![]() Not a lot of people are truly content, and I truly believe in my heart those two are content.” I mean they want, and they push, and they drive and they work, but they’re content. “What they have is really special,” Greenwald says. “And I think they’ve already found success in that realm. The band’s new manager, Joe Greenwald, describes the couple’s life as “beautiful,” “magical,” “weird,” and “awesome.” That’s also the sound of their interviews these days, with a three-logged dog and a dancing parrot sharing the attention. I mean are faint, of course, because we mix them way low, but we also just kind of decide, ‘That’s just the sound of our life.’” “Rarely is it like ‘This is the best take!’ and right in the middle of it something happens,” Kristyn says. “But I’ll tell you something funny about donkeys: they don’t really make noise unless they want something, or they see you. “We have music coming out now where you can hear the birds like our African grey parrot beeping or squeaking,” Jared admits. The band has steadily releasing singles since 2020, some of them featuring uninvited guests. The new studio set up also increased their output. Jared says that Kristyn has done some of her best singing to date while sitting on the couch with a cat on her lap, including her first ever lead vocal performance in “Wind In My Sail.” Life at the “ranch” has come with many adjustments, from having to track down a country vet for donkey castration to swapping commercial studios for living room recording. to R.: Pippa (the donkey), Kristyn and Jared They wanted more room for their rescue animals, and more space to explore a new season of music-making. Now two years, 50 songs and more than a dozen rescue animals later, the husband-and-wife duo of Jared and Kristyn Corder are rebuilding and redefining success at a country home an hour outside of Nashville.ĭown a gravel road an hour outside of Nashville, a trio of donkeys mill around a fenced-in front yard while several dogs lazily greet the random vehicle pulling up the drive to meet their musician caretakers. The Corders have been releasing records music under the name *repeat repeat for almost ten years, and for the majority of that time, they lived among indie rock peers in East Nashville. While rampant gentrification has led to the exodus of lots of local musicians recently, the couple didn’t make the move to a rural area because of skyrocketing real estate. Some of the changes were pandemic related, some not. But all that went away when the world shut down. What does success look like for an indie band right now? Before the pandemic, WNXP’s Nashville Artist of the Month *repeat repeat had many of the hallmarks: a big management company, a major booking agency, an indie record deal, an album produced by a Black Key. With their popularity risingacross New England, and out further, this talented groupof young men is ready to take their heart-felt music and play it for auniversal audience.Listen to the story – it has music and singing parrots! Influenced by awide variety of classic andmodern rock, Sparks is now in the forefront of the Portland rock scene. Originally begun as a three-piece, Sparks The Rescue quickly evolved into what is now a five-piece rock band.
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