Barns Courtney plays a game with the Preston & Steve Show and performs his song "Fire."
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00:00All right, so what's another song you're going to play for us this morning?
00:02Wait, I have to play two?
00:03Yes, it's two. Now do it.
00:05I got the one. I thought that was the deal.
00:06We got a sack of doorknobs right out there ready to go.
00:09All right, I'll play Fire.
00:11All right, Fire.
00:12Which is a song of mine that I wrote.
00:14Okay.
00:15With my mind.
00:16Okay.
00:20You're just joining us. That is Barnes Courtney,
00:23who's going to be playing at the Fillmore tonight.
00:25Tickets available at the FillmorePhilly.com.
00:29So while you were playing that song, I spoke to Casey over here, our producer, Barnes.
00:34You would have listened to me, but that's cool.
00:35I was listening, but I had to take a moment.
00:40It's fine. It's fine. It's all right.
00:42You got to pay your dues. I get it.
00:44No, I was listening to the keyboard sound that Agam was playing,
00:47and we play a game here called Name That Song in 8-Bits,
00:51and it uses that particular 8-bit video game effect.
00:56Do you want to play one real quick and see if you can...
00:59I didn't know this would be a test.
01:00It's a test.
01:01Are you ready?
01:02I'm ready.
01:02Here we go.
01:08She's a good...
01:09Oh, man.
01:11He's a pro, man.
01:14Congratulations.
01:15What a dude. Tom Petty.
01:16Yeah.
01:17You have just won yourself a digital download of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
01:21It's available now.
01:22No way!
01:23Digitally on 4-bit for HD.
01:24It's all coming up, Bogsy.
01:29Let's try another one.
01:30There's more?
01:30Yeah.
01:31Let's try another one. Here we go. Listen.
01:38You know it.
01:41Oh, okay. Yeah.
01:42Oh, I'm going to be, I'm going to be the man who's coming home to you.
01:47You got that right.
01:48I'm really ginger, and I've got a brother here, and he's also equally as ginger as me.
01:54Case, what do we have for him?
01:55We've got a case of Yard's rival IPA right now.
01:59Am I actually winning? Is this real?
02:01We'll give it to you.
02:02I'm just being sarcastic right now.
02:03This is actually the citizenship test you never took.
02:06All right.
02:07Should we do one more?
02:08One more.
02:09Case, which one should we...
02:10You know what? The one that you have, I love.
02:12Okay. All right. Let's try this. Last one for Barnes.
02:20Oh, I know this song.
02:25Oh, I should have just quit while I was ahead.
02:27I know the tune, but I can't know you in my brain.
02:30I'll give you the artist.
02:31Hold on.
02:34The melody should be kicking in.
02:38Right here, I think. Here we go.
02:40I got... I got nothing.
02:45Don't know that one.
02:46I know it. It's a very good song.
02:48Peter Gabriel?
02:49Yeah. Peter Gabriel.
02:52The name of the song is Salisbury Hill.
02:54Oh, God. I can't believe I didn't get Peter Gabriel.
02:58I got the Pretenders, but I didn't get Peter Gabriel.
03:01That's incorrect. I'm sorry, Barnes. You didn't get it right.
03:04We're going to have to take back the download of the beer.
03:07Oh, man. What was I going to win?
03:09That was like a Prius, wasn't it?
03:10Yeah, no.
03:11That was...
03:11It was.
03:14Yeah.
03:14And unfortunately, you don't win.
03:17I know that song.
03:18That's all right.
03:19It's because you brought me in here like early in the morning.
03:22You did it deliberately, didn't you?
03:23You just ashamed me in front of all these people on the radio.
03:25You didn't get a chance to, you know, get ready for it and practice.
03:28I'm a musician. I'm not meant to be up at these hours.
03:31It's fundamentally against our DNA.
03:33I wanted to ask you about writing because I was reading an article in Rolling Stone about you
03:37that said you have a difficult time writing when you're happy.
03:43It's better when there are things going on in your life.
03:46That's why I pay a troupe of men to sort of beat me consistently in the studio.
03:51You want to be in a constant state of misery.
03:52Yeah, exactly.
03:54Blunt objects mainly.
03:55Things they find outside in the street.
03:57Sticks, stones.
04:00Yeah.
04:00For sure.
04:01No.
04:01But the songs are...
04:02Doorknobs in a sack.
04:04Doorknobs in a sack.
04:06To keep me on my toes, you know.
04:08I don't want to get too comfortable.
04:09Orange is in a sock.
04:10Yeah, it's surprising that you're going with doorknobs instead of something a little bit
04:14more malleable.
04:15Listen, I don't tell them how to do their jobs, okay?
04:18Hey, we're the professional beaters.
04:21Let us do what we do.
04:22Are you an only child?
04:23Me?
04:23Yeah.
04:24No, what makes you say that?
04:26Because only childs are usually weird.
04:32No, I think I was dropped a lot as a baby.
04:34Oh, okay.
04:34I was just trying to get the root of it all.
04:36No, you have a great sense of humor.
04:38That's what I keep telling everybody.
04:39Does that help things, keep things light when you're on the road?
04:44You just try to have a good time?
04:45It does sort of quell the crippling depression that plagued me from a young age.
04:49I didn't know we were going to bring that up for this interview.
04:51I'm sorry.
04:52Well, we're just trying to get you...
04:53Maybe it's inspiring you to write a new song.
04:57Possibly.
04:58I don't know.
04:59All right, so what's another song you're going to play for us this morning?
05:01Wait, I have to play two?
05:02Yes, it's two.
05:03Now do it.
05:03I got the one.
05:04I thought that was the deal.
05:05We got a sack of doorknobs right out there ready to go.
05:08All right.
05:08I'll play Fire, which is a song of mine that I wrote with my mind.
05:15Okay.
05:18Ladies and gentlemen, once again, this is Barnes Courtney.
05:21Yeah.
05:22Lonely shadows following me, lonely ghosts come a-calling, lonely voices talking to me.
05:37Now I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone.
05:41My mother told me, son, let it be.
05:45Sold my soul to the calling, sold my soul to sweet melody.
05:53Now I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone.
05:57Lord, give me that fire.
05:59Oh, Lord, give me that fire.
06:03Oh, Lord, give me that fire.
06:08Burn, burn, burn.
06:12A thousand faces staring at me, thousand times I've fallen, thousand faces dead at my feet.
06:27Now I'm gone, I'm gone.
06:28Now I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone.
06:32My mother told me, son, let it be.
06:37Sold my soul to the calling, sold my soul to sweet melody.
06:44Now I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone.
06:48Lord, give me that fire.
06:50Lord, give me that fire.
06:55Lord, give me that fire.
06:59Burn, burn, burn.
07:06Oh, sin, devils come a-calling.
07:11Calling my name out, lost in the fire.
07:24Virginia blood is calling, calling my name out, lost in the fire.
07:37Lord, give me that fire.
07:39Oh, Lord, give me that fire
07:43Oh, Lord, give me that fire
07:47Burn, burn, burn
07:51Hey, Lord, give me that fire
07:55Oh, Lord, give me that fire
07:59Oh, Lord, give me that fire
08:03Burn, burn, burn
08:09yeah man awesome wow fire such a great sound barnes portney who is in our studio and i didn't
08:19talk once during your performance that time thank you well you want us over with the first song we
08:26figured we'd be uh listening to the full second one yeah he got my attention by the way i got a
08:31text that says thank you uh now i have to go home and change my panties wow that was that was me
08:37oh okay