Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters | Stories from "Help...I'm Alive" | The Zen of the Set List
Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton and JD Andrew of The Boxmasters join us on Story & Craft to talk about their album "Help...I'm Alive."
Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton and JD Andrew of The Boxmasters join us on Story & Craft to talk about their album "Help...I'm Alive."
Billy Bob's work runs from "Sling Blade" and "Bad Santa" to "Fargo," "Goliath" and Paramount+'s "1883." He formed The Boxmasters with JD Andrew in 2007. We talk about music, touring, and how making a record compares to making a movie.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Billy Bob Thornton and J.D. Andrew join Story & Craft
0:01:39 - Thornton on Music and Film
0:08:41 - Formation of a Band With Influences
0:16:27 - Recording Process
0:19:09 - Recording Music in Live Settings
0:22:17 - Indie Record Stores and Vinyl Value
0:27:21 - ZZ Top's Influence on Texas Tours
0:32:59 - Current Musical Influences
0:46:52 - Pursuing Passion in Music Industry
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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: So and hey, by the way, head to
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Marc Preston: And, of course, you can find all the social
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Marc Preston: You know, it's all your friends.
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Marc Preston: Hey, I just listened to this really odd cat
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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: 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: 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: 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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Marc Preston: Yeah, I kind of picked up on that little
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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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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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Marc Preston: But y'all been together long enough, y'all
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Billy Bob Thornton: immediately, in our case anyway, it's
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Billy Bob Thornton: probably something wrong with it.
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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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Billy Bob Thornton: in the world because my partner in the band
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Billy Bob Thornton: is a world-class recording engineer.
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Marc Preston: So there's a lot of efficiency built into
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Marc Preston: that process.
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Marc Preston: I'm sure you know it's.
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Marc Preston: You can, because you can think of, like the
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Marc Preston: post, what's going to happen and you can
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Marc Preston: kind of fix it, you know, as you're doing
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Marc Preston: it.
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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, yeah, we have a thing, J D Is it?
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Billy Bob Thornton: You know we don't have anybody else that we
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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
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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
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Billy Bob Thornton: know it.
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Billy Bob Thornton: And you know we can look at each other and
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Billy Bob Thornton: go, ah, maybe we need to, we need to add
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Billy Bob Thornton: this, take that away by.
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Billy Bob Thornton: You know we need to recut it whatever it is.
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Billy Bob Thornton: You know we're pretty In agreement on that
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Billy Bob Thornton: stuff.
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JD Andrew: Yeah, I mean, we know ourselves, you know,
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JD Andrew: we know what we're always pushing ourselves,
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JD Andrew: you know, to like, you know, do something
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JD Andrew: better.
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JD Andrew: You know like, you know, not necessarily
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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
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JD Andrew: know one of the ways you know we Try to
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JD Andrew: keep.
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JD Andrew: You know, the band sounding live, you know,
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JD Andrew: as a two-piece band who's just stacking
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JD Andrew: things on top Is, you know we'll.
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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JD Andrew: to just sit in there and rip things apart.
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JD Andrew: You know, like these, you know you can just
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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
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JD Andrew: that's Everything that we, you know, don't
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JD Andrew: like about music.
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JD Andrew: We like, you know, dynamics and feeling and
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JD Andrew: and Looseness and tightness at the same
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JD Andrew: time.
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JD Andrew: You know it's like all these things that
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JD Andrew: make music feel good.
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JD Andrew: You know it's like it all comes from
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JD Andrew: playing an instrument.
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JD Andrew: You know and you know playing it with
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JD Andrew: feeling and emotion and all that.
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Billy Bob Thornton: So you know, we're a band with a, we're a
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Billy Bob Thornton: band with a, a lead vocalist, a guitar
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Billy Bob Thornton: player and drummer, and that's and we do
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Billy Bob Thornton: takes until we get one and then.
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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
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Marc Preston: of kind of sussing it out.
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Marc Preston: What it is that y'all want to do.
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Marc Preston: It is such a cool, unique sound y'all have.
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Marc Preston: What is the on ramp that you're finding
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Marc Preston: that?
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Marc Preston: How people discover you?
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Marc Preston: Are they coming from rockabilly country?
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Marc Preston: Are they coming from kind of a classic rock?
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Marc Preston: The people that discover you that kind of
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Marc Preston: fall in love with you, the people you're
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Marc Preston: seeing when you're on stage, how are they
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Marc Preston: typically finding you?
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Marc Preston: What's their on ramp?
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Billy Bob Thornton: I think a lot of it.
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Billy Bob Thornton: Our fans are people who are fans of the
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Billy Bob Thornton: stuff that influenced us.
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Billy Bob Thornton: Actually, I mean it's.
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Billy Bob Thornton: We have a lot of fans of classic rock and
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Billy Bob Thornton: british invasion.
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Billy Bob Thornton: Uh, we have some from the americana world.
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Billy Bob Thornton: So I would say anywhere from the sort of
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Billy Bob Thornton: indie music you know through classic rock
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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
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Marc Preston: kind of discovering some of that Music and
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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
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Marc Preston: some of that same kind of music.
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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
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JD Andrew: world on their phones and so you know if,
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JD Andrew: uh, they just get it somehow.
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JD Andrew: If this song pops up you know for them and
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JD Andrew: they like that, then they'll go and and
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JD Andrew: search out more and they've got the ways to
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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
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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
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JD Andrew: can, we, you know, do things with indie
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JD Andrew: record stores and, um, just go to them when
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JD Andrew: we're on the road.
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JD Andrew: You know we'll go and hang out and, you
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JD Andrew: know, check out what they got.
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JD Andrew: But at the same time, you know we're it,
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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.
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JD Andrew: This.
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JD Andrew: You know, any of you know it's like
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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
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JD Andrew: find this song.
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JD Andrew: You know, some, there was something
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JD Andrew: interesting in it.
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JD Andrew: You know, like, like a couple weeks ago we
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JD Andrew: were listening to Dell Shannon's I mean, we
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JD Andrew: were listening to runaway and it was like,
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JD Andrew: and then it's like listening to that and
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JD Andrew: it's like what was that sound that was
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JD Andrew: playing the solo in the, you know,
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JD Andrew: instrumental section, being able to look
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JD Andrew: that up and find out.
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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,
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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
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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
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JD Andrew: flip through the records and and just find
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JD Andrew: all these treasures.
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JD Andrew: You know, it's like.
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JD Andrew: It's like that's why we both have boxes of
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JD Andrew: CDs and vinyl just sitting around in
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JD Andrew: quarters of our houses.
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JD Andrew: You know, it's like these are our treasures
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JD Andrew: that we grew up with, you know, and it's
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JD Andrew: like we can't imagine getting rid of them
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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
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Marc Preston: grew up in that era of Just, it was just
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Marc Preston: post vinyl and cassette.
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Marc Preston: So I like was deep, like when I was in high
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Marc Preston: school it was all cassette and when CD
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Marc Preston: rolled as I go, thank god something better
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Marc Preston: than cassette.
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Marc Preston: Now Vinyl's back again, which is, like I
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Marc Preston: think, really cool and and because I think
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Marc Preston: what was lost Is the whole zen of the album
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Marc Preston: art, you know, I thought that was just the
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Marc Preston: coolest thing.
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Marc Preston: It was part of the collection, not just the
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Marc Preston: music.
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Marc Preston: Now, as far as the album art goes, how much
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Marc Preston: input do you all have on that?
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Marc Preston: Do you all have a process that y'all?
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Marc Preston: Y'all got somebody you like to use?
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Marc Preston: Or I've always been curious how do bands
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Marc Preston: decide on the album art?
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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, we do have people, obviously, that
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Billy Bob Thornton: help us, because we're not.
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Billy Bob Thornton: Neither one of us are artists.
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Billy Bob Thornton: We can barely write our own names.
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Billy Bob Thornton: But we have a guy named Matt Cullen who has.
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Billy Bob Thornton: We give him the basic idea, here's the kind
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Billy Bob Thornton: of cover, and we'll give him examples of
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Billy Bob Thornton: other album covers that we've seen that
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Billy Bob Thornton: we're trying to get at.
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Billy Bob Thornton: So he's done a few albums with us and then
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Billy Bob Thornton: this latest one, help of the Live, the one
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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
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Billy Bob Thornton: he's an artist and we just said, hey, you
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Billy Bob Thornton: know, we just took a picture of Jayie, a
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Billy Bob Thornton: picture of me, and said, chris, could you
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Billy Bob Thornton: do like a pencil drawing of this, because
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Billy Bob Thornton: we just want that kind of art on this
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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.
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JD Andrew: I've learned enough Photoshop to be able to
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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
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JD Andrew: we stuck it on there and it's like okay, I
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JD Andrew: typed out the words.
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JD Andrew: It's like, okay, let's find a font that
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JD Andrew: looks all right, you know.
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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
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JD Andrew: these other guys that are, you know, doing
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JD Andrew: the heavy lifting part of it, but the the
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JD Andrew: you know boring part of it, like picking
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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
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JD Andrew: know, I can't remember what color I had
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JD Andrew: first and Billy's like, well, why don't you
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JD Andrew: try turquoise?
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JD Andrew: It's like, okay, great, let's try that.
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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
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Marc Preston: did like.
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Marc Preston: Even the logo kind of reminds me of it.
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Marc Preston: It's a callback, it's just, it's just kind
695
00:26:14,768 --> 00:26:15,170
Marc Preston: of cool.
696
00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:16,950
Marc Preston: You know, it's something I remember, and
697
00:26:17,190 --> 00:26:19,136
Marc Preston: even the on the previous stuff y'all've
698
00:26:19,156 --> 00:26:21,391
Marc Preston: done, even the way y'all y'all dressed, it
699
00:26:21,592 --> 00:26:22,314
Marc Preston: was just kind of cool.
700
00:26:22,805 --> 00:26:24,353
Marc Preston: It's a cool callback, and I can't think of
701
00:26:24,393 --> 00:26:25,740
Marc Preston: another adjective besides cool.
702
00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:27,868
JD Andrew: but definitely You're saying we're not cool,
703
00:26:27,943 --> 00:26:29,872
JD Andrew: so we just have to like, use other.
704
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Marc Preston: You know your secret is safe with me.
705
00:26:32,785 --> 00:26:34,773
Marc Preston: I'm curious though now, as a native Texan,
706
00:26:34,954 --> 00:26:37,625
Marc Preston: I got to ask you, billy, you know, do you
707
00:26:37,645 --> 00:26:38,046
Marc Preston: like to go by?
708
00:26:38,167 --> 00:26:39,451
Marc Preston: Do you go by Billy, bob or Billy?
709
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Billy Bob Thornton: Billy or Bud.
710
00:26:42,646 --> 00:26:46,249
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.
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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
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00:26:59,051 --> 00:26:59,252
Marc Preston: that.
719
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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
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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
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Marc Preston: You know he had he was.
793
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Marc Preston: He was Billy.
794
00:30:07,653 --> 00:30:09,158
Marc Preston: You know Absolutely.
795
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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JD Andrew: For us, it's like we're not going out to
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00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:19,931
JD Andrew: have a vacation or have fun, we're going
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00:38:19,991 --> 00:38:21,074
JD Andrew: out to go work.
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00:38:23,110 --> 00:38:24,855
JD Andrew: The most fun part is playing a show.
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00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:28,974
JD Andrew: For people it's like sitting around a hotel
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00:38:29,034 --> 00:38:31,721
JD Andrew: room or going bowling.
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00:38:33,372 --> 00:38:36,358
JD Andrew: That's entertaining, but at the same time
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00:38:36,378 --> 00:38:37,260
JD Andrew: we're out there to work.
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00:38:39,470 --> 00:38:41,035
JD Andrew: We're not doing this all year round.
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00:38:42,430 --> 00:38:46,638
JD Andrew: We don't have the luxury of just playing
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00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:47,961
JD Andrew: weekends or something like that.
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00:38:49,750 --> 00:38:50,774
JD Andrew: We have to make the most of it.
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00:38:51,630 --> 00:38:54,115
JD Andrew: We ride in a bus and it's all nine of us
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00:38:54,355 --> 00:38:57,101
JD Andrew: and 10 of us in the bus, with a trailer
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00:38:57,121 --> 00:38:57,542
JD Andrew: behind it.
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00:38:58,992 --> 00:39:01,198
JD Andrew: Going, driving overnight, sleeping in the
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00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,606
JD Andrew: bus, waking up in a different city and
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00:39:03,766 --> 00:39:05,894
JD Andrew: getting out and putting on a show.
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00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:07,653
Marc Preston: When I was younger, I always thought that
Speaker:
00:39:07,673 --> 00:39:09,159
Marc Preston: whenever I talk to bands I was like God,
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00:39:09,210 --> 00:39:10,355
Marc Preston: that sounds like so much fun.
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00:39:10,670 --> 00:39:12,474
Marc Preston: But I think the way somebody's 2021
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00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:13,977
Marc Preston: probably perceives it a little bit
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00:39:13,997 --> 00:39:14,999
Marc Preston: different than now.
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00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:16,161
Marc Preston: Like you said, you're going to work.
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00:39:16,322 --> 00:39:16,662
Marc Preston: Yeah, now.
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00:39:17,370 --> 00:39:18,995
Billy Bob Thornton: Well, it is fun for the first couple of
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00:39:19,055 --> 00:39:20,600
Billy Bob Thornton: weeks and the last couple of weeks.
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00:39:20,770 --> 00:39:22,375
Billy Bob Thornton: Then somewhere in the middle you get really
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00:39:22,455 --> 00:39:22,776
Billy Bob Thornton: tired.
Speaker:
00:39:25,512 --> 00:39:26,677
Billy Bob Thornton: But it switches back and forth.
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00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:31,138
Billy Bob Thornton: Honestly, our mood on the bus is completely
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00:39:31,218 --> 00:39:34,124
Billy Bob Thornton: influenced by how the show went that night.
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00:39:35,634 --> 00:39:38,443
Billy Bob Thornton: If we had a crummy show, the mood on the
Speaker:
00:39:38,464 --> 00:39:39,366
Billy Bob Thornton: bus is crumbier.
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00:39:39,607 --> 00:39:40,430
Billy Bob Thornton: You know what I mean.
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00:39:40,852 --> 00:39:41,956
Billy Bob Thornton: It's kind of almost like athletic.
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00:39:42,170 --> 00:39:44,697
Marc Preston: It's almost like a football team driving
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00:39:44,737 --> 00:39:46,762
Marc Preston: back in high school, back from a game.
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00:39:47,110 --> 00:39:48,475
Marc Preston: The vibe on the bus definitely is
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00:39:48,515 --> 00:39:49,839
Marc Preston: predicated upon how they played.
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00:39:50,452 --> 00:39:52,752
Billy Bob Thornton: Oh, no doubt about it, and fortunately for
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00:39:52,872 --> 00:39:56,339
Billy Bob Thornton: us on our tours, probably 90% of the shows
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00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:56,941
Billy Bob Thornton: are amazing.
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00:39:58,470 --> 00:40:00,296
Billy Bob Thornton: We have fun and it's good and the crowds
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00:40:00,336 --> 00:40:00,678
Billy Bob Thornton: are great.
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00:40:01,290 --> 00:40:03,398
Billy Bob Thornton: You just run into one every now and then.
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00:40:03,439 --> 00:40:04,282
Billy Bob Thornton: That's kind of like.
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00:40:05,005 --> 00:40:06,933
Billy Bob Thornton: It looks like the promoter didn't do a lot
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00:40:06,953 --> 00:40:07,656
Billy Bob Thornton: of work on this.
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00:40:08,851 --> 00:40:11,237
Marc Preston: Well, in baseball, if you get on base, half
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00:40:11,257 --> 00:40:12,379
Marc Preston: the time you're in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker:
00:40:14,510 --> 00:40:15,856
Marc Preston: And by the way, I don't know where this
Speaker:
00:40:15,876 --> 00:40:18,096
Marc Preston: came I do seem to remember your Cardinals
Speaker:
00:40:18,237 --> 00:40:18,457
Marc Preston: fan.
Speaker:
00:40:19,490 --> 00:40:21,174
Marc Preston: We must be really happy that, whatever kind
Speaker:
00:40:21,214 --> 00:40:23,178
Marc Preston: of mischief was going on with the MLB,
Speaker:
00:40:23,218 --> 00:40:24,181
Marc Preston: they're actually going to be playing, so
Speaker:
00:40:24,201 --> 00:40:25,003
Marc Preston: you're going to be happy now.
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00:40:25,531 --> 00:40:26,977
Billy Bob Thornton: Yeah, what was subtle all that.
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00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:29,595
JD Andrew: Yeah, it would have been a really lame
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00:40:29,655 --> 00:40:30,597
JD Andrew: spring if we didn't have.
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00:40:30,617 --> 00:40:33,892
JD Andrew: You know, if we're on tour and there's no
Speaker:
00:40:33,952 --> 00:40:36,864
JD Andrew: baseball, you know it's like there's really
Speaker:
00:40:36,904 --> 00:40:39,113
JD Andrew: no point in touring because that's how we
Speaker:
00:40:39,153 --> 00:40:39,956
JD Andrew: pass our days.
Speaker:
00:40:40,291 --> 00:40:42,580
JD Andrew: I mean, you know we get off.
Speaker:
00:40:42,641 --> 00:40:44,027
JD Andrew: You know before the show we're watching
Speaker:
00:40:44,067 --> 00:40:45,512
JD Andrew: baseball, after the show we're watching
Speaker:
00:40:45,552 --> 00:40:47,438
JD Andrew: baseball games or highlights or you know
Speaker:
00:40:47,459 --> 00:40:47,739
JD Andrew: whatever.
Speaker:
00:40:48,210 --> 00:40:51,837
JD Andrew: So it's really what kind of you know gets
Speaker:
00:40:51,917 --> 00:40:55,143
JD Andrew: us through all you know, life is watching
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00:40:55,183 --> 00:40:55,463
JD Andrew: baseball.
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00:40:56,351 --> 00:40:59,238
Billy Bob Thornton: Well, that, and the LPGA and the PGA.
Speaker:
00:40:59,298 --> 00:41:00,080
Billy Bob Thornton: We watch golf too.
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00:41:01,431 --> 00:41:03,156
Marc Preston: But, gentlemen, I appreciate your time and
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00:41:03,176 --> 00:41:05,383
Marc Preston: I always like to wrap up whenever I chat
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00:41:05,403 --> 00:41:06,467
Marc Preston: with somebody I sometimes call the
Speaker:
00:41:06,507 --> 00:41:07,470
Marc Preston: Preston's Lucky Southern.
Speaker:
00:41:07,530 --> 00:41:08,432
Marc Preston: I just like to throw out a couple of
Speaker:
00:41:08,472 --> 00:41:08,833
Marc Preston: questions.
Speaker:
00:41:08,990 --> 00:41:09,794
Marc Preston: It's just a fun thing.
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00:41:10,115 --> 00:41:12,783
Marc Preston: First question Billy Bob will send this
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00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:13,104
Marc Preston: your way.
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00:41:14,016 --> 00:41:14,979
Marc Preston: What is your favorite?
Speaker:
00:41:15,561 --> 00:41:17,558
Marc Preston: That comfort food, that thing, it's like it
Speaker:
00:41:17,598 --> 00:41:18,803
Marc Preston: just brings you right back home.
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00:41:18,855 --> 00:41:20,301
Marc Preston: It's just the thing you're gonna have on
Speaker:
00:41:20,321 --> 00:41:20,662
Marc Preston: the bus.
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00:41:20,955 --> 00:41:22,040
Marc Preston: You know, that thing you just need.
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00:41:22,436 --> 00:41:23,492
Billy Bob Thornton: Ha, ha, ha ha ha.
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00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:26,063
Billy Bob Thornton: I know JD's laughing because he's done it.
Speaker:
00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:28,483
Billy Bob Thornton: I eat like a bird.
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00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:30,583
Billy Bob Thornton: I eat nuts and berries and seeds.
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00:41:31,437 --> 00:41:35,006
Billy Bob Thornton: I'm mostly vegan but I do usually eat fish.
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00:41:36,838 --> 00:41:40,116
Billy Bob Thornton: But in terms of comfort food, that I, if I
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00:41:40,237 --> 00:41:42,577
Billy Bob Thornton: could have it and you know, these days
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00:41:42,637 --> 00:41:44,263
Billy Bob Thornton: vegan restaurants have gotten really good,
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00:41:44,355 --> 00:41:45,841
Billy Bob Thornton: so you can actually find it, and there's
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00:41:45,941 --> 00:41:47,299
Billy Bob Thornton: one close to us where I can have it.
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00:41:47,935 --> 00:41:49,943
Billy Bob Thornton: But the two things that I would obviously
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00:41:50,276 --> 00:41:53,725
Billy Bob Thornton: always, absolutely have are macaroni and
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00:41:53,745 --> 00:41:56,238
Billy Bob Thornton: cheese and fried okra, fried okra.
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00:41:56,318 --> 00:41:56,941
Marc Preston: You hit a home run.
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00:41:57,061 --> 00:41:59,402
Marc Preston: Yeah, that's my touching on the Texas heart,
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00:41:59,442 --> 00:42:00,796
Marc Preston: right there, my daughter.
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00:42:00,816 --> 00:42:02,121
Marc Preston: I found my daughter today at lunch.
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00:42:02,141 --> 00:42:03,044
Marc Preston: You saw it on her calendar.
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00:42:03,095 --> 00:42:04,320
Marc Preston: I said, oh, we got fried okra today.
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00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:05,952
Marc Preston: Oh, wow.
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00:42:06,175 --> 00:42:07,742
Marc Preston: And JD, now who are three people?
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00:42:07,795 --> 00:42:08,920
Marc Preston: If you could sit down and have a cup of
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00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,021
Marc Preston: coffee with anybody, who would you like to
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00:42:11,061 --> 00:42:12,497
Marc Preston: sit down with and have conversation?
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00:42:13,178 --> 00:42:13,759
JD Andrew: Three people.
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00:42:17,666 --> 00:42:25,160
JD Andrew: Well, yeah, I mean, george Harrison's
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00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:27,857
JD Andrew: always a, you know, intriguing guy to me.
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00:42:31,542 --> 00:42:38,601
JD Andrew: I, mickey Mantle, was one of my favorite
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00:42:39,162 --> 00:42:39,965
JD Andrew: baseball players.
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00:42:40,285 --> 00:42:42,642
JD Andrew: You know that I never saw when I was a lot,
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00:42:42,795 --> 00:42:44,502
JD Andrew: or when he, you know, growing up.
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00:42:44,555 --> 00:42:46,421
JD Andrew: He was retired by the time I, you know,
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00:42:46,461 --> 00:42:47,103
JD Andrew: knew who he was.
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00:42:47,323 --> 00:42:47,985
Marc Preston: Yeah, it don't mean to catch him.
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00:42:48,255 --> 00:42:50,102
Marc Preston: My father always used to go to a bar in
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00:42:50,182 --> 00:42:53,016
Marc Preston: Dallas and always used to see him and I've
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00:42:53,036 --> 00:42:55,478
Marc Preston: got a box in my studio here of a ton of
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00:42:55,699 --> 00:42:57,436
Marc Preston: autographed Mickey Mantle stuff and I'm
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00:42:57,456 --> 00:42:58,280
Marc Preston: like so need to get.
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00:42:58,815 --> 00:43:00,281
Marc Preston: I mean, I need to get it framed, you know.
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00:43:00,415 --> 00:43:02,918
Marc Preston: But I'm like I just ton of stuff that and
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00:43:02,938 --> 00:43:05,639
Marc Preston: BB King, you know I'm going, I was moving
Speaker:
00:43:05,659 --> 00:43:07,084
Marc Preston: and I saw this box and like what's in here?
Speaker:
00:43:07,155 --> 00:43:08,900
Marc Preston: I'm like holy shit, I need to get this
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00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:09,462
Marc Preston: stuff framed.
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00:43:10,635 --> 00:43:12,901
Marc Preston: But but who are the so besides your wife
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00:43:13,061 --> 00:43:14,525
Marc Preston: and Mickey Mantle?
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00:43:15,295 --> 00:43:17,624
JD Andrew: Mickey Mantle, george Harrison and you know
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00:43:17,655 --> 00:43:22,556
JD Andrew: let's for a historical person like a
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00:43:22,616 --> 00:43:24,984
JD Andrew: Benjamin Franklin, somebody historical, you
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00:43:25,004 --> 00:43:26,279
JD Andrew: know, let's have, you know, somebody that's
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00:43:26,379 --> 00:43:29,441
JD Andrew: really, really was there at the dawn of our
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00:43:29,481 --> 00:43:29,823
JD Andrew: country.
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00:43:30,156 --> 00:43:31,160
Marc Preston: Yeah, it'll be nice to have a little
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00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,857
Marc Preston: reminder these days, you know.
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00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,960
JD Andrew: Exactly what, what, what were you guys
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00:43:36,021 --> 00:43:37,919
JD Andrew: really thinking about when you were making
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00:43:37,939 --> 00:43:38,321
JD Andrew: this up?
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00:43:38,615 --> 00:43:39,961
Marc Preston: And let me tell you what's been happening
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00:43:40,075 --> 00:43:41,019
Marc Preston: in the last couple hundred years.
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00:43:43,361 --> 00:43:44,785
Marc Preston: Now, Billy Bob, who was your when you were
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00:43:44,805 --> 00:43:46,916
Marc Preston: a kid, who was your celebrity crush, my
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00:43:46,936 --> 00:43:47,880
Marc Preston: celebrity crush.
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00:43:51,135 --> 00:43:54,725
Billy Bob Thornton: Well, as a young kid it was a Suzanne
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00:43:54,745 --> 00:44:02,522
Billy Bob Thornton: Plashette and Eva Gardner, and when I got a
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00:44:02,562 --> 00:44:03,805
Billy Bob Thornton: little older, it was Betty.
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00:44:03,846 --> 00:44:04,227
Marc Preston: Page.
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Marc Preston: You know that fits.
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Marc Preston: That fits with the Boxmasters vibe right
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Marc Preston: there.
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Marc Preston: I kind of think you know that's.
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Marc Preston: I see a theme developing.
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Marc Preston: And JD, now, if now it's gonna be a
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Marc Preston: Sophie's Choice thing for you, already I
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Marc Preston: can tell.
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Marc Preston: But if you're gonna be on an island one
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Marc Preston: year, you gotta you can bring one DVD and
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Marc Preston: one album with you.
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Marc Preston: What are those two things gonna be for one
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Marc Preston: year?
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JD Andrew: Wow, one DVD.
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JD Andrew: Well, yeah, it's not that hard.
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JD Andrew: Hoosiers is my favorite movie of all time
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JD Andrew: and I can watch it every single time it's
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JD Andrew: on and just put it on repeat.
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JD Andrew: And for album, man, let's just go with.
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JD Andrew: You know, I'd want something fun that I'm
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JD Andrew: only you know, since I can only listen to
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JD Andrew: the one record.
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JD Andrew: So let's do like Endless Summer by the
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JD Andrew: Beach Boys.
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Marc Preston: Very nice, very nice Something that'll give
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Marc Preston: me a good mood.
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Marc Preston: Well, there will be margaritas on this
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Marc Preston: island.
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Marc Preston: Just you know there will be a margarita
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Marc Preston: machine, so that'll work perfectly.
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JD Andrew: Great, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Marc Preston: Now, billy Bob, if you were to like, from
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Marc Preston: the time you get up, how would you define a
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Marc Preston: perfect day for you?
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Marc Preston: Stem to stern.
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Marc Preston: What would be that day?
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Marc Preston: What would be going on for you?
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Billy Bob Thornton: When the blueberries are ripe for breakfast.
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Billy Bob Thornton: We didn't forget to order Almond Creamer
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Billy Bob Thornton: for the coffee, then having lunch with my
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Billy Bob Thornton: daughter, coming down to the studio, down
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Billy Bob Thornton: the hill, to the studio, recording with JD
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Billy Bob Thornton: until about midnight and going to bed and
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Billy Bob Thornton: doing the same thing over again.
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Billy Bob Thornton: I like recording and hanging out with
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Billy Bob Thornton: family, essentially.
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Marc Preston: I'm very much the same way.
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Marc Preston: It's about family.
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Marc Preston: For me this is a side question.
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Marc Preston: How did you navigate with your little one
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Marc Preston: there she's in high school with the
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Marc Preston: pandemic?
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Marc Preston: Did that go relatively smoothly for you?
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Billy Bob Thornton: Well, she's always been homeschooled so it
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Billy Bob Thornton: didn't really change anything for her.
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Billy Bob Thornton: So our schedule was really pretty much the
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Billy Bob Thornton: same during the lockdown, as it was
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Billy Bob Thornton: normally.
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Billy Bob Thornton: Like I said, we don't go many places.
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Billy Bob Thornton: My wife goes out more than my daughter and
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Billy Bob Thornton: I.
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Billy Bob Thornton: She goes to the store and shops and stuff
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Billy Bob Thornton: like that, but we pretty much stay at home
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Billy Bob Thornton: and we have a lot our friends and family
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Billy Bob Thornton: coming over to the house a lot, so most of
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Billy Bob Thornton: our social events are here.
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Marc Preston: I think we're cut from the same cloth.
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Marc Preston: I like my space and people, come over, I'll
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Marc Preston: entertain.
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Marc Preston: I like it like that.
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Marc Preston: But real quick, JD.
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Marc Preston: Now if, besides being the rock star, you
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Marc Preston: are an engineer?
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Marc Preston: If you weren't doing this, what would you
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Marc Preston: be doing for a living?
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JD Andrew: I've never had another.
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Marc Preston: I never really had a fallback, you know I
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Marc Preston: kind of Well, isn't that how you know
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Marc Preston: you're doing the right thing?
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Marc Preston: Right there, you know.
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JD Andrew: I mean I had the choice.
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JD Andrew: It's like going to college.
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JD Andrew: It was like, do I go to college for music
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JD Andrew: or do I go to college to play baseball?
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JD Andrew: So I chose music.
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JD Andrew: And then I Initially it wasn't to make
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JD Andrew: records, but at some point I had the
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JD Andrew: epiphany sort of thing.
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JD Andrew: It's like I want to make records, that's
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JD Andrew: what I want to do.
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JD Andrew: And so then I kind of went on the path of
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JD Andrew: like, okay, how do I make records?
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JD Andrew: And so I got myself into that place and I
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JD Andrew: really I never had another you know like
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JD Andrew: I'm supposed to do something else kind of
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JD Andrew: plan.
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JD Andrew: It was always, you know, like, get into the
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JD Andrew: music business, get into this recording
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JD Andrew: studios.
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JD Andrew: You know I'd kind of not anticipated making
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JD Andrew: music, you know, as a musician, but I, you
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JD Andrew: know, now that you know that's what I do,
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JD Andrew: it's kind of what I, I guess, always kind
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JD Andrew: of I actually acting.
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Marc Preston: I keep hearing people say throughout my
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Marc Preston: life like if you can't imagine doing
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Marc Preston: something else, that's how you know you're
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Marc Preston: doing the right thing.
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Marc Preston: But last question Billy Bob, you got the
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Marc Preston: DeLorean your crews are back to when you're
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Marc Preston: 16.
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Marc Preston: What is that piece of advice you're going
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00:48:30,961 --> 00:48:32,257
Marc Preston: to drop to yourself that you're like?
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Marc Preston: I need to know this at that age.
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Marc Preston: Gonna, put me on a right track.
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Billy Bob Thornton: What you heard, you think to be, honest,
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Billy Bob Thornton: exactly A piece of advice that I wish I had.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, if you can go back in time to say I
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Marc Preston: wish I you know if I can go back in time.
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Marc Preston: I'm going to tell 16 year old me this thing.
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Billy Bob Thornton: I would say just remember, whim is a bad
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Billy Bob Thornton: word.
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Marc Preston: Whim is a bad word, I am.
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Marc Preston: Gentlemen again, thank you so much.
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Marc Preston: It means a lot to me.
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Marc Preston: It's a pleasure to meet both of y'all
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Marc Preston: Virtually been doing that a lot the last
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Marc Preston: couple of years, but thank you again and
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Marc Preston: y'all have an absolutely killer tour.
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Marc Preston: Okay, and best of luck on the new album, of
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Marc Preston: course.
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Marc Preston: Okay, that was cool, I ain't gonna lie, it
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Marc Preston: was very cool.
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Marc Preston: Billy Bob Thornton, jd Andrew the
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Marc Preston: Boxmasters what a real pleasure it was to
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Marc Preston: have those two guys on.
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Marc Preston: Glad you had a chance to check it out.
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Marc Preston: I'm glad to have you, as well as always and
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