June 25, 2026

July Moon - Nashville's Indie Harmony Trio

July Moon - Nashville's Indie Harmony Trio

Hey there, welcome to the show. Today we're diving into the world of July Moon, the rising indie band that's been turning heads with their dreamy sound and raw emotion. From their early days playing small clubs to their latest tracks climbing the charts, July Moon brings a fresh vibe that's all their own. Stick around as we chat about their journey, music, and what's next. Let's get into it with July Moon. www.TheTroutShow.com Your comments are appreciated! Support the show Thanks for listeni...

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Hey there, welcome to the show. Today we're diving into the world of July Moon, the rising indie band that's been turning heads with their dreamy sound and raw emotion. From their early days playing small clubs to their latest tracks climbing the charts, July Moon brings a fresh vibe that's all their own. Stick around as we chat about their journey, music, and what's next. Let's get into it with July Moon.

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July Moon - Nashville’s Indie Trio

 

[The Trout]

You guys have been together only for a few years, right? How did, when did you get together? Oh, well, all of, so who was, Paige, you were the last one to come in, right?

 

[Speaker 4]

I joined two years ago.

 

[The Trout]

Who's putting the thumbs, who's, who did that? That's weird. Okay.

 

Oh, you, oh, you got it. Okay, gotcha. So, yeah, that's all right.

 

So, Paige, when did you come in?

 

[Speaker 2]

I came in about two years ago.

 

[The Trout]

Okay.

 

[Speaker 2]

But they were, July and Moon started four years ago? Five. Five?

 

Yeah, 2021.

 

[The Trout]

All right, let's, so let's start at the very beginning, and which one of you had, had been on your own or doing something on your own before?

 

[Speaker 2]

These two. We, Braylon and I both were doing our own thing for, for up until July and Moon. Gosh, darn it, I don't know how to turn that off.

 

[The Trout]

Well, they'll see it, they'll go, hey, he's good, they'll be people going like, look at all the pluses we got on there.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yeah, they did their original solo projects, and I play music full, have always played music full time as a living. I never did solo or original stuff.

 

[The Trout]

So, what do you play? Do you play piano, guitar, or you're the one who plays the guitar all the time? Who plays the guitar?

 

You do.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yes, I play guitar, Paige, we all play guitar, but in the band, Paige and I play guitar, Braylon does percussion. Mm-hmm.

 

[The Trout]

And when you went to the UK, were you doing, the one couple of pictures I saw, it was just, did you have backing tracks, or did you just do the guitar and do this harmony?

 

[Speaker 2]

Trumpet and tambourine and yeah, shaker.

 

[The Trout]

And where were you typically, the one thing I like about the UK is there's a lot of places to play, and they're not very big, a lot of places, and if they get a thousand people in an event, they think that's huge, you know, and it's like, oh, in America, we get a thousand people at a festival, like, what's wrong? Did you book, I'm just curious, because of the situation in the music industry, do you guys book all your own stuff, or do you have people that can do that for you?

 

[Speaker 3]

We actually, through our first, we booked our first tour ourselves through social media contacts and stuff, but then when we were there, back in August of last year, we met a booking agent, and we are now, we work with her now for our future, or for this past March tour.

 

[The Trout]

And did you have trouble getting into the country?

 

[Speaker 2]

No, we didn't.

 

[The Trout]

Did you have a visa problem?

 

[Speaker 2]

No, they signed one for us, and then we just followed all the paperwork. A little more complicated this round, just because we had to take an extra step, instead of using, like, the e-gates, we had to, like, go talk to a person, and they had to, you know, sign our documents, and, but it seemed scary and intimidating, but, like, it was easy.

 

[Speaker 3]

But we did do the paperwork and paid for a visa. Yeah, we had to, yeah.

 

[The Trout]

All right, so you have been together for not that long a time, you're in a city where everybody has talent. Yeah. How are you trying to, and I'll get to some of the other stuff in a minute, but how are you trying to separate yourself from the pack, so to speak?

 

Are you just pounding it, trying to get out there until you get more gigs? Or, you know, tell me a little bit how you're trying to break through.

 

[Speaker 3]

I mean, the name of the game right now, unfortunately, is social media. So we're spending a lot of our time making content and blasting our music out on social media. We're trying to release consistent music for the first time, really, ever.

 

We're trying to release, you know, single after single after single, which is supposedly the way to do it, to get traction. Obviously, there's no right answer, because if we knew that, we would be doing it.

 

[The Trout]

I agree.

 

[Speaker 3]

It's still playing shows in this economy. And I hate to, like, say that cheesy, but it's really, really tough right now to tour in America, and the, like, it's so expensive to do anything right now. We are definitely taking a step back from touring this year and trying to focus a lot more on our music, releasing music and social media presence, because it is, at the end of the day, social media is free.

 

It's a free tool. And it can be super powerful. It can also be incredibly draining.

 

So we're a little drained from that, I'm not going to lie. And I think that part of July Moon is just being real and authentic. And we are struggling with that.

 

And I think a lot of other artists are, too. We've seen, like, a lot of videos recently of artists just talking about how draining is, one, to tour and the expenses to tour, and also to just be hounding the social media. And it's not, sometimes you don't see a response, and you got to just keep trucking and keep doing it.

 

So I think we're trying to focus on socials and focus on releasing music this year.

 

[The Trout]

It is a difficult thing. And back in the day, when I was your age, that was when you tried to get some kind of following in your local community. And everybody starts playing at bars or whatever, or the Oaks Club, or anywhere you could see people to at least pay you a little bit of money.

 

And you just kind of did that. And then you try to do the state fairs, and you just kind of get bigger. And eventually, hopefully, a label comes in and goes, oh, yeah, you're doing all that.

 

None of that exists anymore. I don't think the A&R people anymore even go out. I think they watch TikTok and Instagram.

 

[Speaker 2]

They send their intern to go and report back.

 

[The Trout]

So basically, they basically, in my opinion, is you get become famous, and then we'll hire you. I mean, we'll sign you.

 

[Speaker 3]

That's how it's happening, yes. Frustrating.

 

[The Trout]

Yeah. And I think that's a sad thing about people don't understand about music nowadays. I mean, the other sad thing, of course, is if you're not touring, as you all know this, you're not making any money.

 

[Speaker 4]

Right.

 

[The Trout]

No tour. No touring. No merch.

 

No merch. No tour. You know.

 

[Speaker 4]

Right.

 

[The Trout]

And I think that it's a business now, whereas a lot of people in the day would get a manager or get somebody with a PR firm to do it, to try to get you out there. But so many people, just like you ladies, they're doing their own thing. And believe me, since I have the channels and do this, I know how much work it takes when you go out and do those videos.

 

[Speaker 4]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

You know, you don't just shoot them and go, okay, let's throw it up there. No, no, no. You got to work through it and title it and do all the other stuff with it.

 

You're not doing anything labor intensive, but you're still working.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yes, mentally intensive. Emotionally.

 

[The Trout]

And I don't like it. I'm not good at it. I've never been good at it.

 

I started using Twitter 20 some years ago when it wasn't even nobody's using it. And I was telling my friends about it. They're like, what's Twitter?

 

And I ran into an artist in Hawaii one time, Lisa Loeb. She was famous back in the 90s in Dallas. And she goes, what is Twitter?

 

I told her. She was like, I don't even know. What is this?

 

And I said, oh, yeah, it's this thing. And it was different back then. But I go back to the work that you have to put in just to make a living.

 

If you want to become famous, that's even more difficult because you just got to make a living at it.

 

[Speaker 4]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

But you guys, you know, you listen to music and your talent obviously precedes you. And I know that you got to play some places and do that stuff. But is there still a way of opening for people without paying them?

 

I mean, that was kind of the thing, too, where people are. Are they all going like you want to open for us? You got to give us money.

 

Is that still happening a lot?

 

[Speaker 2]

Or some? Yeah, it's like 50-50. I know some people who like have had to pay to get some gigs.

 

But others, I think it's just if you have make the right connection, you have the right or the same label or the same PR people, you know, sometimes they'll bring you in.

 

[Speaker 3]

But yeah, it's opening slots are a little bit monopolized as well from the from the labels.

 

[Speaker 4]

Oh, yeah.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yeah. They bring out their friends, which is fine. I mean, that's the end of the game.

 

But if you don't have a specific connection at a label or a booking agency, you'll probably have to pay.

 

[The Trout]

Yeah, that's the unfortunate part. People now used to be that way either. You know, people just, you know, the band wanted you to open for them unless you were better than the band and a major band.

 

They're like, they're not opening for us. You know, that's not going to happen. That's part of it.

 

So you have all this talent and you're right about releasing singles. That's what everybody does. You know, when I saw this is about a year ago, Tedeschi Trucks was talking about bringing a new album out and they said, nobody listens to an album anymore.

 

When I used to buy used to buy albums and list the whole thing.

 

[Speaker 2]

I love full albums.

 

[The Trout]

Yeah. And when I used to get when we had cassettes, of course, these back when we had 70, 33, you know, LPs, when everybody calls them vinyl now.

 

[Speaker 4]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

I listened to it one time, then put it on a cassette so I could listen to it in my car without having all this wearing out the record. But that's the other thing. So you want to get out there and Europe, I bet you they're more accepting than sometimes than America is.

 

Would you agree with that?

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah, one hundred and ten percent. Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

So when it was so when you were over there, were you playing places you'd never played before?

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah, we played the same ones that it was in New York. We played the same one, but every other venue was brand new.

 

[The Trout]

And how was the reception?

 

[Speaker 2]

It was great. They were really, really awesome. They were listening to every word.

 

And at first we were like, do they like it? But then after we were done, they'd be like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, they were, I mean, super supportive out there.

 

[The Trout]

I think somebody's tell me the other day from Nashville that the UK is still pretty hot with country music. Oh, yeah.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yeah, it's a lot less saturated there. And that's they don't get as many as many artists, you know, coming over there, obviously because of the cost. So there's a lot more opportunity for them to dive into new music.

 

But people love live music out there like that.

 

[Speaker 2]

Like we were meeting people that go to shows every single day, like every day they're going to a live show just to find new artists. And it's it's unbelievable.

 

[The Trout]

So did you see a ramp up in your feed of people joining like Instagram or whatever, TikTok or whatever after you were there?

 

[Speaker 2]

Oh, yeah, I think we've seen a big jump in like our streams to like with the UK, like they're one of our top streaming countries now. You know, it's it's really crazy. I feel like we get more engagement from them on social media, too, than like even just like it's crazy.

 

But like even like friends and things like that, because it's like they're like, oh, it's just our girls. But then like now we see like we have a couple of fans that we met last time that are commenting and sharing everything.

 

[The Trout]

So it's cool. Well, you still you know, the thing about being an artist is you're on stage, you're different than everybody else. You know, not different human.

 

You're still a human. Yeah, but they still want and I mean, people want to meet and greet you no matter what you are. I mean, I did a gig, a solo gig years ago, or at least an album in 94.

 

And I was in a record store doing solo deal. And I had my eight by 10 glasses. I was autographing all that stuff.

 

And people were like, that's you. I go, that's me right here. It was kind of weird, you know, so that's what they want to see when you're out there, because they want that.

 

And the fact that you can't easily then visit with them, that's just going to, you know, duplicate your work. Yeah, because you all know this, the nicer you are to people, they're going to be nice to you. Because if you say the wrong thing to them, then they're going to tell 50 people or 100 people that you suck.

 

You wouldn't even give me the time of day, you know, and then the next thing you're going, I don't want to see them anymore.

 

[Speaker 4]

Yeah, yeah.

 

[The Trout]

And so when you go like over there, or even when you do it here, how long a set did you play? Did you play like an hour or how long did you guys normally typically or did you play longer than that?

 

[Speaker 3]

It was about in range from an hour to 90 minutes. Yeah, yeah.

 

[Speaker 2]

45 minutes, maybe to like an hour and a half. Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

I have to ask you this. How was the sound reinforcement? Did they have their own?

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah. I mean, there was one gig we had to set up our own stuff. Yeah, we panicked a little bit.

 

But honestly, the sound in a lot of the party was really surprisingly good. We played, we played at the water rats in London. That was awesome.

 

And that was a pleasant surprise. Because one, we didn't know what it was. And then when we got there, it was like it was like you said, it's a small venue.

 

But the artists that have played there, like who played there? Oasis. Oasis, Katy Perry, like I mean, but like tons of tons of people.

 

[Speaker 3]

Like it was such a surprise, iconic, tiny venue that we had no idea. Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

It's kind of what they're known for over there. And even in the Europe, they're out, you know, for like that.

 

[Speaker 4]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

And I saw that great Joe Bonamassa, great blues artist. He's over there now. He played in the cavern.

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

Everybody showed up and go, Oh, my God, this is really any jammed. And people are still going to the, you know, they're going to Liverpool to see him. That's not a very big place.

 

But what would you rather do? Go in a place like that where everybody likes you and there's 100 people or whatever. Then try to get out on stage at a fair that there's 50 people mingling around.

 

Yeah. Trying to get their attention. That's not any fun.

 

[Speaker 2]

One of our favorite gigs that we play twice now is up in Pennsylvania. And it's literally a wood shop. And they convert it into a little stage for us to play on.

 

And I mean, personally, my favorite thing we've ever played and we play big festivals. We've traveled to the UK. But like this, I mean, that's my favorite show.

 

And I look forward to it every year. So me too.

 

[The Trout]

So I'm going to switch gears a little bit here. Let's talk about your songwriting process. How does that work with the three of you?

 

Somebody come up with a lyric. Somebody comes up with a little, you know, Oh, here's a chord pattern I like. I like this kind of thing here.

 

How do you all work that out?

 

[Speaker 3]

We all have things we're stronger and less stronger at. But I think it varies. I mean, I think we've written songs where one person does something and then the next time it'll be the opposite.

 

I always say that I'm like the more definitely not a lyrically strong writer. I'm more like chord progressions and melodies and stuff. And like Paige and Braylon definitely are more think I like, you know, thinking lyrics and poetry.

 

So I think that that kind of balances us out, which is cool for our writing process.

 

[Speaker 2]

No, I mean, that's just depends on this. We'll also have like, it's nice having three people because there'll be days where like, someone comes in and they're just like, they're in it. And they're just ripping lyrics.

 

They're right. And one person's kind of has an off day. But it kind of keeps us all like, to keep motivated and keep going.

 

And like, we always have like, the three of us to lean on to like, if one person's just like, I am just not in it today. Like, a writer's block helped me out here. So I it's really nice.

 

Yeah, always having at least two people.

 

[The Trout]

So when you sit and I can envision all three of you sitting down and going, okay, especially you Piper, the person's been playing your whole life going, yeah, seventh chord would sound really good.

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah, she's very good at that. And making our harmonies cool. So yes, you're very correct on that.

 

[The Trout]

And with when you get a song finished, you go to a studio to record? Or do you have your own place you can record? What do you guys do?

 

[Speaker 2]

Well, we have the money. Yeah. Like, if we're just doing a demo, or like, we're like writing with somebody who can do like a quick work tape for us, we'll do that.

 

But otherwise, yeah, we wait till we find a song we really love to save the money to record in a studio. Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

Well, the great thing about it in Nashville is the fact that there's always a lot of people that can play for you. There's so many great artists there that nobody even knows who they are.

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

So have you guys done anything on Broadway going out to different places and open it up and doing late shows or anything like that?

 

[Speaker 3]

So I do that full time.

 

[The Trout]

Well, that's what you do. Okay.

 

[Speaker 3]

We um, you know, Broadway is a whole different animal and Paige does it too, also. But um, if we focus on Broadway, we would, we would focus on Broadway. And then it would take away from our original stuff and all the other stuff we need to focus on.

 

And like, there's only so much time in the week. And we all have our side jobs because...

 

[The Trout]

I was going to ask you what you were doing to keep going.

 

[Speaker 3]

That's my side job. And um, and so no, I don't think we haven't done Broadway shows. They're four hours long.

 

I mean, we do some covers in our July Moon sets, but it's just...

 

[Speaker 2]

July Moon's like our escape. So it's like, and Broadway would be work. So I would hate to put them together.

 

And then like, oh, I have to meet with July Moon to play a four hour gig for the fifth time this week. Like, I just, it's our little getaway. So July Moon's separate to that.

 

[The Trout]

Um, which one of you just got married not too long ago?

 

[Speaker 3]

Me.

 

[The Trout]

You?

 

[Speaker 3]

Three years ago though. Three and a half.

 

[The Trout]

Well, I think it's, it's like anything else. It's like people that want to be independent artists that are trying to set their own niche. You know, that's a good and bad thing because you're trying to build up your own fan base, which I think is better.

 

But then on the other hand, everybody wants to pigeonhole you. Hey, you sound just like... Yeah.

 

Can you do a song like, you know, now that you're back, what's up next?

 

[Speaker 2]

We have a song coming out this Friday, May 29th.

 

[The Trout]

What's it called? I'm sorry, what's it called?

 

[Speaker 2]

Fake Flowers.

 

[The Trout]

Okay.

 

[Speaker 2]

It was, it's written by, it's one of the only cuts we're doing. Um, and it's... Outside cut.

 

Oh. A cut.

 

[Speaker 4]

Outside cut.

 

[Speaker 2]

Outside cuts that we're recording. And, um, it was written by, uh, Lainey Wilson, General Master, and Vanessa Oliveres.

 

[The Trout]

Did they give you the song or did you tell them you wanted to use it?

 

[Speaker 2]

Vanessa is a friend of ours and she pitched it to me.

 

[The Trout]

So you're, you are separating your time from your day job, as we like to say, to do this.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yes.

 

[The Trout]

And that has to be a grind for all of you.

 

[Speaker 3]

Oh, it is a total grind.

 

[The Trout]

And to try to make it, which I have a feeling that you guys will do well, if you just get to the right people, because you're very talented. I mean, let's face it. I don't put people on here unless I like them.

 

[Speaker 3]

Oh, thank you.

 

[The Trout]

Well, and I think you need to know that. Yeah. Because when you're out there trying to get, like you just found out, I mean, you get some adulation when you go to places like UK, but then you come back and you're like, okay, now I've got to fight this grind over here now.

 

You know what I'm saying?

 

[Speaker 3]

Yeah. If only our roots were in the UK and then you could just come here once a year.

 

[The Trout]

You got the new song coming out. Have you guys, are you going to put a video with it eventually?

 

[Speaker 2]

We have like a visualizer with it. I think we always love the idea of wanting to do a music video, but it always just comes down to money.

 

[The Trout]

It comes down to money, yeah.

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah. When you were like, why aren't you guys famous? I'm like, well, if we had a little bit more money, because I literally just watched a video the other day that said, in order for your song to go number one, you have to pay at least a minimum of like $250,000 and that's like on the low end.

 

So I'm like, oh gosh, but yeah, no, we wish we could, but we'll DIY some stuff and see what happens, but it's pretty cool.

 

[The Trout]

But you know, I don't agree with that philosophy. I mean, it's true, but I don't agree with that philosophy.

 

[Speaker 2]

Right.

 

[The Trout]

One thing I've always said to artists that are independent, I've interviewed people like, I've interviewed hundreds of people, but one of them, like somebody that plays a guitar and travels around in her car and does art festivals or that's America to me.

 

[Speaker 4]

Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

That's something we haven't lost yet. And I hope we never do. We can go in and you hear somebody, oh man, they're really good.

 

And the next two months, three years later, you're going, I saw them, they're on TV now. I think talent will always prevail. If you can handle staying together long enough to make it work.

 

[Speaker 4]

Right.

 

[The Trout]

So you've got the new song coming out and what's it about?

 

[Speaker 2]

We just had a discussion about this. I think Pink Flowers, well, one, it's our only slow sad song that we've ever put out and probably the saddest song we've ever put out. And I think there's two versions of it.

 

So the hook says something along the lines of, you can't grow with whiskey sours. So there's this really deep, very hard topic of being in a relationship with possibly someone who has an alcohol problem. But I also think the bigger story behind this is just trying to grow a relationship that's toxic, that's bad.

 

And basically it's saying you're just watering plastic flowers, like nothing's ever going to grow. This is just a toxic thing. So there's two sides to it.

 

But at the end of the day, it's just about an unhealthy relationship and it not growing and getting better.

 

[The Trout]

I like the analogy though. Flowers look great. Are you watering them?

 

Yeah, they're great because they're plastic.

 

[Speaker 2]

On the outside, it looks good, but on the inside, it's just fake.

 

[The Trout]

All right. When you get done with this song, what are you going to do to promote it? I'm sorry to keep asking these questions.

 

These are things you think about already. I don't know what you already thought about, but I'm just curious.

 

[Speaker 3]

Socials, pushing on socials, all of them. We have some shows in my home state of Maryland in July that will be a fun little escape for us. And we will be able to promote.

 

We actually do, I mean, part of it's because I'm from there, but also we just do have a pretty big fan base up in the Northeast. And so we'll have some fans come to those shows and be able to promote that song there too. Hopefully, soon after that, we'll be putting on the next song.

 

But yeah, mostly socials. We have some shows in Nashville too, actually.

 

[The Trout]

And where are you all from? Obviously, you're from Maryland. What about you other two ladies?

 

Where are you from?

 

[Speaker 2]

I'm from Nashville.

 

[The Trout]

Okay. I'm from Charleston, South Carolina. Oh, we've got two Southern gals and one Eastern gal.

 

Yeah. You got to start faking that accent a little bit. I'm from South Maryland.

 

You never heard of that? I'm from South Maryland.

 

[Speaker 2]

We need a TBR and I'll be right in there.

 

[The Trout]

Well, I don't have a Texas accent, but I use it when I can. I am a Texan, but I lived in the Midwest a long time. And I say to people, I only use it when I need it.

 

You know what I mean? That's all the time I need it.

 

[Speaker 2]

My mom lives in Torres Cana.

 

[The Trout]

Oh, really?

 

[Speaker 2]

Yeah, she works in Dallas, but she lives in Torres Cana.

 

[The Trout]

Oh my gosh. That's a guy.

 

[Speaker 2]

Well, her husband's family is all from there. So she was taking care of his parents before they passed away. And she's ready to move out of Torres Cana.

 

[The Trout]

It's just, you know, when you get an area like Dallas, Fort Worth is so big that people tell me I'm from out of town and they live, you know, an hour from here and they're still in Dallas. You're like, they're not from out of town. Out of town is Oklahoma City or Nashville.

 

And that's the part of it. But, well, I just wanted to meet you guys. Because like I said at the very beginning, I like you.

 

I like your music a lot. You ever come to Dallas, I'll come and say, Hey, guys.

 

[Speaker 3]

Our guitar player's from Dallas. So you need to go there and play a show for his- All right, so who's the guitar players?

 

[The Trout]

Who plays guitar?

 

[Speaker 3]

His name is Bo Schmidt.

 

[The Trout]

Okay. And which one of you plays guitar all the time?

 

[Speaker 3]

Piper does.

 

[Speaker 4]

I do.

 

[Speaker 2]

I mean, yeah. Paige.

 

[The Trout]

I see them sitting back there behind you.

 

[Speaker 2]

Oh, those are Paige's guitar cases.

 

[The Trout]

So what do y'all play? I mean, what kind of guitars do you play?

 

[Speaker 2]

I just got a brand new Fender, actually, and I love it. It's the King Vintage Acoustic style one, but you are Gibson.

 

[Speaker 3]

I had a Taylor, like, just started out in my music career for 15 years, and for my 30th birthday, I got myself a Gibson.

 

[The Trout]

She's... Which one?

 

[Speaker 3]

The Butte. It is the Songwriter Series...

 

[The Trout]

Oh. That's all right.

 

[Speaker 3]

That's all I was going to say, I think. But yeah, it's awesome. My grandfather was a musician before he passed away, and he's from Canada, but toured all around in a country and western band.

 

And he played a really sick Gibson SG that I will inherit one day. One day. So I would like to keep Gibson, my thing, just to remember him, but we'll see.

 

I do love my Gibson, though. What do you have? I have a Lovebreed.

 

Free Love. Free Love.

 

[The Trout]

You'd see one of my Gibsons. That's an 87 Les Paul. I'm a Les Paul guy.

 

All right. And then the other thing, too. I read your bio.

 

I always do a pretty good deep dive on everybody.

 

[Speaker 2]

We love it. Thank you.

 

[The Trout]

Well, how are you going to find out? Who came up with the Fleetwood Country sound?

 

[Speaker 2]

It's like a collective. We made a diagram of different sounds, what we would want to be branded as. And I think just between all of them, we somehow came up with Fleetwood would be a good description.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yeah. We're trying to capture the thing we do with harmonies. And sometimes we pick harmonies that wouldn't be like a typical one, three and five.

 

And we try to make them cooler sounding, if you will, in layman's terms. And a lot of the movements that we do, we kind of try to not mimic, but are inspired by Fleetwood Mac and some stuff that they do with their vocal parts. Yeah, it was a group decision years ago.

 

[The Trout]

You know, I think in the UK, but I know in Europe, they still like CDs.

 

[Speaker 2]

Oh, we learned that. Yeah, we learned the hard way.

 

[The Trout]

And they like vinyl.

 

[Speaker 2]

Yes.

 

[The Trout]

This couple that I interviewed, they sold all their vinyl before they even got done. People went out and bought it. I don't know how many they bought, but I mean, they sold all their vinyl out.

 

[Speaker 3]

Yeah. I buy vinyl. We need to do that.

 

Once we get all these songs that we're putting out this year out, I think we'll definitely get something together. All right.

 

[The Trout]

So here's my final question about that, though, is have you got a name for an album? Have you already thought that out through? Come on.

 

You don't need to tell me. I'm just asking you to come up with a name for it already.

 

[Speaker 2]

Oh. We're like, wait, what do we have? Well, we have a couple options.

 

Well, there you go.

 

[The Trout]

But the reason I'm asking you, you're thinking far enough ahead.

 

[Speaker 2]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

 

[The Trout]

Hopefully one day when I turn the TV on, I'll say, I saw those girls when they were just sitting in their room and they weren't famous.

 

[Speaker 2]

We love that. We love that.

 

[The Trout]

And then I'll send you a message. You go, who is this? Stop bothering me.

 

Oh, no.

 

[Speaker 2]

No, we really appreciate it.

 

[The Trout]

Have a wonderful evening and take care of yourselves. We'll keep in touch. All right.

 

And good luck. Bye. Bye.

 

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