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Closed captions transcript: 00:00:00 Who is Black through our house window Saturday after 00:00:03 a neighbor called the non-emergency police line to report Jefferson's front door 00:00:08 had been left open Jefferson was in the house with her 8 year old nephew at the 00:00:12 time 00:00:13 a United Nations investigation has found insurgent attacks targeting the recent presidential 00:00:19 electoral politics process in Afghanistan caused nearly $460.00 civilian casualties 00:00:25 including $85.00 deaths the special report by the un Assistance Mission in 00:00:30 Afghanistan released Tuesday blames more than 80 percent of the casualties on the 00:00:35 Taliban's deliberate campaign of violence and intimidation to disrupt the September 00:00:40 28th the lection the insurgent group had repeatedly made public statements warning 00:00:45 Afghan voters to stay away from the election and ordered its fighters to attack 00:00:49 organizers as well as security forces guarding the electoral process 3 American 00:00:55 economists including 00:00:57 a married couple have won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in helping 00:01:01 address global property Reuters Nathan Friend Dino reports u.s. 00:01:05 Based economist yesterday float made history on Monday when she became the 2nd 00:01:10 female winner of the Nobel economics prize in the youngest at 46 years old she won 00:01:16 it with her husband in fellow mit colleague Abi cheap biology as well as Harvard 00:01:21 University researcher Michael Kramer for their work on fighting poverty the trio's 00:01:26 work focuses on how poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into smaller and 00:01:31 more precise questions the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences which awards the prize 00:01:37 said their work range from helping millions of school children to helping 00:01:41 governments increase funding for preventative medicine Reuters Nathan Friend dino 00:01:46 a dozen Democratic presidential candidates will be on stage for the party's next 00:01:50 primary debate tonight on the campus of Otterbein University in Westerville Ohio 00:01:56 this will be the 4th Democratic debate since June and will feature the law. Largest 00:02:00 group on stage for a single debate 00:02:02 a white Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbert and Tom Styer 00:02:06 a former hedge fund investor and environmental activists will join the 10 Democrats 00:02:11 who took part in the previous debate in September and it's likely that the 00:02:15 impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump will be 00:02:18 a major focus of discussion on Tuesday evening. I'm Joe Palca 00:02:25 v.o.a. 00:02:25 News. Part 00:02:36 of. This is border 00:02:43 crossing radio's no more than request hour and now your host Larry in London. 00:02:51 I am Larry London welcome to border crossings today we're joined by 00:02:55 a music icon who's been in the business celebrating as I guess 5th decade in the 00:02:59 music maybe 50 plus years we'll be talking to Jesse Collin Young who's in our 00:03:03 studios and you know him from such great hits as sudden light and darkness darkness 00:03:08 and of course get together which is one song that resonates even today as it did 00:03:14 back in 1969. 00:03:34 Seem. To. 00:03:42 Go to. Some. 00:03:58 Small. She feels about it she. 00:04:05 Gets to she's. She. Get to spew greet 00:04:12 you scream. 00:04:19 True for you soon tell you the way we'll. 00:04:27 Treat her when. She will return to you. 00:04:35 Makes no difference so. Let's see if it was about to. 00:04:43 See you through the bone she. 00:04:57 Was she. Good looking. Women. 00:05:06 Good to. See Samantha 00:05:13 loves give her odds to stroke. 00:05:19 Son Sanborn's assume. Sciutto and soon be. 00:05:28 Made soon moans to. Soon as she feels the bump and shoot. 00:05:35 The soulish she's feels about. The 00:05:40 be. 00:05:48 Abandoned. 00:05:56 Like the sun warms the sun. 00:06:08 She's abusive. That's 00:06:12 a really she see. That's 00:06:16 a really she's. We welcome to our studios in Washington 00:06:22 d.c. 00:06:23 Jesse calling young it's nice to have you here now it's good to be here thank you 00:06:27 now listening to the lyrics of get together and we need to love one another there's 00:06:32 never been 00:06:32 a more appropriate time for that song than there is right now he hears that you're 00:06:37 so right and that's part of why I'm out here. I've been doing I'm just 00:06:44 popping in on other people's shows. And singing Get together with them as at an 00:06:51 encore I'm going to do it tonight with Jake Shimabukuro who's playing here and yeah 00:06:57 ukulele player and Jake from Japan and yeah we grew coffee in Hawaii we lived there 00:07:03 for years that's right it will be brought us meeting up now you've mentioned 00:07:09 something that is I find very interesting that you do have 00:07:12 a coffee plantation you know why it's a farm it's a farm gets a little farm just 00:07:17 a little coffee farm and yeah 6 acres is when it's planted with coffee and you're 00:07:23 trying to. Prune it yourself and yeah it takes me 3 weeks 00:07:30 yeah it's so when we were living there and we didn't have 00:07:35 a lot of help. That was all plenty of coffee was that's when they were going to do 00:07:41 you come up with me where you of friends with Juan Del desert this coffee thing 00:07:45 happened I know it know him and Miss Subi and Poyet I know that from the right but 00:07:51 we Kona is the famous district. For coffee and we bought 00:07:58 a farm in Kona and there was no coffee on it but there was coffee next door and. 00:08:06 We had trees that were that were too old to really produce but we we didn't know 00:08:12 that when we bought the farm so. My wife who is. A born farmer 00:08:18 said let's plant coffee so this was back in the eighty's and we planted coffee and 00:08:24 . So we have 00:08:27 a small crop we sell it on the Internet through just going young dot com and mostly 00:08:33 sell out early on it's must be good Caudle which. I know 00:08:40 they have you know because I lived in Japan and they in Japan they call coffee that 00:08:44 isn't as strong as there's American coffee right so I assume your coffee is potent 00:08:49 I just see calling young coffee absolutely Ok if you look at as young as you look 00:08:55 and as healthy as you. Yeah I guess no and when I don't if I drink 2 cups then. 00:09:03 I think about the well sometimes not. Well we welcome you to our studios in d.c. 00:09:08 And I know you're on the road again and you're busy promoting 00:09:11 a new album which is I last count was I think 19 albums something like that as 00:09:17 a solo artist and with the Youngbloods both it's actually 2929 I missed 10 well 00:09:24 yeah I kept putting them out there were. Some of them were not 00:09:28 a major labels and. You know what I mean this whole go dreamers reamers and the 00:09:34 album I guess you get 00:09:36 a little bit political on certain songs yes and it is that's not always been I mean 00:09:42 has that always been 00:09:43 a part of being Jesse calling young. No not so much but. 00:09:50 I've always been active politically. I was 00:09:57 one of the founders of the no nukes movement right and you perform to the big 00:10:00 concert that they really are organic farmers and that's another important movement 00:10:06 I'm getting food moment we're involved with. You know we founded 00:10:13 a Waldorf school in Hawaii and education is also important to us the good things 00:10:18 coffee good education. And they go hand in hand if you're getting 00:10:23 a good education got to have coffee Yeah. And what 00:10:28 a beautiful place to land we lost our house in 00:10:30 a forest fire yes I ran the California and we had this little house in Hawaii that 00:10:36 was just to get away had like one and 00:10:38 a half bedrooms and we had 2 young children and we just moved over there and we 00:10:45 found 00:10:45 a Waldorf school 10 minutes from the house and we said Ok we're supposed to live 00:10:50 here and losing your home in 00:10:53 a fire is you know horrific and tragic in and of itself but you also lost 00:10:58 a lot of recordings you had a studio at home I guess I read and you have 00:11:02 a lot of stuff there that perhaps you had planned to release but now because of the 00:11:06 fire will never be heard actually. It was strange 00:11:13 the studios down in the gully 15000 acres burned 50 houses. 00:11:21 And in the middle of that when we came back you know all these 100 foot trees were 00:11:25 now smoking stumps it's far as you could see. And in this little guy was my 00:11:31 recording studio sitting there with 00:11:33 a scorched board the 4 story house was burnt down to 00:11:38 a foot of ash. So we asked the firemen about it how is that possible he said when 00:11:45 the big trees go most of the fuel is up at the top. And that sucks the oxygen 00:11:52 out so something really low to the ground and downhill in that where there's 00:11:58 a little creek in its way. So the studio survived. My sons actually through most of 00:12:04 the Masters this is weird these precious tapes and he gave them into a back of 00:12:11 a pickup truck but you know when the fire's coming you're going to get out of there 00:12:15 fast so I was I was not there conning was there she got the kids out the boys got 00:12:22 the tapes out. And. But we had no place to live so why 00:12:29 that's a good choice yeah not 00:12:31 a bad place to move it was perfect but I want to yeah so Jessie I understand that 00:12:36 you have said that your new album dreamers is your best work to date and that's you 00:12:41 know quite 00:12:42 a big statement to make given the body of work that you've had over the years it's 00:12:47 certainly some of the best it's the best writing I've done and 00:12:50 a quarter century and it just came it came out of the blue. 00:12:57 2009 I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and I had had it probably for 10 or 15 years 00:13:04 perhaps 20 before that time and was misdiagnosed and nobody was talking about 00:13:10 Lyme disease from 00:13:12 a deer tick is that yeah yeah yeah and so I was off the road no more recording 00:13:19 I just didn't have energy for anything I need to heal and I worked on it got 00:13:24 a good Dr Richard Horowitz wonderful man. Brought on the cutting edge of treating 00:13:31 lines disease and 2016 our son Tristan was graduating from Berklee College of 00:13:37 Music so Conny my wife and I we went to see his senior recycle and and these 00:13:44 kids just blew me away and I went backstage I said t. 00:13:49 I'm. I think I'm strong enough now I want to play with 00:13:54 a group of young people like you just did on stage so help me put 00:14:00 a band together and that's what we did and we had an invitation to South by 00:14:06 Southwest. So we got ready for that. And I'm. 00:14:14 Going to tell you 06 we were playing in February in New Hampshire driving ram snow 00:14:21 which I had sworn not to do ever again but this is what it took and about 6 gigs 00:14:28 and I realized I wanted to read these good were so good I wanted to record with 00:14:33 them so your son's band yeah he's 00:14:36 a bass player so. Yeah years later in Nashville we went in to record dreamers 00:14:43 and you know there's a lot of turmoil a lot of questions. There's 00:14:48 a little loving and I'm you know. I mean when I was growing up that was part of 00:14:55 being 00:14:56 a man was telling the truth and being as good as your word so. Yeah I 00:15:03 have things to say well we're going to give you 00:15:06 a chance to say what you have to say music right now so if you would my doing 00:15:10 a song for us we'd like I would like to What's this called This is called Walk the 00:15:14 talk about love. I sat down one day and and I thought. 00:15:21 So what comes what comes have to get together Jess what comes after. 00:15:29 What comes after the dream what comes after trying to love one another 00:15:36 and this is what came out. 00:15:47 Talk 00:15:48 a little. Less talk about. This 00:15:57 big time. Long tough. 00:16:07 Guy you try the struggle. The money thing. 00:16:16 You let them go to war. You. Say. 00:16:24 You come to. Me have chosen to. 00:16:33 It's not but you can get my own brother. Son by can you. 00:16:41 We took you to. Read stupid move on up. 00:16:51 Must be time we learn to. Suck. 00:17:01 I was lost in the desert. Sun pain these. 00:17:12 People something. I could not remain. 00:17:20 There is watching them see. You we service is needed. 00:17:28 So drink deep from the sacred spring comes. The sun your 00:17:34 feet. Are talking to the. 00:17:42 Find. The speed. 00:17:49 More Some of. 00:17:59 The stuff. Must be trying. 00:18:07 To. 00:18:15 Do you think you see Dr. 00:18:24 Who says not and he didn't. Say life's greatest. 00:18:33 Hits the water may find. It freed from St. 00:18:42 Louis pose. To. 00:18:50 Suck him lose. Their job goodbye. 00:18:59 Must be trying. To. 00:19:09 Lose. Their job finally. 00:19:18 Was the family to come out suck. It Up. 00:19:29 Right now any great Jesse Collin young live on the border crossings on The Voice of 00:19:34 America thank you and the album is dreamers now it's. Not on vinyl as well it has 00:19:40 that's amazing how you must find this interesting that vinyl has kind of come back 00:19:44 and in popularity now I just read where it's out sold this year actual digital 00:19:51 songs there's you know the 2100000 digital sold 2400000 vinyl sold this year oh 00:19:59 well it's out there it's 00:20:01 a double album Go-Go dreamers I mean vinyl. It's beautiful it sounds 00:20:07 different and of course it's fun to look at and I mean. And read you write write 00:20:14 write while you listen at what 00:20:16 a beautiful look at this album cover I mean this is this is pretty amazing stuff 00:20:20 here this beautiful gorgeous gorgeous album cover I don't know who you had designed 00:20:26 this or or how you came up with this this is absolutely gorgeous I cannot remember 00:20:31 this young man's name but it's in there somewhere and I'm sure he's 00:20:36 a beautiful artist and. You know I don't know what that is and whether that's 00:20:42 a rising. Looks like a bunch of there's 00:20:48 a lot going on. A lot there's an owl in there the wisdom and there's the 00:20:54 Viking and it looked like 00:20:55 a biking helmet. And it's yeah it's it's the love boat coming to hatch 00:21:02 it's hard to pass by if you're in 00:21:04 a record store it's beautiful but Jesse Cullen Young's talking with us on tour 00:21:09 right now is it always been music for you I mean when you started this in the early 00:21:12 sixty's when you was this part of the plan I'm going to be 00:21:16 a musician or you're thinking about other careers Well I don't know we only we had 00:21:22 one piano player in the family had a distant cousin he was 00:21:26 a drunk so. And my dad. Was 00:21:31 a Harvard grad 1st man in his family to go to school so I was thinking like well 00:21:37 you know music we all played and I spent 00:21:40 a lot of time in my early years singing around the piano with my father but nobody 00:21:45 considered it a serious career. So it took me 00:21:48 a little time but I mean from the day I touched 00:21:51 a guitar. As an elective and I this this 00:21:58 wonderful prep school that I was sent to the after 11 create called Phillips and 00:22:03 over time yeah my life changed. I had played the piano 00:22:10 I mean and my day 00:22:11 a lot of kids had to. Play piano just take lessons but I never connected and the 00:22:18 music they were teaching me was kind of dorky and so then here comes Alan Freed 00:22:24 when I'm 10 years old living on Long Island and elephant comes on the radio rock 00:22:29 n roll you got it made rival and you know I was hooked I had 00:22:33 a radio and I kept it on if I turned away down I could leave it on all night and 00:22:38 the radio was right here about my head so I just listened nonstop and 00:22:45 so I was aimed at this year you know I tried 00:22:48 a few. Other careers and it was but. Musical is 00:22:54 it for me and has been since you know I was. When I play my 1st game I guess I 00:23:00 think I'm pretty coded sort of 00:23:02 a silly billy my 1st album and I was 19 was it came out when I was 20 it was on 00:23:07 Capitol Hill so they were busy with the Beatles and then and this month you turned 00:23:12 $7970.00 s and turned $7878.00 it's hard to add 00:23:18 a year now and yeah please happy birthday to you now you did mention something 00:23:23 about school in Massachusetts and I do want to touch on that because I I read where 00:23:27 you got 00:23:28 a scholarship but then you got expelled Yeah how did that happen. You're looking at 00:23:34 I'm looking. Yeah this guy was 00:23:39 a job tough he had to punch in you know every morning at 6 with I mean with 00:23:44 a clock and and if you were 00:23:46 a minute late you got to merit so I didn't always make it on time and I got on 00:23:53 probation so I made it 10 weeks without 00:23:57 a demand and. The night I was finishing my house master came to congratulate 00:24:04 me but it was in study hours but I was playing the guitar because we had 00:24:11 a 1st concert the next day. So I was supposed to be playing the guitar 00:24:19 but because I was on probation it was legal Yeah that was it and so and the damn 00:24:25 man said to me Well you know to lose 00:24:27 a good boy like you and not going to match on what I was thinking I write. So yeah 00:24:35 but really I was I was not meant to go to an Ivy League school I was meant to go to 00:24:40 Ohio State and live behind 00:24:42 a record store. And take the records from the store with the record with the 00:24:49 owner's permission and tape them because I can afford and I'm discover T.-Bone 00:24:54 Walker and b.b. 00:24:56 King and Ray Charles and then I was gone I knew I knew where I was going. Now 00:25:02 in your career which as we mentioned earlier was over 50 years and still going 00:25:07 strong there must be so many great memories so many great shows so many great 00:25:12 places you're performing to people you've worked with have you thought about 00:25:15 writing 00:25:16 a book yes County and I just started. To go there 2 months ago I mean 00:25:23 people have brought it up and I said Really I've read 00:25:26 a few musicians and biographers and it's just like movies about music and I mean if 00:25:31 you they do things and music movies that can't really be done right word 00:25:38 and it seems funny to you so I was I've never been 00:25:41 a fan of musical biographies but. We started out by writing about the fire. 00:25:50 Because Conny was there in the house with the kids with. One of the kids I had 00:25:55 Tristan in 00:25:55 a car taking him to the doctor and the flames are coming up and the firemen say oh 00:26:01 it's Ok and then 20 minutes later they come back and say Get out now right so she's 00:26:07 on the phone saying what do you want and. And then yeah and and then 00:26:14 burning in the house and going up there and seeing that forest but finding the 00:26:18 studio. Was an intact. So 00:26:25 and I don't know we got right about that and I thought wow we could write 00:26:30 a book like this and the 2 of us speaking in our own voices and seeing this. 00:26:39 Wonderful romance of ours of 35 years from 2 sides and what's it called. 00:26:46 What they called me and she's shaking her head yeah we don't know. You haven't 00:26:51 title yet but we know we were thinking it's all about the fire but now that's just 00:26:57 that was a crucible time for us and a big and 00:27:00 a huge change and it was a disaster that kind of turned out to be 00:27:06 a blessing that's wonderful and so looking at your career what would you say I mean 00:27:12 as you write your book and you tell your story what will be among the highlights if 00:27:17 you could single out because probably many highlights but if you you know what give 00:27:20 us a chapter that would be 00:27:21 a highlight some some story some of venting your life that stands out above the 00:27:26 because you've done so many different things and so here's one of the most 00:27:29 embarrassing things. I went I went to school with this kid named Artie and queens 00:27:37 and. When my record 1st came out I saw the city boy 00:27:44 I was so proud I was at Curtis Folk City that's in the village I think I was 00:27:49 headlining and. And I hadn't seen already since grade school and he 00:27:56 and he showed up I said wow already I got 00:28:00 a record contract I got and how this terrific it's great he said he looked at me 00:28:06 and said I make records to this was already 00:28:13 Garfunkel. What do you know. So 00:28:20 that's interesting number one in the best embarrassing moments of my life but yeah 00:28:27 that was. And to find him there and I think Paul was in our class but I never 00:28:33 really got to know him and I think Paul mother suppose mother taught in that school 00:28:38 but Simon use of yeah yeah. But you know Sound of Silence 00:28:45 was the was the song that like just blew radio open for acoustic rock. 00:28:51 Music about right things that were real and apart from romance and 00:28:58 political and and interesting yeah so i was huge fan Well there's 00:29:05 a lot of fans of your music all around the world and we're we're thrilled to have 00:29:09 you here in d.c. 00:29:10 And thank you for doing this for us Jesse Collin young would you do another song I 00:29:13 would love to just a sip of this this is 00:29:19 a song County and I wrote together she actually started it someone through the 00:29:24 internet asked us to to write a song about 00:29:28 a movie that became Boston strong it was about. The bombing at 00:29:35 the here at the marathon and we had had this personal experience we were driving in 00:29:42 a car listen to n.p.r. 00:29:44 . A bomb went off in Boston Tristan is in Boston in school 00:29:50 and living 3 blocks probably from the finish line of the marathon and they said 00:29:57 that's all the information we have so we rushed home we turned on the t.v. 00:30:03 And there are the pictures but we can't get through. It turns out to to police 00:30:09 turned off the cell towers because they were afraid of more bombs so for an hour we 00:30:14 are hanging and watching this awful stuff over and over and thinking please he 00:30:21 didn't want to down there with 00:30:23 a cup of coffee just. And luckily he didn't actually all these kids 00:30:30 on this album dreamers were in school at that time and right there so 00:30:39 when someone asked to work up the next morning and Conny had 00:30:43 a page of lyrics or 2 pages of lyrics written already this is called cast 00:30:48 a stone. All 00:30:57 that we do all that we do in this life. Kind of ripples out like when you throw 00:31:03 a stone in the water and I thanks everyone else in some way. 00:31:11 Letters for good measure. In this case for evil to. 00:31:26 Come. Cast 00:31:32 a stone. In the water. See the reboot spread 00:31:39 out. Feel the pain of not knowing. He the Son. 00:31:47 Shout. Is another moment danger. Or 00:31:54 neighborhood. Kids stood still. In the morning to. 00:32:02 See the bold spread. 00:32:09 It's just an. Excuse to come. 00:32:22 We are witness to even. My hands on my toes from very. 00:32:30 On I am the replay it. While we vote for it. 00:32:39 In the pool isn't 00:32:40 a sprint. Hard stance and no. Consequence to me. 00:32:48 In the moment I. See the ribs. Still. 00:32:58 Gets to. Get students to come. 00:33:07 Close to this song. Now the crew list coolness. 00:33:20 And the road from the Rose Garden. Is 00:33:24 a fruit. As I fear and. 00:33:33 It's not a reach as for 00:33:34 a shadow cast in stone. In the water I. See 00:33:41 the spread. Of students. 00:33:48 That students don't. 00:34:08 Just callin young legendary name in the music business been around the block 00:34:12 a few times and so let me The Youngbloods you've been with the war on and off over 00:34:17 the years are you planning anything with the Youngbloods in the near future. 00:34:24 You know not really. Bananas the only one that's 00:34:32 still hadn't yet still with us. And I think he's busy 00:34:39 pretty busy playing with little Stevie. Touring 00:34:44 a lot there any favorite places you like to perform around the world when you're 00:34:50 out on tour. I love to play outside I mean I think 00:35:00 playing with Crosby Stills Nash and Young doing their whole summer tour in 1974 00:35:06 that was. Mostly outside. In the summer and so 00:35:12 beautiful about countries you like to go to because we're broadcasting to 00:35:16 a 100 countries right now so you know I haven't seen much of the world I have been 00:35:21 driving around America in circles and. We just went to Paris for the 1st time 00:35:28 for me. 2 months ago and this is probably the beginning of. 00:35:36 And I didn't play I just fooled around and had wonderful food and look at these 00:35:42 gorgeous buildings that was right before and. Burned. So we got to see it. 00:35:53 I just got 00:35:54 a name for your autobiography driving in circles. So 00:36:01 I know you're going to do one of the one of the biggest signature songs and do you 00:36:05 remember where you were when you heard your song on the radio for the 1st get 00:36:10 together with us because that's kind of a very profound moment in 00:36:14 a musician's life and career to hear your song Somewhere out there that so young 00:36:21 birds flew. To San Francisco and you know. 15th 00:36:28 1967 and we had no idea what was going on in the Bay Area we were in we 00:36:35 were you're based in New York. And the banana 00:36:42 keyboard player had 00:36:43 a hair out here was kind of an anomaly I mean businessmen in the Holiday Inn and 00:36:49 stuff and sometimes reach out. Had to say you know Baldwin just touched does. 00:36:57 So let me see a penny didn't know there was 00:37:00 a town and which every other guy had hair like and and that was San Francisco so we 00:37:06 walked into the to the cheap motel and Gary Street and I threw my bag down and I 00:37:13 was probably staying with Corbett and they had 2 twin beds and where they came 00:37:17 together there was this little radio built into the I turned it on 00:37:23 a get together was on the radio. 00:37:30 And when we went to the other line and you know instead of 40 or 50 people there 00:37:34 were 404 or 500 people and half of them look like bananas and then. 00:37:43 And. So I mean we realized that this 00:37:50 was the place we needed to be I mean we could work we get together was 00:37:55 a hit in 67 and in San Francisco and up the coast maybe Portland 00:38:02 Seattle. No where else so it was not 00:38:05 a major hit but man I mean we were we were there you were there we were there for 00:38:12 the win for the work in those cities so right right right we went home and we went 00:38:17 home and we moved immediately but I went to number one in 69 yes. So that 00:38:24 was you know those 2 years the National Council of Christians and Jews took that 00:38:29 song and put it on a brotherhood commercial a p.s.a. 00:38:33 And you know they push those things off too late in the night when right when it's 00:38:39 not high commercial value and who was I mean who was watching t.v. 00:38:44 Late at night it was young people I guess because. The country. And 00:38:51 also I think. Had it come to 00:38:57 a different. Idea about the war that it was not working and that. 00:39:05 The feeling that I brothers and sisters were dying in vain and I became more 00:39:12 prevalent and get together was there kind of nurturing that 00:39:19 that desire to have 00:39:20 a. Yes safe place to love one another and right right right the Vietnam War is what 00:39:25 you're referring to yeah and for the audience around the world so if what was the 00:39:29 story behind the song I mean before we do it what was the you know when you wrote 00:39:33 this What was it that led you to this song are you sitting at home in the basement 00:39:40 studio or one another with some other studio and you see here's I got 00:39:42 a song in my mind of my heart and I got 00:39:44 a story to tell I didn't write it you didn't I walked into an open mike in the 00:39:51 village and there was 00:39:54 a felony buzzy Lenhart on stage singing. It was written by 00:40:00 Dina Valenti and he had been in the village 00:40:02 a couple years before that maybe and 63 and 64 I was either 00:40:09 working with I don't work in 00:40:11 a factory or doing something else. So I had never heard it and 00:40:18 I ran backstage and said Man I gotta have the lyrics and 00:40:25 I mean when I heard that song I knew that my life had changed that this was like. 00:40:33 The course correction and that get together would now be my compass and it has been 00:40:41 and I I thought for 00:40:42 a while or it it was our generation's compass I mean it paved the way for 00:40:48 Woodstock over those 2 years as it as it bled that message into the country as 00:40:55 a whole as it penetrated from the West Coast and you know then when. 00:41:04 When movies came out would get together and I get. I get fan letters from 10 year 00:41:09 olds that say that's my class that's my favorite song in my class. I realized. 00:41:16 The generations are being introduced to it over and over and now. 00:41:24 Our country being as divide of divisive and the v. 00:41:27 And the visit as the rhetoric is. I mean we need this we need to sing this 00:41:34 song more than ever so we started this thing about 00:41:38 a month ago. And I it's. Kind of 00:41:45 a Video Challenge I recorded get together and then I said. Please 00:41:52 you guys to the audience go when you're I would have friends the bar just get 00:41:59 together get out a phone and sing 00:42:01 a chorus of get together and video it and then post it but then hash tag it. Get 00:42:08 together again with the 3 words kept get together kept me again 00:42:15 and at Jesse Cullen young and we will we will make 00:42:19 a quilt and you guys were going to garage come on because people people 00:42:26 know this song even when they don't know they know it when you start singing it. I 00:42:32 don't care where you are I mean even if I sing in a t.s.a. 00:42:36 Or you play music what kind of music of that and I think I just sing 00:42:39 a little bit or get together right and and they light up so we're we're hoping to 00:42:46 get people from all over the world to send us 00:42:49 a little videos of them and posting them in their. Their social media but 00:42:56 hashtag ing it get together again and Jesse come on Young and we'll we will collect 00:43:01 these and make a quilt. And you know 00:43:05 a audio quilt out of all. People of all walks of life and it would be wonderful 00:43:11 from all countries singing Get together cool is that yeah all right well what would 00:43:18 you mind doing the song right now song that you've done 00:43:20 a couple times square I love this song. 00:43:44 Love is not 00:43:45 a song. Feel is doing you die. We 00:43:56 can make the mountains ring. Or make the chin scream. 00:44:09 A little bird is on the. We don't wanna. 00:44:20 Come on people now Smile on your brother. Head to china to 00:44:27 look on. 00:44:36 Some man come on some. People leave the show let it pass. 00:44:49 When the one live to see. Read soon through the city. 00:45:01 Read up on the sun. And live feed right. 00:45:13 Come on. Smile. Here everybody get to China 00:45:20 one of the crap. 00:45:30 Smog. Gets 00:45:33 a child born. If 00:45:54 you hear the song the seat. People even understand. 00:46:03 Said. We'll hold the key to the. 00:46:11 Border linen chimney. 00:46:19 Just one keep still. Don't you know it's to 00:46:26 show you could. Come on. 00:46:33 Smile on your. Kids in China one. 00:46:46 Come on. Smile. To get China 00:46:54 walk on. The. 00:47:12 Happy 50th birthday that's 00:47:14 a yes and that's something that rings true today just as it did in 1969 when you 00:47:19 sang it with the young bloods We've got Jessica Yellin you're going to studio and 00:47:22 you said it's one of your favorite songs you love the song of course you should 00:47:25 love the song it was 00:47:26 a Pepsi commercial during the Super Bowl it was in forest Kentucky Fried Chicken 00:47:31 all markets and the list goes on and on and that song resonates throughout all the 00:47:36 eras and all time so yes did you did you see that Pepsi commercial I did not was 00:47:43 great because it really yes the 2 drivers Coke and Pepsi in 00:47:48 a diner and they're eyeing each other and ordering there's favorite drinking. 00:47:57 And then saying I'm going to correspond with another they panned to the outside of 00:48:01 the diner and one of them comes through the window. That's funny creative ad 00:48:08 agencies and you did something risky with that song too which I'm sure you didn't 00:48:12 think about at the time or maybe you did but back then in the sixty's late sixty's 00:48:16 songs were 2 and a half minutes long and that song was 4 and 00:48:20 a half minutes long and you must have been thinking are we going to get this played 00:48:24 on the radio how are we going to get this out there you know it was. Not slated to 00:48:29 be 00:48:29 a single it was actually 5 minutes I think also. So I 00:48:37 was just I was in love with that song it had really I so I 00:48:44 think we approached it that way. I brought the song to the band I was the 00:48:50 lead singer So everyone kind we just we made 00:48:54 a beautiful piece. Beautiful piece of art music and I 00:49:01 remembers. Something on the radio and maybe be high in New York said to me 00:49:08 it's it seems very innocent. And when I listen back to my 00:49:16 to my performance of it it's it is it's very innocent it's very matter of fact it's 00:49:21 not loaded Yeah up with it and I think as I just said you know that 00:49:28 just we're just they're bringing that message because they're writing lyrics. Very 00:49:35 heavy and we can still make the mountain or make the angels cry which they're doing 00:49:42 right. Here trying to. 00:49:49 Get together one of the great song. 00:51:36 Maybe. 00:52:04 You. 00:52:28 Should. 00:52:47 Move. 00:53:03 Along with. The. 00:53:33 News. To lead 00:53:40 me. In the. 00:53:50 Movie. 00:54:28 The. 00:54:42 Pledge of. 00:54:52 Illegible. 00:55:04 Play. 00:56:18 Thank you so much for being on the show and if people want to get your album 00:56:21 dreamers or if they want to catch you on tour your website I'm sure has all the 00:56:25 information Yeah Jesse calling them dot com and dreamers it Amazon and i Tunes 00:56:32 and whether it's you would do him down a lot or a cd or 00:56:35 a Bible. Yeah it's out there and. 00:56:42 Yeah thanks for giving me a chance to sing these songs because whom I love brought 00:56:47 a lot of memories back thank you so much for coming to our studio and pleasure 00:56:50 being 00:56:50 a part of the show Jesse Collin young as our guest it's dreamers the name of his 00:56:54 new album My name is Larry London and this is border crossing. 00:57:36 This is a new. U.s. 00:57:39 President Donald Trump is pressuring Turkey to stop its offensive in northern Syria 00:57:45 with calls for 00:57:46 a cease fire and sanctions against Turkish officials as he plans to send 00:57:50 a delegation led by Vice President Mike Vance to Ankara for talks to resolve the 00:57:55 situation the president's action follows sharp criticism in the week since the 00:57:59 White House announced Turkey was going forward with its long held plans to try to 00:58:04 carve out a buffer zone along its border with Syria free from the u.s. 00:58:08 Backed Kurdish fighters it accuses of being terrorists the always Heather Murdoch 00:58:13 is on the ground in Syria and she tells us the essential reaction of the Kurdish 00:58:17 people they are angry. Or making and lay the blame squarely on the 00:58:24 president. They feel like they have been for 00:58:28 a long time they feel like they have been abandoned. 00:58:34 President Trump spoke Monday with both Turkish president rate ship. And general 00:58:40 Muslim called Bani the head of the mostly Kurdish s.d.f. 00:58:44 That the United States has relied on to battle Islamic state militants in Syria 00:58:49 they Texas police officer who shot and killed 00:58:51 a black woman in her home has been charged with murder Aaron Deen was arrested just 00:58:56 hours after he resigned from the Fort Worth police force on Monday and when Kraus 00:59:01 is the police chief of Fort Worth had the officer not resigned or would have fired 00:59:05 him for violations of several policies including our use of force policy or 00:59:10 deescalation policy. And unprofessional conduct late Monday Dean was released from 00:59:16 jail after paying $200000.00 bail bond Dean who is white shot 28 year old Tatyana 00:59:23 Jefferson who was black through a house window Saturday after a neighbor called 00:59:27 a non-emergency police line to report Jefferson's front door had been left open 00:59:32 this is v.o.a. News. A dozen Democratic presidential candidates will be on.