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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Brian Setzer And The Songs That Inspired Him

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.857.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Conan sits down with musician Brian Setzer for a deep dive conversation about his trademark blend of rockabilly and big band as well as the songs that inspired him. Follow along with the full list of songs here: Somethin’ Else (Eddie Cochran) Be Bop A-Lula (Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps) She Loves You (The Beatles)

Transcript

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Hey, this is kind of cool.

0:05.0

Recently I got to sit down with one of my heroes.

0:09.0

As you may know about me, I'm a kind of a rockabilly fanatic and I love Brian Setzer. Turns

0:16.2

out he was in town and we got to sit down for an hour-long conversation which

0:22.1

was just a blast for me. We talked about a lot

0:25.4

Brian committing to always doing what he wanted to do as a musician that guy has stuck to

0:29.6

his guns and it's worked out beautifully for him. Having a guitar lead, a big band was something he had never done before,

0:37.0

which is massive.

0:39.0

Guitarists did not lead big bands, but he did it. How rockabilly spoke to him as it did to me at a very young age

0:47.2

meeting George Harrison and Ringo but never Paul and Brian and I talk a little bit about living on a tour bus and how it can drive one quite

0:57.6

insane. Anyway it was a really fun conversation if you want you can listen to the

1:02.4

episode with the songs included by searching

1:05.0

Conan in the new Sirius XM app or you can listen to the conversation here and

1:10.2

Q up the songs on your music streaming app of choice.

1:14.0

Check it out. Here's my conversation with Brian Setzer.

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Fries here, here the yell, back to school,

1:22.0

ring the bell, brand new shoes, walk and blues, climb the

1:27.0

fence, books and pens.

1:29.0

I can tell that we are going to be friends.

1:32.0

So I can tell you. that we are going to be friends.

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The site can tell that we are going to be friends.

1:38.0

The message of my career is dreams do come true. And I've been a massive fan and huge admirer of a

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