Backroads is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund with money by the vote of the people November 4th 2008.

I'll wrangle with the sun shining down on my high.

I'll walk down the lane.

I won't wait for a ride.

There's a tangle in my eyes.

It's just thoughts taking sides In my trees, you called my name.

It woke me up inside.

I've never felt the same.

I won't wait for a ride and the spilling of the world and the turn of the tides.

I'll walk off the pain.

I won't wait for a ride.

I've never cried so much since the day that you died.

In my dreams, you called my name.

It woke me up inside.

I've never felt the same.

I won't wait for a ride.

I'll wrangle with the sun shining down on high.

I'll walk down the lane.

I won't wait for a ride.

There's a tangle in my eye.

It's just thoughts taking side and the spinning of the world.

I won't wait for a ride.

It's more than I can say.

I won't wait for a ride.

I've never cried so much since the day that you died.

I'll walk down the lane.

I won't wait for a ride.

I'm Jesse Dermody.

I am a soul artist, a humble drummer and a poet and I dabble in sculpting and I'm in a band called the Brothers Burn Mountain.

My name's Ryan and I am a singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and brother to this guy over here.

I started in my late teens, kind of late but I had had the inclination for a while to start playing hand drums.

I was always playing on everything but technical drums, so I just decided to get at the gym bay???

and that that really started me off and I played in the closet for several hours a day for about three years.

This guy brought me out.

Yeah, I had been in a cover band in high school.

Jesse was actually abroad living in Brazil for a stent for two or three months and my high school band had broken up right around the time that Jesse was due to arrive back home and I went to pick him up at the airport and he came into the arrival area with a Dejembe on one shoulder and a homemade barrel style conga on the other shoulder.

And when I saw that I thought, I need to make music with Jesse and that was kind of the start.

So that night we went into our parents basement and started jamming and I was playing bass guitar at the time.

I talked him into going moving from the hand percussions to a full drum kit.

I put pillows out on a table and I said okay this pillow is the snare drum.

Kind of showed you the basic rudiments of where to hold your hands and how a drum kit works.

And I didn't take to a full drum kit naturally very well.

It was very awkward, painful.

I busted many a stick over my thigh when I was trying to figure things out but I'm glad I was encouraged.

That's all I needed was encouragement and I received it in plenty.

The picture is a dark tree.

Don't worry.

Follow the dark exchange of shadow and nice.

Follow the charges of your own.

Fill the mess.

Build a web of innocuous bathrooms ?

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Catch the buzzing lies.

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Make your own dark truth.

Be uncouth.

Follow the charges of your own.

Fill them in.

Build a web of innocuous ?

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Pum pum pum badada pum pum pum badada pum pum pum badada pum pum pum badada A picture is a dark tree.

Don't worry.

I think that there's been different incarnations and a couple different pretty embarrassing band names that I might not even mention but we've always been a duo for the most part.

We've always done our recordings and live performances as a duo.

Just the two of us.

Yeah and then on occasion, we'll have guest musicians sit in with us.

This bloke is broke and that ain't a joke.

In art of part and that is a start.

I know why now you go yeah and how their feet on the street will be where we may meet - where we may meet.

Oh, come on now.

We're kind of reluctant to name our roles as musicians or songwriters or poets or whatever instruments we play.

We kind of leave it open to the moment to spontaneity and we don't know how it's going to happen every time that it happens.

And that's kind of we do that so that we can remain kind of free within our creativity.

Putting credits on the liner notes for a new album is always very troublesome and then there's ego too.

We try to not we try to stick away from getting too big of egos by saying "I did this and I want credit for it".

It can kind of get in the way of doing our best work.

I seen you shine with a thousand eyes from billowy clouds of passion skies and I felt your trump, your footsteps light and I know your tread, it's a thread through the night.

whoa whoa yeah whoa whoa whoa The only thing that can ease my pain.

My sanity falls in pails full of rain but it's tears that hold the world together.

Deep felt and bolden in any weather Whoa whoa whoa and I heard you call with a thousand ears pressed to the ground I felt your fear but it's a fearsome gulp it rips out the heart right where I heard.

whoa whoa whoa whoa We built the studio cabin on our homestead.

We had a sense of wanting to do everything on our own and then gradually we realized that we had built something that could facilitate having other musicians from the area and there are a lot of them, to come join us or to you know create their own albums, help us out on our albums.

I wouldn't call it an afterthought but it just kind of became apparent that that would be excellent and it's very good to be out in the middle of the woods and just have to walk out the front of the back door to freshen up for a few minutes.

Trees really help freshening up for a lot of musicians I think.

We actually were born and raised in southeast Wisconsin and we moved up to northern Minnesota about 10 years ago because of the scene because of all the the musicians and also venues to make music and perform live.

There's just an abundance up here.

We get to say hey would you like to join us on, would you be willing to pop up to our studio and lay down a couple tracks on a song or two?

And a lot of the time it works out real good.

Dashing hounds go for the fox hardly notice that you're there.

There are you who's in that box.

I see the braids of golden hair.

She is a night come in to day.

Over my eyes taking wing.

She is a sprite who's out for play.

Rare thing.

Rare thing.

During the ship on the edge of chaos but still keeping a clear mind about it.

That feels good to me.

For some reason I can get my heart into music that I don't know exactly which way the ship might sway next when we're playing it.

It feels spontaneous and good.

My opinion is that we do our best work when we don't know exactly what's going to happen next.

Where it's going or or I guess energetically we know where it's going but as far as our musicianship and how we might play or something that's that's up to inspiration I think.

There comes a time adding to that there comes a time when we're playing and it feels like the top of our skulls got plucked off and the energy from inside of us can just kind of mushroom cloud into the air.

Whatever that energy is, takes over our bodies.

Backroads is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund with money by the vote of the people November 4th 2008.