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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Hayes Carll: 5/17/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Hayes Carll is a singer-songwriter who just released the best album of his career called Lovers and Leavers. You can purchase it by clicking here. To kick off the show, Hayes plays a song from the new album called “Sake of the Song” and then talks to Brian about getting out of his creative comfort zone (8:00), the process of creating the album (16:00), and the fear of not doing what was expected of him (30:00). Plus, Hayes and Brian learn about the death of Guy Clark (38:00) and discuss how his new songs are being received and what it feels like to reconnect with his music and fans. Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.3

Hey, this is Brian.

0:05.3

You'll hear that during the course of this interview, which we did today, Hayes Carl told me

0:10.3

that Guy Clark passed away today. I'm sure Guy was way more significant even to Hayes

0:16.1

as Hayes talks about as an influence as a songwriter, but as an artist guys had an extraordinary

0:21.4

influence on my life too. I've talked about him in many

0:24.0

podcasts and simply one of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. If you don't

0:28.8

know his music start with the album old number one but even in the last couple of years songs

0:34.1

like Hemingway's Whiskey and the guitar are really incredible and so this one's

0:40.5

four Guy Clark, this conversation.

0:43.8

And also at the end of the conversation that Hayes and I have,

0:48.1

I ask him to play a song.

0:49.9

And he says he will.

0:51.4

I think though that in case some of you don't know his music I'd

0:54.8

rather start the show off with it so this is a great song and his album

0:59.4

Lovers and Leibers is a great. So this is Hayes Carl, and he's playing a song called

1:07.0

A Sake of the song.

1:09.0

Enjoy it and raise a glass of your favorite whiskey to the great guy Clark.

1:17.0

This is called, for the sake of the song, we stole the town's van's aunt title for it, but you can't copyright a title. If you're in nobody's business or your front page news, folk or our country on Delta Blues,

1:48.0

tell your truth however you choose and do it all for the sake of the song.

1:59.0

Yeah, hitchhike and bus ride and rental cars a living rooms coffee houses run down bars

2:09.1

a 10,000 people alone under the stars it's all for the sake of the song.

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