Lead singer of Dillon Fence, Greg Humphries joins the show to talk about the upcoming music festival in Durham, North Carolina. And it's time to talk about the Tony Awards.

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I decided I wanted to like this guy good. I'm on the radio this week.

I get here this week at Durham Bulls athletic Park. He is a North Carolina native from the Triad area in Winston-Salem would show we are on right now. Now he lives up in New York. He fronted several bands and played solo this weekend. He plays with Dylan fence and this could be a good time. Greg Humphreys, welcome to the show, how you doing, sir, I am doing well.

Thanks for having me play a festival verse planned a regular concert. I know you guys so to cut your teeth on the college seem like maybe 70 plays before you in the new player may be open for somebody just your two bands on the bill may play for an hour festival. There are, I forget, over a dozen bands were closed like 20 or something plan you played festivals before with the with several different bands. Is there a difference between plant plan a regular show versus a festival show where I can show you you're throwing your equipment up there and you don't really get much preparation time at with a show where you're the only actor playing or maybe there's out to act so it's a little little little pressure built then but it's also exciting because there are other great acts that you get to catch that's older really the only time he ever get to see other bands because you're always working. That is one of my questions is do you and I see you go do your work is not like you can just walk up on stage and without thinking about it and get the job done and when you're done, you probably need a little time to compress, so don't assume that you're just like any other fan is like oh found out I got to go play for us for 30 minutes. Whatever but you get a chance to enjoy music Fest when you there next to take any other acts. I mean sometimes burned out and you just want to go rest but at most festival shows I'm almost always catch somebody that I been wanting to see her having heard of and turn that I love their music that's pretty common occurrence in the music testable Greg Humphreys joining us.

He will be playing with Dylan since this we get tickets to the show at that music that's.com you also check out Greg Humphreys.net and always see where he's plan were to watch him and how to support a sound music was good to be a career is to me that say even even if you know that your talented and you know you're good and maybe you have seen crowds, and even maybe a little bit of the of revenue before you decide to go all in your when you're just doing it for the fun. How did you decide not to take the big step and say this is what I'm going to do for my career, not just as a thing on the side. This is where I'm following up passion not only to do it for fun and as I love, but to do it. To support myself yeah decision. I think that was made in little ways along the way. The bass player Chris good and I played together in a high school band at R.J. Reynolds high school and then I met canal Senate universe North Carolina and he and I shared an interest in songwriting and at some of the same touchstones as part music we like and so I brought Chris from Winston-Salem and he was going to Wake Forest. We were going to UNC and so we start playing on the weekends. In college, and was a fun thing. It wasn't meant to be the path to take back the more we get it we, the more we enjoyed it built up an audience and then when it we graduate from college. We thought we give it a shot and see if we can make a run as a professional group and now we got a record deal and end up touring for a few years and when that run was over, I decided I wanted to keep going and I just at so much passion for playing music and once you had a taste of making a living playing the music that you write. It's it's hard to walk away from that because just songwriting is such a pleasure for me.

I I love to do it so I'm trying to keep that going.

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It is just it's tough for me. I can use my year I get so irritating, like I think I could do things, but I to create a melody and words and what's one of the cool things about the pandemic. With so many artists, including you started toward third virtual stuff you would put out.

Hey, here's something that I'm working on and you would see the parts of the saw the beginning of a song then you'd see it kinda grow and you talk about love and the craft I've ever heard other songwriters talk about you working with them on on hey here's here's what you do a bridge or whatever. In this piece you miss it, so that's a skill you own and minutes as abstract is asking you how did you choose music is your career, but how you write us all well. I think song first and foremost are a form of expression you know in your very like one of the oldest forms of communication we have and for me. You know there's an art to it. There's a crack to it, but for me it's a way to express myself and a lot of times songs come to me when I'm I'm feeling something very strongly and I have some time to play guitar or I'm walking and singing a melody in my head. By that. Usually it has something to do with what's going on and maybe feeling inspired to make the music sometimes it can be an expression of happiness, sadness.

But then there's also the craft on it will deeper you know storytelling originality not just rewriting something else taking things that inspire you and melding them in creating something new. You know those are the kinds of things that all go into songwriting, but if it is accepted as simple as expression when you come down to it, is there any easements and some of the ways it can happen in some of the muse and and I hear expression of feeling a lot and can see how that comes out in your music.

Is there any typical pattern of like I got into my head and then I start put words to it or I jot down anything I get a guitar player and a singer.

Yeah, I thought, come to me in a lot of different ways. Sometimes it's a it's a chord progression. Sometimes it's a melodic idea.

Sometimes it's a lyric idea or sometimes if the groove you know like I'll latch onto a groove that I like and want to write something in that. With that, feel so you know the kind of there a lot of different ways take and result. That's awesome that we are sports so you can call right, you know, like Rio or with other musicians you can you can bounce ideas off and you now to limited something that neither of you would've come up with on your own Greg Humphreys joining us. You hear and perform this weekend with Dylan since as part of that music fast. We are sports show. The last time I saw you play was a great show in Raleigh yes always bring out a great vibe and you just have to be of the kind of play the show right into a big basketball game UNC play that night. I can remember was all yeah to get to be alleviated to get the final four acumen which one was what was that weekend, and I imagine that's not the first time that you played a big big game and then played a big show there's been a big game after is any other moment, your career, we remember sports order coinciding with the with your performance. Whether it was when you are a college student or play in Europe or in soccer match going on next-door, whatever is sports crossover and motivate one thing popped into my head, but first I want to say how much fun it was to go out and watch the Carolina basketball team, Sally. I really just love their Ryan indeterminate with incredible.

It was let's just go find her Carolina fan to be the underdog and watch them just keep going with great yes and but it's far as like sport and in music.

I do remember one time I was playing an acoustic gig in St. Simons Island, Georgia, and I was planning a place that was also a sports bar and I was playing during the last game of Michael Jordan's career in the last game like the seventh game of the last game of his whole career sure it's like I'm trying to keep things like one of the biggest sports moment ever. You know well old well we say in Chapel Hill releases Michael Jordan because he could've been worse right to be losing out to somebody else that the you would you like you to put on the guitar. Just watch the final moment yourself I want.

I mean, I went to sleep that I had to work to Greg Humphreys. Also, dad. Now I see.

That's a big part of your life. I'm sure that is been part of your songwriting that does not new. You have been dead for a while but but I see that a lot of of you share that imagine that's working your songs of the congratulations on where you are in life, gradually subunit a bit of it is still played great gigs, pick and choose where you play you don't stuff up in New York would love to see you back here in North Carolina and folks here always support you in love with Dan gets back together literally so thank you for the sound today. Have a great show this week. It is for the festival and the best luck in all your future endeavors will be following your work all the time and enough when you put lay down and so appreciate it at the time. I don't think it thanks and hope I get to see this weekend my friend appreciate your time will be out there were just hoping for the temperatures in the like. The low 90s low 90s. Nothing. Nothing to I nothing to look at the weather is looking like a rank. That's good. I don't think we know if you're the weather cast every day are not yet exactly like I low 90s with a chance of thunderstorms.

It's always good to be a guest but were hoping perfect weather for it for another festival supports a good beer condition letter shade out there do you been up to, so should be okay and I was about to water and stuff. Thank you Memphis great show.

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I will Greg Humphreys great dude can check out his word. Greg Humphreys.net is also on the socials to Dylan since holdbacks Greg Humphreys electric Trio still put out music any plays solo gigs as well and I told him this.

Before that you have nausea. He is one of those dude this is true of athletes, sports stars to they sports stars like music stars can be somewhat aware of their presence like you know if you are playing a crowded arena and everyone is cheering your name that you're having an impact right or you know if a million people bought your record that you have an impact right or you know if you hit the final shot. You hear the boys go crazy and they throw prayed for you. Your somewhat aware that you had an impact on the number of people but I've said this grant talked earlier about John Sina doing Make-A-Wish stuff. The people there you get some idea, could you see the person's face right. But athletes who perform at a high stage and bring joy to us watching them only through TV or like lifelong fans that'll never see them in person and everything but famous musicians.

Unfortunate that of that Greg got a nobleman he's probably very nice to me when I got a million people who treat his good friends just as he loved his music over the years, but those folks once you get to a certain level it's impossible for you to even be fully aware of the impact that you have. You are somebody's all time favorite artist or you wrote the song that somebody will use as their first dance song you'll never know about it right like that something of memory that will be burning someone's head and you yeah the songs were number one you don't know that was the song somebody played their best friend's funeral right or or whatever it might be. And for me, Greg Dillon fits in their music has been one of those in my life where I can even fully explain or he wouldn't even fully grasp all the different people that he's affected by on his ability to play great music until those soulful stories and songs that come from, as he said his of the places of expression of feeling so and I know that runs true as a theme for a lot of these North Carolina artists that'll play this weekend I'm going to ramble now. Just as I get excited of these with David and Cody's book 7 of ago.

I know who will be part of the festival details people like that and how a lot of North Carolina artists are never the flashiest are the number one, they are often the people that warrior innovators were influential of change and that the music wouldn't have existed in the way you did without some of these North Carolina artists never looking for glory or fame. But just expressing their feeling and and and and their artistic expression through their music and had impact and ripple effects greater than those musicians can ever know of excludable get to see a lot of those. They are this weekend, June 19, 2006, but it all started May 6, 1997 with the announcement that the Hartford Whalers were coming to North Carolina transition of heartbreak. Figuring it out on the fly became 25th anniversary of the presented by the Carolina listen to the book of the Raleigh hosted the weekend. She was fantastic.

Now the big upset with the music that will nothing and Ramzi was exposed to not play all started. They were like the Brooklyn Nets right when you heard the music man Hugh Jackman Sutton Foster altogether. That was like hiring Katie and James Arden, and instead they got nothing living with best revival because you knew company was going to take that huge that it may be making boo coo blocks, but they will nothing that the Brooklyn Nets of Broadway that's me. Talk attorneys for the voters choice June 19, 2006, but it all started May 6, 1997 with the announcement that the Hartford Whalers were coming to North Carolina transition of heartbreak.

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