Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Copplement. Thanks for listening. This is a huge big deal for me.

This is one of the great songwriters of our time and singers.

It's Jay Ferrar.

Sunvolt, he's made his own records.

He's a writer, also of books.

I just started, I didn't realize this, I just started reading the book you wrote

about growing up and your dad Jay and what an amazing book it is. I'm only a third of the way

into it, but it's awesome. Oh, and I'm glad you like it.

It's a short read so you can take it anywhere.

No, I'm reading it on, I never read on my phone but I've been reading it on my phone

and it seems to set up for that great easy.

But man, you have a new album out called Union which is just fantastic and I'm not going to spend this whole time complimenting you.

I'm going to get into questions, but I do want to say that as I've been preparing for this and going back and listening to your records.

It's amazing to me how many of your songs I know by heart and from all your records and

you've really been a big part of the soundtrack of my life for a long time and I know I speak for a bunch of people so I want to just say thanks for that.

All right, thank you for that feedback.

So here's what I want Thank you for that feedback.

So here's what I want to ask. We're not going to talk about Uncle Tupelo very much, I know.

But I do want to just tell you that the first time I saw you play was on the lower east side like in 1990.

Debbie Southwood Smith took me to see you guys play and I think I was 24. I'm 53 now on Saturday I turned 53.

Yeah, so I just wanted to start by saying like, because I've thought about this a lot in regards to my own career in a way, but what does having such a long relationship with your audience mean to you?

I mean how do you process that when you look out from the stage and see guys our age who

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