 Everybody, sit down. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Sound Post Sessions. My name's Tim Goldsrud. I'm the executive producer of the Sound Post Sessions. And it's a busy, active night in downtown Longmont tonight. I don't know if any of you caught the Lights of December parade. I was on my way here for a sound check, and I couldn't find a place to park. But it was great. I love the festive atmosphere. And happy to see you all here this evening. Oh, I forgot my prop, just to say. Our sponsors for the show tonight, dryland distillers. If you haven't had a chance to visit their new tasting room down on Main Street, then I would invite you to do that. There are great local distillery here. And not only do they make great cocktails, but you can enjoy there. Or you can always bring them here to the show. They make these beautiful spirits. I have, this is their cactus, the reposado, which is one of my favorites that they make. And so if you haven't had a chance to go check out dryland, take an opportunity to do that. Especially this time of year, it's a great place to go. Maybe find a holiday gift if that's something you're looking for. So I'd like to thank Longmont Public Media for their partnership in putting together the show this evening. This is a great community resource here. It's a media makerspace. So any of us can join and become members here and create your own media. Just like this is sort of my project, my live music project. So thanks to Longmont Public Media for their partnership in helping to put this together. Our performer tonight, Taylor Shea, I'm really excited for this show. Taylor, some of you might not know that Taylor was actually born and raised in Longmont. And I just learned earlier this evening that her first show in 2013, at the ripe age of 13, was for the Longmont Live show, which was also at that time produced at Longmont Public Media. And so here she is, back again. So really excited to have her here for this show. She also has a new single that is gonna be coming out in the, I don't know, she can probably tell you when it's exactly when it's coming out. It's coming out soon and there'll be both a single, the music and a video coming out for that. So keep an eye out for that. Maybe we'll hear the song, I don't know. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Taylor Shea to the Sampo Sessions. Thank you, Tim. It's so great to be here. Thanks so much, everyone, for coming out. Yes, it's just cool to be in Longmont. Just growing up here and then come back, it's just cool. Hold in my tongue until we can say we're done. Biting our time, chasing our arrows for who's sake. I don't know, I'm a teller and that's the truth. Know you're a star, just don't stray too far. I'll never forget the sound heard that sound before. I'm a story change, that's it, reach your story. As a songwriter, I feel like we're, we want to be story makers, but sometimes we're just storytellers. So yeah, I'm from Longmont, but I live in Fort Collins. I went to school at CSU. So yeah, it's just good being back and I've got some special guests tonight. As you can see, there's some mics of yours in one guitar, so excited for that. I was thinking like it's, this is a cool opportunity to play some brand new songs and this one's new and it's called, When Will You Shine? Wishing on a star, it shone too bright. Now there's no, let's hang a love and stuck on. I was so far gone. Thank you so much. I gotta say thanks so much to Tim and everyone at Sound Post Sessions for having me here. This is amazing just to have a listening room type of space and it's just like pretty rare and it's really cool. So this next song, it's another new song so you're getting all the treats tonight. This song is kind of about if you're ever, if you ever got a lot of people in your life telling you advice, you don't know who to listen to. Just listen to grandma. Always listen to grandma. I was troubled, worn down in this life. So I went to grandma for some advice. She said, yeah you sure have a way about something. Here's something that just might help, just might. And she said, it's never the man who you call mine is gonna make her break your shine. Well I said thanks, grandma, but I gotta go. Went into town and saw my prison uncle Joe. And he said, yeah, I spent 20 years in a locker with that. Don't be like me, oh by the way, can you set me free? Don't you be like me, but toss me Uncle Joe in his cage. And in the town and saw my, hey, well she's a smoker, she plays poker, tear about life, here's what she say. First before the curse breaks you worse. Grab the tools and sweet tear you lose, just how's it helps to uphold my faith. Well you call mine is gonna make her break your shine. Break your shine. My grandma's out there tonight. Oftentimes when I'm writing songs, and I'm in the house all alone, there's walls around me and I'm just belting out, belting out songs, new ideas. And so one time I was singing a song, a new song really loud and I was like, after all these years these walls have just been like absorbing all these crazy ideas that come out of my head. And so this song, I wrote it as kind of giving the walls permission to leave if they want to just like stop listening to me just belting songs out. I like to tell that story before this song because I feel like it can have a lot of different meanings too, so this one's called Let You Be. Talk to a couple of year for, takes over you, but your side is prone. This next one is a song, I feel like whenever you have a lot going on in your life at one time, I think we all go through this where you feel, you feel a little stressed out, a little bit pulled in a lot of different directions. And so that's what this next song is about. Is it tip two? Is I fall from the tide, bro I'm spread to your shutter My broken feathers going down from the tide Thank you so much. As I alluded to earlier, we have some very special guests this evening and I would like to invite up, I can't see anything out there. Oh, there he is, okay. This is R.D., he's also, well, okay, so people always ask, hey, how long have you guys been playing together? Because we play as a duo a lot and I say a long time because he's also my dad. But not everyone knows that, so fun fact. I just wanna also give a shout out to Dryland Distillers for sponsoring this. Thank you so much. This next song goes out to anyone who has that maybe some inner outlaw on you. No signs that this will stop A sinking spell, no time to waste Always looking left, avoid mistakes This time, oh my soul Years of highs and tears Sadly smiling, gentle blow This year's in time to go I stay my way No, there's no thing that I spend To my, let's talk Is washed away, I've got no children To New City, Newcombe It's on, I'm gone too long This next song, for some reason I have multiple songs about ghosts. And this is one of those, it's called Your Own Ghost. In between the silence I wonder till soon enough is What's in mind in you? So at CSU, one of the things I studied was sustainability, and interesting enough like a lot of those classes. Yeah, some of the classes were also kind of overwhelming cause it's like, it feels like there's a lot wrong with the word to fix it sometimes. It feels overwhelming, but yeah, this song is kind of expressing it's called Street Sweeper. You bother coming, you're under down low The buck's got something they can no longer hold In these parts to take Some things can't be fixed with a smile Those are turning, but there is no change All these years are burning But now why is there regain All these things are yet to be learned In a source of shame As well turned to stone The heaviness, in a source of shame Might as well turn to stone Up until today is well turned to Might as well turned to So this next song is another new song It's called Small Town America And it's about how sometimes you just feel like you gotta go drive drive out of your town because you're just sick of everything there But it's nice, it's nice to get out, you know? This guy grew up in a town of like nine people so I think he gets a feeling Oh, 22, excuse me I wrote this song when we were like driving back from the mountains one time me and my roommates and like it was when the fires were really bad last last like fall or something and just like felt like the world was ending completely and the sky was so weird In something someday was a sin On a path going for it Wasn't working, I was with my friends There wasn't much to do except pretend We're brave enough to drive through the dead ends That was meant for more Got up again with each slamming door Got used to sleeping out on the floorboards Little too well, they're dirty secrets And they're wishing wells Got enough dirt to make me a man Pick up work at the county jail Some open up shops on the wild to bed Feet off the ground, we're barely dragging Face every name, never forget Making up the longs that keep on We pick up the slack We wasn't working, I was with my friends There wasn't much to do except pretend We're brave enough to drive through the dead ends Thank you so much I wrote this next song or this next song is off of my latest album called Legend Keeper Yeah, it's just about like always keeping that positivity Keeping the lights on Emptiness of coffee cups, refills are a dime Without him she can only see the pointlessness of time Refills are only a dime But she'd rather not wait in line Lights on inside, lights on inside Neighbors don't come round no more But we're worth a ton She doesn't want to read them anymore Lights on inside We have some really cool show posters with lights on So that's very fitting Created by Nikki, who's a local artist Super cool, check, you should check out her stuff It's really cool This is a song about feeling Like you're on the edge of something really exciting Tell me something I'm Curious, sweet, that hasn't been found Yes, in your head Take me to a place on your made-up jet Else till it's seen The spaceship's magic peak So we got one more until we find out What these other two mics are for Yeah, thanks again everyone for being Ah, so this song is called Feel What I Feel It's about how no one can really Know exactly how you feel Cause they're not you I guess what I found No silvesty So I'm super excited to introduce you To two amazing singer-songwriters They are Lindsay Wells And Erica Chambers They play in Elmer Which is a long-mont-based, bad-ass Group of four really cool songwriters So yeah, they're gonna play us a tune real quick We're gonna do some together, so Thank you so much, Taylor Shea, for having us both And I mean, seriously, can you guys believe Like this voice of hers? It's like amazing to me She's so, so talented And just has that amazing blues You seem like you're an old soul Just based on the tone of your voice So I would also take your advice As well as your grandmothers She said, I'm Lindsay This is my dear friend Erica We have been friends for, what, like 16 years or something It's a long, long time And we've been singing together for a really long time And this song is one that I wrote actually I don't know, a couple years ago My husband and I love to take Sunday drives Into the mountains And we're kind of always like envisioning, you know Our life as, you know, people, mountain people You know, like living in some cabin Just out in the middle of nowhere With all of the horses and the cows And one of each animal on a farm Just sounds great to me The problem with that is that We can never really, like, decide on a place That's the most beautiful, you know Like, oh, did you see Greeley? Oh my gosh, no, Grand Lake, no way You know, all these, fair play All these places are just so beautiful And we feel so lucky to live here And so there's this, like, constant search for peace In a place that is full of peaceful places And we can never really settle One day, one day we'll get there But this is a song that I wrote kind of in the car On one of those drives And it's called Paint Me In Blot my windshield with bitter blue and white Cut the evergreen with a rusted railroad Blend the... And smear thick the ochre light That calls me home In the tree mist storm Dust every shadow And sequin on the creek Edge little wisp and wire Of mane in the breeze Cause I'm hopelessly tethered Like a red tail to the wind Life lesson I've learned That you don't have to, like, keep the friends That you've always had forever And that sometimes friendships, like, have a season And... What are you trying to say? And other friendships, no, like, you were the example I'm just kidding No, you know, other friendships last longer Like, there's just kind of different friendships Sort of different purposes And when I was kind of dealing with the reality That there were a couple of friendships in my life That kind of had, like, their season had come to pass And I was really struggling with that idea You know, that not everyone, you know, needs to be in your life Ever serves that same purpose or same role And actually kind of the friendships that we had at that time With a couple of these folks just had turned into kind of Not super healthy and not super good And so, you know, music is an expression And so I may have been a little angry when I wrote this But, um, but yeah, it's just kind of, you know, one of those things that... It's one of those real... It came from a real place So this is called Someone Else's Blues And I'm really happy to have two really quality friends singing on it Said, don't fall in love with a project She never warned me about being just friend Dancing on-table But asking for help so I took her in But no amount of reason, no... And praying gave me nothing but a burn on my knees and I can't... It ain't my job, it ain't my job Now she's a little tiger gonna keep her stride She's a little bug, keep me up I swear all of you, after leaving here, will be singing that one This is my latest single, I released it back in April And it's called Holding On And if you didn't see it outside, there's free downloads of it from Bandcamp If you want to grab one on your way out But yeah, this is Holding On Can I keep hold? Sometimes you lose Turn every stone, break every bone, just to light the fuse And when the noise make a sound Cities are passing, all this life is asking Lit up a sign, the voice that's caught up in the wind It's crying out from deep within Everyone here has a story to sell But I'm not quite sure, just what I tell Even when it seems it's almost gone Even when the ground I'm standing on Shakes and rattles and breaks upon the way to... I have this next song The fun thing about singing with Erica and Lindsay is that We can just create crazy endings to songs So, um... Exactly So this one, it's Resolution Thank you so much I just want to give a huge, huge shout out to Sound Post Sessions So Tim and Karina and Zach And everyone with Sound Post Sessions Everyone here at Longmont Public Media Just for being so awesome and having these Sound Post Sessions Because I think they're so cool and they should definitely keep happening So thank you all for being here and supporting that Thank you to Erica and Lindsay You guys are so amazing So amazing Thank you so much for ripping it over there Our last team for you is going to be a special one It's going to be that single that Tim mentioned earlier That's coming out here in just a few weeks This one is called Amarillo But yeah, thanks again for being here It always gets in the way of my good view It's Sunday, it's for sure fine It's rosin' and collectin' It's tastin' Thank you so much Thanks again for coming out and hope you...