YH Buzz Meter: Tyrone Wells

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Hey guys, it's Joe Welderman here with Tyrone Wells.

You probably recognize his music from some of your favorite shows, including One Tree Hill, Numbers, and one of my favorites, Intervention.

Do you think that your lyrics really speak to people?

When I write, I do try to make things sort of cinematic so that you see things when when I'm writing and try to be descriptive in that way.

So, I guess it's working.

Now, is Intervention a show that you watch?

That song, actually, I wrote um not with Intervention in mind.

I just wrote it and it seemed to just really work well with that show.

What I have seen that show, it's really amazing and I'm glad to be associated with it.

You have some interesting tats.

What kind of inspired what you have going on here?

This one right here, uh I got when I was in uh Hawaii recently.

I asked him to design a tattoo that had elements of God, truth, music, and spirit.

Everyone thinks this is the Eiffel Tower.

Um but it's actually my wife's name.

Her name is Alina.

And so I put her name on my arm just to, you know, prove and to ward off any ladies that might come after me.

Did you grow up in a musical household?

I actually did.

My daddy was a preacher.

And so there was always music.

There was, you know, we had a piano, my dad played the accordion.

Um so there was just always melody.

Describe the first time that you heard yourself, you know, on the air.

I just wigged out.

I actually called the radio station.

And I was just like, I just got to let you know, man.

That's the first time I've heard myself on radio and I'm so stoked.

And so they recorded it and played it back later.

Do you have a a pre-performance ritual or something that you listen to or that you do before you go on stage?

We always get in in a circle and then we do like the hands-in thing and we say whatever we're going to say and like break like we're a basketball team.

Other than that, I just try to kind of get alone and focus and kind of center myself before I hop out there and try to entertain people.

With writing music, do you sort of keep something with you all the time that, you know, if you think of something or come up with lyrics that you kind of do you write it down right away or how do you go about that?

I used to have a little digital recorder, but now phones, it's just easy to call in.

Sometimes on airplanes, I'll I'll write songs and just go back to the bathroom and sing into my phone in the bathroom.

You're probably wondering why we're sitting in front of a shelf of shoes.

We're here at Creative Recreation, which we love, right?

Yeah.

They're hooking me up with some new shoes and these things are sweet.

Hey, just want to say uh thank you so much for um supporting my music.

I'm really proud of the music that I make and I hope that it can inspire you.