 Hello everyone. Welcome to the Sound Post Sessions. My name is Tim Goldsrud. I'm the executive producer of the Sound Post Sessions and it's great to see you all here tonight. I'd like to say thank you to a few people and organizations. First off, I'd like to say thank you to Long Mountain Public Media, who are our hosts here tonight in the TV studio here. If you don't know about Long Mountain Public Media, LPM is a media maker space here in downtown Long Mountain. So that means if you're a member here you get access to not only this studio space but there's a recording studio downstairs, there's a podcast studio, there's editing stations where you can work on video projects, photography projects, all kinds of things. And actually if you'd like to learn a little bit more about that next week, I believe it's Thursday evening, there will be a downtown Long Mountain Creative District happy hour right here and that will be a great time to get a tour of the building and learn a little bit more about the things that happen here at LPM. So if you're interested in creative things here in downtown Long Mountain, maybe think about checking that out. I'd also like to say thank you to Dryland Distillers who are hosting our VIP after party tonight so that's a chance for us to go down the street to their lovely tasting room on Main Street and have some drinks, hang out with the artists. We still have a little bit of room actually tonight for the VIP party, so if you're interested in joining that and if you don't have a VIP ticket yet, you can check with the ticket desk out front and while you're there you could say thank you to my lovely wife, Misty, who's working the ticket desk tonight, so thanks Misty for doing that. I'd also like to say big thanks to Zach right over there running Sound for us tonight and TG running Cameras for us tonight. It takes a big group of people to pull off these events and I'm very grateful to have everyone's help and assistance for this. So this will be the first time for the Teresa Storage Band being on the Sound Post Sessions. Really excited to have them. They've got actually some other really great shows coming up down in Denver towards the end of this month. They'll be playing also the Winter Walkabout coming up here in downtown Longmont. At the beginning of February they'll be playing at the Speak Easy, so you might think about checking them out there. They're also doing a show with Fox Feather which is another band we've had here on the Sound Post Sessions up in Fort Collins and I believe that's February 18th? February 18th, yes. So lots of great opportunities to check out this band which also interestingly everyone in the band is from Longmont. I just learned that tonight. So we have a real Longmont experience here tonight so please join me in welcoming the Teresa Storage Band to the Sound Post Sessions. We're very honored to be here really. At least I'm saying we. I assume you guys are. I am. These guys, Tim and Zach, they do such a great job of putting together this show and I've been wanting to play it for a while. I don't know. I finally was like, oh, I met Tim like, hey, we should actually, I want to play your show. I wasn't tuned before. But I swore that this would be more of like a typical old school Teresa Storage show where I used to talk like a lot. So you're going to get some stories. This first song, I used to live in Massachusetts. I don't know if anyone really knows that. Some people might. I lived in Cambridge in Somerville and but I would go to Salem sometimes. Especially in October, it's kind of a cool time to go because people are dressed in witch costumes. Anyway, I ended up at a psychic fair at the mall because that's where they have them in Salem. This woman told me that in my past lives, I lived in Paris and that I'd been a performer in many lives, not just that one. But in that particular life in Paris, I was a can-can dancer. So when I lived in Massachusetts, I laid off from my day job and I became a busker. I know like only a few people. It's a street performer. It's like official term for a street performer. So yes, I played in the subways in Boston and in Harvard Square. And this is a song about someone I met one time that kind of changed my life a lot doing that. Like just kind of putting my music out in public on a street corner. It's a really weird thing to do. But the people that get drawn to you is beautiful and magical. She's four years old. She starts kindergarten in two weeks. She smiles or shows her cheeks. She ate dinner at the table next to where I stood to score the music. But she could not spell her name. It's just like you. It was the best that I could say. You guys catch that like airport theme that he was doing? A train? He literally recorded it. He recorded it at the airport one time. He was doing it a little wrong before. It was really this sweet little girl. She like literally like came up to me and she like snuck up to me. She's like, I have like coming back. Like mom's like, she had to say, when you get laid off from your job. But after that, I actually started driving and playing shows around the country. So I was a touring artist for about eight years. Just me in my car. First it was a Pontiac vibe. Then that got totaled. I know it was a matrix. And that got totaled a couple years ago. Nice, Chris. Thanks. That's Mr. Chris for Right on the Drums. He didn't total the car. He didn't total my car, but that was adorable. So I used to drive and listen to a lot of music and ended up writing a song sort of inspired by a Daryl Scott song. If you know, he's a songwriter out of Nashville. Really great. Great. And he had a song with a lyric is about being a happy man. And I thought I was thinking about my life as I was driving and I ended up writing the song called Happy Girl. He also happens to be my husband. I didn't know I'd ever really get married. I don't know. We just got married a couple years ago. We've been together like. Your mother would like. My mother would like you to know that this song is not about me. She's been saying that for years. People are going to think something. So it was a co-write. That is a co-write I wrote with my friend Kathy Briggs. We wrote it at the song school. It happens every August. It actually came from a song prompt. So it's a story we heard. I mean, it wasn't either of our stories, but it was a story she knew about in a fair with her high school teacher. I said, you know, she was in high school. It was pretty horrible. If you want all the details, the song prompt was a quote. And the quote was, God may forgive you, but I never can. And the person who said that was Queen Elizabeth I. And we have no idea why. Or I bet like she was talking to a suitor or someone who, you know, really pissed her off. So this is a good story, too. Anyone know Vance Gilbert? And so I'm sure some people here might know who Vance Gilbert is. He's a singer, songwriter in the folk world. And he's one of the few black gentlemen in that world. He's a dear, dear friend of mine, one of my mentors. I've known him for years. He used to come to my shows and like, pick me a bar, you know, like, give me this feedback. And they told this story. He tells it often. He's a model airplane enthusiast. And he has, like, he loves building lifts. Read about them, learn about them. He was on an airplane reading a book about airplanes from like World War II or something like that. And he got pulled off the plane because he was a person of color, reading a book about airplanes. And just made me really like, you know, what can I do? Like, how is the world still like this? He's just the sweetest, kindest man, you know, I wrote this song. I basically decided, well, I had to think about what do I want to do? What can I do about it as a singer, songwriter? This is what I do. I write songs. So. On the bass guitar and the harmony vocals, too. He had everything musical. He's a professional tuner. Tuna. We have way too much fun sometimes when we're rehearsals. So Peter has, you know, we host them at our house and Peter has, like, decided that it's, it's always whiskey night when we have better recently. I just love that I can finally have a reason to wear this dress. You trying to say Teresa? Just a fun song for this lovely man, actually. Now that I did, I wrote him a love song. That was my sister. Short break. Wrote this during, do you remember the Brock Turner case? This was like before me to almost I started writing this song, a reaction to basically I wanted wanted a woman's side to be heard, or in general. We're gonna take a short, short break. We got a whole other set of music for you. So don't go nowhere. Don't go nowhere. Five minutes. Yeah, there's a bathroom downstairs if you didn't know about it. Anything else I should know. So secretly, I've always wanted funk band. So this is one of those songs. I really became this like, folk chick, singer, songwriter, and I met Peter. And here we are like, we're creating a new genre. Sometimes we call it jam. But then someone said that's kind of like Jamaican in America or it's not gonna stick. But it was a good time. You want the stories? I don't know. That one was just night of too much drinking hanging out hanging out with a guy I had a crush on. Now much depth to that. This next one was a song writing challenge from a dear friend of mine. A good friend John Lynn is in Washington DC. He was a roommate of mine for a while in master room. He's forever we say, really good friends. And he gave me the songwriting challenge. I guess he has a picture of St Francis of Assisi on his wall. He said, he's a Piscopalian. He said, let's write a song about St Francis. I'm like, okay, I know nothing about St Francis. I looked him up. He was a pretty cool dude. When I learned, he gave away like all his possessions. He'd been like a merchant, I think, like a tradesman or something like that merchant guy. And just wanted to connect with God via being a good person, giving away his stuff and connecting with people. If I planted the seed and gave my love to those who made me sing that song, I'm away. The next one is totally different. Sometimes we call it Theresa storage session sets are like, musical whiplash. You're from choking up baby better than drugs. That's what I this was his backup guitar played the rest of the show with this and I was like, Oh my God, this is way easier to play and really I never gave it back. He borrows it sometimes them. Chris is made wealth is obtained Peter Laces. That's Chad Methys. That's Chris Wright. Can't be wrong. It's Chris right. I think I stole that from Billy or something. It's got to be right. This one has audience participation. You're ready? Okay. There's clapping and they're singing. You don't have to do both. You can choose one or the other. It's just too complicated. Do whatever you want. So that's your part towards the end or you can do it whenever you just feel free to sing and clap. Yeah, we're gonna do fashion that you're right. That was really, that was really slow. That was instructional. Yeah, that was instructional time. Chicken, chicken. When I was 12. Thank you so much for being here. Seriously. This has been so much fun. We are so grateful to Tim and Zach and everyone at the sound possessions and the long public media people for hosting this space and it's Chad Methys on the basis. Oh yeah. So yet again, Chad Methys on the basis. If it ain't wrong, it's Chris right on the drums. Mr. Peter Laces on the electric guitar. The other electric guitar and for everybody. Teresa Storch everybody. Thank you all so much. Thank you so much. It's up. It's up to the Tim. I don't know. You guys want to go to the after party? You want us to play one more song? Another dance number. You can get up and dance and I'll just do it on. So this is a dance number. If you want to dance, there's like space right here. I have a story about this song. Oh, I really, really, really love this band. I'm so, so, so grateful for them.