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"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Episode 102 - Lillie Mae

"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett

Performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Up and comer Lillie Mae was literally born into Bluegrass and Country music and on today's episode she shares all the amazing details from her start playing music with her siblings, to being kicked out of the Bluegrass scene, to her time in Jack White's backup band, to ultimately being signed to Third Man Records as a solo artist.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Lily May, and you're listening to Walk in the Floor.

0:03.3

I'm walking the floor over you.

0:08.3

Walking the floor.

0:10.3

I'm walking the floor.

0:12.3

Walking the floor walking the floor over you.

0:17.0

O'Lass and yours and San Juanerritas. This is Chris Chifflet

0:25.0

kicking off another fine episode here today of walking the floor.

0:31.0

I'm enjoying a day off on this beautiful Friday in the nation's capital of

0:36.4

Washington DC where we kicked off a tour this week. We opened up a brand new venue here in town called Anthem.

0:44.1

Played a couple really really good rocking shows and it's nice to be back out on

0:49.2

the road on like just a proper tour. It's not a promo tour, it's not a festival tour, it's just like a good old

0:55.8

fashion tour. Man, we're just going to be getting on the road and hitting a bunch of cities

1:00.4

and getting a tour bus and taking the music to the people.

1:05.0

Which leads me to what I want to first talk to you about here today, which is those eBay

1:10.6

people that stand around out in front of your hotel or they, you know, they

1:14.3

stand around at the airport or they stand around out back at the venue.

1:18.0

And these folks, they're very aggressive and I get the distinct impression that they don't really dig me very much because more often than not I don't sign their shit so you know let me make it clear if you're a fan of the band and you come up to me and you want to take a picture,

1:35.2

have me sign your thing, I'm totally cool with that. I owe you that because you support me.

1:39.8

You know, you buy our tickets and our t-shirts and our CDs and all that stuff and

1:44.1

uh and that's how I put my kids through school man so there's uh there's a there's a

1:48.7

responsibility inherent in that transaction and I and I, I just like doing it.

1:54.0

It's cool, you know.

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