In the first full Episode, Matt sits down with Ryan Sweeney of the Band Southpost, an alternative rock/metal band currently out of Nashville, TN. Ryan is the lead singer and lead guitarist of the band. In this roughly 60 min Episode Matt and Ryan cover a range of topics including, the bands songwriting process, what Nashville has been like during the pandemic, why bass players are a thing of the past, Ryan can explain himself on that, where his music gene came from, how to get your music 'out there' if you are an un-signed artist, what direction he thinks the band and rock music in general are going, what it’s like to be stuck on stage during a show that has gone off the rails and is altogether terrible (what sounds like bad show prison). Matt and Ryan talk about inflection points in music history, whether or not anyone is putting out music we’ll care about in 50 years.