Challis

We appreciate you taking time to sit down with us.

We're in Chalice, Idaho, at the Brown Brothers reunion, and Wesley and his family are here for the music fest, and we ran into him at the, uh, Roadhouse the other night-

Oh, yeah

... and got to meet him, and what a cool guy, and we asked him if he'd sit down with us.

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... not as...

I w- I will say, it's not as beautiful as Challis, Idaho.

Well, West Texas is a little rugged.

Hey, welcome to Musical Miles podcast.

We're in Challis, Idaho at the BBR.

We are.

How cool is this place?

... during the summer.

Right.

And then I've been here at every one of them since they moved to Challis.

Wow.

They, uh...

No, I've, years ago I, I've been up to Salmon and Challis, Idaho before, and when I was younger, a long time ago, before I joined the service.

And they, that, that was beautiful country, but man, that, that timber is thick.

Oh, yeah.

And I think that's also, like, that kind of goes hand-in-hand with the resurgence of vinyl and physical sales right now because, um, you will find that that's something artists can still control.

So, you know, since we're here in, in Chalice at Fawn Brothers, let's take what Cross Canadian Ragweed has done with their Boys From Oklahoma-

Oh, yeah

... live recording.

And they turn a town of 800 into 4,000.

Uh-

I actually think that works for, I think one of the things that works for Brawn Brothers is the limitations that Chalice puts on it.

Like-

I'm here with Mr. Joe Miller.

We are at the Brown Brothers reunion in Challis, Idaho.

Welcome.

Thanks for having me, Byron.

Yeah, so anyway, but, uh, cool.

Well, once again, thank you.

We're in Challis, Idaho, at the BBR, and, uh, oh, what a beautiful day it is here in southeast Idaho.

If we don't see you here at the BBR, we'll see you somewhere down the road.

Oh, okay.

Because Braun Brothers Reunion is in Idaho in Chalice every year.

No, we've been multiple times.

Oh,

It's a community that's struggling, I think I would say, so much so that the community would openly embrace the return of an asbestos mine, at least it seems like that's the case, that has literally cut the life expectancy short of the citizens of Libby.

I also think about places like Chalice, Idaho or like Sun Valley, Idaho, the contrast between those two places, you know, like how do we think about finding what are the examples of what's really working? I'm not saying that it's working perfectly in a place like the Flathead or the Bozeman because we have other issues.

We have the affordability crisis, housing, that sort of thing.

But I'm just wondering how we find, like maybe I'm grasping too much here, but How do we find the communities that are examples of what's been figured out, that they've built success around their proximity to amazing landscapes? Am I dreaming too big here?