1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:01,320 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk. 2 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: If you listen to the right stuff, and you know 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 2: you kind of start from towards the beginning of country music, 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: there's a lot of beautiful stuff, and so that definitely 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: influenced my writing in my style as well. 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 3: What happens when the sun soapd vibes of LA's diy 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 3: scene collide with a fresh twist on the classic Laurel 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 3: Canyon sound. I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taking a 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 3: Walk podcast and today with Luke Tyler Shelton, songwriter, storyteller, 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 3: and rising architect of Unforgettable Hooks. If you've ever wondered 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 3: what it takes to carve out your own space and 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 3: a city buzzing with musical legends, you're about to find out. 13 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 3: From the first chords in a garage to the roar 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 3: of a live crowd, Luke's journey is equal parts nostalgia 15 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 3: and brand new adventure. We'll dig into the moments, melodies, 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 3: and community connections that have shaped his sound, and we'll 17 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 3: find out what his dreams are about. 18 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: Next Taking a Walk. 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 3: Hello, Luke Tyler Shelton, Welcome to the Taking a Walk Podcast. Hello, 20 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 3: how are you? I'm doing awesome? Thank you, Thank you 21 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 3: for joining us, so I hope you're doing well. 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: And since we call. 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 3: This podcast taking a walk, I want to ask you 24 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 3: the opening question, the opening volley, as it were, if 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 3: you could take a walk with someone living or dead, 26 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 3: preferably in the music scene, who might you take a 27 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 3: walk with? 28 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: And where would you take that walk? Wow? 29 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: Oh, let's. 30 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: There's a you. 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 2: Off the top of my head. I don't want to 32 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: sound too basic for saying it, but I would say 33 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 2: probably one of the Beatles for sure. Maybe Paul McCartney, 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: just because he's alive still and he's the greatest musician 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: arguably like of all time, and he's still living, so 36 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: he's experienced a lot of life from the beginning till 37 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: now in his time. But I also would be interested 38 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: in meeting John Lennon too, because I've actually had many 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: dreams where I've met John Lennon and we've just been 40 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: like hanging out. 41 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: So that would be cool, That's pretty awesome. 42 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: Probably one of the Beatles. 43 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: Can't, can never deny that? 44 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 3: Might we dig slightly deeper into the John Lennon dreams 45 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: there for a second. 46 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: I hate to sound like a shrink and be probing. 47 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 2: No, no, worries, Well, it's John was my favorite beatle 48 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 2: for a while for a couple of years, and now 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 2: it's more like now it's more so George Harrison. But 50 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: I've had a couple dreams, sometimes super randomly. It wasn't 51 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 2: even when I was listening to his music a lot 52 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: or like being super into him, But it would just 53 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 2: be something where I was like in a house or 54 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: something like a house or an event was going on 55 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: and he happened to be there and we would end 56 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: up meeting, like in a room, and he would just 57 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 2: be hanging out and he would start showing me like 58 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: things around the room, like some kind of weird instrument 59 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: that I've never seen before, or he had like music 60 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: lying around and stuff. And the dreams were always super casual. 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 2: In my mind, I knew that it was John Lennon, 62 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,559 Speaker 2: and I was I feel like part of my subconscious 63 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 2: was thinking how is this possible because he's not alive, 64 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: but also thinking, oh my god, this is happening and 65 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 2: it makes sense and I'm here and I just need 66 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: to do this right now. But I would just be 67 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 2: hanging out with him throughout a dream, doing like super normal. 68 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 3: Things, relaxed, very relaxed, not high pressure moment. 69 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank you for sharing. Sure. 70 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 3: Congratulations on Blue Sky, your debut EP, which is wonderful. 71 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 3: I want to walk through that you work with certainly 72 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 3: Shooter Jennings on it and Jonathan Wilson as well, and 73 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 3: dig into some of the behind the scenes on some 74 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 3: of the songs. But I do want to ask you, 75 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 3: of course, the Beatles a tremendous early inspiration, but what 76 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 3: role did your fami Le's musical background play and shaping 77 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: your early love for music. 78 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: Well, both my parents love all music, and I think 79 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 2: the main thing about how that impacted me was just 80 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: that I never felt influenced by like one specific type 81 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: of music or closed off for any My dad, what 82 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 2: I can remember at an early age is my dad 83 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 2: always playing reggae as he he's a reggae singer and writer, 84 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: and playing just oldies all the time. And he has 85 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 2: his own record collection, so he'd always play oldies, and 86 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 2: and then my mom we would listen to more of 87 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: stuff that was currently popular, stuff that would be on 88 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 2: the radio, also oldies too, and my mom I would 89 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 2: get more of the rock music through her and all 90 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 2: the classic bands. My first band that I got really, 91 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 2: really really into from the seventies was led Zeppelin in 92 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: like middle school, and I distinctly remember being in the 93 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 2: car and my mom playing like Zeppelin two I think, 94 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 2: and me just not like hearing it for the first 95 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: time and being like, what is this right? Blowing my mind? Yeah, 96 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 2: I was probably like twelve or something. You know. They 97 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: both played a part in my musical like expansion knowledge 98 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 2: of different genres and allowing me to like explore all 99 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 2: of that. 100 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you haven't seen the led Zeppelin documentary Becoming 101 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 3: led Zeppelin, you got to see that. It's pretty Uh, 102 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 3: it's pretty incredible, really is. 103 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: I just saw it. 104 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 2: Actually on an airplane like a two weeks ago, and 105 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: I loved it. 106 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tremendous. 107 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 3: But tell me about growing up in la and how 108 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 3: that also shaped the scene for you. 109 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, growing up in LA I started playing music 110 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 2: in school and my parents it wasn't necessarily like you 111 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: were going to be a musician, but my parents thought 112 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,679 Speaker 2: that for me and my sister, that just taking music 113 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 2: lessons of some kind for any type of instrument is 114 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: just a good thing to do. So I remember the 115 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 2: first lessons I got were for a piano then I 116 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 2: got really into drums in middle school, so I started 117 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 2: taking drum lessons. I was an orchestra in middle school, 118 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: playing percussion, and then going into high school, I kept 119 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 2: playing drums. I started my first band, played through high school. 120 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 2: Was also in choir, so just always doing music in 121 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 2: school and around school. It wasn't until high school though, 122 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: and the end of high school that I was playing 123 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 2: guitar and teaching myself that because I wanted to write songs. 124 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: And then coming out of high school, I had COVID, 125 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 2: so I spent all of COVID just writing. I had 126 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: some best friends that lived across the street from me 127 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 2: that I was able to still jam with because they 128 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: also played so we would do it in my garage. 129 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: And yeah, once I was coming out of COVID, I 130 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: was really like, music is what I want to do. 131 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 2: And I graduated high school at seventeen, didn't really see 132 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 2: why I should go to college, and I just thought 133 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 2: I should start playing shows around Los Angeles and meeting 134 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 2: other bands that were outside of where I grew up 135 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 2: in So I did that, and through playing shows and 136 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 2: going to shows, I met my bandmates now people that 137 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: I write and make music with. People whose bands I 138 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 2: play vice versa, and we kind of have a really 139 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 2: great scene of really talented artists and writers. And I 140 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 2: feel really lucky that they're like my best friends, and 141 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: glad that I didn't go to college. The label found 142 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 2: me and I've been able to tour and so I 143 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: really feel like I made the right decision. 144 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,599 Speaker 3: And we'll be back with more of the Take and 145 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 3: a Walk podcast in a bit now. 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So tell us where 161 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 3: that influence came from in terms of either some of 162 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 3: your bandmates or just the things that you heard from 163 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: your parents or others. 164 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 2: So my, so, once I got introduced to rock music 165 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: in middle school, that's when I started exploring just like 166 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 2: all seventies in sixties bands, all the popular ones. Yeah, 167 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: it was always kind of the big ones like led Zeppelin, 168 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 2: the Beatles, Pink Floyd, getting into like the Rolling Stones 169 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: and the Doors and bands like that. And then Once, 170 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 2: and I was a drummer at this time, So once 171 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 2: I was once, I was starting to sing more and 172 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 2: learning guitar to write, I was turning more towards singer 173 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 2: songwriter type bands and people and exploring them. So then 174 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: I was moving on to Neil Young, who I credit 175 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 2: as the main person that got me to want to 176 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: write songs and learn how to play guitar, the band America, Buffalo, Springfield, 177 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 2: Crosby Stills and Nash, which is, you know, the Laurel 178 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: Canyon type songwriters and groups, and so it was really 179 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 2: like the end of high school when I was listening 180 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 2: to all that stuff. And then when I started to 181 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: meet some of my now friends that I play music 182 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 2: with a lot, a lot of them were super into 183 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 2: country artists from the sixties and seventies. I was always 184 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: more rock and folk, but hanging out around my friends 185 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: and hearing them right, I found that country music is 186 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 2: extremely infectious. Sometimes, especially growing up like in La or something, 187 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: people never listen to country. That's not something that they 188 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: put on, you know, or when they do, they have 189 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 2: this idea of it that it's something that just isn't good. 190 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 2: But if you listen to the right stuff, and you know, 191 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 2: you kind of start from towards the beginning of country music, 192 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: there's a lot of beautiful stuff, and so that definitely 193 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: influenced my writing in my style as well, on top 194 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 2: of the fulcan rock that I kind of had and 195 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: was using for my songwriter. 196 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 3: I have this debate a lot of times with folks 197 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 3: where I'll say to somebody, I'll be like, hey, do 198 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 3: you like you like country music? And, as you know, 199 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 3: country music spans all different shapes and forms and styles, 200 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 3: and they'll. 201 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: Say exactly as you had said it. 202 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 3: They'll be like, well, I don't really like that that sound, 203 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 3: you know, it's not my thing, and I'll kind of 204 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 3: look at them, this is the one that's always up 205 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 3: my back pocket, and I'll be like, Okay, wait a minute, 206 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 3: let me get this straight. Are you fan of the Eagles? 207 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 3: And they'll be like, oh, yeah, the Eagles? Are you 208 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 3: kidding me? The Eagles are like one of the best 209 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 3: of all time. I'm like, well, what do you think 210 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 3: so much of their music is in embedded around It's 211 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 3: embedded around country. Oh, I guess you're right. This happens 212 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 3: all the. 213 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 2: Time, very true, that's yeah. It's a lot of my 214 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: favorite country stuff comes from bands who weren't country but 215 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: did their own versions of country music. So I one 216 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 2: hundred percent agree with that The Stones were country at 217 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 2: one point. 218 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: You know, that's right. 219 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 3: I mean I would imagine you've been exposed to the band, 220 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 3: of course, of course, right, But I would also imagine 221 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 3: you've been exposed to somebody like Towns van Zant as well. 222 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 2: I have. Yeah, I still need to do like a 223 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 2: deeper dive into him. The way I listen to music 224 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: is very not so productive sometimes because I'll I'll just 225 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 2: kind of fixate on a single artist or like maybe 226 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: two or three, and I won't listen to much else 227 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: until I've listened to them and like can't anymore. But 228 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure I will end up doing that with Town soon. 229 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: Some other honorable mentions would be George Harrison. I really 230 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: really like his solo albums that he made after the Beatles, 231 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 2: and his singing style and writing style have had a 232 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 2: really big influence on me. Also, Bob Dylan more so 233 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: like his kind of mid seventies early to mid seventies era. 234 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 2: I really like his full band stuff. I also love 235 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 2: his acoustic and early stuff as well, but in terms 236 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 2: of influence on my music, stuff like the Rolling Thunder 237 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 2: review and that whole tour I really really like, and 238 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: the versions of some of his songs that he did. 239 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: And also really really like early Fleetwood Mac, although I'm 240 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: not sure much of that influence comes through in my music. 241 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: The Peter Green side of Fleetwood Mac. 242 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 2: Peter Green through like nineteen sixty nine through to nineteen 243 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 2: seventy five, i'd say is my favorite probably, and even 244 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 2: after Peter Green left and they had you know, Bob 245 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 2: Welch and Danny Kerwin and Christine and I love Stevie 246 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 2: Nicks and Lindsey too, But there's just so much before 247 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: them that I find to be really really interesting stuff. Sure, 248 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 2: and Carol King. 249 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it's you know, the Hall of Fame. 250 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 3: You've just laid out the giant It's right. 251 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot of them. 252 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 3: So let's dig into Blue Sky a bit. First of all, 253 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 3: Shooter Jennings, I want to talk about. I've been fortunate. 254 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 3: I've had Way Jennings on the podcast and Struggle Jennings, 255 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 3: but never Shooter Jennings. How did you end up working 256 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 3: with the Shooter and Jonathan Wilson on the EP? 257 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 2: So, my an R Mark Williams at the label I'm 258 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: signed with, when he found me, he was trying to 259 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 2: think of some producers he knew for me to work 260 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 2: with to record with, and it was his idea to 261 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 2: hook me up with Shooter and Jonathan, and he really 262 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 2: wanted to have them do it together and not just 263 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:57,199 Speaker 2: be one of them separately or at different times. I 264 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: was stoked. I was like, hell, yeah, I would love 265 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 2: to work with both of them. I had met Jonathan 266 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 2: a couple times previously in Topanga because I have a 267 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 2: lot of friends there and he's in that area, so 268 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: we had met before and hung out and Yeah, I 269 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 2: had met Shooter like within the year before we actually 270 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 2: went into the studio to record, and was kind of 271 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 2: forming a relationship with him, and I love both of them. 272 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: They're both the nicest, best hangs ever. Yeah, So we 273 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 2: went in the studio, and I think what made it 274 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 2: really special as well was not just that I was 275 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 2: excited to record with them, but the two of them 276 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 2: hadn't worked on an artist together until that point, and 277 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 2: I think they were very excited to work together. And 278 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 2: I think the fact that me trying to make the 279 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 2: music that I make, which is very reminiscent of older stuff, 280 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 2: I think was also an exciting thing for them to 281 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 2: work on together. 282 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 3: So I've got a few favorite tracks I was given 283 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 3: access to here it all. It's one of the fun 284 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 3: parts of the job here and stuff before it actually 285 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 3: truly hits. So I'll give you a couple of my 286 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 3: favorites in particular, and then I want to hear about 287 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 3: your favorites, which probably is all of them, but that's 288 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 3: the correct answer, right. But first of all, tell me 289 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 3: about the lead track, the opener, Anna, which is absolutely adorable. 290 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: Thank you Anna. 291 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 2: I wrote a while ago in terms of when it 292 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:49,959 Speaker 2: got recorded. I feel like when I was figuring out 293 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 2: the style I wanted to go into musically, Anna was 294 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 2: kind of the first song I'd written that was clicking 295 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 2: with people when I wrote it and was showing it 296 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 2: to people, and my an R felt the same way, 297 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 2: and he thought that it was a really strong song 298 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 2: to start with, and he wasn't wrong because it is 299 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 2: the most popular and has stayed the most popular up 300 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 2: until this point. So yeah, that was that one was 301 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 2: fun to make in the studio, and that was the 302 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 2: first one we recorded. 303 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: And another one I love. 304 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 3: I loved, I loved the title and I love the 305 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 3: sound of it. A bus Ain't a home right. 306 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: Thank you? 307 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 2: That one is also one of my favorites too. That 308 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: one was written more recently, and I wrote it for 309 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 2: my girlfriend about me leaving and being out on tour 310 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 2: because I had kind of just started doing that more regularly. 311 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: So that is a song I wrote for her, And Yeah, 312 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 2: I think that one's really beautiful. That's one that we 313 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 2: recorded at Sunset Sound rather than at Jonathan Studio where 314 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 2: the first four singles were cut. Those ones are recorded 315 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 2: at Jonathan's and then Hell of a Ride and a 316 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: Bus and a Homer recorded at Sunset Sound, where Shooter 317 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 2: had been renting at a studio there. 318 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 1: Hell of a Ride's pretty damn cool. Tell me about 319 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: that one. 320 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 2: That one, Yeah, that one recorded at Sunset Sound. That 321 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 2: one was fun because it felt like the first one 322 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 2: that was really sounded like how my band and I 323 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 2: like play live. Because the first four singles Anna through 324 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 2: where the West Begins, those ones are recorded before I 325 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 2: had the current band that I have now. So when 326 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 2: we were in the studio, we had Jonathan on drums, 327 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 2: Shooter's friend Ted on bass, me on guitar, and only 328 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 2: one of my bandmates on piano. But once we were 329 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 2: at Sunset Sound recording, I had my whole band with me. 330 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: And so that's why I really like Hell of a 331 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 2: Ride is because we had the whole band in there. 332 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: Same with a bus ain't a home, and we got 333 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 2: to play it. We got to record it like how 334 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 2: we play it live, which I enjoyed. 335 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 1: Tell me about your favorites. 336 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 2: I think my favorite song on the EP that I've 337 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: written is probably Blue Sky. That one is a very 338 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 2: special song to me and for other people I've played 339 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 2: it for. And yeah, it was the last one recorded. 340 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 2: I recorded it with a producer named Josh Block, who 341 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 2: was also introduced to me through my an ar and 342 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 2: we did it somewhat quickly. I did it right before 343 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 2: I went on a tour with them, like literally we 344 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: recorded it, I think the day before I left to 345 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 2: go on tour with this other band I play in 346 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 2: and we recorded it pretty like quickly, and it went 347 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 2: really well and I was really happy with it, and 348 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: we got the overdubs done. Josh got them done while 349 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 2: I was away, and then the song came out while 350 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 2: the song came out when I got back from tour, 351 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 2: and I was I was really really happy with it 352 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: and how it sounded, and yeah, I just I just 353 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 2: love the lyrics in it. It just it. I wrote 354 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 2: it one morning, like in one sitting and I kind 355 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 2: of was just singing how I felt. And it's a 356 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 2: song that I never get tired of singing or playing, 357 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 2: which is hard to have comparatively. 358 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 3: Congratulations on Blue Sky the new EP. In closing, I 359 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 3: want to I want to ask you, what do you 360 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 3: hope listeners feel or experience when they hear your music 361 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 3: for the very first time. 362 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 2: I want my music to provide like a layer of 363 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 2: comfort and nostalgia in hearing something that sounds familiar, but 364 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 2: I don't want I want it to be something that 365 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 2: still feels new and provides new emotion and feeling. So 366 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 2: whatever I can do, you know, obviously being a huge 367 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 2: fan of older music, whatever I can do to convey 368 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: a general feeling of those styles and what was going 369 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 2: on then while still bringing something new and that feels 370 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 2: unique to me, then I feel like I'm doing something right. 371 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 2: I just want to make good music that makes people 372 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 2: feel something and feel good or make someone cry. 373 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: Well, you've done amazing work. 374 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:26,719 Speaker 3: You have this incredible wisdom beyond your years, and I 375 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,640 Speaker 3: love your respect for the history of it all as 376 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 3: well how that fuses together and creates your sound. Luke 377 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 3: Tyler Shelton, congrats on on Blue Sky and I know 378 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 3: there's nothing but blue skies ahead for you. 379 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you. 380 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for being on Taking a Walk. Thanks for 381 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: listening to this episode of the Taking a Walk podcast. 382 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 3: Share this and other episodes with your friends and follow 383 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 3: us so you never miss an episode. Taking a Walk 384 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 3: is available on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, and 385 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 3: wherever you get your podcasts.