For this week’s Odd Jobs, we spoke with the punk rock Paul Bunyan, HotWaterMusic’s ChuckRagan.
With Hot Water Music becoming more of a steady part-time gig since their 2008 reunion, Ragan has been given more time to pursue his other passions — many of which receive the same intensity and dedication he brings to the songs that have won fans over for 13 studio albums and a mess of other releases. And that doesn’t even include when he launched the greatest acoustic punk rock traveling party of all time, the now-defunct Revival Tour.
I had to transform my career, so to speak, at the age of 40. In my 30s, my wife and I were talking about having kids and our future and what we were doing — and, in all honesty, I was looking at how my life was, how often I was touring, and how long I was gone throughout the year. I realized that once kids came into the picture, I didn’t want to be an absent dad. I had to find some kind of balance.
I started having to balance the music career with the big outdoor work that I do, and it just makes everything easier. There’s nothing easy about it, because it’s still nose to the grindstone as an independent contractor, but it’s more time outdoors and with my family. It’s not much different than being a framer or a deck builder, and I have noticed that in some ways, it’s very much the same as being an independent musician.They’re similar and completely different at the same time.
There were a few years where it just felt stagnant. We were trying to figure out what we were going to do with it, and just as we were about to throw in the towel, we met Mary Risavi from Wise Goat Organics. She actually came out on a fishing trip and she brought all this stuff. Then she started coming on regular trips, and I mentioned the sauce company. The more I talked to her about how we were getting ready to throw in the towel, she had some different ideas.
We re-launched it recently, and we’re absolutely thrilled with everything we’re doing. We have all kinds of new products and new stuff in the works, and it’s just food that we’re passionate about and use ourselves. It’s stuff that not only we enjoy, but also our families and communities. It hit me a long time ago that the majority of the people that I know and work with in the music business either run bars, restaurants, food trucks, catering businesses, festivals or whatever else like that.
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