May 23, 2024

Living the dream with singer/songwriter and story teller Blake Isbell

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Join us on a melodic journey with Blake Isbell, a 23-year-old singer-songwriter, as he shares his passion for music and storytelling on the 'Living the Dream' podcast with Curveball. Discover Blake's musical origins, from playing the oboe to recording three original studio albums, and get an intimate look at his latest work, 'Deconstruction'. Blake dives deep into his artistic process, revealing how each album encapsulates a chapter of his life, and discusses the therapeutic role songwriting plays in navigating personal challenges. Whether you're a fan of pop, rock, or folk, Blake's genre-blending sound and poignant lyrics are sure to resonate. Tune in to explore the depths of creativity, inspiration, and the relentless pursuit of musical dreams.
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> Speaker A>Welcome, um, to the living the dream podcast with curveball. Um, if you believe you can achieve chee chee, welcome to the living a dream with curveball podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire. Today, I am joined by singer songwriter, multi talented artist blake isbel. We're going to be talking to blake about his music and his career.

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> Speaker A>He's definitely, uh, qualified and got some good music out there that you guys should check out, and he's going to tell us all about it and how he got into it. So, blake, thank you so much for joining me today.

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> Blake Isbel>Yeah, thank you so much for that introduction. That was beautiful.

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> Speaker A>Why don't you start off by fathering the introduction and telling everybody a little bit about yourself?

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> Blake Isbel>Yeah. So, my name is blake isbel. I am 23 years old. I currently live in san antonio. I just moved here a couple months ago. I started music at a very young age. My first instrument that I played was the oboe, and I played that through junior high and competitively through high school and then also in college. And then I picked up saxophone along the way. When I was in high school, I started songwriting, and I taught myself how to play guitar. Later took lessons in college, took piano lessons in college, took voice lessons in college, and I, uh, graduated college with a bachelor's degree in music. And I also managed to write and record three original studio albums. My most recent album, called deconstruction, was released earlier this year in January of 2024.

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> Blake Isbel>And basically how my artistry is set up is each album represents a different chapter of my life. And I'm actually in the process of trying to go back into the archives and write some things to represent past chapters of my life while also trying to write things that are going on right now. So, things are quite busy with. With this right now for me.

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> Blake Isbel>But music is my passion.

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> Blake Isbel>Storytelling is my profession.

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> Blake Isbel>I have, uh, I work at different jobs. I recently worked at an escape room. I do ghost tours right now because they're just so fun. I decided, you know what? I'm going to really immerse myself in San Antonio while I'm living here. And so that's something that I'm doing right now. And, yeah, I'm just living life and doing music. I also teach music privately. I do a whole bunch of things with teaching privately. I have some guitar, piano, and then I also offer saxophone and oboe. And songwriting is my favorite subject. I love songwriting so much, so that's pretty much what. What I'm up to.

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> Speaker A>Wow, look at you. You're definitely living, uh, a busy life. So, as far as your music genre, if somebody came up to you and asked you about what kind of music you do, what would you tell them?

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> Blake Isbel>I would tell them that my primary genre is pop music. And then every album that I do, I like to make it different. So I kind of do, like, a pop hybrid, and so I have that familiarity that expands throughout my entire artistry of the pop genre. But sometimes I'll have an album that sounds more rock, I'll have an album that sounds a little bit more country. I'll have an album that sounds a little bit more folk, but they'll all have that same pop genre, as well as a very much singer songwriter. Every single song that I write means something. I'm never going to come out with a song that's just about, you know, dancing, and that's it. It's kind of. It's going to mean something. So it definitely takes that storytelling approach that you hear from a bunch of folk or country type genres. And then as far as the production that goes behind it, I'll have a sound of it is just for the overarching message that I'm trying to portray on that particular album.

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> Speaker A>Okay. And as far as the competitive and band, I played the trumpet throughout junior high and high school, and I did some solo stuff and won a couple of medals as well. So tell us about your new album. You know, kind of. Tell us more about it, and tell us about what inspired you to create it.

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> Blake Isbel>Oh, my goodness.

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> Blake Isbel>My third album, deconstruction, was so much. So many things. It was so many things.

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> Blake Isbel>I. So, because, as I've mentioned, um, this has been the premise of my artistry from the beginning is to capture each chapter of my life into music. Well, my first album goes over my experience at my first college, and then my second album goes over my experience at my second college, and then I actually had a third college before I ended, before I graduated with my bachelor's degree. And for the entire time I was at that college, I was there for about two years. I was anticipating writing and releasing an album that was kind of about that time of my life. But some.

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> Blake Isbel>Something happened in my life, and I ended up entering this really dark place, and I radically changed as a person and an individual. And it's like my entire life just fell.

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> Blake Isbel>Like, I completely had to reframe my identity, and I just basically became a different person. My whole life was just shattered, and so I had to cancel all the plans that I had for. I had some songs written.

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> Blake Isbel>No one's heard them before. They've kind of been vaulted, put in the vault for, who knows, some other. Some other day. And I had to completely rewrite, uh, a new album because I was in such a dark place. And so my songwriting became.

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> Blake Isbel>It took on its original purpose that it did. When I first started songwriting, I went through a particularly, uh, depressed time when I was in high school, and that's when I first started writing songs. So how I coped with mental illness is I would write songs about it, and. And I would find a lot of healing and solace doing that. And so for, uh, I was going through better times throughout my first and second album, and so it was a little bit more free for me to just have fun with the music. But my third album, if you go and listen to it, you'll hear it's very dark. There's a lot of depression, uh, that's going on very deep topics. You can really hear the.

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> Blake Isbel>Just the rawness of the performance of it, and especially in the songwriting. And that's because I wrote that album to process things, to survive, to, um, just try and find whatever I could to just, you know, it just became, like, my therapy, essentially. And I actually started recording the album. What's unique about my third album is that I actually started recording it without it being finished. My first and second album, I wrote all the songs and then I recorded them. Well, with my third album, I would write a song or two and then record it, and I didn't really know what this album was going to become, and it just kind of evolved over a year or two, and then I had my final product.

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> Blake Isbel>So.

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> Speaker A>What was some of the songs that you wrote that you had the most fun writing?

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> Blake Isbel>Wow.

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> Blake Isbel>You know, for some reason, the song that always comes to mind is my song called stranded. I really love my song stranded it.

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> Blake Isbel>And I had. I just had so much fun recording it and also writing it.

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> Blake Isbel>I have a song on my first album that it's called hymn of the Outcast, and it kind of plays into the theme of being stranded on this beach, and it's nighttime and there's a lot of hopelessness. And then the song, hymn of the Outcast is about, like, the things that I found hope in.

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> Blake Isbel>And that's a song that I wrote coming out of. Coming out of that, a dark summer that I had. And then it's kind of a song of rebirth, in a way. And I played with that same imagery of being. So they're. They're kind of related in a way. These two songs, same scenery and energy of being on a dark beach, and the whole song is about being left stranded and just hopelessness.

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> Blake Isbel>But this song. This song actually doesn't quite end with hope like him of the outcast does. It ends with, like, lost in hopelessness. And I really love some of the lyrical things that I did in that song, and the imagery that it depicts was just spot on, and so I was really proud of the artistic nature of that specific song. Another thing that's interesting about some of the tracks on this album is this is the first time that I wrote a song based off of a track in the studio. So my producer made a track, or we made a track in the studio, and then I wrote a song to go. To go onto that track. I came up with the lyrics and the melody for the track later.

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> Blake Isbel>And one, uh, an example of a song like that where we use that type of songwriting, is my song called legalism.

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> Blake Isbel>And that was really fun to be able to do that. I actually found that to be quite challenging to write a song because it was a new approach to songwriting that I had never done before, and that that was a fun accomplishment. And that's also a song that turned out really well. A lot of my listeners really, really loved that song, and there were. And it's also the lead single. There's a reason why it's the lead single. Um, and it definitely is one of the standout tracks on the album. I also have a song called imbalance that I just had a lot of fun with that song. I, uh.

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> Blake Isbel>Sometimes when I sit down and I write a song, I end up just having to stop because I'm like, ah, I'm not. It's not going anywhere, so I'll put a bookmark on it and come back to it later. Well, what. How I came up with imbalance is I had this one topic that I kept writing about, but I kept writing different things and different ideas, and I kind of frankensteined those two or three different songwriting sessions I had and put them together into my song imbalance. So it was really cool to see how that song evolved and how I took, like, the course from this thing that I wrote and then the bridge from this thing I wrote, and I put them all together, and then I came up with the word imbalance, and. And it just told the story of what I was writing about so well. And I would say, um. Uh, another quick story of one of my songs, actually, I would say this one is probably my favorite that I like, my favorite song that from, um, writing a writing standpoint. And that is the last song on the album called spirit. That's a song. These are my favorite types of songs. It's just, I sit down, something comes over me. Some type of epiphany, some type of. I don't know what it is, but just something comes over me, and I just get out my guitar, or maybe it's a piano. Usually it's the guitar, but maybe the piano as well. And I'll be there for just an hour or two. And after an hour or two, I've got an entire song written. It just comes to me. I don't even have to think about it that much.

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> Blake Isbel>And that's the song on this album that's like, that. Where that happened is spirit. I love spirit. I have a very spiritual connection with that song, uh, ironically. And it's just. It was so great, so fulfilling for me to just, like, um, have this mar.

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> Blake Isbel>This, uh, spiritual, marvelous experience where I just write a song in an hour or two paints, and it's like a fully fleshed song.

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> Blake Isbel>And because, uh, sometimes when you're writing, you know, things don't come to you as easily, and you can get discouraged from time to time. Sometimes you experience rider's block. Sometimes you have these emotions, you have these things that you want to talk about, but you are struggling to get them out. But it's like, whenever it just pours out of you in an hour or two, like it did for that song, for me, it's just, like, the most. The best feeling ever. And so that. That was definitely the fun. The most fun song for me to write on the album is spirit.

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> Speaker A>Okay, well, tell us about some of your biggest musical influences. Who influences you to do what you do?

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> Blake Isbel>Oh, there's so. There's so many influences.

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> Blake Isbel>I typically, when I sit down and I come up with an album, I, like I said, I like for each album to have a different sound to it. And so I kind of explored genres in a way.

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> Blake Isbel>Like, uh, for. For my second album, I wanted it to be pop rock.

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> Blake Isbel>That's really what I was going for. But I also wanted to have a little bit of country in there, too, because it was an album based off of Nashville. And so I would just think about, like, some artists that were pop rock. And, um, I. And I just.

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> Blake Isbel>That's how I came up with my influences, is I just think of genres. Like. Like, right now, for example, I'm really wanting. Ah.

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> Blake Isbel>Um, it's not necessarily spoilers, because I actually have a few things that I'm working on right now, but one of the projects that I'm kind of wanting to do is a, uh, really more of a heavier type, rock type album and influences.

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> Blake Isbel>You know, I I've been looking at some aerosmith. I've been looking at some green day. I've been looking at some simple, simple plan. Like, there's, uh, also bad wolves, you know, like just.

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> Blake Isbel>Just some rock type people.

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> Blake Isbel>And that's because I'm going for an album that's more of a rock sound. And so as far as what influences I have, it really depends on what the project I am looking for, because as far as me as a consumer, me as a listener, I listen to all kinds of stuff. All kinds of stuff. Now, of course, I have my favorite artist. Um, as far as singing wise styles that I've been trying to pay attention to.

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> Blake Isbel>Um, some of the men that I've been trying to pay attention to as far as singing, I've been looking into the style of Shawn Mendes.

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> Blake Isbel>Um, I think his singing style is very interesting, um, especially because I have a tendency to sing down here super low. Well, I'm trying to explore these. These men that are singing fire, like Shawn Mendes or Charlie puth or Harry Styles.

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> Blake Isbel>You know, all these guys that like to sing in their falsetto, um, they like to sing way up there and they like to stay up there. It's like you don't even know that they can sing low because they just live in their head voice and in their falsetto. So I've been trying to look at that a little bit because my comfort zone is the lower. My lower register, my chest voice. That's really is my comfort zone. And you hear that a lot.

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> Blake Isbel>On my first three albums, I don't really have a lot of things play other places I'm going. But on my third album, if you listen closely, you can tell that there are a lot of background vocals where I am trying to explore some of my head voice and falsetto, and I'm wanting to do that more going forward. So those are influences from a, uh, vocal standpoint. Now, from a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I I mean, I am a big taylor Swift fan, like millions of people are. She's very, very big. And.

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> Blake Isbel>And so she is definitely one of the greatest songwriters of our time.

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> Blake Isbel>And I do look at kind of what she. What she does in the formula that she uses. Another really great songwriter of our time is Ed Sheeran, and so I'll look at some of that as well. But really, I don't really use a lot of influences. When it comes to the actual songwriting, I kind of just do what I want. I kind of just sit down and write and see where it takes me most. Most of the time, I'm not really, um, like, actually, to tell you the truth, from a writing standpoint, most of it came from school, like, taking the creative writing stuff that I learned in school and analyzing poetry and listening, um, to some youtubers that talk about poetry and stuff. Because, you know, songwriting is essentially a form poetry. And since storytelling is a big part of my songwriting, I try to really pay attention to a lot of those things, like, where, uh, I can grab the listener and transport them to a particular place and a particular moment, and so that they can actually feel, smell, hear what it's like to be in that moment. And then I try to make it as relatable as possible. So when it comes to influences, it's all across the board. It's like, are we talking about vocal influences? If so, then maybe some Shawn Mendes or Harry Styles or. Um.

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> Blake Isbel>I'm also, like, just. I find Brendon Urie to be a phenomenal vocal talent, and I am trying to figure out how he. How he does some of the things that he does, as well as Steven Tyler. He does some really cool, really cool, uh, things to his voice as well.

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> Blake Isbel>And so while I still haven't quite figured out some of the things that they do, that is definitely something that I am learning and trying to strive towards. So that's vocally songwriting. I typically just do my own thing, and for genre wise, I go for whatever the sound of the album that I'm trying to do because I like a bunch of music. And so I just keep that pop, that pop music frame, and then I mix it up with a whole bunch of different things, and I look at music that I like in that genre, and I'll listen to a song, try to figure out what it is I like about it. Is it the electric guitar? Is it the energy of the song?

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> Blake Isbel>Is it like. Like, what is it about the production and about the thing that I like? So I'll take, like, some artists and listen to it. And so my influences are all possible.

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> Speaker A>Well, tell us about any current upcoming projects that you're working on that people need to know about.

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> Blake Isbel>So there's not.

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> Blake Isbel>There's nothing confirmed that I'm working on. I don't really have anything that is ready to be announced, but, uh, I do have a performance coming up, actually.

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> Blake Isbel>I'm really excited because I'm going to play for my hometown. Um, my hometown is Coolidge, Texas. It's a very tiny place on the other side of Waco, Texas.

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> Blake Isbel>It's, uh, a very, very small place. It's like one street. It's like they have one gas station. There's no fast food there.

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> Blake Isbel>There's a very tiny school and one gas station. But that's where I grew up, and that was where I went to school. And then when I was 18, I moved away. But I lived there my entire childhood. And this is the first time in a long time that I'm going to go and play.

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> Blake Isbel>It's going to be a very, very small concert. Only, uh, a few people from the tiny town are going to be there. But I'm very honored because it's for a scholarship committee, and they actually awarded me a scholarship when I was going off to college. And they've honored me by, um, featuring me as a guest performing artist at their convention. And they're really excited to have me, and I'm really excited to perform there. And so that's just a very, you know, it's just. I love it. It's something that's very special to me because it is my hometown. It's where I grew up, and I haven't performed there in years.

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> Blake Isbel>So getting to play on the stage that I grew up with, but now as an adult and a. An actual bona fide musician, instead of just like a little kid that is just being on a stage for the first time as a little kid, it's.

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> Blake Isbel>It's a very surreal moment for me. So I'm really excited. That's gonna happen on June, uh, first, actually. And so that, that's something that's coming up. As far as future albums, there are things that I'm working on, but there. There are, like, three or four different albums that are running through my head right now. I'm not kidding. It's. It's kind of intense. And I am in the process of looking for a new producer since I just moved to San Antonio. So right now I'm kind of at a place where, um, I'm not really in a rush. I'm trying to just get my life settled and get financially secure, because this can be a very expensive business for us independent musicians who aren't super famous and have millions of dollars. So recording music is not cheap because, um, it's just quite a. Quite a investment for you to come out with an album. I mean, I always said that ever since I released my first album that I would really love to re record it someday. So may someday. I'd love to rerecord that, that record, because I, uh. Let me tell you something. My first album may be my favorite of the three. I love my first album. I love it so much.

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> Blake Isbel>I'm really. Sometimes I listen to it, and I'm like, I wrote that. I was, like, 18 or so, and I'm like, I wrote that. Like, I really, really love my first album, but my first album is an album that I recorded with cheap equipment, uh, doing it for the first time. And it's also a self recorded album. So that's an interesting fact about my first album, but you can tell that the recording is not as high quality as my second or third album, and I think that really sets it back, and I think that people can also be very confused about it because it has its own unique sound to it. So I would really love to get in there and record it in a studio. And, uh, I've advanced vocal as a vocalist as well, since I was 17 or 18 years old.

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> Blake Isbel>And so I really want to re record that record, and I may even write a couple more songs to put on a new recording of that. So that's something that I'm eyeballing at some point to do.

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> Blake Isbel>And obviously, an album about my life here in San Antonio is something that is in the work.

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> Blake Isbel>And, yeah, there's all kinds of stuff that is going through my head. I also want, at some point, I really want to do an album. Well, I want to do an album based off of my, uh, my youth. And because who I was when I was a teenager, he just feels like a different person to me. It's weird, because it's like I still feel him inside of me because it is me, and, like, I do still feel like the person of my youth is a part of me, but he also feels like this untouchable memory. And so it's. It's a very interesting, like, m my relationship today with my younger self, it's. It's very interesting to me, and I do remember who I was back then, and I would love to write an album that represents that time of my life. I do think I could do it. I do think it would be challenging, but that's something I'm eyeballing. And then another thing I'm eyeballing is an album that talks about my heritage, and that's supposed to represent, like, the very beginning of my life, because whenever you're a baby and you're a toddler, your life completely revolves around your family, and it revolves around your community, and that's kind of what your life is all about. And you're kind of like a product of these series of events as well. And so I really want to do an album that highlights all of that.

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> Blake Isbel>Just, it talks about, like, maybe my parents, maybe distant relatives, maybe my hometown, maybe, you know, my culture, like, all kinds of stuff like that.

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> Blake Isbel>And so that's also something I'm interested in.

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> Blake Isbel>So got a whole lot of ground to cover over the next many years. So that. That's what. What's going through my head?

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> Blake Isbel>None, uh, of it's confirmed yet, but I've got lots of ideas.

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> Speaker A>Give out your contact information so people can keep up with everything that you're up to.

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> Blake Isbel>Okay. Um, so my website is blakeisbell.com. So it's blakeisbell.

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> Blake Isbel>Blakeisbell.com.

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> Blake Isbel>That's my website. That's where you can find CDs. You can find more information. You can find pictures. You can find biography.

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> Blake Isbel>You can find all kinds of basic information there.

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> Blake Isbel>And then my YouTube is just my name, Blake Isbel. So if you look up Blake Isbel, I should be the first thing that comes up. And all three of my albums are there, and you can subscribe to that. And then Spotify, Apple Music. It's on all streaming platforms. All three of my albums, you just look up my name, Blake Isbel. And I actually found out that my third album was accepted to Pandora, which I thought was really interesting because Pandora is actually very. I didn't even know this until recently, but Pandora is actually very selective about what music they allow on their platforms. And so that. That was a really, um, cool achievement that my third album achieved. I was really confused about why they chose my third album and not my second album, because I. I personally feel like there's really strong stuff on my second album, but I guess they really liked my third album. So my third album's on Pandora. And so who knows?

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> Blake Isbel>If you listen to Pandora, they may throw one of my songs at you. But, yeah, you just look up my name, Blake Isbel, on any streaming platform and visit my website. And then I also have an Instagram if you want to do more social media type stuff. And it's just Blakeisbell music at blakeisbellmusic.

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> Blake Isbel>That's my Instagram. And I also have a discord as well. It is. It's a little inactive right now, but I would really love for. For my discord. For those of you who don't know who just. What discord is, it's just like a chat thing. A lot of gamers get on it. And I use discord sometimes for some of the fandoms that I enjoy. But there is a discord. And if you're interested in joining the discord, then, uh, you could, what you could do is you could send me a message through my website. There is a place where you can send me a message. So you just go to blakeisbow.com, comma, go to the messages, type out a message and then it will send me a message. And then I can get back to you and answer any questions you have and, and help you join the discord.

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> Blake Isbel>Or if you have a question about one of my songs, I can, I'd love to talk to you about it and answer any questions you have or you just want to say hello. I'm here for that as well.

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> Blake Isbel>I love, I love being active with any of you. All of you.

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> Speaker A>All right, ladies and gentlemen, blakeisbell.com. Check him out.

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> Speaker A>Hit him up. Check out his music. Subscribe to his YouTube channel. Also, follow this show. Jump on your favorite podcast platform. Give us a review.

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> Speaker A>See Jackson 102. Net is the place to send any show suggestions or guest suggestions. Thank you for listening and supporting the show. And Blake, thank you for joining us today.

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> Blake Isbel>Thank you so much.

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> Speaker A>For more information on the living the Dream podcast, visit www.

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> Speaker A>Dot dj curveball.com.

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> Speaker A>Until next time, stay focused on living the dream.

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> Blake Isbel>Dream.