welcome back to Houston life our next
guest says music is his escape from
things in life that maybe have not been
so rosy and he's so passionate about
music that he even sold his car to
produce his first album way back in 1996
what he's evolving right here because it
sounds so much longer not much longer
today vocalist guitarist singer
songwriter Charlie Mars is living his
dream living our dream in to traveling
and playing gigs like Austin City Limits
South by Southwest we're so happy to
have you here on the keels of a
performance tonight I feel like I'm a
big time here at Houston life special
Charlie you have such a great story
because a lot of folks out there who are
creative you know they maybe they live
their whole lives feeling like they
missed the boat and oh I'm stuck working
at the bank but I wanted to sing you
really went for it took a risk you sold
your car tell us a little bit about this
journey because today to play South by
Southwest at Austin City Limits I mean
major its major major stuff major SiC
Tom I was in college at SMU in Dallas
and there was a guy that I knew there
named jack Ingram and he had made his
own CD and I didn't know that you could
really do that yourself and so I sold a
jeep that I had and I went and used the
same people that he did and it was sort
of around the time when I was getting
out of college I didn't know what I was
gonna do and then within a year I had
sold a lot of them and think I'd sold
way more than I ever thought and and so
it was a very natural trajectory to say
maybe I'll do this instead of going to
work at a place that I don't know what I
would do right and so I did that and
then that was a long time ago now here
we are I mean I love something I'm
learning all these things about you
what's this you soak in an ice tub every
night is this for real you really do
this five minutes well I don't do it now
every day for about two years I did it
every day and now I did it yesterday
yeah I do it all the time why do you do
it cuz it helps you hit the high notes
ever heard of the idea that what doesn't
kill you makes you stronger totally it
does really yeah give it a try it makes
you mentally much more acute and strong
all right I about sunny Houston life do
you have like a porch with a bucket in
it because you live in Jackson
Mississippi trough yeah and I go to the
gas station and I buy big 20-pound bags
ice and throw them all in there and I
get a hose and then a stick of duty your
life is like real quickly before we get
to your performance tell me this dinero
thing that you have you have a
connection with dinero it's so lame I
went to a restaurant of his once and it
was a long long time ago and I was he
had these menus that he had like
hand-done himself and I just stole one
of them nice yeah then I put it in a
frame and then when my friends come over
I'm like yeah that's a dinero Pappy
that's in originally just a menu and
they might not even actually be his I
just tell my friends that that's okay it
doesn't matter
you're funny I think in addition to
singing you could do like stand-up comic
I'm thinking about switching and well
I'm seeing you live - the album cover
obviously you look right there it's
actually not me brother
yeah that was what I had I have my wig
hat 7 p.m. let's not forget that please
come see me tonight
okeydoke I will tell you funny stories I
love it will make you laugh funny
stories and a great performance tonight
at monkeyduck also Charlie Mars comm is
the website to visit for more info but
in the meantime here he is now with
dream kitchen
Charlie Mars take it away
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better on Sunday call her on Monday I
took her outside of the nine one three
months later ringing a trailer you know
when you know what's right then I came
home Friday she was looking my way and
she looked a little uptight running
everywhere pulling out a hair cuz you
know when somethin ain't right
she don't want no high heels she wants a
dream kitchen I blame it all on net
magazine subscription what do I know
about Southern Living oh I can't stand
to see that look in her eyes I'm gonna
buy a dream kitchen oh when it was out
goes drinking out goes fish and half
those Friday night I was working
overtime and saving every time cuz you
know when summoning
she don't want no high heels she wants a
dream kitchen
oh I blame it all on that a magazine
subscription what do I know
about southern living or can't stand to
see they're looking at rise I'm gonna by
dream kitchen
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