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In another attempt to talk to as many people as I can, I had a chance to sit down with

Ian Thornley to talk about his career.

So now, now there's been, one, two, three, four big records over the last eight years.

And they've all done, you know, quite well in the current music environment, which is, again, different than what it used to be.

Quite, you know, you get on the radio, you get to tour.

Mm-hmm.

Do you do...

Yeah, it seems like I've sort of found a little path, you know, that I can make it work.

I get to make the music that I want to make.

And I think we want to make.

And there's actually a...

There's an audience for it.

There's a crowd for it.

And we just sort of keep getting... Every tour gets a little bit, you know, the momentum grows a little bit.

And the crowds get a little bit more.

I see a lot of the same faces and I see a lot of new faces as well.

Well, you see a couple of generations, right?

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, you know, we have songs that have been on the radio since 97, and we have songs that have been on the radio since, you know, a couple weeks ago. So it's one of those... 97 is, as we sit here, 23 years ago. That's a long time. Yeah. I don't really think about that, but every once in a while, when it said like that, it's like, God damn it, it's a long, that's a good run. And I, you know, I don't really think of it. I'm still like, the best one's yet to come. Like, I still believe, like, my stairway is still right around the corner. Brothers in Arms is coming next week. I'm going to ride. I'm telling you. That's the only way to do it

because if you start relying on what you've done,

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