WEBVTT 00:00:03.790 --> 00:00:06.830 He's described as folk with a rock -and -roll 00:00:06.830 --> 00:00:11.289 soul. This is Americana singer -songwriter, Austin 00:00:11.289 --> 00:00:16.089 -based Dan Guevara. His debut LP, Lazy Days, 00:00:16.550 --> 00:00:19.730 is available wherever you download music. And 00:00:19.730 --> 00:00:22.269 before we get to the conversation, the Danversation 00:00:22.269 --> 00:00:25.670 if you will, let's preview one of the standout 00:00:25.670 --> 00:00:29.489 tracks from Lazy Days. This is Procrastinate. 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.539 Sorry if the song came too late, but I've got 00:00:33.539 --> 00:00:51.679 a tendency to procrastinate See I've been meaning 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:56.700 to ask you But I can't seem to find the words 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:02.500 To tell you that I like you I'm sure you've already 00:01:02.500 --> 00:01:08.819 heard Give me a chance now Baby, let's dance 00:01:08.819 --> 00:01:15.219 now Oh, I could show you how How to do this twist 00:01:32.649 --> 00:01:35.450 All right, welcome to the latest episode of the 00:01:35.450 --> 00:01:39.250 Dan Time podcast. I'm Dan McCardell, your host. 00:01:39.569 --> 00:01:43.969 And today it's my pleasure to bring to you Georgetown. 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:48.760 Austin area based singer -songwriter Dan Guevara 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.780 Dan. Thanks for being here. How's it going? Hey 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:54.359 Dan. Thanks for having me on the show. It's going 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:56.319 good. It's going really good. How are you doing? 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:59.959 Doing great today. We were just talking about 00:01:59.959 --> 00:02:02.900 but just it it is if you think about it kind 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:06.359 of Comical the way that I I have to research 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.939 guests and do the outreach. I got to send the 00:02:09.939 --> 00:02:12.080 email I've got a you know, however, it's worded 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.139 and we were talking about or I was saying, hey, 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:18.659 if I got that email to my inbox, would I think 00:02:18.659 --> 00:02:22.659 that this is legit? Like, is this, really? So 00:02:22.659 --> 00:02:25.719 what was your reaction, Dan, when you saw the 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.680 message from the Day and Time podcast? Honestly, 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.180 like, when I was reading through it, I couldn't 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:37.659 help but laugh. I was like, this is awesome. 00:02:39.689 --> 00:02:42.569 another host named Dan that does a podcast called 00:02:42.569 --> 00:02:45.870 Dan Time wanting me to be on the show, also being 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:49.110 named Dan. And I think you said something to 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:53.490 the extent of diving into the Daniverse. The 00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:57.430 Daniverse, that's correct. I was like, yes, this 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:00.069 guy sounds cool. And then I looked you up on 00:03:00.069 --> 00:03:05.409 Spotify and there you were. Yeah, it's kind of 00:03:05.409 --> 00:03:10.740 an unintended consequence or result of The theme 00:03:10.740 --> 00:03:14.139 of this show it actually facilitates some good 00:03:14.139 --> 00:03:18.259 serious thoughtful conversation With people who 00:03:18.259 --> 00:03:22.360 also have a sense of humor Nothing against anyone 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:24.780 who has declined to be on the show or who is 00:03:24.780 --> 00:03:28.139 you know Just let that email fade into into the 00:03:28.139 --> 00:03:30.979 dust Nothing against that, but I do like that 00:03:30.979 --> 00:03:34.210 the people who do want to be on the show They 00:03:34.210 --> 00:03:36.050 kind of get the joke and they and they like the 00:03:36.050 --> 00:03:40.509 joke so uh It's uh, there's I gotta ask like 00:03:40.509 --> 00:03:45.550 what is your first like um Like what what is 00:03:45.550 --> 00:03:48.789 your your guests? First initial reaction like 00:03:48.789 --> 00:03:50.610 have they said something similar to what what 00:03:50.610 --> 00:03:53.250 I said or yeah, I've gotten a few emails back 00:03:53.250 --> 00:03:56.990 one guy I think Dan Brody from Australia. He 00:03:56.990 --> 00:03:59.169 said uh -huh. That's hilarious. I think that 00:03:59.169 --> 00:04:05.800 was his first line was that's hilarious Usually 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:10.360 people it's generally a pretty cheerful like 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.919 oh that's cool or I have caught I've caught some 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:16.660 people where they say it's not the best time 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:19.620 but I like the concept let's you know check back 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:23.300 in in a few months or next year, but I see I 00:04:23.300 --> 00:04:27.220 thought it was I wasn't really sure if I should 00:04:27.220 --> 00:04:29.279 hit the gas pedal on this thing it took me a 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:34.500 few months to run with the concept but Hey, I 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:37.899 love it for my purposes alone. I mean the D section 00:04:37.899 --> 00:04:41.860 of my Catalog, I mean, it's not a physical music 00:04:41.860 --> 00:04:44.339 catalog anymore, but it's kind of inflated now, 00:04:44.339 --> 00:04:48.779 but I've discovered a lot of cool artists and 00:04:48.779 --> 00:04:52.339 I'm still jamming to them today and Dan your 00:04:52.339 --> 00:04:55.800 most recent LP lazy days I was listening to it 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.740 this afternoon listening to it yesterday and 00:04:59.129 --> 00:05:01.009 I really can't wait. I want to kind of talk about 00:05:01.009 --> 00:05:04.209 your background first, but I like how layered 00:05:04.209 --> 00:05:10.730 this record is. Thank you. You don't sit in just 00:05:10.730 --> 00:05:15.629 one zone. There is friendship, there's romance, 00:05:16.009 --> 00:05:18.970 there's grief, and a lot of emotions attached 00:05:18.970 --> 00:05:20.889 to it. It kind of hits you in all the feels, 00:05:20.889 --> 00:05:24.769 I guess, as they say. Yeah, definitely. I like 00:05:24.769 --> 00:05:30.410 to... When I write songs, I like to tell a story 00:05:30.410 --> 00:05:33.730 at times, but then I also like to just kind of 00:05:33.730 --> 00:05:36.310 share like personal struggles that I've struggled 00:05:36.310 --> 00:05:38.990 with in my life and just like what I'm kind of 00:05:38.990 --> 00:05:41.930 doing to overcome the struggles and the people 00:05:41.930 --> 00:05:46.329 in my life that have really just been there for 00:05:46.329 --> 00:05:49.410 me during these really, really hard times. Like 00:05:49.410 --> 00:05:53.519 I just... It's like this record was amazing like 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:56.139 it's it's really like I like to say that this 00:05:56.139 --> 00:06:00.120 this record was a love letter to the singer songwriter 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.540 group that I'm a part of here in Georgetown and 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:06.220 It's a it's a love letter to those guys because 00:06:06.220 --> 00:06:08.579 if it wasn't for them the record would have never 00:06:08.579 --> 00:06:11.480 happened Because they got the juices flowing 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:15.300 like I had really bad writers block For about 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:17.819 three years and then I joined the group. This 00:06:17.819 --> 00:06:21.040 was like ten years ago And I've been writing 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.120 ever since. So I'm just so grateful to all those 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.259 people that are in the group and recorded on 00:06:27.259 --> 00:06:31.420 the record, like they all pitched in. And I really 00:06:31.420 --> 00:06:34.120 feel like it was a team effort. Yeah, I loved, 00:06:34.259 --> 00:06:36.379 I was reading about the songwriters group that 00:06:36.379 --> 00:06:40.480 you're a part of and Alex Winters as a friend 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.879 and mentor, I guess. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, good 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:47.480 friend of mine, mentor. So she started the Georgetown 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.449 singer songwriter group. She actually produced 00:06:51.449 --> 00:06:54.850 the record as well and sang on it and played 00:06:54.850 --> 00:06:58.870 it on it, edited it, she did everything. I also 00:06:58.870 --> 00:07:02.029 found this fascinating, Dan. You don't hear this 00:07:02.029 --> 00:07:04.829 all the time and hopefully some of my listeners, 00:07:05.449 --> 00:07:07.170 even if you're 22 years old and you've never 00:07:07.170 --> 00:07:09.170 picked up an instrument, but you've always wanted 00:07:09.170 --> 00:07:11.689 to play the bass guitar, you want to play drums 00:07:11.689 --> 00:07:14.970 or start writing lyrics, it's never too late. 00:07:15.259 --> 00:07:17.980 Dan, I was amazed that you learned how to play 00:07:17.980 --> 00:07:23.699 guitar at the age of 17. Yeah. Yeah. So funny 00:07:23.699 --> 00:07:27.019 thing about that is, um, I actually, my very, 00:07:27.060 --> 00:07:30.519 very first instrument was the drums and I picked 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:33.939 up the drums at 14 and then I was, I was on a 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:36.959 couple of bands for a while. And then I was on 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:39.899 a pop pop rock band called city line horizon 00:07:39.899 --> 00:07:43.019 for two or three years with my good friend, Brett 00:07:43.019 --> 00:07:47.920 McMinn. and another local Georgetown songwriter. 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:52.259 But he was a mentor to me for a while as well 00:07:52.259 --> 00:07:55.180 before I met Alex. But anyway, I was drumming 00:07:55.180 --> 00:07:58.740 in his band, and then he did a solo project, 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:02.379 did a singer -songwriter type deal, and I drummed 00:08:02.379 --> 00:08:05.839 for him. We played all over downtown Austin. 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:08.560 I met a lot of people in the music community 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:12.449 there and in Georgetown. And then I just decided 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:14.329 when I was 17, I'm like, you know what? I'm going 00:08:14.329 --> 00:08:16.050 to start doing my own thing. I started writing 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:22.649 music and here I am. Wow. And growing up, like 00:08:22.649 --> 00:08:24.649 a lot of people and maybe it's more prevalent 00:08:24.649 --> 00:08:28.569 now, homeschooled some experiences that maybe 00:08:28.569 --> 00:08:31.629 people had when they were 12 or 14. It wasn't 00:08:31.629 --> 00:08:34.509 a few years later for you. Talk to me about how 00:08:34.509 --> 00:08:37.669 that has shaped your your songwriting, maybe 00:08:37.669 --> 00:08:41.710 your lyrics and Just your approach to being a 00:08:41.710 --> 00:08:45.429 singer songwriter. Absolutely. So that that really 00:08:45.429 --> 00:08:47.990 did have a big effect on my life because when 00:08:47.990 --> 00:08:50.009 you're homeschooled, like, I don't know if you 00:08:50.009 --> 00:08:52.250 know, but like if you talk to anybody else that's 00:08:52.250 --> 00:08:56.169 homeschooled, but you're like very I felt like 00:08:56.169 --> 00:08:59.629 I had a very secluded, very strict childhood 00:08:59.629 --> 00:09:03.769 because I was raised Baptist for one. And so 00:09:03.769 --> 00:09:06.029 we did like the old school thing, like we sang 00:09:06.029 --> 00:09:07.950 from like the hymnals and everything. And it 00:09:07.950 --> 00:09:10.659 was a real small church. There was only about 00:09:10.659 --> 00:09:15.379 35, 40 people that went to that church. And so 00:09:15.379 --> 00:09:19.360 there was that. And then I had a couple of friends 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:20.980 that went to the church, but I didn't have a 00:09:20.980 --> 00:09:23.519 whole lot of friends outside of the church. And 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.840 of course, like, it's a little bit of, I don't 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:29.659 know if I want to say like slim pickings when 00:09:29.659 --> 00:09:32.559 it comes to like, you know, meeting girls when 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.120 you're you're homeschooled. And so I feel like 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:38.399 whenever I kind of like I ventured out and started 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.240 going to a lot of shows and I met a lot of cool 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.980 people at their shows and I feel like music was 00:09:43.980 --> 00:09:48.419 like my outlet to like the real world, the outside 00:09:48.419 --> 00:09:53.480 world. And yeah, and it just kind of like went 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.399 on from there. Like I really, I really got into 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.399 the punk scene, believe it or not, early on. 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.340 And I just feel like all of those people were 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:04.139 just so warm and they were inviting and they 00:10:04.139 --> 00:10:09.070 were just non -judgmental. I love that and that's 00:10:09.070 --> 00:10:11.950 what started everything like that was my outlet 00:10:11.950 --> 00:10:15.309 that was I always say music saved my life because 00:10:15.309 --> 00:10:17.450 I struggled with depression just feeling you 00:10:17.450 --> 00:10:21.529 know isolated and secluded for so long and music 00:10:21.529 --> 00:10:24.210 just like Opened so many doors for me and now 00:10:24.210 --> 00:10:26.970 I know so many cool people like I just love the 00:10:26.970 --> 00:10:30.450 community That's a great perspective where if 00:10:30.450 --> 00:10:32.309 you did grow up in public school and you always 00:10:32.309 --> 00:10:35.289 had some connection whether you had two or three 00:10:35.289 --> 00:10:37.769 friends or 20 friends, you know, some of the 00:10:37.769 --> 00:10:40.490 guys are the most popular kids in school, but 00:10:40.490 --> 00:10:44.649 but not having those connections and and And 00:10:44.649 --> 00:10:47.309 then you reach the adolescent age and you'd kind 00:10:47.309 --> 00:10:49.450 of like to go hang out with a girl Maybe go to 00:10:49.450 --> 00:10:52.610 a movie theater or do whatever you know, it's 00:10:52.610 --> 00:10:56.490 just not a part of the landscape So probably 00:10:56.490 --> 00:11:00.009 a lot of good things about Or I'm not and I'm 00:11:00.009 --> 00:11:02.389 sure you're not either as far as the approach 00:11:02.389 --> 00:11:05.210 or some parents that want to choose that route 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.940 But I guess every case is different. You really 00:11:07.940 --> 00:11:10.960 want to think about maybe building in, I guess, 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:14.960 some opportunities for your child to make up 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.980 for what they're not experiencing. Exactly. I 00:11:17.980 --> 00:11:21.559 mean, I feel like my my parents, they they did 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.019 their best and they did what they thought was 00:11:24.019 --> 00:11:26.220 right. Because like I said, that church was just 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:29.679 like super, super strict. It's it's kind of funny, 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:34.240 like I growing up like witchcraft was like not 00:11:35.019 --> 00:11:37.100 Acceptable in this church and so I couldn't watch 00:11:37.100 --> 00:11:40.100 Harry Potter Like there was like all these limits 00:11:40.100 --> 00:11:43.159 and stuff and so like I kind of rebelled and 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.220 I really got into Lord of the Rings And I'm a 00:11:46.220 --> 00:11:48.519 huge Lord of the Rings nerd like I love Lord 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.100 of the Rings. It's like my favorite trilogy of 00:11:51.100 --> 00:11:54.139 all time Particularly return of the king and 00:11:54.139 --> 00:11:58.919 so I'm like a huge music buff and I am a huge 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:04.429 nerd as well And I love sci -fi so So there's 00:12:04.429 --> 00:12:09.289 that. Wow. Well, I did read about, and this is 00:12:09.289 --> 00:12:11.070 something that I went through and I could relate 00:12:11.070 --> 00:12:13.649 to, I wanted to put this out there as well, Dan. 00:12:13.929 --> 00:12:16.570 The more I researched, I think your story is 00:12:16.570 --> 00:12:19.769 very relatable for a lot of people. And one of 00:12:19.769 --> 00:12:23.009 the things that happened to you, I was naive. 00:12:23.070 --> 00:12:25.250 Sometimes I feel like I'm still naive. I like 00:12:25.250 --> 00:12:27.769 to believe in people and trust people that their 00:12:27.769 --> 00:12:31.809 intentions are good. But you unfortunately learned 00:12:31.809 --> 00:12:35.330 the hard way. Writing your first or getting your 00:12:35.330 --> 00:12:39.970 your first record deal Someone that or I'm sorry. 00:12:40.029 --> 00:12:43.610 I'm probably saying this all wrong, but no No, 00:12:43.610 --> 00:12:45.950 no, I know what you mean. You're talking about 00:12:45.950 --> 00:12:48.509 the the making of Lost in Austin lost in Austin 00:12:48.509 --> 00:12:53.789 that the first EP yeah, so like like I said before 00:12:53.789 --> 00:12:57.529 like I was 17 when I first started writing songs 00:12:57.529 --> 00:12:59.750 and I started just kind of like hitting it real 00:12:59.750 --> 00:13:03.120 heavy. I did a lot of open mics around Georgetown. 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.240 I did some open mics in Austin. And I met some 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.299 really, really cool friends, like friends that 00:13:09.299 --> 00:13:11.740 I still talk to this day, and they're very good 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:15.259 friends of mine. And like we play shows together 00:13:15.259 --> 00:13:19.460 still, it's a lot of fun. But basically, like 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:23.740 in a nutshell, I had a teacher, a guitar teacher 00:13:23.740 --> 00:13:25.639 that ended up being, he was a good friend of 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:28.960 mine, became a good friend of mine. Then we ended 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.679 up becoming roommates and he told me he knew 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:34.259 a bunch of people in the music business. I was 00:13:34.259 --> 00:13:37.779 just like, okay, cool. He's like, yeah, I'll 00:13:37.779 --> 00:13:41.259 get all your records made and stuff and I'll 00:13:41.259 --> 00:13:43.519 do all the promoting, don't worry about that, 00:13:43.580 --> 00:13:48.200 like the booking and stuff. Basically, he just 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.299 told me to give him a deposit and I didn't know 00:13:50.299 --> 00:13:52.820 anything about music being in the music business. 00:13:52.860 --> 00:13:56.500 So I gave him the deposit and about the only 00:13:56.500 --> 00:13:58.779 thing that came out of that was he booked the 00:13:58.779 --> 00:14:02.100 studio time to record lost in Austin. After that 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:06.080 was recorded, it hadn't even been mixed, mastered. 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:11.190 No copies were made like. like nothing was done 00:14:11.190 --> 00:14:14.070 and I kept asking him like, hey, like, is the 00:14:14.070 --> 00:14:16.289 record going to be done like in a month or when 00:14:16.289 --> 00:14:18.590 are we going to get the CDs made? And he's like, 00:14:18.590 --> 00:14:20.049 oh, yeah, I'll take care of it. I'll take care 00:14:20.049 --> 00:14:23.909 of it. And it's never happened. So I ended up 00:14:23.909 --> 00:14:27.110 moving out of the house that I was living with 00:14:27.110 --> 00:14:31.730 him at the time. And yeah, I moved out. And then 00:14:31.730 --> 00:14:35.409 I got really, really low and depressed and I 00:14:35.409 --> 00:14:37.529 got discouraged. And I was just like, you know, 00:14:38.210 --> 00:14:40.049 don't even know if I want to put this record 00:14:40.049 --> 00:14:42.370 out now and then I thought about it more and 00:14:42.370 --> 00:14:44.570 I was like I worked really really hard on this 00:14:44.570 --> 00:14:46.409 record like I love these songs I believe in these 00:14:46.409 --> 00:14:49.269 songs I'm gonna just I'm gonna put it out and 00:14:49.269 --> 00:14:51.149 I'm gonna make it happen I don't know how I'm 00:14:51.149 --> 00:14:53.210 gonna do it but I'm gonna reach out to another 00:14:53.210 --> 00:14:55.970 producer I'm gonna get it mix mastered and I'm 00:14:55.970 --> 00:14:58.149 gonna get work on getting the CDs made and so 00:14:58.149 --> 00:15:00.590 that's what I did and I'm really glad that I 00:15:00.590 --> 00:15:03.110 did because lazy days would have never happened 00:15:03.110 --> 00:15:07.159 you know Wow, I haven't done that if I hadn't 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.960 like pushed into it and I'm just I'm so glad 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.740 that I did Yeah, that really could have let you 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:15.580 or could have sidelined your career. It sounds 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:20.240 like You know at at best This was like a front 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.200 burner thing for you but a back burner thing 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.200 for this guy and then it just becomes nothing 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:29.940 for him and So people listening be careful who 00:15:29.940 --> 00:15:32.490 you put your faith in your trust in especially 00:15:32.490 --> 00:15:35.889 when there's a transaction involved exactly and 00:15:35.889 --> 00:15:39.090 if there's um i actually did end up signing there 00:15:39.090 --> 00:15:42.190 was like a little it was like a contract like 00:15:42.190 --> 00:15:45.070 basically saying like hey like he's agreeing 00:15:45.070 --> 00:15:50.490 to do this i'm agreeing to do this and i always 00:15:50.490 --> 00:15:53.950 read the fine print now and i i don't sign anything 00:15:53.950 --> 00:15:57.830 that i'm not sure of like uh moving forward like 00:15:57.830 --> 00:16:01.350 if i were to get signed by record company like 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:04.129 I would probably hire like a record a turn a 00:16:04.129 --> 00:16:06.730 music attorney to kind of look at over look over 00:16:06.730 --> 00:16:09.129 the contract and like make sure that I'm not 00:16:09.129 --> 00:16:12.730 signing my soul away and I'm not gonna be left 00:16:12.730 --> 00:16:16.570 high and dry with no record deal right and out 00:16:16.570 --> 00:16:19.149 of all this money so that's that's the scariest 00:16:19.149 --> 00:16:22.509 thing for me in the music biz is like don't just 00:16:22.509 --> 00:16:26.070 like sign anything randomly make sure that you 00:16:26.070 --> 00:16:29.259 you you really really trust Whoever you work 00:16:29.259 --> 00:16:32.039 with 100%. That's trying to get you signed and 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:35.360 trying to help you out. Yeah, because you, uh, 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:37.919 you can easily see where there's people, there's 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:40.100 songwriters that they've written these songs, 00:16:40.139 --> 00:16:41.879 they're hungry to get it out there to record 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:44.080 it. And then there's people that are ready to 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.360 prey on those types of people because they know 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.279 how important it is to them. Exactly. And I hate 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.830 that. It's like, dude, it's like, Starving artist 00:16:54.830 --> 00:16:58.590 here yeah and i'm getting i can't tell you how 00:16:58.590 --> 00:17:01.330 many messages i get on social media people like 00:17:01.330 --> 00:17:04.029 a like i could promote your music for x amount 00:17:04.029 --> 00:17:07.049 of money hey. I could get you a hundred thousand 00:17:07.049 --> 00:17:10.009 listeners on spotify for x amount of them like 00:17:10.009 --> 00:17:14.950 no no yeah no i can't tell you how many people 00:17:14.950 --> 00:17:19.230 i block on social media right. I get a lot of 00:17:19.230 --> 00:17:21.990 those two once i get enough. In the queue, I 00:17:21.990 --> 00:17:24.250 did one episode or maybe it was a bonus episode 00:17:24.250 --> 00:17:28.769 where all I did was I read my spam folder. Um, 00:17:28.829 --> 00:17:31.670 you know, and I read these emails as, as if they 00:17:31.670 --> 00:17:34.750 were crafted individually just for me when, you 00:17:34.750 --> 00:17:38.089 know, there's like a blast email. It had some 00:17:38.089 --> 00:17:42.470 fun with it, but lazy days, Dan, it's like, where 00:17:42.470 --> 00:17:45.190 do I start here? I got some, uh, different questions, 00:17:45.190 --> 00:17:48.930 but I'm really like really blown away by the 00:17:48.930 --> 00:17:52.359 song, dear Anthony. And this was one of the singles 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.119 that preceded the record, is that right? Yeah, 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.019 that actually, Dear Anthony, was the very first 00:17:59.019 --> 00:18:02.099 single off of the record. And at that time, I 00:18:02.099 --> 00:18:05.140 didn't know if I wanted to make a record or not. 00:18:05.180 --> 00:18:08.839 I was just putting out songs. And at that time, 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.019 when I put out the single, I had just written 00:18:11.019 --> 00:18:14.650 that song. But I was like I really like this 00:18:14.650 --> 00:18:17.049 song I really believe in the song this song means 00:18:17.049 --> 00:18:19.670 something to me And I think it could mean something 00:18:19.670 --> 00:18:22.490 to someone else you know like other people and 00:18:22.490 --> 00:18:26.130 I was like I want to put this out and so I immediately 00:18:26.130 --> 00:18:29.529 reached out to my good friend Alex Winters and 00:18:29.529 --> 00:18:32.950 producer and Like I I knew that like she had 00:18:32.950 --> 00:18:34.990 just started recording at this point and like 00:18:34.990 --> 00:18:37.599 kind of producing her own stuff and she showed 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.200 me a little snippet of what she had been working 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:43.059 on, and I was just blown away by the quality 00:18:43.059 --> 00:18:46.559 of the vocals that she had tracked for herself. 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:50.299 The instrumentation, the mix, the master, I was 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:55.380 like, I got to work with her. So we set it up 00:18:55.380 --> 00:18:58.539 and she recorded it for me. She actually sings. 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.940 She does the harmonies in it. So you'll hear 00:19:01.940 --> 00:19:06.000 her singing in the back. And yeah, that song 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.319 just it means so much to me. I wrote it about 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:11.400 a friend that was like really, really struggling. 00:19:12.220 --> 00:19:15.059 He was at a very low point in his life and he 00:19:15.059 --> 00:19:17.099 kind of just like wanted to give up altogether. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:20.140 And I just tried to reach out to him as much 00:19:20.140 --> 00:19:22.740 as I could and just, you know, encourage him. 00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:26.460 And he's doing so much better now, so much better. 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:31.549 So it just that song is just. It's so powerful 00:19:31.549 --> 00:19:34.589 and it just means so much to me. It's like I 00:19:34.589 --> 00:19:38.670 think as far as like sentimental Cinematality 00:19:38.670 --> 00:19:42.650 is that a word or? Yes, like it's it's very sentimental 00:19:42.650 --> 00:19:47.250 to me. Let's just say that Well, it's a really 00:19:47.250 --> 00:19:51.369 touching song I like these topics that you don't 00:19:51.369 --> 00:19:56.009 I like Of course the premise of my show. I think 00:19:56.009 --> 00:19:58.089 it's written somewhere. It's a rooting for other 00:19:58.089 --> 00:20:02.240 people cheering on other people, promoting others, 00:20:02.940 --> 00:20:08.099 and being genuinely invested in other people's 00:20:08.099 --> 00:20:11.400 happiness in life. And I was listening to the 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.140 lyrics, took some notes here, where he basically 00:20:14.140 --> 00:20:16.059 at the start of the letter, Dear Anthony, we 00:20:16.059 --> 00:20:19.039 haven't spoken since God knows when, but I heard 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.619 you started drinking again. And I know happiness 00:20:22.619 --> 00:20:25.440 is like a fading memory of an old friend. That 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:30.160 one is, what? What a powerful line there. It's 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:34.140 kind of like putting your arm around the shoulder 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:36.680 of a dear friend. You know that they're in a 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:39.519 dark place and everyone has been there at some 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.599 point, happiness. It's like a fading memory of 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:47.200 an old friend. It's so distant. I've gone through 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:50.759 that before. Everybody has hit that and how you 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:55.079 just captured that feeling really struck me, 00:20:55.220 --> 00:20:59.660 Dan. Hope this letter brings us back together. 00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:04.819 Oh Wow, this is almost over. Hope you're ready 00:21:04.819 --> 00:21:07.839 to take flight just reignite your dying light 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:12.220 Was it emotion was it emotional writing this 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:17.980 these words it was it really was and What's what's 00:21:17.980 --> 00:21:20.759 funny is like? That was actually going to be 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:25.039 the name of the the song originally was I think 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:28.160 it was your dying light Or yeah, you're dying 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:30.619 light or dying light It was one of those two 00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:32.599 and then I thought about it more and I was just 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:35.119 like, you know what? That's that's a very bleak 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:38.599 title and there's not a lot of hope in that title 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:40.980 and I'm like, you know I want I want it to be 00:21:40.980 --> 00:21:44.119 like this is like the song is a letter that I'm 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:46.940 writing to my friend who's really really struggling 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:50.500 Anthony and I thought dear Anthony was just like 00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:54.859 the the right title for that song Yeah, and I 00:21:54.859 --> 00:21:57.869 got to tell you like I've had really, really 00:21:57.869 --> 00:22:00.390 cool responses from that song and I've met some 00:22:00.390 --> 00:22:05.289 really cool people. I met a young man in Taylor. 00:22:05.549 --> 00:22:07.190 I play at this place called The Loose Screw. 00:22:07.789 --> 00:22:09.650 It's like a beer garden down there in Taylor, 00:22:09.710 --> 00:22:13.990 Texas. After I got done singing the song, he 00:22:13.990 --> 00:22:16.109 came up to me and he's like, hey, I just wanted 00:22:16.109 --> 00:22:19.829 to tell you I really enjoyed your set. I really 00:22:19.829 --> 00:22:22.190 particularly enjoyed your song Dear Anthony because 00:22:22.190 --> 00:22:24.630 I just lost my dad and his name was Anthony, 00:22:24.690 --> 00:22:30.009 so it really touched me. I started getting choked 00:22:30.009 --> 00:22:34.990 up, man. That kind of stuff, it really hits me 00:22:34.990 --> 00:22:37.569 right there. But I just thought that that was 00:22:37.569 --> 00:22:40.730 cool that that song could do that for him. I 00:22:40.730 --> 00:22:43.329 had never thought about the possibility of that 00:22:43.329 --> 00:22:45.289 for anybody, and I thought that was really, really 00:22:45.289 --> 00:22:51.970 cool. Don't know just realize that There's a 00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:54.029 lot of people out there that are going through 00:22:54.029 --> 00:22:57.009 the same thing that I'm going through that you're 00:22:57.009 --> 00:22:59.829 going through You know, like we a lot of people 00:22:59.829 --> 00:23:03.549 could relate I think, you know Yeah, I also like 00:23:03.549 --> 00:23:07.529 musically how you craft these songs for maybe 00:23:07.529 --> 00:23:09.890 an audience where if they've never heard the 00:23:09.890 --> 00:23:13.470 song before and They're depending on the venue. 00:23:13.490 --> 00:23:14.970 They're not paying attention to the first part 00:23:14.970 --> 00:23:16.289 of the song and then all of a sudden There's 00:23:16.289 --> 00:23:19.519 like these always these different elements that 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:22.160 I think capture the audience's attention you 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:27.359 know in this one the uh oh I'm not saying exactly 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:30.579 right but there's that element in that song also 00:23:30.579 --> 00:23:35.160 in I think it's if we die I love you um there's 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:38.279 another kind of audience participation moment 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.640 and possibly I'm looking at the other tracks 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.380 here Lazy days for sure. I really want to talk 00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:49.099 about lazy days because as I get older and I'm 00:23:49.099 --> 00:23:52.279 not having any more children, but those lazy 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:54.799 days, man, if I could grab one of those Saturdays 00:23:54.799 --> 00:24:02.599 from 2011 back, you know, with whether it's a 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:04.859 friend or a love interest or something, just 00:24:04.859 --> 00:24:06.960 those days where you wake up and you don't have 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.900 to go anywhere. Yeah, and maybe it's raining 00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:13.160 where to be I love days like that Yeah, I just 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:15.759 I wish we had more days like that in our lives 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:19.460 and I think that's that's really what I was Thinking 00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:21.259 when I wrote that song. I'm just like man. I 00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:23.559 just wish I had more days like this Like this 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:28.200 today was like a perfect day, you know, yeah 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:30.579 Procrastinate for me Dan. That's the one that 00:24:30.579 --> 00:24:35.259 I I feel like I could hear that on my Pandora 00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:39.380 90s 2000s and today station like procrastinate 00:24:39.380 --> 00:24:45.960 is like missing from the, what do you call that? 00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:53.099 The vault? Yes. It needs to be a monster head. 00:24:53.380 --> 00:24:57.819 It's just screaming to be heard by millions. 00:24:58.539 --> 00:25:01.619 Thank you. Thank you so much. I love that song. 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.369 It's funny because when I wrote that song, really 00:25:07.369 --> 00:25:09.410 interested in this this girl that was a childhood 00:25:09.410 --> 00:25:13.490 friend of mine right and I was super super shy 00:25:13.490 --> 00:25:16.349 one of the reasons I started writing songs was 00:25:16.349 --> 00:25:18.809 to you know meet girls and talk to girls and 00:25:18.809 --> 00:25:21.630 stuff because I was so awkward as a child and 00:25:21.630 --> 00:25:25.910 stuff and a teenager and so I basically like 00:25:25.910 --> 00:25:28.190 never told her how I really felt about her when 00:25:28.190 --> 00:25:30.130 we're childhood friends and you know and you 00:25:30.130 --> 00:25:32.789 see it in the movies all the time you know and 00:25:32.789 --> 00:25:35.369 and I like finally got up the courage to tell 00:25:35.369 --> 00:25:40.299 her how I felt And it was about a week before 00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:44.019 she was gonna move to Japan, the other side of 00:25:44.019 --> 00:25:49.200 the world, basically. And I told her and I got 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.460 friend zoned, but she still wanted to remain 00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:56.779 friends. And I was like, I procrastinated and 00:25:56.779 --> 00:25:58.259 who knows what would have happened if I would 00:25:58.259 --> 00:26:00.220 have said something sooner, I don't know. So 00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:03.440 that was the whole concept of the song. I always 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:05.480 tell people I'm like just you know, like if you 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:07.799 really really like somebody like tell them how 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:09.640 you feel because life is too short Like you don't 00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:11.140 know what's gonna happen, you know You don't 00:26:11.140 --> 00:26:13.539 know if that person is gonna move to the other 00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:16.440 side of the world or you know, like I don't know 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:18.920 man Life is crazy. So just like tell people how 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.740 you feel, you know, I agree Yeah procrastinate, 00:26:23.019 --> 00:26:25.420 you know I've done that before like you said 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:28.180 you wait a little bit too long I think I did 00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:30.519 that one time and the girl this was I was in 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:34.740 my early 20s And I just knew that she was about 00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:39.440 to move to New York. Yeah. And I was like, what 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:40.599 do you think is going to happen now? It's like, 00:26:40.660 --> 00:26:42.500 you got two weeks before this happens and now 00:26:42.500 --> 00:26:45.039 you tell her how you feel. But I think we've 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.839 all done that. But it's a really catchy chorus. 00:26:49.819 --> 00:26:51.980 I've been meaning to ask you on a date, but I 00:26:51.980 --> 00:26:55.559 have a tendency to procrastinate. And so I encourage 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:57.339 all you got. Listen to the whole record, but 00:26:57.339 --> 00:26:59.599 you'll have some fun with that song. Believe 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:03.660 me. Um, thank you a lot the uh, you know you 00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:06.200 play piano on the record I think one of these 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.160 songs opens with uh, I don't know. Is it tambourine 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:13.740 or Yeah, so, um the tambourine so so that's at 00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:16.420 the beginning of uh, if we die, I love you i'm 00:27:16.420 --> 00:27:18.900 not mistaken. Okay. Yep There's this really cool 00:27:18.900 --> 00:27:22.160 tambourine hit that just kind of like You hear 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:24.559 it once and then it kind of just like rings and 00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:27.119 it just keeps going. Yeah, like it has like this 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.910 long I don't know, like reverb. It has like this 00:27:30.910 --> 00:27:35.390 reverb that just keeps going and echoing. And 00:27:35.390 --> 00:27:38.250 my producer, Alex Winters, it was her idea to 00:27:38.250 --> 00:27:40.990 put that in there. So she like added that and 00:27:40.990 --> 00:27:42.789 didn't even tell me she was going to do it. And 00:27:42.789 --> 00:27:44.529 then she shows me and she's like, so what do 00:27:44.529 --> 00:27:46.089 you think? And I was like, oh my God, I love 00:27:46.089 --> 00:27:51.329 it. Like it's awesome, you know? So that was 00:27:51.329 --> 00:27:54.910 her idea actually. And oh, as far as the piano 00:27:54.910 --> 00:27:58.640 goes, that was my good friend. Noah Griffin who 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.779 actually plays the banjo on the record as well 00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:04.279 he does the keys the banjo that you hear untrue 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:06.819 and if we die I love you so I used to work with 00:28:06.819 --> 00:28:10.460 him at a like a nonprofit organization called 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:14.460 big. And they basically like help adults so they 00:28:14.460 --> 00:28:18.019 provide jobs for adults with special needs. And 00:28:18.019 --> 00:28:19.700 it's a really really cool cause and I used to 00:28:19.700 --> 00:28:21.940 work in the cafe there so he was he worked in 00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:25.240 the program with what we call the citizens. and 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.599 they made all kinds of things they made like 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:31.200 candles like art sculptures like all kinds of 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:33.819 stuff and they would sell it in the shop and 00:28:33.819 --> 00:28:35.700 basically all the money that they raised went 00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:38.819 to scholarships for these guys and it's just 00:28:38.819 --> 00:28:40.940 so rewarding to work there i met so many cool 00:28:40.940 --> 00:28:44.339 people that i still talk to today and i just 00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:47.200 i i was scrolling through my instagram i think 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:49.279 and i noticed that he had posted a video of him 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:52.119 just like shredding on the banjo And I'm like, 00:28:52.140 --> 00:28:53.660 dude, where have you been? I've been looking 00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:56.380 for a banjo player. We need to talk. And so that's, 00:28:56.380 --> 00:29:00.700 that's how that happened. I kind of wanted to 00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:03.099 wait till last on this one, but man, why not 00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:06.099 bring it up now? Angel's Landing, the way the 00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:09.559 album closes out such a beautiful tribute to, 00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.400 I guess your maternal grandmother. Yes. Yeah. 00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:18.099 So this was my, my, my mom's mom. And, um, yeah. 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.200 So she, basically like like she had passed away 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:27.140 from a stroke and Whenever like she was getting 00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:28.980 ready like she was just she was getting ready 00:29:28.980 --> 00:29:31.599 to slip away You know just in crossover and she 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:35.539 just looked so peaceful At that moment like she 00:29:35.539 --> 00:29:37.940 went in her sleep. So it was real peaceful the 00:29:37.940 --> 00:29:42.099 way that she she went and I was You know, like 00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:44.079 I said, I'm part of this Georgetown singer -songwriter 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:46.960 group. And so basically like every month we come 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:49.490 we come up with what we call a prom And so it's 00:29:49.490 --> 00:29:51.230 like the theme of like what we're all going to 00:29:51.230 --> 00:29:54.349 write, you know, and so that month it was angels 00:29:54.349 --> 00:29:58.470 landing and I had just envisioned this angel 00:29:58.470 --> 00:30:00.789 coming through the window right before my grandma 00:30:00.789 --> 00:30:03.650 crossed and like basically just picking her up 00:30:03.650 --> 00:30:08.769 and flying away. Wow. And so basically and there's 00:30:08.769 --> 00:30:11.430 a line on the song and it's like it's she didn't 00:30:11.430 --> 00:30:15.250 die. She just learned how to fly. Yeah. And that's 00:30:15.250 --> 00:30:17.069 my favorite line of the song. And that's that's 00:30:17.069 --> 00:30:20.039 just what I picture. Happen whenever she she 00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:23.839 crossed over so So it's really kind of like it's 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:26.940 like a goodbye To my grandma because I felt like 00:30:26.940 --> 00:30:29.339 I never I never got to say goodbye to her. So 00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:31.519 that's that's my way of saying goodbye to her 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:35.660 Yeah, because um Again talking about relatable. 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:40.960 We've all probably lost loved ones Where you 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.920 just you were several hours away. You were committed 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:45.880 to doing something else. You just couldn't be 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:51.109 there or whatever happened Yeah, definitely also 00:30:51.109 --> 00:30:53.890 something really cool on this track I'm gonna 00:30:53.890 --> 00:30:57.210 give my age away, but I remember in the 90s. 00:30:57.230 --> 00:30:59.170 I don't think this is really intended to be like 00:30:59.170 --> 00:31:03.910 a secret track Maybe it is but There's the sound 00:31:03.910 --> 00:31:07.410 of rainfall Yeah at the end of the song what 00:31:07.410 --> 00:31:09.849 you think is the end of the song and so if you 00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:12.470 get there folks Don't skip it. Don't turn it 00:31:12.470 --> 00:31:17.500 off. Let it play out and then It's like maybe 00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:20.960 30 seconds later than the piano starts back up 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:25.240 Yeah, whose idea was that? So that actually was 00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:28.740 my idea like I had had this really cool vision 00:31:28.740 --> 00:31:32.900 of The song just continuing and if you keep listening, 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.319 there's a little surprise at the end and my mom 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:39.680 had hope I didn't spoil it Yeah, I know right. 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.640 It's all good. It's all good. But my mom had 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.130 said she's like, you know, like whenever your 00:31:45.130 --> 00:31:48.269 grandma was getting ready to pass I was actually 00:31:48.269 --> 00:31:51.450 playing piano in the room for her just to kind 00:31:51.450 --> 00:31:54.109 of like you know comfort her you know since you 00:31:54.109 --> 00:31:55.910 know she was getting ready to pass and everything 00:31:55.910 --> 00:31:58.809 and I was playing piano and she said I just wrote 00:31:58.809 --> 00:32:02.170 this song this song just came to me and she played 00:32:02.170 --> 00:32:04.569 it for me and I like started tearing up and I 00:32:04.569 --> 00:32:06.490 was like oh my god I was like we need to record 00:32:06.490 --> 00:32:09.109 this and it needs to go at the end of Angel's 00:32:09.109 --> 00:32:11.450 Landing so that's my mom playing the piano at 00:32:11.450 --> 00:32:16.970 the end there oh wow yeah So that was very emotional 00:32:16.970 --> 00:32:19.829 too I'm getting choked up right now actually 00:32:19.829 --> 00:32:22.349 thinking about it But like she was so nervous 00:32:22.349 --> 00:32:25.490 to record like she had never Recorded before 00:32:25.490 --> 00:32:27.809 been in the studio before but she like nailed 00:32:27.809 --> 00:32:30.269 it and she got it in about three or four takes 00:32:30.269 --> 00:32:37.190 It is just beautiful Dan. Thank you. And I Really 00:32:37.190 --> 00:32:40.049 I find this album very comforting. I think you 00:32:40.049 --> 00:32:43.400 can take this album or download it Either on 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:46.259 spotify apple music take it on the road with 00:32:46.259 --> 00:32:48.519 you if you're having a difficult day or week 00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:50.339 Or if it's just the end of the work day and you 00:32:50.339 --> 00:32:52.779 just need to relax This album is going to set 00:32:52.779 --> 00:32:56.180 you straight. We're in You know early spring 00:32:56.180 --> 00:32:59.759 or not quite by the calendar Is it spring as 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:03.359 of today or tomorrow? Yeah. Yeah, I think I think 00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:05.680 we're in spring now i'm not mistaken i'm pretty 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:09.099 sure now roll the windows down Starting out with 00:33:09.099 --> 00:33:11.400 dreaming tree into the lazy days. It's a good 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:13.880 driving around music, which is how I usually 00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:17.660 listen to my music but Thank you, but the closing 00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:22.039 track Try it out. If this came to mind Dan to 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.759 people that are tossing and turning Everyone's 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:27.640 kind of got a lot on their mind. It's a really 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:32.339 tense era that we're living in so Having trouble 00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:35.819 just falling asleep put this music and you just 00:33:35.819 --> 00:33:37.700 need something comforting that's not just something 00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:41.480 generic on YouTube. That came to mind today just 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:46.640 because of the rain element. Yeah, right. The 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:50.700 way the album closes. Yeah. That's actually the 00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:53.119 name of the hidden track and it's not listed 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:55.400 on the back of the record, but it's called Rain. 00:33:55.619 --> 00:33:57.819 That's the name of the track when you hear the 00:33:57.819 --> 00:34:01.480 rain. That was my producer's idea to have the. 00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:04.140 the sound of rain right before like going into 00:34:04.140 --> 00:34:48.119 it. Follow Dan across social media at Dan Guevara 00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:51.960 Music. That's G -U -E V -A -R -A. And if you 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.760 follow and subscribe to the Dan Time podcast, 00:34:55.420 --> 00:34:57.880 you'll catch part two of our conversation as 00:34:57.880 --> 00:34:58.719 soon as it's released.