Lonely Drum

And Jake, you know, we think about Jake with boots and cats with four on the floor or with the F that S with fairy tales and love songs.

And yeah, American kids, AA, Lonely Drum, Back on Texas Tim, this is just everybody doing everything everywhere.

Those aren't necessarily locked to any one place.

We just look at those like popular line dances, floor fillers, gives me shivers.

That was like a different venue within the Epicenter complex.

They host all kinds of different things like indoor soccer and arcade games, etc.

And Victory House hosted for us, I think it was once a month on Fridays, pretty darn late since we were talking about like the different start and end times they would have doors open at like 9 or 9.30 and dancing could be expected to start at like 10 yeah yeah so very different style than some of our other nights and we treated this like people are just wandering in they saw a cowboy hat on the poster so you know maybe they'll kick up their heels with boots that they bought that day and that's fine like we would have a lot of beginner dances ready for them Sometimes we would do some of our usual American Kids Lonely Drum kind of dances where people who dance a lot would know them well enough to lead the dance.

We don't have to teach everything that's danced that night.

And if it's every night that week, how do you distinguish any one of them from any of the other ones? And maybe you'd say, oh, well, no, no, no.

What about Windy City when Mark went up on stage and recorded us all doing Lonely Drum? Yeah, okay, but that's different from the other two times because did he record for the other two times? Probably not.

So if you don't do something that's different, it's just going to be a blurry memory lost to time.

And there should be at least one moment you remember from that event so that 10 years later you can say you were there.

We've talked about give it back as art.

We did a deep dive on why Lonely Drum is popular on Line Dance Podcast.

Your time, maybe it's your choreography or maybe that dance's time is not something you will ever see.

But if you believe something to be beautiful and true, do your best to share it.

It's just, you're so overexposed to it that you're like, okay, and maybe it's a really fun dance and maybe it's a really fun song.

But also if I occasionally find a song switch for it and I just rotate through my song switches and it's not like I take a song and replace it permanently, then it gives the people who love the original dance an opportunity to listen to the original track but also people who enjoy the dance but it's kind of like oh we're playing this again okay a fresh outtake because changing the song can change the vibe of the dance As in, for instance, Lonely Drum.

I've been playing it to Walk Away by Kelly Clarkson recently, and it has a whole different feel to the dance.

We've used California, the song, before, and it's a whole different feel to the dance.