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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: It be.

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Speaker 3: She picks me, your takes me up, smaked my cigarettes,

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Speaker 3: drink my team, and she takes me home, lives there.

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Speaker 3: Summer dream could be My Honey, My Honey.

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Speaker 4: Should wicker versus Sean Cunningham. That song is called Honeybee.

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Speaker 2: He's just released an album called whatever that is, and

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Speaker 2: our music review at Cell Clifford has been listening Morina Marina.

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Speaker 5: That's actually one of my favorites entire album, Honeybee, and

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Speaker 5: a reason to go back and listen to it a

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Speaker 5: few times. That driving percussion beats that you can hear

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Speaker 5: is actually Sean slapping his knee.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, okay, yeah, are playing.

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Speaker 6: He's not.

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Speaker 4: At the same time, He's like record. It's not like

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Speaker 4: I kind of like Asion where we have like the

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Speaker 4: symbols between your knees and one.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if he wants to be a solo artist,

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Speaker 5: you know, like I mean, maybe he hasn't visualized.

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Speaker 6: That for himself.

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Speaker 4: I'm not being crazy.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 6: But also some really great street performers.

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Speaker 4: Who is amazing. Sorry anyway, we've immediately the great.

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Speaker 5: Thing about recording a solo album is you can do

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Speaker 5: all the layers yourself. And so he created this percussion

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Speaker 5: drum beat on his knee and it is just knee

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Speaker 5: slaps mic nice and close recorded it like that and

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Speaker 5: gives us real driving rhythm to underneath.

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Speaker 6: Inspired by the Beatles.

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Speaker 5: If you watch that massive long doco of the Beatles

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Speaker 5: putting their album together before they broke up.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Paul McCartney's also.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes done, you know, like a driving percussion beat or

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Speaker 5: something that's just playing around with something that's not a

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Speaker 5: traditional instrument. Yeah, sort of influenced.

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Speaker 6: By by those guys.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, Honeybee, great song. Definitely one of my favorites

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Speaker 5: on the album. This is a really cool evolution, I

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Speaker 5: think for Sean Cunningham. I mean he was huge here.

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Speaker 5: If we give a little bit of history to the

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Speaker 5: band Atlas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah we had, but we played it.

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Speaker 6: Did you play Crawl?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah that wasn't just.

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Speaker 6: Take you back.

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Speaker 5: Were all wearing our bootleg jeans, massive chunky belts with

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Speaker 5: the big.

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Speaker 6: Yeah like emo rock.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're wearing a dark eyeliner and your fringe

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Speaker 5: all weird and spiky over your forehead. And just he

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Speaker 5: had such a cool voice that really stood out on

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Speaker 5: that song, and I think that's what made it stand out.

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Speaker 4: It was very successful. That song was incredibly successful in

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Speaker 4: New Zealand.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And so he.

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Speaker 5: Carried on with with that band for a little while.

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Speaker 5: But then what broke them up. I didn't know this

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Speaker 5: was that he lost his voice. So he lost his

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Speaker 5: ability to sing, and after like going back to Nashville,

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Speaker 5: he had to seek like some full on treatment and things.

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Speaker 5: He was going through therapy for his voice. Turns out

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Speaker 5: major allergies but also past smoker just all caught up

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Speaker 5: on him and wow, Yeah, he had to like go

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Speaker 5: on some full on allergy stuff instead of sart of

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Speaker 5: getting his voice back, he began into another band when

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Speaker 5: he was in Nashville and in the States, and they

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Speaker 5: were quite successful for a while too over there, but

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Speaker 5: he said he got sick of the band politics right,

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Speaker 5: I love get totally right, And he'd been in band

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Speaker 5: since high school and it was like, what else, what's

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Speaker 5: the evolution next? And so I think taking the solo

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Speaker 5: thing means that he's probably you know, you're mature, you grow,

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Speaker 5: and you also are willing to delve into your emotions

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Speaker 5: a little bit further, right, and he definitely does that

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Speaker 5: one of the title track, whatever that is. He said

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Speaker 5: he wrote that about six months prior to his dad passing, right,

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Speaker 5: and so he'd been having these really intense chats with

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Speaker 5: his dad about aging and you know, you you still

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Speaker 5: feel like you're twenty something inside, but your body's seventy something,

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Speaker 5: and you know what does that mean and what does

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Speaker 5: it look like and what does it mean for life?

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Speaker 5: So quite a special song for him, I think, to

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Speaker 5: share and have on his album after his you know,

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Speaker 5: dad eventually passing, and that's actually been a really big

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Speaker 5: single for him to so again, he has that really

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Speaker 5: stellar voice. Sometimes he reminds me of Passenger with that,

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Speaker 5: you know, that real rolling rhythm and melody that Passenger

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Speaker 5: gets gets his songs, and when it's an acoustic guitar

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Speaker 5: and a few sort of drum percussion bits behind him,

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Speaker 5: he's got that kind of sort of indie folk sort

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Speaker 5: of sound about him. And it's really great because it

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Speaker 5: feels like he's more in tune with what he wants

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Speaker 5: to do musically. So I think I like that evolution

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Speaker 5: in him finding his place, I suppose after being a

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Speaker 5: band member for so and so this album definitely is

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Speaker 5: more touching on his personal stories, his personal journeys, and

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Speaker 5: for me, I feel like you can connect with him

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Speaker 5: more as an artist because of that and just finding

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Speaker 5: what his and I get that sometimes you try and

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Speaker 5: be all the different things, right, you do rock and

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Speaker 5: you do pop, but actually you can bring all of

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Speaker 5: those things together and make a really cohesive musically.

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Speaker 6: There's some really.

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Speaker 5: Beautiful moments in this and sometimes it's because it's quite

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Speaker 5: simplistic and more of that acoustic and in other times

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Speaker 5: it's like lots of layers with the electronics stuff he's

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Speaker 5: put in as well, so more encompassing, full anthem type songs,

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And again, now that I've

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Speaker 5: seen Passenger at live a couple of times, it's kind

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Speaker 5: of something that he sort of does too, definitely reflective

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Speaker 5: on a lot of his Like he one of his

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Speaker 5: songs called Lonesome No More. That's a really good trick too,

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Speaker 5: and that's sort of him commenting about his sobriety journey.

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Speaker 5: So again, real personal stories, you know, you can do

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Speaker 5: that when it's just about you. But I really like

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Speaker 5: what he's done here is he's really taken on a

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Speaker 5: bit of the album goes on a bit of a journey,

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Speaker 5: so you know, from start to finish, just quite a

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Speaker 5: good way to listen to it. A few times, I

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Speaker 5: think beautiful music to perhaps sometimes just having the background

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Speaker 5: while you're doing stuff. Other times real tune up tunes.

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Speaker 5: You can kind of come in and out of this album,

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Speaker 5: which I really I think is is really great, real

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Speaker 5: beautiful listen.

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Speaker 6: And he is coming here to tour. I believe in

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Speaker 6: summer some stage, very good as a solo artist.

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Speaker 4: So what did you give it?

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Speaker 6: Get your hands sleps ready, it's a teen for me?

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Speaker 5: What that is?

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Speaker 4: I knew you'd be concerned. I was wrong. It wasn't you.

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Speaker 4: It was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins, Remember Poppins.

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Speaker 6: You blur those two movies together, like am I?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, surely I'm not the only one who does our fault.

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Speaker 6: They cast the same cast for exactly exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins.

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Speaker 2: Sorry who was doing which is totally unrelated to Seawann Cunningham.

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Speaker 4: Just to be totally clear.

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Speaker 6: Also, we could picture it to him right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he's a talented guy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Thanks to.

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Speaker 2: Our music reviewer, there eight out of ten for whatever

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Speaker 2: that is from Sean Cunning and we have a bit

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Speaker 2: more of a listen in a few minutes

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