Hello.
Im Glenn Richards and this is WUFT Amplified, showcasing some of the finest lo for your listening pleasure.
Today we're going to be joined by a Gainesville based indie fol Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies headed by Clay Dixon on Banjo.
The band also includes Trevor Griffin on drums, Dan Hardwick o Brody Watson on guitar, and Eden Goodman on upright bass Their first song is called “Vice Please welcome Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies, on WUFT Amplified.
I feel your hands around my neck The air escapes my lungs.
I take a breath of air for a moment but my head is hung.
Likewise Im gasping for air.
Oh I see the fading light.
Were all just waiting to see whats there.
Youre just grasping on too tight.
Likewise Im gasping for air.
I see the fading light.
Were all just waiting to see whats there.
Youre just grasping on too tigh Tight.
Tight.
Likewise Im gasping for air.
I see the fading light.
Were all just waiting to see whats there.
Youre just grasping on too tigh Likewise Im gasping for air.
I see the fading light.
Were all just waiting to see whats there.
Youre just grasping on too tigh Tight.
Tight.
You say vice grip hold it down.
Vice grip hold it down.
Oh.
I'm Clay Dixon, these are the Pi and we're all super excited to b This is my band that we've put t and we run around and have a fun time with.
Here's a song I wrote.
I was jamming out with a buddy o and he turns to me and says, Clay, when is the last you had butterflies in your stom And I thought that was a really good question, because I didn't know how to ans because I didn't think I had an So I went on a bus ride home.
I was thinking in my brain and then I wrote this song kind of just in response to his question to me.
So here we go.
Funny little words, funny little They use all sorts of phrases for our little heart strings.
You make them sing.
When someone caught my eye became the apple of it.
I think I landed on cloud nine or somewhere else above it.
Just like a glove fits.
A dreamboat on the sea I see them start to churn.
Were taking in some water now and oh my God, it burns.
Some folks get butterflies, but you give me worms.
How I say it, does it make a difference to you I could speak a hundred language and still not get through to you How I try to tell you.
I've tried just bout every term.
But this idiots out of idioms.
So you give me worms.
How I say it doesn't make a difference to you I could speak a hundred language and still not get through to you How I've tried to tell you.
I've tried just bout every term.
But this idiots out of idioms so you give me worms.
Thank you.
That was “Worms ” from Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies on WUFT Amp So Clay I heard the band formed about the fall of 2021.
How'd the band come together?
It started with Eden and Trevor, and I basically lied to them that I was doing a solo project backing band, and I wanted them like one show with me and that's all they had to commi And now here we are a year later and they played like 30 shows wi So it's it's been really fun.
And what are your musical influe Punch Brothers is great.
They do like new folk, bluegrass, crazy stuff.
Haley Heynderickx is an artist who just like she makes these beautiful, tende And then a lot of the musicians that I work with here in Gainesv are constantly inspiring.
Tell us about this next one, “Th Witch Warlock of Armageddon ”.
Indeed.
I would love to do nothing more than to tell you about my old fr The Warlock Witch of Armageddon.
She is, or she was a neighbor of I lived in an apartment complex on like the third story and regularly usually around exa She would come out into the park and she would be like screaming, apolitical nonse So, all my roommates and I, wed gather by the window open them up and like lean over kind of like Scooby Doo style, like sneaking in and we'd watch her say all these And then one day she's running a She said something funny, and it was funny enough to get a like a guffaw from my room Jonathan, who went “Hah!
” just l And she spun around cause she heard us because, like, it's only the third story and our windows were all open.
She spins around, she points her finger into our w and she says, You cant handle m You cant handle the Warlock Witch of Armageddon.
And it's the greatest thing I've ever heard anyone call them So of course I wrote a song abou But there you go, that's the true story behind it.
If you didn't already know.
You're going to hear it right no “The Warlock Witch of Armageddon Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies on WUFT Amplified.
Oh, have you heard through the w a lady screaming outside?
She hates the war, she hates the She posts it all on Instagram.
I cant tell where she stands.
Dressed in black for the summer.
She screams at the sky.
She saw us stare, we laughed out She ducked down full of shame.
And then she told us her name.
She ‘s the Warlock Witch of Arma Cast your curse, do your worst.
Shes a joke without a punch line?
It'd be funny if it weren't so s I think you might be mad.
Woah.
It's been so long, I can't remember which teeth she still has.
Or if she lost them all when she was kicked around by all cops in Arkansas.
At least thats what she says.
Do you feel bad when you laugh out loud?
Is it just too much?
Cause shes on crack or shes ju She needs a potion for her brain We still know her name.
Shes the Warlock Witch Of Armag Cast your curse, do your worst.
She's a joke without a punch line.
Itd be funny if it werent so s I think you might be mad.
Whoa.
I think youre mad.
Oh.
I think youre mad.
Oh.
No, I think you're mad.
Woah, yeah, I think youre mad.
Oh, I think youre mad.
All my leaves, my sap so sweet i All of me every inch is covered in aphids.
You mist me in the sun.
And I know, I know, Im not the only one.
I know Im not that hard see So why are there bugs on my leav Oh I want you to dig me up from your garden.
Im not fresh.
I'm not green.
I'm just rotten.
I want you to dig me up from you I'm not fresh, Im not green.
No, I'm just rotten.
Nip it from the moment that you see it, if you see dont waste a second of your precious time.
Spray it with insecticide and youll find its hard to hide when youve coated every vine.
And then there's mine.
Then there's mine.
Woah.
Mist me in the sun.
I know, I know Im not the only one.
I know I'm not that hard to see.
So why are there bugs on my leav I want you to dig me up from you Im not fresh.
Im not green.
I'm just rotten.
I want you to dig me up from you Im not fresh.
I'm not green.
No, I'm just rotten.
Dont play dumb, green thumb.
Dig me up, buttercup.
Dont play dumb, green thumb.
Dig me up, buttercup.
Thats “Aphids ” from Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies on WUFT Amp I'm Glenn Richards.
So where do you get the inspirat for your songs?
Mostly staying up way too late at night when I can and I'm thinking through the thoughts in my brain I think it's full time living and full time writing.
Just going on to like how Clay writes songs, it just kind of happens.
One time we were just sitting on and Clay's like, Check it out, B There's a basil plant outside, and I just planted that today.
And I really like it cause basils easy to grow.
So I'm gonna write a song about Lets start that right now.
And then we did it.
All right, one final song.
This is “Orange ” from Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies on WUFT Amp You took me out there.
Your familys cabin up north.
We stared for hours at something I never saw before.
You showed me, orange I've never seen before.
Burning skies more than I had room for in my mind.
Oaken leaves and your eyes.
Now fall has passed us.
Gone as soon as it came.
And I stare, oh I stare among th at something that isn't the same.
But you showed me orange Id never seen before.
Burning skies more than I had ro in my mind.
Oaken leaves and you eyes.
I thought by going there, tasting the Northern air might help to set me free.
But now all Ive got is those damn river rocks staring back at me.
Thought Id see the colors in the skies.
I think the orange that I saw was only in your eyes.
Your eyes.
But you showed me an orange I've never seen before.
Burning skies more than I had room for in my m Oaken leaves in your eyes.
Oh you showed me an orange Id never, never seen Burning skies, yeah, more than Ive had room for in m Woah.
Yeah.
Oaken leaves in your eyes.
Thats Clay Dixon and the Piccadillies with “Orang I'm Glenn Richards.
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