(city traffic noise)
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It's the 30 Minute Music Hour. I'm Andy Moore.
Tonight, from Madison, Wisconsin, Pioneer.
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♪ THIS IS A ♪
♪ GHOST TOWN ♪
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♪ LINED WITH TAVERNS ♪
♪ AND MOTELS ♪
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♪ I REMEMBER ♪
♪ I WAS BORN HERE ♪
♪ I LIVE AND LOVED ♪
♪ AND LOST HERE ♪
♪ I DRANK AND FUMED AND FOUND HERE ♪
♪ A GUEST IN MY OLD HOME ♪
♪ HERE NOW ♪
♪ BUT I CAN TELL ♪
♪ IT'S SPRING HERE BY THE SOUND ♪
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♪ AND I CAN TELL ♪
♪ YOU LIKE ME ♪
♪ EVEN WHEN YOU FROWN ♪
♪ BUT LIKING ISN'T EQUAL ♪
♪ TO WANTING ME AROUND ♪
♪ AND SPRINGTIME ♪
♪ JUST WON'T SETTLE DOWN ♪
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♪ NO MATTER HOW MUCH ♪
♪ I WANT IT TO ♪
♪ OR HOW OFTEN ♪
♪ I TALK TO YOU ♪
♪ OR HOW MANY TIMES ♪
♪ I SAY ♪
♪ TWO WEEKS ♪
♪ SINCE SCHOOL ENDED ♪
♪ SIX WEEKS ♪
♪ SINCE THE ENDING ♪
♪ ONE DAY SINCE ♪
♪ I PROMISED TO START ♪
♪ STOPPING DRINKING ♪
♪ AND I KEEP ON FORGETTING ♪
♪ IT'S ONLY ♪
♪ MEMORIAL DAY ♪
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♪ DAY ♪
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♪ DAY ♪
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♪ DAY ♪
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- (applause)
- Thanks.
Our friend, Matt, from PHOX
is joining us now on electric guitar.
Thanks for being here, Matt.
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♪ AND WHERE WOULD I GO IF YOU WANTED? ♪
♪ AND WHAT WOULD I DO IF YOU SAID PLEASE? ♪
♪ I'D GO AS FAR AS THE EYE SEES ♪
♪ I'D WALK FOR MILES TO THE SEA ♪
♪ I WOULD STARE STRAIGHT INTO THE SUN ♪
♪ I HAVE NO LIES OR COMPROMISE ♪
♪ IN ALL THAT I'VE DONE BABY, IT'S ON ♪
♪ BABY, IT'S ON ♪
♪ AND IF IT'S LONG ♪
♪ OR IF IT'S HARD ♪
♪ WE'LL GO FAR ♪
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♪ SITTING ALONE IN THE COLD AIR ♪
♪ I'M WAITING TO BREATHE IN THE SPRING BREEZE ♪
♪ OUT ON THE DOCK BY THE OLD SEA ♪
♪ BREAKING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE ME ♪
♪ RUSHING AS I DRIFT OFF TO SLEEP ♪
♪ CALLING THE SKY TO SHINE A LIGHT ♪
♪ ON ALL THAT WE CAN DO AND ALL THAT WE'VE DONE ♪
♪ ALL THE SONGS WE'VE SUNG ♪
♪ ALL THE THINGS WE'VE DONE ♪
♪ ALL THE BILLS WE'VE RUN UP ♪
♪ ALL THE THINGS WE'VE DONE ♪
♪ ALL THE THINGS WE WANT ♪
♪ ALL THINGS WILL COME ♪
♪ AND IF IT'S HARD ♪
♪ WE'LL GO FAR ♪
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(applause)
- Thanks.
This next tune is called "Summertime."
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♪ OH MY ♪
♪ YEAH, I SEE THE SIGNS? ♪
♪ SOME SIGHT ♪
♪ FOR TWO SORE EYES ♪
♪ OH MY ♪
♪ DON'T YOU SEE THE LIGHT ♪
♪ OH, CREEPING IN ♪
♪ OR JUST FADING ♪
♪ INTO NIGHT? ♪
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♪ OH MY ♪
♪ DON'T YOU WANT TO DIE? ♪
♪ QUIET AFTERNOON ♪
♪ FADING LIGHT ♪
♪ SOAK IN THE HEAT ♪
♪ IN SUMMERTIME ♪
♪ IT'S HARD ENOUGH ♪
♪ JUST TO FALL ♪
♪ ASLEEP AT NIGHT ♪
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♪ IT'S HARD ENOUGH ♪
♪ TO JUST FALL ASLEEP ♪
♪ WHEN IT'S ♪
♪ SO HOT AND HUMID OUTSIDE ♪
♪ IN SUMMERTIME ♪
♪ OH, OH, OH, OH ♪
♪ MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT ♪
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(applause)
- Thanks. - Thank you, Tyler.
Jackie, Matt, Shawn, Kenny, Tyler, Pioneer.
All that good music is linked up on our website, www.wpt.org.
You can go there and see past shows
of the 30 Minute Music Hour,
as well as this program which is being live streamed now.
Welcome, if you're watching.
And it will be archived come Wednesday.
If you're watching as this when being broadcast,
sometime in the next couple of months, sorry for the confusion.
You stand on your tiptoes when you sing.
I've just noticed that, watching you play recently.
Is that something you're aware of?
- Yeah, actually, at this one show
someone pointed it out really rudely.
I don't know. He seemed upset by it.
It's kind of like an unconscious thing,
I guess, but I realized it after a while. I don't know why.
- Everyone uses their body when they sing, right?
But you come up and down.
Almost all of that music will be on the new release, right?
- Yep, everything that we're playing today will be on there.
- How soon will that be out?
- We haven't put a date on it yet,
but it'll be sometime in the spring.
- Okay, on 2013.
- Yeah, it's almost done. Yep, in the spring of 2013.
- New folk, Indy folk, you hear labels like that
a lot these days, as it pertains to Pioneer's music.
But, it's its own kind of folk.
When you think of how people
generally perceive the label, folk,
how do you think it applies to the music that you create?
- I don't really know exactly.
I consider us, I don't know--
We all personally like to play rock music and pop music,
and I like playing acoustic guitar.
Maybe that's where the folk label comes in.
- It has the veneer of pop and rock.
- I think he got stuck with a rhythm section
that likes to play a little bit louder.
So we try to find a balance between--
- If that's being stuck with a rhythm section,
I think that's a great problem.
Not unlike, sort of, the old folk movement of the '60s,
the house parties are coming back.
I know that Pioneer plays a fair amount of house parties.
Why do you think that they're coming back to fashion?
- I don't know, there's no pressure
and it's fun to just have fun with fans without a stage.
Not even fans, just with friends.
- When I say coming back, I assume, in many places,
but it seems like particularly in southern Wisconsin
and in Madison, house parties are coming back.
Tyler, you're originally from the Fox Valley, right?
There's so many great musical spots in the state now,
Sturgeon Bay, Eau Claire, Neenah, Fox Valley.
How would you describe Madison's environment right now.
- I think Madison has, the places that we've played,
have been larger environments where there can be
a lot of distance between the performer and the artists.
Going back to what you were talking about with the house shows,
that can really just cut out that middle space
and put people together, and build an energy.
That's a lot harder to do in these larger venues.
You take away the space and people can really feed
and give back to, you know, to the people playing.
It's really exciting to do so.
- I sense that that's getting through the cameras
for our performance tonight, or this afternoon.
Thanks, Pioneer. - Thank you.
- I'll get out of your hair. Thanks.
- How much longer to we have?
- I think we have enough for the whole banana.
- Okay, awesome.
- Do you guys want to take it to space while I tune?
- (indistinct)
- All right, yeah, this is our last song.
This one's called "Matter of Time."
Everything we play tonight will be on our new record
which will be out sometime this spring, as we talked about.
Just find us on the Internet at pioneerwisconsin.com.
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♪ EVERY YEAR I ♪
♪ FORGET THE WINTER ♪
♪ WHEN IT'S PASSED ♪
♪ IS IT TOTAL INDIFFERENCE? ♪
♪ OR JUST A STIFF WIND AT MY BACK? ♪
♪ I'M MOVING FORWARD ♪
♪ DAYLIGHT FADES AND CRACKS ♪
♪ I FADE ♪
♪ AND I CRACK ♪
♪ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME ♪
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♪ EVERY YEAR IS PLANNED AND PARCELED OUT ♪
♪ INTO IT'S PARTS WAITING ♪
♪ I CAN FEEL US AGING ♪
♪ I CAN FEEL THIS DECADE FLYING BY ♪
♪ THEY SAY YOUTH IS FLEETING ♪
♪ SOME ODD YEARS JUST ALL LAID OUT ♪
♪ IN A LINE ♪
♪ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME ♪
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♪ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME ♪
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♪ I CAN SEE ♪
♪ THE YEARS LAID OUT AND LINED ♪
♪ INTO OTHERS' EYES ♪
♪ IN OTHERS' LIVES ♪
♪ A LONGING ♪
♪ LOOKING BACK IN TIME ♪
♪ A TURN THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND ♪
♪ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME ♪
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♪ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME ♪
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♪ EVERY YEAR I ♪
♪ FORGET THE SUMMER ♪
♪ WHEN IT'S PASSED ♪
♪ IS IT TOTAL INDIFFERENCE? ♪
♪ OR JUST A STIFF WIND ♪
♪ AT MY BACK? ♪
♪ I'M MOVING FORWARD ♪
♪ DAYLIGHT FADES AND CRACKS ♪
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♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
♪ I KNOW WHY ♪
♪ EVERYTHING HAPPENS ♪
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(cheers and applause)
- Thanks.