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Arlo McKinley

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Arlo McKinley stops by the podcast for the first time to talk about his brand new album 'This Mess We're In,' what it means to be "country" and why he's never moved to Nashville, working with Tyler Childers and getting to know him as a friend, some of his own struggles and working through issues in his personal life, and how the impact his music has on people has kept him going throughout his career.

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0:00.0

All right, we got Arlo McKinley here. No album coming out next week, the 15th. This

0:20.6

mess we're in. Super excited to have you. You released some singles. I guess they're

0:27.7

palm singles. We were really some songs off the album ahead of time. What can we, we and the fans

0:33.0

all expect with this new album? I think just they, I don't know me as I'm kind of it's

0:42.7

departure from Diamond Western. I don't know if it's necessarily as Americano or as country

0:51.1

as Diamond Western would have would have been. It was kind of a step in a different direction

0:56.5

musically, but I guess that's just because I never really want to make the same album twice. But

1:00.8

I don't know if you're a fan of what I do, then I think you know it's the same thing. It's not

1:05.7

like so much of a departure, but I'm super proud of the album. And if anyone's a fan of the other

1:11.4

singles or the songs that I released, then I'd say that you're probably gonna dig the rest of it

1:16.4

because it's all pretty much, it's all very similar. Not similar, but it's a different sound that's

1:22.3

kind of leans how that is dealing dark from the night sky is. It's a little more like

1:27.5

organ heavy. It's a little more mute sonically. It's different more than anything. But I'm excited

1:34.0

for it. I think people dig it. Little more roots, roots rocky, in a sense. Yeah, there's so many terms

1:41.5

that. Yeah, right. I know that's the thing. What does any of it even really mean?

1:47.1

I don't even know what Americano means anymore. I have no idea. I don't know if it's music or if it's

1:51.6

a movement or what it is. That's it's whatever. So I just kind of stay. I just went in. I pretty much

1:57.7

sent a map. Ross bang. The day I got there is that I just don't want to make David Westerner again.

2:02.8

And I don't want to make a straight up country wreck. And I was like, so let's just have fun and see

2:07.7

what happens. And that's kind of what we did. Is there ever a moment in like the recording process

2:12.9

where you're like, let's get insert. Let's get in a accordion or something crazy. Like let's get

2:18.8

a cowbell. Let's get a, you know, something a kazoo and just fuck around with something weird.

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