Lukas Nelson

So a lot of the demos that I have are just voice memo to phone because my brain's working fast, and this thing works pretty fast.

I mean, that's great.

I didn't realize that was a feature, and I'm going to start using it.

When you're doing a set, do you have people put their phones away?

That's interesting.

Yeah.

And it's very much the same for, you know, in music.

I feel like there's stuff that I try out live, you know, as a song.

I do a lot of new material live just to see how the audience will react.

Does it feel weird the first time you sing it?

Yeah.

It depends on what type of song it is, too.

If it's a song that requires focus on the lyrics, then sometimes it feels weird because a lot of people, when they listen to music, they don't hear a lot of – it takes a certain type of listener to listen to lyrics and be able to internalize them.

A lot of people take the song as a whole and the melody and they hear it and they're like, oh, this song makes me feel good.

And then later on, if they like the song, they'll go in and listen to the lyrics.

I've found a lot of people listen to music that way.

And then it takes them a while to actually hear what...

Unless it's a stripped down me and a guitar with no band around and then it forces the listener to then listen to the words, which actually I really like doing that sometimes.

I like just playing just me because then there's no distraction around and it's sort of just –

me a guitar and the words that i'm saying and i think they have more impact sometimes that way yeah people love that too that's why they love acoustic performances right yeah exactly bob dylan was an amazing paul simon again i like you know these are people that i i i cite a lot you know in this in this way but you know sierra farrell do you know sierra farrell oh my god she's on my new record stephen wilson jr he's another great uh amazing country singer songwriter