(wabe) ♪ If you, if you, if you ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ - What makes The Pussywillows so special is that we are actually best friends, and I think that really informs our music.

♪ Better remember ♪ The shows that we play, and the amazing crowds that come out to support us, and it all kinda just works together.

Woo!

Good energy, getting good energy back.

That was so much fun.

(dramatic music) ♪ Over time ♪ (horns blaring) - [Speaker] Two, three, four.

(dramatic rock music) (crowds cheering) (gentle classical music) (cars whooshing) (electricity buzzing) (feedback buzzing) (guitar strumming) (slate clapping) (gentle upbeat music) ♪ Let me do you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ Let me do you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ Let me do you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ Let me do you, you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ I want you, you ♪ ♪ To see yourself the way that I do ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ When you fall ♪ ♪ Out of love, just call me ♪ ♪ I'll remind you ♪ ♪ You're never lonely ♪ ♪ When you fall ♪ ♪ Out of love, I will be there ♪ ♪ To dry your tears ♪ ♪ And tell you you're lovely ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ Let me do you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ Let me do you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ Let me do you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ Let me do you, you ♪ ♪ A favor ♪ ♪ I don't know want anything ♪ ♪ In return, I am true ♪ ♪ Are you?

♪ ♪ When you fall out of love, just call me ♪ ♪ I'll remind you ♪ ♪ You're never lonely ♪ ♪ When you fall ♪ ♪ Out of love, I'll be there ♪ ♪ To dry your tears and tell you you're lovely ♪ ♪ You are lovely ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Don't talk to yourself like that ♪ ♪ I want talk to my myself like that ♪ ♪ And I won't talk to myself like that ♪ ♪ I won't talk to my myself like that ♪ ♪ No don't talk to yourself like that ♪ ♪ I won't talk to myself like that ♪ ♪ Like that, like that, I'm in lovely ♪ - Hello, beautiful people of the world, my name is Hannah Zale.

- My name is Carly Gibson, and this is our bassist, Dustin Williams.

- This is our incredible drummer, David Williams, and we are The Pussywillows.

And that last song you just heard is about how we want each other to see one another.

When you look in the mirror you see imperfection, when I see her all I can see is the absolute perfect, and I want her to see herself that way too.

- Yeah, we mirror each other, and that's the reminder of that song.

- Carly and I have been playing together for about a decade.

Actually, meeting at an open mic night, Carly and I got hired to do like an in the round sorta thing.

So it was Carly, a rando dude, and me, and we were playing our own original songs, and by the end of like a 45 minute set, we were harmonizing with one another, just organically it just felt right.

And I was like, "Hey, like wanna hang out tomorrow?"

And she was like, "Yeah."

- [Carly] Yeah.

- And then we wrote our first song ever the first time we hung out, just on the floor of one of our bedrooms, and we were like, "We should be a band, this feels really special."

- Mhm, and it was kind of planned by the owner, Steve Grossman, he was the guy- - Of Steve's Live Music, you guys remember that in Sandy Springs?

- He was the guy that was like, he was putting it together in his mind- - In the universe, yes.

I think our sound has changed a lot.

We've been together for almost a decade, which we can't believe.

- I know, it's crazy.

- And one of the reasons we kind of wanna do this whole music thing is to work through our own journeys, our own growth, and so it's been really cool to work through our personal growth through these songs, and you can tell, our old material is really angry, we were very rageful and confused.

(Carly laughing) And as we grow and begin to trust ourselves more, individually and collectively, our songs have become I think more soft and warm and authentic and purposeful to the new women that we are today.

- Mhm.

- So, the first song that we played for you all is "Favor", it's about seeing your, like loving someone else, right?

Second song is about loving yourself.

This one's about loving yourself so much that you just start just dating around a lot, and you can just find anybody in any room, and you love yourself so much that they'll find you attractive.

So, this next song kind of goes to that confident spirit and that we don't care anymore spirit, indifference I think, sheer indifference toward culture and society at large.

We just wanna feel good, and that's what "Pretty Young Thing" is about.

And this is for all you pretty young things out there.

(cymbals clapping) (upbeat rock music) Woo!

(upbeat rock music) ♪ Oh, pretty young thing, grab a cup and fill it up ♪ ♪ Oh, whatchu do to me, what you do to me ♪ ♪ Ooh, get on your feet, let your body feel the beat ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Ooh, I think you get me ♪ ♪ I think you should get with me ♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪ Do you get me ♪ ♪ Oh, girl, take her coffee black ♪ ♪ Oh, boy, how you made me act ♪ ♪ Ooh, girl, make a rhythm 'till your wet ♪ ♪ Ooh, boy, save your last cigarette ♪ ♪ Ooh, pretty young thing, grab a cup and fill it up ♪ ♪ Ooh, whatchu do to me, what you do to me ♪ ♪ Ooh, get on your feet, let your body feel the beat ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Ooh, I think you get me ♪ ♪ I think you should get with me ♪ ♪ Girl, I'm passing by your lips ♪ ♪ Oh, boy, always do your best ♪ ♪ Ooh, girl, you don't have to do this for us ♪ ♪ Ooh, boy, nothing left to lose ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪ Come on with ya, come on ♪ (exciting rock music) ♪ So pretty ♪ (exciting rock music) ♪ Ooh, pretty young thing, grab a cup, fill it up ♪ ♪ Ooh, what you do to me, whatchu do, whatchu do ♪ ♪ Ooh, get on your feet, let your body feel the beat ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ ♪ Ooh, I think you get me ♪ ♪ I, I think, I think you, I think you should ♪ ♪ I think you should get, I think you should get with me ♪ - I wrote this guitar riff and I was really inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and some other people too.

But yeah she just took it and ran with it.

- That's kinda how we do things, she writes something just sick on guitar and I'm like, "Oh, I know where to go."

(Carly laughing) I think what kind of makes The Pussywillows so special, to me at least, is that Carly and I, and Dustin and David and I, are actually best friends in real life, we talk 24 million times a day, Carly just helped me through a really bad breakup.

(Hannah laughing) And we actually spend most of our waking hours together, or talking if we can't be together.

And I think that really informs our music, it's not like we're getting together for a rehearsal to work on music, we're just working on life and it happens to be kind of through this lens of alternative rock and roll music.

- Yeah, and it's awesome how the other things that we do in life, like I teach yoga, I work for your other job with you, and it's just cool because everything we do is kinda paralleled, and it all reflects in our music.

- Yeah, and we all are friends with each other's people, all of our partners get to come to rehearsals and be a part of the family and a part of the band, and I think that also kind of informs the shows that we play and the amazing crowds that come out to support us, and it all kind of just works together, you know, good energy, getting good energy back.

We have been so fortunate and lucky and grateful and honored to be able to play some incredible venues in the state of Georgia, and we really, really love playing Eddie's Attic.

One of the coolest things about that stage is that they don't let anybody talk while you play, they literally hush people, and I think every venue in America should be like that.

Somebody gets on a mic and everybody has to just, "Sh!"

And listen.

- It's amazing.

They also have a sign on the wall that says that, but you know people don't read or listen, so they always have to have the guy, the sound guy's like, "Please don't talk."

(Carly laughing) - I'm trying to think of other good stories.

No PBS good stories.

Oh, no, no, that's still not a good PBS story.

(Carly laughing) - So every time we play a live show, most times, you know, since these guys have the same last name, we switch their names around in text messages 'cause it's DW on all of them, they're not related, Dustin and David Williams, but they are soul brothers, which- - Soul brothers.

- Is quite funny, because we constantly get them mixed up on accident.

Like, "Everyone, Dustin, oops, David!"

- [Carly] Woops!

(Carly laughing) - We are so excited to debut this next song, no one has ever heard it outside of the rehearsal room before.

This is a song called "Woman", and as we all age and grow throughout life, we kind of have to relearn and renegotiate who we are with ourselves, and what our time means to us and what matters, and that's kind of what this song is, an exploration of time and self and remembering that all people, especially women, we should take the time to create the life that we deserve and desire.

(cymbals clapping) (gentle upbeat music) ♪ You better feel it for good ♪ ♪ That feeling inside ♪ ♪ When everything is lined up, planned out ♪ ♪ Just how you like ♪ ♪ You better leave it, woman ♪ ♪ Leave it all behind ♪ ♪ When everything was lined up, planned out, be here tonight ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ You've got time ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ You better treat yourself, woman ♪ ♪ To the roses and wine ♪ ♪ Don't wait around repeating sounds ♪ ♪ You are the prize ♪ ♪ Once you see yourself, woman ♪ ♪ See yourself wide-eyed ♪ ♪ You will walk the ground and make new sounds ♪ ♪ With a different stride ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ You've got time ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Please be kind ♪ ♪ To the seconds that pass you by ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ You know you need yourself, woman ♪ ♪ Stay healthy and wise ♪ ♪ Listen to the push and pull ♪ ♪ And your body knows what feels right ♪ ♪ You are the woman, impossible to describe ♪ ♪ When this flower blooms it's because you were its light ♪ ♪ Woo!

♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ You've got time ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Please be kind ♪ ♪ To the seconds that pass you by ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ (gentle upbeat music) ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ You've got time ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Woman ♪ ♪ Please be kind ♪ ♪ To the seconds that pass you by ♪ ♪ The seconds that pass you by ♪ ♪ The seconds that pass you by ♪ ♪ The seconds that pass you by ♪ ♪ The seconds that pass you by ♪ (gentle upbeat music) Woo!

That was so much fun.

(Hannah laughing) - For "Woman", that one, well we're both now in our 30s.

- Woo!

(Carly laughing) - And you know, it's so- - Rock and roll in your 30s, baby.

- You have to accept yourself in a different way in your 30s, and I think we have beautifully come to a place of acceptance and just affirming who we are, and as sisters too, as chosen sisters.

And it really just is a affirmation to be kind to yourself as you age gracefully, because- - Absolutely.

- We deserve to as women.

- Yes, and we believe that like real, true life has to come from the self first.

So a lot of our material is about like how to find or express that love for yourself, so then you can go and express that love outwardly to the world.

- I would say the things that inspire us the most outside of music, uh, would be self improvement and also just how we work through life with that lens.

And also trying to not always be perfect, and always be doing the things perfectly, but trying to find a balance within that of just being a human as well.

But I feel like that's something that really resonates with us, is how we are always just trying to be better, and it comes out in our music.

- Yeah we think being better musicians just makes us better people.

- Well being females in the music business is always a bit interesting, even though it's 2023 and you'd think it'd be different by now.

But it's not.

So, we really, I think, are very confident in the fact that sometimes we are the only women in the room sometimes.

I was one of 10 women to graduate from my school in like over 12 years, way back in that time.

(Hannah and Carly laughing) So, it's really wild, but I think what we love most about it is we just, we don't really care, we just do our thing, and yeah- - We're so punk rock that we don't even post on social media sometimes.

- Yep.

(Carly laughing) - We are very pleased to play this next song called "Peach" for your guys, some of the instrumentation is a little bit different than some of our other songs.

But what is key in all Pussywillow songs is this super tight duo harmony, a la Heart or Indigo Girls.

So you'll hear that in "Peach".

What else are people gonna hear in "Peach"?

- I think what makes it also great is it's got this classic funk blues thing, and we all get to shine in kind of our comfy spots.

- Let's get comfy, shall we?

Let's play "Peach".

(drum sticks slapping) ♪ If you, if you, if you, if you ♪ ♪ If you, if you, if you, if you ♪ ♪ If you, if you, if you ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the nectar ♪ ♪ If you want the sweetest thing ♪ ♪ You better remember ♪ ♪ She don't bruise easily ♪ ♪ But you better protect her ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ Respect the nectar ♪ ♪ So many times, now, I've lost count ♪ ♪ When you find the hot black road ♪ ♪ You're losing track of the stats of your own account ♪ ♪ Keep bouncing, yeah ♪ ♪ Out it 'till you don't see ♪ ♪ Just how real you gotta be ♪ ♪ Before you can take it and shake it and make ♪ ♪ The moves on this smoothie ♪ ♪ Woo!

♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the nectar ♪ ♪ If you want the sweetest thing ♪ ♪ You better remember ♪ ♪ She don't bruise easily ♪ ♪ But you better protect her ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ Respect the nectar ♪ ♪ Sun kissed, sun trust, hey ♪ ♪ Wanna see, I wanna see ♪ ♪ Can't you learn to balance me in this equation ♪ ♪ I, I, here I go up to the occasion ♪ ♪ Keep on tripping and slipping ♪ ♪ You're all quite nice ♪ ♪ Ha, slingshot, you better not ♪ ♪ Better not be tugging so fast you can't last ♪ ♪ I had to pass ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the nectar ♪ ♪ If you want the sweetest thing ♪ ♪ You better remember ♪ ♪ She don't bruise easily ♪ ♪ But you better protect her ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ Peaches and cream, cream, cream ♪ ♪ Cream, cream, cream ♪ ♪ Shake it!

♪ ♪ Hey, hey ♪ ♪ Peaches, peaches, peaches, oh yeah ♪ (funky rock music) ♪ If you want the peach ♪ (funky rock music) ♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want that peach ♪ ♪ She don't bruise easily, yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Woo!

♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you want the peach, yeah ♪ ♪ If you, if you, if you, if you ♪ Thank you so much Atlanta!

- Thank you so much.

- We are The Pussywillows.

- [Speaker] Way to go everybody!

(crowd cheering) Thanks, guys!

(upbeat music) - [Speaker 2] Please.

- [Speaker] Rolling.

- [Speaker 3] Not yet, not yet.

(upbeat music) Are you rolling?

All right.

Two seconds, two seconds, two seconds, two seconds.

(upbeat music) - [Speaker] Okay.

- [Speaker 2] One, two.

(upbeat music) - [Speaker 3] Take one.

- I'm Alto Moon.

- Angelica Hairston.

- The Pussywillows.

- Kodie Shane.

- Jasmine Janai.

- Laura Town.

- Blair Crimmins.

- Cory Okcello Johnson.

- Diom.

- Adan Bean.

- Ben Trickey.

- Hey, we're Heavy.

- Hero the Band.

- Lesibu Grand.

- Electric Suns.

- Will Hill.

- World's Greatest Dad.

- Yeah Yeah.

- And you're watching.

- Sounds like.

- Sounds like.

- Sounds like.

- ATL.

- ATL.

(slate clapping) - ATL.

- Let's go!

(dramatic music) - We focus on creating the culture, not the credit, it is embedded in the root.

- It was like this message from the heavens, it just shot into me and I was like, "I have to pursue this."

♪ Is you in, are you out, your decision ♪ (dramatic music) - We wanted to make a sound that matched the diversity of our city.

♪ Black widow ♪ - Love writing music.

♪ Counting the days ♪ I think people should be free to be who they are.

(upbeat music) ♪ Walking on that water, this wage is like a sign ♪ - Everything I do I entertain, even when I'm just not on the stage, my mom has always told me I'm a ham, I got moxie.

(dramatic music) - [Speaker] I've always just loved movement.

♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ I am so ♪ - [Speaker 2] We started this band when we were 15, and now we're 21, so there's been a lot of growing.

♪ There ain't no stopping it ♪ - When I make music, I feel like I'm making magic, that's like one of the best feelings in the world.

♪ You know the vibe ♪ ♪ West coast again, I know you want a ride ♪ - Stop everything you're doing, 'cause this July kid got something to say.

(dramatic music) ♪ But I try to myself it ain't all bad ♪ ♪ Try to tell myself that it ain't all bad ♪ - There was something about Atlanta that just made me feel at home.

(dramatic music) ♪ It's not healthy never being alone ♪ - I met a lot of really great musicians in Atlanta.

Nobody really was pushing anybody to sound a certain way, and I think that was really cool.

♪ If you want the peach, yeah, yeah ♪ - What makes The Pussywillows so special is that we are actually best friends, and I think that really informs our music.

♪ You better remember ♪ (dramatic music) (classical music) - The idea is to kind of create this electricity, so we are ready for what's about to follow.

(dramatic music) ♪ They ain't my people ♪ ♪ So they don't step again the odds ♪ ♪ I am respecting ♪ - I would describe Hero The Band sound as electrifying, it's an emotional roller coaster.

(upbeat twangy music) - One of the great things about playing with a band is that it's almost like a constant source of inspiration, good and bad.

(dramatic music) (exciting classical music) - It's so great to take a little piece of ATL across the globe.

(exciting classical music) (dramatic music) ♪ Made in Georgia ♪ - [Narrator] W-A-B-E. (bright music)