Good Morning everybody once again we're with Blind Joe. Blind Joe how are you doing this morning?

Doing fantastic and how are you all doing?

Excellent.

Jeff Thompson is with me. Morning Jeffrey.

Ah did we lose him?

Am I here again?

Ah Jeff your back.

[Laugh]

Alright. I am doing good. How are you guys doing?

Excellent Jeffrey.

Great man.

Well we're chatting with Blind Joe after his final performance on the NBC show The Voice.

Yeah I did a little song called ìMama's don't let your babies grow up to be nervous"

[Laugh]

Talk a little bit about how that went and how you feel about it.

Ah man, you know, I think vocally it was alright, differently not my best performance, I was a little under the weather I was having some throat issues and I was definitely nervous as always. I think a combination of being under the weather and the nerves really got to me. You know, I am not proud of the performance but I think Blake made the right decision. Yeah, I mean it's disappointing. You never want something like that to end. Goal for me was you know top ten. I was hoping, but it is what it is. I was pretty upset when it happened initially but things are really looking up for us man. Things are going great I really can't complain about anything you know. We're in a position right now we're able to do things independently and that's always a plus rather than be subjected to the machine, you know. There are ups and downs, pros and cons if you will to being with a label and I am happy where we are at. So life is good. We just started a Go Fundme account what we are doing is trying to raise money to record a professional CD. We've got Rick Beato on board who's an excellent producer. He's done some work with Shinedown and I believe he has done some work with Tim McGraw and Seven Dust just went platinum with Parmalee they are a newer country band. That's awesome now a days you don't go platinum. So he's a he's willing to work with us and we are going to be going out and working with him here in the next couple of months. Getting a real record together and the fans have been very very generous in helping us out with that. We've almost reached $5000 we got a $15000 goal and we are just about up to 5 grand right now and we have only had the Go Fundme up for a couple of days. So that's amazing to me.

[Inaudible]

Sorry Jeff go ahead.

No go ahead.

I am just wondering where folks can go to look at the Go Fundme account?

Sure, itís Gofundme.com/blindJoe. GOFUNDME.COM/BLINDJOE.

And they can contribute in any

In anything else, if you can give a dollar give a dollar, if you can give a thousand I will personally fly to your house and kiss you on the lips. [Laugh]

There's an incentive.

I'm on it, I'm on it.

Yes

I don't even have to fly man youíre in Minnesota.

[Laugh]

Youíre selling out. Youíre selling out up here in Grand Forks.

Way to go.

Grand Rapids. We ah we there are a couple different business. Grand Organics and the Deer River Clinic and Hospital and McBride Chiropractic all got behind us and heard that we were going to record a CD and decided they would do kind of a benefit thing for us. We put the show on sale and yeah we sold out man unbelievable, Unbelievable. We will be at the Saw Mill Inn Friday night which is what's the date? I don't even know what day it is anymore guys.

[Laugh]

Friday night

That's tomorrow.

Tomorrow night yeah. That would be what the 20, 20 something

No one said there was going to be math here.

Yeah I know right.

Right or dates.

So yeah, we are really looking forward to that and that's going to be nice all ages family friendly kind of thing. We are going to have some free food, of course, you know the bar will be there and we are going to do a 10% off a hotel room with your ticket stub. It's just going to be a great time. I am really looking forward to it.

Nice.

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