WEBVTT 00:00:01.539 --> 00:00:04.719 Nick and Sue. This edition of the Chatterbox 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:07.419 Redux podcast is brought to you in association 00:00:07.419 --> 00:00:10.259 with the Old Glory iconic music and sports fan 00:00:10.259 --> 00:00:17.980 merch Superstore. More from them in a bit. Chatterbox. 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:21.460 When the stars talk they talk to Nick and Sue. 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.539 Back to the Chatterbox Redux podcast and our 00:00:50.539 --> 00:01:15.349 guest in this edition is Judith Owen. We're Chatterbox 00:01:15.349 --> 00:01:40.049 giving you all you need to know about Muse! Now 00:01:40.049 --> 00:01:42.069 in Chatterbox, we're just lucky enough to welcome 00:01:42.069 --> 00:01:44.170 Judith Owen. Judith, welcome to Chatterbox. How 00:01:44.170 --> 00:01:47.469 are you? I'm great. I'm sitting here in New Orleans 00:01:47.469 --> 00:01:51.409 talking to you from across the pond. Fantastic. 00:01:51.569 --> 00:01:55.730 It looks very bright over there. I believe it's 00:01:55.730 --> 00:02:00.430 about 25 degrees here right now. So, yeah, it's 00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:05.189 bright. It's spring -like. It's warm. It's getting 00:02:05.189 --> 00:02:08.430 sultry, but it's not quite at full swamp capacity 00:02:08.430 --> 00:02:13.439 right now. okay yes quite quite well april 2026 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.860 it's a very exciting month for you yeah it is 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:21.780 it is let's album and a single some dates yeah 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:26.280 it's um and it all falls and i mean it just i 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:28.580 figured that if i'm going to be bringing an album 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:30.539 out in april it better it better fit in with 00:02:30.539 --> 00:02:32.900 jazz fest which is i'm going to be performing 00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:36.000 it a lot during the whole two weekends and the 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.080 week in between so it seemed to me the perfect 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.259 time to to release um this new album suit yourselves 00:02:42.259 --> 00:02:44.900 but particularly because it's so inspired by 00:02:44.900 --> 00:02:47.360 this this city where i do all my recording where 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.400 my band is from you know it's kind of it's a 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.009 love letter to this city really job it's fantastic 00:02:53.009 --> 00:02:55.789 as well sounds good sounds really good and of 00:02:55.789 --> 00:02:58.469 course i did notice that well it's being released 00:02:58.469 --> 00:03:01.229 it's called suit yourself and it's being released 00:03:01.229 --> 00:03:05.189 on friday 24th of april yes and so by some people 00:03:05.189 --> 00:03:09.150 hear this it will just just come out and i see 00:03:09.150 --> 00:03:12.759 also you're busy over there in New Orleans doing 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:15.180 uh doing concerts and gigs call it what you like 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:17.639 over there yeah being released i think this is 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:19.460 the one the next day something like that so you're 00:03:19.460 --> 00:03:21.979 busy over there with your jazz festival yeah 00:03:21.979 --> 00:03:25.819 i mean i i just come back from europe where i 00:03:25.819 --> 00:03:28.080 tried out you know i did the like the french 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.360 launch in paris then i went to switzerland italy 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.000 um and then i came back and did just a few low 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:40.199 -key shows um just to get get nice and used to 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:44.020 playing this new repertoire now. And so now I'm 00:03:44.020 --> 00:03:45.800 ready for the full kickoff. And the kickoff, 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.919 the launch party, will be in New Orleans. And 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.659 it will have the big J .O., big band, my band, 00:03:51.740 --> 00:03:53.860 the Callers, and the Gospel Choir. So I'm actually 00:03:53.860 --> 00:03:56.840 going for the entirety of the album on that one 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.560 night. And then I play for pretty much almost 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.319 every single day during Jazz Fest. Fantastic. 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:05.580 Right. Let's go through the tracks on the album. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:07.419 You could tell us what you really want people 00:04:07.419 --> 00:04:10.180 to listen to and what they mean. We also do, 00:04:10.180 --> 00:04:14.039 of course, have the single. Yeah. So tell us 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.259 about the single. Why was that? Sounds amazing. 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.019 That's a good reason. Tell us why. Why did you 00:04:19.019 --> 00:04:20.540 choose that to be the single? Was it always going 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:23.339 to be the single to start with? You're talking 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:26.040 about That's Why I Love My Baby? Yes. Yes. It's 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:30.360 the first single of off the album and I'm very 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.019 happy that it's the first single. The first and 00:04:32.019 --> 00:04:35.120 second single which will be To Your Door are 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.959 both my songs. I wrote them and that makes me 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.879 feel really pretty good because the last few 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:44.839 albums I've done, the last couple of albums I've 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.720 done have definitely been like... love letters 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.819 to homages to in the first place was my one in 00:04:51.819 --> 00:04:53.180 twenty twenty two come on again it was about 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:55.220 the woman that really inspired me to be the kind 00:04:55.220 --> 00:04:57.560 of artist i am the head is a kid who are no longer 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.019 remembered. fabulous woman at the piano, real 00:05:01.019 --> 00:05:05.259 kind of like unapologetic, you know, just extraordinary 00:05:05.259 --> 00:05:08.839 women. And then I did a big band album, Christmas 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.259 album, because I love big band. Well, this with 00:05:11.259 --> 00:05:14.399 Sit Yourself, it's all aspects of me, hence the 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.079 title. It's really, it's about the things that 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.720 I love to cover, but it's also about my interpretations 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.660 of songs, my arrangements of music and my own 00:05:23.660 --> 00:05:29.339 writing. So It's about my husband. It's about 00:05:29.339 --> 00:05:31.759 the hell I put him through, because I actually 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.420 see so much of life. I mean, I write about what's 00:05:34.420 --> 00:05:38.579 real. I write about life as being something that's 00:05:38.579 --> 00:05:40.639 wonderful and painful at the same time, because 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:45.000 that's the truth of it. And I have a sense of 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:46.779 humor, but I think you need a good sense of humor 00:05:46.779 --> 00:05:50.180 to get through it anyway. It's about how my husband 00:05:50.180 --> 00:05:53.300 refuses to acknowledge Valentine's Day, has always 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:57.279 hated being told what to do by basically a commercial 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:02.160 holiday. I put him through hell for 10 years 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.019 and then one day I woke up and thought, no, he's 00:06:04.019 --> 00:06:06.980 right. When he says it's not about buying you 00:06:06.980 --> 00:06:08.860 a card or flowers on one day, it's about how 00:06:08.860 --> 00:06:11.300 you treat the person you love every day of the 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:14.560 week. I realized, oh no, he's right. But of course 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.120 I couldn't actually tell him he was right because 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:17.920 we're married and that would have been, that 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.180 would have meant I would have lost the battle. 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:22.420 So I wrote this song instead and the song is 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:25.480 very much a tongue in cheek, but it's very real. 00:06:25.930 --> 00:06:28.209 in so much as it's like the radical acceptance 00:06:28.209 --> 00:06:31.250 of who we have chosen to be with as opposed to 00:06:31.250 --> 00:06:33.129 you know how I want you to be your perfect now 00:06:33.129 --> 00:06:36.689 change this is about warts and all I accept you 00:06:36.689 --> 00:06:40.350 for who you are you drive me crazy but you are 00:06:40.350 --> 00:06:43.389 fantastic and I love you to bits and that's exactly 00:06:43.389 --> 00:06:47.009 what the song is about and it's it I have a a 00:06:47.009 --> 00:06:49.209 single that also is out on the channel Judith 00:06:49.209 --> 00:06:52.949 Owen on YouTube which I filmed of this song with 00:06:52.949 --> 00:06:55.360 me in the French Quarter, walking through the 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.459 streets the Friday before Mardi Gras, and it 00:06:58.459 --> 00:07:02.319 really does approximate and shows you the joy, 00:07:03.300 --> 00:07:09.040 the absolute... kind of the elated experience 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.800 of being in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. It's 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.139 an exceptional thing and I recommend everybody 00:07:16.139 --> 00:07:20.379 listen to the song and watch that experience 00:07:20.379 --> 00:07:22.279 because it'll make you want to just buy a ticket 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:24.300 now and get over here as soon as you possibly 00:07:24.300 --> 00:07:27.879 can. But it really does sum up the joy that this 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.939 place sort of brings to every person that comes 00:07:31.939 --> 00:07:35.680 here. One brief question about that's why I love 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.800 my baby. Does your husband know? Of course he 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:46.480 does. He's the first person to ever hear my songs 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:53.720 and he knows. It's like if you're writing about 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:55.699 your life, you're going to write about the person 00:07:55.699 --> 00:08:00.139 you're with. That's just how it is and the good 00:08:00.139 --> 00:08:05.269 news is that It's like I said, I've never, I'm 00:08:05.269 --> 00:08:07.110 kind of, I call myself the queen of bittersweet 00:08:07.110 --> 00:08:10.189 because I see life as being that way. And I think 00:08:10.189 --> 00:08:12.470 that's what people really relate to. My listeners 00:08:12.470 --> 00:08:14.189 really relate to and the audiences relate to 00:08:14.189 --> 00:08:17.089 is this is how it is. It is the truth of how 00:08:17.089 --> 00:08:20.889 it is, but it's like, it's, it's, it's something 00:08:20.889 --> 00:08:22.889 that was that we all know, but it's something 00:08:22.889 --> 00:08:26.529 we can all like enjoy and, and celebrate that 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:31.180 that really is. Um our life experience and uh, 00:08:31.259 --> 00:08:35.220 and you know, like I said humor really really 00:08:35.220 --> 00:08:36.879 important No one I ended up with a funny man. 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:40.759 That's all I can say Well, what i've seen of 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:42.799 him he makes me laugh anyway, so there you go. 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:47.279 Um, there you go To your door. Um, yes a little 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.360 bit about to your door is the second the second 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:55.419 uh single again about him but about the way that 00:08:55.419 --> 00:08:58.730 my husband, um And again, I've got another video 00:08:58.730 --> 00:09:02.610 that goes with this, which you can see too. Very 00:09:02.610 --> 00:09:05.750 much another. They're all set in New Orleans. 00:09:05.769 --> 00:09:08.049 It gives you a real sense of this place. But 00:09:08.049 --> 00:09:09.909 it's about the fact that when I go out on the 00:09:09.909 --> 00:09:14.730 road, my husband always says to me, go out, shine, 00:09:15.629 --> 00:09:18.210 make people happy, do the thing that you're here 00:09:18.210 --> 00:09:21.220 to do. just you know kill and you know go go 00:09:21.220 --> 00:09:23.519 go out and kill and and just just do give it 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.799 your all as opposed to what could be oh don't 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.179 go why are you going when you have you know now 00:09:29.179 --> 00:09:32.120 i am with somebody who's the love of his life 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.019 is what he does is you know as an entertainer 00:09:35.019 --> 00:09:39.980 it's the same thing he gets why and what i do 00:09:39.980 --> 00:09:42.139 and why i do it and how i do it and the importance 00:09:42.139 --> 00:09:45.799 of doing it's the love of my life so and this 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:49.580 is a song where i'm saying you know For that, 00:09:49.899 --> 00:09:52.740 for the fact that you never, ever clip my wings, 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:57.940 you always just send me out there, like, to do 00:09:57.940 --> 00:10:01.379 my job. That's the reason. That is the reason 00:10:01.379 --> 00:10:05.610 I will never, ever, ever... Not come home to 00:10:05.610 --> 00:10:08.169 you are the reason I come home. That's it Well, 00:10:08.169 --> 00:10:10.490 and that's a big part of I think that's the other 00:10:10.490 --> 00:10:13.149 thing in life is like when people hold you too 00:10:13.149 --> 00:10:20.750 tight when people are too You know When they 00:10:20.750 --> 00:10:23.389 when they kind of like hold you down hold you 00:10:23.389 --> 00:10:27.750 back Your first if you like me anyway, your first 00:10:27.750 --> 00:10:31.259 reaction is to run is to go as opposed to the 00:10:31.259 --> 00:10:35.019 person that absolutely lets you be entirely who 00:10:35.019 --> 00:10:38.519 you are, loves entirely who you are, respects 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.759 it, encourages it, and that's the person that 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.299 you know. It's like, no, no, you're it. You're 00:10:44.299 --> 00:10:46.639 the one. You're it. So that's really what that 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.679 song is about. And again, I think people really 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:50.240 appreciate that and understand what I'm saying. 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.620 Sure. Absolutely. There's some wonderful titles 00:10:52.620 --> 00:10:55.480 here, and they all sound great. It's one fantastic 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.240 album. Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.600 chilled. Chilled to it. Totally chilled to it. 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:04.379 Of course, it's the idea, isn't it? Yeah, it 00:11:04.379 --> 00:11:07.539 is. It is. It is. It's meant to make you feel 00:11:07.539 --> 00:11:10.500 good. That's the point. Yeah, absolutely. There's 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:13.480 some amazing titles here, but any others earmarked 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:17.720 for singles? Yeah, I think Blue Skies is a really 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:19.940 important one. I mean, this song is nearly 100 00:11:19.940 --> 00:11:26.500 years old. And yet it's still... Holds for me. 00:11:26.500 --> 00:11:29.899 I don't see it as a romantic song. I have a history 00:11:29.899 --> 00:11:33.000 of taking famous songs classic songs, whether 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:38.240 it be rock or pop or whatever it might be and 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:42.080 Turning them into songs. It sounds like I wrote 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:45.600 them or that it's my My life I'm singing about 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.320 because that is the point I think of being an 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.860 interpreter is that it's yours It means you it's 00:11:51.860 --> 00:11:55.730 about your life and with blue skies Right now 00:11:55.730 --> 00:11:58.789 in the current situation in this world that we're 00:11:58.789 --> 00:12:02.250 living in, I thought what it said to me is that, 00:12:02.289 --> 00:12:06.210 you know, we are constantly surrounded by storm 00:12:06.210 --> 00:12:10.070 clouds, constantly metaphorical storm clouds. 00:12:10.549 --> 00:12:12.789 And what we have to remember and what's important 00:12:12.789 --> 00:12:14.870 to remember is that like when you fly on a plane 00:12:14.870 --> 00:12:16.350 and you go through the clouds and you're out 00:12:16.350 --> 00:12:18.330 in the sunshine on the other side behind every 00:12:18.330 --> 00:12:21.250 dark cloud, the sun is shining. There are blue 00:12:21.250 --> 00:12:25.029 skies. It's right. there we have to remember 00:12:25.029 --> 00:12:30.690 to have hope and to remind ourselves that that 00:12:30.690 --> 00:12:34.330 is it's it we're still you know it's still there 00:12:34.330 --> 00:12:36.629 we can still reach it we can still find that 00:12:36.629 --> 00:12:40.909 place and it's not to give up hope really and 00:12:40.909 --> 00:12:45.029 so I found that to be a very important very important 00:12:45.029 --> 00:12:48.909 song on this album and a very important sentiment 00:12:50.920 --> 00:12:54.159 This edition of the Chatterbox Redux podcast 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.360 is brought to you in association with the Old 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:00.259 Glory iconic music and sports fan merch superstore. 00:13:00.779 --> 00:13:04.120 Old Glory offers over 300 ,000 items for music, 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.820 sports, entertainment and pop culture fans featuring 00:13:07.820 --> 00:13:10.220 officially licensed merch from iconic brands 00:13:10.220 --> 00:13:14.779 and top sports teams. 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So here's Nick 00:15:23.070 --> 00:15:30.769 and Sue, your musical duo. This is Nick and Sue 00:15:30.769 --> 00:15:33.070 with Chatterbox, giving you all you need to know 00:15:33.070 --> 00:15:38.730 about musical entertainment. Chatterbox. Chatterbox. 00:15:39.090 --> 00:15:42.470 Chatterbox. Chatterbox. Chatterbox. Chatterbox. 00:15:42.830 --> 00:15:45.169 Chatterbox. Chatterbox. And the other one is 00:15:45.169 --> 00:15:48.250 Inside Out, which I wrote with the extraordinary 00:15:48.250 --> 00:15:51.419 Jameson Ross, who's... who plays drums for me 00:15:51.419 --> 00:15:54.220 and is a phenomenal artist in his own right and 00:15:54.220 --> 00:15:58.860 a Grammy winner. And it really is about, again, 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:06.139 learning to live as I have learned to, showing 00:16:06.139 --> 00:16:09.220 exactly who I am, being very, very open about 00:16:09.220 --> 00:16:12.960 who I am, all my flaws, all my problems, all 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:17.879 my issues, all my struggles. and to not hide 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.080 or live with a secret as I've done so much of 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:25.320 my life with, you know, depression and so many 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:28.139 things that I've struggled with because when 00:16:28.139 --> 00:16:31.320 you're authentically yourself or when you're 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:36.480 honest about who you are, you will actually open 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:39.899 yourself up to helping other people and to sharing 00:16:39.899 --> 00:16:44.940 with other people by the very fact that you are 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.820 transparent uh you'll find that other people 00:16:48.820 --> 00:16:50.460 will say oh no i know exactly what you're talking 00:16:50.460 --> 00:16:52.720 about i felt that way myself i've been through 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.279 that i know that you you we all go through life 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.340 thinking that if we show who we really are a 00:16:59.340 --> 00:17:02.179 lot of us do anyway that other people will run 00:17:02.179 --> 00:17:04.660 for the hills and you you know there's so much 00:17:04.660 --> 00:17:06.960 shame involved you don't want to show your flaws 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.240 you don't want to show your struggles when in 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.420 fact uh it's interesting how when you do you 00:17:12.420 --> 00:17:15.470 will find that there is uh There is appreciation 00:17:15.470 --> 00:17:17.390 around you and others that need your help, that 00:17:17.390 --> 00:17:19.130 need to know that they're not alone as well. 00:17:19.450 --> 00:17:21.349 So that's what that Inside Out is about. It's 00:17:21.349 --> 00:17:25.730 about literally showing what's going on inside. 00:17:26.029 --> 00:17:27.910 And I think that is the comment. That's really 00:17:27.910 --> 00:17:31.390 is this whole album is wrapped around finding 00:17:31.390 --> 00:17:33.569 joy in the face of adversity. And it's about 00:17:33.569 --> 00:17:38.650 turning darkness and fears and all those things 00:17:38.650 --> 00:17:44.089 into turning into beauty in a joyful place. Nice, 00:17:44.089 --> 00:17:47.490 lovely. There's one with an interesting title 00:17:47.490 --> 00:17:49.430 which I should just pluck out and ask you about. 00:17:49.750 --> 00:17:52.730 If I Were a Belle. Yeah. Don't worry about one. 00:17:53.509 --> 00:17:58.210 If I Were a Belle is from a very wonderful and 00:17:58.210 --> 00:18:01.670 famous American musical, Guys and Dolls. Oh yeah. 00:18:01.829 --> 00:18:04.549 And I'm a huge Guys and Dolls fan. And it's a 00:18:04.549 --> 00:18:08.089 song. that people don't recognize just because 00:18:08.089 --> 00:18:13.009 of course I've done my reimagining on it and 00:18:13.009 --> 00:18:18.930 turned it into a very kind of chill adult bossanova 00:18:18.930 --> 00:18:21.890 that has more kind of job beam about it than 00:18:21.890 --> 00:18:24.369 anything else but in fact it's a very earnest 00:18:24.369 --> 00:18:28.990 sweet fun song that in the movie Gene Simmons 00:18:28.990 --> 00:18:31.269 sings to Marlon Brando if you're a movie buff 00:18:31.269 --> 00:18:36.460 as I am but I've taken it to this Again into 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:40.000 this like adult sexy place which which I love 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.079 in Brazilian jazz. So I took it there because 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.339 that's what I thought it really needed because 00:18:45.339 --> 00:18:48.759 it's about. It's exactly what it says. It's like, 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:51.880 you know, the what the song says is like I am 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:54.900 so in love I am so overwhelmed by this feeling 00:18:54.900 --> 00:18:58.200 I have it's like, you know If I were a duck I 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.579 quack if if I were a bell I'd ring if I were 00:19:01.579 --> 00:19:04.160 a bridge I'd burn, you know, it's it's all that 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:08.579 stuff. Yeah It's it's the first feelings of love 00:19:08.579 --> 00:19:12.519 that we all know so well, so I just I thought 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:16.779 that was a beautiful song that needed just needed 00:19:16.779 --> 00:19:21.140 to be to be made a little bit more adult sure 00:19:21.140 --> 00:19:25.980 evil gal blues of course the i know the the um 00:19:25.980 --> 00:19:28.319 the aretha franklin version of course i mean 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:31.480 aretha is one of my idols uh but again i can't 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.400 do that i'm not gonna even attempt to do anything 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.420 like that but making that into a big band number 00:19:38.420 --> 00:19:45.039 is one of the great joys because It's um, it's 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:50.220 the ultimate in In in being a front person to 00:19:50.220 --> 00:19:52.539 me. Yeah, I mean you're in front of this big 00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:57.099 sound You're you're the you know, yeah You're 00:19:57.099 --> 00:20:01.019 the band leader and the swing in these guys again. 00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:02.779 They're all New Orleans players They've got such 00:20:02.779 --> 00:20:05.900 swing to them. They really are incredible. And 00:20:05.900 --> 00:20:11.109 so it's very a very exciting experience to sing 00:20:11.109 --> 00:20:16.970 live with them, as I'll be doing when I do my 00:20:16.970 --> 00:20:21.809 launch show during Jazz Fest, which is coming 00:20:21.809 --> 00:20:27.849 up. Again, it's a very straightforward blues, 00:20:28.670 --> 00:20:31.009 but what matters when you do songs like this 00:20:31.009 --> 00:20:33.980 is the big band arrangement. That's what counts. 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:37.299 And I have an incredible arranger called John 00:20:37.299 --> 00:20:41.559 Wasson, who lives in Texas, who like Nelson Riddle, 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:47.019 who I, you know, of course I worship at the temple 00:20:47.019 --> 00:20:51.119 of Nelson Riddle, but he is also a trombone player 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:54.880 and he has that thing in his head where he hears 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.619 that sound of all, like the stacks. of these 00:20:58.619 --> 00:21:03.960 instruments. And so I adore his arrangements 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:10.549 and it's just, it's the swagger. It's like singing 00:21:10.549 --> 00:21:14.990 in front of a great rock band. This is the version 00:21:14.990 --> 00:21:18.849 of that. When it was the big band era and the 00:21:18.849 --> 00:21:22.289 jazz era in America, that was the pop music of 00:21:22.289 --> 00:21:23.869 his time, but that was the rock music of his 00:21:23.869 --> 00:21:29.329 time in the power that was on stage. It's a very 00:21:29.329 --> 00:21:33.509 similar feeling. It's just like, no martial arts 00:21:33.509 --> 00:21:36.769 needed, but man, you are loud as heck. It's fantastic. 00:21:37.389 --> 00:21:40.230 Fantastic stuff, brilliant. Is this the sort 00:21:40.230 --> 00:21:42.309 of stuff that you would chill out to at home? 00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:44.210 Or does it depend what sort of mood you're in 00:21:44.210 --> 00:21:46.269 as to what goes on? Or if your husband's there, 00:21:46.289 --> 00:21:48.769 is it something more rocky? Or is this literally 00:21:48.769 --> 00:21:51.710 what you prefer? Because it is amazing, you know. 00:21:54.009 --> 00:21:58.950 I will always, as I started out life with my 00:21:58.950 --> 00:22:01.990 family who were classical, father and opera singer, 00:22:02.970 --> 00:22:07.630 but very unusual man who loved. jazz and blues. 00:22:08.730 --> 00:22:13.349 So I am the same person, ever expanding with 00:22:13.349 --> 00:22:15.829 all the new music that I discover and find, but 00:22:15.829 --> 00:22:19.190 I started out listening to Rachmaninoff and Puccini 00:22:19.190 --> 00:22:24.529 and Chopin and Oscar Peterson and Peggy Lee and 00:22:24.529 --> 00:22:26.750 Frank Sinatra and Elvis Gerald and Nelly Lutcher. 00:22:27.529 --> 00:22:30.829 And it goes on and Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin 00:22:30.829 --> 00:22:33.309 and Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. And so it's 00:22:33.309 --> 00:22:36.130 like every single area of music and then very 00:22:36.130 --> 00:22:39.150 depressing Welsh folk music of course. So I am 00:22:39.150 --> 00:22:43.109 that same person and I listen to the music that 00:22:43.109 --> 00:22:48.109 suits my mood. And sometimes it is Rachmaninoff. 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:52.339 or Mozart and sometimes it's Oscar Peterson or 00:22:52.339 --> 00:22:57.619 Errol Garner or Miles and sometimes it's Stevie 00:22:57.619 --> 00:23:01.000 and Aretha and I'm dancing down the street in 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:06.500 heaven and it really it's really about the mood 00:23:06.500 --> 00:23:09.920 and that's why this this album is I think a very 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:13.660 honest approximation of who I am because I think 00:23:13.660 --> 00:23:15.859 of music as being the language we all speak and 00:23:15.859 --> 00:23:18.500 within that are different dialects that suit 00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:23.359 whatever mood you're in. But the sound, my voice, 00:23:23.460 --> 00:23:33.759 the style, it's me. I've been fighting a endless 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.119 war that was the industry saying, would you just 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:39.720 stick to your lane? Would you stay in your box? 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:44.140 and i've been saying forever no that's not what 00:23:44.140 --> 00:23:46.740 being an artist is that's not music music is 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:53.359 not about being pigeonholed and only doing feeling 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:55.819 that you can only do one thing that's music is 00:23:55.819 --> 00:23:58.700 much more free than that yes that's not that's 00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:03.769 not the beauty of music and um so i've continued 00:24:03.769 --> 00:24:05.670 on that path until I guess the world came around 00:24:05.670 --> 00:24:07.509 to my way of thinking or rather the business 00:24:07.509 --> 00:24:09.650 maybe I don't know the business ever has or ever 00:24:09.650 --> 00:24:15.130 will but as the as the business as as the as 00:24:15.130 --> 00:24:18.089 it's become more easier to be able to reach a 00:24:18.089 --> 00:24:22.990 huge audience digitally online you know in all 00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:24.990 these capacities with you with you know being 00:24:24.990 --> 00:24:27.269 able to go on all these different things it's 00:24:27.289 --> 00:24:30.250 I've never ever faulted the the public and the 00:24:30.250 --> 00:24:31.730 audience because they can make their own minds 00:24:31.730 --> 00:24:34.710 up the audience has a capacity listeners your 00:24:34.710 --> 00:24:36.529 audience has the capacity to listen to many many 00:24:36.529 --> 00:24:38.509 different things and to be able to appreciate 00:24:38.509 --> 00:24:43.250 many stars many genres um and so I think it's 00:24:43.250 --> 00:24:46.809 very liberating right now where we are and I 00:24:46.809 --> 00:24:50.079 hope it it continues to be because I I love that 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:51.960 John Baptiste can go out there and win a Grammy 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:55.319 for Americana when he's a jazz and you know artist 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:57.220 who does classical too and everything else besides 00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:59.579 that's what being a real artist is and I've always 00:24:59.579 --> 00:25:02.420 I've always felt that way you should you should 00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:05.259 do whatever you can do brilliant route to a point 00:25:05.259 --> 00:25:09.380 of excellence not what you're okay at but what 00:25:09.380 --> 00:25:12.619 you're great at and don't let you know don't 00:25:12.619 --> 00:25:16.880 be confined to one thing just because somebody 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:20.779 says it's too difficult to sell. That's not the 00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:24.279 point of this. No, not at all. I've got two dates 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:26.339 for you. I mean, you're busy over there, of course. 00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:28.359 I see you've sold out in Switzerland and all 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:31.420 over the place. But over here, at the moment, 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:33.579 we're looking at you're playing a show at the 00:25:33.579 --> 00:25:37.099 Bush Studios in London on Monday, 1st of June 00:25:37.099 --> 00:25:39.779 and in Cardiff on the 5th of June. And there's 00:25:39.779 --> 00:25:42.859 more dates to be scheduled. Oh, let me just make 00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:46.539 one difference in information. The fourth, I 00:25:46.539 --> 00:25:50.380 believe, I think that Cardiff is the fourth of 00:25:50.380 --> 00:25:54.240 June. Okay. Let me just, I would just say, listen, 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:56.119 I'm playing at the Millennium Centre at that. 00:25:56.220 --> 00:25:58.279 Canberra is the room, which is very exciting. 00:25:58.420 --> 00:26:01.180 I think it's the fourth. First, yes, Bush Hall 00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:04.380 in London. I'm bringing the callers, I'm bringing 00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:06.400 the New Orleans band, it's going to be... Wonderful. 00:26:07.139 --> 00:26:10.539 Very exciting. We'll have some guests. But it's 00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:12.440 going to be thrilling because, of course, nothing 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:15.319 can be as thrilling as me coming home and playing 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.640 this music and a home crowd. There's nothing 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.960 like it. Nothing like it. that really is a home 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:25.140 crowd for you isn't it yeah yes it is it is i 00:26:25.140 --> 00:26:27.099 know so those are the two i'm going to be playing 00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:28.940 all over the world but honestly those are the 00:26:28.940 --> 00:26:31.339 two that i'm i'm most excited about uh let's 00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:34.039 do your social media quickly we've got judyowen 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:37.319 .net's fantastic website it's called everything 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:39.880 everything including the podcast you were doing 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:42.720 which is fantastic well it's literally everything 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.759 and rather than keep Reeling off all these social 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:48.099 media. What's what? This is what that is straight 00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:50.799 underneath your name and on the home page You've 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:53.400 got your direct links to the Facebook the Instagram 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:56.079 basically YouTube. Everything's there So people 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:58.839 just go to Judith Owen dotnet all your shows 00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:01.359 are there as well. And yes nice these defined 00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:04.480 from there So yeah, yeah, and I'm on all the 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:07.900 platforms Spotify iTunes as usual stuff so you 00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:09.319 can find me everybody It's always good to go 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:11.559 to the website because you get all the correct 00:27:12.159 --> 00:27:16.019 information, thank goodness. But yeah, it's just, 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:19.059 it's going to be an adventure, so I'm about to 00:27:19.059 --> 00:27:22.180 hold my nose and jump in, but I'm excited. Of 00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:24.420 course. Judith, it's been great meeting you. 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:26.859 Thank you so much. Lovely to meet you too. Thanks 00:27:26.859 --> 00:27:29.519 for coming. You've been absolutely wonderful. 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:31.859 Thank you so much for supporting me. Absolutely. 00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:34.240 Let's do it again sometime. Sounds great. Please. 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:36.519 Take care, Judith. Bye bye then. Thanks, love. 00:27:36.759 --> 00:28:08.160 Bye. Bye, love. Thanks for watching You've been 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.539 listening to the Chatterbox Redux podcast and 00:28:10.539 --> 00:28:13.700 today our special guest was Judith Owen. 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