 Chance to hear him live at the second art about which is a thing we do here every month And his name is AJ Hicks and he was just blown away. He's very soulful for I'm gonna say it for a white guy He's very so Very upbeat very soulful and I really got I bought a CD I enjoyed it so he is here today and he's going to be playing for us But before I talk to him once again, we I'll tell you why you're hearing my voice right now is we are here to donate If you're a fan of community radio, we are totally dependent on donations from you So go ahead and check that out, and I'm gonna talk to AJ. How you doing today young man? Yeah, so go ahead and tell us so It is kind of like ironic and it's perfect that you're gonna end this because I really believe that you're one of the few people If you want to tell us a little bit about your story I remember like the things you were saying earlier about the different influences and how you've been playing since you were a kid So if you want to tell some of us live tell us about yourself. I already forget, you know Don't worry about I'm glad he has bullet points, but other than that AJ Hicks, how are you doing today? I'm doing really good man. I'm happy to be back here in Davis I've been I've been playing up here for the last like two years about just about every month at least And since then since I started playing up here. I've developed this music project and it's called make no bones and It's been going really well. It's been it's been this really interesting shift you know, I've been playing and writing music since I was like eight and a half years old and You know for the longest time it was just me and my guitar right, but as time went on I was you know jamming with all my friends and forming different bands through high school through college and and even now and so You know it felt right to change it change the whole project to have a project name because it's so collaborative And there's so much going on and I love to do this like I don't mean to interrupt you But I love to do this when I find people who are just helping us out So do you have any upcoming gigs you have something that you like are willing to go on? With the social media these young people on the Twitter and the Facebook's and stuff like that So before we get into your music and more about that I want you to plug yourself because thank you for supporting us So go ahead and tell us the radio and the listeners something you have going on as well I'm happy to support. I mean community radio is so important. It is so refreshing You know some of my favorite music I've discovered And it would never be played on the popular station so um, yeah, you can find out about all my gigs at www.makenobonesmusic.com I make sure you get that music part in there and then facebook.com Slash make no bones music on Instagram. It's make no bones music on Twitter It's make no bones band because somebody stole that handle before I could get to it Yeah, and then so I'm gonna get out of his way But once again want to say thank you very much for helping us and supporting us and he's gonna play a few songs I'm excited about I'm gonna hang out over here a little bit But don't forget to make no bones music if you don't put music I hear it might go to a vegan website, so we don't want any part of that Once again, this is AJ Hicks. Thank you. This is KDRT LP 95-7 where the grassroots grow don't forget to KDRT slash or Donate and we are here for a good cause and I'm gonna leave this man to his magic and his beautiful beautiful music Thank you for supporting us. I'm really excited you guys Let's get it started All right, this first song is called so it goes and if you're just tuning in My name is AJ Hicks. I got a project called make no bones You want to find it to make no bones music? Com this is a special song And I promised I would tell the story before This song is about when I drove from San Francisco to New York and back a little while ago And we found ourselves in New Orleans About two in the morning and we pulled up to the Airbnb or the art hostel or the hippie commune Or the abandoned warehouse. I think all those names who described this place pretty well And I looked at it and then I looked at my traveling partner and I said there's no way. This is where we're staying There's missing garage door panels, you know, there's broken windows and But sure enough we walk up we type in the code and we're in and right to the left of us is just A bunch of scrap metal and scrap wood just bunch of junk But you walk a little bit further and it opens up into this amazing amazing place There's artwork everywhere. There's bicycle wheels that are spinning over your head. There's there's they have peach trees growing out of old spare tires They had a they had this old 60s office chair and it said this is not a flotation device and Then on the seat of it. They painted a octopus on there And then two things really stood out to me that they're super important and have stuck with me ever since And one of those things was in the bathroom written around all the walls Spray painted like a mantra. I said I am not prepared to know why I am not prepared to know why I am not prepared to know Why I am not prepared and then the other thing that really stuck out to me was in the morning actually I Woke up and I walked over to one of the tables Written was a note It looked like a note is written by a girl to her parents, but she never sent it So I didn't read too deep because it looked a little bit personal But in bold at the bottom it said one day I'll settle down and someday I'll be what you want and At that point in my life driving across the country trying to be a musician that really hit home So this song is called the dream and my name is AJ Hicks And my project is make no bones and thank you so much for watching and for listening