:39 Speaker 11: Wrote it because he made.

10:40 Speaker 12: It, you know, he it's familiar. It's familiar with Springsteen's version. Right. Downtown train hit was a big hit for Rod Stewart. And of course old 55 was a big hit for the Eagles. So I don't think a lot of people identify even the, the mainstream hits with Tom Waits writing them, um, let alone all of the deep cuts, you know? So anyway, that makes it a really challenging and interesting, um, uh, project for me, you know?

11:13 Speaker 11: So, um, But to get to that final four, because you said the process of picking the songs actually came quickly, and it sounds like it was fairly intuitive, but to get to that final four for the EP, I mean, that must have been somewhat of a challenge, right? You started at, what, 70, you said was your original list, and then you get down to that final four. I mean, how hard was that part?

11:37 Speaker 12: I'm going to be really honest. It surprisingly was not difficult at all. again, it came very quick. I've never had this in my life where things come together this quickly. I usually, I'm the type of person that ruminates a lot. I lose a lot of sleep. I have to sleep on things, lose sleep for many nights, you know, before this, I didn't have that with any aspect of taking on this Tom Waits project at all. So the four songs, I was looking at my list of 20 that we narrowed down. The live show was about 20 songs and I, My wife really wanted me to cover Blind Love from his Rain Dogs album.

12:17 Speaker 12: And she really thought I would do well with Blind Love. And I didn't feel it at first. It has a country vibe on the original record. And I'm not much of a guitar player, but I'll use the guitar just to kind of work out arrangements. And I slowed it down a little bit. And I wiped out the country vibe. It gave it a little bit more of a slow indie rock feel. And when I was singing it, suddenly I felt the story. I was able to feel honest in presenting the song. So then that, you know, I was won over by that song.

12:52 Speaker 12: Downtown Train, I really wanted to give one song on the EP that people would know.

12:57 Speaker 5: Yeah.

12:58 Speaker 12: Throw them a bone. You know, people like something familiar. So I chose Downtown Train. But even that, I was a little apprehensive at first because it's so identified with Rod Stewart.

13:09 Speaker 1: But again.

13:11 Speaker 12: with the guitar, I slowed it down and was crooning over it, and it started to feel like me. It felt real, like I could sing it and do justice. House Where Nobody Lives that you just played, I think it's my favorite song of his from his Mule Variations album. I remember when the album came out, I really loved that song. And honestly, I don't know. I would assume many people are, but I've always been fascinated by abandoned homes. If I'm driving or walking by and, you know, you just see broken windows and overgrown weeds and, or boarded up windows, I really stop.

13:53 Speaker 12: And I've taken pictures of them over the years and fascinated by the stories that what, what, like what happened there, you know, like where did the people go? What was going on in their lives? How did it end up like this? I find it real. There's a sadness about it, but I'm really intrigued by, by abandoned homes and I still am. So that song that was, you know, kind of a no brainer. And then you can never hold back spring, just incredibly beautiful. And I really haven't, found anybody that knew that song.

14:30 Speaker 12: Um, it just was beautiful and beautiful to sing it. And, you know, he himself has covered Frank Sinatra's young at heart. And I found, I thought that this song was on that caliber of like a classic jazz pop ballad.

14:48 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:49 Speaker 12: And, uh, you know, as, as like a young at heart. And then I realized he had actually covered young at heart. His The two songs have nothing to do with each other, but I felt like it could live as that caliber of a song. But it needed awareness. I don't think anybody knows it. So, I mean, honestly, very easy. I didn't sweat over the choice. And I had the same kind of experience with choosing the studio. You may not believe this, but it's the truth. I live in Jersey City, New Jersey, and there's a lot of great studios in New Jersey, recording studios in Brooklyn, Manhattan.

15:28 Speaker 12: I got this idea, came to me. I have no idea, but I wanted to record in a barn in upstate New York. I really don't know. Maybe I saw somebody else had done it. I don't know in my consciousness where the idea came from. Anyway, I Googled Recording studio in a barn in upstate New York. And the first thing that came up was a studio called The Chicken Shack in upstate New York. And I went to the website. I got a great feel from the website, the photos, the producer owner, Nick Kinsey. I looked up his work and I connected with his aesthetic.

16:08 Speaker 12: And I knew immediately that I wanted his aesthetic on this. And one of his own projects as an artist is called Connie and the Cunninghams. And I really love that album. And, um, we did a zoom call and we related quickly. I didn't say much about what I was trying to do.

16:28 Speaker 13: Yeah.

16:29 Speaker 12: Kind of, I knew I wanted a slow meditative vibe and atmospheric, and I didn't want him to, um, produce it too straight. I wanted him to put his aesthetic on it and, That's why there's some quirky sounds in that track he just played.

16:45 Speaker 11: Yeah.

16:47 Speaker 12: So he was the right person in the right studio, but I think I chose it within 90 seconds on Googling, you know, recording in a barn and it's called the chicken shack. And ironically, I've read that Tom Waits has recorded on the West coast in California. There's a studio that was also built out of originally like a chicken coop barn or something. So, That was an interesting coincidence.

17:15 Speaker 11: Yeah, I was reading that Tom Waits actually recorded mule variations, which you referred to earlier, at a chicken shack, which is interesting, or a former chicken ranch. Um, yeah, that, that, that is, yeah, there is a certain, I mean, it's almost like the, you know, if you believe in this, like, it sounds like through all of this, through every step of this project, uh, the universe has kind of guided you and things have come together sort of intuitively. You know, you talked about, and I can relate to this.

17:41 Speaker 11: You talked about ruminating a lot, losing sleep over things, but, but this, this has all been so, you know, just like, you know, one thing to the next to the next and it's, it's all, um, Like you said, you just kind of had this idea that you wanted to record in a barn in upstate New York, but you weren't sure why. You just felt like that's what you wanted to do, and it made sense. And then that's how it all unfolds. And there's almost a destiny to it.

18:06 Speaker 12: Absolutely. And again, yeah, I've never really... I didn't have to sweat over any detail, but I really did. As I was saying before, I've lost a lot of sleep over the years. Like, is this the right, am I in the right place? Am I, are the musicians the right players for me? Is there the right chemistry? It's very difficult. And this time, even the musicians that the crew that I brought in was so, was great because first of all, I, my son is a brilliant guitarist and musician and songwriter and performer.

18:41 Speaker 12: And, He's married now. We don't spend a lot of, you know, that kind of time together. But I brought him up to the studio. So we had a great time. He did the guitar. Jeremy Chatzky played upright bass. And I've known him for at least 20 years because I'm a guest singer with a tribute show in New York called The Losers Lounge. And he's the bass player. And he's played on Bruce Springsteen's records and with a lot of big people.

19:09 Speaker 5: Oh, wow. He's had a great time.

19:11 Speaker 12: He has an amazing reputation, but deservingly so. He's just great, and he's got a wonderful chemistry, great person to be around. Nick Kinsey, the producer, also plays. He's a drummer, and he's worked with a lot of people like M. Ward, and he also played some keyboards on it.

19:32 Speaker 10: Okay.

19:33 Speaker 12: And then for the You Can Never Hold Back Spring, There's horns on the original track, but I wanted accordion. And I met this wonderful artist, performer, plays accordion, Ryder Cooley. And I've seen her band, which is a very cool band called the Dust Bowl Fairies. And I knew she lived upstate New York. So I was thrilled that she agreed to come to the studio and lend some accordion to that track. And it was recorded live too, which was a first for me. I never sang live with a band in the same room And that was a whole different kind of experience.

20:12 Speaker 11: That's an important detail, too, because there's no overdubs on the album, right? There's no vocal overdubs. It's what you hear is what happened, correct?

20:20 Speaker 12: Yeah. The first day was supposed to be scratch vocals for me, and the band would play live. There were some overdubs, a few, of guitar the next day and some keyboard stuff the next day, but basically the band played live in the same room together. And I was singing scratch vocals. In fact, I didn't even wear headphones because I could, you know, the band was kind of a quiet recording. We were all in the same room and I just sang into a mic and didn't think the vocals were keepers. I was supposed to do my hard labor the second day and everyone else was home.

21:02 Speaker 12: And I know what that's like. That can be grueling because, you know, they like the first half of the line and they want you to, re-sing the second half of a line. It can be grueling work, very taxing and tedious.

21:14 Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.

21:16 Speaker 12: But when we went in the next day to record the real vocals, we were listening back. I think I tried to sing on something, and Nick and I realized that I wasn't going to do any better than I did the day before. The emotion was there.

21:33 Speaker 14: Mm-hmm.

21:35 Speaker 12: Maybe there was something about not having the pressure of it being a real vocal, but we used the scratch vocals became the real deal. So I didn't punch anything. I didn't have to fix anything. So that was a lucky break, which meant that we got to mix sooner. So, you know, the project went a little faster than planned.

21:57 Speaker 11: That can happen, though, sometimes, too. You'll hear artists tell stories about how they have a demo for a song, and they go into the studio and they end up using.

22:05 Speaker 10: I.

22:07 Speaker 11: Mean, I can think of examples where an entire demo has ended up, after being properly mixed and so forth on an album, because what they were trying to do in the studio couldn't capture the magic of the original demo. So it's interesting. But again, that's another example, right, of just this whole thing just seems to just seems to have been really intuitive for you. And so how long, so this EP obviously went pretty quick, like in terms of the recording sessions, how, how long did that take total in terms of days?

22:41 Speaker 12: We recorded for a day and a half in, in April. I went, I went in on my birthday as a birthday gift to myself to record. The second day, you know, we just did some, quick over once i once we realized they didn't have to sing and boy was i relieved i could just relax then yeah my son did a couple of guitar overdubs and then nick added um some quirky keyboard things he has a very cool vintage organ from the 70s called it i think it's called i don't want to say it wrong an octagon and that's what that's what made some of those real quirky sounds at the beginning and end of the last track you really hear it okay something some, some good gospel-y, uh, you know, key parts.

23:28 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:28 Speaker 12: So yeah, it was pretty, it was a quick process. And by the afternoon we were mixing and I couldn't believe it. That wasn't supposed to happen.

23:35 Speaker 11: That's incredible. That's incredible.

23:37 Speaker 12: I can tell you, um, just something else quickly, if you want.

23:40 Speaker 1: Sure.

23:40 Speaker 12: There's, um, there's a couple of, um, parallels between with Tom Waits, a couple of coincidental stories, but the main one, and I told this in my show, is believe it or not, both of us, Tom Waits and I, we've both married women that were from Chicago, but we both coincidentally met them in New Jersey. Hence he wrote Jersey, Jersey girl inspired by his inspired by his future wife, Kathleen Brennan co-writes a lot of songs with him. And anyway, when my wife went to undergrad at university of, uh, Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

24:24 Speaker 12: So she was home in Chicago. She was, she boarded a bus, sat down next to a woman there. She was going from Chicago back to Madison, Wisconsin. She was sitting next to this woman, um, who said that she was going to Madison to see Tom Waits concert. And, uh, Janice, who was, you know, um, I didn't know her then. She said, oh, I'm going back to school in Madison, but I'm also going tonight to the Tom Waits concert. And Kathleen said to her, I'm going to marry that man. So they rode a bus. They rode a bus together from Chicago to Madison.

25:00 Speaker 12: And then she didn't see her. She didn't see her again, except at the end of the concert. She saw her on the side of the stage after the show run up and give him a hug or something. I just thought that was a very odd, coincidental story.

25:14 Speaker 11: That is that is pretty cool, though.

25:16 Speaker 10: That's wild.

25:17 Speaker 11: That is wild. By the way, so getting to play with your son, your son's on the, uh, on the album. Have you worked with him before prior to making this EP EP? I should say to be precise, but had you worked with him before?

25:30 Speaker 12: Well, musically, um, very little we've done. We've done, um, we duetted once at this loser's lounge tribute in New York.

25:40 Speaker 1: Okay.

25:41 Speaker 12: Um, he's actually produced, he has his own studio and he's produced, uh, my vocals on some recordings, especially during the pandemic. But we didn't do something like this, where it was a two-day project. And we really had a good time. After the first night of session, we went out into town and went to dinner. And then in the morning, went out for breakfast. And it was up in farmland, so we got some good, fresh country air the morning of the second day. I think this was the first time we spent this much intensive time together doing a project, although it was very relaxed.

26:24 Speaker 6: Yeah.

26:25 Speaker 12: And then when he, and when he was a teenager, I helped him sort of being like a, a dad manager, whatever you want to call that. And so, you know, he was a musician when he was a teenager. So I kind of guided him through some things. yeah yeah other than that no this was this was this was a great experience for us because as i said he's he's he tours a lot he's on the road okay a lot of projects producing and then he's he just got married last year so for us to spend two days together like that was.

27:00 Speaker 11: Was really nice oh i can imagine i can imagine i do want to circle back to uh just briefly um to uh The House Where Nobody Lives, because you had talked about, you know, abandoned homes and being kind of fascinated by that. And I know what you mean, because I'll look to, you know, if I see one, I'll always... I'll have some of those same thoughts, you know, curious about it and how it got that way and who lived there and whatnot. But we should mention the video for it, the lyric video. There's a lot of footage that goes with what you described in the video of these homes.

27:32 Speaker 11: And I'm curious about where that imagery came from, if that's footage or pictures that you took. or did you have help with that? Did somebody else make that? Um, because it really does, um, you know, watching the lyric video and hearing the song with it really does kind of, um, kind of take you there for lack of a better way of putting it. Um, but, uh, I'm curious about the video.

27:58 Speaker 12: I really appreciate that. Um, I don't think You're the first person who has mentioned the video and appreciated it. I love it, actually, but it seems overlooked. The track seems to be the main point of interest. So I knew I didn't want to have a performing.

28:21 Speaker 15: Video.

28:21 Speaker 12: I wanted a lyric video so I could show the houses. So my wife and I drove around in our area and there are a number of buildings with, you know, windows boarded up or broken windows and overgrown weeds and.

28:32 Speaker 16: All of that.

28:33 Speaker 12: But here it's a lot more congested. So the houses are close. So you might have an abandoned home, but you've got two, two homes on either side that are, that, that are not abandoned. And it was hard to visually just focus on the one home without getting without, cause they couldn't get far enough back. Um, And there was people in cars all the time. So I did take some footage myself, but I didn't use it in the video. Online, I found this site. I think it's Exploring Urban.

29:08 Speaker 16: Oh, my gosh.

29:08 Speaker 12: Now I forget the name. But it's a link on my YouTube video for the song. This guy, Cappy, down south, he shoots abandoned homes and mansions. And his footage is very sharp. And he shoots all around the outside of the home and the property, but he also goes in these buildings that are often the doors are just open, they're abandoned. And he goes in and shoots very interesting footage, because many of these abandoned homes, and he knows the story of some of them simultaneously. of them were owned by doctors and families sometimes they all the furniture is there and you know from years of the roof not being fixed there might have been water and leaks and there's mold growing or you know ceilings have fallen but there's the sofas and it's all from over the decades, you can sort of see the 1960s furniture or earlier or seventies.

30:03 Speaker 12: And some of them have even the dining room table is set up with wine glasses and China where, but the people are long gone. Anyway, I reached out to him and asked if there's any way I could appropriate his footage for this video. And I didn't know if he'd give me permission or not. He on his YouTube channel, he has 600 homes that he has, um, Oh, wow. You know, beautiful, incredible videos.

30:30 Speaker 1: It's fascinating.

30:32 Speaker 12: And he he said, go for it, man. And that was it. It was that easy. So I reshot through a vintage film app his footage because I didn't I wanted it to be blurred out like a dream.

30:47 Speaker 10: Right.

30:47 Speaker 12: And I made it I made it more abstract and desaturated, washed out a little bit blurred. so that you get the, you were able to get it, you get the vibe and feel of abandoned homes and overgrown weeds and broken windows without all of the crisp detail that's in his actual footage. So I was lucky to just appropriate it. And of course, down south, these mansions, they're on huge property. So he was able to get great footage without cars and people walking in front or neighboring houses close by. So that's why his footage, original footage was, was appropriate for me to do that.

31:27 Speaker 12: But, um, I wanted to make it dreamy and abstract and then put the lyrics over. So I appreciate what you said very much because I like, I like the way the video turned out. I just haven't heard anybody else other than you comment on it.

31:41 Speaker 5: Oh, okay.

31:42 Speaker 16: Oh, you're welcome.

31:43 Speaker 11: Well, yeah, I encourage people to check it out. It's really cool. And I do like the aesthetic, um, and it absolutely works for the, for the song. Uh, no doubt about it. Eddie Scholar, this has been wonderful. Thank you for joining us today. In a moment, when we wrap up, I think I'm going to play Downtown Train. I really love that one. Also, of course, from the EP, Blind Love. And this, of course, you know, it's funny, too, because you mentioned people might not necessarily know Some people might not know that it was originally a Tom Waits song.

32:15 Speaker 11: I remember hearing it when I was a kid, Rod Stewart's version, and having no clue. Well, I was a kid, but just having no clue that it was a cover, as is often the case with songs like that. But we'll probably close out with that. But where's the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing, whether it's anything related to this project or anything else that you're doing musically? shows that you have coming up, et cetera. Where should people go online?

32:44 Speaker 12: Absolutely. So my website is eddyskuller.com and I'm also on Facebook and Instagram. So, you know, and all, all of my music is on all of the, um, all the streaming sites, Spotify and Apple and what have you. So wherever anybody wants to reach out and, um, you know, and if you hear it and you like it, like shoot me a message or something. I'd love to hear from people.

33:10 Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, listen, I'm sure you're going to have more music in the future, so we will definitely have you back. We'll do this again. But Eddie Schuller, thank you so much for joining us today.

33:21 Speaker 12: Matt, thank you so much. I really enjoyed it.

33:23 Speaker 11: Oh, thank you.

33:24 Speaker 10: Me too.

33:24 Speaker 17: All right.

33:25 Speaker 11: We'll talk soon. Take care. Bye-bye. All right. There goes the great Eddie Schuller. Be sure to check out the new EP, Blind Love. It is amazing. And we're going to close out this segment with another song from that. And again, you know, some of you, you know, if you're a Tom Waits fan, you might know the original, or you might remember the Rod Stewart version, which was, geez, what would that have been? Late 80s, maybe? But check this out. I really like Eddie Scholar's version of this song, personally.

33:55 Speaker 11: This is called Downtown Train from Blind Love.

34:13 Speaker 3: Outside another yellow moon.

34:20 Speaker 5: Punched a hole in the.

34:22 Speaker 3: Nighttime I climbed through the window.

34:28 Speaker 5: And down to the street.

34:33 Speaker 3: I'm shining like a new dime.

34:39 Speaker 5: The downtown trains are full.

34:44 Speaker 3: With all those Brooklyn girls They try so hard To break out of their little worlds You wave your hand And they scatter like crows They have nothing That'll ever capture your heart They're like thorns without the rose be careful of them in the dark oh if I was the one you chose to be your only one oh baby can't you hear me now can't you hear me.

35:38 Speaker 18: Now Will I see you tonight On a downtown train.

35:53 Speaker 3: Every night it's just the same But.

36:00 Speaker 5: You leave me lonely.

36:05 Speaker 3: I know your window and I know it's late I know your stairs and your doorway I walk down your street.

36:20 Speaker 5: And past your gate.

36:24 Speaker 3: I stand by the light at the four-way You watch them as they fall Oh baby, they all have heart attacks Cause they stay at the carnival But they'll never win.

36:44 Speaker 18: You back Will I see you tonight On a downtown train.

36:56 Speaker 5: Every night.

37:03 Speaker 3: Every night it's just the same Will I see you tonight On a downtown train All.

37:24 Speaker 5: Of my dreams they.

37:26 Speaker 3: Fall like rain Baby, on a downtown train On a downtown train On.

37:44 Speaker 4: A downtown train On a downtown train.

37:55 Speaker 3: On a downtown train.

38:03 Speaker 11: That is Eddie Scholar's cover of Downtown Train. I'm going to sneak in one more, actually, from the Eddie Scholar's EP, Blind Love, because I love it so much. Let's play the title track. Again, this is Blind Love performed by Eddie Scholar. His new EP, Blind Love, of course, a tribute to Tom Waits. All four tracks, Tom Waits songs. But check this out. Eddie Scholar, Blind Love.

38:32 Speaker 14: Now you're gone.

38:43 Speaker 5: Now you're gone.

38:47 Speaker 3: It's hotels and whiskey and sad luck dames.

38:57 Speaker 5: I don't care if they miss me.

39:00 Speaker 9: I never remember their names.

39:04 Speaker 14: They say.

39:09 Speaker 7: If you get far enough away.

39:14 Speaker 3: You'll be on your way back home Well.

39:21 Speaker 5: I'm at the station.

39:25 Speaker 3: And I can't get on the train Must be blind love Only kind of love is stone blind love Blind love.

39:49 Speaker 4: Only kind of love is stone blind love With your blind love.

40:03 Speaker 3: Oh, your blind love With your stone blind love Now.

40:22 Speaker 5: The streets are turning blue.

40:27 Speaker 3: The dogs are barking and the night has come There are tears that are falling From your blue eyes now.

40:43 Speaker 15: ¶ And I wonder where you are ¶ ¶ And I whisper your name ¶.

41:00 Speaker 3: ¶ Only way to find you ¶ ¶ Is if I close my eyes ¶ ¶ Find you with my blind love ¶ Only kind of love is storm blind love Only kind of love is storm blind love Only kind of love is storm blind.

41:32 Speaker 14: Love With your blind love With your stone-blind love Stone-blind.

41:49 Speaker 19: Love That is Eddie Sculler.

42:13 Speaker 11: The new EP is called Blind Love, all Tom Waits songs, and he does an incredible job on those. And I really enjoyed having him on the show. We'll definitely do it again in the future. He's releasing new music, and it's cool, too, that he has a son on the EP. That's got to be a kick. We actually will fit in one more, because You Can Never Hold Back Spring. It's kind of a short song. It's only about two and a half minutes, but... We're going to play that in a moment, too, as we get ready to traverse into our No.

42:41 Speaker 11: 3 Numero Trace of Matt Connerton Unleashed. We've got Jam Demick in the building, and they're joining us for Hour 3. And, of course, we are live from the studios of WMNH, 95.3 FM in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. You can stream the show from anywhere. Go to my website, mattconnerton.com slash live, or go to our new site, mattconnertonunleashed.com slash live. for all the info on the show that you need to know about how to listen, how to stream it, where to get it afterward, on all the podcasting platforms, etc., etc. I do want to give a shout-out to Xtrilly, one of our new sponsors here on the show and at WMNH.

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44:13 Speaker 11: And we are going to, we do have time. We're going to fit in one more track from a, well, actually it's the only track we haven't played on the show this morning. Um, One more track from Eddie Scholar's EP, Blind Love. This is You Can Never Hold Back Spring.

44:36 Speaker 3: You can never hold back spring.

44:43 Speaker 5: You can be.

44:44 Speaker 3: Sure I will never stop believing The blushing roads.

44:56 Speaker 17: That we'll climb Spring ahead or fall behind Winter dreams, the same dream.

45:11 Speaker 5: Every time Oh, baby, you.

45:19 Speaker 3: Can never hold back spring. And even though you've lost your way, the world is dreaming, dreaming of spring.

45:44 Speaker 20: So close your eyes, open your heart to the one who's dreaming of you.

46:00 Speaker 3: And you can never hold back spring. Remember everything that spring can bring.

46:16 Speaker 5: Baby, you can never hold back spring. Baby, you can never hold back.

46:44 Speaker 1: WMNH. Rip the knob off.

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51:20 Speaker 12: Seven times out of ten, we listen to our music at night.

51:32 Speaker 8: Thus spawned the title of this podcast.

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52:25 Speaker 10: The sonic heartbeat of Manchester.

52:27 Speaker 2: Transcending through the ether at 95.3 megahertz frequency modulation. Our transmissions emanate from the zenith of 1000 Elm Street. Venture into the heart of our creative realm at 119 Canal Street.

52:39 Speaker 1: Where innovation and sound collide.

52:42 Speaker 2: We bear the imprimatur of Manchester Public Television Service in the venerable city of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Enrich your auditory journey with the depth of our licensed residents. Dispatch your missives to WMNH953 at gmail.com or traverse the virtual corridors of WMNHradio.org. Engage with our sonic vibrations by communing with us through the digital channels.

53:05 Speaker 1: Your radio beckons.

53:07 Speaker 2: Eager to enthrall you with its mesmerizing cadence and envelop you in a symphony of boundless auditory wonder.

53:17 Speaker 1: WMNH. Rip the knob off.

53:20 Speaker 10: This is Jesse Rutstein and.

53:22 Speaker 5: Caleb Dyer.

53:24 Speaker 3: Oh.

53:24 Speaker 26: Oh.

53:24 Speaker 1: Okay, we can.

53:26 Speaker 10: Let's do that one more time. This is Jesse Rutstein and... Caleb Dyer.

53:30 Speaker 1: Oh, crap.

53:31 Speaker 10: Hold on. What do you want me to say right after that?

53:33 Speaker 1: From Hatchet, Axe, and Saw.

53:34 Speaker 10: From Hatchet, Axe, and Saw. And then I'll say you're listening to.

53:37 Speaker 1: Sounds good.

53:37 Speaker 10: This is Jesse Rutstein.

53:39 Speaker 14: And.

53:40 Speaker 1: Oh.

53:42 Speaker 10: This is why I'm the leader.

53:45 Speaker 27: This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer from Hatchet, Axe, and Saw Records. You are listening to the Matt Connerton Show on WMNH 95.3 Manchester.

53:57 Speaker 10: What did I say?

53:58 Speaker 1: Okay.

53:59 Speaker 5: All right.

54:00 Speaker 10: All right.

54:00 Speaker 23: What did I say?

54:01 Speaker 5: Let's do this again. Let's do this again.

54:04 Speaker 27: This is Jesse Rutstein and Caleb Dyer from Hatchet, Axe & Saw Records.

54:09 Speaker 10: You are listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on 95.3 WNA. F * * * off, dude. This is Jesse Rutstein.

54:20 Speaker 27: And Caleb Dyer from Hatchet, Axe & Saw Records. You are listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on 95.3 WMNH-FM. Who the f * * * is Matt Connerton?

54:33 Speaker 5: You're not Matt Connerton.

54:36 Speaker 21: And it was so fake because of AI or whatever.

54:40 Speaker 20: Who the f * * * is Matt Connerton, babe?

54:43 Speaker 3: What's wrong?

54:45 Speaker 5: It's not valid.

54:49 Speaker 12: It's incorrect.

54:50 Speaker 19: It's wrong.

54:52 Speaker 5: Matt Connerton? Who the f * * * is Matt Connerton?

54:56 Speaker 11: A question for my listeners. What would you change about your life if you knew that you could? Maybe you want to feel more confident, reduce stress, overcome a fear or a phobia, change an unwanted habit, or finally get past something that's been holding you back. I'm Matt Connerton, radio host and certified hypnotherapist, and I help people use the power of hypnosis to create meaningful, positive change. I offer private sessions online and in person, and your initial consultation is completely free.

55:31 Speaker 11: Find out if hypnosis is right for you. Visit my website today, mattconnerton.com. That's mattconnerton.com.

55:41 Speaker 7: When Matzo wakes up in the morning, he gets into the shower, and to the top of his lungs.

55:47 Speaker 10: He sings.

55:48 Speaker 1: I'm the man.

55:52 Speaker 24: I do what I want because I can.

55:57 Speaker 7: All right, back to the radio show now.

56:00 Speaker 18: All the best, Jerry.

56:25 Speaker 3: Thank you.

56:43 Speaker 26: We'll keep turning, turn your head around. When the sky starts falling, turn you upside down. Round and round the answers go, got it all figured.

56:54 Speaker 5: Out this time.

56:56 Speaker 26: Round and round your head, planning the perfect crime.

57:01 Speaker 5: When you break it.

57:02 Speaker 26: Down, is it really real?

57:06 Speaker 5: Is it all just passing by? What's it all come down to? What's true and what's unreal?

57:15 Speaker 14: Is it really this or that or just another turn around the wheel?

57:23 Speaker 21: Guitar solo Is it all just passing by?

58:05 Speaker 5: What's it all come down to?

58:07 Speaker 26: What's true and what's unreal?

58:09 Speaker 5: Is it really this or that? Or just another.

58:12 Speaker 14: Jump around the wheel? Thank you.

59:50 Speaker 21: We'll keep turning. Turn your head around.