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SkiP HappEns Podcast
From Northern Virginia to Nashville: Connor Daly's Journey and Debut Album
Country music fans, this one's for you! Ever wondered what it's like to pick up and move to the heart of the music scene in Nashville? Connor Daly, an emerging country artist, shares his heartfelt journey from Northern Virginia to his new home in Franklin, Tennessee, complete with a backyard for his soon-to-arrive golden retriever. Connor's transition from apartment living marks a new chapter in his life and career, setting the stage for his debut album "Colors Fade," released on July 26th. With over 200 songs written since he began songwriting in 2019, Connor opens up about his prolific creative process and the big dreams that fuel his passion.
What does it mean to support a loved one through tough times? Connor's track "I Ain't Got a Cape" offers a raw, emotional take on this universal struggle, spotlighting the mental health themes that permeate his music. Against the scenic backdrop of Franklin, Tennessee, Connor discusses the metaphorical nature of his lyrics, drawing profound parallels between life, nature, and relationships. From classical guitar training to self-taught contemporary styles, Connor's musical evolution is as inspiring as it is relatable, proving that inspiration can strike anywhere, even during a simple drive.
Life is all about balance, and Connor Daly's story exemplifies this principle. From high school jobs at a candy store and DoorDashing in college to gigging at local venues and working as a government auditor, his journey is a testament to persistence and passion. We talk about his integration into the Nashville music scene, the unwavering support from his family, and his aspirations as he navigates this new chapter. Plus, enjoy some light-hearted moments including childhood food aversions and the joys of grilling. Don't miss this engaging conversation as Connor Daly shares his experiences, dreams, and the road ahead in the world of country music.
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And here we go, because we are live. Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Skip Happens podcast. And you know me, it's all about country music. It's all about country music artists. It's all about the well-established and a lot of the independent and a lot of the brand new artists. We got another guy on tonight. This is so cool. I've been reading up about him a little bit and a little bit off. Uh, you know, before the lights and the cameras went on, I was talking about that. I have the week off and I hit my honeydew list today and it was honey, do this how they do that. Anyways, all right enough for that. Uh, connor daly is with us. Connor, how are you good? How are you doing? It's great to be here. Yeah, I'm doing really well. We're in the upstate New York Syracuse area. Whereabouts are you?
Speaker 2:So I just moved to Nashville about one month ago. Wow, so it's very new Dude, just a month 30 days ago. Not even. I think it's been three and a half weeks, but about a month. It's very new. But Nashville is very cool. It feels great to be here, but before that I was from northern virginia, so right outside of the dc area.
Speaker 1:That's a crazy area were you near the beltway?
Speaker 2:I was like five minutes away from the beltway. I I keep saying like the one thing that prepared me to move to nashville other than like music stuff was traffic exactly I had so much traffic in northern virginia so it didn't feel different coming down here with all the traffic yeah, I was going to say there's a lot of traffic in nashville now.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've been going there well over 20 years. You know a lot of radio stuff in and out. When I first started to go it was easy to get from the airport to downtown. You could get, you know, no time at Now, depending on what time of the day you fly in, it could take you up to an hour and a half to get from the airport to downtown. I say, it used to take you about 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. It's a little bit worse than I thought it was going to be, but I'm sure I'll get more used to it as time goes on.
Speaker 1:So you got yourself an apartment already and all that, yeah, so so yeah, we got a little place over in 12 south 12 south area so it's very nice.
Speaker 2:Um, I was in an apartment in virginia and now I'm in like a little house with like a backyard and actual parking that I can park like right in front of the house. Well, that's kind of cool actually. Yeah, it it's definitely a step up from where I was living before.
Speaker 1:So that's yeah definitely beats the apartment life to have yeah, I was.
Speaker 2:I was getting a little tired of the apartment living. I lived on the fourth floor so it was like a three-story walk-up. Every time I would go upstairs I'm like lugging all my music stuff up my speakers, guitars, bags. It got a little bit old. I bet it did I'm going to be walking through the front door now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Now that you got a little bit of a backyard, do you have any pets? I'm getting a dog next month.
Speaker 2:Okay, I knew it, yeah yep, yep, so and uh, what, what? What kind of dog are you looking at? Uh?
Speaker 1:a golden retriever. Yeah, I got a yellow. We've had yellows, so yellow lab. So yeah, pretty much pretty close, but you know what I mean yeah yeah, labs are pretty crazy, I've heard.
Speaker 2:But, um, they're crazy, but they're so lovable yeah, you just got to embrace the crazy and, um, you do, you do ask that, and then it's all love, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:Uh, did you have dogs growing up? Is that something that's with you?
Speaker 2:yeah, so my family had dogs growing up, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Very cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the main dog that had grown up. It was a Basset Hound Terrier mix, so it was like just a mutt kind of dog Very low to the ground, like very long.
Speaker 1:And he had the big ears, his ears were pretty fluffy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:He was very unique, but we loved him.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. He had a Basset Hound growing up as well, but it was purebred. But still, you know, low to the ground, the short legs, the long ears, the ears get in the food and everything else, but his name was Snoopy oh okay, that's a great name, yes. Let's talk about you though. I mean, you say you just moved to Nashville like a month ago, but you've already dropped an album and you've been turning a lot of heads with that album getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 2:Tell us a little bit about that yeah, so, um, obviously I've been I've been doing music for for more than I've been in nashville, um, so I started songwriting, mainly in 2019. So, um, after my freshman year of college, I just decided to sit down and write a song because I always loved playing guitar and, uh, I would come up with like melodies and like random stuff when I was younger, but never really tried to write a song. But then, 2019, I sat down, wrote my first song and since then I've probably written close to 200 or over 200 at this point. I've written a lot of songs in the past six years. I've come a long way, um, put out a few singles throughout 2023 and then released my debut album, colors fade uh, july 26th of this year.
Speaker 1:So, just like a few weeks ago yeah, it's about uh, two weeks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1:That's right, and and you have turned heads already with that album, which is a good, good thing for you, for sure yeah, and is it because of the album? Why didn't you stay in virginia and do this, or why did you feel you had to move to nashville yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm sure anybody can assume nashville is a better spot to be if you're, if you're doing music stuff um, I was gigging a lot at wineries and breweries and stuff like that, playing smaller shows in virginia, which was like a lot of fun. But during that time I was traveling down to nashville like once a month or so for the past year. So I figured if I'm gonna go for it and I'm gonna do it, I might as well do it right and decide to move down. So awesome. I think it was the right move and I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1:So everything on the album have you written yourself? Did you have co-writers? Or tell us about that a little bit.
Speaker 2:So there's 12 songs on the record and 11 of them I solo wrote by myself, and then one I took the idea, like first verse chorus, and into a co-write down to Nashville. It was one of my Nashville trips that I had Came down, did a few co-writes so I wrote. The one song that was a co-write was Fake One Tear, and I wrote that with Jennifer Ricotta and Robert Ricotta, based out of Nashville. They're lovely people and they helped write a great song that deserved a spot on the album. But um, yeah, that was the only co-write and I I'm I'm used to writing by myself, so oh, that's cool yeah majority of songs.
Speaker 1:So, being from virginia and all that, and your college days, did you play sports? You look like a baseball player.
Speaker 2:I played baseball growing up, but I stopped when I was about 12.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, never mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was actually very undersized when I was playing, but yeah. So in high school pretty much I played golf and I did track and field. Okay, so track and field was like my main sport. I played golf because I really enjoyed it and my dad played golf in college and stuff, so I still enjoy playing golf nowadays, which was a lot of fun. But track and field I was competitive at. I love it. I did the discus throw.
Speaker 1:Ah, I was reading it. That's what I was reading the discus.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, yep, yep, discus throw.
Speaker 2:So I actually ran cross country my freshman year of high school because my sister was on the team so I decided to run and then we would run by the throwers every single day and I would just be dying running, not enjoying my life, and the throwers are just standing up there kind of chucking the discuses and it looked like a lot of fun more fun than running. So the next year I decided to try out for the team but be a thrower and then I worked really hard on the technique, got very technical which is important for discus got strong and I grew to now I'm 6'5", but in high school I was like 6'4", which definitely helped. But yeah, by my senior year I won states in Virginia, the 5A state championship, and then uh competed at george mason university on the track, very cool very cool.
Speaker 1:How heavy are those discus, discuses?
Speaker 2:so in high school it was 1.6 kilograms. College was about two kilograms, so it's like 4.4 pounds okay, that's still a lot of weight.
Speaker 1:Four pounds, I mean you're throwing it for distance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty light compared to some of the other implements like shot put or weight throw, which is 35 pounds. But yeah, discus, you still throw it really far, so the good guys would throw mid-50s. I was throwing low 50s, 50 meters, which is still really far to throw like 4.4 pounds. I love that. I love that it was a unique sport, but I definitely enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:It's definitely unique because I don't think I've ever talked to anybody that was a discus thrower before, for sure Involved in that sport, track and field of course, and I watched a lot of that with the Olympics recently, which, by the way, did you watch? Did you watch any of that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I watched as much as I could. Um, I really only watched the uh gymnastics for the most part. I'm like some swimming.
Speaker 1:I really want it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I really wanted to watch the shot put finals, but I had a gig. I was playing music, which was a good. It was a great alternative to be doing, but, um, I wish I could watch that, but uh, you know. Ryan Krauser. He's. He's one of the main main guys for USA right now throwing shot put and I wished I got to see him.
Speaker 1:But uh, you know the the, the Olympics are always a fun, fun time when that Absolutely A hundred percent in the women this year, they kind of outdid the guys.
Speaker 2:I mean it was just my wife keeps bragging on that.
Speaker 1:See honey, see honey. I said no, no it's okay, yeah, I get it. I get it. That was great, amazing, amazing. So you're in Nashville now. How, um, you're going to be out gigging in Nashville, do you? Are you going to play at some of the places down on Broadway, or are you going to get out of town a little bit and play? What's next for you when it comes to doing that, now that you're there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a little bit of everything, to be honest, as much as I can do. It's like last week I played down on Broadway at Moxie downtown. It's just like an acoustic gig, which was a lot of fun. It was my first time playing on Broadway technically, so that was cool. The other than that I'm going to be doing some festivals, some writer rounds, uh, some radio shows, um, and just kinda, just kinda playing around for the next few months and uh, I love that because all these people that are digging your album.
Speaker 1:I could see you on, uh, maybe just doing a little bit of a Grand Ole Opry thing. You know they're always looking for artists to come out and play and stuff like that. And what an opportunity for you to get to get up there on that stage. That'd be cool. That's got to be a dream of yours.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it's most people's dreams that live in Nashville I mean it's such an iconic place, you know.
Speaker 1:No doubt. So what are you doing for fun in nashville? You've been there a month. You already knew the town a little bit. You just didn't live there. But now that you are residing in nashville and you get out and have some fun as well as uh, some of the other things that are going on, yeah, for sure, you know I'm trying to trying to get out a little bit.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, I've been focused like unpacking and organizing and all that fun stuff for moving, but I've been going out. I eat a lot of food, I like food and this is definitely a food so no doubt that's. That's great for me. I've been eating a lot, a lot of good food going to the gym, and I went for a hike this past weekend, which was fun.
Speaker 1:Down in.
Speaker 2:Franklin Tennessee. Yes yes, some beautiful country out there, but slowly finding some stuff that I can kind of latch on to a little bit. Are you there?
Speaker 1:alone.
Speaker 2:So I moved down with my girlfriend.
Speaker 1:Very cool, all right yeah.
Speaker 2:So she believes in me, I guess oh no doubt.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love that. I love that, so she's going to be supporting you and you guys.
Speaker 1:I mean, is she going to get a job down there, or does she already have a gig?
Speaker 2:or you're going to be out.
Speaker 1:She does. That's excellent. Good for you. Good for you. Sounds like you're off and running. I just got to keep moving ahead a little bit Pretty much.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's kind of the idea.
Speaker 1:Just kind of getting my footing and then, you know, doing stuff. Once I was listening to some of the music before we went on. I ain't got a cape. I kept listening to that over and over again that is powerful.
Speaker 2:That is powerful, I appreciate that and tell us.
Speaker 1:Can you tell me a little bit about that? And that's on the album, right?
Speaker 2:that's on the album. Yep, it's track number one on the album, so it's starting off with a bang on the end got a cape.
Speaker 1:So yes, tell me about that a little bit yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:Um, so that song is a little bit different than all the other songs on the record. Um, it's definitely not a generic breakup song or anything like that. Um, at the forefront of the song is, uh, mental health. And you know today's society, mental health, mental health is such a prevalent issue that so many people face. So true, and I figured, why not write a song about that? So people can kind of have something to relate to, because I'm sure that I know that I would have liked to have a song about that. So I figured I'd kind of write about that.
Speaker 2:And when I started writing it, I didn't actually know what it was going to be about. I just started with kind of write right about that and when I started writing it I didn't actually know, like, what it was gonna be about. I just started with kind of the dark toned right guitar picking part and then got all the way through the first verse actually, and Then it just kind of was obvious that it had to be about what it was about. So it's about a guy who has a loved one who uh starts drifting into dark places mental health challenges and uh, he just feels like there's nothing he can really do. You know, like he can, he can only do so much to truly help them and uh, he, he doesn't have a cape because he's, he's not a superhero. He can't see it today.
Speaker 1:It's very sad it is sad but it's got a lot.
Speaker 1:I just caught myself listening to it over and over again and trying to just piece it all together, because it's got a lot to do with mental health and what people go through all the time. And you end up in these dark places and then it's just you see the girl, then you don't see the girl and you end up in these dark places and you know, then it's just you know you see the girl, then you don't see the girl and she, you know there's still feelings there and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2:At that point yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I uh. It's definitely one of the songs on the album that I hope that people can uh kind of connect to. It's definitely like a connection type song, um, like hopefully, you know, they can find some meaning behind it.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and you never know, it could help somebody too yeah, exactly you know, and that's pretty cool yeah, tell us about some of the other songs that are on the album. Uh, maybe a few that really stick out in your mind.
Speaker 2:Um, um, let's see. Um, let's see. One of my favorites is the title track called color spade. Okay, and it's it's about how nothing lasts forever and, at the end of the day, colors fade it's another kind of sad. There's a few sadder songs on there. It doesn't really sound too sad, but it's more of those. It's just kind of it's uh, I don't really know how to, but it's more of those. It's just kind of it's uh, I don't really know how to phrase it, but it's just about, at the end of the day, nothing lasts forever. Yeah, there's a lot of like nature, phraseology and terminology and stuff like that kind of relating it to like a relationship and and life and stuff.
Speaker 1:So it's definitely one of my favorites these, um, these songs that are on this album Ain't Gotta Cape, the one you're just talking about now, and they're not anything that's going to make you want to get up and dance, but it makes you think about life and country music and good music is about life. It's about. You know, we always say in the business, you know, country music is like the soundtrack to our lives. You know, I mean, there's all different degrees and of that. Have you any of this something you've gone through? And that's why some of this is the way it is, or you just like thinking the way that others might think yeah, so pretty, so pretty much every song.
Speaker 2:Most of the songs on the record are pretty much all fictional, at least relating to my life, but it's not too hard to kind of know different perspectives and views and just kind of put yourself in the shoes of somebody who would be in those positions and just kind of say what you think they would think about it. Um, I guess so nothing's too specific towards me, but, um, yeah, you can find inspiration all over the place yeah, absolutely 100%.
Speaker 1:I mean, just driving down the road you can get an idea, get into thought, get a thought and who knows? Actually you know it could be a cut on the elbow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does happen like that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely when. Maybe you already answered this, I don't think you did. When did you start playing guitar? What age?
Speaker 2:Let's see, I was in seventh grade. Okay, was that like 12? I think 12, maybe I don't know, Somewhere there, I'm sure yeah, but so yeah, it was just like classical guitar in school, um, and then I played throughout my senior year of high school in school and then just kind of started playing on my own like a little bit after high school and getting more into like chords and singer-songwriter stuff did you learn to play by yourself guitar?
Speaker 2:yes, um so, like I said, like I learned the basics in school but we did like nothing with a pick. We, you know, we were just like reading notes off paper and just doing like pieces like that, you know, and playing as like an ensemble, like different parts of the of the class did like different parts of on the guitar. Um so I I did have to learn quite a bit on my own, but like after the fact, like more doing singer-songwriter stuff, chord structures, key signatures and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:No, no, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2:YouTube was a good friend of mine for a while.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say that, connor, that so many artists that I've spoken to, and I'll ask them a question very similar to what I just asked you was you know how long have you been playing and did you learn by yourself? And they'll say well, I, youtube was a good friend of mine. You know, I mean it's like yeah it kind of helped me out today with my plumbing too that I had to do here at the house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can. You can learn anything.
Speaker 1:Exactly what kind of jobs have you had? I mean, you went to school, you played guitar, you loved playing the guitar, but you also had to make a little bit of money, had bills to pay. What kind of jobs?
Speaker 2:have you held? So my first job that I had was actually at a candy store during high school. For a few years One of my friend's parents owned a candy shop called Rocket Fizz. It was like an old-timey candy and soda shop, I guess. Okay, I was like restocking a bunch of toffees and restocking candies and sodas and checking out people do you have fireballs?
Speaker 1:did you have the fireballs? We?
Speaker 2:had anything you could imagine it was pretty crazy, but, like you said, yeah, dangerous place to work because I was eating. You can imagine it was pretty crazy, but, like you said, yeah, dangerous place to work because I was eating. I was, I was sneaking some candy behind the scenes, um, yeah, and then college did a mix of door dash stuff, I door dashed around. You know, make some money, yep yep, that's cool and then and then, uh, just gigging around the area playing at wineries, breweries and places like that and you can actually make good money playing up northern virginia doing winery brewery gigs, as opposed to living in nashville like.
Speaker 2:If you actually want to make a living doing like playing just like cover song three hours, northern virginia is a great place to do it but that's cool, that's cool yeah, so that was that was during college, and then, um, I graduated about two and a half years ago and I worked in the government for up until the end of this past year, up until October. So I worked in a special inspector general for pandemic recovery.
Speaker 1:Oh OK.
Speaker 2:It was a temporary agency out of the Department of the treasury and I worked in the office of audits, so I was an auditor for for a good while after school oh, I suck with numbers, dude. I could never do that yeah, I'm not saying I was great at it. That's what I did for a little while yeah, yeah, and now look at you so yeah, yeah, this is I.
Speaker 1:I not that I didn't enjoy auditing, but um, music is music is a little bit more fun how soon before you're going to get out to some of those writer rounds, or have you already been out?
Speaker 2:so I've been to a few down here. Um, I am still trying to fill in my schedule. Like so much of of the work and and uh thought that I was putting into music was about the release of the album and like leading up to the release and the move and just kind of being here. So now that I'm here, I'm hoping I can, I can start, you know, figuring out more kind of what to do. But I'm sure I'm sure I'll start figuring out as time goes on what, um, how do you get involved with?
Speaker 1:do you just show up at a writer's round with your guitar and say hey guys, my name's Connor, can I sit with you? Or how does all that work? How do you get involved?
Speaker 2:So you kind of have to go out and meet people and so like each kind of writer's round at least like the small ones, for the most part they're on like a weekly basis round at least like the small ones for the most part um, they're on like a weekly basis, so like one person will kind of have like tuesday's showcase or something and then put like a few rounds on that night all like an hour in length, um, so just like kind of reach out to them and if they like your stuff they'll have you on for for one of the sessions or one of the rounds.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I've been over to the uh tin roof and sat in on a couple of writers rounds and and I think they have like a back room and I was like I don't play an instrument at all but just being a radio guy and being in town and knowing a few, people they said why don't you come over and see what it's about and sit in on that and it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2:It's super cool. Yeah, everybody's just, you know singing songs that they wrote and they're really proud of. So it's cool to see all the different types of songs that people write.
Speaker 1:So what's your family? Like you got brothers, sisters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have one sister. She is about three years older than I am.
Speaker 1:What did she think about you? She was like I'm off to Nashville.
Speaker 2:She was very supportive of the whole thing. Um, because she also is a big advocate for chasing dreams and just kind of going for it. Um, she moved to denver because she loves the mountains, so she just decided to move to denver and nice and she hikes like every weekend.
Speaker 1:Oh cool so and she's thinking she's going my brother's in nashville, he's got an extra room. I got a place to stay if I ever want to go to nashville oh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:I think all my friends and family are happy about that. We have like an extra spare room. So, uh, it's not going to take a lot of convincing for them to come see us, because we live in like a cool place in nashville.
Speaker 1:So are you? Are you a little nervous about being there?
Speaker 2:it's definitely um more intimidating, yeah, but I think you had to do it yeah yeah, I think, at the end of the day, if, uh, you, you put in the work and you have to be kind of confident in your abilities and, um, yeah, like I said, just putting the work, putting the time be consistent and most of the time, if you, if you put that kind of thought onto anything you're doing in life, you're going to be okay.
Speaker 1:So right, right. Yeah, now you said you're um, well, there's a lot of food in nashville, but there's got to be one food. This is a crazy question. Like I said, we go down many different roads here and we have a lot of fun doing this. Uh, what food did you absolutely hate as a kid growing up?
Speaker 1:I mean for me I can tell you, for me it was peas. I could never eat peas and I used to always hide the peas under the table. Mom and dad would never see and they they were think they thought I was eating the peas, but I was hiding them under the table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's funny. Um, I am like one of the least pickiest guys. I think food wise, like I'll eat just about anything. Um, I did not like olives growing up. I would not. I would not. Now I really like olives, but like black or green black all of them, all of them okay, all the olives that I've had recently I I've enjoyed, but growing up I did not like them I've loved them all all my life just cool yeah, do you love your beef?
Speaker 2:yes, I'm a big red meat guy too, ah, okay I perks of living in a house now and not being an apartment is is that I got a grill. I've used it probably 20 times so far. I've used it the other night.
Speaker 1:Is it a grill or do you have like a Blackstone griddle?
Speaker 2:No, it's a grill. It's a grill. Okay, just a gas fire grill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went out and got rid of the grill and I got myself a Blackstone. You got a Blackstone yeah dude, I'm just telling you, tell the girlfriend, christmas is coming, maybe a birthday. I'm just saying I don't know if she can hear this or not, but the Blackstone griddle is pretty cool and you can look up all here. Again, YouTube comes in handy. You can look up all these different recipes and stuff and become quite the chef on the Blackstone.
Speaker 2:The Black stone looks real cool I hope to have one one day.
Speaker 1:It is just gotta take care of it, but it is. It's cool. Good for you, brother. So you got the album coming out while it is out and um, are you keeping? I would assume you're keeping track of the numbers and uh, and how's that going? It seems to be going pretty good, because I saw the reviews on it already. It's yeah, like said earlier, you're turning heads with that, which is a great, great thing, for sure, but I don't have you been in radio stations yet? Have they sent you out on any type of a radio tour or anything like that?
Speaker 2:So I've done a few different radio stations. Okay, so far what I do WMOT down in in nashville okay um, like roots radio, which is just like a local station in nashville, so I did like a live show there and then got a few tracks like playing on there. Um, that's cool, that's cool. Yeah, I think I did one other radio, I'm forgetting, yeah, yeah, been kind of all over the place.
Speaker 1:Eventually they're going to send you out to hit up all these radio stations. You go in, you shake hands and you go in on the morning shows and you chit-chat about your life, like we're doing here on the Skip Happens podcast, Exactly, and you might play a couple of tunes and hopefully the radio station will continue to play your music. That's the whole idea, is to get yourself known to the programmers as well, which is cool and that's. You know, that's what I do as a programmer, but I also have, you know, the skip happens podcast, so I'm able to, instead of you guys coming into the radio station, I mean, here it is, we're doing it right now, which is cool. We're live. And also, you know, there's times that I play a lot of this back and I will also put the links into your music and everything. All this gets posted, so, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that. Yeah, it's been. It's been fun doing a bunch of different interviews and podcasts and radio, and I actually did my first tv live tv performance last week. I'm doing another one this week. So nice, it's kind of cool to see all these different things that, um, that kind of all want to learn about new artists come coming to town and and like really kind of care about what they're doing.
Speaker 1:So it's yeah, no, that that's great, yeah, no absolutely well, we appreciate you for doing it. But still to get on the television to to get on the tv to be heard on the radio, like I said, doing this, I mean it all comes together for you, it's all moving forward you know, nothing happens overnight too.
Speaker 1:You know there's an old saying uh, nashville's like a 10-year town. I'm sure you've heard that, but I've heard that. You know it doesn't happen overnight, but you've already got to jump on it with this album and hopefully we'll have some tracks on the on the radio coming off of that. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you um, connor, if you've been able to get on on stage and play with some of the bigger artists.
Speaker 2:Um, not yet. Um, that's.
Speaker 2:That's one of the things I'm gonna try to figure out, but it's, it's a, it's definitely a process trying to trying to do the whole artist thing. And um, though, I have been like writing songs for like six years now and I've written a bunch of songs, like I just put out my first album and, um, I'm still relatively new, I haven't played out too much, but I played like a lot, of, a lot of wineries and breweries and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, so I'm a little bit new to like the, the performing front, but I've done a few band shows, did my uh album release party at analog at the hutton hotel with like full band, so like I really enjoy it and I plan on kind of honing my craft a little bit and playing as much as I can, coming up Do you have a studio right there in the house?
Speaker 2:It's kind of a studio.
Speaker 1:Because I see the corner panels. I see the what are they called? The base panels? I forgot what they call them, but in the corners behind you.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep for the boominess.
Speaker 1:Yes for the boominess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just a generic that. Yes, for the boominess. Yeah, it's a, it's just a generic, um, it's cool, nothing too crazy, but it's kind of nice to be able to do some of your own stuff, you know, even if it's not like the highest quality stuff. But if you, if you just need to record something, you know, yeah do you um?
Speaker 1:what kind of audio software are you using? Just adobe, or do you have pro tools or anything like that? Or?
Speaker 2:I use apple 10 logic pro logic pro.
Speaker 1:A lot of people use logic pro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very user-friendly. I tried pro tools for a little bit.
Speaker 1:It's tough.
Speaker 2:And then I got a. I got a Mac book, so I just stick with. I just learn logic.
Speaker 1:Yeah no it's good A lot. A lot of artists use that. It's a good move. A lot of artists use that and a lot of them. That's why I asked about the home studio and all that, because so many of them have their own little home studio.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's probably tens of thousands of rooms that look just like this. Yeah, and just like this.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is a full-blown podcast studio that I built from scratch and I have a voiceover studio on the other side and I have a booth in here when I do, uh, commercials and stuff. So it's kind of cool, so it's the real deal. So I hear you, man, yeah, I'd be lost without this. So you get the album out. Where do you uh? Where do you want to see yourself in five years?
Speaker 2:um, I would love to see myself putting out songs that I'm proud of and I like actually mean something, that aren't just like generic songs. Um, and I would love to be playing songs live to people that want to hear my music. Um, I think that's definitely the goal for for a lot of artists out there and that'd definitely be a dream of mine. Like sure sure my music, and hopefully people can relate to it. I love it. Like sure sure my music, and hopefully people can relate to it. I love it.
Speaker 1:So if, where can people that are watching this, viewers right now, or listeners, where can they go to get your music?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you can go to any streaming platform. You can find me on there Connor daily, c O N N O R D A L Y On Apple music, spotify, any streaming platform you got, I'll be on there. And then social media Connor Daily Music you can find me Instagram, facebook, youtube, all of it, any of those, yeah, so.
Speaker 1:I hope to see all that. Do you do that all by yourself? Do you do your own socials?
Speaker 2:I did for a while. I'm working with somebody now.
Speaker 1:Good idea.
Speaker 2:I try to come up with suggested posts and stuff like that. What I mean, social media being so important nowadays, figured you know I try to get some professional help, have you?
Speaker 1:um, I'm gonna ask something really, really crazy. Have you? Um, there's a lot of controversy over this, about ai, but have you, just for just for the heck of it, said AI write a song about ice cream?
Speaker 2:I looked at AI one time. I don't even remember what I asked it, but I remember it not being good, whatever it was. It was pretty funny I don't have to worry about AI quite yet, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1:Right, we did that the other day at the radio station. We said AI'll write us a song about ice cream and it was stupid. It was crazy it did it, it did it.
Speaker 2:But it was just like yeah, ai is definitely impressive. Like last week I I've been trying to find like a new guitar kind of practice regimen to kind of go by. So I I said specifically, like you know my guitar playing skill level, what I'm at and what I wanted to build on, and it put me out a whole practice routine to practice on the acoustic guitar. So stuff like that's really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say that'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 2:But yeah, with everything else I've only used it three times, but a few times I have. It's either a bad song or a practice routine, so that's cool.
Speaker 1:That's cool. What do you drive? Um, a kia sorrento really yeah yeah, I, I, you know, I was a truck guy for a lot of years and I'll tell you why I'm saying this. I mean, I've had the ford, I've had the chevy silverados, I've had the dodge rams. Then all of a sudden I went down to a Ford Explorer. Then all of a sudden I went to the Kia Telluride and then from the Telluride now I'm in a Sportage. It's like I'm downsizing.
Speaker 1:So that's why I'm driving a Kia as well and I'm actually very happy. My payments are a lot lower and I got a vehicle that's great on mileage. And I got a vehicle that's great on mileage and I can exactly got room to haul some crap around if I have to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I could definitely see myself driving in trucks, like I've driven trucks before and I really liked them. But the Kia Sorento, the mileage, there you go, and I figured I'd probably be driving around a lot. So, exactly, if everything goes well.
Speaker 1:But I hear you, you. You know, connor, it's been great to uh get to know you a little bit. I know what are you, only what are you? 26 25 25, 25 25 dude, and you made the move what uh? You know what, for somebody being 25, somebody that has the passion for country, for your music, for the music in general, what would you tell somebody that's thinking about moving to Nashville? And any advice you can give. You're 25. You just did it.
Speaker 2:I'll let you know in a little bit. I haven't been here that long.
Speaker 2:But, when I was like researching stuff, like is it worth it to move to Nashville, you had those. You had like all the people saying don't come down, we're already saturated, whatever. You had all the people saying don't come down, we're already saturated, whatever. But then you had the people actually saying the benefits of actually moving down to Nashville, which, at the end of the day, if you're an artist trying to do the artist thing, most of the stuff you're going to progress from is meeting as many people as you can, and you can't really do that like over zoom or like the phone. It's like it's just, it's just going to be very helpful just being a person being able to face, hands and meet people.
Speaker 1:So yeah, face to face, you can't beat that and exactly. And if this is what you want to do, you got to do it, you got to at least try it. If it doesn't work, well, at least you can say you tried exactly. And you never know. And always hold your head high and you're going to get a lot of no's. You get some yeses. I know I a lot of friends going through what, uh, what you're going through, or have been there and they've come home. So either or you know.
Speaker 1:So that's cool. You know, connor, it's been great to get to know you a little bit. Um, like I said, once again, the website is, or where can we go, connor? Daily Music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, website is connordailymusiccom. Okay, or just streaming or socials, or whatever. You can find me under that name.
Speaker 1:I love it, Connor. It's been awesome having you on.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me on. This was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:I having me on this was a lot of fun, yeah, and good luck in nashville.
Speaker 2:I mean, uh, we're there quite often actually and uh, you know I'll definitely let you know when I'm coming out, or maybe we can get out and uh catch a plane somewhere. Or, you know, take it in person. In person, yeah, for sure, let me know when y'all are coming through town exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:All right, connor, thanks for joining us here tonight on skip happens and we're going to sign off, but you stay right there and I'll talk to you in a minute.
Speaker 2:But thanks for watching.
Speaker 1:Thanks for watching everybody and thank you for you know. Subscribing to skip happens Connor daily. There it is. There he is. Look them up. Look them up. You're going to love the music, because I'm digging it already too, right there.
