The What Podcast
Barry's Picks!
Season 2, Episode 11
Published May 13, 2019
https://beta.thewhatpodcast.com/episode/barrys-picks

Well, that doesn't scream Barry Courters Week.

I don't know what does.

Welcome to the What Podcast, a podcast counting down the days to Bonnarooo 2018.

A podcast for Bonnarooians by Bonnarooians.

Barry Courters Bonnarooian number one.

I'm Brad Steiner, Bonnarooian number two.

Boy, oh boy, this is going to be interesting.

If that's how you're starting, you're weak of picks, man.

Oh man, I've got a...

I got exactly the reaction I'm gonna get.

I got a long day in store for me, don't I?

No, not really.

Uh-huh.

But...

Base Nectar, huh?

That's what you're starting with.

I love, love, love, love, love that song.

You're a conundrum, rat in enigma, sir.

You have no idea how often that is my go-to album song at home.

Is it just rage you need to get out?

Like, you're a very calm, collected man.

It could be.

I've never once seen you have a terse word.

I've never seen you get upset.

Is that how you get it all out?

Maybe that's it.

I don't know.

I just like it.

I like hearing my stereo thump.

Okay.

So, yeah, I like that.

To the Secret to Serenity by Barry Courter...

As a matter of fact...

...is Base Nectar.

Isn't that weird?

That is so strange.

That is my relax.

I tell you, this EDM goes right past me because it's just not something that feels like a thing.

But it's gotta be something.

It's gotta have something because people are going crazy for it.

Bonnaroo created an entire stage for it.

But for me, I've never once said,

Oh man, honey, put on, let's make some pasta and put on some Base Nectar.

What do you say?

I understand.

I mean, Mike Doerr and I, one of our campmates and Dents and our other campmate,

we all went over there at about one in the morning, two in the morning last year.

Because they were the same.

They were like, I just don't get it.

And Mike was like, does it have a beginning, a middle, and an end?

It doesn't, no.

And I said, no, it doesn't, actually.

Now let me ask you this.

It was over there last year, huh?

Not Base Nectar, but the EDM in general.

Yeah, the other.

I don't remember who we saw.

But, you know, I pointed out to him two things.

One, it's just young people trying to get laid.

Wow.

And it's young people whose parents hate it.

Okay, well, you got two out of two for me.

Rocket roll from the time it was invented.

No, it's not something that I could listen to.

Like I told you last week, it's not driving in the car, kind of.

I can't do it for long, but I do like that.

And the other thing, Base Nectar, we'll get to that later,

because that's a really weird night.

I don't know if he's doing that type of stuff either.

It's not like I'm really caught up on all of his new stuff.

Yeah, I need to know more about Dave Base Nectar.

I'd love to learn more about him.

Yeah.

It's...

Anyway.

All right, this is Barry's week.

I wanted it to be different.

Good, I hope.

We're going to travel through Barry's schedule

and see exactly the artists he cannot miss for Bonnarooo 2018.

We did mine last week.

We got your feedback.

We want more of your feedback.

For those who want to give us their picks,

we're going to do nothing but listener picks next week on the podcast

as we get ready for the last podcast before Bonnarooo.

Yeah, and let me tell you how I went through this.

Okay.

It's interesting that you went first.

It colors a little bit my list.

Does it?

Well, a lot of what you want to see, I want to see.

Okay.

Very much so.

I don't think really there were about one or two

that I could think of from last week that I'm just like,

eh.

Really?

No matter who it was.

There's a couple that to me sound fairly similar.

I think I said that last week, Khalid and Sir Sly and even Anderson.

You're going to be probably bored with Sir Sly if I know you.

I don't know if that's going to be necessarily into you.

I'm pretty sure that's opposite one of the ones I'm going to wander over to the EDM

or something.

But you want to travel through the schedule like I did?

Is that what you want to do?

I want to go through the day because here's the other thing that changes mine.

I tried to look at it like you did.

When I sat down at first, I thought, all right, these are the ones that can't miss.

Then I thought, that's just not reality because the ones that I usually that fall in my can't

miss list are the time of day when I have to file a story or take a picture or some

of that.

Then there's some others like the revivalists and Moon Taxi that we were fortunate enough

to have guests on the show.

Those guys also come through Chattanooga.

So it's to my benefit to go take pictures.

Sure.

Oh, I get it.

So my day is a little bit.

So you see a lot of stuff that you probably didn't really want to see because of work.

Absolutely.

Because of work.

Absolutely.

So that's a lot of stuff that I want to see because of work.

The other thing is I've never really I kind of try to think about Thursday and Friday

and then I look at the ones that are like can't miss this for me.

And then it all gets screwed up.

So I've never really absolutely sat down and plotted out a whole a whole day.

A whole day.

Yeah.

You know what?

Now you say that.

I don't think I ever have.

I think that I've done that before and it never works out.

Never does.

Never once works out.

I'm not like trying to stick to that.

But because of what we've been doing when I sat down and looked at Friday I think it's

Friday.

Oh man.

Friday's your day really.

See Saturday was mine.

Saturday was completely slammed.

But Friday's yours.

Well that one's pretty rough too.

But Friday's the one that ends with the super jam right?

Friday is the super jam.

Yeah the Tom Petty super jam.

One thirty in the morning.

One one fifteen to two twenty five.

That's not Barry time.

In fact last time last year we walked up to you at one o'clock in the morning and you

had been in the same place that we left you in under a blanket under the tent.

Yeah.

Like dad was waiting for the kids to get home.

That's right.

That's right.

Now I can go to sleep.

I can't promise that won't happen again.

But that whole gosh Friday once it gets started I mean it's still three o'clock in the morning.

Yeah.

All right well let's start with Thursday then.

All right so Thursday is another like you said a great day.

That Ron Gallo thing that's a for sure don't miss.

But I also did a little listening to Blank Range which starts early and depending on

how we're going on Thursday I may swing by there and then go see Ron Gallo for sure.

And then.

So you start you're starting with Blank Range.

Blank Range do you know anything about Blank Range?

I just like the sound.

It's a little bit rock and roll.

Yeah I know.

In fact they were on one of our listeners list which is why I gave you a listen.

I think it was Drew who wrote about Blank Range and I was going to write back to him

and I totally let Blank Range slip right by me.

Nashville's own Blank Range.

Yeah I like that.

So I noticed that it was announced today and when the day of we're doing this podcast but

you probably know this by now by the time you're listening to it but Bonnarooo is going

to do an entire pod an entire plaza dedicated to Nashville.

Yeah I did see that.

That was crazy.

And so I've always contended that the true home for Bonnarooo is Chattanooga not Nashville.

They're trying to fight me on this one.

They're trying yeah I think Nashville's reaching out.

They've got all kinds of musicians in there they're doing a specialty Nashville food.

They're creating what used to be the grind and they're making it nothing but a dedication

to Nashville.

Yeah and I don't know if it's related to it but AC Entertainment opened a Nashville office

just probably like three years ago.

How about that and that takes you right to your next artist another Nashville guy we

featured last week Ron Gallup.

I love Ron Gallup.

From the kids to bed I need you to lie beside me remind me that I'm dead

to the guest room two spools of bread I hide the needle behind the bed with my garter belt

and my cigarette.

Like I said last week about Ron Gallo I love his songwriting I love his lyrics they're

so witty and fun and I know most people think that the natural male companion to a Courtney

Barnett singer songwriter is Kurt Weill.

I think it might be Ron Gallo instead he's so Courtney Barnett for me.

Yeah the titles are funny the lyrics are funny the delivery is great it just it sounds like

it'd be a lot of fun in a bar it sounds like it'd be a lot of fun Thursday at Bonnarooo

on the he's on the who right.

Thursday that tent according to this that tent five o'clock Ron Gallo.

Okay and then for me it's work then I got to seriously think about work or looking at

the list I'll probably do a walk by with Lizzie.

You like Lizzie.

Yeah I do.

I found Lizzie because a friend of mine is in love with Twin Peaks the guy who actually

a lot of Reddit people probably know and the guy that did the website and everything for

us Lord Taco he is a huge Lizzie fan he is going to Bonnarooo just for Lizzie because

he saw her on Twin Peaks.

I understand.

The entire festival built around Thursday at Twin Peaks for Lord Taco.

And then if I were a silent disco type I would probably have to go by because they're doing

old school rap.

I know that's not your thing but that's how.

Oh yeah it is absolutely.

Yeah I love it.

I wonder what kind of old school it's going to be.

I don't know.

Like EZ and DJ EZ Rock.

What I'm hoping yeah even going back further.

I like that idea I've never actually in all the years that I've done Bonnarooo I've never

done the silent disco.

I don't think I have either.

Never once.

I've watched because my son first you know his first day you got to go dude just just

watch.

Right.

That's the craziest thing.

It is fun it was one of those like mind melts when it first started.

Yeah.

It was so cool to see like I had never even thought never heard of it.

I mean what a brilliant idea it is.

The only problem I always had because you know me I'm a bit of a germaphobe.

I'm not putting anybody's ear thing on my ear.

I'm not.

It's not happening.

You bring your own.

Do you bring your own.

No but you probably would.

I absolutely would yes.

I'm going to need some sani wipes before I go.

Bring your baby wipes.

Does anybody have any moisturizer or.

That guy before me was a little sketchy.

Well these headphones mess up my hair.

Yeah they had that see.

They'll think this isn't real talk but this is real talk.

I've always heard of it.

But the silent disco is crazy to me also because it's so easily easily replicated.

Other places can do it just like that.

But then when they try to do it it's always done so poorly.

It's done so bad.

They miss something.

They always miss something.

It's always miscalculated.

Yeah.

Bonnaroo has figured out how good this is.

How to do this really well.

Your understanding right.

Yes everybody gets their headphones and people are hearing different things right.

They hear the same thing.

They hear the same thing.

I thought there were like four or five because you'd have one group screaming jumping up

and down and another kind of mellowing.

Well that's what I thought.

Yeah I think they were all they all have shared experience.

They all have the shared experience thing going on.

I don't know.

We'll find out.

Why don't you do it.

If I'm going to do it it's going to be old school rap.

It could.

And on Thursday too and it's probably a little more chill.

Thursday and Floor another one that you had mentioned.

I like them quite a bit.

I do.

I like Floor.

You know I just a lot of times I get wrapped up into saying that I really like a band after

hearing one song.

Me too.

But what we've done for twelve weeks.

I really only know one or two songs of theirs but I sort of like it.

If you see it there.

Can't count on you to show the way

We can keep it light

We'll go somewhere I won't try to fight

Don't feel like it

Your skin and your hair untangle

In my, in my mind I can't get out

When you twist and you turn teach me to run

I grab a hold on, I grab a hold on and say

Surprise pick, whatever, but Closie

I do not know a Closie

Didn't think you would, cause it's on the EDM

On EDM, and I tried to pick as my pick

Things that you wouldn't pick

And I'm pretty sure I did that

I have never heard of a Closie

I had neither, but I like it

It's a little different from what I heard

Like I said, I haven't immersed myself in it

What do you know about Closie?

She does a, it's a...

That's unique, a female EDM artist

Yeah

I don't see many of those

And she actually plays an instrument

A couple of the things I saw, she's playing guitar

To some of the same EDM type of beats that we're more used to

Interesting

I don't, it's more chill

What I heard is a lot more chill than say bass factor

As if, right?

Yeah, I know

That was not what I was expecting

No, that was

Not at all what I was expecting, very earthy

That's my point

That's gonna be on the EDM set? It's gonna be on the other?

It's on the other

Wow

Yeah, 9 o'clock

Does it pick up any more than that?

Somewhat, some of them do, yeah

Really? I wanna hear another one

I wanna hear another closing

I feel like Barry, you're luring me into a yoga studio

See, well

This is interesting, that's very fascinating to be on the other

Again, I looked at it a little bit as a pacing type of thing

Sure, see this is one of those moments where I look at AC Entertainment

And somebody, whoever is in the room booking the artist

Where did they find a French electronic artist that nobody's probably ever heard of?

Where the hell they find her?

I don't know, and that's like we've tried to say all this whole time is it's about discovery

So I wanna get out and find something new and I liked that when I heard it

Alright, then I'm guessing after that whatever you're doing you're probably gonna get to Doron Jones?

Yeah, for sure

We really have, we've really hit the gas on how much we like him, huh?

A lot, quite a bit

That's cause he fits everything that we like

Yeah, I'm hoping it's what we hope

Yeah, I hope it's one of those shows that I'm not building up too much

I hope I'm not getting too excited, I feel the same way about Davey

I feel like I'm right on the precipice of pushing this a little bit too hard

Absolutely, I think I heard a third or fourth song today and I thought, okay, I've already heard that a little bit

Okay, you're already backing off

But again it was a dive into a lot of music all at once

Alright

And then like I said, well, pigeons if I make it to pigeons, we'll see

Because I keep thinking about Friday

Right, because your day is so big on Friday you're gonna feel like you're gonna cut a set or two short

Maybe, maybe, I mean I just know me and I know it's a long day

There's not a lot of nappy opportunities

You want to go one of them Cray Nappies?

Try to go to those Cray Nappies?

We'll see, we'll see

There's gonna have to be

Pigeons playing ping pong

One of the Bonnarooo Roocloos very early on

And now maybe probably your Thursday headliner

One o'clock in the morning until 2.30 and that's pretty much gonna be your entire Thursday, right?

That's it

Okay, I like those picks, it's pretty good

Like I said, with some walk-bys

Honestly, Thursday is a fine day for a walk-by because you really want to just walk around and see the grounds anyway

Exactly

And you hope to do it not in 105 degree heat

Exactly

I want to see, I cannot tell you the feeling that I have just driving around Chattanooga and saying to myself

I can't wait to smell the farm

I can't wait, like just the smell of it I can, I'm feeling

It's getting so close now, I'm like, oh man, the air just seems different

The grass, I can't wait to lay down in

The familiar sights of tent after tent, Centauru, I can't wait to feel that again

It's time to start unpacking stuff, making sure your mattresses are there and your tent poles are there

Hopefully you're not sleeping with rats

You're not, yeah, definitely want to open it before you get up there and find you've carried an animal with you

Alright, how early do you start on Friday?

I think Japanese breakfast is probably my first one

Really? Japanese breakfast at 2.15, so I've got you convinced on Japanese breakfast

Oh yeah, I like that quite a bit

Yeah, she's so pretty, she's so sweet man

Yeah, I like that, and then honestly, I basically built in some walk around, take some pictures, Friday

Can I stop you for a second, maybe I'm just making something out of nothing, but does Friday's line up seem a little light?

It looks like you could squeeze a couple more artists in that Friday, don't you think?

I don't disagree, even they're late, late, I noticed that

Right, there's all, Bass Nectar is essentially playing unopposed, unopposed on the witch, there's nothing going on that entire night

So it's Bass Nectar or nothing until

Well you got Snake Hips on the other and that's about it on the EDM stage, but Bass Nectar versus Snake Hips, I mean poor Snake Hips

Poor Snake Hips

So yeah, I don't know if it's because Bass Nectar needs all that room, he's gonna shake everybody out like that old electric football game

Man, that's gonna be a big crowd, isn't it?

Yeah

That's gonna be a massive crowd

Yeah, because it's the first real night of supposedly everybody being there, you know, it's the first big blowout night usually

Though, if you and I, you know, we've noticed because everybody gets there earlier and earlier, Thursday night has become such a big blowout

It's gotten so big

Well you think maybe it's because they've got stuff programmed out in GA

Well, you know

And think people are gonna go back and regroup

Maybe, the more I was reading through what each plaza is doing, it is slammed out there

Yeah

Look, I mean, we've made no bones about it, I have not been out to GA camping in 15 years

There's no reason to

I never

Go out and see, you know, Mad Max Thunderdome again or see how bad it is

It is not a desolate wasteland out there anymore

No, no, no

It is really, really well done and I'm startled, absolutely startled with all of the options that are out there

I was reading this morning and I was walking through some of the experiences that they have out there

There's no possible way I can see all that in a day

No

I don't know how anybody could walk from pod to pod and see all that

And again, maybe that's the reason, maybe they, you know, let's make everybody feel comfortable and happy

I haven't thought about this, maybe because, you know, every, those that scream about the artists and scream about the lineup

Maybe the lineup is lighter because they put all the money and put a lot more money inside the camping experience

Oh, I think there's, I don't know about money percentages, but I know there's a lot, you know, the last, what, four or five years

The emphasis was on VIP

Right

And that definitely started doing out in GA last year and this year for sure

That camp, that camping experience list that I saw, I would take any day

Yeah

Any day, it doesn't look bad at all

I mean, you know, we've been bragging about our camp experience and that is part of the fun

I don't know too many people that were hardcore GA that bragged about their experience unless they just, you know

The kid that went with them did something stupid and it was funny, you know

But as far as like amenities, not a lot of that

I'll go through some of those here in a little bit, but let's go through some more of your Friday

After you go Japanese breakfast, you got some work time, you're not going to do anything with Sheryl Crow, huh?

No, no, here's where I got to figure out

Okay

I really want to see low cut Connie

Ah, I convinced you on the low cut Connie, huh?

I like that quite a bit, but I want to shoot Sheryl Crow

Well, that's inappropriate

I want to take pictures of Sheryl Crow

So I'm at, because that's low cuts what, 345 and Sheryl's 415

So that's going to be

It's going to be tough

It's going to be tough because I'll have to be in line or in the media area, I'm sure 15 minutes before

You don't want to

We'll see how that one goes

You don't want to just give a tip of the hat respect to Trombone Shorty

Trombone Shorty making his return for like the fifth time in Bond Road history

No, that's on my list

So right after if I'm able to take pictures of Sheryl Crow, I'm hoping to catch the rest of Trombone

It should be at the end of, right?

Yeah

So the three songs, three songs of Sheryl

Okay

And or low cut and then I'll go see Trombone Shorty

Are you going to do anything with Manchester Orchestra? Are you a fan of Manchester Orchestra?

Not as much as you

Really? I love the new, I love the new stuff from them

I don't, and I don't know as much, but those are, those are three are all together, are they not?

Yep

So that one's

Yep

That one's tough

That one was really tough

And then I think I factored in some, there's some time in between because my next one is Zayzhan B

And then like I said, I want to shoot a photograph again, the revivalists and T-Pain's right in there as well

Yeah, so you're a, you're a, I've convention on Zayzhan B too

I like that one

Yeah, he's an interesting story. I tried to say this last week

Zayzhan B, so he's from Chicago

He's got Indian and Muslim immigrant parents

He's got, you know, the soul music of Chicago meets sort of like the Middle Eastern sounds that he sort of meshes together

And I guess apparently according to things that I know about him

Because of his parents and what they listen to in the Middle Eastern music that they always listen to

That's what drove him to be a musician

And then because he, you know, also like soul music, tried to just put the two together and see what happens

Yeah, I heard several

He loved black artistic expressionism essentially

I've heard several artists in the last couple of weeks on various shows talk about moving a lot, traveling a lot, being exposed to a lot

It's fun to see it all come together

I see somebody marching

Marching down the street, yeah

I see somebody marching

They're marching down the street, oh yeah

This time we stop and pray

If I'm not mistaken, even on his album, he's got a song that he sings entirely in Punjabi

I'm serious, if I'm not mistaken, if I remember correctly, he's got a whole song like that

I love it

I do too, it's very, very interesting

It's Zzhan B

Very Chicago, very Chicago blues

Absolutely

And then like I said, I'll get over and take pictures of the revivalists

I think you're right, I think that T-Pain show is going to be huge

I don't think it's going to fit in that tent

No, I think it's going to be huge

It's not going to be big enough

Maybe a walk back type of thing again, and then it's Sturgell for sure

And that's another one I'm going to have to decide

Do I try to get in the pit and take pictures or do I go get my spot and watch the entire show?

I don't know, I'm torn between it

Well, you know, I have a...

Okay, let me put it this way, it's the opener to the headliner

Okay, so it's the opener to Muse, you anticipate it being a bigger crowd than you would think

I don't know if it will be

I love Sturgell, I really do, but I don't know how big that crowd's going to be

It's really crazy that of all the podcasts we've done, the one that's been most listened to is Sturgell Simpson

That's crazy to me, maybe I'm missing it

I think that Sturgell is just something for me

But maybe it's going to be a bigger crowd than I anticipate

I don't think so though

Yeah, I don't know

So you might be, what I'm saying though, you might be able to take pictures and then get back in the crowd

Maybe, I hope so, like I said, that'll be kind of a game day call

And then man, it's...

Is it back to camp for the nappy until Bass Nectar wakes me up

And then Super Jam, I really want to see that

And Bass Nectar, to be honest with you, is not a full show for me

Yeah, I don't know, how can you do an hour 15 to that?

There's no way it's a full show, even for me

Okay

And like I said, you don't have to be very close

And I'm surprised, you're really not going to give any spot any time to Khalid?

No, I don't think so

Okay

But we'll see

Because that's the only opening to taking a break before Muse, Bass Nectar, Tom Fetty

That's why I think it's probably a back at the camp thing

But my surprise Brad pick for the day is Okie Doki

Okie Doki, interesting, tell me about Okie Doki

It's just kind of a... think if I'm right, it's a duo

And I like the pop

Wow, I didn't... you're surprising me entirely with Bass Nectar and pop music

Man, I'm all over the place

No

And I hate when people say that

Because usually when people say I like all kinds of music, it means they like country and western

Right, yeah, they love Ariana Grande

What's a place that's better than a life for Ariana Grande?

What's a day that's always on your mind?

I like that

I like that a lot

Another Nashville find, another band from Nashville

I was just looking them up

Two years ago, almost to the day, you could have seen them at Acme Feed and Seed

And now they're playing Bonnarooo

See, I like that kind of thing

I love finding the guy at Feed and Seed

And now they're all of a sudden playing the Who's stage at Bonnarooo at 9.45 on a Friday

Maybe in a couple years they'll be on one of the tents

Maybe, alright, that's a good pick

And then we know the rest of your night, so let's go to Saturday

Saturday and Sunday are a lot thinner for me

Saturday starts with Davey, absolutely

Alright, should we keep talking about Davey?

We don't have to, just be there folks

Should we overstate it?

We're going to definitely be at Davey

So we're going to be there at 12.30

If you are a podcast listener and would like to join us at Davey

That's where I think we could probably meet everybody

If you want to stop by, say hi, that's where we're going to be

And it's probably the only place that will be easily found through the whole festival

I mean, 12.30 on a Saturday, that's a pretty easy spot to find somebody

So yeah, bring them, if you want to stop by, say hi, that's where we're going to be

We'd love to meet you

Yep, that'd be great

Because I have a feeling after three songs we're all going to be like, okay, we probably overstated Davey

Probably, there's beer back at, there's beer at camp

Free beer at camp

Try to make it as early as possible because it may not make it till one o'clock

And then Knox Fortune, the next one is three

Oh wow, so you got into the Knox Fortune

Did you spend any time with him after I brought him up last week?

Little bit, yeah, I like it, I like the story, I love the name

He sounds like a dime store book hero, you know, detective hero

The adventures of Knox Fortune

I'm shocked that you care at all about somebody's name because

Oh absolutely

Really? I had such a hard time for a while getting into Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Because the name just took me out of it completely

But holy Jesus, once I started listening to him, I'm like, this is phenomenal

This is the same deal, Knox Fortune, if you start holding it against him, what his name is

Pigeon's playing bing bong, Anderson Pike sounds like an accounting firm

Well that's his name

I know, I know

I don't know if Knox Fortune's his actual name

I don't either, but I like it

So that, and that's sort of a pacing thing, you know, if you look, Davey's at 12.30 and then he's at 3

And then my, the only really one that I drew a big fat circle around from the day the thing came out is Mavis

How long has it been for you since you saw Mavis last?

I'm not sure that I ever have

Really? You've never seen Mavis?

I don't think so

No, wait a second, I know we all went to see Mavis like four years ago

If we did, I didn't, and I have to be honest, this is a total confession for me

I have done this job for 31 years

Uh huh

I knew who Mavis, I knew who the Staples were, I knew the song, we all know the song

But when her album came out in 2016, and I don't remember, I don't have the name of it in front of me

It came to the paper, and I played it, and I fell absolutely in love with it, and I've become obsessed with Mavis Staples ever since

Wow

Going back

Sometimes life can catch you in a hurry

But I'm just gonna take it slow now

That don't mean I ain't been working, y'all

I'm working on me, baby

I'm working on me, darling

I'm taking some time to see the people who keep me going

Sometimes folk can lead you down a bad line now

I'm not saying that I'm not judging now

I'm just gonna tell you what to tell them now

I got friends and I got

I got family

I got

I got help from all the people who love me

I got friends and I got

I got family

I got help from all the people who love me

Pretty awesome that Jeff Tweedy found himself on the new album

Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples, that's a, that's a, the world's power couple if you don't know

The thing about that whole record I connected with big time and then like I said immersed myself

And go, play, play the one everybody knows

Oh, I know I'm a lace

Ain't nobody crying

Ain't nobody worried

Ain't no smiling faces

No, no, lying to the races

Yeah, I love her a lot. I just feel for some reason I feel like we have seen that together

Maybe with somebody else that I was with I thought I just forced you guys to go to that

It just defines a generation to me. She to me she's like a female Ray Charles

They just she's one of those voices when you needed somebody to be awesome

She was awesome. She you know they joined the band for The Wait

Which is such an iconic song as well because of her voice

And I don't know just the more I learn the more I dig

Pop Staples her dad might have been one of the coolest human beings ever

Who's her dad?

Pop Staples

Oh yeah? What made him so cool?

He just was cool. He was the guy that kept the Staples sisters together

He picked the songs, wrote some of the songs

He was a religious man. He just knew a good tune when he heard it

Yeah and there's some of these sets I think that you just if you're a music fan

You owe it to the art form to see and I don't mean to be so over the top about it

But when Solomon Burke came and nobody was there

Solomon Burke is the king of soul music in Philadelphia

I mean he invented soul music in Philadelphia and nobody was there

A man could not even stand on stage. He had to sit on his throne and be you know padded down with a towel

And then he turns around and dies a year later

I mean those are the kind of guys that you're not going to have much longer

Imagine if you're listening to this podcast right now and you didn't see Sharon Jones

She had just got diagnosed with cancer

And you didn't see it. That's how quickly it can turn if you don't see these guys

Mavis is definitely what you're talking about. I felt that way

I saw them but I told you earlier in a podcast I wish I had paid more attention to the Beastie Boys show

Oh man that Beastie Boys. That's a great poll

I wish I had immersed myself in that one because I'm a huge fan now and I just I don't know

I wasn't a non-fan then. I mean I wasn't against them. I didn't like them. I didn't like them

They just weren't. They just never connected for you

And then they didn't connect and now all of a sudden which now I gosh I wish I could go back and see that one

Yeah that was one of the highlights of my life and I think that that's you know talk about a moment

You knew you were never seeing it again. You knew it was never coming back

And I sleep on that one being one of my top five Bonnarooo shows all the time

I totally forget about it sometimes but holy god if that wasn't as big of a highlight of my life as I have Bonnarooo

It's one of those that I liked it when I was watching it but had I known the songs as well now as I do

I would have loved it. Things about them I just didn't know you know I knew no sleep till Brooklyn type of

That's basically what I kind of kind of knew so and Mavis and the reason that I wanted to play

The song from just two years ago is not only is she an amazing legacy act as we've grown to call them

She's still producing great great music

Yeah the new album is really really good man

I think it's tremendous and I'm so excited you know she was supposed to be there last year and I think went to Europe

Was she? I guess I totally forgot about that

She was scheduled and backed out so and then right after that is another one with Nile Rodgers and Sheik

That's another one on my list and as we mentioned and I think you included in our description the link to the folks

That are trying to do the dance and Betty should remember from last week, but they're trying to organize a dance to La Freak

Have a kind of a flash mob type of thing

Now I know you were going to I knew you were going to do this I knew you were going to choose this because I feel like

You've written about them a lot whenever they come to town you're all about it can I tell you something you want to hear confession time

I have no idea who they are I have no idea who Nile Rodgers and Sheik is

Play La Freak you'll know Nile Rodgers produced a couple of David Bowie records

I think he did a Talking Heads record

Oh and he did Get Lucky that's right he produced that okay

You know who Nile Rodgers is

Yeah yeah okay well I just I guess

You're not alone I've had other people say that and then as soon as I say La Freak

Then they know

One two three

Oh I see that

Oh okay alright I got it

He went to a skating rink right?

Yeah I got it

Well I mean this must have been what year was this

I don't know since skating rinks went on

Alright well yeah everybody will know that song every single person

And when is that again on Saturday?

Early evening 6 ish 6.30 I think

Oh yeah on the main stage that's right

And then and then

You an Old Crowe fan?

Yeah like I'm okay

Well Old Crowe being one of those bands that when we talked to Mike from the Bonnarooo Beacon

Old Crowe was one of his absolute must sees

Yep very first and then it's Anderson Paak

You're gonna go with me for both the Boney Veras shows huh?

That's the plan

Okay

And that's why the early part of the day is a little on the light side for me

First Aid Kit is in there too and that's actually my

Your pick of the day?

Yeah

You know another one that I sort of forgot about First Aid Kit I really really like

But I feel like isn't there some sort of like isn't there a problem with First Aid Kit?

Absolutely it's in between all of the they're at 8.45

Oh man yeah right up against Anderson Paak

Not gonna work for you

I can't do it

Now I like First Aid Kit I saw them at Austin City Limits Fest

And they were debuting new music at the time these two girls are so adorable

And their sound is so nice

I'll tell you though at 8.45 that ain't the sound that I want

No way

It's just not necessarily the sound that I'm looking for at 8.45 when I've got

I've got Anderson Paak sitting right across from me

Now I hear you

Who would have thought that it would take two Swedish girls to bring back the steel guitar

They have such a great sound I just don't think that the schedulers did them any favors

No I agree but I had to include it

To me I wish you would have taken that and put that somewhere at like 3.45 or 4.45

That's a perfect hot afternoon artist for me

Yeah

Yeah they didn't get any favors but I love them so much

Don't sleep on them enjoy it if you want to get away from Anderson Paak

It would have been a good one for Sunday because I really don't have a lot on Sunday

That's your Saturday pick

Alright Sunday let's go through your Sunday

It's going to be quick I want to go by and see Bozzy again because he was so nice to join us on the show

And I want to see what he does you remember he was so confident

Oh my god

Oh god that kid that's not something he lacks in any form or fashion

It's his first festival ever and his first time in Tennessee so we're going to see how the young man handles the heat in Tennessee

What's your over under on covers?

I think he only has like 45 minutes

Yeah what's your over under on covers?

It's either going to be a lot of covers or a lot of talking

I mean let's be honest his hit song is 2 minutes and 20 seconds

He can't play that for 40 seconds 40 minutes

And it just stops

How many times are you going to hear that song?

I don't know anything else about him and I don't know if anybody else does either

I just don't know what that show is going to be but he's a good kid and he's feeling good about it that's for sure

And then to be honest the others are probably a lot of walk-bys for me or recovering in our camp

Yeah I got news on who Rich Brian is

Oh who'd tell?

So our buddy Nicky Turner, Nicky T who did the what logo and graphics

He told me that Rich Brian is a massive hip-hop rapper but he's Asian

And so it's like a really again talk about the multiculturalism of this year's festival

They've got a lot of Japanese breakfast, Rich Brian and Zayshon B

They're hitting all the angles but it's not for me I listen to some of it and oh boy

But he's massive apparently so something went right by us and I didn't even know it

So that's probably one I'll go take pictures of

Rich Brian?

Just to say I have pictures

Of a guy named Rich Brian?

Yeah

Okay

If he's that big

I guess

Go ahead

You know again do I want to sit in my chair or go out and do something see something

Yeah well I mean you seem like somebody to do a Brothers Osborne though

They were coming up yeah I want to go by there because I really was hoping that the Grand Ole Opry stage

Wasn't quite as late I was hoping that was going to be early afternoon

So yeah again Brothers Osborne is a definite walk by for me and I have a feeling I'm going to like it

Oh yeah you're going to like it a lot I mean they've got a song called Weed Whiskey and Willie

So I'll stick around

That's pretty much sums up most Bonnarooo experiences

That's me

I like that

Yeah there you go Brothers Osborne Sunday on the what 415

So then you know you've got Jungle, Go Go Penguin

You know the Jungle you like Jungle

I like that

I like what I've learned of them yeah

Yeah it's a really really fun show and boy that new single is so so good

Yeah it's just such a great sound it's right up my alley and it stinks that it's right up against Broken Social Scene

Because I really like that Broken Social Scene album but Jungle 515 on Sunday of the Witch

Well just let me throw this at you

Okay

This one's my pick for Sunday

Oh your Sunday pick

Another surprise is Repeat Repeat and unfortunately it's the same time

Repeat Repeat tell me about Repeat Repeat I feel like I know them but

It's a guy and a girl he's not a pretty guy

I don't know why that matters

It doesn't but it kind of had a little bit of that Athens new wave sound that I grew up on though it's updated I don't know I just liked it

You should take a second look now You are so beautiful to me just like a tapestry wanna hang you on my wall You always wear that yellow dress I say no but you say yes now

You got that stubborn kind of charm I want you on my arm to take you on the town So please won't you be my girlfriend

Another Nashville find

Yeah

You are on target today for Nashville

Didn't mean to

How many Nashville artists is that by now?

That's probably four for four

Alright there you go your Sunday pick and I'm guessing you're absolutely doing a St. Paul

St. Paul and then we'll see yeah

And then we'll see and then we'll see because usually Barry's gone by Sunday morning

I've already been gone by this point

This would be the latest you've ever stayed upon

Sure no question yeah usually you know we're Chattanooga is only an hour away for folks who don't know so and we get there earlier we get there Wednesday Thursday

When most of my work is done by then talk about missing a show I left early Tom Petty's last year had opportunity to get in the pit and watch that one

So home is better huh

Well I was all I stayed till probably 2 to 30 and then made the mistake of sitting in a chair

Oh that evil chair strikes again

I better get home now or I won't miss Tom Petty

It would have been okay if you stayed Sunday night

Now what did you end up doing when you got home instead of Tom Petty

Well honestly I have a ritual I get home I clean everything off I open a beer and then I go and I get in the pool with my wife

Okay

It's not I mean it's a nice way to unwind because the idea of going back to work after that long week

Is the worst feeling in the world

And so I need that sort of buffer there you go what it's about

Barry's picks congratulations you got through it you're pretty happy with it

Yeah good

I've never it's interesting because the whole point of why we talked about doing this podcast is what we just did this last two

Because neither of us opened that list and said holy crap you know how am I going to see 400 of my favorite or 100

It was more who are these people

And now we need your list at the what podcast at the what underscore podcast or the what podcast dot com

Submit your picks and we'll read through some of them next week we are just what two and a half weeks away from Bonnarooo

We're not just going to read them right we're going to try to call some folks

We're going to talk to some people yeah we're going to have you guys tell us we'd love to hear who you like and why

Yeah let's do it the what podcast dot com talk to you next week