{"id":20206,"date":"2021-11-01T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=20206"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:52:31","slug":"jonathan-byrd-the-pickup-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2021\/11\/jonathan-byrd-the-pickup-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"JONATHAN BYRD &#038; THE PICKUP COWBOYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Musician: <b>JONATHAN BYRD &amp; THE PICKUP COWBOYS<\/b><\/h2>\n<h1>Video: \u201c<b>It Don\u2019t Make Sense<\/b>\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HYg9TH5nlJs\" width=\"660\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><b>JONATHAN BYRD &amp; THE PICKUP COWBOYS FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK\u2019S <i>COOL NIGHTS 21<\/i> THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Jonathan Byrd &amp; the Pickup Cowboys will be featured at Blue Rock aLive! <i>Cool Nights 21<\/i> livestreaming concert series\u2014this Thursday, November 4. They are musical gunslingers, vaudevillian hucksters and old-fashioned tent revivalists. Between heartbreaking ballads and heart-lifting sing-alongs, the Cowboys entertain and get audiences involved in the show.<\/p>\n<p>Byrd is a preacher\u2019s son, a Gulf War veteran, and an award-winning songwriter from Chapel Hill, N.C., known for literary, outsider songs that have become campfire favorites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20213\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-1-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-1-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-1-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Byrd was among the winners of the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. He is best known for his narrative tales of love, life, and death in America. He recently covered Geoff Mack\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ve Been Everywhere\u201d (a song recorded by many including by Hank Snow, Lynn Anderson, Asleep at the Wheel and Johnny Cash). To get an idea of his sense of humor, watch his Covid-19 version.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Byrd paints a landscape with lyric and melody that reveals his truth\u2014which finds a place in the listener\u2019s heart, allowing it to simultaneously sigh and breathe. We talked with him about his songwriting and especially two of the powerful songs from their most recent album\u2014with drums by Austin McCall and guitar, saw and mandolin by musical Renaissance man Johnny Waken\u2014where they share often-missed, always poignant tales of small people who make the world such a big place.<\/p>\n<p>Check out his livestream this Thursday, November 4, at Blue Rock Texas\u2014where innovation, quality and creativity are evidenced in concerts produced with broadcast quality audio-video from their renowned Texas room\u2014streamed straight to you. Inquire about a Season Pass ($105) which lets you can have a seat in the house\u2014by sending in your headshot. What\u2019s unique is they will place your headshot on a seat, so you will literally be <i>sitting<\/i> in the room. Go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/bluerocktexas.com\/events\">https:\/\/bluerocktexas.com\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>JONATHAN BYRD <\/b>Interview<\/h2>\n<h2>with\u00a0<i>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/i><b>\u00a0<\/b>magazine publisher,<b> <\/b>Merlin David<\/h2>\n<p><b>Please tell us the story behind one of the songs you plan to play at Blue Rock\u2019s <i>Cool Nights 21<\/i> <\/b>(<i>for your November 4 performance<\/i>)<b>.<br \/>\n<\/b>\u201cI Should Have Died\u201d is the first song I\u2019ve written for my latest project, <i>Song Miners<\/i>. On Friday November 5, on my YouTube channel, I will release the first in a series of videos that documents my entire process of writing a song\u2014from initial idea to final recording. It\u2019s difficult to remember how I arrived at a certain lyric or melody. So, I decided to start filming myself as I write\u2014like <i>Naked and Afraid<\/i>, the songwriting edition. (<i>Laughs<\/i>) Fans can watch me struggle with ideas, try new things, celebrate breakthroughs and finally decide whether or not the song is done. In keeping with the extreme vulnerability of the project, the first song \u201cI Should Have Died\u201d is very raw and honest\u2014a song of thanks for somehow surviving all the bad decisions I made in my life: \u201cIt\u2019s still too soon to say today is not my day. I might get lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20212\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-2-the-Pickup-Cowboys.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-2-the-Pickup-Cowboys.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-2-the-Pickup-Cowboys-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us about one of the songs on the latest album <i>Jonathan Byrd &amp; the Pickup Cowboys<\/i>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt Don\u2019t Make Sense\u201d was not a song we had played out much. It\u2019s a very introspective piece about recovering from a broken relationship. Honestly, it began with an exercise I call \u201cfolded ideas.\u201d From the lyric: \u201cPussyfoot, a cat in heat, dinner\u2019s cold luncheon meat. A butcher\u2019s block on Lonely Street, I\u2019m so tired and I can\u2019t sleep. It don\u2019t make sense to me.\u201d Pussy\/cat, heat\/cold, dinner\/luncheon, meat\/butcher, block\/street, lonely\/tired, tired\/sleep. Each idea folds into another as the line unfolds. Of course, this is just a technical exercise, and the point is that it leads to something meaningful and relatable to the human experience. From the first full verse, I understood what the story was about and I was able to continue. Because I set up such a difficult scheme, it took me months to write the rest. On the album, Paul Ford plays a cello solo, which became very meaningful only a week later as he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Paul passed away about a year after the recordings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><b><i>Jonathan Byrd paints a landscape with lyric and melody that reveals his truth\u2014 which finds a place in the listener\u2019s heart, allowing it to simultaneously sigh and breathe.<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>What did you learn about yourself after recording this album?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I played electric guitar for the first time in a very long time, and was able to stretch out as a producer. I even added some instruments in my home studio after the big studio recordings. This gave me the confidence to produce entire recordings at home. \u201cI Should Have Died\u201d was produced, recorded and mixed entirely at home.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us about the powerful song \u201cWe Used to Be Birds.\u201d<\/b><br \/>\nMy ex and I were together for 18 years, and I used to call her baby all the time: \u201cHey, Baby!\u201d or \u201cHey Baby, I need your help with this.\u201d She grew up in upstate New York and they didn\u2019t call each other baby, but she warmed up to it after a while\u2014and she\u2019d call me \u201cBaby.\u201d We had a son, and when he started to talk\u2014every now and then, he\u2019d call one of us \u201cbaby.\u201d (<i>Laughs<\/i>) It was so funny because sometimes we\u2019d be in different parts of the house and we\u2019d say \u201cBaby\u201d (<i>echoes<\/i>) \u201cHey! Baby\u201d\u2014just call out to each other, not for any reason\u2014just to say \u2018here we are.\u2019 And it reminded me of the way birds would wake up in the morning and they\u2019d start singing and they\u2019d call to each other\u2014almost like they were just checking on each other. I think that\u2019s where the idea had its beginnings.<\/p>\n<p><b>Who originally inspired you to write songs?<\/b><br \/>\nI knew that \u2018real\u2019 bands on the radio always had their own songs. I didn\u2019t know where they came from, but I knew it seemed important for musical acts to have their own songs. Wedding bands and bar bands could play other people\u2019s music, but people didn\u2019t usually win Grammys for that. So, when I was a teenager, I started writing songs for myself and my bands. I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t know whether my songs were good or bad back then\u2014the experience of writing made me a better writer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20211\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-3-live-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-3-live-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-3-live-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What is your creative process for writing songs?<\/b><br \/>\nI try a new door every day. I explore a country. I sing like a different person. I stare at a tree for hours and imagine it as a melody. I black words out of ads in flight magazines to make poetry. Sometimes I call another songwriter.<\/p>\n<p><b>What songwriting tip would you like to offer?<\/b><br \/>\nIt takes a certain amount of bravery\u2014not to be clever. You need to ask yourself, \u2018Am I making this better or am I just trying to show off my chops.\u2019 I think it\u2019s Johnny Mercer who said \u201cIt takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.\u201d Don\u2019t give up. You have to process fifty tons of rock to get an ounce of gold. Not every mine is profitable. Think of it as good, driveway gravel. Keep digging. Keep learning. If you\u2019re stuck, go for a walk. Read it out loud. Make a deadline. Put it out to the world. I\u2019ve never met a writer who was secure in their talents. Professionals are just desperate enough to sell their unfinished work.<\/p>\n<p><b>Is there a songwriting principle you follow?<\/b><br \/>\nThink about threes. A priest, a rabbi and a duck walk into a bar. The duck is different, and you know it\u2019s different because you established a pattern with the two previous items. Three is the minimum number of items it takes to establish a pattern and break it. The blues do it idiomatically: 1. The thrill is gone. The thrill is gone away. 2. The thrill is gone. The thrill is gone away. 3. You know you done me wrong, and you\u2019ll be sorry someday. You can do it with melody, too. Vivaldi\u2019s \u201cSpring\u201d is a great example. Threes hide everywhere in art\/photography, cinema, theater and more. Look for them. Threes are a great tool.<\/p>\n<p><b>How do you keep song ideas fresh?<\/b><br \/>\nI keep the process fresh. Just like Country songs have a pre-chorus, I have a pre-process\u2014a process where I create a process. <i>(Laughs)<\/i> A natural way for me to write is to start playing the guitar and it just comes together. I used to instinctively do that\u2014but now it\u2019s part of my deliberate songwriting process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20210\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-4-with-Johnny-jumping-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-4-with-Johnny-jumping-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-4-with-Johnny-jumping-Photo-credit-Rodney-Bursiel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Top 5 Musicians or Songwriters\u00a0who inspired you?<\/b><br \/>\nDavid Rawlings and Gillian Welch have each contributed a whole new line of artistry to the world. Their influence is undeniable.\u00a0Tom Waits. Anais Mitchell. Doc Watson. Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are your Top 5 favorite albums?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Dark Side of the Moon <\/em>(1973) \u2014 <em>Pink Floyd<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mule Variations<\/em><em> (1999) \u2014 Tom Waits<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bone Machine<\/em> (1992) \u2014Tom Waits. Let\u2019s just count Tom Waits as one album.<br \/>\n<em>Time (The Revelator)<\/em> (2001) \u2014 Gillian Welch (produced by David Rawlings)<\/p>\n<p><em>Nebraska<\/em> (1982) \u2014 Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nine Pin<\/em> (2016) \u2014 Kaia Kater. This gave me goosebumps and made me cry. Everything you want from a record. She was twenty-two, played clawhammer banjo and writes these vivid, almost frightening songs that challenge tradition from the inside. It\u2019s the way I imagine southern music to have sounded before records were made. Now it\u2019s post-genre but the effect for me is time travel. It\u2019s beautiful and naked and painful.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Waits \u2018Mule Variations.\u2019 And \u2018Bone Machine (1992)\u2019 Let\u2019s just count Tom Waits as one album. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings \u2018Time the Revelator.\u2019 Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u2018Nebraska.\u2019 Ooh, number five is so tough because it\u2019s your last chance, right?<\/p>\n<p>My friend Kaia Kater just put out a record that gave me goosebumps and made me cry. Everything you want from a record. It\u2019s called \u2018Nine Pin.\u2019 She\u2019s twenty-two, plays clawhammer banjo, and writes these vivid, almost frightening songs that challenge tradition from the inside. It\u2019s the way I imagine southern music to have sounded before records were made. Now it\u2019s post-genre but the effect for me is time travel. It\u2019s beautiful and naked and painful.<\/p>\n<p><b>What instruments\/equipment are essential?<\/b><br \/>\nMy voice is my most important instrument. I play the guitar too. I love my Martin D-18 Golden Era. It\u2019s a reproduction of a 1934, with a few things they learned since then. Martin is such a great company. Have you ever been to their factory in Nazareth? It\u2019s like Geppetto built a particle accelerator. Wooden clamps a hundred years old and robots in cleanrooms. It\u2019s like winemaking or baking, where you have two hundred years of various technologies all working simultaneously to produce this masterpiece of our culture and history.<\/p>\n<p><b>Any other guitars?<\/b><br \/>\nBy contrast Jack Benedict at Slowbird, a great luthier in Winston-Salem, made a white oak guitar for me in his basement. I watched Jack make it as he posted pictures on his Facebook page. I lusted after it. He didn\u2019t tell me it was mine until he walked into a show and handed it to me. Blew my mind! It\u2019s as good as any guitar I\u2019ve played. We gave it a year to settle in, and then tweaked it. So now it\u2019s even better. I took it on the road.\u00a0I love guitars, essentially. They all have their individual fingerprint. I don\u2019t care so much about which guitar I use. I\u2019ve shown up to festivals and conferences without a guitar. Why would you bring one? There are five hundred guitars there already.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20209\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-5.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What kind of gear do you use?<\/b><br \/>\nThe thing I\u2019d be lost without is my pedal board. I\u2019ll fly to Denmark and play my friend\u2019s guitar, but I take my rig with four things: A Boss tuner pedal at the top, which also works as a mute. Second,\u00a0a Carl Martin parametric EQ. It\u2019s Danish\u2014hand-wired. It\u2019s like using an EQ on a studio console. You can really sculpt a pickup sound. It took me fourteen years to find a pickup sound I could live with. I still can\u2019t listen to most electrified acoustic guitars. It\u2019s just the worst of both worlds. The Carl Martin with a K&amp;K did it for me. Third, a TC Electronic Flashback delay pedal for a little bit of slap. The pickup-direct sound suffers from a lack of dimension, the same thing that makes it stand out in the mix. A pickup always sounds out front, but that\u2019s not how an acoustic guitar sounds naturally. When you listen to Johnny Cash or Hank Williams, you barely notice the acoustic but you\u2019d miss it if it was gone. It\u2019s a percussion instrument. The \u2018Flashback\u2019 helps me get the acoustic out of your face and back in the room, where it feels more natural.\u00a0Fourth, I have a Fire-Eye Red-Eye boost pedal, handmade in Austin. I went into South Austin Music and lined up about a dozen volume pedals and the Red-Eye. The Red-Eye was the only thing that didn\u2019t change my tone. I didn\u2019t want the constant variable of a volume pedal. I just want to click a button and turn the guitar up a few decibels so I can push a solo or some light fingerpicking. The whole pedalboard puts me in control of my sound. We don\u2019t travel with a sound tech. We mix ourselves from the stage with dynamics and our own gear. As long as we have a decent monitor mix, the sound person can turn the faders up and go have a drink.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why is your voice so essential to you?<\/b><br \/>\nI lost my voice once, and won a songwriting competition anyway. Months after, people who discovered me at that show were coming to hear me and expecting a jagged whispery voice. I guess just because something is pretty\u2014doesn\u2019t make it interesting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us a \u201cpinch me\u201d moment when you thought \u201c<i>Wow, this is really happening to me!<\/i>\u201d<\/b><i><br \/>\n<\/i>I always want to be the least talented musician in the studio. (<i>Laughs<\/i>) I\u2019m the songwriter\u2014it\u2019s my record. These musicians are generally better than me. One of the great gifts of being a songwriter is that musicians are always looking for people who have songs to play with. I love it when some of the greatest musicians take notice and sit in with you and your band\u2014like Jerry Douglas at a bluegrass festival\u2014and suddenly he\u2019s playing on your song.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20208\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-6.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-6-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>How do you remain hopeful in this strange and unique socio-political time?<br \/>\n<\/b>I\u2019m a hopeful\u00a0person. I don\u2019t look at the news much, and I block people who always talk about politics and social issues on social\u00a0media.<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s so special about performing at Blue Rock?<\/b><br \/>\nIt\u2019s rare to see a vision so incredibly well realized. Everybody has their big idea\u2014for their great American novel. (<i>Laughs<\/i>) But Billy and Dodee were able to do it. More than how great the place is\u2014it is the story you can feel when you\u2019re there\u2014of how that idea came to life.<\/p>\n<p><b>Where can new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/b><br \/>\nI share everything with my patrons on Patreon. They get the first look and listen at everything\u2014discounts and more. I am also songwriting-focused on Patreon. If you\u2019re curious about songwriting and\/or want to write in a motivated community, join me at: <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/jonathanbyrdmusic%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/jonathanbyrdmusic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JonathanByrd.com\">www.JonathanByrd.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/jonathanbyrd%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/jonathanbyrd<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanbyrd%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanbyrd<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/jonathanbyrdmusic%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/jonathanbyrdmusic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/jonathanbyrdmusic%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/jonathanbyrdmusic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20207\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-7-album-cover-art.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-7-album-cover-art.png 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Jonathan-Byrd-7-album-cover-art-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician: JONATHAN BYRD &amp; THE PICKUP COWBOYS Video: \u201cIt Don\u2019t Make Sense\u201d JONATHAN BYRD &amp; THE PICKUP COWBOYS FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK\u2019S COOL NIGHTS 21 THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Jonathan Byrd &amp; the Pickup Cowboys will be featured at Blue Rock aLive! 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