Town Talk Church Point
Town Talk Church Point
Navigating the Musical Journey of Musician Tyler Joseph: From Church Point to Nashville
Get ready to experience an intimate sit-down with the musician Tyler Joseph. Hailing from Church Point with a rich musical lineage running through his veins, Tyler's odyssey to the bustling music city, Nashville, will make you stand in awe. Discover the inspirational role his father played in sparking his love for music, and follow his surprising leap into learning the bass in a mere 30 minutes to join a band. Be prepared to be swept off your feet by his tales of recording a single with an elite Nashville crew and look forward to him serenading his hometown of Church Point, on the 28th of this month at Pizzaville USA
The second half of our conversation unveils Tyler's artistic evolution and the therapeutic power of songwriting during tumultuous times. Get a closer look at his latest release, "Something Stronger". An evocative piece, it weaves a web of connection and consolation, showcasing his artistic prowess like never before. So, lean in and let's navigate through the life of a musician with Tyler Joseph, a journey marked by grit, growth, and resilience. You're not just going to hear about a musical journey, you're going to feel it.
Welcome to another episode of the Town Talk podcast. It's Chris and Mayor Spanky and we have a guest with us. Man, we've been having a lot of guests on there.
Speaker 2:Right man.
Speaker 1:We taking it to the next level Used to just me and you in here, but today we have no kind of visitors.
Speaker 2:Today is really exciting. This is the first one that we've talked to. That's actually a musician from our very top Yep and it's exciting. He's gonna play in Church Point later on in a month, at Pizzaville on the 28th, and this is, if you're picking a Thursday to go, this is the one to go.
Speaker 1:Yep, so today we have Tyler Joseph with us. Thank you all for having me, and we're excited to learn a little bit more First off, or maybe someone who or maybe not familiar on who you are, who's your mama, who's your daddy and who's all your people here in Church Point.
Speaker 3:Well, my dad his name is David Rayon my mom, monique Harrington, but actually Monique Pratha family, if you don't know, of Rivers Fall, oh yeah, that was my grandmother's uncle.
Speaker 2:He was a councilman in the 70s and 80s.
Speaker 3:My family. Actually, I'm related to our religion. My great grandmother was double related, so I'm related on both sides of the family. That's kind of where the musical thing comes into play.
Speaker 2:So you got a strong lineage of musicians.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2:I could tell you, our religion is big in Church Point.
Speaker 3:One of the biggest A legend.
Speaker 2:You know, we got a sign, a road, after all kind of stuff.
Speaker 3:I was there whenever they put that yeah.
Speaker 2:So this you brought you to Nashville, right Right, can you tell us a little bit about that? I know that had to be exciting experience A lot more lights than Church Point guy.
Speaker 3:A little bit, but no, maybe about a year ago I signed up with this management company and she's out of San Diego and she was gonna sign me on as a developing artist. So what that entails is getting social media ready and getting just stuff. And then it came up to the point where you're gonna have to record a single, because the last single I did was a song called All my Days. It didn't do too well, it was kind of a slower song, wedding song type thing. So she got me up with this guy named Bill McDermott and we finally picked the time to go. We went in July.
Speaker 3:The first week of July we went up there Renting an Airbnb was real nice, nice neighborhood and everything, and I spent probably about let's see a day recording this song, which I thought going into the tracking session. I thought it was gonna take three, four hours, went in there with these killer musicians and it took them about 30 minutes. They listened to the song one time the demo I had in 30 minutes. They had cut the song and it was ready for me to sing on. Wow, wow.
Speaker 2:And you would tell me earlier that there was some big time guys playing. Yeah.
Speaker 3:The drummer was full-time with Keith Urban for a while and the guitar player has played on. Right now he's sitting at 20 number ones as a guitar player Wow, playing every on pretty much every Luke Combs, pretty much anything you hear on country radio today. That's not classic country.
Speaker 2:That's, they've played on it. Yeah, wow, that's big stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want to get too much off topic, but I'm a music guy and I feel sometimes writers of songs don't get enough respect because maybe you know the the music fan hears you just mentioned Luke Combs. They hear Luke Combs sing oh, that's a great Luke Combs song, but he didn't necessarily write it. And also there's some other people that might not get the respect either and those are those studio musicians. The studio musicians, they work very hard and they're on a lot of recordings that I know they get credit for right, I mean, they really get credit for it but just not in the public eye. Yeah, yeah. So I mean I bet you it was great to work with some killer musicians. Oh, it sure was. Yeah, it sure was. Tell us a little bit about your musical background. Where did you start? What was the first instrument you played? How did it start for you?
Speaker 3:I started playing at the age of eight and I started playing acoustic guitar. Then I moved on to playing electric and then that's where it kind of got funny, because I was playing in the band with me and my cousin and my grandmother and his grandmother had got together and said you two need to start me. He played a card in, then I played guitar, then I had another friend that played drums, so we got together and that's how we started playing. But then somewhere in the middle of that my dad which is the one that managed the band because he does music now because of me and he said well, we need a bass player. Well, we had bought him a bass for Christmas and he didn't come to take to play it. So I started. So I had to learn bass in 30 minutes pretty much to learn bass to play with the band. So we did that and we played with the band Straight Whiskey for probably about three, four, five years, playing three and four nights a week and playing everything.
Speaker 3:Then after that I told my dad he was in the living room one day. I said, hey, I'm going to learn a carding. He told me. He said no, you're not. He said you can't play. That it got two sides and you got to pull it and push it. That fired you up Very, very so I told him. I said, okay, fine, so I do some odd jobs at my grandmothers and you know, pay me a little bit of money here and there. And I saved up. I went to Mutons and Crowley. I bought my first little Chinese carding. It was a ariette little piece of junker carding but it got me to start. So I started learning on that and then went on to getting better cardings and I'm now sitting at five championships for a carding contest under my belt. So I guess it proved to him that I did it.
Speaker 1:That's right. Maybe that was his way to fire you up.
Speaker 3:Oh it is. If somebody tells me I'm not going to do it, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2:I know the feeling.
Speaker 3:And then after that, because I was always told I could sing in French, but I don't know anything. I'm saying I can know the words, whatever, but I can't tell. So it is like you know what, when I go to sing something in English, they say, look, my dad or my grandma would look, we love you baby, but you can't sing. So I started like when I drive in the car somewhere, I'll start singing to the radio to sing, and I keep doing that to get on key or whatever.
Speaker 3:And then, for after a while, I started writing songs and which came up to my first one I wrote was Bottle of Patron. I was feeling like I was sitting there, feeling like I was Hank Williams Jr and I was kind of outlawed, like you know, riding in a bus, you know you all drunken, alone, so but still couldn't sing till I worked my voice up. And then, in 2020, I went with Tony Ardewan he used to play with a band called River Road and he stays in Apollousa's went to his studio, cut that song and came out dang good and like well then, like, maybe you can sing Mm-hmm. That hard work, and what I say is hard work and dedication.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, there's no doubt you dedicate it to the craft you can. You can do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's good that your dad was pushing you oh yeah. You know, because sometimes I guess that negative reinforcement fires you up and you know that's that's how you get things done.
Speaker 3:He was always for me and he started doing sound and running sound for me with the band and stuff and now he actually he drives the band and does merchandise with Jamie Badger on.
Speaker 2:So oh yeah, y'all in all the music.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, this stuff Full on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that's awesome man. And now you said you played in a few places in Nashville.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was lucky enough to get to play the famous Bluebird Cafe and you get up there. They allow you so many minutes to play. I played that song, actually something stronger there, and you know, say where you from in a quick hurry, and I'm like, look, my name's Tyler Joseph from Church Point, and all I heard was the crickets.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, church Point when is?
Speaker 3:that at. I said little town in Louisiana, come check us out.
Speaker 2:That's right spreading the word about giving a church point, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So, tyler, when you are performing, what are you doing? Are you doing vocals in guitar? What's primarily your job now in the music business?
Speaker 3:Vocals in guitar pretty much. Yeah, I get up there and I sing three hours of classic country and I sing some newer country too. But I'm really more geared to what the crowd wants to hear. And I'm always saying during a show if you got a request, come up and Tell me. If I know how to do it, I'll do it, you know, if I don't, I'll tell you look, pick another one. Yeah, I've had a one lady, her son. I was playing in Bruce art somewhere at a place called misfits and she come up. She said, hey, uh, can you play in a sand man by my talent? I said it's a good country song.
Speaker 3:I said, uh way to keep it country, you know so, uh. But I said no, I said pick another one. Then she started picking some kind of the rock song and finally she came out. She said my son would like to hear neon moon. I'm like, well, we can do that. Comma day. There we can all, we're all right.
Speaker 1:So you're going to be playing Thursday, september 28th, from six until nine at pizza bill. Usa and church point.
Speaker 3:Yep, that's my big release party. Um, that's the gig I had. I was supposed to do it before but I couldn't get a place together. But, uh, we decided that piece of it would be the perfect place. So I want everybody to come out from church point and come see a hometown boy and business and some good stuff.
Speaker 2:And the thing about pizza bill on Thursday. Get there about four.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and especially on this one here it's going to be a big, big crowds. So we're going to get out there and rocket or country version we're going to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're going to rocket the country version. But, and, and before we wrap up, tyler, tell us about this new single man. What is it? Uh, where can people get it? I know with the release of the podcast, it's out already, Right, uh, so give us the details on that.
Speaker 3:So you can find it on Google. Apple play Apple music. Google play YouTube faith. Anywhere you get music, you can get it. It's available to everybody. And if you can't get it, message me and I'll get it to you.
Speaker 1:All right, what's? What's the name of the song? Something stronger, okay, and it's by Tyler Joseph. Tyler Joseph, okay.
Speaker 3:All right, and you can find me on social media at Tyler Joseph country. Tell you everything you need to know, maybe stuff you might not want to know.
Speaker 1:Don't do too much digging on social media. Yeah, so we have Tyler Joseph with us on the town talk podcast. Thanks for joining us and don't forget Thursday, september 28th, from 6 until 9. It's gonna be a single release party. What's the name of the single? Again, something stronger, and you can get that pretty much anywhere where you get music you can go and download it. I don't know, you might burn it on a CD for somebody that night. Huh, I'll do whatever whatever it takes put it on a thumb draw.
Speaker 1:I'll do whatever it takes so, mayor, again Thanks for joining the podcast.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I know you had some fun with Tyler. Oh yeah, it's a great time and, like I said, listen to after this podcast, cuz it's gonna be the song that just got released and it's a damn good when I heard it right before thank you.
Speaker 3:I want to thank the mayor for having me. I want to thank everything he does for church. Point does a great job, so I'm trying thank you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we're gonna work together soon. Man get get some music in church for that's it. That's what we need. Thank you. You've been sipping on that cool ain't way too long.
Speaker 3:You're frustrated in your bones, thirsty for something that won't need the better taste away. I've got something stronger, stronger than whiskey, stronger than wine. He gets even better with time. Won't leave a bad hangover. Lay your head here on my shoulder. You won't drink better. We stuck any longer. I've got something stronger. I got a bottle of Conalonga's gonna last once you set that stronger stuff. You won't go back. Girl, if you were, is at the door. I'll never leave you on the move. If you want to shot, you can't find in a glass. I've got something stronger, some last year, longer. Stronger than whiskey. Stronger than wine. He gets even better with time. Won't leave a bad hangover. Lay your head here on my shoulder. You won't drink better. We stuck any longer. I've got something stronger. There's a time for hanging on. There's a time for moving on.
Speaker 3:I've got something stronger, some last year, longer. Stronger than whiskey. Stronger than wine. He gets even better with time. Won't leave a bad hangover. Lay your head here on my shoulder. You won't drink better. We stuck any longer. I've got something stronger. I've got something stronger, something stronger.