The Bacon Brothers On Working with Jennifer Nettles on 'The Bondsman' & More | Stagecoach 2025 - video Dailymotion

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The Bacon Brothers caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly at Stagecoach 2025.

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00:00All right, so hanging out with the Bacon Brothers at Stagecoach.

00:02Like, is this your first Stagecoach?

00:03Have you guys been before?

00:04Certainly is, yeah.

00:06First, how's it so far?

00:07Have you seen any acts, any country acts you guys would like checking out?

00:09We just got here literally 10 minutes ago.

00:12I feel like we're on Stagecoach Beach here.

00:15You guys got a great setup.

00:17Oh, my God, s'mores.

00:18Listen, we're trying to make people feel welcome.

00:20By the way, this is the biggest marshmallow I've ever seen in my life.

00:24It's massive.

00:25It's not hot yet.

00:26We're not currently making s'mores, but we can't, we can't, we can't.

00:29I got so excited, I dropped the microphone, and I thought I was going to get a s'more.

00:32Oh, well, okay.

00:33You probably don't even need to light anything.

00:35Yeah, because it's hot.

00:36Well, today feels good.

00:37Today feels good.

00:38Today's good.

00:38And, I mean, talk to me about, like, your music already kind of, like, blends rock, folk,

00:43country, all that stuff.

00:44Like, would you ever consider doing, like, a straight country project?

00:48I don't know.

00:49I mean, you know, I think for the Bacon Brothers, it's like we write these songs,

00:55and sometimes they end up feeling like country songs, and sometimes they don't.

00:58And that's just, we follow, instead of picking what the sound is going to be,

01:03we follow the song, and the song tells us what the sound will be.

01:05And what is that process like?

01:06Like, where do you start when you're creating something, since it's kind of genre-less?

01:11Well, for me, I've been sort of on both sides of the fence.

01:13I was a staff songwriter in Nashville in 1972 for 10 years, writing songs for people, meeting

01:22with my partners from 10 to 5, whereas the kind of songs Kevin and I write are more what

01:28I call confessional, where you just sort of wait around for a mood, and hopefully something

01:33that you're feeling personally that day has enough energy to become a three- or four-minute

01:39song.

01:39So I think for every four-minute song you write, you have 30 little 10-second snippets

01:46that never, just sitting there gathering dust.

01:50Man, that's incredible, but it's a lot of material to work from.

01:53Yeah.

01:53And then, I mean, talk about, like, working on the show that you're doing right now with

01:56Jennifer from Sugar Land.

01:58Like, how is it to create music for that?

02:00It was amazing.

02:00You know, we talked about the idea that I would write some songs for the show, but then

02:06Jen got cast, and she was the perfect person to play this part, and also just happened to

02:15be a great singer and a songwriter.

02:17And so, right away, we wrote a song.

02:20We wrote another one.

02:21Mike and I wrote one.

02:22I wrote one by myself.

02:24Only a few of them made it in the show, but it was a really great exercise to have to

02:30write as another character.

02:32Right.

02:32And not even a character at my age, like a character when he was a younger man, because

02:36in the show, I haven't picked up a guitar for, like, 15 years.

02:39So it was a great acting exercise on top of everything else.

02:43And then, will we ever hear any music from outside of the show that you and Jennifer could

02:47have worked on?

02:47Yeah, we cut eight songs, which is out now.

02:51Yeah, it's called Hell and Back, music inspired by the Bondsman, and it's awesome.

02:58Check it out.

02:59And then, what's it like for you, like, do you get filled differently with acting and

03:03music, like nervousness, or is it all the same to you?

03:06It's all performing?

03:07No, no, no.

03:08I think that one of the reasons I love to play live music especially, I find live music to

03:14be a lot more akin to live theater, which is really where I started out.

03:17I was really a theater actor when I first moved to New York, and I still get butterflies.

03:21You know, I'll get butterflies today for sure, you know, going out and playing stagecoach.

03:25And I think that's a really good thing for a creative person, is to have a little fear

03:29in your life.

03:30All right.

03:30Well, I do want to play a game with you guys before we get.

03:32We're doing it for social.

03:33It's just asking you guys, like, which one of you you think will do something.

03:38So let me pull this up.

03:39I'll jump into the first one.

03:42Great figure.

03:44And boldness.

03:46All right.

03:46So who is the most likely to forget a lyric?

03:51I think we're pretty even.

03:53You know, I'm a nine-year-old in the cabin.

03:55It should be me.

03:56But I have on video one place where he literally had to restart the entire song.

04:04So I'd say it's definitely Mike.

04:08And what it is, it's not that he forgets lyrics.

04:11It's just that he starts to speak in a foreign language.

04:13Oh, man.

04:14That nobody actually.

04:16Oh, OK.

04:16That's true.

04:17He just makes up his own thing.

04:17That's true.

04:18You're making up your own thing.

04:19Never mind.

04:19He's right.

04:20It's me.

04:21It's me.

04:22Who's most likely to trip and fall on stage?

04:25Probably me.

04:27I'm not good with my guitar.

04:29Kevin is doing this, at the end of one of our songs, this stage kick.

04:35OK.

04:36Spoiler alert.

04:37I got to look for the kick.

04:38Every night I go, oh, no, this is not going to end well.

04:42Who's most likely to forget which city they're in?

04:46Oh, I'd say both of us.

04:49Yeah.

04:49We're pretty even on that.

04:51And luckily, we have a band, some of which have incredible memories for every single city that we've played in.

05:00And it's usually based on the food.

05:03Oh, and that was my next question, actually.

05:06Who's most likely to rob catering?

05:10Well, I'll tell you, the catering.

05:11He's got a marshmallow in his hand, so I'm thinking it might be him.

05:14That's not free.

05:16The catering here, I got to say, is crazy.

05:19I mean, for all these people who are here, Stagecoach really does a great job with it.

05:23Yeah, there's good food out there.

05:24So we got to go eat.

05:25We got to have a good time, man.

05:26I need to get this lit, though.

05:27Yes, man.

05:28Thank you guys for hanging with us.

05:29This was really a pleasure, man.

05:30I really appreciate it.

05:31A lot of fun.

05:31Appreciate you.

05:31Of course, of course.

05:32Thank you, man.

05:33Thanks, man.

05:34Thanks, man.

05:48Thanks.

05:48You're welcome.

The Bacon Brothers On Working with Jennifer Nettles on 'The Bondsman' & More | Stagecoach 2025

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