Dreamin’ Wild

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, I'd like to dedicate this next song to my...

To my...

See you at the studio.

Okay.

All right, guys.

Avea, wake up.

Time to get up.

Come on, honey.

Hey, time to get up.

Come on. Let's go.

Come on, buddy. Come on.

Wake up, it's time for school.

- Bye, honey. - I love you.

- Okay. - Bye, Dad.

Bye, buddy.

- Love you, Dad. - Okay, I love you. Bye.

Hey, Nance. Where's the band?

Oh, yeah, Diane just called.

She said that she and Jack had a really big fight

and it's over, for real this time.

And they bailed.

- Sorry. - Seriously?

Yeah.

Did you remind them about the cancellation policy?

She was in tears, Donnie.

Tryin' to run a business here.

- I know, I know. - Mm-hmm.

Okay, who's next?

Unbooked the whole day.

Also the bank called.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

And congratulations to Frank and Georgia.

Third time's a charm.

That's Donnie Emerson on the guitars and vocals.

Carlos Fox on the keys and Ryan Walker on the bass.

I'm Nancy Emerson. See you folks later.

Hey, Carol, how'd it go?

Hey. I'm sorry, I couldn't get Chance to sleep.

- Oh. - He was waiting for you two.

Typical. Patients are running the asylum again.

Oh.

Okay, I'll get him. Do you have enough?

Yeah, I do.

- Hey, Dad. - What's going on?

- You're not sleeping. - I don't wanna sleep.

You don't wanna sleep?

Come on, bud, you don't sleep, you don't dream.

I don't like dreams.

No. You don't like the bad ones, the nightmares, but...

you gotta dream.

You gotta dream.

Close your eyes, bud.

Come on, give it a try.

- Hello. - Hey, hey, brother.

Joe? How you doing?

Good, real good. You doing okay?

Yeah, doing good. So far.

I-I didn't wake you up, did I?

No, no, I was just getting up.

What's up?

Well...

You know, I've got, uh, I've got something

kind of surprising to tell you.

What is it? Are Mom and Dad okay?

Yeah, no. Yeah, they're good.

Listen, uh, Dad, he got a call yesterday

from a guy at a record company.

And you're not gonna believe this, but he says, uh,

he says he heard our record and, uh...

Our record? What do you mean?

Dreamin'... Dreamin' Wild.

He said he loves it, you know? He said...

He said he's never heard anything like it.

Dreamin' Wild? I don't get it, Joe.

Is this a joke?

No, no. No, I don't-- I don't think so.

Uh-huh.

Look, he wants to come up to the--

to the farm on Friday and talk about it.

Well, no, I got things going on

at the studio on Friday.

I got it.

This could be real important, Donnie.

You know, Dad-- Dad's real excited. I'm--

- I mean, everybody's excited. - Yeah, no, uh...

Let me... Can I call you back later today on this, Joe?

- Okay, all right, goodbye. - Okay.

What was that about?

I don't know. Probably nothing.

Hey, brother.

Hey, Joe.

- Hey, Dad. - Good morning, son.

- Good to see ya. - Uh, Donnie,

this is Matt Sullivan, Light in the Attic Records.

- Great to meet you. - Ah, you too.

Thanks for having me out here, guys.

Oh, glad to have you. Come on inside.

- Hey, Ma. - Hey!

- Oh, my son. - Matt, this is my wife, Salina.

Mrs. Emerson. So nice to meet you.

Oh.

Come in, come in.

Uh, Matt, uh...

She's the brains of the operation,

- so you better be on your toes. - Good to know.

And these are my daughters, Maria and Rose.

Hi, Maria. Hi, Rose.

I've been trying to track you guys down for a while now.

You were not easy to find.

I'm sorry we didn't know you was lookin'.

We'd have sent up one of those flares or something.

Well, as you know, I...

I wanted to talk to you...

wanted to talk to you about this.

- Huh. - Hmm.

My colleague sent it to me and said,

"You've got to listen to this immediately,"

and I did, and... and wow.

There it is, that's Dreamin' Wild.

That's you guys?

Yeah, yeah. That's us, yeah. Right.

This album is unbelievable.

No, really,

it's, it's amazing, truly.

It really just blew my mind.

Well, that's nice, Matt. Thank you.

Oh, I'm not being nice, I'm telling you, it just...

this album knocked me out.

It knocked me out.

I never expected it to have the depth

and complexity that it does.

It's bluesy, it's funky, it's...

Man, it's got so much soul.

That song "Baby," it's amazing.

Where did it come from?

- Uh, the music? - Yeah.

Oh, well, I guess... I guess it came from Donnie, mostly.

Did I get that right, you wrote most of the songs on the album?

Yeah, he also played most of the instruments too.

Yeah, I mean, I played drums.

- We had a friend of ours... - Yeah, yeah.

...sit in on bass for a couple of songs,

but Donnie, he played everything else.

- Mm-hmm. - Yep.

That's quite impressive. Uh, how old were you two?

Oh, God, must have been what, 16, 17?

Donnie was 15 and Joe was 17.

Wow, 15 and 17, that's... that's...

How did you do it?

I mean, record an album like this?

- Who was your producer? - Donnie produced it.

He made it all right here.

Yeah. Yeah, Dad built us a place out in the woods

to practice in.

We called it "the practice place."

We recorded the whole thing,

you know, right... right there.

Wow.

- And then what happened? - Well, not much.

Uh, we-we didn't know

really anything about selling records, Matt.

I mean, Mom and I tried to sell them around here,

but, yeah, that was... that was about it.

We still do. I sold three just last month.

All right.

There's a whole long story there.

Uh, but what--

you know, just what's the...

what's the idea here, Matt?

The idea is that I really wanna help you guys.

We can release Dreamin' Wild

the way an album of this caliber should be released.

Okay, and how are you gonna do that?

Well, it's what we do. My partner and I formed

Light in the Attic to help overlooked artists.

We find albums that never found an audience,

didn't quite work the first time around.

We try to give them a second chance,