Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: It's not just us we'd have to conquer.
We've got folk singers, rappers and punkers, everyone taking care of one another.
Welcome to the unsigned unwind.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: I am Andy Scullen.
[00:00:23] Speaker A: I am your host.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: And what this show is, it's my.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: Attempt to take a look at some of the local music scenes across the US and Canada, because there are so many scenes, and you'd be amazed to find that in so many of these pockets in a very small area, sometimes like a 20 or 30 miles area, there's, you know, hundreds of different musical acts of all different genres. And it's like a robust scene, and everybody knows each other. And outside, you know, once you get farther outside of that area, it's not as well known. But what I want to do is make it so that all those kind of smaller pockets can connect with each other and get to know each other and know each other's music and know what's happening in each other's scenes. So when they're passing through town or when they're passing near town, they can connect with people that they've heard on the show and maybe have met in real life through the show. So the way the show works, and, you know, this is only episode six, so obviously, it's going to take a while before my vision, you know, happens, if it. If it ever actually does. But, you know, it's. It's getting there. But the way the show works is Angela Taranja, who is the showrunner, sets up the interview. She does all the outreach, she does all the incoming communication with bands, and we set a day that I can record. And she basically, in a. In a Google calendar, gives me the name of the artiste, the. The band, if applicable, and a phone number and what it is. I only want to look on this show, you know, on unsigned 518, I sit down with entire bands. But on this show, I just want it to be a one on one with one person, just because we're trying to get a lot of information in a very short amount of time. So I think it would just be better if it's just one on one. But that's all I know. I know very little about what is going on. I don't do any research ahead of time. I don't know what style of music it is. I don't know if they're a solo artist or part of a, you know, polyphonic, spree sized, 42 member group. I have no idea until I get.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Them on the phone.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: And that's where the. The discovery comes in, and you're right there along with me. So what we're gonna do right now is go to the phone, and I'm gonna talk to Nate Goyette. And essentially, that's all I know. So let's go to the phone and. Hey, what's up, Nate?
[00:02:53] Speaker C: Hey, Andy. How is it going?
[00:02:55] Speaker B: It is going well. So before we got recording, I kind of told you a little bit about what I know going into this, and that is basically nothing. I was given your first name and your phone number, and I'm going to find out a little bit about your music, a little bit about where you are from, how people can find you, and then we're going to hear a song. So I guess, first and foremost, you said you perform its solo artists, so it's Nate Goyette is the name.
[00:03:27] Speaker C: Mm hmm.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: And where or what city or, you know, where, where are you from? Basically, yeah.
[00:03:35] Speaker C: Yeah. So I'm mostly, I tell people I kind of operate out of southern Vermont slash the northern berkshires. I'm from a little small town, Adams, mass, there, but kind of southern Vermonthe. So I find myself actually out in Troy, New York, pretty often bridal borough. I don't really have, like, a specific musical home where I'm at, but everything's about, you know, 40 minutes to an hour away where I, I tend to make my, my trips these days and a couple here there to places like Connecticut and up towards, like, the New Hampshire way and stuff like that. So kind of all around New England.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: That's funny because, like, I, you know, again, I know nothing about, you know, and I've the artist before the phone call, and, I mean, I've had, you know, people from Seattle and, you know, Cincinnati and Detroit and everything. And the places you're talking, like, I drive over to North Adams to get my weed, like, and I'm from southern Vermont, so.
[00:04:30] Speaker C: Oh, goodness.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if you, I don't know if you knew that, but, yeah, I'm from, I'm from southern Vermont, and I live while I'm in up near Saratoga, New York now.
[00:04:42] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: That's where I'm at, but, yeah, that's funny. So you're, you're relatively local to, to where I am. So maybe after we're done here, we should talk about having you come on my in person show, unsigned 518, which is.
[00:04:57] Speaker C: I'd be honored. Thank you. This whole thing was to get on the other podcast.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: It was just a ploy to get on.
[00:05:06] Speaker C: A ploy.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: A little mystery, you know, so I.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Guess, nate, go back or, you know.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Tell the folks a little bit about your music. Like what?
[00:05:16] Speaker B: I guess some influences or what?
[00:05:18] Speaker A: Or how you would describe your music.
[00:05:22] Speaker C: Yeah, this is a question I think about often. I think a lot of folks do. I'd say, broadly speaking, I'm somewhere on the indie dash, something something spectrum. So indie folk or indie rock. I could go into a whole diatribe about India as a prefix, but, you know, as a person kind of, you know, I'm like 30, so relatively young, but, you know, when you're in your early 15, 1617, whatever. I naturally kind of gravitated towards, like, the Elliott Smith side of things and that sort of like late nineties indie rock, indie folk. So, like, the mountain goats built a spill neutral milk hotel are a lot of buzzwords. But, you know, I love classic rock, too, and a lot of sixties songwriter stuff. So I'd say for fans of, yeah, somewhere between Elliott Smith and the weaker thans, maybe. So it's a little bit of a punk rock side, too. The songs just kind of happened is always what I say.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: And, you know, you were saying that.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: You'Re solo, but you, like, on the albums, are you like a multi instrumentalist or like, you know, on your recorded songs?
[00:06:32] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I am. So I released two eps and I'm terrible about taking the time to record because I really enjoy doing the full band arrangement stuff. But yeah, I can play bass, drums, and do the keys, write all the lyrics and sing and all that stuff.
I did farm out some of the work on the most recent ep that came out not this May, but last May to play bass and drums because I was just comfortable enough to in the songs themselves to be like, you can come up with the parts. I don't need to micromanage this, but yeah, they're full band arrangements, drums, bass, guitar, pretty standard sort of thing. Acoustic, electric. There's some shreddy guitar from a friend of mine on a couple of songs, which is always fun.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: And when you play out, I mean, do you do like a hybrid? Like sometimes you're out doing acoustic stuff, sometimes you're out full band or right.
[00:07:26] Speaker C: Now it's just me. I would love to actually assemble an ensemble and spend on my mine the last couple of months. I might actually try to make that a reality. But yeah, it's just usually me and an acoustic guitar, and I'm just starting to try to incorporate, you know, some of the more studio side things like, you know, just effects and stuff like that. But mostly I try to just do it live without a net?
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Yeah, for better or worse. It keeps. Keeps the chops up, you know? And that way, that way when you do, like, find an outfit or, like, a couple of other like minded individuals to start playing with, and that load gets taken off you. I don't know, there's something about, like, that, you know? Cause I've done both, like, played solo stuff and played with bands. And when you're playing with bands, like, the creativity is just so much. Cause you're like, I don't have to lift. I don't have to lift as much.
[00:08:16] Speaker C: You know, it's like, truly. Exactly. I play because I'm a multi instrumentalist. Like, I've always been a band guy. So I'm in a couple other groups, and it is fun when it's just like, oh, I'm just playing the drums, or I get to play bass. And bass is the one where I'm like, ah, just be in time. Play the simplest, best thing for the moment, and you're just getting paid either way. And it's so much fun, you know?
[00:08:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I filled in because, like, I'm. I play bass in my band, but I also, like, sing on a lot of stuff and do backup vocals and this and that. And I filled in with another band playing just bass and what you just described. I had that exact moment where I'm like. I'm like, no, don't even give me a microphone. I'm just gonna stay. I'm just gonna stay back here and just play, you know, into this. Lock into the root notes, and that's it. So how long have you been performing out and, like, recording music?
[00:09:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I only really started.
I started writing pretty late, I think, for a lot of people. I was graduating college in 2016, so that's when I started writing. I didn't really start playing out in earnest. Well, I mean, Covid happened that kind of derailed everything. So I tried to start in 2019, just got sidetracked. But I'd say last year was when I really started to do it with any sort of urgency, whether in bands or more, but more my solo stuff. So about last August is when it started to pick up. And usually I, you know, for the last almost a year now, but over the last ten months, it's been about no more except for a few breaks, you know, about every 15, you know, no more than 15 days. I have a gig, basically. So I've been pretty, pretty busy, which is great.
A little tiring and, you know, wears on the vehicle, but it's been it's been amazing, actually having a pretty consistent performance schedule.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Well, that's actually, you know, brings us to my next question. So, hypothetically, let's say you've had, you know, one of the busiest musical months that you've ever had, where you're just, like, every weekend you have gigs or you're rehearsing. You know, you've just been putting your soul into your music, and then you find yourself with a day where you have zero responsibilities and you want to unwind. What non musical activity would you unwind to?
[00:10:41] Speaker C: That's a tough question. I'm a person that's got a lot of hobbies. None of them like crazy hobbies, but I like getting into things in the summer. It's definitely. I'll try to go long boarding, and I'm not, like, a crazy. A good long border, but I'll do that and just get out onto, like, a bike trail and in Adam's mass and just kind of visit my family and ride on that for a few hours. I am sitting at a table with a bunch of magic the gathering cards right now. So that's another thing, you know, building decks and playing them, eventually reading. I'm pretty. I do a lot of things, but I don't think anything are really that crazy. But those are the big ones. I enjoy making a good cocktail, too. We got a modest bar. I'd say that's generally how I unwind, I think.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: And so where can people find you online? Like, your socials or where can they stream your music?
[00:11:38] Speaker C: Yeah, you can find me on all the normal apple music, Spotify, whatever. It's Nate Goyette. N a t e g o y e t t e. You can go to nategoet.com for all the live dates and other stuff in there, some YouTube videos and whatnot. And then if you want to follow me on social media, the kind of main one that I use is Instagram. And you can find that. You can find me oldmangoyette.
It's a joke that I think only I find funny, and I probably should just change it to Nate Goyat music at some point. But for now, old man Goyette. And that'll, you know, that's where I post.
If I don't have a gig, I will abandon it, and you won't see me for. For weeks. And then if I do, I will be posting way too many stories.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: Perfect. That's awesome. All right, well, cool. Well, it was, you know, it was nice to meet you, Nate. And again, once we. Once we wrap up here. We should talk about having you come on unsigned 518, because that would be. That'd be cool. Maybe we could even get you hooked up with some other musicians here in.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sure I'm outro pretty often.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:12:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm sure we have some mutual friends.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I lived in Troy for, I don't know, ten years maybe, before I. Before I moved up north to the country.
Awesome. So before we go, let's listen to Nate Goyette song. What do you got for us?
[00:13:08] Speaker C: Yeah, so the song is the title track of the ep I put out in May 2023. It's called the war on comfort. And that's the name of the ep as well. And it's one of those songs that funny have talked about. This is the sort of thing where I, you know, perform solo acoustic guitar and voice, and that's it. This is the one song that I really haven't figured out how to do solo with just acoustic and voice. Cause it's two chords. So the times I get to actually share it with people, I'm very excited about. So here's the recording of it. And someday, if I have a band or I become a better guitar player, maybe I can actually play it live, because I'm really happy with this song.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: All right, let's listen to the war on comfort. Nate Goyette and Nate, it was a pleasure having you on, and we'll talk soon, but right now, let's listen to the song. And it's here on the unsigned unwind.
[00:14:16] Speaker D: The wall of comfort, the one I.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: Need.
[00:14:25] Speaker D: I can't pick a side I will not be alive I can't find the context between what I need between what I want what I can get.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: Free.
[00:15:07] Speaker D: They say go all in or nothing but they don't bet on me they know the house always wins but I know those drinks are free so when I spin that dial and put it all on Greenhouse, if it comes up like, well, I'll know what it.
[00:15:39] Speaker C: Means.
[00:16:14] Speaker D: I want to stand for something I'm tired of falling asleep thought we wanted 68.
I guess that was all just a dream. And you're not Janis Joplin, I'm not John Fogarty.
The bad moon's on the rise can't stop it hard as we try.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: Alright.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: That was the war on comforts, Nate Goyette, and thank you so much for listening. And if you can, like, rate and subscribe wherever you do listen. There's going to be new episodes of the unsigned unwind every other Wednesday, but also right in this same feed, you can get unsigned 518, which comes out every Tuesday, and unsigned 500 and eighteen's weekend spotlight that come out every Thursday. And those are a literal snapshot of what's kind of happening in the weekend and some music thrown in the episode from local artists. And like I said, you can get those all right in the same feed.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: I also want to remind you to go to themetroland.com.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: The concert calendar is up right now. We have previews, reviews and interviews, and it's growing every day. We're listening to what the people are saying and Aaron Harks is really, really busting butt and getting things going. And I'm very, very honored to be on the team. So go to themetroland.com right now. The concert calendar is there and it's only going to get better, but it has so much on there already. Themetroland.com and that is it for this episode of the unsigned unwind. I am Andy Scullen and I'll see you on the road.
[00:19:18] Speaker B: If you would like to be a guest on the unsigned unwind, send an email to angelaunsignedproductions.com.
take care of one another and I'll see you soon.
