Songs by Isaac Quatorze and others. Call-ins by Matt Pierce (from Wisconsin at 5:30), Rose Deschamps (from New Zealand at 23:00) and others. Announcement of Burr Settles interview on the following day, finding out about the new FAWM site rewrite and such. Discussion on Steel Bridge Songfest, FAWM themes, and weekly challenges. Also people on the chat listening in and typing in their comments.
12:45: Song: The House that Hunger Stole – Isaac Quatorze
Also, some mention of the 50/90 challenge and collaborative songwriting in the chat room. Also some discussion of a tour that I had decided to do that month to do these podcast shows in as many different towns as I could. I described a tour itinerary through the midwest and east that I think wound up being wildly different than I described it, as the initial plan was to drive an RV, which wound up breaking down.
28:30: Song: Venison Tonight – Dusty Mason, Charlie Cheney
Spoke with Rose Deschamps about her plans for FAWM, and her pre-fawm launch party at her flat in New Zealand with friends including Stephen Wordsmith and we discussed a CD that Rose made for Stephen for his birthday of FAWMers interpreting Stephen’s lyrics in song.
38:00 Song: Got Me Where They Want Me – Evan Wolverton (cut off half way through unfortunately).
Mentions of Steven (Applehead) Wesley Guiles and Burr Settles
41:00 call-ins by Mike Jacobsen (Minneapolis, MN) and John Crossman (madison, WI). Mike was hosting a Mpls Pre-FAWM gathering with a bunch of FAWMers that he listed including Scott O’Clamp, his brother Bryan, Matt, Static Captain, GSlab, T-Spoon, Trader Mouse, and Mike’s FAWM codename Jake MissileWings. John had a pre-FAWM party earlier with Nancy Rost, Matt Pierce and a few others.
I used an AI tool to create a transcript of the podcast below:
Transcript:
Blog Talk Radio. Hey, everybody. It’s Charlie Cheney, and we’re here live on Friday night, January 30th at 10 PM. We’ll be live for about another half an hour, and I’d love it if you would call in. We’re doing a special show this week and all of the month of February for February Album Writing Month.
So this show is also about that. I’ve got a couple songs lined up from some farmers from last year. Isaac Coutures has got another song lined up, and Dusty Mason has a song that he helped write that I’m gonna play later in the show. I played another Isaac song last night. For those of you who might have tuned in last night, I played one of Isaac’s songs, and I’m gonna play another one tomorrow.
Now I am a big Isaac Quatorze fan. I admit that. However, that’s not the only reason that I’m playing Isaac’s songs and not someone else’s songs. You see, the re the deal here is that I have to get permission to play the songs before I can play them. Otherwise, I get in trouble.
So I asked Isaac if I could play any of his songs from FAWM from last year, and he gave me a blanket okay to play any of the 14 songs that he posted last year. So it’s easy for me to grab them and upload them and play them during the show, which is awesome, and I need everyone else to do that for me too. So if you have a song that you would like me to play, send me an email at charlie@charliecharliechannie.com, or ping me on the farm site. You can go to www.farm.org/farmers/charliechini and put a note on my soundboard or put a note in the forums when I post in because I’m gonna do the radio show. Come on in and post some links for songs that I can play, and I’ll upload them, and I’ll play them probably.
I mean, as long as I have time, and I think they fit. So, you know, hey. I get to choose. I like all sorts of music, so, you know, that’s not the biggest part of it. I just need to have the songs, and we’re gonna have a lot of time this this month to play.
I’m going to try and do songs or I’m going to try and do shows every night this month at 10 PM and also, during the weekdays and then at 2 PM on weekends. So we’ve got some time to play songs, and I would love to play yours, and I’d love to hear yours and get them up on the air for everybody to hear as we’re talking about FAWM. Now one thing I wanted to announce, I’m very excited about, is tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM EST, Burr Settles, the founding farmer, one of the 4 founding farmers, Burr Settles, who actually writes the website, he has created the website that allows us all to get together and work in our little community here writing songs and helping collaborating on songs and commenting on each other’s songs and hearing each other’s songs. The guy who wrote the website and has been a successful farmer for the past 5 years, this is his 6th year farming, He has agreed to an interview tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM. So I’m really excited that Burr has come has agreed to come on to the line and and talk with us.
So I just wanted to announce that in advance and hopefully you’ll tune in. And again, that’s 2 o’clock tomorrow, Saturday, the last day of January as a kind of a kickoff of February album writing month. And I’ve got some questions I wanted to ask Gerber about how the site rewrite went, he rewrote the site this month and what his impressions are of how FAWM is progressing and about the camaraderie of the social community that we’ve built here and stuff. So very excited about that, and I hope you’ll tune in and call in and talk with Burr and myself and have some questions ready and just chat. Now someone has called in.
I wanna ask who that is. Who’s on the line here? Who’s on the line? Is that Evan? Hello?
You’re listening, but you’re not talking. Well, it’s okay. Looks oh, there we got it. Sounds like you’re on Skype. Yes.
I am. Nice. Hello, Skype caller. Who is this? This is Matt Pierce.
Matt Pierce. Thanks for calling in. And you’re in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Is that right? That is correct.
That is correct. Yes. Welcome. Well, thank you. Now I, am familiar with you from last year and 5090.
Right? Weren’t you part of 5090 this year too? I was not. I have a few things yet. No.
I was not. I did go up to the Steel Bridge Festival, though. That was stupid contest. Yeah. That was that was a blast.
Enjoyed. Saw you and your band get up there and play on the stage. That was I really love that. That was great. Oh, cool.
Job. Oh, thanks, man. Yeah. Thanks. It’s it’s, I love Steel Bridge Songfest.
It is the coolest live songwriting event that I know where people gather together and, you know, that’s not virtual. FAWM is my favorite virtual songwriting event, and Steel Bridge is my favorite in person songwriting event. And for those of you who are listening who don’t know what Steel Bridge Songfest is, you can check it out at steelbridgesongfest.org. It happens in the 2nd week in June every year in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, which is up near Green Bay, Wisconsin, about halfway up the state, maybe twothree of the way up the state on the Far East side of the state and right in Lake Michigan, sort of wedged in between the Green Bay, the Greater Green Bay, and the Greater Lake Michigan. So it’s a really cool songwriters event, and Jackson Browne usually headlines the event.
And then there’s probably a 100 other bands that play around town in Sturgeon Bay and a whole bunch of clubs, and then they have a big main stage show outdoors on Saturday and well into Saturday night, which is really fun with a big huge main stage and a big huge PAA and sounds really great. And it’s usually sunshine. Last 3 years I’ve gone, there’s been great sunshine, but it’s not too hot because they’re wedged in between the bays and so the breeze comes around. And even though it’s just blazing sun, it usually has a nice cool breeze. So it’s a great place to come up and have some fun and write some songs.
Very collaborative. A lot of collaborative songwriting going on there, which is very similar to FAWM. So, Matt, tell me about what you’re planning to do in FAWM this year. Have you got have you got a theme or anything like that? No.
Not really. Except every Thursday, to write something about a world event. Other than that, I’m going I’m just too, here to the challenges that, Burr and the gang come up with. They have weekly challenges that I like to go and try. Cool.
Cool. Yeah. I I have I do usually do the challenges as well myself. What was that about this year? Go ahead.
This year, they’re going to they’re going I don’t know what they’re going to it’ll come out in the beginning of the this beginning of the week here or what the challenge is for the 1st week is. So I’m just going to be kind of on apprehensive as to what to write about until I get that challenge. Yeah. It’s always you you always wonder what they’re gonna come up with. Yeah.
One of the one of them that I did in the past that was pretty successful for me was they they asked to do one about a street, a street that you were on or a road, and that was one of the ones that was probably most successful for me. I wrote a song called the Gene Autry Memorial Interchange because I was out in LA that week and and, wrote that, which is a funky highway out in LA. And I ended up making a video about it and everything out there. It was really cool. And that was my was that last year or 2 years ago?
I think it must have been 2 years. No. Maybe. I can’t remember anymore. This is my 3rd phone, so I think that was 2 years ago.
So well, hey, Matt. What do you think? Well, I think this is great. This is really cool. I’m looking forward to this year.
Yeah. I’ve never tried this before. Oh, I I see you all the time on, on the chat, don’t I? Don’t you come in under the chat the chat room for now? I go on to chat, but I haven’t been on Skype at all.
I this is kind of my first that I’ve really gotten in the Skype radio to talk to people on on the air like the Cool. Well, awesome. Cool. Very cool. I’ve got a couple people in the chat room too.
Jan is on online listening in on and piping in on the chat. Thanks for tuning in, Jan. If anyone else wants to tune in or call in, you can call in at 914-338-0421 and talk with me in person during the show. Again, the number is 914-338-0421. And of course, the show is streaming live at blogtalkradio.com/charliechini.
And one thing that Evan Woolverton explained to me last night, which I didn’t even know, is that you can subscribe to this podcast in iTunes. If you search for Charlie Cheney on iTunes, the podcast will come up, and it’s called Charlie Cheney’s Music Exam, and you can subscribe and it will automatically download to your iTunes and you can listen to it whenever you like. So just as the magic of the interwebs that happens, I had forgotten completely that I set that up. So there it is. Well, Matt, I’m gonna put you on hold for a second because I wanna play a song by Isaac Coutores, and so hold on for a second if you wanna, come back.
I’d love to keep talking with you. And this is a song I’m clicking away to. Where did I put it? Oh my this is called this is one of Isaac’s songs from last farm, and this is called The House That Hunger Stole. And that was Isaac Coutures out of, out of Winnipeg, Canada.
I’m sorry. I’m in the Westminster Abbey Cabaret chat room here at available at chat.hypnopedia.org, and I’m trying to type and talk at the same time, which is nearly impossible for me. So I’m going to have to move out of that page and bring up the other things so that I can concentrate. Matt hung up on me. We’re trying to get John Crossman to call in.
John is on the chatroom at chat.hypnopedia.org, which is kind of an unofficial FAWM chatroom. So if none of you have or none of you. If any of you listening have not seen that chatroom, you should go check it out because it’s usually pretty fun, and it can get packed with farmers. We have done a bunch of really cool stuff in there. During 5090, we really started using it a lot, the 50 songs in 90 days challenge.
We did a lot of collaborative songwriting in the chat, which was really fun. I actually wrote a song that was I wrote it for Debs, who’s out of Toronto. She said she needed a song for her song a week challenge. I said, oh, I’ll help. So I actually wrote a song almost completely made from lines said in the chat.
So it was really silly and fun, and it’s a cool place to go. If you’re on Pong, go check it out. So in any case, that song, again, that we just played was called The House of Hunger Stole by Isaac Coutures out of Winnipeg, Canada, and you can check him out. I believe his URL on FAHM is FAHM dot org/farmers/isaaciv. I may be wrong.
Look him up. He’s awesome. One of my faves. And, again, I played one of his songs yesterday. I’m gonna play another one of his songs tomorrow.
I’m only playing that many of his songs because he gave me permission, and I hope you will send in some links to your songs and give me permission to play your songs too because I need permission in advance before I can play songs on the air. Cool? Alright. That’s the scoop. Now John Crossman, who’s on the chat over at Hypnopedia, just asked me if I’m gonna tell you about my crazy tour that’s coming up, and I thought, ah, good idea.
I should. What I have decided to do this month is do a radio show every night at 10 PM and on weekdays and every weekend day at 2 PM. So for example, tomorrow, we’ll have our show at 2 PM EST. After I decided to do this show every day during the month of February, which is basically crazy in itself, it suddenly occurred to me that it would be even cooler and crazier if I did the show in different towns as many nights as I possibly could. So I’ve decided to take a tour.
Now I’m not I’m not planning to do do the show in a different town every night. Not every night, but as many nights as I can muster. So I’ve decided to plan a tour, and I’m going to make it kind of an East Coast tour, a big circle tour. I live in Michigan, in Fremont, Michigan, which is north of Grand Rapids, and tonight’s show is being broadcast live from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Last night’s show was from Fremont, Michigan, or in my home.
The night before was in Michigan City, Indiana, down towards Chicago. All next week, I’m going to be in Chicago, and I’ll be broadcasting probably from Evanston, Illinois for most of next week. And then I’m going to go on a long circle tour. I’m going to start in Madison, Wisconsin on February 7th, 6th or 7th. I’m gonna head back over to Fremont for a night, then I’m gonna cruise across, possibly stopping in the Detroit area for a show, if I can get a hold of Scott McBride and see if he’ll do it with me.
I think Scott McBride is in in the Detroit area. Then I’m gonna head across over to Toronto and do a show with Debs, Deborah Linden and Errol, who are both farmers who live in the Toronto area. I might stay with them for an extra day and possibly do 2 shows with them out of Toronto. After that, I’m planning to head down back into the United States into upstate New York and probably stop in Binghamton, New York, which I was just invited to go visit Swamp Jaw McLaughlin Inn and I apologize if I ruined your name, Swamp Jaw. He’s in Binghamton, New York, which is kind of mid upstate south of Syracuse.
From there, I’m planning to head down into the Poconos of Pennsylvania and hopefully meet with another farmer named Don DeLego and hopefully stay with him at his Velvet Elk Studios for a night. I have not gotten that approved yet from Don. Don, if you’re listening, call me. From there, I’m planning to go down towards Philadelphia, and there’s a little town north of Philadelphia called Sellersville. And Sellersville is the home of Dusty Mason.
Dusty and I have been friends for a long time and have done some songwriting events together, which were great. We were in the St. John Songfest together down in Saint John’s Virgin Islands and wrote songs that were included on the Saint John Songfest CD, which is a really, really cool event, in December a couple years back. Now I’ve got a song I wanna play that Dusty and I wrote, and Dusty claimed on my soundboard today on FAWM.org that I did not complete the song, and I’m going to play the song to prove to him, in fact, that I did complete the song. So there.
After, after I stay with Dussie I’ll probably stay with Dussie for a number of days because he’s a bug, and we’ll all hang out in that Philly area. I might buzz over to New Jersey for a day and do a show from New Jersey because I have some friends in New Jersey. And then I’m planning to head down to Baltimore to see a bunch of people in Baltimore. There’s a bunch of farmers in Baltimore that I would love to meet that I’ve never met. Planning to kinda hang out there, go down to Washington DC maybe.
There’s some other people in DC and start to cut across. I may continue down to Wilmington, South Carolina. I might and cut across to Atlanta and then on to Memphis. And I’m planning to stay in Memphis for 3 or 4 days. Now the reason I’m in Memphis at that time is that the Folk Alliance Conference will be there, which is at www.folk.org.
And it’s a great songwriters gathering of folk artists. Probably 2,000 people come to, I think, I think. It’s huge. So just incredible number of songwriters and great players in the folk genre, and they have a little trade show, conference show as well there. And hopefully, I’m going to get a booth for that show and just set up in the conference hall and do a couple of shows from there.
And hopefully, I’ll get some people to come over and play some songs for us live, which would be really cool. And I might have a songwriting contest, live songwriting contest there as well. Wouldn’t that be awesome? So that’s the plan. And then I’ll probably head north back up to Philip or I’m sorry, up to Indianapolis and maybe back to Chicago and then either back to Madison or back to Fremont, and that’ll be it.
So it’d be about a 3 week tour. So that’s the scoop, just so you know. And any the whole trip, I’m just trying to meet as many people as I can. So if you’re listening and you’re kind of along that path, there is some wiggle room in there, some days that got us downtime that I could move the tour around a little bit, and I would love to come visit with you as well as long as you would agree to do a show with me. Probably write a song with me, a collaborative song.
Let me use your shower, maybe cook me a dinner. And, you know, a place to sleep would be great, but I’m gonna have an RV. My folks are lending me their RV, so I don’t really even need places to sleep. But if I could maybe plug the RV in out in your driveway and park in your driveway, that would be super cool. And then you have to laugh and have fun with me and cavort around while I’m there.
That’s, that’s very important. Hey, Rose. You’re on the line. Sweet. Rose Deschamps.
Oh, I’m I’m sure I completely butchered your your name, Rose. Is that you on Skype? Let me bring you online here. I see you in there you are. Yeah.
I am. Can you hear me? Yeah. I hear you. Great.
You’re in you’re in New Zealand. Right? I am in New Zealand. Yeah. It’s a nice place.
It’s really, really hot here at the moment. Middle of summer. Yeah. It’s fantastic. Yeah.
No. The only reason I knew it was so hot is because the Australian Open is, like, having record temperatures a 108 degrees or something, and that’s gotta be fairly close to you within, what, a a 1000 miles or something here? A 108 a 108 Fahrenheit, I’m assuming. Yeah. There’s a 108 Celsius would be like Yeah.
Celsius would be Celsius would be a little bit We kinda we’re not we’re not quite not quite there yet. No. Yeah. It’s it’s fairly warm. It says Wellington’s put on the stars today.
So we’re you know, but I am obviously sitting out on my balcony calling the states, you know, because I am their cool. Well, this is so cool. Now now if you could share with the the listening audience more about you, I know that you were in 5090 over the summer. Correct? Or actually the winter for you, but it was the summer for us here in the state.
Yeah. But your summer. This is my 3rd FAWM. Yeah. Your 3rd FAWM.
Cool. Cool. My 3rd FAWM. Yeah. Oh, it’s weird to hear the word pronounced.
It’s like well, I say FAWM, and I suppose you guys would say it with the American thing, and I I I can’t feel fake American accent. I’m not gonna try. Someone will hassle me. But, yeah, this is my 3rd FAWM, and I have tried my best to get some of my fellow Kiwis to join in. So this evening, we are having a pre FAWMed get together at my flat, God help my neighbors.
Basically the plan is that about midnight we’re getting out a whole bunch of instruments and starting to write a song. We may have had a decent amount to drink by that stage, so I’m not really sure how good the song’s gonna be. But all I know is that we have a couple of guitars, a ukulele, I think a set of bagpipes, which I’m not so sure about, a flute Wow. And a shaker shaped like a banana, which is gonna be showing up at my house. So I’m looking forward to midnight tonight.
That’s so cool. Now what time is it there? It’s like 4 in the afternoon or something? Yeah. 4:30 in the afternoon.
4:30 in the afternoon. That’s so awesome. That is so awesome. And and you’re and you’re calling in from the future too. I am.
I’m calling from the future because here in New Zealand, the 31st. It’s great. Yeah. It’s amazing that it’s like, well, yeah, I am in the future. It’s kind of awesome.
I’m talking to someone in the future. You are. I was thinking that’s exciting. It’s insane. That’s so awesome.
So were you successful in your previous 2 FAWMs? I was in my second FAWM, but not my first. My first, I got to 12 and then got horribly sick and so I didn’t finish. In my second FAWM, I got to the 14 and a half that that was that was required. And then in 50 90, I wrote 57 songs.
So I have this feeling that maybe I can hit 14 this year. 60 Yeah. Yeah. Once you get into that, that 50 90 thing is pretty amazing. I there are only 41 people who’s who completed all 50 songs this year, by the way.
So you and I are one of the 41 people who completed Wow. 50 songs. I think I recall that I was the 6th person to finish, maybe. Something like that. Yeah.
All I know is that I beat Helen because Helen was like I I actually, like, literally, like, stayed up to make sure that, you know, make sure that she was asleep in in England so I could write my 7 songs so I could beat her. Like, I I went on like a 7 songwriter like, a BIN songwriting thing just so I beat Helen because, you know, like 4 in the afternoon my time, 4 in the morning her time, and she wasn’t dedicated enough to stay up all night to try and beat me. So, you know, Helen. I remember I remember that on the chat rooms in the chat.hypnopedia.org. You guys are really going at each other.
It was wonderful. It was very It was great. There’s a lot of confederate. It was great. I, I’m sure that I must have been last because I ended up doing 22 songs in the last 12 hours of that contest in order to complete my 50, which is absurd, but, very fun.
On one of the songs is the a part of one of those songs is the one that I use for the opening sequence here, the show. My opening song in the show is from the 50 minutes show. Yeah. So very cool. Hey.
Can you hold for a little bit, or is this really long? This is, okay. I wanna play a song by Dusty Mason here. So I’m gonna put you on hold, and I’m gonna play Dusty’s song. Now Dusty is pretty funny.
He’s also in his 3rd FAWM and last year he doubled his output from his 1st year and I think he wrote 3.5 songs last year And he is convinced that he will finish his 14 songs by the year 2011. So it’s, you know, it’s as long as you keep going, you don’t have to do all 14 songs in 1 year, but come and join in anyways. In any case, on my soundboard where he left me a comment this afternoon, he started grumping at me about how I wouldn’t write slow, dark songs with him and that I bailed on writing and completing a song with him called Venison Tonight. And I, am here to prove that that is quite untrue. This is Dusty and my song called Venison Tonight, and I’m gonna prove you that I did actually record it.
Here it is. See? See? I finished it. I finished it.
What’s the saying I didn’t finish the song? Enough of that. I finished it. Alright. I’m posting a comment on the phong.org forums here quick to try and, you know, rouse people.
Let me get back over oh, man. See, this is where it gets so complicated with all these screens. Let me get over here and get Rose back on the line. There you are. Rose, are you still there?
Hello. I am still here. Yes. So you’ve got, like, a a 10 10 pound a $10 400 minute overseas calling card to call into the show. I did.
I did. Well, I I had it anyway because my parents live overseas. So I I call them every now and then to tell them I’m still alive, but, you know, it’s all good. So they live in the city. Is that what you said?
My parents live in Australia, which I I kind of think it’s them for. Got it. Got it. Got it. Yeah.
So there you go, people. Everyone who’s listening, Rose is calling on a regular phone, a normal everyday phone, and she’s calling from New Zealand. So that means you too can call 914-338-0421, and you can talk live in the air just like Rose is doing. It’s very easy, very low tech. So call in soon.
So have you got a plan for for your the types of songs you’re gonna do this year, like a theme or anything like that? Are you just winging it? Or I’m not sure. I had every intention of trying to write stuff that was a bit different because I’m I’m kind of usual suspects with my acoustic guitar and and vocals and stuff, and I thought I should try and write something on a different instrument or or try something different, but, yes, we’ll see what happens. I have to move house sometime during FAWM, so we’ll we’ll we’ll see what happens.
I haven’t really got anywhere to live yet, and I’m not sure I can do this from a cardboard box somewhere in somewhere in the city. So, you know, if unless, you know, I I could probably camp out under my desk at work, but I don’t think I can do FAWM from under my desk at work either. So if I, you know I I need a house. Help me. Anyone in New Zealand wanna give me a house?
Anyone from New Zealand. Right. Chime in, everybody. No. Anyone from New Zealand just plug my inbox with house offers will be great.
That would be great. But you’ve got people now one thing you just said, you just got some people coming over to your flat. Is that, Steven Wordsmith? Is he happen to come over? He is.
Steven Wordsmith. And we have a couple more where I am a friend of ours has just signed up to his very intention of of giving FAWM a good go and her name’s Libby, and she did some vocals for me during 50 90. So she’s gonna be around. And I think a lot of people are a lot of people in it in our group of friends kinda look on us crazy songwriters with a with a decent amount of respect, but, you know, a certain amount of you guys are insane. But they they tend to do things like give us words for song challenges or or ideas and things like that.
So, yeah, we were like yeah. Steven and I have been friends for a couple of years now, and I dragged him into FAWM in 5090, and, I think he’s doing pretty well. Cool. Yeah. Steven, he was a he wrote some great lyrics for 5090, and then and then you you were the one who kinda organized his he he you were doing a birthday CD for him, and you asked people to do covers of his songs, and you asked me to do that song of his.
Right? Yeah. He really liked it. He was he was he was pretty pretty impressed with the, with the effort that, I think he’s done really well and he, because when I when I first told him that I was writing songs, he kinda gave me this look like, oh, yep. Okay.
You know, not not sure if I was any good. But, when, you know, we kind of realized it was a common interest. We’ve we’ve spent a lot of time just, you know, talking about music and things like that, and it’s really nice to have something in common with a friend. And, yeah, we’ve been both trying to, you know, bug each other, and I think that if, you know, we we kind of eat each other on and and make sure we we finish and make sure we so I’m fairly certain both of us will have 14 songs this year. Yeah.
Steven hasn’t Steven wrote 14 in 50 19, so he’s hoping to be able to write 14 in FAWM, which is a slightly slightly more per time thing. But we’ll we’ll see how he goes. But, you know, I won’t let him hear the end of it if he doesn’t get full time. So, you know, he did it. Cool.
Cool. Well, I I love his stuff. I’m sure he’s on the Phoam site, everybody. If you need a lyricist, I think he’s looking for collaborators. So go and check him out.
Yeah. Collab with Steven. He’s a little thin. Yeah. Steven Wordsmith is it was what the name he went by on or on 5090.
I’m not sure what his call letters are gonna be. It’s the same. Okay. So he’ll be at, steven wordsmith. Fawm.org/fawmers/stephen wordsmith, and you can do the search, the keyword search on farmers as well to Mhmm.
To get his name, and he would love to do collaborations. I’m sure he’s really into that. And he’s a great lyricist, man. The the song he wrote that, Rose asked me to do a cover of or to interpret, actually, not really do a cover because he didn’t do any music. He just wrote lyrics, but, he was called oh, I called it father, but it was something else.
He called it something else. For the Lord is what it is. For the Lord. Yes. And, it struck me.
I mean, it had the the lyrics just had music in them, and and I wrote I was able to interpret a song out of it very quickly. It took me an hour to get a version that I thought was was cool that I felt good about, and and then, I I sent it to Rose. And you put it on a CD with a bunch of other songs, and she did who else made Yeah. Who else did interpretations of the stuff? We had Nancy.
Nancy Rost did one, to Sonnet. And I didn’t do as many in as I wanted because people were were busy, but I I did a couple and I managed to get one from Ancari as well, which was pretty awesome. Cool. So yeah, by the end of it, he was he had a good birthday. That was good.
Awesome. Awesome. Well, I want to play another song. Last night, Evan Wolverton was on the line and had a song that he is doing a song a week podcast on his own website. It’s not part of the song a week dot org site.
It’s just on his website, and I think it’s called Colors of the Ghost. And his song got cut off halfway through, and I really wanted to play it again. So can I put you on hold, Rose, again and let me play the song, then we’ll be right back? Not a problem. Alright.
Hold on. We’re gonna play Evan Wolverton’s song. This is called got me where they want me. Hard like a storm drain. The hollow of my bones are steep.
Where they want me. Got me where they want me. Stars in the pavement popping gasoline. Got me where they want me. Got me where they want me.
Stars in the pavement. Love isn’t a magazine. God. It cut off again. That is so aggravating.
Okay, everybody. I’m really sorry about that. It did the same thing last night, so there must be something wrong with the file. Technology. Well, we got 5 minutes left.
I want someone to call in. If you’d like to call in, that would be great. It’ll just cheer me up. Rose is still on the phone. I’m gonna bring her on a sec.
The, phone number you can call in on is 914-338-0421. We’ve got about 4 or 5 minutes left, and I would love to, hear you all call in and chat about phone and get psyched about tomorrow’s interview with Burr. We’re gonna interview Burr tomorrow at 2 PM EST and play some Burr songs from Phong last year, a collaboration he did with Isaac, another song that he did that was in response to someone else’s song. 1 that’s one of the coolest things about FAWM is that you listen to other people’s songs, and you get so inspired by by the other songs that other people are creating. And it at least I do.
I get all wrapped up in it, and and it kind of is like tide lifts all boats. And everyone starts writing better songs as as you go along because you’re so inspired by the other people. Anyways, he got inspired by Steve Applehead, who is his code name on phone, but his name is Steven Wesley Giles, and he also was involved in 5090 with You and I, Rose. Oh, holy cow. How much people called in?
Let me bring him on. We, we got a 608 area code phone number just called in. That looks like it might be Matt again. It’s not. It’s me, John Crossman.
John Crossman. Welcome. And then we got a 612 area code too. Who’s that? Oh, he’s not online.
I’ve got him on mute. Sorry. Let me get you off mute. There you go. Minnesotan.
Hello? Yeah. This is Mike Jacobson. Mike Jacobson. Awesome.
I don’t know you, Mike. You’re a new caller to me, so welcome to the show. Yeah. I’m in Minneapolis. Hey, Mike.
Are you going to are you going to the, the gathering, the farm pre farm gathering tomorrow night in Minneapolis? I am hosting it. Awesome. So well. Yeah.
So, yeah, we’ll have Scott and, his brother Brian and, Matt, who is sacrificial glam, static captain, Paul Schulter, and G Slab, Teaspoon, Eric Distad, and, Trader Mouse, and, a few others too. So Is Scott O’Clamp gonna be there? He will. Cool. And, my monicker my moniker on, FAWM is Jake Missile Wings.
Oh, okay. I’m familiar with that name from FAWM. Totally. Awesome. K.
Is this so you’ve done how many FAWMs in the past? Just one. Oh, okay. I was familiar with you from last year for sure. So very cool.
Very cool. Yeah. I really wanted to get up and see and get to the Minneapolis pre FAWM, but my car’s computer went out on me. And so it’s just kinda acting quirky. It doesn’t set up in the morning all the time.
So I was unable to drive up for Saturday’s gig. I really wanted to come up, but I couldn’t do it. So Yeah. It’s gonna be it’s gonna be a good time. Actually cleaning up my studio right now.
We’re gonna I’m going to see if we can get people to actually record their 1st FAWM song of FAWM 09 that night. So, we’ll be staying up late to see if we can get that done. Nice. Nice. Oh, that’s awesome.
Oh, I can’t believe I’m not coming up there. That pisses me off. That’d be so cool. Well, that’s cool. What was I gonna say?
Oh, John Crossman. What’s the scoop with you? How are you doing? I’m great. I’m over here in Madison.
We had a little brief on party, the other day just to get together and answer some questions and stuff, and there were, Matt Matt Pierce was there and Nancy Ross and a few others. And it was pretty cool. Did did Bur happen to make it down, or was he too too busy pro oh, he said he couldn’t make Thursday. Could he? He I think he tried to be Tuesday.
That was the night before the site went live, and so I think he was probably, you know, wearing his fingers to the bone, typing up Yeah. Mode. Yeah. We’ll we’ll hear about that tomorrow in the interview for sure. Yeah.
Well, we’re down to 60 seconds left. I’m so psyched that you guys called in. You gotta call in earlier next time for sure because I would love to talk to you again. And, thank you everyone for tuning in to Charlie Cheney’s music exam. Again, we’re gonna try and do this pretty much every day, if I can pull it off, for the whole month of February, 10 PM on weeknight nights and 2 PM on weekends.
And, it would be great if you could tune in and give me you guys, specifically, the guys on the line here, you gotta give me permission to play your songs. So that would be great. Right on. That would We’ll play them on hold on. Yeah.
Rose, I wanna definitely play you some of your songs, in future episodes here. Alright. We’re down to the last 15 seconds. Everyone say goodbye. Bye.
Goodbye. Goodbye. Bye. And we’ll see you in the next episode. Thank you very much, everybody.
Talk to you again soon.