Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters

Billy Bob Thornton: It's like well, how can I tell this story

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Billy Bob Thornton: in three or four minutes?

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Billy Bob Thornton: Where's the screenplay?

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Billy Bob Thornton: It's like how can I keep this story going?

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Billy Bob Thornton: Because I could tell it in 30 pages, you

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Billy Bob Thornton: know.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Hey, how are you?

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Marc Preston: It's Marc Preston and this is Story and

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Marc Preston: Craft.

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Marc Preston: So glad to have you here.

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Marc Preston: If this is your first time, welcome, going

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Marc Preston: to have some fun here.

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Marc Preston: Glad you can join in Gonna, have some great

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Marc Preston: conversation momentarily and, of course, if

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Marc Preston: you are coming back after listening to some

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Marc Preston: previous episodes, thank you, welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you as part of the tribe, as

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Marc Preston: it were.

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Marc Preston: Today is a really cool day.

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Marc Preston: I had a chance to sit down with an Academy

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Marc Preston: Award winner, golden Globe winner, billy

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Marc Preston: Bob Thornton.

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Marc Preston: He doesn't need any introduction.

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Marc Preston: I mean, come on, now, it's Billy Bob.

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Marc Preston: Of course I had to introduce my kids to

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Marc Preston: Billy Bob and I did that by kicking on

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Marc Preston: Friday Night Lights and that was kind of

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Marc Preston: cool because it just registered with me.

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Marc Preston: I had never seen the movie until I watched

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Marc Preston: it with my kids and that was kind of odd.

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Marc Preston: How did that movie slip by?

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Marc Preston: I don't know, but of course he's been in

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Marc Preston: Sling Blade, bad Santa, the man who Wasn't

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Marc Preston: there, the Alamo, fargo, goliath and, most

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Marc Preston: recently, the Paramount Plus show.

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Marc Preston: My new favorite show right now is 1883, and

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Marc Preston: my son, zachary, and I checked it out,

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Marc Preston: loving that show.

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Marc Preston: And Billy Bob showed up, did not disappoint,

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Marc Preston: knocked it out of the park.

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Marc Preston: Now Billy Bob, or, of course, bud, as he

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Marc Preston: likes to be called, is not only a talented

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Marc Preston: actor.

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Marc Preston: We all know that it's obvious he's a rock

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Marc Preston: star.

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Marc Preston: But he is a genuine rock star.

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Marc Preston: He's an accomplished musician and back in

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Marc Preston: 2007, billy connected with JD Andrew and

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Marc Preston: they formed the group the Boxmasters, and

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Marc Preston: this spring, billy and JD will release

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Marc Preston: their latest album, help I'm Alive, as well

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Marc Preston: as Hit the Road.

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Marc Preston: They're going to be doing a tour that's

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Marc Preston: going to have them touring all the way into

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Marc Preston: the summer.

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Marc Preston: So if you can check out the Boxmasters on

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Marc Preston: tour, pick up the new CD or download it.

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Marc Preston: Showing my age here we go.

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Marc Preston: So this is a great talk.

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Marc Preston: Billy Bob Thornton, jd Andrew.

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Marc Preston: We are talking music.

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Marc Preston: How does creating music compare to writing

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Marc Preston: a movie?

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Marc Preston: Of course Billy Bob knows a thing or two

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Marc Preston: about that, considering he won an Academy

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Marc Preston: Award for doing it.

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Marc Preston: I appreciate the good word.

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Marc Preston: All right, now let's not waste any more

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Marc Preston: time.

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Marc Preston: I want to get right into it, having some

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Marc Preston: fun.

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Marc Preston: Billy Bob Thornton, jd Andrew they are the

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Marc Preston: Boxmasters.

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Marc Preston: It's Boxmasters Day right here on Story and

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Marc Preston: Craft First, out out of the gate,

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Marc Preston: congratulations, A new album coming out

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Marc Preston: Always kind of exciting and, in the other

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Marc Preston: case, of the nerves whenever a record is

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Marc Preston: about to roll out or after doing this.

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Marc Preston: So long, you're just like, all right, it's

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Marc Preston: cool.

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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, we're always hopeful.

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JD Andrew: And it's not.

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JD Andrew: You know we're not nervous because you know

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JD Andrew: we made it and we like it.

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JD Andrew: So you know we're just happy that you know

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JD Andrew: we've got the copies.

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JD Andrew: I'm more nervous about actually getting the

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JD Andrew: physical copies, you know, in hand, because

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JD Andrew: sometimes we're like during the pandemic we

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JD Andrew: were, you know, setting up another record

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JD Andrew: and you know there was a one of the one of

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JD Andrew: the lacker places in Japan burned down and

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JD Andrew: you know there was all of a sudden it was

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JD Andrew: like hard to get a vinyl pressed and you

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JD Andrew: know I would call all these places and

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JD Andrew: they'd be like it's 14 months to get a

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JD Andrew: record pressed.

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JD Andrew: It's like goodness.

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Marc Preston: With the pandemic.

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Marc Preston: How did y'all be at recording, or you know

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Marc Preston: what did it.

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Marc Preston: Was it like logistically difficult for you

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Marc Preston: at all?

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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, it was actually pretty easy.

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Billy Bob Thornton: I mean, once the studio's opened back up,

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Billy Bob Thornton: we would pour it over at Henson, which is

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Billy Bob Thornton: the old A&M studios Until now we have our

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Billy Bob Thornton: own.

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Billy Bob Thornton: But we actually made three records during

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Billy Bob Thornton: the lockdown.

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Billy Bob Thornton: So it was, you know, we were pretty

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Billy Bob Thornton: productive.

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Billy Bob Thornton: Touring obviously was a challenge.

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JD Andrew: We went on non-existent.

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Billy Bob Thornton: We went out last year.

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Billy Bob Thornton: We had 43 shows.

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Billy Bob Thornton: We got through 21 of them and then we got

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Billy Bob Thornton: shut down.

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Billy Bob Thornton: So we're looking forward to going out this

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Billy Bob Thornton: year because we're going to do makeup shows

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Billy Bob Thornton: for a lot of those dates that we missed

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Billy Bob Thornton: last year.

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Billy Bob Thornton: But in terms of recording once the studio

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Billy Bob Thornton: opened back up, we did pretty well.

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Marc Preston: Now, do you record out of your studio or

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Marc Preston: like your own personal studio, or do you

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Marc Preston: like to actually go into a session studio

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Marc Preston: to record?

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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, we've done both.

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Billy Bob Thornton: I had a studio back in the like, I think,

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Billy Bob Thornton: 99 through like 2013 or 14, and 12.

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Billy Bob Thornton: I don't remember dates that well and so,

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Billy Bob Thornton: and then after that we recorded at Henson

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Billy Bob Thornton: for years and now just recently, last May,

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Billy Bob Thornton: we got our own studio, which is called

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Billy Bob Thornton: Peppertree Hill Studios and it's outside of

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Billy Bob Thornton: LA, and that's where we are right now and

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Billy Bob Thornton: we're actually working on a new record

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Billy Bob Thornton: before we go on tour.

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Marc Preston: So we started rehearsals for the tour on

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Marc Preston: the 30th and we're trying to get to

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Marc Preston: Stricard and stuff before we go Well, did

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Marc Preston: you step into a studio space that was

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Marc Preston: already put together, or did you kind of

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Marc Preston: just get a space and kind of build it out

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Marc Preston: the way you wanted it to?

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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, it was already a studio and it's not

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Billy Bob Thornton: like a like, if you saw it, it's not like a

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Billy Bob Thornton: home studio.

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Billy Bob Thornton: I mean, it's a separate building from the

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Billy Bob Thornton: house, like the house is up on a hill and

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Billy Bob Thornton: then down the hill is this studio building

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Billy Bob Thornton: and it's 2,200 square feet.

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Billy Bob Thornton: So it's a real life.

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JD Andrew: Oh no, this is a righteous, you know,

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JD Andrew: recording studio, and the great thing is

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JD Andrew: that when we came into it it was completely

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JD Andrew: empty.

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JD Andrew: I mean, it had been remodeled and

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JD Andrew: completely redone by the previous owner and,

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JD Andrew: you know they did an amazing job at making

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JD Andrew: it a beautiful place, and so all we had to

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JD Andrew: do was move in our stuff and we got a lot

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JD Andrew: of stuff.

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Marc Preston: Now for you, jd.

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Marc Preston: Since you came from engineering, do you

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Marc Preston: prefer?

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Marc Preston: I mean, obviously you enjoy performing, but

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Marc Preston: do you like to actually do the editing or

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Marc Preston: do you like to be performing, or is it kind

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Marc Preston: of an equal thing for you?

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JD Andrew: It's kind of all the same thing for me.

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JD Andrew: I mean, you know, yeah, I had just intended

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JD Andrew: on being a recording engineer, and you know,

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JD Andrew: until Billy said, hey, how well do you play

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JD Andrew: guitar one day, when we were, you know,

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JD Andrew: finishing up his fourth solo record.

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JD Andrew: And so, you know, one of the things is, you

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JD Andrew: know, I'm we've had other engineers, you

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JD Andrew: know, help us out and at the same time,

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JD Andrew: it's like, you know, I'm kind of a control

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JD Andrew: freak and I just, you know, it's like we

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JD Andrew: know how we want things to sound Right, and

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JD Andrew: so it's like the cool thing is that we can

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JD Andrew: make things sound how we want and we don't

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JD Andrew: have to relay it to another person.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, with the nature of the music, it's

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Marc Preston: got a very distinctive sound and I'd say

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Marc Preston: I've kind of I've heard some things here

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Marc Preston: and there but I kind of introduced myself

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Marc Preston: to a lot more of your library and I really

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Marc Preston: I dig it and the DNA of it is very it's 50s,

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Marc Preston: 60s I think, the British invasion type of

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Marc Preston: thing.

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Marc Preston: What was the impetus for that?

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Marc Preston: How did Billy Bob, how did you all come

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Marc Preston: together with that being the sound?

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Marc Preston: Even though you're no longer doing solo,

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Marc Preston: you're actually going to be a band.

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Marc Preston: How did you come up with that idea of being?

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Marc Preston: This is going to be the sound of my band.

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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, initially it started with a sort of

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Billy Bob Thornton: experimental thing we were doing where JD

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Billy Bob Thornton: and I were just talking and the first song

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Billy Bob Thornton: we cut when we decided to have a band out

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Billy Bob Thornton: of this because JD and I were working in

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Billy Bob Thornton: the studio on the solo record of mine he

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Billy Bob Thornton: was engineering and when we decided to

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Billy Bob Thornton: record some stuff together, the first song

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Billy Bob Thornton: we actually recorded, when we said okay,

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Billy Bob Thornton: this is real once we started playing around,

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Billy Bob Thornton: was a Chad and Jeremy song called

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Billy Bob Thornton: Yesterday's Gone and with you know what,

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Billy Bob Thornton: what if we married Bill Bill music and the

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Billy Bob Thornton: British invasion?

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Billy Bob Thornton: And so the first two records well,

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Billy Bob Thornton: including a Christmas record the first

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Billy Bob Thornton: three they were they don't really sound

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Billy Bob Thornton: like we sound now.

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JD Andrew: Well, another thing Billy didn't mention

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Billy Bob Thornton: What happens all those ways?

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Billy Bob Thornton: right, we should do that, and but songs

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Billy Bob Thornton: I would say, more often than not we have a

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Billy Bob Thornton: That's what you have to work on.

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Billy Bob Thornton: So, in other words, you have so much time

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Billy Bob Thornton: So those are differences.

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Billy Bob Thornton: Writing a screenplay has a rhythm, you know,

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Marc Preston: I've heard of people saying that they wrote

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Marc Preston: Now, between the two of y'all, when it

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Billy Bob Thornton: It's there's there's a.

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JD Andrew: There's really not, unless we're, you know,

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JD Andrew: You know that's taking our attention.

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JD Andrew: You know there's there's song writing.

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JD Andrew: You know, and if if a song is hard to like

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JD Andrew: You know we don't sit around and slave over.

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JD Andrew: You know it's like.

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JD Andrew: You know inspiration and you know just pure,

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JD Andrew: We got plenty of other stuff.

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Marc Preston: So how do you like to record as far as?

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Marc Preston: You're both going at the same time now,

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Marc Preston: there's, there's, yeah there's two of us.

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Marc Preston: So I mean we true, that's yeah process.

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JD Andrew: You know where, yeah, we'll, we'll cut the

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JD Andrew: You know the, the very basic.

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JD Andrew: We started doing scratch piano and vocal.

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Marc Preston: But y'all been together long enough, y'all

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Marc Preston: Y'all can kind of communicate almost yeah.

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Billy Bob Thornton: Now we do have a process and it's always

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Billy Bob Thornton: And uh, so we're, you know, fairly

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Billy Bob Thornton: You know, we, we just have to have the

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Billy Bob Thornton: So, oh, we move on.

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Billy Bob Thornton: But, but the recording process itself.

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Billy Bob Thornton: I mean, you know, I'm the luckiest band guy

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Marc Preston: So there's a lot of efficiency built into

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Billy Bob Thornton: have to convey our vision to, Like.

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Billy Bob Thornton: The vision is coming from the people who

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Billy Bob Thornton: are recording it, so you don't have a bunch

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Billy Bob Thornton: of other people in the middle that you have

479

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Billy Bob Thornton: to get to understand what you're trying to

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Billy Bob Thornton: get.

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Billy Bob Thornton: You know, and when we're not getting it, we

482

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Billy Bob Thornton: know it.

483

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Billy Bob Thornton: And you know we can look at each other and

484

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Billy Bob Thornton: go, ah, maybe we need to, we need to add

485

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Billy Bob Thornton: this, take that away by.

486

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Billy Bob Thornton: You know we need to recut it whatever it is.

487

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Billy Bob Thornton: You know we're pretty In agreement on that

488

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Billy Bob Thornton: stuff.

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JD Andrew: Yeah, I mean, we know ourselves, you know,

490

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JD Andrew: we know what we're always pushing ourselves,

491

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JD Andrew: you know, to like, you know, do something

492

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JD Andrew: better.

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JD Andrew: You know like, you know, not necessarily

494

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JD Andrew: fancier, but you know like having you know

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JD Andrew: a certain sound to the way we play and you

496

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JD Andrew: know one of the ways you know we Try to

497

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JD Andrew: keep.

498

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JD Andrew: You know, the band sounding live, you know,

499

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JD Andrew: as a two-piece band who's just stacking

500

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JD Andrew: things on top Is, you know we'll.

501

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JD Andrew: We'll just hit, start, you know Hit record

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JD Andrew: at the top of the song and play it from top

503

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JD Andrew: to bottom.

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JD Andrew: You know we're not sitting there.

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JD Andrew: Okay, I'm gonna play this part of the verse,

506

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JD Andrew: play until I get this right and then I'll

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JD Andrew: move on to the chorus.

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JD Andrew: You know, we just we play it like a song.

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JD Andrew: You know, if, as if we were a band in the

510

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JD Andrew: studio playing live, we just try to do that.

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JD Andrew: It's like here's the beginning of the song,

512

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JD Andrew: here's the end, let's play it all the way

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JD Andrew: through.

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JD Andrew: And you know, if we mess up then we'll go

515

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JD Andrew: back, we'll do it another time, you know.

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JD Andrew: So it's uh, you know we have the technology

517

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JD Andrew: to just sit in there and rip things apart.

518

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JD Andrew: You know, like these, you know you can just

519

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JD Andrew: Micro edit until you're, you know, blue in

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JD Andrew: the face.

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JD Andrew: But we don't do that because you know

522

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JD Andrew: that's Everything that we, you know, don't

523

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JD Andrew: like about music.

524

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JD Andrew: We like, you know, dynamics and feeling and

525

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JD Andrew: and Looseness and tightness at the same

526

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JD Andrew: time.

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JD Andrew: You know it's like all these things that

528

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JD Andrew: make music feel good.

529

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JD Andrew: You know it's like it all comes from

530

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JD Andrew: playing an instrument.

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JD Andrew: You know and you know playing it with

532

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JD Andrew: feeling and emotion and all that.

533

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Billy Bob Thornton: So you know, we're a band with a, we're a

534

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Billy Bob Thornton: band with a, a lead vocalist, a guitar

535

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Billy Bob Thornton: player and drummer, and that's and we do

536

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Billy Bob Thornton: takes until we get one and then.

537

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Billy Bob Thornton: Then you put on, jd puts on the bass.

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Billy Bob Thornton: That was staying, it sounds like a touch of

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Billy Bob Thornton: improv.

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Marc Preston: Y'all have going on a little bit just kind

541

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Marc Preston: of kind of sussing it out.

542

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Marc Preston: What it is that y'all want to do.

543

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Marc Preston: It is such a cool, unique sound y'all have.

544

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Marc Preston: What is the on ramp that you're finding

545

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Marc Preston: that?

546

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Marc Preston: How people discover you?

547

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Marc Preston: Are they coming from rockabilly country?

548

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Marc Preston: Are they coming from kind of a classic rock?

549

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Marc Preston: The people that discover you that kind of

550

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Marc Preston: fall in love with you, the people you're

551

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Marc Preston: seeing when you're on stage, how are they

552

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Marc Preston: typically finding you?

553

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Marc Preston: What's their on ramp?

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Billy Bob Thornton: I think a lot of it.

555

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Billy Bob Thornton: Our fans are people who are fans of the

556

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Billy Bob Thornton: stuff that influenced us.

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Billy Bob Thornton: Actually, I mean it's.

558

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Billy Bob Thornton: We have a lot of fans of classic rock and

559

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Billy Bob Thornton: british invasion.

560

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Billy Bob Thornton: Uh, we have some from the americana world.

561

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Billy Bob Thornton: So I would say anywhere from the sort of

562

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Billy Bob Thornton: indie music you know through classic rock

563

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Billy Bob Thornton: and british invasion, I would say that's

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Billy Bob Thornton: most of our fan base.

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Marc Preston: It seems like a lot of the millennials are

566

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Marc Preston: kind of discovering some of that Music and

567

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Marc Preston: it's kind of new to them.

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Marc Preston: I know my kids, you know, they discover

569

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Marc Preston: some of that same kind of music.

570

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Marc Preston: They're teenagers, you know, so that's uh.

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JD Andrew: The the good thing is.

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JD Andrew: I mean they're they're tied into the

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JD Andrew: technology aspect of it, where you know

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JD Andrew: they have every song ever written in the

575

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JD Andrew: world on their phones and so you know if,

576

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JD Andrew: uh, they just get it somehow.

577

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JD Andrew: If this song pops up you know for them and

578

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JD Andrew: they like that, then they'll go and and

579

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JD Andrew: search out more and they've got the ways to

580

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JD Andrew: do that Do y'all miss the days of going to

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JD Andrew: record stores and the way it used to be.

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Marc Preston: Or do you like the fact that's all on your

583

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Marc Preston: phone now?

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JD Andrew: No, definitely miss it.

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JD Andrew: No, it's, I mean, it's that's, you know.

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JD Andrew: That's why we, you know, we, as much as we

587

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JD Andrew: can, we, you know, do things with indie

588

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JD Andrew: record stores and, um, just go to them when

589

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JD Andrew: we're on the road.

590

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JD Andrew: You know we'll go and hang out and, you

591

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JD Andrew: know, check out what they got.

592

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JD Andrew: But at the same time, you know we're it,

593

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JD Andrew: we'll be sitting around in the studio going,

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JD Andrew: hey, remember this song by uh uh, you know,

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JD Andrew: yeah, you know, remember this.

596

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JD Andrew: This.

597

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JD Andrew: You know, any of you know it's like

598

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JD Andrew: something that's like, you know, a, a

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JD Andrew: memory for us and we're like we want to

600

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JD Andrew: find this song.

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JD Andrew: You know, some, there was something

602

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JD Andrew: interesting in it.

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JD Andrew: You know, like, like a couple weeks ago we

604

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JD Andrew: were listening to Dell Shannon's I mean, we

605

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JD Andrew: were listening to runaway and it was like,

606

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JD Andrew: and then it's like listening to that and

607

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JD Andrew: it's like what was that sound that was

608

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JD Andrew: playing the solo in the, you know,

609

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JD Andrew: instrumental section, being able to look

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JD Andrew: that up and find out.

611

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JD Andrew: It was this one-off instrument called the

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JD Andrew: music tron that some guy built, you know,

613

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JD Andrew: and he wrote that song with Dell and it's

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JD Andrew: um, you know, having that, you know, is

615

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JD Andrew: really valuable, but, but nothing beats

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JD Andrew: Going into a record store and being able to

617

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JD Andrew: flip through the records and and just find

618

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JD Andrew: all these treasures.

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JD Andrew: You know, it's like.

620

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JD Andrew: It's like that's why we both have boxes of

621

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JD Andrew: CDs and vinyl just sitting around in

622

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JD Andrew: quarters of our houses.

623

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JD Andrew: You know, it's like these are our treasures

624

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JD Andrew: that we grew up with, you know, and it's

625

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JD Andrew: like we can't imagine getting rid of them

626

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JD Andrew: because they were.

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Marc Preston: They meant so much to us, you know and I

628

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Marc Preston: grew up in that era of Just, it was just

629

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Marc Preston: post vinyl and cassette.

630

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Marc Preston: So I like was deep, like when I was in high

631

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Marc Preston: school it was all cassette and when CD

632

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Marc Preston: rolled as I go, thank god something better

633

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Marc Preston: than cassette.

634

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Marc Preston: Now Vinyl's back again, which is, like I

635

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Marc Preston: think, really cool and and because I think

636

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Marc Preston: what was lost Is the whole zen of the album

637

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Marc Preston: art, you know, I thought that was just the

638

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Marc Preston: coolest thing.

639

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Marc Preston: It was part of the collection, not just the

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Marc Preston: music.

641

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Marc Preston: Now, as far as the album art goes, how much

642

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Marc Preston: input do you all have on that?

643

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Marc Preston: Do you all have a process that y'all?

644

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Marc Preston: Y'all got somebody you like to use?

645

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Marc Preston: Or I've always been curious how do bands

646

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Marc Preston: decide on the album art?

647

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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, we do have people, obviously, that

648

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Billy Bob Thornton: help us, because we're not.

649

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Billy Bob Thornton: Neither one of us are artists.

650

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Billy Bob Thornton: We can barely write our own names.

651

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Billy Bob Thornton: But we have a guy named Matt Cullen who has.

652

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Billy Bob Thornton: We give him the basic idea, here's the kind

653

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Billy Bob Thornton: of cover, and we'll give him examples of

654

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Billy Bob Thornton: other album covers that we've seen that

655

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Billy Bob Thornton: we're trying to get at.

656

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Billy Bob Thornton: So he's done a few albums with us and then

657

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Billy Bob Thornton: this latest one, help of the Live, the one

658

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Billy Bob Thornton: that's coming out when we're able to

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Billy Bob Thornton: continue that was done by Frank Barshan and

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Billy Bob Thornton: Chris Jimenez we're calling him Noches and

661

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Billy Bob Thornton: he's an artist and we just said, hey, you

662

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Billy Bob Thornton: know, we just took a picture of Jayie, a

663

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Billy Bob Thornton: picture of me, and said, chris, could you

664

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Billy Bob Thornton: do like a pencil drawing of this, because

665

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Billy Bob Thornton: we just want that kind of art on this

666

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Billy Bob Thornton: record.

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Billy Bob Thornton: He did it so, but we we don't work with

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Billy Bob Thornton: people at a label and work with designers

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Billy Bob Thornton: and stuff like that.

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JD Andrew: We can do it ourselves.

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JD Andrew: Yeah, no, we, you know, we sit there.

672

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JD Andrew: I've learned enough Photoshop to be able to

673

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JD Andrew: put together a vinyl package, you know.

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JD Andrew: So Chris gave us that picture and you know

675

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JD Andrew: we stuck it on there and it's like okay, I

676

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JD Andrew: typed out the words.

677

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JD Andrew: It's like, okay, let's find a font that

678

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JD Andrew: looks all right, you know.

679

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JD Andrew: And so we do it ourselves.

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JD Andrew: You know, we have, you know, yeah, we have

681

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JD Andrew: these other guys that are, you know, doing

682

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JD Andrew: the heavy lifting part of it, but the the

683

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JD Andrew: you know boring part of it, like picking

684

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JD Andrew: the color, that you know everything.

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JD Andrew: It's like we sit there and it's like, you

686

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JD Andrew: know, I can't remember what color I had

687

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JD Andrew: first and Billy's like, well, why don't you

688

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JD Andrew: try turquoise?

689

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JD Andrew: It's like, okay, great, let's try that.

690

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JD Andrew: And it's like, okay, that looks cool.

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Marc Preston: Well, I love the aesthetic of what y'all

692

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Marc Preston: did like.

693

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Marc Preston: Even the logo kind of reminds me of it.

694

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Marc Preston: It's a callback, it's just, it's just kind

695

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Marc Preston: of cool.

696

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Marc Preston: You know, it's something I remember, and

697

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Marc Preston: even the on the previous stuff y'all've

698

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Marc Preston: done, even the way y'all y'all dressed, it

699

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Marc Preston: was just kind of cool.

700

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Marc Preston: It's a cool callback, and I can't think of

701

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Marc Preston: another adjective besides cool.

702

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JD Andrew: but definitely You're saying we're not cool,

703

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JD Andrew: so we just have to like, use other.

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Marc Preston: You know your secret is safe with me.

705

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Marc Preston: I'm curious though now, as a native Texan,

706

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Marc Preston: I got to ask you, billy, you know, do you

707

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Marc Preston: like to go by?

708

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Marc Preston: Do you go by Billy, bob or Billy?

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Billy Bob Thornton: Billy or Bud.

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Marc Preston: Bud, okay, as a native Texan, I got to know

711

00:26:46,650 --> 00:26:48,816

Marc Preston: your connection to ZZ Top.

712

00:26:49,507 --> 00:26:50,832

Marc Preston: Do you mind touching on that for a moment,

713

00:26:50,965 --> 00:26:52,170

Marc Preston: because I've always been curious about it?

714

00:26:52,606 --> 00:26:54,651

Marc Preston: I remember hearing an interview a few years

715

00:26:54,671 --> 00:26:56,597

Marc Preston: ago and you brought up ZZ Top and my memory

716

00:26:56,705 --> 00:26:57,387

Marc Preston: faded a little bit.

717

00:26:57,407 --> 00:26:59,031

Marc Preston: But I wanted you to clarify a little bit on

718

00:26:59,051 --> 00:26:59,252

Marc Preston: that.

719

00:26:59,452 --> 00:27:01,766

Billy Bob Thornton: Absolutely Well, yeah, actually we've

720

00:27:01,786 --> 00:27:04,975

Billy Bob Thornton: opened for them quite a few times and I've

721

00:27:05,015 --> 00:27:05,837

Billy Bob Thornton: known those guys.

722

00:27:05,965 --> 00:27:10,573

Billy Bob Thornton: I've known Billy for probably 35 years and

723

00:27:10,653 --> 00:27:13,739

Billy Bob Thornton: I was very close with Dusty as close to

724

00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:18,909

Billy Bob Thornton: Frank as you can get I'm not but they're

725

00:27:18,989 --> 00:27:20,566

Billy Bob Thornton: all great guys, you know.

726

00:27:20,726 --> 00:27:22,752

Billy Bob Thornton: Obviously, dusty passed away this last year

727

00:27:22,772 --> 00:27:25,560

Billy Bob Thornton: and we were pretty devastated past the

728

00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:26,944

Billy Bob Thornton: white one, when we were on the road we were

729

00:27:26,984 --> 00:27:27,385

Billy Bob Thornton: on the road.

730

00:27:27,505 --> 00:27:29,009

Billy Bob Thornton: We were on the road and it was just really

731

00:27:29,089 --> 00:27:31,274

Billy Bob Thornton: up ahead playing all the way around.

732

00:27:33,867 --> 00:27:38,755

Billy Bob Thornton: But when I was in 1979 or 80, somewhere

733

00:27:38,795 --> 00:27:41,219

Billy Bob Thornton: back in there I was born in Hot Springs,

734

00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:44,230

Billy Bob Thornton: arkansas, so I was very close to Texas and

735

00:27:44,251 --> 00:27:46,075

Billy Bob Thornton: then moved to Houston after high school.

736

00:27:47,345 --> 00:27:50,292

Billy Bob Thornton: So I lived in a suburb of Houston called

737

00:27:50,312 --> 00:27:55,304

Billy Bob Thornton: Tombaul and they're a Houston band, even

738

00:27:55,344 --> 00:27:57,230

Billy Bob Thornton: though Dusty and Billy came.

739

00:27:57,270 --> 00:28:01,890

Billy Bob Thornton: Dusty and my friend came from Dallas, but

740

00:28:01,910 --> 00:28:05,435

Billy Bob Thornton: there was a guy who worked with ZZ Top's

741

00:28:05,496 --> 00:28:07,679

Billy Bob Thornton: company who saw us playing at a club in

742

00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:12,111

Billy Bob Thornton: Houston called Cardi's and he came

743

00:28:12,131 --> 00:28:13,195

Billy Bob Thornton: backstage afterward.

744

00:28:13,386 --> 00:28:15,376

Billy Bob Thornton: We were in a three-piece band and we

745

00:28:15,437 --> 00:28:17,587

Billy Bob Thornton: sounded a lot of things ZZ Top.

746

00:28:17,607 --> 00:28:20,748

Billy Bob Thornton: We did a couple of songs and I was playing

747

00:28:20,788 --> 00:28:25,932

Billy Bob Thornton: drums then and he said hey guys, why don't

748

00:28:25,952 --> 00:28:27,917

Billy Bob Thornton: you like to be a ZZ Top tribute act?

749

00:28:28,747 --> 00:28:29,972

Billy Bob Thornton: And we said what does that mean?

750

00:28:30,427 --> 00:28:32,141

Marc Preston: Because they didn't have tribute acts yeah.

751

00:28:32,806 --> 00:28:35,142

Billy Bob Thornton: Maybe a couple, but it wasn't a thing like

752

00:28:35,182 --> 00:28:35,585

Billy Bob Thornton: it is now.

753

00:28:35,806 --> 00:28:39,809

Billy Bob Thornton: Now there's one for every band, but anyway

754

00:28:39,829 --> 00:28:41,854

Billy Bob Thornton: there's like the Jonathan Edwards tribute

755

00:28:42,014 --> 00:28:47,012

Billy Bob Thornton: act, but anyway.

756

00:28:47,032 --> 00:28:50,037

Billy Bob Thornton: So we said, well, what's in it for us?

757

00:28:50,078 --> 00:28:50,518

Billy Bob Thornton: What do we do?

758

00:28:50,945 --> 00:28:52,505

Billy Bob Thornton: He said, well, you dress like ZZ Top, you

759

00:28:52,525 --> 00:28:54,652

Billy Bob Thornton: play their songs and I book you and you go

760

00:28:54,672 --> 00:28:55,133

Billy Bob Thornton: out and do it.

761

00:28:58,631 --> 00:29:00,776

Billy Bob Thornton: And so we said, well, what do we get out of

762

00:29:00,817 --> 00:29:00,977

Billy Bob Thornton: this?

763

00:29:01,125 --> 00:29:02,885

Billy Bob Thornton: And he says, what are you making tonight?

764

00:29:03,005 --> 00:29:03,668

Billy Bob Thornton: We said I don't know.

765

00:29:03,688 --> 00:29:04,432

Billy Bob Thornton: $300?.

766

00:29:04,605 --> 00:29:06,532

Billy Bob Thornton: He said, how'd you like to make $1,500?

767

00:29:07,425 --> 00:29:08,588

Billy Bob Thornton: We said we'd like that very much.

768

00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:14,405

Billy Bob Thornton: So for a couple of years we did that and

769

00:29:14,425 --> 00:29:16,353

Billy Bob Thornton: Billy actually came to see us somewhere.

770

00:29:16,565 --> 00:29:17,848

Billy Bob Thornton: Some friend of his said, hey, if you want

771

00:29:17,868 --> 00:29:19,412

Billy Bob Thornton: to see how to play your songs live, go

772

00:29:19,452 --> 00:29:20,094

Billy Bob Thornton: watch these guys.

773

00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:23,371

Billy Bob Thornton: And so we hit.

774

00:29:24,445 --> 00:29:26,705

Billy Bob Thornton: But I didn't really get to knowing that and

775

00:29:26,726 --> 00:29:28,170

Billy Bob Thornton: I started hanging out with Billy in the

776

00:29:28,250 --> 00:29:33,953

Billy Bob Thornton: early 90s and then, you know, met Dusty and

777

00:29:34,154 --> 00:29:34,434

Billy Bob Thornton: Frank.

778

00:29:34,454 --> 00:29:36,487

Billy Bob Thornton: You know, through Billy We've just had a

779

00:29:36,547 --> 00:29:38,886

Billy Bob Thornton: great friendship ever since and I've

780

00:29:38,966 --> 00:29:41,332

Billy Bob Thornton: actually ridden on the bus with those guys

781

00:29:41,352 --> 00:29:44,126

Billy Bob Thornton: to the shows before and hung out and stayed

782

00:29:44,147 --> 00:29:45,712

Billy Bob Thornton: at their houses and everything.

783

00:29:45,772 --> 00:29:48,209

Billy Bob Thornton: It's all a big family and I'm very close to

784

00:29:48,249 --> 00:29:49,593

Billy Bob Thornton: Pablo there, to our manager.

785

00:29:50,485 --> 00:29:51,930

Billy Bob Thornton: So it all kind of started back then.

786

00:29:52,492 --> 00:29:54,849

Marc Preston: Yeah, I actually saw I was at LAX getting

787

00:29:54,870 --> 00:29:57,865

Marc Preston: my luggage and I saw Billy once and I was

788

00:29:57,885 --> 00:30:00,151

Marc Preston: like so I was like crap, I'm not a fanboy

789

00:30:00,232 --> 00:30:01,675

Marc Preston: out and I'm just going to walk by and it's

790

00:30:01,695 --> 00:30:04,191

Marc Preston: kind of not and he looked exactly the way

791

00:30:04,211 --> 00:30:04,974

Marc Preston: he wanted him to look.

792

00:30:05,366 --> 00:30:06,389

Marc Preston: You know he had he was.

793

00:30:06,891 --> 00:30:07,473

Marc Preston: He was Billy.

794

00:30:07,653 --> 00:30:09,158

Marc Preston: You know Absolutely.

795

00:30:09,165 --> 00:30:10,590

Marc Preston: Now I do know you got a couple of tom ball

796

00:30:11,332 --> 00:30:13,187

Marc Preston: dates on your tour and besides outside of

797

00:30:13,227 --> 00:30:14,933

Marc Preston: California, you got a number of dates in

798

00:30:14,953 --> 00:30:15,515

Marc Preston: California.

799

00:30:15,725 --> 00:30:18,231

Marc Preston: But I noticed y'all really hitting some, a

800

00:30:18,291 --> 00:30:20,917

Marc Preston: lot of Texas venues and some cool locations.

801

00:30:21,185 --> 00:30:22,932

Marc Preston: It was was that an active choice?

802

00:30:23,045 --> 00:30:23,989

Marc Preston: You want to spend a little more time in

803

00:30:24,029 --> 00:30:24,471

Marc Preston: Texas?

804

00:30:24,886 --> 00:30:26,372

Marc Preston: Do you have a big following in Texas?

805

00:30:26,525 --> 00:30:28,552

Marc Preston: Kind of what was the choice there?

806

00:30:28,973 --> 00:30:31,151

Billy Bob Thornton: Well, we have yeah, we do have a following

807

00:30:31,231 --> 00:30:33,170

Billy Bob Thornton: in Texas and normally we don't have that in

808

00:30:33,210 --> 00:30:35,649

Billy Bob Thornton: California shows this is really rare for us

809

00:30:35,690 --> 00:30:36,472

Billy Bob Thornton: to have that many.

810

00:30:37,345 --> 00:30:38,729

Billy Bob Thornton: Normally they're like three or four at the

811

00:30:38,769 --> 00:30:39,070

Billy Bob Thornton: most.

812

00:30:41,447 --> 00:30:44,375

Billy Bob Thornton: So for some reason they don't like us in

813

00:30:44,415 --> 00:30:46,249

Billy Bob Thornton: San Francisco so we don't really play there.

814

00:30:47,765 --> 00:30:49,605

Billy Bob Thornton: But but we've been sudden California, we're

815

00:30:49,625 --> 00:30:51,766

Billy Bob Thornton: like the Beatles, so.

816

00:30:51,997 --> 00:30:55,384

Billy Bob Thornton: But Texas is, first of all, it's a big

817

00:30:55,614 --> 00:30:55,874

Billy Bob Thornton: state.

818

00:30:55,954 --> 00:30:57,437

Billy Bob Thornton: There are a lot of places to play there.

819

00:30:58,105 --> 00:30:59,649

Billy Bob Thornton: I mean, you know, if you go through Rhode

820

00:30:59,749 --> 00:31:03,245

Billy Bob Thornton: Island there's like two venues, but in

821

00:31:03,286 --> 00:31:06,433

Billy Bob Thornton: Texas you can play, you can do a whole tour

822

00:31:06,493 --> 00:31:07,596

Billy Bob Thornton: in Texas practically.

823

00:31:09,187 --> 00:31:11,072

JD Andrew: And so they still be like eight hours away

824

00:31:11,132 --> 00:31:12,956

JD Andrew: from each city, Exactly.

825

00:31:13,585 --> 00:31:16,173

Billy Bob Thornton: So you know, just agent wise, our agent

826

00:31:16,253 --> 00:31:18,580

Billy Bob Thornton: books us a lot in Texas, but we do have

827

00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,089

Billy Bob Thornton: connections there and a lot of friends

828

00:31:20,129 --> 00:31:20,370

Billy Bob Thornton: there.

829

00:31:21,085 --> 00:31:22,090

Billy Bob Thornton: We played there a lot.

830

00:31:22,345 --> 00:31:26,874

Billy Bob Thornton: So we do love to get back to Texas and that

831

00:31:26,934 --> 00:31:29,099

Billy Bob Thornton: whole area really Oklahoma, Texas.

832

00:31:29,647 --> 00:31:32,029

Marc Preston: Yeah, I'm from Dallas, so the areas of

833

00:31:32,109 --> 00:31:33,353

Marc Preston: you're hitting up there and going dammit,

834

00:31:33,373 --> 00:31:35,166

Marc Preston: like I printed it up here, I said you're

835

00:31:35,186 --> 00:31:36,189

Marc Preston: going is like are there any?

836

00:31:36,229 --> 00:31:38,295

Marc Preston: Look, he's not coming to New Orleans, oh

837

00:31:38,335 --> 00:31:38,636

Marc Preston: crap.

838

00:31:38,925 --> 00:31:40,150

JD Andrew: Well, we haven't played New Orleans in a

839

00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:40,512

JD Andrew: while.

840

00:31:40,785 --> 00:31:42,850

Billy Bob Thornton: Yeah, I mean it's it's we've we've.

841

00:31:43,612 --> 00:31:45,336

JD Andrew: You know we've hit spots around.

842

00:31:45,457 --> 00:31:47,392

JD Andrew: You know, like Shreveport and Baton Rouge.

843

00:31:47,525 --> 00:31:50,772

JD Andrew: We had a had a date on the last tour that

844

00:31:50,792 --> 00:31:51,594

JD Andrew: we didn't make it to.

845

00:31:53,485 --> 00:31:55,809

JD Andrew: But you know, usually the south, the

846

00:31:55,849 --> 00:31:58,915

JD Andrew: southeast, you know, is is a, you know,

847

00:31:59,736 --> 00:32:01,399

JD Andrew: good part of the country for us.

848

00:32:01,505 --> 00:32:04,150

JD Andrew: You know we usually play quite a few shows

849

00:32:04,190 --> 00:32:08,959

JD Andrew: in Alabama and Tennessee and just, you know,

850

00:32:09,546 --> 00:32:10,470

JD Andrew: a little bit in Georgia.

851

00:32:10,865 --> 00:32:14,896

JD Andrew: You know it's never been a real strong spot

852

00:32:14,956 --> 00:32:16,908

JD Andrew: for us but you know we keep moving east,

853

00:32:17,409 --> 00:32:19,494

JD Andrew: you know, from Alabama is like, you know,

854

00:32:20,576 --> 00:32:21,826

JD Andrew: really a stronghold for us.

855

00:32:21,846 --> 00:32:23,392

JD Andrew: You know, like Muscle Shoals area.

856

00:32:24,247 --> 00:32:26,112

JD Andrew: Oh, that's a legendary area down there,

857

00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:28,529

JD Andrew: yeah exactly and it's like we, you know

858

00:32:28,570 --> 00:32:29,593

JD Andrew: we've done really well.

859

00:32:29,765 --> 00:32:32,331

JD Andrew: We got a lot of fans in northern Alabama

860

00:32:33,133 --> 00:32:34,536

JD Andrew: and you know it spreads out from there.

861

00:32:35,626 --> 00:32:38,760

JD Andrew: But for some reason, you know it's New

862

00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:39,684

JD Andrew: Orleans has been hard.

863

00:32:40,747 --> 00:32:42,531

JD Andrew: I mean it's also you know place where you

864

00:32:42,551 --> 00:32:44,617

JD Andrew: know, like every year, when we, about the

865

00:32:44,657 --> 00:32:46,349

JD Andrew: time we get there, are going to be there,

866

00:32:46,389 --> 00:32:47,311

JD Andrew: you know there's a hurricane.

867

00:32:47,351 --> 00:32:47,952

Marc Preston: Yeah, oh yeah.

868

00:32:48,053 --> 00:32:49,656

Marc Preston: Well, they do have hurricanes down here.

869

00:32:50,305 --> 00:32:51,511

Marc Preston: Yeah, you want to get on out when you can.

870

00:32:58,898 --> 00:33:00,081

Marc Preston: What are y'all listening to right now?

871

00:33:00,872 --> 00:33:03,519

Marc Preston: I know the influences for Boxmasters, but

872

00:33:03,780 --> 00:33:06,989

Marc Preston: what right now, when you kick on Spotify or

873

00:33:07,049 --> 00:33:08,535

Marc Preston: put an album on, what are y'all listening

874

00:33:08,576 --> 00:33:08,676

Marc Preston: to?

875

00:33:08,991 --> 00:33:11,179

Billy Bob Thornton: It's funny when we're making a record we

876

00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,549

Billy Bob Thornton: don't listen to much of anybody else's

877

00:33:13,589 --> 00:33:15,393

Billy Bob Thornton: stuff because we're so concentrated on what

878

00:33:15,433 --> 00:33:15,934

Billy Bob Thornton: we're up to.

879

00:33:21,070 --> 00:33:22,655

Billy Bob Thornton: I still pretty much listen to what I've

880

00:33:22,715 --> 00:33:24,038

Billy Bob Thornton: always listened to, but it's pretty

881

00:33:24,078 --> 00:33:24,620

Billy Bob Thornton: eclectic.

882

00:33:26,832 --> 00:33:29,457

Billy Bob Thornton: I listen to a lot of Sinatra and Dean

883

00:33:29,477 --> 00:33:33,504

Billy Bob Thornton: Martin also, and Elvis and the Beatles and

884

00:33:33,564 --> 00:33:36,739

Billy Bob Thornton: traffic and cream and the mothers that I

885

00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:37,160

Billy Bob Thornton: mentioned.

886

00:33:37,911 --> 00:33:39,835

Billy Bob Thornton: I listen to that because we got a turntable

887

00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:42,781

Billy Bob Thornton: here in the studio that's 12 feet from us

888

00:33:42,802 --> 00:33:43,222

Billy Bob Thornton: right now.

889

00:33:43,971 --> 00:33:45,415

Billy Bob Thornton: We've got some vinyl in there of the

890

00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:47,080

Billy Bob Thornton: mothers and the men sitting here like that.

891

00:33:47,190 --> 00:33:48,174

Billy Bob Thornton: I listen to a lot of that.

892

00:33:49,631 --> 00:33:54,202

Billy Bob Thornton: In terms of new stuff, my daughter is 17.

893

00:33:55,191 --> 00:33:57,156

Billy Bob Thornton: I pretty much listen to what she listens to

894

00:33:57,176 --> 00:33:58,821

Billy Bob Thornton: when I'm in the house or when we're driving.

895

00:33:59,831 --> 00:34:01,816

Billy Bob Thornton: As a result, I hear a lot of Taylor Swift.

896

00:34:04,830 --> 00:34:06,254

Marc Preston: My 16-year-old just discovered.

897

00:34:06,274 --> 00:34:07,858

Marc Preston: Well, I don't know if she just discovered

898

00:34:07,918 --> 00:34:08,981

Marc Preston: it, but country music.

899

00:34:09,590 --> 00:34:10,714

Marc Preston: It's so funny because she's pretty much a

900

00:34:10,774 --> 00:34:11,898

Marc Preston: city girl, she's 16.

901

00:34:12,590 --> 00:34:13,815

Marc Preston: I have a son who's 17 and my oldest

902

00:34:13,835 --> 00:34:14,457

Marc Preston: daughter is 19.

903

00:34:15,170 --> 00:34:15,773

Marc Preston: My daughter asked me.

904

00:34:15,793 --> 00:34:16,977

Marc Preston: She said, daddy, I'm very serious.

905

00:34:17,030 --> 00:34:19,558

Marc Preston: She said, did they have country music back

906

00:34:19,578 --> 00:34:20,400

Marc Preston: when you were in high school?

907

00:34:20,671 --> 00:34:25,933

Marc Preston: I was like bless your heart I kicked on I

908

00:34:25,953 --> 00:34:27,298

Marc Preston: said I need to introduce you to what I was

909

00:34:27,338 --> 00:34:27,880

Marc Preston: listening to.

910

00:34:28,752 --> 00:34:30,056

Marc Preston: I was like I don't want to go too deep just

911

00:34:30,096 --> 00:34:30,237

Marc Preston: yet.

912

00:34:30,297 --> 00:34:31,080

Marc Preston: No, willy, just yet.

913

00:34:31,531 --> 00:34:33,277

Marc Preston: I put on Brooks and Dunn Neon Moon.

914

00:34:33,670 --> 00:34:34,615

Marc Preston: She starts singing it.

915

00:34:34,971 --> 00:34:36,878

Marc Preston: I'm like, baby, how do you know this song?

916

00:34:37,150 --> 00:34:38,575

Marc Preston: She's like, oh, it's on TikTok.

917

00:34:40,350 --> 00:34:42,535

Marc Preston: So that discovery thing is just like I'm

918

00:34:42,556 --> 00:34:43,558

Marc Preston: trying to get my head around it.

919

00:34:45,350 --> 00:34:47,155

Marc Preston: I came out of the world of radio and the

920

00:34:47,175 --> 00:34:47,756

Marc Preston: discovery.

921

00:34:48,137 --> 00:34:50,342

Marc Preston: Now for these kids it's everywhere.

922

00:34:50,470 --> 00:34:51,713

Marc Preston: It's eclectic, which I think is cool

923

00:34:51,733 --> 00:34:53,578

Marc Preston: because they can get exposed to things they

924

00:34:53,618 --> 00:34:54,401

Marc Preston: normally would not.

925

00:34:55,372 --> 00:34:55,994

Marc Preston: I was curious.

926

00:34:56,054 --> 00:34:58,282

Marc Preston: I've done a little bit of acting, not a lot,

927

00:34:58,382 --> 00:35:01,652

Marc Preston: but I've noticed that a lot of downtime and

928

00:35:01,672 --> 00:35:02,093

Marc Preston: a trailer.

929

00:35:02,774 --> 00:35:05,741

Marc Preston: Do you use that as just riffing on a guitar?

930

00:35:05,761 --> 00:35:07,312

Marc Preston: When it's theatrical, that's your focus.

931

00:35:07,332 --> 00:35:08,637

Marc Preston: Where it's music, that's your focus.

932

00:35:09,391 --> 00:35:11,657

Marc Preston: Or do you use music as kind of the way to

933

00:35:11,718 --> 00:35:13,824

Marc Preston: pass the time and to keep your mind active

934

00:35:14,647 --> 00:35:15,148

Marc Preston: creatively?

935

00:35:15,168 --> 00:35:15,489

Billy Bob Thornton: Not really.

936

00:35:18,615 --> 00:35:21,159

Billy Bob Thornton: I don't do much songwriting or anything

937

00:35:21,199 --> 00:35:22,141

Billy Bob Thornton: like that in the trailer.

938

00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:26,937

Billy Bob Thornton: What keeps me active on the set is what I'm

939

00:35:27,057 --> 00:35:28,301

Billy Bob Thornton: up to in that moment.

940

00:35:28,731 --> 00:35:31,139

Billy Bob Thornton: I don't really do them at the same time.

941

00:35:32,574 --> 00:35:33,055

Billy Bob Thornton: In music.

942

00:35:33,116 --> 00:35:36,266

Billy Bob Thornton: I don't watch movies to pass the time while

943

00:35:36,286 --> 00:35:38,172

Billy Bob Thornton: JD's doing some engineering or something

944

00:35:38,192 --> 00:35:38,754

Billy Bob Thornton: that's boring.

945

00:35:41,895 --> 00:35:43,740

Billy Bob Thornton: I usually stay focused on whatever's in the

946

00:35:43,801 --> 00:35:44,101

Billy Bob Thornton: moment.

947

00:35:44,370 --> 00:35:45,837

Billy Bob Thornton: The only thing that does happen is

948

00:35:45,877 --> 00:35:48,167

Billy Bob Thornton: sometimes when I'm on set and we've just

949

00:35:48,509 --> 00:35:52,021

Billy Bob Thornton: finished a record or whatever, jd has

950

00:35:52,101 --> 00:35:54,169

Billy Bob Thornton: questions about hey, what are we going to

951

00:35:54,189 --> 00:35:54,550

Billy Bob Thornton: do about this?

952

00:35:54,851 --> 00:35:55,855

Billy Bob Thornton: What do you think about that?

953

00:35:56,650 --> 00:35:58,476

Billy Bob Thornton: I'll talk to him from the set about it.

954

00:36:01,674 --> 00:36:04,299

JD Andrew: I've come and set up the laptop and a pair

955

00:36:04,319 --> 00:36:10,555

JD Andrew: of speakers in the trailer before, if we're

956

00:36:10,815 --> 00:36:15,981

JD Andrew: working on a record and we just need that

957

00:36:16,081 --> 00:36:19,846

JD Andrew: few little bits just to finish something

958

00:36:20,010 --> 00:36:20,131

JD Andrew: off.

959

00:36:26,018 --> 00:36:27,621

JD Andrew: But it's not well these days.

960

00:36:27,942 --> 00:36:29,564

JD Andrew: It's like there's breaks and all that.

961

00:36:30,111 --> 00:36:31,795

JD Andrew: We're like, oh, you'll find three days and

962

00:36:31,855 --> 00:36:33,819

JD Andrew: go run into the studio or something like

963

00:36:33,839 --> 00:36:34,020

JD Andrew: that.

964

00:36:35,751 --> 00:36:39,276

JD Andrew: That was the luxury of when you're shooting

965

00:36:39,336 --> 00:36:39,757

JD Andrew: in town.

966

00:36:44,970 --> 00:36:47,835

JD Andrew: When Bud leaves town or the country or

967

00:36:47,895 --> 00:36:52,082

JD Andrew: whatever, it's vacation time, usually for

968

00:36:52,122 --> 00:36:52,222

JD Andrew: me.

969

00:36:58,877 --> 00:37:00,780

Billy Bob Thornton: Also, I probably spend two-thirds of the

970

00:37:00,820 --> 00:37:03,424

Billy Bob Thornton: year on music and about a third on film

971

00:37:03,444 --> 00:37:03,964

Billy Bob Thornton: these days.

972

00:37:04,930 --> 00:37:05,331

Marc Preston: The help.

973

00:37:05,412 --> 00:37:06,054

Marc Preston: I'm alive.

974

00:37:06,696 --> 00:37:07,800

Marc Preston: The album when is that dropping?

975

00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:11,400

Marc Preston: I saw it was in April, correct, april 15th.

976

00:37:11,710 --> 00:37:14,650

Marc Preston: April 15th the tour kicks off.

977

00:37:14,750 --> 00:37:16,255

Marc Preston: I think you're all going to be in Ardmore

978

00:37:16,556 --> 00:37:17,660

Marc Preston: April 7th.

979

00:37:17,970 --> 00:37:19,958

Marc Preston: Ardmore, oklahoma, is when that starts off.

980

00:37:20,030 --> 00:37:21,194

Marc Preston: You're all going to be spending the summer,

981

00:37:21,414 --> 00:37:22,718

Marc Preston: or at least the first part of the summer,

982

00:37:22,759 --> 00:37:23,140

Marc Preston: touring.

983

00:37:23,390 --> 00:37:25,015

Marc Preston: You all do a tour bus, or are you all just

984

00:37:25,055 --> 00:37:26,439

Marc Preston: flying from location to location?

985

00:37:26,870 --> 00:37:28,173

JD Andrew: We play every single day.

986

00:37:31,230 --> 00:37:33,096

JD Andrew: They're not fully finished booking it.

987

00:37:33,177 --> 00:37:38,019

JD Andrew: Right now We've got 50 shows and two and a

988

00:37:38,039 --> 00:37:38,500

JD Andrew: half hours.

989

00:37:39,930 --> 00:37:41,574

JD Andrew: Yeah, but it's less than that.

990

00:37:44,870 --> 00:37:48,698

JD Andrew: It's 75 days total, including the rehearsal

991

00:37:48,838 --> 00:37:50,381

JD Andrew: and the driving to the first show.

992

00:37:51,630 --> 00:37:53,055

JD Andrew: That's six, seven, eight, nine.

993

00:37:54,110 --> 00:37:56,597

JD Andrew: It's like 50 shows and 65 days.

994

00:37:57,990 --> 00:38:00,535

JD Andrew: People have stretches where we're playing

995

00:38:00,656 --> 00:38:04,043

JD Andrew: 10 nights in a row, or at least seven

996

00:38:04,123 --> 00:38:06,017

JD Andrew: nights in a row, or eight nights in a row.

997

00:38:06,130 --> 00:38:07,696

Marc Preston: I'm just getting tired even hearing that.

998

00:38:08,510 --> 00:38:11,116

Marc Preston: I'm getting exhausted hearing about that

999

00:38:11,176 --> 00:38:11,617

Marc Preston: schedule.

00:38:14,590 --> 00:38:16,836

JD Andrew: For us, it's like we're not going out to

00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:19,931

JD Andrew: have a vacation or have fun, we're going

00:38:19,991 --> 00:38:21,074

JD Andrew: out to go work.

00:38:23,110 --> 00:38:24,855

JD Andrew: The most fun part is playing a show.

00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:28,974

JD Andrew: For people it's like sitting around a hotel

00:38:29,034 --> 00:38:31,721

JD Andrew: room or going bowling.

00:38:33,372 --> 00:38:36,358

JD Andrew: That's entertaining, but at the same time

00:38:36,378 --> 00:38:37,260

JD Andrew: we're out there to work.

00:38:39,470 --> 00:38:41,035

JD Andrew: We're not doing this all year round.

00:38:42,430 --> 00:38:46,638

JD Andrew: We don't have the luxury of just playing

00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:47,961

JD Andrew: weekends or something like that.

00:38:49,750 --> 00:38:50,774

JD Andrew: We have to make the most of it.

00:38:51,630 --> 00:38:54,115

JD Andrew: We ride in a bus and it's all nine of us

00:38:54,355 --> 00:38:57,101

JD Andrew: and 10 of us in the bus, with a trailer

00:38:57,121 --> 00:38:57,542

JD Andrew: behind it.

00:38:58,992 --> 00:39:01,198

JD Andrew: Going, driving overnight, sleeping in the

00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,606

JD Andrew: bus, waking up in a different city and

00:39:03,766 --> 00:39:05,894

JD Andrew: getting out and putting on a show.

00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:07,653

Marc Preston: When I was younger, I always thought that

00:39:07,673 --> 00:39:09,159

Marc Preston: whenever I talk to bands I was like God,

00:39:09,210 --> 00:39:10,355

Marc Preston: that sounds like so much fun.

00:39:10,670 --> 00:39:12,474

Marc Preston: But I think the way somebody's 2021

00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:13,977

Marc Preston: probably perceives it a little bit

00:39:13,997 --> 00:39:14,999

Marc Preston: different than now.

00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:16,161

Marc Preston: Like you said, you're going to work.

00:39:16,322 --> 00:39:16,662

Marc Preston: Yeah, now.

00:39:17,370 --> 00:39:18,995

Billy Bob Thornton: Well, it is fun for the first couple of

00:39:19,055 --> 00:39:20,600

Billy Bob Thornton: weeks and the last couple of weeks.

00:39:20,770 --> 00:39:22,375

Billy Bob Thornton: Then somewhere in the middle you get really

00:39:22,455 --> 00:39:22,776

Billy Bob Thornton: tired.

00:39:25,512 --> 00:39:26,677

Billy Bob Thornton: But it switches back and forth.

00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:31,138

Billy Bob Thornton: Honestly, our mood on the bus is completely

00:39:31,218 --> 00:39:34,124

Billy Bob Thornton: influenced by how the show went that night.

00:39:35,634 --> 00:39:38,443

Billy Bob Thornton: If we had a crummy show, the mood on the

00:39:38,464 --> 00:39:39,366

Billy Bob Thornton: bus is crumbier.

00:39:39,607 --> 00:39:40,430

Billy Bob Thornton: You know what I mean.

00:39:40,852 --> 00:39:41,956

Billy Bob Thornton: It's kind of almost like athletic.

00:39:42,170 --> 00:39:44,697

Marc Preston: It's almost like a football team driving

00:39:44,737 --> 00:39:46,762

Marc Preston: back in high school, back from a game.

00:39:47,110 --> 00:39:48,475

Marc Preston: The vibe on the bus definitely is

00:39:48,515 --> 00:39:49,839

Marc Preston: predicated upon how they played.

00:39:50,452 --> 00:39:52,752

Billy Bob Thornton: Oh, no doubt about it, and fortunately for

00:39:52,872 --> 00:39:56,339

Billy Bob Thornton: us on our tours, probably 90% of the shows

00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:56,941

Billy Bob Thornton: are amazing.

00:39:58,470 --> 00:40:00,296

Billy Bob Thornton: We have fun and it's good and the crowds

00:40:00,336 --> 00:40:00,678

Billy Bob Thornton: are great.

00:40:01,290 --> 00:40:03,398

Billy Bob Thornton: You just run into one every now and then.

00:40:03,439 --> 00:40:04,282

Billy Bob Thornton: That's kind of like.

00:40:05,005 --> 00:40:06,933

Billy Bob Thornton: It looks like the promoter didn't do a lot

00:40:06,953 --> 00:40:07,656

Billy Bob Thornton: of work on this.

00:40:08,851 --> 00:40:11,237

Marc Preston: Well, in baseball, if you get on base, half

00:40:11,257 --> 00:40:12,379

Marc Preston: the time you're in the Hall of Fame.

00:40:14,510 --> 00:40:15,856

Marc Preston: And by the way, I don't know where this

00:40:15,876 --> 00:40:18,096

Marc Preston: came I do seem to remember your Cardinals

00:40:18,237 --> 00:40:18,457

Marc Preston: fan.

00:40:19,490 --> 00:40:21,174

Marc Preston: We must be really happy that, whatever kind

00:40:21,214 --> 00:40:23,178

Marc Preston: of mischief was going on with the MLB,

00:40:23,218 --> 00:40:24,181

Marc Preston: they're actually going to be playing, so

00:40:24,201 --> 00:40:25,003

Marc Preston: you're going to be happy now.

00:40:25,531 --> 00:40:26,977

Billy Bob Thornton: Yeah, what was subtle all that.

00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:29,595

JD Andrew: Yeah, it would have been a really lame

00:40:29,655 --> 00:40:30,597

JD Andrew: spring if we didn't have.

00:40:30,617 --> 00:40:33,892

JD Andrew: You know, if we're on tour and there's no

00:40:33,952 --> 00:40:36,864

JD Andrew: baseball, you know it's like there's really

00:40:36,904 --> 00:40:39,113

JD Andrew: no point in touring because that's how we

00:40:39,153 --> 00:40:39,956

JD Andrew: pass our days.

00:40:40,291 --> 00:40:42,580

JD Andrew: I mean, you know we get off.

00:40:42,641 --> 00:40:44,027

JD Andrew: You know before the show we're watching

00:40:44,067 --> 00:40:45,512

JD Andrew: baseball, after the show we're watching

00:40:45,552 --> 00:40:47,438

JD Andrew: baseball games or highlights or you know

00:40:47,459 --> 00:40:47,739

JD Andrew: whatever.

00:40:48,210 --> 00:40:51,837

JD Andrew: So it's really what kind of you know gets

00:40:51,917 --> 00:40:55,143

JD Andrew: us through all you know, life is watching

00:40:55,183 --> 00:40:55,463

JD Andrew: baseball.

00:40:56,351 --> 00:40:59,238

Billy Bob Thornton: Well, that, and the LPGA and the PGA.

00:40:59,298 --> 00:41:00,080

Billy Bob Thornton: We watch golf too.

00:41:01,431 --> 00:41:03,156

Marc Preston: But, gentlemen, I appreciate your time and

00:41:03,176 --> 00:41:05,383

Marc Preston: I always like to wrap up whenever I chat

00:41:05,403 --> 00:41:06,467

Marc Preston: with somebody I sometimes call the

00:41:06,507 --> 00:41:07,470

Marc Preston: Preston's Lucky Southern.

00:41:07,530 --> 00:41:08,432

Marc Preston: I just like to throw out a couple of

00:41:08,472 --> 00:41:08,833

Marc Preston: questions.

00:41:08,990 --> 00:41:09,794

Marc Preston: It's just a fun thing.

00:41:10,115 --> 00:41:12,783

Marc Preston: First question Billy Bob will send this

00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:13,104

Marc Preston: your way.

00:41:14,016 --> 00:41:14,979

Marc Preston: What is your favorite?

00:41:15,561 --> 00:41:17,558

Marc Preston: That comfort food, that thing, it's like it

00:41:17,598 --> 00:41:18,803

Marc Preston: just brings you right back home.

00:41:18,855 --> 00:41:20,301

Marc Preston: It's just the thing you're gonna have on

00:41:20,321 --> 00:41:20,662

Marc Preston: the bus.

00:41:20,955 --> 00:41:22,040

Marc Preston: You know, that thing you just need.

00:41:22,436 --> 00:41:23,492

Billy Bob Thornton: Ha, ha, ha ha ha.

00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:26,063

Billy Bob Thornton: I know JD's laughing because he's done it.

00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:28,483

Billy Bob Thornton: I eat like a bird.

00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:30,583

Billy Bob Thornton: I eat nuts and berries and seeds.

00:41:31,437 --> 00:41:35,006

Billy Bob Thornton: I'm mostly vegan but I do usually eat fish.

00:41:36,838 --> 00:41:40,116

Billy Bob Thornton: But in terms of comfort food, that I, if I

00:41:40,237 --> 00:41:42,577

Billy Bob Thornton: could have it and you know, these days

00:41:42,637 --> 00:41:44,263

Billy Bob Thornton: vegan restaurants have gotten really good,

00:41:44,355 --> 00:41:45,841

Billy Bob Thornton: so you can actually find it, and there's

00:41:45,941 --> 00:41:47,299

Billy Bob Thornton: one close to us where I can have it.

00:41:47,935 --> 00:41:49,943

Billy Bob Thornton: But the two things that I would obviously

00:41:50,276 --> 00:41:53,725

Billy Bob Thornton: always, absolutely have are macaroni and

00:41:53,745 --> 00:41:56,238

Billy Bob Thornton: cheese and fried okra, fried okra.

00:41:56,318 --> 00:41:56,941

Marc Preston: You hit a home run.

00:41:57,061 --> 00:41:59,402

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's my touching on the Texas heart,

00:41:59,442 --> 00:42:00,796

Marc Preston: right there, my daughter.

00:42:00,816 --> 00:42:02,121

Marc Preston: I found my daughter today at lunch.

00:42:02,141 --> 00:42:03,044

Marc Preston: You saw it on her calendar.

00:42:03,095 --> 00:42:04,320

Marc Preston: I said, oh, we got fried okra today.

00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:05,952

Marc Preston: Oh, wow.

00:42:06,175 --> 00:42:07,742

Marc Preston: And JD, now who are three people?

00:42:07,795 --> 00:42:08,920

Marc Preston: If you could sit down and have a cup of

00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,021

Marc Preston: coffee with anybody, who would you like to

00:42:11,061 --> 00:42:12,497

Marc Preston: sit down with and have conversation?

00:42:13,178 --> 00:42:13,759

JD Andrew: Three people.

00:42:17,666 --> 00:42:25,160

JD Andrew: Well, yeah, I mean, george Harrison's

00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:27,857

JD Andrew: always a, you know, intriguing guy to me.

00:42:31,542 --> 00:42:38,601

JD Andrew: I, mickey Mantle, was one of my favorite

00:42:39,162 --> 00:42:39,965

JD Andrew: baseball players.

00:42:40,285 --> 00:42:42,642

JD Andrew: You know that I never saw when I was a lot,

00:42:42,795 --> 00:42:44,502

JD Andrew: or when he, you know, growing up.

00:42:44,555 --> 00:42:46,421

JD Andrew: He was retired by the time I, you know,

00:42:46,461 --> 00:42:47,103

JD Andrew: knew who he was.

00:42:47,323 --> 00:42:47,985

Marc Preston: Yeah, it don't mean to catch him.

00:42:48,255 --> 00:42:50,102

Marc Preston: My father always used to go to a bar in

00:42:50,182 --> 00:42:53,016

Marc Preston: Dallas and always used to see him and I've

00:42:53,036 --> 00:42:55,478

Marc Preston: got a box in my studio here of a ton of

00:42:55,699 --> 00:42:57,436

Marc Preston: autographed Mickey Mantle stuff and I'm

00:42:57,456 --> 00:42:58,280

Marc Preston: like so need to get.

00:42:58,815 --> 00:43:00,281

Marc Preston: I mean, I need to get it framed, you know.

00:43:00,415 --> 00:43:02,918

Marc Preston: But I'm like I just ton of stuff that and

00:43:02,938 --> 00:43:05,639

Marc Preston: BB King, you know I'm going, I was moving

00:43:05,659 --> 00:43:07,084

Marc Preston: and I saw this box and like what's in here?

00:43:07,155 --> 00:43:08,900

Marc Preston: I'm like holy shit, I need to get this

00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:09,462

Marc Preston: stuff framed.

00:43:10,635 --> 00:43:12,901

Marc Preston: But but who are the so besides your wife

00:43:13,061 --> 00:43:14,525

Marc Preston: and Mickey Mantle?

00:43:15,295 --> 00:43:17,624

JD Andrew: Mickey Mantle, george Harrison and you know

00:43:17,655 --> 00:43:22,556

JD Andrew: let's for a historical person like a

00:43:22,616 --> 00:43:24,984

JD Andrew: Benjamin Franklin, somebody historical, you

00:43:25,004 --> 00:43:26,279

JD Andrew: know, let's have, you know, somebody that's

00:43:26,379 --> 00:43:29,441

JD Andrew: really, really was there at the dawn of our

00:43:29,481 --> 00:43:29,823

JD Andrew: country.

00:43:30,156 --> 00:43:31,160

Marc Preston: Yeah, it'll be nice to have a little

00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,857

Marc Preston: reminder these days, you know.

00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,960

JD Andrew: Exactly what, what, what were you guys

00:43:36,021 --> 00:43:37,919

JD Andrew: really thinking about when you were making

00:43:37,939 --> 00:43:38,321

JD Andrew: this up?

00:43:38,615 --> 00:43:39,961

Marc Preston: And let me tell you what's been happening

00:43:40,075 --> 00:43:41,019

Marc Preston: in the last couple hundred years.

00:43:43,361 --> 00:43:44,785

Marc Preston: Now, Billy Bob, who was your when you were

00:43:44,805 --> 00:43:46,916

Marc Preston: a kid, who was your celebrity crush, my

00:43:46,936 --> 00:43:47,880

Marc Preston: celebrity crush.

00:43:51,135 --> 00:43:54,725

Billy Bob Thornton: Well, as a young kid it was a Suzanne

00:43:54,745 --> 00:44:02,522

Billy Bob Thornton: Plashette and Eva Gardner, and when I got a

00:44:02,562 --> 00:44:03,805

Billy Bob Thornton: little older, it was Betty.

00:44:03,846 --> 00:44:04,227

Marc Preston: Page.

00:44:05,235 --> 00:44:05,957

Marc Preston: You know that fits.

00:44:06,238 --> 00:44:07,923

Marc Preston: That fits with the Boxmasters vibe right

00:44:07,944 --> 00:44:08,084

Marc Preston: there.

00:44:08,655 --> 00:44:09,860

Marc Preston: I kind of think you know that's.

00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:11,340

Marc Preston: I see a theme developing.

00:44:11,975 --> 00:44:13,741

Marc Preston: And JD, now, if now it's gonna be a

00:44:13,781 --> 00:44:15,558

Marc Preston: Sophie's Choice thing for you, already I

00:44:15,598 --> 00:44:15,940

Marc Preston: can tell.

00:44:16,095 --> 00:44:17,721

Marc Preston: But if you're gonna be on an island one

00:44:17,761 --> 00:44:21,503

Marc Preston: year, you gotta you can bring one DVD and

00:44:21,663 --> 00:44:22,445

Marc Preston: one album with you.

00:44:22,995 --> 00:44:24,601

Marc Preston: What are those two things gonna be for one

00:44:24,641 --> 00:44:24,781

Marc Preston: year?

00:44:24,982 --> 00:44:27,842

JD Andrew: Wow, one DVD.

00:44:31,975 --> 00:44:33,762

JD Andrew: Well, yeah, it's not that hard.

00:44:33,995 --> 00:44:36,424

JD Andrew: Hoosiers is my favorite movie of all time

00:44:36,555 --> 00:44:38,983

JD Andrew: and I can watch it every single time it's

00:44:39,183 --> 00:44:41,000

JD Andrew: on and just put it on repeat.

00:44:43,555 --> 00:44:54,020

JD Andrew: And for album, man, let's just go with.

00:44:54,402 --> 00:44:56,161

JD Andrew: You know, I'd want something fun that I'm

00:44:56,261 --> 00:44:59,583

JD Andrew: only you know, since I can only listen to

00:44:59,884 --> 00:45:00,526

JD Andrew: the one record.

00:45:00,715 --> 00:45:04,565

JD Andrew: So let's do like Endless Summer by the

00:45:04,585 --> 00:45:05,086

JD Andrew: Beach Boys.

00:45:05,835 --> 00:45:10,559

Marc Preston: Very nice, very nice Something that'll give

00:45:10,579 --> 00:45:11,202

Marc Preston: me a good mood.

00:45:11,475 --> 00:45:13,141

Marc Preston: Well, there will be margaritas on this

00:45:13,282 --> 00:45:13,523

Marc Preston: island.

00:45:13,655 --> 00:45:15,221

Marc Preston: Just you know there will be a margarita

00:45:15,241 --> 00:45:16,660

Marc Preston: machine, so that'll work perfectly.

00:45:16,895 --> 00:45:18,381

JD Andrew: Great, yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:45:18,835 --> 00:45:20,615

Marc Preston: Now, billy Bob, if you were to like, from

00:45:20,635 --> 00:45:23,118

Marc Preston: the time you get up, how would you define a

00:45:23,178 --> 00:45:24,062

Marc Preston: perfect day for you?

00:45:24,475 --> 00:45:25,138

Marc Preston: Stem to stern.

00:45:25,198 --> 00:45:26,102

Marc Preston: What would be that day?

00:45:26,195 --> 00:45:27,380

Marc Preston: What would be going on for you?

00:45:29,675 --> 00:45:33,606

Billy Bob Thornton: When the blueberries are ripe for breakfast.

00:45:36,655 --> 00:45:40,284

Billy Bob Thornton: We didn't forget to order Almond Creamer

00:45:40,425 --> 00:45:44,501

Billy Bob Thornton: for the coffee, then having lunch with my

00:45:44,561 --> 00:45:46,556

Billy Bob Thornton: daughter, coming down to the studio, down

00:45:46,596 --> 00:45:49,219

Billy Bob Thornton: the hill, to the studio, recording with JD

00:45:50,743 --> 00:45:55,403

Billy Bob Thornton: until about midnight and going to bed and

00:45:55,443 --> 00:45:56,747

Billy Bob Thornton: doing the same thing over again.

00:45:56,955 --> 00:45:58,420

Billy Bob Thornton: I like recording and hanging out with

00:45:58,460 --> 00:45:59,363

Billy Bob Thornton: family, essentially.

00:46:00,356 --> 00:46:01,180

Marc Preston: I'm very much the same way.

00:46:01,215 --> 00:46:01,938

Marc Preston: It's about family.

00:46:01,998 --> 00:46:03,524

Marc Preston: For me this is a side question.

00:46:03,956 --> 00:46:05,983

Marc Preston: How did you navigate with your little one

00:46:06,023 --> 00:46:07,880

Marc Preston: there she's in high school with the

00:46:08,041 --> 00:46:08,503

Marc Preston: pandemic?

00:46:08,735 --> 00:46:10,843

Marc Preston: Did that go relatively smoothly for you?

00:46:11,576 --> 00:46:15,217

Billy Bob Thornton: Well, she's always been homeschooled so it

00:46:15,237 --> 00:46:16,944

Billy Bob Thornton: didn't really change anything for her.

00:46:17,115 --> 00:46:19,343

Billy Bob Thornton: So our schedule was really pretty much the

00:46:19,403 --> 00:46:21,139

Billy Bob Thornton: same during the lockdown, as it was

00:46:21,380 --> 00:46:21,741

Billy Bob Thornton: normally.

00:46:23,275 --> 00:46:24,942

Billy Bob Thornton: Like I said, we don't go many places.

00:46:25,115 --> 00:46:28,605

Billy Bob Thornton: My wife goes out more than my daughter and

00:46:28,645 --> 00:46:28,665

Billy Bob Thornton: I.

00:46:29,435 --> 00:46:32,304

Billy Bob Thornton: She goes to the store and shops and stuff

00:46:32,344 --> 00:46:35,043

Billy Bob Thornton: like that, but we pretty much stay at home

00:46:35,456 --> 00:46:38,665

Billy Bob Thornton: and we have a lot our friends and family

00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:40,857

Billy Bob Thornton: coming over to the house a lot, so most of

00:46:40,937 --> 00:46:42,222

Billy Bob Thornton: our social events are here.

00:46:43,795 --> 00:46:45,041

Marc Preston: I think we're cut from the same cloth.

00:46:46,779 --> 00:46:48,844

Marc Preston: I like my space and people, come over, I'll

00:46:48,884 --> 00:46:49,385

Marc Preston: entertain.

00:46:49,465 --> 00:46:50,187

Marc Preston: I like it like that.

00:46:50,355 --> 00:46:51,578

Marc Preston: But real quick, JD.

00:46:51,658 --> 00:46:55,175

Marc Preston: Now if, besides being the rock star, you

00:46:55,235 --> 00:46:56,500

Marc Preston: are an engineer?

00:46:56,861 --> 00:46:58,057

Marc Preston: If you weren't doing this, what would you

00:46:58,097 --> 00:46:58,860

Marc Preston: be doing for a living?

00:46:59,495 --> 00:47:00,718

JD Andrew: I've never had another.

00:47:02,482 --> 00:47:04,977

Marc Preston: I never really had a fallback, you know I

00:47:05,037 --> 00:47:06,538

Marc Preston: kind of Well, isn't that how you know

00:47:06,558 --> 00:47:07,281

Marc Preston: you're doing the right thing?

00:47:07,675 --> 00:47:08,418

Marc Preston: Right there, you know.

00:47:10,660 --> 00:47:12,405

JD Andrew: I mean I had the choice.

00:47:12,755 --> 00:47:13,820

JD Andrew: It's like going to college.

00:47:13,935 --> 00:47:16,304

JD Andrew: It was like, do I go to college for music

00:47:16,435 --> 00:47:18,242

JD Andrew: or do I go to college to play baseball?

00:47:18,915 --> 00:47:19,837

JD Andrew: So I chose music.

00:47:21,261 --> 00:47:29,902

JD Andrew: And then I Initially it wasn't to make

00:47:29,982 --> 00:47:31,940

JD Andrew: records, but at some point I had the

00:47:32,421 --> 00:47:33,705

JD Andrew: epiphany sort of thing.

00:47:33,775 --> 00:47:36,696

JD Andrew: It's like I want to make records, that's

00:47:36,736 --> 00:47:37,358

JD Andrew: what I want to do.

00:47:38,075 --> 00:47:39,862

JD Andrew: And so then I kind of went on the path of

00:47:39,902 --> 00:47:41,360

JD Andrew: like, okay, how do I make records?

00:47:41,875 --> 00:47:45,576

JD Andrew: And so I got myself into that place and I

00:47:45,616 --> 00:47:49,296

JD Andrew: really I never had another you know like

00:47:49,456 --> 00:47:51,222

JD Andrew: I'm supposed to do something else kind of

00:47:51,262 --> 00:47:51,603

JD Andrew: plan.

00:47:52,316 --> 00:47:54,923

JD Andrew: It was always, you know, like, get into the

00:47:54,963 --> 00:47:58,078

JD Andrew: music business, get into this recording

00:47:58,119 --> 00:47:58,680

JD Andrew: studios.

00:48:00,055 --> 00:48:02,763

JD Andrew: You know I'd kind of not anticipated making

00:48:02,843 --> 00:48:07,525

JD Andrew: music, you know, as a musician, but I, you

00:48:07,545 --> 00:48:09,743

JD Andrew: know, now that you know that's what I do,

00:48:10,416 --> 00:48:14,226

JD Andrew: it's kind of what I, I guess, always kind

00:48:14,286 --> 00:48:16,199

JD Andrew: of I actually acting.

00:48:16,219 --> 00:48:18,245

Marc Preston: I keep hearing people say throughout my

00:48:18,305 --> 00:48:19,920

Marc Preston: life like if you can't imagine doing

00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,618

Marc Preston: something else, that's how you know you're

00:48:21,638 --> 00:48:22,261

Marc Preston: doing the right thing.

00:48:22,855 --> 00:48:26,765

Marc Preston: But last question Billy Bob, you got the

00:48:26,806 --> 00:48:28,519

Marc Preston: DeLorean your crews are back to when you're

00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:28,981

Marc Preston: 16.

00:48:29,395 --> 00:48:30,941

Marc Preston: What is that piece of advice you're going

00:48:30,961 --> 00:48:32,257

Marc Preston: to drop to yourself that you're like?

00:48:32,377 --> 00:48:33,682

Marc Preston: I need to know this at that age.

00:48:34,395 --> 00:48:35,459

Marc Preston: Gonna, put me on a right track.

00:48:36,535 --> 00:48:38,341

Billy Bob Thornton: What you heard, you think to be, honest,

00:48:38,421 --> 00:48:42,164

Billy Bob Thornton: exactly A piece of advice that I wish I had.

00:48:42,355 --> 00:48:44,517

Marc Preston: Yeah, if you can go back in time to say I

00:48:44,618 --> 00:48:46,469

Marc Preston: wish I you know if I can go back in time.

00:48:46,595 --> 00:48:48,502

Marc Preston: I'm going to tell 16 year old me this thing.

00:48:49,415 --> 00:48:54,388

Billy Bob Thornton: I would say just remember, whim is a bad

00:48:54,448 --> 00:48:54,769

Billy Bob Thornton: word.

00:48:55,135 --> 00:48:57,062

Marc Preston: Whim is a bad word, I am.

00:48:58,555 --> 00:49:00,161

Marc Preston: Gentlemen again, thank you so much.

00:49:00,201 --> 00:49:00,863

Marc Preston: It means a lot to me.

00:49:01,055 --> 00:49:02,200

Marc Preston: It's a pleasure to meet both of y'all

00:49:02,535 --> 00:49:04,641

Marc Preston: Virtually been doing that a lot the last

00:49:04,681 --> 00:49:07,035

Marc Preston: couple of years, but thank you again and

00:49:07,055 --> 00:49:08,501

Marc Preston: y'all have an absolutely killer tour.

00:49:08,582 --> 00:49:10,100

Marc Preston: Okay, and best of luck on the new album, of

00:49:10,140 --> 00:49:10,361

Marc Preston: course.

00:49:13,182 --> 00:49:15,840

Marc Preston: Okay, that was cool, I ain't gonna lie, it

00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:16,502

Marc Preston: was very cool.

00:49:16,635 --> 00:49:18,661

Marc Preston: Billy Bob Thornton, jd Andrew the

00:49:18,742 --> 00:49:22,521

Marc Preston: Boxmasters what a real pleasure it was to

00:49:22,581 --> 00:49:24,526

Marc Preston: have those two guys on.

00:49:24,975 --> 00:49:26,622

Marc Preston: Glad you had a chance to check it out.

00:49:27,497 --> 00:49:30,596

Marc Preston: I'm glad to have you, as well as always and

00:49:30,676 --> 00:49:31,780

Marc Preston: great interviews coming.

00:49:32,675 --> 00:49:35,845

Marc Preston: Going to have a great director on soon.

00:49:35,955 --> 00:49:38,057

Marc Preston: One of my favorite directors Gonna be

00:49:38,097 --> 00:49:40,801

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00:49:40,841 --> 00:49:41,664

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00:49:42,195 --> 00:49:44,101

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00:49:44,242 --> 00:49:44,744

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00:49:45,195 --> 00:49:47,276

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