Speaker 1: I think that music is, at least for me and
Speaker 1: most people I know, it's the greatest medicine. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the one you feed throughout time. Great thinkers have recognized
Speaker 1: the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in,
Speaker 1: garbage out, or you are what you think ring true.
Speaker 1: And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen
Speaker 1: or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy,
Speaker 1: or fear. We see what we don't have instead of
Speaker 1: what we do. We think things that hold us back
Speaker 1: and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.
Speaker 1: Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort
Speaker 1: to make a life worth living. This podcast is about
Speaker 1: how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
Speaker 1: how they feed their good wolf Yea, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Our guest this episode is Langhorne Slim, a celebrated singer
Speaker 1: songwriter described by The New Yorker as having lead Belly's
Speaker 1: gift for storytelling and Dylan's ability to captivate crowds. We
Speaker 1: caught up with Langhorne in between gigs to talk music, sobriety,
Speaker 1: and life. You can learn more about Langhorne Slim and
Speaker 1: this podcast at one you Feed dot net slash Langhorn, Hi, Langhorn,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. We're glad you could be here,
Speaker 1: glad to be here. Hello, Hello, Um. I first saw you,
Speaker 1: I think in Nashville one evening. I was traveling on
Speaker 1: business and on a on a lark, I went out
Speaker 1: to a club to see you play. It's been it's
Speaker 1: probably been five years at least, and and I was,
Speaker 1: I was totally blown away. And I've seen you a
Speaker 1: couple of times in Columbus since. So uh, great live show.
Speaker 1: And I've I've always enjoyed, enjoyed your music. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. I appreciate it. Our podcast is called The
Speaker 1: One You Feed, and it's based on the old parable
Speaker 1: where there's a grandfather who's talking with his grandson and
Speaker 1: he says, in life, there are two wolves inside of
Speaker 1: us who are always at war with each other. One
Speaker 1: is a good wolf represents kindness and love and joy,
Speaker 1: and the other is a bad wolf and represents greed
Speaker 1: and fear or hate or pick pick your poison. And
Speaker 1: the grandson stops and he thinks and he says, well, grandfather,
Speaker 1: which one wins? And the grandfather says the one you feed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the way I like to start the interview
Speaker 1: off is just to ask you kind of what does
Speaker 1: that parable mean to you in both or either your
Speaker 1: life or your work. Yeah. In my case, there were
Speaker 1: two old men, and they were old Jewish men that
Speaker 1: lived in Philadelphia that told me that, and in their
Speaker 1: own way, those were my grandfathers. Um. But I love that.
Speaker 1: That's that's what you sent me, um when when you
Speaker 1: when you got in touch with the message. And I
Speaker 1: read that and thought, how how cool it was. Off.
Speaker 1: Guys like me are fortunate to have people you want
Speaker 1: to talk to them about their music or what they do. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not it's usually driven with kind of less interesting,
Speaker 1: um soulful topics and dynamics. So so I really do
Speaker 1: like that and appreciate the the chat. What does it
Speaker 1: mean for me? Probably what it means for us all.
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely there's two. I guess there's the the
Speaker 1: dark demon of like you said, of fear and greed
Speaker 1: and and all that, and then you know the the
Speaker 1: light and the the true soul and all that, and
Speaker 1: so it's just kind of figuring out as as we
Speaker 1: go through life, what at least for me, what feeds
Speaker 1: my soul, what feeds the When I say light, I
Speaker 1: don't mean as far as weight, because I do like
Speaker 1: heavy things, heavy heavy and soulful things. But you know
Speaker 1: what feeds the the love and the light, and what
Speaker 1: what kind of detracts from from the shittier the shittier things.
Speaker 1: For me, it's music, it's friends, it's creating, it's traveling,
Speaker 1: it's keeping very very very busy or else I get. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I'm always a strange one, but I get
Speaker 1: strange in in not fun ways. So it's a daily
Speaker 1: it's a daily weird ass adventure. Um that sometimes feels
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's like you're walking you can feel your
Speaker 1: footsteps and they feel heavy. And then other days you
Speaker 1: just walk in and singing a little tune in your
Speaker 1: head and and the stunder shining everything kind of feels
Speaker 1: it feels cool. Um. And then there's a lot of
Speaker 1: shoot in between. So it's just kind of the venture
Speaker 1: in the these paths that we choose in all of that, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And I like how you talked about the things that
Speaker 1: that feed you feed you, and music is definitely one
Speaker 1: for both Chris and I, which is why we try
Speaker 1: and get musicians on here as often as we can,
Speaker 1: because it's a it's a big part of of what
Speaker 1: feeds our good wolf. Um. You brought up the you
Speaker 1: brought up your grandfather's and that was actually a question
Speaker 1: I was going to go to at some point. So
Speaker 1: you've got a song on your most recent record called
Speaker 1: Song for Sid, which I think is about one of
Speaker 1: your grandfathers. Do you want to you want to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about that song. I love that all
Speaker 1: man a praise. Here's where he belongs, hanging where the
Speaker 1: prey wants go, where let go. I can tell you
Speaker 1: a bit about that song. Uh, I just can tell
Speaker 1: you a bit about my grandfather's. They were huge, huge
Speaker 1: figures in my brother and I was life. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: my grandfather's, my grandparents in general, had a huge part
Speaker 1: in raising my brother and I and uh kind of
Speaker 1: forming us into the into the men that we are. Um.
Speaker 1: Both of them passed in the last five years. Um.
Speaker 1: Both of them I had spent significant time with at
Speaker 1: the end of their their lives, their physical lives here
Speaker 1: and and was very I consider those to be some
Speaker 1: of the greatest gifts that I've been given. Was to
Speaker 1: have them both um in my life, and to have
Speaker 1: been fortunate enough through what I do to to be
Speaker 1: able to be close to them at at their end,
Speaker 1: and to have heard out of their mouths that they
Speaker 1: were ready to move on, that they enjoyed their lives,
Speaker 1: that they loved their families. Uh, and and parted some
Speaker 1: wisdom to me and said, you please, don't don't spend
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time being too sad about this,
Speaker 1: because uh, it is time to get the f out
Speaker 1: of here. And and it's been real and I love
Speaker 1: you very much and uh and all that so for
Speaker 1: me in my thirty three years, that those were two,
Speaker 1: you know, to the most important guys to me and
Speaker 1: and incredibly significat. Yeah, yeah, that's a. That's the song
Speaker 1: is a it's a touching song. And there's there's one
Speaker 1: other song where you, um, you reference your grandfather and
Speaker 1: you say, and it's a line that I really like
Speaker 1: and I think about a lot, which is that, um
Speaker 1: my grandfather once told me that all pain hurts the same.
Speaker 1: And the idea is basically, even though other people may
Speaker 1: have less than us, or we can think about this
Speaker 1: person has no access to clean water, or this person was,
Speaker 1: you know, abused by their parents, but realizing that hurt
Speaker 1: is hurt, um, and we have to find ways to
Speaker 1: deal with that in ourselves. I really like that part
Speaker 1: of that song. Well, thank you, that's exactly that was
Speaker 1: exactly the conversation. And that's what that's what he told
Speaker 1: me about. It retives relative to you and relative to
Speaker 1: me and relative to what I was doing with it.
Speaker 1: So what are the other things that I noticed recently? Uh?
Speaker 1: That has that has come up in your life? Is
Speaker 1: you've recently, um, become sober. Can you share a little
Speaker 1: bit about I guess what brought you to that point
Speaker 1: and how that experience has been for you so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a new experience. Um. It was a long
Speaker 1: time coming. But I've been for about five months. And
Speaker 1: when friends of people ask me what why and what
Speaker 1: brought me to it? I think what brings a lot
Speaker 1: of those of us that I s over it to it,
Speaker 1: which is a lot of whatever the vice that we liked, um,
Speaker 1: And for me it was I drank. I drank as
Speaker 1: much as I could. I tried to drink at all.
Speaker 1: I left some for those that are still drinking um
Speaker 1: and uh, and really through since I guess I'm about fifteen,
Speaker 1: kind of tried everything, um, thirty three now, and it
Speaker 1: became it became more of a weight, more of a burden,
Speaker 1: and something that was just more in my way. Then
Speaker 1: then I want something. And somebody told me a long
Speaker 1: time ago. And I didn't take this as a religious
Speaker 1: vibe really when she said it, but she I was
Speaker 1: talking to her about it. Um, I'm a man full
Speaker 1: of love and full of passion and that that well
Speaker 1: within myself as deep. And I was talking to her
Speaker 1: about kind of where I wanted to go in relationships
Speaker 1: and in music and a career, and she said, well,
Speaker 1: you can't serve two guys, she said. And again I
Speaker 1: didn't take that as a religious thing. I took it
Speaker 1: as if I want to love this human being in
Speaker 1: my life, you know, hypothetical human beings a single man
Speaker 1: right now, but um, you know, and and put energy
Speaker 1: and love into this human being. How can you do
Speaker 1: that if you're spending Let everybody spend so much time
Speaker 1: and energy drinking or doing drugs, but some of us do,
Speaker 1: and some of us did, so how can you put
Speaker 1: put all of yourself or the best of yourself into
Speaker 1: that in the same of music and art UM and
Speaker 1: I got to a point even though I knew when
Speaker 1: I was fifteen and I started drinking, I said to
Speaker 1: my high school sweetheart, I just saw yesterday it was
Speaker 1: a birthday, I said, Eventually I just started drinking, and
Speaker 1: I said, eventually, I will have to stop this to
Speaker 1: get to where I need to go UM. And it
Speaker 1: was on my thirty first birthdays and was a long
Speaker 1: time coming, but I said to myself, today is Today
Speaker 1: is the day. And I haven't looked back since and
Speaker 1: should have been wild. I think when you are, when
Speaker 1: you are invested in UM, being high and drunk, it's
Speaker 1: all that and medicated for for a large part of
Speaker 1: your life. When you when you transfer into silber state.
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of silver people say this and
Speaker 1: I kind of nothing of it, or maybe even rolled
Speaker 1: my eyes at it. But it's its own and oxicating
Speaker 1: feeling in and of itself, and it's its own trip
Speaker 1: in and of itself. And I I'm doing that dance
Speaker 1: right now and it's uh, it's been really cool. Congratulations
Speaker 1: on on on five months. I've I've walked that road myself,
Speaker 1: and you're right in the beginning. There's something very h
Speaker 1: I just remember sort of being blown away again and
Speaker 1: again with these insights like whoa, whoa, I you know,
Speaker 1: and and uh and and I agree that it is
Speaker 1: a certain point. I think most people who end up
Speaker 1: giving it up it is because they finally realize that
Speaker 1: that's the that is the god they're serving, you know,
Speaker 1: they're serving the god of their alcoholism or drug addiction,
Speaker 1: and that that is the most important thing. And that's
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody intends for it to be that way,
Speaker 1: but that's the way it ends up. And you want
Speaker 1: to talk about feeding the bad wolf. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the big bad wolf, right, you know. And again it's
Speaker 1: not When I talked about this, which I'm happy to
Speaker 1: and I'm open about it, I don't mean it for
Speaker 1: any I don't know what everybody else's path is and
Speaker 1: and and people's experience with it. So I talked very
Speaker 1: much on a personal level, but I know that, I mean,
Speaker 1: why why I love music and why I do what
Speaker 1: I do in such a passionate way is to is
Speaker 1: to get to my to my center, to my truth
Speaker 1: and to and to be real and raw. And for
Speaker 1: me that became really clear that I wasn't being real
Speaker 1: and raw by kind of um medicating my fears and
Speaker 1: my my discomfort and my anxieties, and to to have
Speaker 1: a breakthrough in my relationships in this life. Uh. In
Speaker 1: one of those relationships being the music is obviously very
Speaker 1: important to me. I felt like in order to have
Speaker 1: a true breakthrough with that, and then a true breakthrough
Speaker 1: romantically the next time that comes into my life, um,
Speaker 1: break through the ceiling that I've breached a certain level,
Speaker 1: but daddy, nothing to break through it. This was something
Speaker 1: that I needed to, um to have in my life
Speaker 1: and to see what it was all about. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: look looking looking through these these weird sober brown eyes
Speaker 1: as opposed to these weird uh fucked up brown eyes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the uh the first time that that you
Speaker 1: uh that people in general, myself, I guess I should say,
Speaker 1: experience something sober, whether it be getting up on a
Speaker 1: stage and playing music for the first time sober, or
Speaker 1: dancing somewhere the first time sober, or you know, intimate relationships.
Speaker 1: It's like whoa I have. There has been sort of
Speaker 1: a nice protective barrier around me all this time, and
Speaker 1: now I've I've sort of taken that off and and
Speaker 1: The thing about your show I mentioned earlier when I
Speaker 1: saw you in Nashville was I was, I was sober
Speaker 1: at that at that point I went there and UH
Speaker 1: in your music did have that sort of transformative effect
Speaker 1: of sort of free you know, giving that that that
Speaker 1: freeing from the day to day UH cares and moments
Speaker 1: that alcohol sometimes gives, UM, but it's wonderful when you
Speaker 1: get it other ways. And so I was, I was, really,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. I really appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1: So how is it five months? Are you finding it
Speaker 1: to be a challenge? Are you are you wrestling with uh,
Speaker 1: with with staying sober or right now? Is it? Is
Speaker 1: it pretty pretty easy for you? The benefits and the
Speaker 1: beauty that has been the last five months far outweighs
Speaker 1: the difficulty of it. I find um like to be
Speaker 1: beautiful and wonderful, but also difficult and a challenge. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think that that's going to be the case whether
Speaker 1: I'm drinking or doing drugs or sober. Um. I'm not
Speaker 1: struggling with the I'm very stubborn and set in my ways,
Speaker 1: and as weak as I can be, I can be
Speaker 1: that strong. So it's like if I kind of if
Speaker 1: I if I say to myself, this is what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: And then I started talking to uh, people that I
Speaker 1: that I don't know on recording devices like you, and say,
Speaker 1: because it means I'm really ready. I'm ready for it. Man.
Speaker 1: Then I'm embracing it. And just like I was when
Speaker 1: I was you know, when I was drinking, I drank,
Speaker 1: I drank a lot and uh, and now I don't
Speaker 1: and I'm and I'm into that. So I'm definitely an
Speaker 1: animal of extremes um and I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: going to change much. But but no, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that the worst thing that has happened was
Speaker 1: I went to a party that they that they have
Speaker 1: in Nashville, really fun party. It was a bunch of
Speaker 1: my friends and people dance and drink and have have
Speaker 1: a great time. And it was and this was some
Speaker 1: months ago, and I went in and I found that
Speaker 1: it was it was, in fact, a bit more difficult
Speaker 1: for me to dance and like get into it. And
Speaker 1: I laughed and I was like, man, that really sucks.
Speaker 1: And I thought to mess up, Well, if that is
Speaker 1: the that's the worst thing. And I had a recording
Speaker 1: session the next day and this morning, I look at
Speaker 1: that's the worst thing that's going to happen that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna feel a little bit more uncomfortable in this kind
Speaker 1: of you know, crowded bad dance party situation. So I'll
Speaker 1: be able to get up tomorrow morning and sing my
Speaker 1: ass off at this thing. Then it's then it's a
Speaker 1: prefair trade off. Um, and it gets easier to dance.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just it's like it ain't it ain't
Speaker 1: these things booze or drugs or whatever that that a
Speaker 1: lot and dance looks. Use that as a as a metaphor.
Speaker 1: I don't just mean, you know, shaking your ass on
Speaker 1: the dance floor. Um, if you're if you're able to
Speaker 1: do it with it, you have it. It's within you.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, man, It's it's a complicated subject
Speaker 1: because you know, taking certain things throughout my life did
Speaker 1: inspire me creatively at times, did did further the process.
Speaker 1: And since I've been sober, that has um said my creativity.
Speaker 1: So it's I don't regret things that I've done necessarily. Well,
Speaker 1: I do have some regrets to cancer that's on the pynolysis,
Speaker 1: But I think it's just the past, um, and there
Speaker 1: was there was good things that happened in those years
Speaker 1: and shitty things. Um. And within the five months, it's
Speaker 1: definitely it's where I need to be and it feels
Speaker 1: right and that dance I'm in rhythm with with my
Speaker 1: own steps with that, So that's that's cool by me, um.
Speaker 1: And I'll keep going. I'll keep going in that direction, um.
Speaker 1: You know. And see, like I said, I told myself
Speaker 1: when I was a kid that that eventually this day
Speaker 1: would come and that would further than me with with
Speaker 1: my with my things, that I'm truly in love within life,
Speaker 1: which is this music and performing. And you know, I
Speaker 1: still got the dream. The dream is still a lot
Speaker 1: that I will find a wonderful uh you know, relationship
Speaker 1: and still with that. So I'll put I'll put this
Speaker 1: new self up against those things and see see how
Speaker 1: it works. And that that that takes time, that doesn't
Speaker 1: happen overnight necessarily up and it's you know, I think
Speaker 1: what you said about I think all of us the
Speaker 1: that the alcohol or the past. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: magic in it for a long time and that's why
Speaker 1: we why we did it. It's just at a certain
Speaker 1: point that magic runs out and and theed and you know,
Speaker 1: I think I always say that nobody's gonna nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: get into recovery until the pain of it is worse
Speaker 1: than the pleasure of it. And it takes a water
Speaker 1: get there. And if we're talking about the two wolves,
Speaker 1: you know, feeing the two wolves, You're right, nobody starts
Speaker 1: to do these things in a such an intense and
Speaker 1: addictive way. It feels like you're like you're feeding the light.
Speaker 1: And it can if you're a poet or or a painter,
Speaker 1: or a musician or whatever you are, or just trying
Speaker 1: to be comfortable socially, it feeds that fun like you know,
Speaker 1: like I could talk a little bit easier, I feel
Speaker 1: like I look better or whatever. It is, like it
Speaker 1: makes you feel better. And like you said, eventually you
Speaker 1: realize that it it um you'd be better off without it.
Speaker 1: And it's likes to feed the dark, the dark side.
Speaker 1: So that was true for me, man, That's that's what
Speaker 1: got me to to one and out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you your your insight that all that
Speaker 1: stuff is sort of inside us anyway, and it's a
Speaker 1: matter of how do we get it out? And and
Speaker 1: I think alcohol and drugs can sometimes be a shortcut
Speaker 1: to getting that stuff out, but it's you hit a
Speaker 1: point where it doesn't doesn't work anymore, and then it's
Speaker 1: just a it's another level of discovery of how do I,
Speaker 1: how do I excavate these things that are inside of
Speaker 1: me that I want to get out into the world
Speaker 1: and I don't. If you don't have that shortcut, that's right.
Speaker 1: And if you get into that and embrace that, and
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, it's beginning my journey with that.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing because that's a longer journey for
Speaker 1: your own personal truths and your own you know that
Speaker 1: it's a it's a deep, deep well of that that
Speaker 1: we all have within us, and the shortcuts could get there.
Speaker 1: You're right to those songs or those poems or this
Speaker 1: or that, But yeah, I'm more into the long game
Speaker 1: in the short game at the moment. So yeah, well, congratulations,
Speaker 1: good good luck to you with that. It's uh, you're
Speaker 1: certainly you're in a you're in a profession that is
Speaker 1: that is certainly challenging in that regard to be to
Speaker 1: be kind of around it all the time. But but
Speaker 1: early in my recovery. I played in bands and was
Speaker 1: around it a lot, and it's certainly, you know, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of examples of people that do do it, so
Speaker 1: there are I enjoy a good challenge, and I've never
Speaker 1: been too afraid of not fitting sitting in. What I've
Speaker 1: learned actually is at thirty, maybe more so when we
Speaker 1: were really young. But there's I think there's just as
Speaker 1: many of us in this in the field that I
Speaker 1: am and that are that are not doing it as
Speaker 1: there are that are doing it. Um, it just seems
Speaker 1: to be what what happens. Eventually a lot of us
Speaker 1: decided that enough enough, you know. Yeah, it's that that
Speaker 1: pace will will wreck wreck you after a time, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. So UM, I want to ask you a
Speaker 1: couple other questions. Is about about a few different songs
Speaker 1: um of years off a couple of different records that
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed. I think maybe one of my favorite
Speaker 1: songs of years is uh is Diamonds and Gold. Do
Speaker 1: you anything you want to you want to share about
Speaker 1: that song. You can have all the diamonds, you can
Speaker 1: have all the goal, but someday you're still going to
Speaker 1: get old. You've got to learn to get happy along
Speaker 1: the way. It's my mother's favorite song of mine. It's
Speaker 1: one of the songs that that kind of comes to
Speaker 1: you that I didn't have to work too hard at,
Speaker 1: which I really love when that happens. All songwriters appreciate
Speaker 1: when that happens. It's not as often as I'd like
Speaker 1: it to to happen. And it was really just self therapy,
Speaker 1: advice to myself, a reminder you know that that it's
Speaker 1: all right, it's all liked to smile. Yep, you gotta
Speaker 1: get a little happy, happy along the way. Speaking of
Speaker 1: your mom, did you did you recently? Uh do a
Speaker 1: trip with her? And where you guys did a duet?
Speaker 1: We did. She got on stage and sang that tune
Speaker 1: with me um in Philly, we had a Pennsylvania Lang.
Speaker 1: Warren is a town in Pennsylvania. I'm from the Turn
Speaker 1: outside of Philly, so it was like a big kind
Speaker 1: of homecoming show first there and she got up and saying,
Speaker 1: and then I took her to one of my best
Speaker 1: friends in the world is from Galmida, and so I've
Speaker 1: been able to go there a few times, quite a
Speaker 1: few times, and I took her for her sixtieths there
Speaker 1: and had a little solo show and she joined me
Speaker 1: on stage for that. Do you get some of your
Speaker 1: musical talent from your parents? My mom is a great singer,
Speaker 1: could have been a professional singer, but didn't didn't take
Speaker 1: it there. Um my dad, I'm not sure if he's
Speaker 1: got a musical account, but he's uh a music lover.
Speaker 1: So I had and my grandparents were huge, huge, huge
Speaker 1: music lovers. My grandpop Jack was a jazz drummer. Um,
Speaker 1: and so I grew up with with a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of music around and a lot of passion
Speaker 1: and sensitivity in my family from music. Got cousins that
Speaker 1: are my cousin David actually taught me how to play guitar,
Speaker 1: taught me from Nirvana tunes and yeah, it's it's in
Speaker 1: the family. I think I heard you say that Polly
Speaker 1: was the first song you learned to play Polly Manatala,
Speaker 1: not to play guitar. My mom tried to get well,
Speaker 1: I like beanked to get this guitar fixed up, and
Speaker 1: she agreed to fix the guitar up, and then I
Speaker 1: got um some lessons for my first lessons, I didn't
Speaker 1: learn anything from because the guy was trying to show
Speaker 1: me like teach me scales, which I still don't out
Speaker 1: to do scales, and teach me like aarrowsmith out and
Speaker 1: I wasn't into aarro smith, so I couldn't learn. And then, um,
Speaker 1: I really looked up to my cousin. He was in
Speaker 1: this great punk band in New Jersey and I would
Speaker 1: go and listen to his band play and was just
Speaker 1: so blown away by it. And the feeling was like
Speaker 1: my first feelings of real life, this is what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do, and just feeling wild and free and yeah,
Speaker 1: because remember that feeling, It's incredible and yeah, so he
Speaker 1: thought it took not learning from like in a you know,
Speaker 1: a real legiment of like these are your scales, is
Speaker 1: your homework and here's your arrow from the song to
Speaker 1: just like in his basement teaching me Polly. That that
Speaker 1: blew the doors wide open for me. What's next for
Speaker 1: you musically? You mentioned you were in doing a recording
Speaker 1: session recently. What what what's coming up? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: this has been like time off quote unquote this winter,
Speaker 1: but I'm not good at time off, so I've been
Speaker 1: I've been right. Yeah, you know, I've been writing for
Speaker 1: the next record, which hopefully we'll record in the fall,
Speaker 1: but we'll see how that all pans out. And in
Speaker 1: the meantime, I've just been working on UM but working
Speaker 1: on a song called Animal actually that it will come out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a limited Vinyl Eminence release to Records
Speaker 1: to a Day that comes out in April, and working
Speaker 1: on some demos and just writing for what will be
Speaker 1: the next record, and then we're doing I've got a
Speaker 1: tour coming up UM next month. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: do Conan O'Brien again on the eighteenth of February. So
Speaker 1: keeping keeping busy in the off time, gotta keep moving.
Speaker 1: How was it playing on Conan the first time? It
Speaker 1: was great? Um, that old thing was crazy because he Um,
Speaker 1: you spent a lot of time to Yeah, like a
Speaker 1: publicist and manager and you try to get on these
Speaker 1: shows and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I gotta
Speaker 1: call or like a text from this painter friend, mean,
Speaker 1: Natalie Irish, who I only kind of sort of no,
Speaker 1: she's a friend now, but at the time I only
Speaker 1: kind of sort of knew, and she really loved the band,
Speaker 1: my sons and stuff, and she said, I just got
Speaker 1: on Conan O'Brien I have this feeling, the spiritual feeling
Speaker 1: or something that he will love your music. So if
Speaker 1: you want to send me a CD, and when I
Speaker 1: do the show, I'll try to get it to him.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was a lovely thing and very
Speaker 1: kind and sweet. Um, but I didn't think anything really
Speaker 1: of it, that it would pan out to anything. So
Speaker 1: I sent the CD lo and behold, she went on
Speaker 1: and gave it, gave a Vater album of one of
Speaker 1: his producers, who then gave it to him. He listened
Speaker 1: to it and really connected and love the album, so
Speaker 1: he wound up getting in touch with us like personally.
Speaker 1: He wrote me a note telling me how much you
Speaker 1: liked the record and that he was hoping that we
Speaker 1: could come on the show, and um, it's just been
Speaker 1: I've been a fan of his and watched his shows
Speaker 1: since I'm a kid, so it was just pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: So we got to go and do a show the
Speaker 1: first time, and then played the Troubadour in l A
Speaker 1: and he came and joined the band and played a
Speaker 1: few songs with us, and now we'll go back and
Speaker 1: do it again and a little under a month. So
Speaker 1: it's been cool. Cool, It's can be what song do
Speaker 1: you think you'll play? Oh? Uh, well, I know, I
Speaker 1: know a song will play. Will play a song called
Speaker 1: Past Lives. Okay, yeah, that's off the latest record, So yeah,
Speaker 1: we're excited about that for sure. Well, I think we're
Speaker 1: coming to the end of our time here. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that you want to talk about related to the
Speaker 1: theme or or anything else that we haven't covered. I
Speaker 1: think that music is, at least for me and most
Speaker 1: people I know, is uh is great. Is perhaps the
Speaker 1: greatest medicine to music. Nonalcoholic beverage to music, or if
Speaker 1: you drink of a highly alcoholic beverage. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for taking the time to join us. I
Speaker 1: know you have been kind of all over the place,
Speaker 1: so I'm glad we were able to squeeze it a
Speaker 1: little bit of time and and talk me too. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and I look forward to seeing you somewhere
Speaker 1: out there. All right, Take care, Thanks, thank you, Take
Speaker 1: care bye. M H. You can learn more about Langhorne,
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