(upbeat music) - I think our music is a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, kind of like old school.

We're influenced by a little bit of everything really.

♪ Oh, we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ (Uriel sings in Spanish) What motivates me as an artist is that I wanna make positive music, uplifting music.

I wanna make music that can make you fall in love and make you wanna dance and give you some hope.

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Don't leave me there.

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(Nikki laughs) Check one, check two.

- Rolling.

- Alright.

- Hi, we're Anna Kramer & Easy Now.

And this is Nikki Speake, Shannon Mulvaney, Adam Renshaw and I'm Anna Kramer.

and the song is "Living on the Road."

(gentle instrumental music) ♪ I've been living on the road ♪ ♪ I've seen things I never thought I'd see ♪ ♪ I've heard things I never thought I'd hear ♪ ♪ Sleepovers with strangers ♪ ♪ Every night in a new town ♪ ♪ Never got me down ♪ ♪ I've been living out of one ♪ ♪ With a lot of folks saying just go back home ♪ ♪ Confusing me into thinking I'm wrong ♪ ♪ Sleeping under tables and on the floor ♪ ♪ Where's the door I gotta get out ♪ ♪ Run around ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Dark blue-eyed angel ♪ ♪ Listen to your song as I'm traveling on ♪ ♪ You threw words at an unlit sky ♪ ♪ In your rhinestone suits and your unmatched boots ♪ ♪ Sleepovers with strangers ♪ ♪ Never got me down ♪ ♪ I miss the feel of the Georgia air ♪ ♪ When the moon shines down ♪ ♪ And the light of my hair ♪ ♪ Driving home, I've been gone so long ♪ ♪ Want to tell everything to you ♪ ♪ But I know that I can't ♪ ♪ 'Cause you've already been there ♪ (instrumental music continues) (instrumental music continues) ♪ I've been living on the road ♪ ♪ I've seen things I never thought I'd see ♪ ♪ Ive heard things I never thought I'd hear ♪ ♪ Sleepovers with strangers ♪ ♪ Every night in a new town ♪ ♪ Never got me down ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ So the song "Living On the Road," the meaning behind it.

It was really just driving along with my family, just going on a road trip and looking out the window in the night.

You know, when you're like in the backseat of the car and you're just staring out the window at the stars, that good feeling that you get.

And then I also was thinking about just tour, just in general and sleeping under tables on tour.

But I love it.

So, I don't know, just kind of combine those thoughts of just touring and also being a kid and going on road trips.

I think our sound is a little bit of country, a little bit of rock and roll and you know, anything else that we pepper in there.

We try to keep it just open, 'cause genres are kind of dumb.

(group laughs) I feel like we're influenced by a little bit of everything really.

Dolly, Emmy Lou, The Faces, that band, Beatles, Stones, Ron Wood, Patty Smith, Kim Gordon, PJ Harvey, Nirvana.

It just depends on what I'm listening to.

And this next song is called "Kinda Trouble."

I wrote it a while back.

But now in light of what's happening in our world, I think it fits quite well.

But really like the intensity of just driving in the city and being just frustrated and just day-to-day frustrations.

But hopefully it's like hopeful too, somehow, I don't know.

But that's what "Kinda trouble" is about.

(upbeat music) ♪ Oh we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ No we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ 'Cause the road's all caving in though we don't know ♪ ♪ Used to be a big city in a small town ♪ ♪ Now the coffee ain't working but the song sounds the same ♪ ♪ People screaming at each other ♪ ♪ Heat is bouncing off the cars ♪ ♪ I try to run to run away from all of these problems ♪ ♪ But I know that they follow me wherever I go ♪ ♪ They follow me wherever I go ♪ ♪ We don't know ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ Oh we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ No we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ 'Cause the road's all caving in ♪ ♪ Oh we don't know ♪ ♪ I can't feel let down every day ♪ ♪ Gotta push through the dark ♪ ♪ Just gotta send it away ♪ ♪ We all know what kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ I try to run away from all of these problems ♪ ♪ But I know that they follow me wherever I go ♪ ♪ They follow me wherever I go ♪ ♪ We don't know ♪ ♪ Yeah, I stepped out for a minute ♪ ♪ Didn't mean to quit it ♪ ♪ But you found me there and that's all right ♪ ♪ Though I'm paying not a minute ♪ ♪ Yeah, I stepped out for a minute ♪ ♪ Didn't mean to quit it ♪ ♪ But you found me there ♪ ♪ And that's all right ♪ ♪ Though I may not admit it ♪ ♪ Oh we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ No, we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ 'Cause the road's all caving in ♪ ♪ No, we don't know ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ Oh, we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ No, we don't know ♪ ♪ Kinda trouble we're in ♪ ♪ 'Cause the road's all caving in ♪ ♪ Though we don't know ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ ♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪ (upbeat music continues) (music fades) - From growing up, my parents are both musicians, so was my brother.

So they're more like classical jazz, but they also had like Beatles and Stones records.

Maybe around eight years old was kind of when it's sort of the guitar bug hit, I think.

It usually takes me like 10 years to make an album for some reason.

So my first record, it took about that long of just like doing demos and just trying to get it out and not be shy about it.

And so when I finally did the first record, these two guys were the band.

They were my band.

And so then, they just stayed with me.

So we've known each other for a long time.

Nikki and I started playing together, I think, about nine years ago maybe.

We've had a lot of fun singing and playing together for almost a decade.

So thankful for these amazing musicians behind me.

We're Anna Kramer & Easy Now, and this has been "Sounds like ATL."

(logo whooshes) (electricity buzzing) (guitar strumming) - [Director] All right, sound is set.

And speeding.

- Rolling.

- Hi, this is Uriel UMC.

These are my band mates, Manuel, Emiliano, Carlos and myself, Uriel and we're UMC.

And this song is called "Te Enciendo Una Luz."

(gentle music) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (gentle music continues) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (gentle music continues) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (music fades) This song "Te Enciendo Una Luz" is a song specifically about losing someone and having that that hope that, you know, you'll be able to run into them again, maybe in another lifetime or, you know.

It could be dedicated to someone you loved or someone you lost.

For me, it speaks a lot and to a lot of people, I mean, a lot of people tell me they've cried to the song.

And when I was writing it, you know, I did write it with some tears, but I mean, I love it.

You know, I try to make a happy beat out of it and, you know, like a hopeful message at the end.

So our genre can vary from indie pop to corridos sub genre under the regional Mexican music.

And we can do cumbia, like a lot of dancing music, a lot of huapangos.

So we got a mixture of everything.

So I can trace back my roots of music since I was in elementary school.

When I was in third grade, I picked up the saxophone, I got in a band, studied music theory.

Getting out of high school I started my band.

I tried different bands.

It wasn't until after the Pandemic when I met these guys, Manuel and Carlos, and we just started being like a trio type band, two guitars and one bass.

And we started gigging out in Atlanta, started getting some recognition at parties, friends of family, you know, a lot of word of mouth stuff.

And we're here now with full band drummer and accordion too.

This next song is called "Hey Tu."

and we're gonna add an accordion and we're gonna add the bajo quinto.

So we're gonna trade out these guitars.

(drum beating) (upbeat music) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (upbeat music continues) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (upbeat music continues) (Uriel continues singing in Spanish) (upbeat music continues) (Uriel singing in Spanish) (Uriel continues singing in Spanish) (upbeat music continues) (music slows) And that last song was called "Hey Tu."

A Little cumbia that I wrote.

It's about, you know, you run into a girl, you run into a guy or whatever, you haven't seen him in a minute.

And it's like a love story.

And the song talks about, "Hey, you, hey, tu.

How you been?

Tell me if you remember me.

And you know, I'm still faithful to you even though you haven't seen me.

And before you go, I just want to tell you, take me with you."

And that's what the song's about.

So my music, I like to make love songs.

I like to write about feelings, what I felt that day.

Not necessarily if I'm going through it, but I do get like flashbacks about certain situations and I just like to express myself instead of just bottling it up.

(upbeat music) (Uriel singing in Spanish) So the genres that we play a lot are huapangos, cumbias, norteno, which is like different styles, like they make you dance.

That genre we like to play it a lot because it's very popular in Mexico up in the northern regions.

Very popular here in the US with Mexican American kids.

A lot of people who grew up with that music, I mean, they see us at our shows and we always start up with energetic music.

So we try to keep the vibe going all night.

This is Uriel UMC and this is "Sounds like ATL."

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