Chords for Noah Kahan Interview in SF

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[B] Hey, it's Mary Richardson with Music Junkie Press.
We're [Gb] back here in San Francisco.
We've got a [N] special treat for you.
We've got Noah Kahn.
Welcome.
Hello.
Thank you for having me.
Just finished the show here at The Independent.
How was that?
It was good.
It was great.
It's always such a cool feeling to perform live.
It's my fourth show for more than 50 people.
It's always a crazy feeling.
I'm still getting used to it, but it was amazing.
Just as we were coming out, people were telling you they were here just for you.
You did a great show out there.
I've got to tell you, you bring out this connection with the listener, especially with Youngblood
coming out here.
A [Eb] million streams in less than [C] a month.
That must have been wild.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I remember the days where I'd be hoping for 50 streams, so the streams actually showed
up in [D] the how many plays you have section.
It's been completely surreal.
I can't really [Ab] even process how happy I am about it, but it's absolutely amazing.
The [E] neat thing is talking to people about the song.
A lot of them have come to you and given you stories about [C] how that song means so much
to them personally.
[N] How has it been to hear from your fans, new fans as well, coming up about that song and
what it means to them?
It makes me more happy than anything else in music in terms of my career because I wrote
that song when I was going through a lot of tough times in my own life.
I wrote it in 30 minutes.
I knew it meant a lot to me.
It's so cool when it connects with other people too.
It just makes me so happy that people are inspired by it and they can get to stream it too.
Exactly.
The [Bb] interesting part is that it's [D] got this raw personal emotion coming out of it that shines through.
Was it [C] an emotional release for you when you were recording it as well?
Was it just as [N] cathartic when you did the recording?
Yeah, it was.
In the studio, as it started coming together, it was so cool how the vision I had for the
song was completely put into use.
That [Bb] doesn't often happen in recordings.
I was lucky to work with such a brilliant producer who [N] was able to bring out all the
emotion that was in the song and brought it right to the table so the listener could hear
what I was trying to say.
When you perform it, do you feel it as well?
The same thing every time?
Oh, absolutely.
When you're on stage?
I really do.
It's a tough song to sing live.
It's got those really crazy falsetto things that I'm still working on.
When I play it, it seems to connect.
It's just amazing.
That is so cool.
After this, you're going to be heading out.
You've got a few more shows here with Milky Chance.
[Eb] Taking you across country here.
[D] What do you have going on after that?
[Eb] We're going to be back in the studio doing a few new songs.
We're going to be doing a couple more dates over the next [B] month.
Just working on the repertoire of getting [Ab] my live show together.
We're going to start playing with a band and learning how to do that because I've never
done that before.
It's [Eb] all [D] totally new territory.
[Eb] It's all that whole little edge of being terrifying at the same time exciting.
Yeah, it's obviously [N] a little daunting. _ _
If it sounds good as [Db] it's been so far, then it's going to be such a fun [N] time.
I know music for all of us means so many different things.
It heals, inspires, changes people.
Is there a certain album or song that you might go to anytime you're having your ups
and downs that you put on either a certain record or a certain tape that gets you through something?
Yeah.
I'm really inspired by [B] Ben Howard and artists of his repertoire who can put their [D] emotions
into a song.
But also say the sad stuff but also have a message [F] that's positive.
I think the record Keep Your Head Up has been so inspirational for me and [Bb] brought me out
of some tough times myself.
I think that inspired [N] the mindset behind writing it.
It's almost coming full circle because your music has become the same thing for other people.
So that's definitely inspiring [Eb] to hear as well when you have other people that your
music [E] is their lifeline sometimes.
So [F] that's cool to see.
If I could make zero dollars and if I could play for zero people [N] and have one person tell
me that my song meant something to them, I would be fulfilled with that.
That is cool.
We're excited about the rest of the tour.
And then you're going to go back and do some recording.
And then [E] what's going on the rest of the year?
You know, it's [D] kind of unknown.
It's all static right now.
It depends on [Em] where the music goes.
And if it goes as well as it's gone so far, [Db] I'm sure we'll be doing more dates and [C] hopefully
playing some shows myself.
[F] The dream is to bring people out every night who are [Db] excited about the music.
And they're coming.
It's neat because we've been reading up a lot of the comments that people are [Em] saying
is that, oh my gosh, you surprised me.
I [N] came out there, didn't know you.
And now it's like I'm hooked.
And I love that.
And I love it.
Coming out to live music, that's the most important thing to get from it.
Yeah, it's crazy because the first [E] last place I played before I started playing as a
republic records artist was a gelato shop in Vermont where I like my guitar spring broke
and my soccer coach drove me home to get my other [N] guitar.
There was nobody there.
Even my mom wasn't listening to me when I was playing.
That's kind of the scale of what I was doing before all this crazy stuff started happening.
So it's honestly a dream.
It's honestly a dream.
Well, that's great because you've done a lot of open mic shows.
That's been your history as well.
Can you let people know also about artists out there?
Tell them a little bit about that experience for you.
Because it is so rewarding as well as it just keeps you going and playing.
The experience of playing.
Doing like open mics and just small performances places.
Just sort of playing.
Playing is what we love to do.
And I think that having people there is great.
But being able to go out there and speak something to somebody while in front of people and while
being able to hear your own songs through the monitors and hear how it's sounding and
kind of get a check on where you are and how your songs are doing is crazy.
And it's an amazing experience.
I learned so [Bb] much from all the open mics I played.
[Eb] All the times I played for nobody I still at least got to hear myself [Db] sing.
You got something out of it.
Yeah, it just [D] makes me so happy.
So I don't need to play for anybody.
[Abm] I just love to play.
[D] Well, we're going to tell everybody to pick up Youngblood.
You can go ahead and pick it up and then get out on the road.
You've got to go see him [Ab] live.
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