Everybody's like, oh, you can't spend all your time with the person you're with, you'll get sick of each other, and it's, I haven't said that before.
We're just like literally best friends, so it like always works. We're always on the same page.
It's so easy, and that I think really helps with the music too.
Yeah, people are always commenting on our, they can like see our connection when we're performing.
I always feel the connection, so it's nice when people can pick up on it.
I'm Jamie.
And I'm Thomas, and we're Coyote and Crow.
Hi, nice to meet you.
No, it's nice to meet you.
A little out of tune.
Have you checked the weather, I think?
Not since earlier.
It says it's supposed to be like 48 and sunny, so it should be decent.
I've struggled in the past with crowds and interacting with people, and with him from the get-go it was always like just, like almost like I knew him 100 years before, you know.
So I can't really describe it, but just, you know, he makes me feel safe, he makes me feel comfortable, he makes me feel confident.
It's a lot easier to 100% put yourself out there and really get into it when you're with someone that you're so comfortable with.
This is my travel kit, but everything for busking, my pedal, my tambourine, collection box, CD display, the whole nine.
It kind of fits in here, so the drum doubles as storage.
Being a street musician, it's pretty important to, like I said before, how we can drop and play.
It's also pretty important to be able to pack up and get out of the way if need be.
They just get more and more irritated.
If somebody wants you gone, you're not supposed to play there.
They say leave, and it's going to take you 20 minutes to break down.
They're kind of like, that's when the tickets start to fly out.
One of my worst busking days, and I'll never forget it.
We were having a bad day regardless, weren't really doing too well.
When Augusta Wind came, I just blew my tip box over and donated a bunch of money to the park.
You can't really get huffs and puffs if somebody beats you to a spot because technically you're trying to beat them to the spot.
It turns into who gets there earlier.
In this game, we've also learned most of the time you get the respect you give.
Being a kind of joke band, I guess, we play a little bit of homemade stuff.
We came across a Gibson banjo bass that I think she had found a picture of.
It was a little black and white picture from a newspaper article.
We were just like, this is it.
This thing is amazing.
We made it, I think, 16 inch first, and we were really happy with it.
But we wanted a big, we wanted the real deal.
The 22 inch, like the original.
So we found out the original was a 22 inch.
We were like, let's just go for it and make it.
Once we made it, I think it defined our sound.
That's when we started getting a lot of attention of people saying like, I've never heard anything like this before.
We call old time rock and soul.
A lot of comments on how pure and natural our sound is.
In all honesty, we don't really try for a certain style.
We don't really care about being technical.
It sounds corny to say like, just go out there and have fun.
But feeling it and having fun is what music is about.
When you're working for yourself, there's nothing that compares.
You make your own schedule.
Everything's just more free.
So it was scary at first to kind of push away from a steady paycheck.
But the peace of mind that gave us just in the beginning was enough to say, this is what I want to do with my life.
It's not as long as a baby who is strong.
If you know the words, then won't you stay and sing along?
Won't you stay and sing along?
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