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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://wonderlick1.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wonderlick</a>, a band that comes together through drunk voice notes and instant demos, has a new record with <a href="https://wonderlick1.bandcamp.com/album/wonderlick-loves-you" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Appalachian folk musicians backing them</a>! We talk about the making of that record <a href="https://wonderlick1.bandcamp.com/album/wonderlick-loves-you" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wonderlick Loves You</a>, and how Jay and Tim even met all these musicians, as well as recording in a cabin studio… how house show tours changed their music and <a href="https://toomuchjoy.bandcamp.com/album/all-these-fucking-feelings-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">record</a>. The Too Much Joy reunion tour and record, deluxe reissues, creative liberty v. touring limits. How being rebellious power-pop for smart people isn’t usually a path to mainstream success. What purposefully sitting down and writing a hit felt like. How Too Much Joy sold the first Pay What You Want record BEFORE Radiohead burning out and then picking up the guitar again, all this and a lot of talk of Branson, Missouri and Yakov Smirnoff and the failed pilot Jay tried to make with him. It has been quite a awhile since Jay’s TMJ and Wonderlick bandmate <a href="https://www.protonicreversal.com/ep272-tim-quirk-too-much-joy-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tim Quirk was on the show</a>, which included a new Too Much Joy record and tour, so let’s get into it and how likely it is we will see Too Much Joy stuff in the future.</p>
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