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From Sydney to the Shoals: Lucy Tiger's Musical Adventure Across Cultures
Ever wondered how an Aussie singer-songwriter finds her rhythm in the heart of America's music country? Lucy Tiger's back on Skip Happens, and this time, she's spilling the beans on her grand adventure from the sunny coasts of Sydney to the musical soul of Alabama. With a story that could rival any country ballad, Lucy talks about her family's big leap across the pond, the warm embrace of the Shoals' community, and how she's navigating the nuances of settling into a new, vibrant culture—pets, slang, and Southern quirks included!
Grab a cold one and join us as we unpack the curious case of the vanishing Aussie accent in song—a conversation that's bound to tickle your fancy. Lucy dishes on her songwriting journey, from the seeds of inspiration to the blossoming of tracks like "Hummingbird," while we scratch our heads over kangaroos on the outskirts of Sydney and shed light on how our local lingo might baffle or charm the uninitiated. It's a hearty exploration of the textures and colors in the tapestry of cultural differences, all set to the backdrop of Lucy's melodic tales.
This episode isn't just an idle chat; it's a testament to the tenacity and talent of an artist whose career trajectory is as uplifting as her tunes. Lucy's recent promotions have been hitting all the right notes, and we're here to celebrate her achievements and the music that's taking her from the Shoals to the stars. So, tune in, kick back, and let the magic of Lucy Tiger's musical journey—and a dash of Shoals' camaraderie—enchant your ears and maybe inspire your next big move.
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And hello everybody, welcome to another edition of Skip Happens Live from the beautiful Northeast, I can tell you that much, and also a Mets fan, by the way. But my name is Skip Clark, I'm the host of Skip Happens and again, thank you for being here tonight. You know we try to do this on a weekly basis, if not more, and I like to focus on the new independent artists, some of the well-established artists, and I even bring them back again and again. For example, right there three years ago I had to look it up. Three years ago I talked to her. Her name is Lucy Tiger.
Speaker 1:Now, three years ago, when I talked to her, she was like down under, and when I say down under, she was in, I believe, sydney, australia, correct, correct, that is right. And now, and you told me at that time that it wouldn't be long before you would be relocating to the United States. And here you are. You went from enjoying a birthday in February on the beach to a birthday in February in the middle of winter in the United States. And, lucy, how are you?
Speaker 2:I'm so good Skip. I'm so happy to be back. I remember we had so much fun last time and I'm just happy to be here in Alabama, Alabama. I'm just happy to be here in Alabama, Alabama.
Speaker 1:Wow, so why Alabama?
Speaker 2:Well, I like it, I really like it. I mean, you don't move somewhere you don't like. But you know I live in the Shoals area, so it is just steeped in music history. You know it's known for the Allman Brothers, it's known for Aretha Franklin, it's known for basically all of my favourite records and you know probably a whole bunch of other people's. And it's actually just a really nice little area. It's four little towns, it's right on the Tennessee River and everyone's nice, Everyone's friendly. It's great.
Speaker 1:Is it hot and humid?
Speaker 2:You know, they all complain about it being really humid. They all complain about it being really humid. But I mean Sydney, australia, has very similar weather to New Orleans, oh really. Yeah, I can put it. So Sydney humidity is on steroids compared to here. Everyone kind of walks around going oh my God, it's so muggy today and I'm sitting there going, it's really nice it's like 70%, what are you talking about? So I think it's great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Do you get to head back to Australia at all? Do you have family there?
Speaker 2:I know we were talking off the air a little bit about the award shows and all that but is that about the only time that you go back and family's like oh, I know her, yeah, I mean I have. I do have a very, very small family. Um, and a lot of the family that I have in australia didn't live in sydney, so I didn't actually see them all that much. Um, and you know, we, we said to them, hey, come over to the states, come and visit us. Uh, we've only been here a few months but, um, I mean, my folks moved with me and my cats, so I kind of have like everything I need you were talking about alabama because of all the music history, all that background.
Speaker 1:But I mean there mean there's also Nashville. So, I mean in Alabama, you had Nashville.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so handy because you know Nashville is two and a half hours away from where I live. So you know, I've gone up there for co-writes, for songwriting, I've gone up there for shows and driven back that night. Um, you know it's, it's not that far away at all, and I mean it, nashville is very busy, so I came I came from a busy city.
Speaker 2:I mean I think nashville is. I don't know if nashville is like a million people, yet it's probably close. Yeah, sydney is five million. So I I kind of did my time in a big city and nashville is super fun to visit, uh, but I really like my kind of small town.
Speaker 1:Living in alabama I totally get that. You can run up, do your co-writes, do your rights, get a coffee if want. Just to get a couple of hours is nothing.
Speaker 2:I want to go like the best of both worlds really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I want to talk about your music a little bit, but first of all I want to ask if you've ever seen the. There's a movie out there Well, maybe a documentary. It's about a little less than an hour and it's called Nashville, the craziest city in the world. I don't know if you've ever seen that.
Speaker 1:No, it's interesting and it really makes you think about Nashville, whether or not you really want to move there. So, but it's good and it's bad, so it's. It's whatever you get out of it, but it was on. I don't know if you have a smart television and you got all the different apps, but it's on Tubi.
Speaker 2:That's where I found it. It's called Nashville, the craziest city in the world.
Speaker 1:It's good, I'll check that out. That sounds good. I had a buddy of mine that works for a label in Nashville said you got to check this out and you might think a little bit different about Nashville. But I didn't. I still love Nashville, it's still all. But it was just very interesting. So let's talk about your music. I love it. It's been like, like I said, three years. I'm trying to think. When we talked before you had, was it gasoline? Was it gasoline?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it probably was.
Speaker 1:So that was about three years ago and now now I mean, you've been working on a lot of stuff, you've been putting out a lot of music here and there. Uh, you've got hummingbird as your first single for 2024.
Speaker 2:Tell us about that a little bit so hummingbird is such a favorite of mine and it's a real sort of crowd favorite as well.
Speaker 2:Uh, I noticed that. Know, I would be playing it at shows and people would kind of be like dancing in their chairs or getting up and having a bit of a dance. And you know, I remember I was playing the Muscle Shoals Songwriters Festival, which is fantastic and it's going to be having its fifth festival this year it in November and I played it at a kind of a songwriters showcase thing. And then later on, a couple of the girls that had been in the audience they bumped into me later and they were like, oh, we love that song you played where you're like, you know, I just want to, you know yank that hummingbird sing and they're like singing the chorus back. They'd only heard it that one time and I thought, okay, this song is like kind of striking a chord with people, you know, and and so when it came to, you know, the first single that we were going to put out this year, I thought let's kind of like start strong and let's go with that one wow, I love it.
Speaker 1:So how about the writing of that? And and who did you write that with? And all that?
Speaker 2:Well, I wrote that with myself. Yeah, I mean, I do a lot of writing myself, but just by myself. I do like co-writes.
Speaker 2:I do a lot of co-writing too, but I feel like I just write a lot of my best stuff kind of just on my own I kind of. I feel like I know what my brain's doing and you know, I kind of. And also you know I don't have some situation where, like you know, someone else has put a line in a verse and I go. I really don't like that, but you know so at least with myself. I kind of change it if I want to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, listen to this. This is it. I think this is the live version.
Speaker 2:I want to feel the road underneath me. Well, I got no one to see, no way to go, but I know it. I got to get going now. I think you'll see when you see me coming Two lane, blacktop engine humming, got the stereo turned up all the way. Gotta let them know I'm coming around today. Oh, I was prepared when I was just a fly away. Just want to drive down them. No name highways. Hit a million miles on the back roads. Baby, just follow them. White lines.
Speaker 1:All right, I need to ask a question. I'm sure everybody's wondering where's your accent when you sing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of people do ask that I think there's a couple of things there. A lot of people do ask that I think there's a couple of things there. One thing is that when you speak in an Australian accent, it's actually kind of pitched. There's like a technical answer and like a fun answer. And so the technical answer is that with the Australian accent it's pitched at the back of your palate, basically in your mouth, and when you sing you're supposed to sing in the front of your palate and that is where the American accent is. So already you're going to be pushing into that anyway when you sing.
Speaker 2:And the second thing is that I listen to a lot of American music. I feel like my sound is more American than Australian anyway, and I also can't stand listening to songs sung in an Australian accent. I hate it, I hate it, I just don't like it. The vowel sounds are just very, very. I know Taylor Swift has started kind of doing like she'll kind of go like I instead of like when she sings. When she sings, the word like I, as in me, and I'm just like, oh, it just like, grates on me a little bit. I don't like how it sounds.
Speaker 1:So, um, yeah, it just, it just naturally just falls into that do you think, uh, somebody like you being an artist doing what you do and singing, and do you think it kind of it's a bit of laziness when somebody like Taylor does that, it's just like she's just you know? I mean, you say it bothers you, you're a perfectionist, I get that, and it should be sung this way and not this way.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it's a stylistic thing as well, I guess it really. I mean, I don't know why people have started doing it just recently, especially with the word I. I mean, I guess it does, that's what I noticed. It does definitely make that word stand out in a lyric, I guess. So maybe it's got to do with making it stand out, but yeah, I just I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1:I get it. No, no, I get it. I totally understand what you're saying. Yeah, so you're in Alabama. You said your mom and dad moved in with you or moved over here with you. Are you actually living with mom and dad still, or in Alabama?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for the time being, we all three of us kind of you know got a place together and we, we actually just we literally just put these things up on the wall, like today, where am I going to do this podcast? And I was like we should do it in here. Let's put these things up. And so I, meanabama is kind of uh, you get like far more you know for your dollars here. So it's, it's, it's no, no I I totally, totally see that.
Speaker 1:And to have the support of your mom and dad, you know, making the trip and supporting you and, you know, just being with you along your ride here, that's, that's, that's pretty cool, that is really cool.
Speaker 2:I mean my, my mom. You know we all three of us have, you know, the requisite visas and everything. And my mom's visa is kind of connected to mine. She does a lot of booking for me in terms of shows and a lot of like management and admin as well. So you know, it kind of just made sense and I'm an only child I got you.
Speaker 2:Kind of one of those, like luck, of the draw things. You know, if I had a brother or a sister, it would be much harder for them to, just like you know, pick up and move to Alabama with me. But yeah, we all came over and we love it.
Speaker 1:It's such a big move. You know, when you think about it it's a big move. It's not like. You know, even if I was to move from New York to California, that still doesn't even compare from you moving from Sydney, australia, to the Shoals in Alabama. I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 2:I know Sometimes I get a bit bit like, I get a bit wrapped up and I'm like you know, oh my gosh, you know I haven't gotten this done, I haven't gotten that done and I still don't have a driver's license. Um, I can drive, I have a drive, I have an Australian one, that that semi transfers, but I do actually need to get. I've been how long?
Speaker 1:okay, so you need to get a driver's license here in the united states, but they are a little more relaxed about it here really you have to be.
Speaker 2:You have to be doing something really really, really bad to get pulled over, because in seven months. I've never been pulled over.
Speaker 1:Well, thank God.
Speaker 2:So I don't know, knock on wood, it won't happen tomorrow and I won't have to try and explain why I don't have a driver's license still.
Speaker 1:I don't want to be the fault of that, I don't want anything to do with that. Be careful, that's all. But I was thinking that three years ago when we chatted for some reason I don't know if you had a driver's license then or not, unless it was somebody else I was chatting with, but they did not have a driver's license. So that's why I'm thinking Well, I do, I do All right Now.
Speaker 1:So you got Hummingbird. You've been doing a lot of writing. You seem to be putting out a lot of music it I'd love the title. I almost brought down a bucket of beer when I was doing it because I did a little bit. I should go get some like little ones and put them in a bucket with some ice and have them on the table here. But yeah, tell us about that a little bit.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I once had someone describe me as a champagne girl and I mean, I like champagne. It's nice, especially when it's free, but that's when I like it the most when it's free. I'm not going out of my way to kind of, um, you know, drink champagne. I I had never actually drunk champagne in front of this person. I had always drunk like beer in front of them. So I was like where on earth are you getting this idea? Like you know, I'm constantly in, like you know, graphic teas and, like you, know I'm not yeah, I'm wearing like designer brands.
Speaker 2:I don't know where they got this idea. Um, you know, this was back in australia too. Like we drove like a 30 year old car, but I was like, look, you know, I love champagne if it's free, but I'm not a champagne girl. You know, what really really gets me going is a bucket of beers Like that's. When I'm like it's served in a bucket. I'm like this is great. There's like four like cause lights in there. I'm like this is great. There's like four like cause lights in there. I'm thinking this is going to be an awesome time.
Speaker 2:That's the kind of bar I want to go to, the one that serves their beers in a bucket. Like I love it. So, um, so that was the whole idea behind that song. Like I'm the kind of person who you know. Recently we celebrated my parents wedding anniversary, and as an only child, it's something that you know I often celebrate with them. Having you know, recently we celebrated my parents wedding anniversary and as an only child, it's something that you know, I often celebrate with them, having, you know, at times single-handedly kept their marriage together and but we went to like a dive bar for their wedding those are the best lucy.
Speaker 2:I love that that's what I love. So this, this song, was all about saying like you know, there's nothing wrong with being like a champagne girl, unless you're like a stuck-up bitch. But you know that's not me this is why I like you.
Speaker 1:You tell it the way it is, but that that's cool. So we've got bucket of beer, and so I'm going to talk about beer for a minute. We have different beer here than you had in Australia.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we didn't have cause light in Australia.
Speaker 1:That's kind of where I was going. What, for example? What are some of the the brands in Australia? Yeah, we didn't have Coors Light in Australia. That's kind of where I was going. For example, what are some of the brands in Australia?
Speaker 2:So the most well-known one in America is one called Foster's, and it's terrible. It's so terrible, I think they export it here. No one in Australia drinks it because it's terrible, it's um. But the if I had to like pick an australian beer, a lot of them are very um. They got very big into craft beer, which you know is okay, like you know, but they can sometimes be very sort of like intense and it's like you know I literally just wanted to chill out, so you have to have a sport, but go ahead, I ahead a lager.
Speaker 2:I really like a lager. A lot of american beers are lagers. I really like them.
Speaker 1:They're kind of just like easy to drink, I guess about like sort of fighting you back yeah, exactly, do you drink like guinness or anything like that? That's like a lager.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, that's very intense and it kind of fills you up. I mean my last name is actually O'Connor and my family actually is Irish, but we tend not to drink Guinness all that much, especially if we want to have a meal as well. You have like two of those and you're like, well, I'm going to have dinner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, you're not hungry after that. I totally get it. So, uh, let's get back to the music a little bit. So you've put out these two songs. What else do we have coming from Lucy Tiger?
Speaker 2:well, I've got a couple more singles for this year and I do actually have an album coming very soon too and in I've just been talking about it this week and what I'm going to put on it and what I'm going to sort of release before it comes out. And you know what's going to be on the album that no one's heard before and it's very exciting. It's going to be an album of all the songs that I recorded, as I was kind of because I came to the Shoals in Alabama five times before I moved here.
Speaker 2:So I spent you know probably about six weeks or so here cumulatively, and every time I came I would do like a recording session because you know I was only going to be here for like two weeks or something and you know, may as well get some songs in the can, and you know. So I have all these songs, um something like 15, that have yet to come out on on like a, an album. So some of them I've put out as singles already, um, but yeah, so that will be coming.
Speaker 2:I'll probably announce that towards the end of the year, I think probably and it'll probably be available like in a physical format on my website and um at shows and stuff, and then we'll eventually pop it out on streaming as well I love that.
Speaker 1:Do you, um, actively take part in the streaming, like the songs you've just put out? Hummingbird is out there, bucket of beer is out there. All that's available or you can stream it, you can download it. Uh, listeners, viewers, can buy it um and support you at the same time. So that's kind of cool. So it's all available, right?
Speaker 2:no matter where you, wherever you get your music, you can probably get them, your song oh yeah, oh yeah, bucket of beers won't be out until friday this week, um right, but yeah, they're available everywhere, everywhere. It's pretty global these days.
Speaker 1:Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?
Speaker 2:I do. It wasn't that great.
Speaker 1:Everybody says that.
Speaker 2:It was really quite bad. They've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1:But you have to start somewhere. Yeah, I know, but you got to start somewhere, right. And how old were you when the first one came out?
Speaker 2:Probably pretty old in terms of you know. I mean, some people are all like I've been writing songs since I was 12. And you're just like well. I bet they were crap just like well, I bet they were crap.
Speaker 1:But I was probably like 19 or 20. So I mean, so you didn't really start until you were later in your teens, early 20s, or did you start In terms of writing?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, I've been playing guitar since I was eight. I've been playing piano since I was six. Yeah, I've been singing since I was about you know 10 or 11, like you know, semi-professionally I guess, or at least you know in lessons and stuff and at the you know school choir and all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1:When did you first realize that you might have something? Or did mom and dad go hey, you know what? This is really good, honey. We got to see what we can do to you know, let's see what we can do for you. Or, you know, did you have a passion since you were eight years old to do something like this?
Speaker 2:Well, it was probably a few things. I kind of realized at school that I wasn't very good at anything else.
Speaker 1:That's always a different way.
Speaker 2:So I kind of realized that pretty quickly. Like there were things that I enjoyed and like I liked learning about, but I just wasn't all that good at and then, and the stuff that I was good at, you know, doesn't really have a career. Like I liked history, I mean, what career do you have? History teacher, like you know, I'm not entirely sure what career you actually have after that, you know.
Speaker 2:So you know it was kind of one of those things. And then, um, I kind of realized that out of, I did music in high school and I kind of realized pretty quickly that, um, and I hate you know. I don't know how you say it in American, but in Australia we would say you know blowing my own horn, um, and I kind of hate doing that. I mean, yeah, we say that you know blowing my own horn and I kind of hate doing that.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, we say that I'm blowing my own horn. You know, here I am and I'm proud of it.
Speaker 2:Australians hate doing that, Like it gets a lot to kind of get it out. But I was kind of probably one of the best kids in my music class, so you know everyone else would be nervous to like get on stage and I'd be like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:This is easy, you know, and they would be doing like really safe songs and I'd be like maybe I want to like I don't know play this song that I've never played before in my life and do that for my final exam, and like it's three weeks away but I can probably do it. And they'd be like, oh, I'm singing a song that I've sung every year for the past, you know. So I kind of realized that I was sort of I don't know, maybe the most capable out of the class and I was also, I'm pretty sure, out of my year 12 music class. I was the only person and it was a pretty big class because I went to quite a big school like there was over 100 people in my year and there was maybe like 20 people in my music class and I was the only person that did music following high school.
Speaker 2:Everyone else just there was only yeah, just like dropped it and did you know? I don't know law or something? Music wasn't what they were you said, right?
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. I think we're overlapping a little bit, I think there's a little bit of a delay and I I apologize for that. Um, you only like a hundred in your class, in my whole year. In your whole. So 12th year is your senior year, correct? 12th year here is was my senior year. We had seven, almost 800 people just in my class.
Speaker 1:Oh just in the 12th graduating, graduating well, and it took a while to go through. Yeah, it took a little bit to go through. No, it really wasn't. That's why I was. I mean, maybe to you and where you're from, I get that all right, but yeah, I mean our whole country.
Speaker 2:We only have 25 million people. So when you say like 100 people in your year, you know everyone's like oh wow, that that's a lot. But I was the only person after year 12 who actually continued with music. Everyone else kind of gave it up.
Speaker 1:Well, you're talented, super talented. You can write, you can sing, you're putting out some great music. You're serious about what you do and it's pretty evident by the fact that you moved from way over there to way over here, and it's not an easy flight either. It had to be like 16 hours, 17 hours and no thank you. And now, with the doors flying off and everything else going on, I don't know if it's going to be hard to get me in a plane.
Speaker 1:I tell you what I love the fly. I'm a geek, I'm all about that I do. If I get to take a trip, I'm all. I'm all about it, I'm on there. But I saw these t-shirts that say if it's Boeing, I ain't going, and I'm like, oh boy, you know. But I mean you know. The other thing is and we're getting a little bit off topic here but everybody's got a phone in their hand and every little thing now gets documented. And I'm sure these things happened almost every day. A lot of this, you know planes turn around, they go back to the airport, they're having a mechanical issue. You never used to hear a lot about those and it happened all the time. Now something happens Somebody's there with their phone, they're recording it, they're sending it to whoever. It's crazy, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2:Definitely probably plays a part, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then they're going look at Lucy Tiger's on my flight. I got it right here, I. And look at Lucy Tigers on my flight. I got it right here.
Speaker 2:I got the picture. I got the picture. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:She's the one going. Let me on the screen. Well, I might be with you on that. I love to fly, but there's times I get it. So you've made the move. You're here, you're driving back and forth from Nashville, you're putting out some great music. Hummingbird is out there, bucket of beer is coming out. If somebody wants to get these, they can go to your social media and it's all right there for them to purchase download.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you just looked up lucy tiger and it's l-u-c-i-e and then tiger like the animal tiger I love it so there's a lot of you know.
Speaker 1:I asked before we went on and because you being australian, you being from, and I'd love to see sydney someday, I I mean actually I think a lot of us here in the states dream of going to austral Australia, just because we hear that it's very beautiful.
Speaker 2:Sydney's lovely. It's a lovely place to visit and the kangaroos are running up and down.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I thought the kangaroos were what.
Speaker 2:No, you have to get pretty. You have to. I mean, it'll take you. Sydney is very spread out, it's like LA, so you kind of have to drive maybe an hour and a half these days, maybe almost two hours to get out of the city. Once you get out of the city and into the bush, that's where you'll start to see some. But they're like deer, so you'll see them like at dawn and dusk and they'll just run out in front of your car.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and bam.
Speaker 2:I've never hit one, but I know a lot of people yeah.
Speaker 1:I know you said they're like deer here in the States. You know we, you know there's an overpopulation of deer there. They're everywhere now even in the city areas, so it's kind of crazy. I know here in the Northeast, uh, we have a lot of them. But you mentioned Bush. Bush is a slang term for like a field woods, something like that. So I went online and and I was looking up different terms because, to be honest with you, I didn't know. Like other guys I've met from Australia, it's always hey, mate, how are you? You know, but what do you call a girl? So I I found, um, it's Sheila, I believe, and that's pretty old school.
Speaker 2:You said yeah, that's pretty old school, Like. I feel like the same people who would call guys mate would probably um, I know that it's. Sometimes I would go into, like a clothing store or something and you know they'd be like. You know there'd be some girl who's like I don't know 14 years old, behind the counter, who's like hey, hon I'd be like don't call me. Don't call me hon Like.
Speaker 1:My wife hates that You're still in high school.
Speaker 2:Like what are you doing? It's like. It's like there is this like tendency around these parts where people who are like literally like 16 years old will be like you know, oh hey, dear. And I'm like what are you doing? What are you doing?
Speaker 1:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:You sound like a nutcase, but yeah, I guess Sheila is kind of old-fashioned.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my wife hates being called hun. There's somebody you know you go through and you get somebody that, okay, hun, you're good to go. Don't ever call me hun. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:I do like it sometimes, so I was looking up some of the they call you like the. You might have like a lovely old, like African-American lady who's like helping you out, and I'll be like, okay, we'll just fill this out baby. And I'm like, fill this out baby. And I'm like I like that.
Speaker 1:That's fun. All right, I found out. See, I'd have a hard time getting used to all that. But what's that? All right. Bogan, bogan, what's that mean?
Speaker 2:Bogan is kind of like a redneck and it's kind of it's sort of like an insult like redneck is, and it's kind of it's sort of like an insult like redneck is.
Speaker 1:But then there are, then there are people who are, you know, like rednecks who are like yeah, I'm a redneck, you know.
Speaker 2:So like some kind of bogans, are like proud of yeah uh, I see here sweet, sweet as, as, oh, yeah, as yeah, that's that. I feel like that probably came from new zealand, but australia kind of picked it up because that's like a very like, it's very new zealand. But but australians also say and they'll be like, it's kind of like yeah, that's good. You know, I can. I just hear it in my head. It's like with a new zealand accent, with a like sweet bro what about ta?
Speaker 2:ta. My dad says that all the time and I have to keep telling him. People don't understand you when you say that you have to actually say thank you, but it means like thank you All right, there you go Arvo. That's the afternoon. No one likes to spell out afternoon in a text message when you can just use four letters.
Speaker 1:A-R-V-O.
Speaker 2:Arvo, I'm shocked it hasn't taken on. Cheers is like when you kind of I don't know say thanks, or when you like cheers, you drink.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, here's one. Here's one Faffing around.
Speaker 2:I feel like this is something that my like aunt from the country might say, but it's kind of like messing around, I feel.
Speaker 1:Okay, messing around. You might hear a mother scold her children by saying stop faffing around. Okay, sheila, we talked about oh, brekkie, what about brekkie?
Speaker 2:Brekkie that's breakfast. We just shorten everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I see that, yep. Oh, here's, one Rack off.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a good one. That is, um. I mean, if you wanted to be a true australian you would say f off, but it means the same thing like everybody else, just step off, leave me alone.
Speaker 1:But basically the same thing. Uh means lost Bush you mentioned. Oh here's one, coldy.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's like a cold beer or a cold drink, I guess, but most specifically a beer yeah.
Speaker 1:It says here coldie. However, don't drink too many coldies or you might get munted.
Speaker 2:Munted means drunk.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's in a Drunk, I just read that, but I love the way they have it. All right, here's one. Here's one and you mentioned this in the beginning, well before you went on, I believe, flat out.
Speaker 2:Okay, so. So I said this to someone because we do have you know sayings that we say where we kind of like shorten things, so the whole phrase is flat out like a lizard drinking right. Right, because when you picture a lizard like a you know a gecko or something, they're gonna be like flat on the you know desert floor, drinking right. So. But it doesn't mean you're drinking, it means you're busy, so you're flat out.
Speaker 2:I'm like flat out is what most people say, and then every now and then you might say I'm flat out like a lizard drinking. And then I said that to someone the other day and they thought I had been drinking.
Speaker 1:And I was like no, I've actually been very productive and very busy. It's been a busy day.
Speaker 2:We've done well Productive day. How about heaps, heaps? So we would say like thanks heaps, so like thanks a bunch. It just means like lots.
Speaker 1:Many a lot. Yeah, okay, I'm looking here. Oh, here's, there's only a few more on this list, darrow.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Darrow D-E-R-R-O.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Darrow means it's actually short for something. I forget the word it's short for, but it's like a Derelict. Yeah, like a homeless person who's strung out on drugs.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, that's exactly what it says. Yeah, yeah, how about bathers? How about bathers?
Speaker 2:I feel like people don't use that as much anymore. But yeah, it's like swimsuit. I think most people these days use like swimmers Like my grandma would use the word bathers but I feel like now we just call them like swimmers.
Speaker 1:Oh, here's one. Here's one, bludger.
Speaker 2:Oh, bludger, that just means someone who's like lazy. So like we have this, you know, you know how the government gives out money to people who don't have jobs and stuff, and so there are people that like do it on purpose who?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, we get what it says oh wait a minute, here's one.
Speaker 2:You may know this, maybe I uh bottle, oh bottle oh yeah, that's where you buy alcohol, so it's a butler it's like a bottle.
Speaker 1:That's what do?
Speaker 2:We don't call them like liquor stores, we call them bottle shops. So then you shorten bottle shop to Bottle-O.
Speaker 1:It says here, you've just gotten back from the bush. You might want more than a coldie. If so, you'll have to head to your nearest Bottle-O or liquor store, and Bottle-O can also refer to any shop that sells alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 2:I mean it completely confused me.
Speaker 1:Okay, one more.
Speaker 2:And they called them all package stores and I'm like they're like you know, oh, you've got to get that at the package store. And I was like the heck is a package store? Like what?
Speaker 1:How about Straya? How about Australia?
Speaker 2:Australia, australia. That's just like how we say Australia, really fast.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I should have. Yeah, now that makes sense, holy cow. So it's like a whole different language, but not really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, every now and then I do say something, and there are so many things actually Like there's one thing that I say all the time. Actually, I'll say instead of you know, I got to the bar last night, I'll say I rocked up at the bar and so you know. I rocked up and so my friend just loves it. She'll be, like you said, rocked up.
Speaker 1:You know, like amazing alabama accent, I'm like I did you got the alabama accent, you got the australian accent and together that must be interesting. I got to love that that's so cool. So how often, Lucy Tiger, how often do you get to write? Do you write every day? Do you maybe once a week? Are you pretty active with it?
Speaker 2:Probably not as active as some people. But then I feel like I have a different sort of um process, so I'll kind of come up with an idea and I will write it down, you know, in kind of my notes app on my phone, and um, then I'll sort of I won't push it.
Speaker 2:I feel like when ideas get pushed they don't sound as good, um, and then I'll just let it like I had an idea for a song and I and I remember I went to a show and I had the idea for the song after the show and the show was on february 1, because I'm I remember dates, that's why I was good at history and, um, you know, I kind of I came up with the chorus for that idea yesterday and I just let it sit.
Speaker 2:And I just let it sit and like marinate in my head. I kind of didn't, you know, I just wrote down that little phrase that I had and like the kind of concept of the song, and then I kind of, you know, I kind of wrote like the chorus and the verse. I wrote the verse like last night, as I was trying to get to sleep, I had this idea and I was like, oh well, I've got to like wake up and turn my light on and like write it down, otherwise I won't remember it in the morning, and so the second verse will probably come like later this week, and if there's a bridge, I'll probably think of that, and then I'll have a song and just you piece it together, that's all.
Speaker 2:And then you got something yeah, and it all just sort of like comes in. I don't know. I remember keith richards, who is like a huge influence of mine. He once said that, um, you know, all the songs are like out there in the ether and, um, you know songwriters or or like the best songwriters and I'm not saying I'm the best songwriter, but you know a lot of the best songwriters just have this antenna and the antenna just picks up. You know the song and I don't know. I kind of feel like that's pretty much what happens for me anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you? Have you been playing any shows in Nashville? Of course you've been doing some in Alabama, but uh, do you get out there? Do you play any of the? Uh, you know they've got all the big bars now Every, every country artist has a bar. Have you had that opportunity to play some of those?
Speaker 2:I haven't. Um, it's. It can be very grueling. I've heard playing those nashville shows, especially on broadway. Um, and then of course it's also that thing of like, um, you know, I don't know if you have this term here, but like a bit of a golden handcuff, where you're playing these shows, you're getting paid reasonably well, you're getting great tips, but you're just playing covers and so everyone knows you for your covers and they don't, you know. Then of course, if you want to play an original show, it might not pay as well than the covers show. And then all of a sudden you have this thing of well, do I do the covers show, which earns more money, or do I do the original show? So I just haven't really. I haven't really gotten into that at all. I've played a few songwriters showcases I haven't really gotten into that at all.
Speaker 1:I've played a few songwriters showcases.
Speaker 2:I don't know you, but I play some great shows down in Florence. I play some really great shows down here in the Shoals. I'm playing a show on Friday night actually, and the band I've got is kind of out of this world Like. I've got a guy called Justin Holder on drums. He is basically the number one session guitar drummer in the Shoals. He's played with like everyone and he played on all my records as well. So he's there on Hummingbird and Bucket of Beers. And then on guitar I've got a guy called Jordan Denton who is fantastic. He's another, you know, amazing guitarist here. On Keys I got a guy called Brad Kuhn who played on a whole bunch of my stuff and he's this incredible session player. And then on bass I've actually got two-time Grammy award-winning bass player, jimbo Hart, who used to play for Jason Isbell.
Speaker 2:Yeah back to town and, um, he really likes my music and I said, hey, I need a bass player and he was like I'm available, so we're playing um a show on friday night that you know.
Speaker 1:I saw it on your facebook and, uh, that is pretty cool. And now that you're mentioning who these guys are and yeah, absolutely so how did you get these guys to play? Did they reach out to you or did you reach out to them?
Speaker 2:You know, I think it's one of those things where they're, they're available to play.
Speaker 2:I think they're also in a position where they can kind of pick and choose who they want to play with. They do a lot of recording, like a lot of recording, and Jordan does a lot of live stuff with other people as well. And you know, I mean what I've done when I moved here is I just joined the community. I just became part of the community. I go out to a lot of shows.
Speaker 2:Last week I was at the Secret Sisters on Saturday night. I was seeing Hippies and Cowboys. On Friday night I was seeing Dylan LeBlanc on Thursday night. On Wednesday night I was seeing someone. I think On Tuesday night I was seeing a bunch of my friends in a band that play every Tuesday night. That include Justin on drums, will McFarlane, who played guitar for Bonnie Raitt for a while, and Kelvin Hawley, who is a real good friend of mine. He played guitar for Little Richard and the Amazing Rhythm Aces. So like all these people are just in town and they're kind of like lucky enough to kind of just call them my friends, um, I mean, I told you started filming that I had a friend whose cat had kittens um.
Speaker 2:That friend is actually Gary Nichols, who's like the Grammy winning okay bluegrass guy yes within the steel drivers. Yeah, he lives in town. Um, he actually played at my last show with a band, so he played with me there and I'm taking one of his kittens and I'm going to call it Gary after him, which I think is fantastic.
Speaker 2:So, I mean, I've just like joined the community, I think you know, one of the best things that you can do when you do move to a new place is just go out, like you know, you don't always have to get like 17 beers, like sometimes I go out and just get a Diet Coke and you know I just watch my friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, but you're with your friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just watch my friends playing, and then they come and watch me or they're playing in my band. So yeah, it's all just this great musical community down here in the shoals. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I noticed all these names that you've been mentioning and people that you're going to be playing with or you've gone out and watched become friends with and I don't mean this in a bad way, not that they're old, but they're seasoned, they know what, what you know, and they can pick up on something really really quick and take it and run with it that's right, and you know the other good thing, about this place is a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 2:you know. There are those seasoned players, but then a lot of younger people are moving here. Um, and I forgot to mention one of my friends is gonna get up and play a few songs with us on fr night, randy O'Dell. He plays guitar for LV, shane so, and he played the Oprah with LV yeah, so you know I mean it's and all these people are just my friends. So like I'll see, like Randy at like a show.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Do you want to play like guitar on a couple you know songs next Friday? And he's like yeah, I'm free. So yeah, we all just like, help each other out. I'm singing, I'm singing background vocals for my friend's album release show, the big you know theater in town in two weeks. And we all, just you know, it's just a big, nice community where we all, just you know that's how you do it.
Speaker 1:You can't you just can't be sitting in a corner somewhere. You're getting out there, you're helping others, you're singing with others, you're making friends, you're being active, you're doing everything that you need to do to get the name lucy tiger out there and you know you do it right. You're going to be friends for life. I mean, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think some people use networking just to get what they want. Um, and you know, all power to them. But I like to do it to firstly make friends, and if those people can then work with me or help me with something later down the track or I can help them, then fantastic. But you know, first and foremost we're just all friends then fantastic.
Speaker 1:But you know, first and foremost, we're just all friends, god, I love that, god, I love that. How many cats do you have? I have two and so you have two, three and you have the australian meow, and now you're gonna have gary the american and is there a difference? In the meows, obviously I'm not sure.
Speaker 2:I'm so curious to see if, like, they can communicate with each other. Um, I mean, my cats are, they're not young like one. I mean they're not all, but one is um nine and one is twelve. So they're definitely like, set in their ways and how they communicate. But the older one tends to pick on the younger one. So the younger one is a little boy called Frank. So I want Frank to have a little friend. So I'm hoping Gary can be his little friend, little buddies together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, was it hard to get them to travel? I mean, that's a long ways to go. You had to keep them in a little cage. That's a long ways to go.
Speaker 2:I know there is, there's a company that does it. They like literally just transport pets, and so we got them to do it and so they flew to LA and then they kind of overnighted somewhere in LA and then they flew to Nashville and then I drove up and picked them up from the airport. And it was kind of funny because they kept. They kept sending us updates and they would send us photos and in the update they would be like the cats are doing really great, they're really happy, they're really chilled out, you know they're having a great time. And then they'd send us these photos where they're going, like they're really chilled out, you know they're having a great time. And then they'd send us these photos where they're going like Like these terrible photos where they just looked petrified and I'm like could you stop sending the photos?
Speaker 1:Like can you just tell?
Speaker 2:me that they're alive, without having to send me the photos where they look absolutely traumatized, send me the photos where they look absolutely traumatised. But they made it and they were kind of. They kind of hid under the bed for about a week and then. But now they're like, perfectly fine, they go outside and they look at the squirrels and they, yeah, they have a much better. I mean, the place that we're in in Sydney because it's so expensive in Sydney was much smaller than the one we have here. So they just like they have so much fun. They're very spoiled.
Speaker 1:I love it. Lucy, you're awesome. You are awesome. Love your music, love what you're doing and it was so nice to catch up with you again and welcome to the States. You said you've only been here a few months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been here seven months. I made it through. I have made it through two tornado watches, I've made it through one week of snow, which was really not fun, because it does not snow at all in Sydney, and this was the third time in my entire life that I saw snow and it was there on the ground for a week. And I don't know about what they do in New York, but I'll tell you what Alabama has no idea what to do with snow, so the entire town just shut down. We have like one plow, so it was like this.
Speaker 1:It's like that. It's like that in Nashville. Same thing. They get snow, they shut down pretty much. Here we're in upstate New York, in Syracuse New York, and we can get a foot of snow overnight and we still get up and go to work, school buses still come everybody. Because we got the equipment. You know we got a great. We got great crews that take care of the roads and do what they have to. We got the equipment. You know we got a great. We got great crews that take care of the roads and do what they have to do. And you know it's very rare that everything shuts down. If everything shuts down here, then you know we're getting a hell of a storm and it's happened so sorry, but I love it here.
Speaker 2:It's's fantastic, everything is great. You know I couldn't have asked for a better place to land and you know I've been able to do some exploring of. You know been able to drive around the state and do some shows in a couple of other places in Alabama, and you know it's fantastic down here. I love the South and you know it's it's fantastic down here.
Speaker 1:I love the south. Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Have you ever been to upstate New York?
Speaker 2:no, I'd really like to go, but maybe in like June.
Speaker 1:I would say here's the deal we get the four seasons. Yeah, you definitely don't want to come in January or February, even March, you know, you never know. I mean, we've had snow over the last couple of weeks and then it's 80 degrees out, so it's like a roller coaster right now. But if you're going to come to upstate New York, I would recommend that you make the trip, like in early October, because all the leaves are turning colors. It's an absolute beautiful, beautiful time of the year to be here. We have the Adirondacks, the mountains just north of town and it's just absolutely beautiful. So keep that in the back of your mind.
Speaker 2:I will.
Speaker 1:I'd love to come up and visit you in person. I would love that.
Speaker 2:Did you go to CRS? I was only there for one, I only. I had some work in Nashville that I had to do.
Speaker 1:So I only was there for grassroots is karaoke. I got that and I didn't go this year. I wish I did Always a good time. Lucy tiger, once again, what is your website? Somebody wants to?
Speaker 2:go on and find out more. Yeah, you just jump onto lucy tiger music l-u-c-i-e tiger like the animal. T-i-g-e-r music. That is the website. Uh, lucy tiger musiccom. If you want to find me on social media, it is at lucy tiger music on everything. And, yeah, listen to the music. Come and say hey um you know I love talking to people. Sometimes it takes me a while to get back to people's comments and messages, but that's because it's me doing it. It's not like some random person, so it's me it keeps you busy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Yep, Absolutely, Absolutely. Lucy Tiger, you've been on skip happens and we thank you for doing that. Skip is happening for you and it's very, it's very good. It's very good. I mean you've made the move. Here you are the music's out. You're with a great promotions company. By the way, I can never, I can never say enough about grassroots. Love them to death and everybody with them. They are great and I mean every word of that. I mean it's just they're fantastic. But you know what? Thanks for joining us here tonight on skip happens and finding out about your music, and hopefully we'll get some viewers and listeners checking out your website and maybe downloading some of your music. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for having me skip. It's always such a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 1:I want you to have a great night. Such a pleasure talking to you. I want you to have a great night. Thank you, you too. Peace you are.
