[upbeat guitar music]
- Dan Rodriguez: Appleton, I love your faces.
It's so good to see you.
How are ya? [audience cheering]
["Troubadour Family Man" by Dan Rodriguez]
? Well, I'm one more shot in a hotel bar ?
[upbeat acoustic guitar music]
? And I'm a melted crayon in the seat of the car ?
? I'm an ashtray on a balcony ?
? And a Band-Aid on a skinned red knee ?
? I'm a downtown stage singing out a tune ?
? And a blanket fort in the living room ?
? I'm another thousand-mile marks ?
? And a bedtime story in the dark ?
? Well, sometimes I'm a sinner
? And sometimes I'm a saint
? Another highway song about coming home ?
? After every town I paint
? I got one foot in the ocean
? The other one in the sand
? Ooh, troubadour family man
Come on, let me hear you out there!
? Well, raise 'em up and set 'em free ?
? And show 'em how to follow dreams ?
? It's that easy far as I can tell ?
? To build a life and live it well ?
? Well, sometimes I'm a sinner
? And sometimes I'm a saint
? Another highway song about coming home ?
? After every town I paint
? I got one foot in the ocean
? The other one in the sand
? Ooh, troubadour family man
Make some noise out there, Appleton!
[audience cheering]
[upbeat folk music]
? Well, sometimes I'm a sinner
? And sometimes I'm a saint
? Another highway song about coming home ?
? After every town I paint
? I got one foot in the ocean
? The other one in the sand
? Ooh, troubadour family man
? I'm a troubadour family man
? Yeah-eah-eah
[audience applauding and cheering]
I think this is my ninth year playing Mile of Music.
What Mile of Music has done is it's given a stage
and an opportunity and an audience
to artists who would otherwise not have that.
I started here playing
at one of the smallest venues you can play.
And my first year I came, I was stuck in the corner.
There's a handful of people listening.
And here, several years later now,
we're playing at the largest stage.
They say 7,000, 8,000 people show up to Jones Park
for these sets.
I don't know anywhere else like that, that you can,
in just a few years, make a name for yourself.
There's nothing like this that exists anywhere else.
It's just different.
People have to come here to experience it.
[audience applauding and cheering]
[gentle electric guitar music]
Will you sing along with this one?
[audience applauding and cheering]
["25 Years" by Dan Rodriguez]
? Dancing in the kitchen
? Louie playing trumpet on the radio ?
? You're spinning in that white dress ?
? That you wore so long ago
Come on, now.
? Now I've been trying to slow down ?
? But time keeps moving faster
? Dragging me along
? But, darling, this is right now ?
? And it's where we belong
? In 25 years
? I'll be looking at you
? Wondering, what did I do
? To find someone like this?
? And in 25 more
? We'll be looking older
? Our story won't be over
? All we'll need is
? Another 25 years
? Yeah!
? Ooh, you leave me breathless
? Audrey Hepburn timeless in everything you do ?
? And if we live to be 100
? I'd still need more time with you ?
? In 25 years, I'll be looking at you ?
? Wondering, what did I do
? To find someone like this?
? And in 25 more
? We'll be looking older
? Our story won't be over
? All we'll need is
? Another 25 years
? When we are old and wrinkled ?
? We'll still be interlocking fingers, yeah ?
? Stealing a kiss, feeling like we're kids again ?
? 'Cause whatever comes tomorrow ?
? We're on time that is borrowed ?
? Living it like it's never gonna end ?
Sing it, now.
? In 25 years
- Audience: ? I'll be looking at you ?
? Wondering, what did I do
- Dan: ? To find someone like, oh, yeah ?
? And in 25 more
? We'll be looking older
? Our story won't be over
? All we'll need is
? Another 25 years
? Ooh ooh, ooh ohh, ooh
? Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh
? Yeah
? Another 25 years
[audience applauding and cheering]
Dan: Thank you Appleton, I love you so much!
[upbeat music]