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-Wow, word. What up? So glad you're back.
It is gorgeous out.
Not a cloud in the sky.
The sun is out, the seasons are changing.
And you know what that means?
Let me show you.
Yep. You guessed right.
It's tattoo season.
And I am so excited because I get to get a tattoo
from one of my favorite artists in all of Seattle.
Can you guess what
I might be getting a tattoo of?
There's nothing
like getting fresh ink to start the season, right?
So excited about this.
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-I’m having a full on Marge moment right now.
-Why are you having a Marge moment?
-I don't know.
Would you like to get a fresh tattoo?
-Hell, yeah. -Yeah.
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-So you were born and raised here in Seattle;
feel like this is like the mecca of rock and grunge
and all that other stuff that, you know, come to know
and love about this region of the world.
So when did that bug bite you?
-Oh, the bug bit me in the ass when I was a teenager.
I always listened to a lot of music.
-Yeah. -But I got into
like the whole classic rock, like British Invasion stuff
in high school.
-Yeah. -Because I started listening
to Zeppelin and Rolling Stones.
-Yeah. -Pink Floyd, who I love.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-And then I started to learn
about the blues, like post-high school.
-Well, that's what I hear a lot in your music.
-Yeah. -Yeah, a lot of blues.
-Because I was looking up classic rock bands.
-Yeah.
-And then I was curious on who their influences were.
And then when I found that out,
I was like, “Oh, this shit is hella Black.”
-Yeah, yeah. -Wow, we invented this!
Because then I started getting into the blues.
Starting to get into the Robert Johnson, Son House,
[inaudible]
Johnson, Muddy Waters, all those people.
And I became obsessed with the blues. Yeah.
-Yeah, I mean,
when I
listened to your albums, I thought that
you were from the South.
Like, it was just that weird in a good way
that it just meshes together.
-It's funny you say that because
I was raised by Southerners.
Me and my siblings were first generation Seattleites.
-Really?
-Yeah, we were raised by New Orleans people.
-Okay.
-And so a lot of the time people won't think I'm
from here because of my manners or persona, or whatever you want to say.
And I'm like, “No, I was just raised by people
who weren't from here.” -Right.
Yeah, Yeah.
I get
I mean, it's effortless and it feels really natural
to have those two influences together.
-Yeah. -In the music, there’s nothing forced.
It feels easy.
It feels like you get it,
understood it like you grew up with it.
Like it's been a part of you. -Yeah!
-Like there’s... -I had Southern cuisine every day.
-Yeah. -And so that's what I'm used to having.
I didn't realize that was such a privilege up here.
[laughter] -Yeah, Yeah.
-Uhm, and they brought all of their sayings
and things like that. Like their Southern,
“Like the hell is that?”
Yeah, that's not a cure for anything.
You know? -[laughter] Just. Just rub.
-Just put whiskey on it. -Right, yeah, yeah.
Rub butter on it. Yeah.
So just rub some butter.
Get that stick of butter out of the refrigerator
and rub it on your burn.
[giggling] -Yeah...
-So when did you know that you wanted to be in a band
with your brother? How did that happen?
-He approached me because. -Really?
-So I wouldn't invite family members to events, like I would
I performed a lot without my family knowing
because I didn't want... there from the South.
They were gonna tell me if it sucked. -Oh, yeah.
-So I finally invited them to a performance
and they got to hear me sing and play guitar.
Which is terrifying for me. But they really enjoyed it.
And then my brother was like,
“What? Like, I didn't know you could do that.”
-Yeah.
-And so he said he thought that,
you know, he's like, someone needs to back her up.
And he wanted to be himself.
So he asked me to teach him drums.
So I taught him drums.
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-So have you had, like, in your career...
I mean, you've been playing for quite a while.
Can you remember a favorite show?
A favorite tour? Favorite...
-Uhm. -[laughter] I know.
-I appreciate it.
Uhm, the very first Showbox show we ever did,
And in our headlining Neumos show,
because those both went really well.
The Showbox one,
the first time we played there,
we didn't think we were going
to play there again because it's a big venue.
We're just like,
“Oh man, we're never going to play the Showbox again.
Let's do it with a bang.”
So I told the band was like, “All right,
we're going to play the show in our underwear.”
-Nice. -So yeah, my mom on stage, she didn't
was in her underwear, but she did backup vocals.
Her and my sister fully clothed.
But I have my brother, the bass player, myself,
like doing our underwear.
So we came out on the stage with our clothes on
and then everyone's like, “Yeah, whatever!”
And then my brother was like, “Hold on.”
And we just started stripping off on the stage.
-So good! -Like, okay, first song!
...And went right into it.
-Oh my God. -That was fun.
-That sounds incredible. -My brother
had pink underwear on. That was great. -Oh my god.
-What was your experiences growing up?
You traveled the world. You traveled the country.
Like,
what are some of the things that makes this area
like no other?
-It’s, it is interesting because, you know,
people have talked about how white Seattle is now.
And when I grew up,
I mean, I had a completely different experience.
The middle or the elementary school and middle school
I was at was a Catholic one and it was predominantly
Black and Filipino.
So I was around people that looked like me growing up.
-Yeah. -All my childhood.
And then I would after school, go do my dance.
My dance company for rehearsals.
And my dance company was an all Black dance company.
So I didn't have the like, “I just grew up in all white
Seattle,” like, I grew up around brown.
-Yeah.
-And I didn't I didn't know this
how white things got obviously until I got older.
-Yeah.
-And then I started noticing, like, “where did everybody go?”
But that wasn't the experience
growing up, which I appreciate.
-Yeah.
-Of course, being around all different kinds of
I was around all different kind of races.
-Yeah. -Which I loved and was used to.
-Yeah. -You know, So I'm like,
I don't know why everybody doesn't want
that, you know, like... -My first experience here,
my uncle used to live here in Seattle, and I always tell
folks, like in the ‘90s, like in ’93, he’s a visual artist,
so he flew me out
because he was teaching at Pratt at the time. So it’s ‘93,
so my first job ever was painting the bus,
the trash cans to match the bus shelters.
-Really? -They had these kids all over Seattle. Yeah.
Like it was the most delightful; like everybody was like, “what’s your name?”
Like “you have a problem with me?” You know, probably with me straight up
like you got to, like,
assess the situation before we become friends.
So it was the most joyous experience ever had.
And it was predominantly like the spaces that I was in
because he lived in the C.D. at that time.
-Yeah. -Like you
hear, it's a predominantly white city,
but I never got that initial impression.
-Yeah.
-And now... [chattering]
-Y’all need to calm down. This is a little too.
I know that. So
what was in your lunch box growing up?
Did you take your lunch to school?
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah. Okay.
-A chewy bar.
-Okay.
-We called them, I mean, their band is
Chewy or with a Quaker or whatever
it was Chewy bars... we always had like a juice box.
I remember it being Capri Sun.
But I think back now, the Capri Sun
wasn't very good to me. I don't know.
They didn't taste very good.
-I love the I love our Capri Suns. They didn’t last long enough for me.
-They they were they kind of tastes like... -Medicine?
-Like medicine. And they were just terrible.
-I heard people say that. Yeah.
-I remember the one flavor... Ahhh,
There was one flavor that was just awful.
It was strawberry, kiwi. Oh, awful.
-See those,
that was my jam.
-Strawberry, kiwi?
-Yeah, I know. Ice cold.
-Oh, it was worst.
That was one that tasted like a sore throat.
Like. Oh, I'm like a sore throat.
I'm like, oh, but always some kind of drink.
Fruit snacks, chewy bar, a sandwich.
-What kind of sandwich?
-Oh, I feel like it was
normally like mayonnaise with, or mustard, with
turkey.
We got those, like individual meat, you know, those.
-Yeah. Yeah. -Little lunch meat packets.
-You got the Lunchable?
Oh, you like the cold cuts?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Exactly.
Like that with like some cheese.
And it pretty simple. -Yeah.
-Or peanut butter and jelly.
-Yeah.
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-My lunchbox was really cool.
My mom packed it.
She used to pack musubi, which is like,
just rice wrapped in seaweed
and then just, like, leftovers,
usually, like, just like some chicken
or like, fish or something like that.
And vegetables.
All the cool kids have, like, chips, candy.
You remember Lunchables?
...I always wanted Lunchables...
And they were like the coolest thing.
Always has an adult.
-The pizza lunchables.
[laughter] I know, right?
So right.
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-And then you’re sitting there like the period before lunch,
like,
“I got the Lunchable, I’m about to eat
when the bell rings.” -You weren't
going to finish that Lunchable by yourself.
Everybody was going to get something.
-Yeah. Yeah, y’all didn't share?
-I mean, if they did, like, have a lunch, then, like,
okay, here's one of my circles-- go crazy.
-I don't know about y’all, but I'm starving.
-Yeah. -Hungry?
-Yeah, yeah. -Get something to eat?
-Yeah, All right.
-Well, I was thinking I could cook for you guys.
-Oh, really? -Yeah. Oh, that's exciting.
-How about that?
What were you thinking about preparing?
-Uhhhh, toast.
-Toast?
Yes, that's perfect. That’s exactly what I was thinking.
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-Our next guest will release her second album.
-Who was featured in this year's VH1
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-Introducing her album, ‘The Unexpected.’
-This is Liv Warfield.
-Liv Warfield.
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-There's something about the funk
soul portion of the rock that I'm like,
“Oh, I see myself in that.”
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-Woo, that was an amazing time.
I hope you had a great time as well.
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Well, I will see you next time.
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