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Welcome back to the show, everybody.
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:Today we've got something special,
something different, a conversation
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:that blends New Orleans music, animal
rescue, and the kind of heartwarming
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:storytelling that reminds us why
dogs are really man's best friend.
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:Our guest is Craig Cortello.
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:He is a songwriter, musician,
and the Canine Crooner.
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:Craig's Dog Tails album has become
a beloved soundtrack for many animal
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:lovers across Louisiana and the Gulf
Coast, with proceeds supporting rescues
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:like the Louisiana SPCA, North Shore
Humane Society, and Zeus' Rescue.
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:His music has been featured on WGNO,
WWL, WLOX, WWOZ, Offbeat Magazine,
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:Pup and Purr, and even the New Orleans
Public Library's Crescent City Sounds.
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:And today we're gonna be diving
into the stories behind the songs
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:and the rescues that they support.
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:Speaker 3: hi, Craig
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:Dixie: thank you for coming on the show.
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:Welcome.
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:You bet.
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:Good
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:Craig: to be here.
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:Dixie: I am looking forward to
hearing all about The Canine Crooner.
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:Yeah So what you do is very unique.
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:You are using music to help animals and
rescues, and so you're building awareness-
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:… raising money, and you're creating a very
unique soundtrack for the rescue culture
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:in the New Orleans area and in Louisiana.
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:Craig: That's right.
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:Yeah.
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:I, It's been a pleasure.
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:I've connected with so many wonderful
people in animal rescue, many of
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:whom have been on your show before.
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:Dixie: Oh, that's good to know.
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:What inspired you to create music
specifically honoring dogs and
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:supporting rescue organizations?
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:Craig: Yeah, I think the genesis of this
was really there was, we had lost our
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:dog at the end of the first year of the
pandemic back in:
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:Tara, and we adopted a puppy about 10
weeks later, a, a border collie rescue.
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:And I th- about six months
later, I was sitting on the
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:porch with my dog, rainy day.
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:We have a little covered patio in the
backyard, and that's really good creative
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:time for a musician to sit on the porch
on the bench and come up with new ideas.
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:And I just had a song come to me
that was a dog song not really just
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:kinda looking in that direction, but
it just inspired in that direction.
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:And I think with looking back on it, we
had been through so many emotions with
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:dogs in the last six months, right?
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:We lost a dog in December, adopted
one in January and we'd forgotten
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:how much work a puppy was.
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:So all the joy of having a
puppy and all the terror of
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:having a border collie puppy.
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:And I think six months in, there
were just so many emotions bubbling
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:up that it just came to the surface.
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:And that day, I started working on a song
which eventually became "Angels With Four
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:Paws and a Tail," which was on the album.
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:And that just started kind of a sequence
of writing more songs that were like that.
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:Dixie: I have a clip from your song-
Yeah … Angel With Four Paws And A Tail.
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:Speaker 6: Angels with
Four Paws and a Tail
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:Dixie: Tell us a little
bit about that song.
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:Sure.
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:, I know you said you were inspired by your
new puppy, but give us- Yeah … a little
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:bit more of a background on that song too.
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:There's a quote that you see out
on the internet and I won't…
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:I probably won't get it right word for
word, but it's, and you see the quote
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:with a dog that says, "I will send
them to earth with not with wings, so
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:they don't know m- they're my angels."
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:And I think, I think if there's anything
that really represents what an angel on
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:earth would be like, I think it's the many
of those characteristics are in a dog.
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:So that was the inspiration of that.
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:I think they're as God-like or
angelic as a creature as you can
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:imagine, and bring us so much joy.
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:And so that was the background of it.
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:And I, just again, paying tribute to the
dogs that bring so much to our lives.
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:Dixie: After you wrote that song,
then what was the next step?
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:Craig: The next step was it was funny.
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:I after I wrote that one song, I just
started thinking of more dog songs.
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:They just started coming to me, just
inspired in that way, and I'm not
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:usually that prolific in songwriting.
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:I think like most songwriters,
you go through spurts.
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:At, at times you're creative, at times
you put it aside for a while and do
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:other things musically or otherwise.
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:But I, I wrote probably eight or nine
dog songs within about six, seven weeks
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:maybe, and it just it just started coming
to me not really planning to do that.
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:But I just started in- it started
off in that direction, and I got
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:to a point where I felt like I had
enough material to do an album.
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:And the thought occurred to me
that, this would be a unique…
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:First of all what i- what, what
moves people's emotions more
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:than dogs and music, right?
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:It's what a perfect marriage
I thought it would be.
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:But also, a- as you mentioned, it
would be a different way to engage
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:animal rescue audiences, right?
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:All the rescues are struggling.
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:They're trying to raise money.
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:They're putting out their GoFundMe
pages and doing all the things they
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:have to do to stay viable, but this
is just one more way to engage their
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:audiences, g- get to their hearts.
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:But also, every time I play
music, I can share their message.
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:I can share stuff on social media.
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:So it was a way to engage audiences
that was ki- as you mentioned, unique,
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:and something that was really tailored
to my, my talent, so to speak.
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:Dixie: Yeah.
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:And you have, of course, that
traditional New Orleans sound in it.
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:It's a lot of different genres.
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:I draw, I tried…
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:Some of them are more…
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:And it's a, a wide range.
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:Some of these songs are more some
are more more like a kids song,
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:more kind of a, fun and simple.
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:Some are more sophisticated.
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:I had some really great jazz
musicians in the studio, and I
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:wanted to give them some, some songs
that had a little bit more to them
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:that could get their teeth into.
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:Really the inspiration, I guess if I
would say my, my north compass on putting
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:these these compositions together, was
really Randy Newman, whom I'm a fan of.
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:His song You've Got a Friend
in Me, it's a, a great song.
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:It's beloved by millions, kids and adults.
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:There's enough going on there
musically sophisticated that,
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:adults enjoy listening to it.
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:That was the inspiration, find
something that would appeal to kids but
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:wasn't necessarily just a kids song.
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:I think we've all had the experience
where we had a toddler who listened
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:to a song that we just got tired of.
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:I just wanted to make sure there
was something a little bit more
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:to the music than that, that
might not bore the adults as well.
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:Dixie: Yeah, absolutely.
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:Yeah, now, one thing that I wanted to
ask you about, too, is I know, like
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:a lot of the times, animal rescues,
when they're trying to reach people,
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:they tend to reach people who are
already involved in animal rescue.
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:And so they're not reaching people
that they maybe should be reaching
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:that could be potential adopters.
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:So- Yeah … with your music having
that kind of New Orleans feel to it,
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:it's that music that everybody likes.
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:Like you said, you have some elements in
it that a child would like, but it's not
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:just for children, it's for adults, too.
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:Do you think it is- Yeah … also
helping to reach a wider audience that
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:these rescues might not be reaching?
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:Craig: Yeah, I think so.
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:When I, I, of course, when I play, whether
it's a restaurant that's dog friendly or
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:a brew pub or a bar and we have rescue
events, I certainly mix the music up.
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:So I'll play, some of
the original dog stuff.
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:I'll play some familiar stuff as well.
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:So we try to attract a
pretty broad audience.
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:I make it comfortable and stuff
that's fam- familiar to them as well.
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:So we mix that in.
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:So yeah, I think we do, we are reaching
a little bit broader audience perhaps.
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:And again, I've, I had some
really great musicians.
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:There was a couple songs on the album
when I composed them, I really heard
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:a, a need for trombone in the songs.
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:So I reached out to Craig Klein, who's a
wonderful trombone player here in town.
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:He had played with a band called Bonerama,
and he plays at Preservation Hall.
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:But he had just won a Grammy
Award with a, a group called
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:The New Orleans Nightcrawlers.
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:The story I like to tell is I reached out
to Craig not knowing if he'd be interested
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:in the album or not, but I said, "Look,
Craig, I'm putting together a dog album.
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:It's for a great cause."
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:I said "I think it would
be fun for you and easy."
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:And I said, "By, by the way, besides, I
can't make a dog album without a bone."
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:And he said, "Craig,
count me in I'm there."
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:So I was just, I was really
pleased and privileged to work
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:with a Grammy Award-winning
musician who jumped on the project.
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:And not only him Belinda Moody, who
played upright bass, she's just a
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:accomplished jazz performer, as well as
Chrich, Chris Cuccioni, who played drums,
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:just phenomenal musicians who were…
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:I was just really pleased and tickled
they were willing to, give their
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:talents to this kind of a project.
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:Dixie: How did you connect with the
rescue groups, and how did you form the
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:relationships with them so that your album
could be benefiting them proceed-wise?
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:And also how much money have
you raised for organizations,
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:and how many organizations
have the funds been donated to?
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:Craig: Yeah, i've played at events raising
money for 20 different animal rescue
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:organizations in South Louisiana and the
Gulf- Mississippi Gulf Coast as well.
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:And I've raised on my own about
from my contributions and my events,
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:I've raised about 12, $13,000.
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:And we, and pl- I've played at larger
events that have raised, upwards of, we
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:play at one called Race to the Rescue
every year that's coming up in October.
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:That raised 45,000 last year, and I've
played there for last couple years.
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:There's another one called Frets for
Pets in Ocean Springs, Mississippi,
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:that raised another $12,000.
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:So I've played at larger events that have
raised, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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:But yeah the f- the first
connection really came when I had
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:the c- the concept of the album.
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:I knew I wanted, we were gonna
wanna do some some music videos.
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:So my son's an accomplished
photographer and videographer.
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:So I reached out to a few, three
different organizations who I had not
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:really been involved in animal rescue,
but I knew I wanted to get involved.
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:And but I had friends who
had volunteered for some.
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:So we reached out to Zeus Rescues
North Shore Humane Society, and
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:Louisiana SPCA because I knew
friends who had connections there.
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:So I could say, "Yeah, my,
my friend's a volunteer.
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:Pl- I got this idea that I'm putting
together about an album and some music
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:videos, and I'd love to come in and just
take some pictures and videos of your
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:pups, and we'll make some music videos
that will go along with the album."
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:So that was the first kind of genesis.
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:And I can recall back in 2021, had Zeus
Rescues out on the porch there in our
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:COVID masks taking video and pictures
of the dogs and putting it all together.
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:So when the album came out in, it
was in fall of:
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:of music videos to go along with it.
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:So that was how I, I first got connected,
was Michelle at Zeus and the folks
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:up at North Shore and at Louisiana
SPCA, and just broadened from there.
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:I'm, as I began…
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:it's funny, when you follow your muse
and you follow your heart how many
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:like-minded people you can connect
with, and it just became the ball got
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:started, got, got rolling a little bit.
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:And once I started playing out and about,
you start making those connections and
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:people get to see what you're doing.
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:And so now whenever I have a,
I have an opportunity to play
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:where it's dog-friendly, I always
invite in one of the rescues in.
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:And like I say, larger events I met
serendipitously Joanne Casey, who wor-
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:who's the owner of Alice and Amelia gift
shop on Magazine Street, but she also
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:has a NOLA Dogs rescue that sponsors
that Race to the Rescue every year.
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:So again, she's raised a- almost a quarter
of a million dollars over the five years,
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:six years she's done that 5K event.
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:And so that, that benefits
five different organizations.
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:So I met all the owners of there,
and it just, it blossomed from there.
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:Dixie: Another question that
I wanted to ask you too.
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:So your shows are
family-friendly, dog-friendly.
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:Craig: Yep.
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:Dixie: What is the energy
like when you perform for an
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:audience that's full of dogs?
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:It's fantastic.
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:It's, there's such a feeling of
goodwill in the audience when people
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:come to see the show because it's, they
understand what I'm doing, number one.
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:To have the dogs there.
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:And you, again, you j- you
attract a lot of people who are
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:dog lovers and appreciate that.
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:Yeah, the vibe is always fun.
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:I, I play twice a month at a place
called The Doghouse on Bank Street.
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:It's and it's an enclosed dog park,
but also a bar and restaurant.
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:So it that's the one place where
you can take dogs off leash
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:and let them just run around.
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:So I set up my, I put a little table in
the corner to try to protect my little,
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:my, all my equipment and stuff, but they
seem to find ways to get through there.
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:But it's so much fun for me to just
sit behind the table, play the music,
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:and just watch the dogs running
around, playing and jumping around.
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:And ev- eventually they te- a lot of times
they're able to break that little facade.
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:I put that table up with guitar cases and
whatever to try to protect my little area.
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:But they seem to, especially
the the wiener dogs, they s-
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:tend to get through there.
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:But but it's just so much fun fr-
from my perspective, just watching
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:the dogs run around and play and while
I'm singing songs about dogs and that
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:kind of a setting is just fantastic.
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:Dixie: Let's talk about Go Adopt a Puppy.
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:This one- Yep … has become a rescue
anthem, and Yep … has a music video
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:that's featuring adoptable dogs.
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:It's super, super cute.
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:Yep.
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:I know you went through
filming it a little bit, let
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:me play the clip for this song.
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:Speaker 4: go Adopt a Puppy
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:Dixie: If you can tell us a little
bit about the creation of that song
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:and your inspiration for that one.
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:Obviously the there are themes throughout
all the songs a little bit that talk
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:about adopting puppies, but this
is the one that sort of hits home.
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:And the, really the message that
I wanted to get out there for the,
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:to the s- I call it the signature
song of the album, of course.
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:And it's just a little story about
how much fun dogs are, and then at
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:the end of the song it's, it again,
gravitates to, but, but, there's other
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:dogs out there that need adopted.
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:Yes, we love these dogs and they're
great, and we find joy from them,
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:but there's still so many puppies
out there that need to be adopted.
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:So that, it kind of transitions at
the end of the song to that message.
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:And it's also a great song because
e- every verse starts off with
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:little puppies as the first word.
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:And and if I have a dog, let's say,
come into the dog house and he's new
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:there and his name's Chico or Simba
or whatever, I can do a dedication.
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:I just insert the name of the
dog to where the puppies go.
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:So I do it as a, as kind of a
dedication and a welcoming to
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:new dogs that come to the events.
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:And so it's, again, it creates a lot of
goodwill and it's a lot of fun for me.
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:Dixie: Yeah.
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:That's great.
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:That you have the opportunity to
personalize it because it really gives
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:a connection to the dog for people who
may be interested in adopting, too.
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:Sure.
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:Dixie: I would like to talk about your
latest project, which is The Legend
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:Named Scrim: Run Till You're Home.
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:Yep.
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:So Scrim- Yep … became a local
hero because of his escapes and
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:adventures across New Orleans.
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:He kind of- Yeah … definitely
was a legend here.
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:And I think he made it a
little bit nationwide, too.
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:But for listeners who don't
know who S- who Scrim was what
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:made his story so special?
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:Craig: Yeah, I think that, there's
obviously there are other dogs who
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:have escaped from in their homes
or f- foster parents or whatever.
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:But I think what made this one so
unique was he was a small diminutive
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:dog, a terrier mix perhaps, but but
he was very difficult to capture
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:because he was very skittish.
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:I- and Michelle at Zeus talks about
they, when they're out there, it's
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:not that they don't wanna go home,
it's that they're just in flight mode.
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:They see everything as kind of a threat.
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:So she was warning people not to chase
him because he would run away from
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:you, and you maybe put him in danger.
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:If you chase him down, he
might run into the street.
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:So it was a very tricky rescue.
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:So it really required the
assistance and support, of all the
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:people in the community, right?
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:Because they were…
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:Michelle had a number where they
could call in or text in sightings,
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:so she had a little tracking map.
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:So it became just bigger than one dog
and one owner trying to track him down.
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:It became a whole community inspired
by this, and we- they would send
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:clips where they saw him so they
could see where he had been last.
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:So it really something that engaged and,
you know, enamored the whole community.
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:And as you mentioned, once,
th- they caught Scrim once.
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:Scrim escaped a second time.
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:The second time he jumped
out of a second floor window.
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:It was caught on the Ring camera,
and that video is what caused
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:it to go really nationwide.
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:Sh- Michelle was on national talk
shows, and it was on, all the
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:evening news k- kind of events.
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:So it became larger than life.
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:And I really think Scrim at some point
really jumped to a level where you put Mr.
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:Bingle, some of the real,
iconic New Orleans characters.
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:I think after that second escape I
think Scrim really hit that next level.
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:Dixie: Yeah, and I'm gonna give
a shout-out right now, too, to
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:all the TNR cat trappers because
it was actually- Yeah, right
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:a TNR cat trapper-
Yeah … that trapped Scrim.
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:That's right.
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:I believe it was a volunteer
from Trap That Cat.
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:Craig: Abso- absolutely, yeah.
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:And Michelle's acknowledged
them a whole great deal.
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:But yeah, it was a difficult task, it,
like I say, it was so quick, and it was…
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:they act- at one point had
actually surrounded him.
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:They thought they had him pinned
in at a house, and he k- got away
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:through a fence or something.
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:So it was really tricky.
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:It was a, a, a big effort by a lot of
people and exhaustive in some sense.
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:Dixie: Okay, so I'm gonna play that
clip now for the legend named Scrim.
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:Speaker 5: The Legend Named Scrim
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:Dixie: So Scrim has a huge fan base
here in New Orleans, of course.
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:Yeah … people are coming
up with Scrim everything.
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:There's been, Scrim T-shirts anything
they can put Scrim on, Scrim artwork.
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:So- … how has the community
reacted to the song?
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:Craig: It's been fun.
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:Yeah, I, when I play it at live, it's
really, it gets a, a great reaction,
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:and it's a easy sing-along, too.
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:There's, I sing the verse four
or five times in the song.
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:I had some, again, some great
musicians in the studio.
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:I got to acknowledge Romey
Kaye, a local jazz singer.
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:She did some gr- background
vocals for the chorus.
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:It really came out fan- I was really
thrilled at the way it came out.
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:But I, as, as you mentioned,
it became a, a big story.
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:And there have been four or
five books written about Scrim.
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:I know a friend of mine Maddie Hannon, has
written a great book that she promotes.
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:But to my know- and as you mentioned,
there were, Christmas ornaments, the
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:whole nine yards, but stuffed animals
and even the Scrim candle, I think.
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:But to my knowledge, there was
never a song written and it
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:was in the back of my mind.
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:I had been playing, as the Canine
Crooner for a couple years at
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:that point and, who better to do a
Scrim song than the Canine Crooner?
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:And finally I was at a, I play in a
band called The FlipTones, a cover
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:band, and my bass player, we were at
practice one day, said, "Man, Craig, you
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:need to write yourself a Scrim song."
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:And I said, he, when, the way he said it
was like a, "Craig, it's your obligation,
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:you're the dog guy playing music."
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:That really inspired me to sit down
and say, okay, I've got some ideas
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:I've been ruminating, but it's
time to get it out there and get
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:it into the studio and do it right.
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:So that was really the genesis.
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:But again, it was the only, to me,
it's the only Scrim song that I
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:know, and I felt like every, every
folk hero really needs to have a
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:song written about them that's, that
really puts them at that next level.
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:Dixie: Yeah and again, I love
it just because it has that New
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:Orleans sound, and then you have
Scrim, such a New Orleans icon now.
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:So it was really good.
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:Yeah.
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:, I really enjoyed listening to that one.
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:Craig: And it was, we were fortunate too.
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:Bill Wood from WGNO came out actually to
the Dog House and did a little piece on
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:the song as well, so it was a lot of fun.
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:Dixie: All the songs that I've
listened to so far have been dog
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:songs, and you're the Canine Crooner.
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:Yep … so as a cat rescuer,
I have to ask, do you have
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:any cat songs in the work?
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:Craig: No I do not, and I'll
tell you the reason why.
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:I love all animals, and cats included, but
I was horribly allergic to cats when I was
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:a kid, so I just never had the experience.
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:So I think about that often.
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:There's probably somebody out there who
is better suited and better equipped
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:to be a, a cat musician than myself.
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:But I just, I'm not the one
qualified to tell that story just
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:'cause I couldn't have cats around.
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:But I do, when I do play live, as I
mentioned, I do play some cover songs
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:that are familiar to people as well in
my set list, and I do always play Stray
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:Cat Strut because I always acknowledge,
a lot of the rescues I work with and
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:donate to, they assist cats, too.
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:We wanna help our feline friends as well.
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:So I always put a, a song or two about
cats in- into the playlist as well.
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:Dixie: Craig, your work brings joy,
raises money, and celebrates the
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:bond between dogs and their people.
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:So for listeners who wanna support your
mission, where can they find your music,
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:upcoming shows, or donation links?
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:Craig: Yeah, you can go to the, the
website of course is a, a easy place
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:Caninecrooner.com
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:is the website.
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:So you can find out
more information there.
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:Actually now if you … On Instagram as
well, it's the same handle on Instagram.
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:And that's where I g- probably the best
place to get note of my upcoming shows.
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:I've been pretty busy,
especially coming this fall.
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:I've got the, seven rescues in the next
seven weeks I'll be performing for.
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:So it's busy time of year t-
typically when we roll into the fall.
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:So that's really a good place to do it.
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:But in terms of the music, you can find it
on all the different streaming platforms.
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:You can buy the CD.
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:Louisiana Music Factory has the CD in
stock, and you can get that there as well.
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:Al- also Old Abbey Lighthouse Records
and Books, they stock it as well, so
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:But but yeah, Instagram's a good way
to find the, stay abreast of all the
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:Dixie: What's in the works?
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:Do you have any new songs?
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:Craig: Yeah, I've got a
few things in the works.
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:I've got probably close to enough
material to do a second album, so
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:One thing I'm gonna be looking into s-
shortly though is I've had a lot of folks
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kids and adults, but I've had a lot of
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:people say, you need to get this, if this
music into the, it pr- appeals to kids
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:a little bit more, get those audiences."
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:And I had a, one of the festivals I
played at, the the moderator, emcee
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:said, he was a, actually a language
arts teacher in Mississippi, and
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get these songs in front of kids."
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:At some of the events where they're
kid-friendly, I've been bringing
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:The depiction of my album cover is
cartoonish, and I bring those in black
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:And I'm also looking into the the idea
of a p- an illustrated children's book
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:So you would have the lyrics would es-
essentially be the words to the book.
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:It'd be illustrated and, a-
again, kids could also sing
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:Dixie: Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
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:It's great to get kids involved in it too,
because, you know- Yeah … with the music
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:And- Yeah … not only that, but if
they're learning about rescue through
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:the music, that's something that's
gonna stay with them through their life.
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:They're gonna tell their friends
about it, and they're also gonna
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:So it really does help spread the word
about rescue and bring awareness to it.
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:It's al- it's so important we hit
the next generation and give these
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:And I think it's again, I had one, I
was at one rescue Meta Humane and I
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:did an event for them and the, one of
the little girls there bought a CD.
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:Her mom bought a CD for her and she
responded the next day, said she hasn't
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:And that, that was one of my objectives
too, as I ease toward retirement, I'm
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to do s- more music, get back to music
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to volunteerism and I'd worked with
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boards, but I just decided animal
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for me to get, take both of those paths.
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more projects and more things I wanna do.
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:So certainly no shorter of people
that need to hear this music and
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:Dixie: Yeah.
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:I'm looking forward to seeing
what you have coming out next.
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:It's a very entertaining way and a unique
way to support animal rescue, so thank
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:you for all that you're doing, and thank
you so much for coming on the show to tell
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:Craig: Yeah.
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:Thank you also, thank you for providing
this platform to all the folks.
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:One thing I've learned from doing this
work, I've been close to now a l- a lot
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:of the folks at animal rescue, and I'm
just amazed by what they do and what
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:they g- the resilience and what they go
through and, just the emotional toll it
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:can take on people, but they just continue
to, because they're so strong in their
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:So I ho- if anything, I hope this
music does is put the spotlight
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in animal rescue like yourself.
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:Dixie: Thank you.
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:And another thing I think that it
does too, like you said, rescue does
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:have a big toll that it takes on
people, and I think that this is-
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:Craig: Yeah
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:Dixie: a good way to lighten the mood.
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:Craig: for sure.
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:Yeah, no doubt.
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:Dixie: All right.
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:Thank you for coming on the show.
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:Craig: Yeah, thanks for having me.
