 Welcome to the Sound Post Sessions. My name is Tim Goldsrud. And I'm so happy to have you all here tonight for our next listening room concert here with Fox Feather and Kate Farmer tonight. So we have a great show lined up for you tonight. We do this show once a month. And let's see, our next show is going to be on December 11th with Taylor Shea. So maybe many of you can come back again for that show. Out in the lobby, there's not only merch for the artist on sale, but we also have some of these beautiful posters that we, this is a poster that we commissioned from another local artist named Nicky Nichols. And they're, like I mentioned, they're for sale out in the lobby here. And you might be able to get yours, like I just did, get yours signed, because all the people who are on this poster are here tonight. So you can ask them for that. So take advantage of that. We'll have a short intermission between the two sets. And one more quick thank you, I'd like to say to our host here at Longmont Public Media, they're great partners in putting the show together. You'll see Megan and Emily here running the cameras for us tonight. The show is being recorded for a future broadcast. And so you can catch it again and remember that you were here as part of the live audience. So probably it'll be out on their channels probably about a month from now. So keep an eye out for that. So I think with that, please join me in welcoming Kate Farmer to the Soundbowl Sessions. Thank you all for being here. It means so much. This is the first time that I've done like a show in, I don't know how long, and am I muted? So I'm going to do a little disclaimer at the beginning of my set, because you guys are going to notice me sniffling and coughing, and it's going to make you probably feel nervous. But I just want to assure you, I had a really severe case of COVID for a long time, and I am clear. And my doctor has triple, like three times assured me that I'm not contagious. So I just wanted to start with that, because I don't know about you guys, but it makes me feel uncomfortable when I see people coughing and stuff like that. So just want to help set your minds at ease about that. All right, so I'm going to start out with a song that's called Sick of Writing Songs. It's actually Sick of Writing Songs About You. So this is a song that I have a lot of songs about one person, and I was really, really sick of writing about him. And this was my promise to myself that it was the last one. So far, I've been successful. Here we go again, song on the radio can't seem to let me forget. And the time we dozen, do you want to just for kicks? It doesn't take much to send me back in time these days. But it's been so long. What the hell is wrong with me? Sick of writing songs about you. Promise, understand, I ain't no love, sick of puppy, and I'm not writing songs about you. Everybody that I just met back there, I can't remember all your, Zach, I see you. It's a wonderful event and a wonderful space. And this is my first time here, but I still didn't make a set list. So this next song is called Alone. And well, Alone 1, because I wrote another song called Alone, and that's Alone 2. But this one is actually, after the breakup with the person that that last song was about, I went on a trip to San Diego that we had planned to go on together alone. That was my first time traveling alone. And I wrote the song right when I got home, and I actually just took my second solo trip, which is how I got COVID, actually. Not great. But anyway, this song is about mixed feelings about being alone. Ocean rushes to kiss the same, lovers walking bare. Hear the seagull riding tandem by. Thank you so much. I didn't intend to play all my breakup songs about the same person, but you know. So this song, I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Gold Hill Inn. But I love that place. I love it so much. I actually just booked a show up there for December 18th, if anybody's interested. That's your birthday? Wait, who just said that? Jenny. Oh, OK. OK. Thank you for telling me that. I'm really excited. OK. We're just going to cross our fingers for no snow. That's the only thing, is getting up there is a thing. But anyway, the reason that I bring that up is because this song, after that breakup, I was taking a long drive one day, and I decided to stop at the Gold Hill Inn and have a glass of wine and kind of sit in front of the fireplace. I wrote this song on the way down the hill. And weirdly, it's probably one of my happiest songs. So the song is called Falling Into Place. Searching for something, everything's falling into the city. Late this big, simultaneously, so different yet so old. Everything's falling closer, I get to me. We will get. For listening, this is wonderful and an opportunity that we, as artists, don't get as much as we would like. So good sound, people silent, it's freaking me out, and it's good, you know? It's like, both at the same time. OK. You know, I'm going to do a weird cover that I don't usually play because I just wanted it. So I don't know if anybody knows of Brett Denin here, but he's one of my favorite songwriters. And this song, I used to sing with my sister a lot. We were the farmer sisters as a duo, and we still play sometimes. And she would play this song, and I loved it so much that I had to learn it. So it's called Ain't No Reason. And I just want to add at the beginning that the reason is capitalism and racism. So like, we do know what the reason is. But I still love this song. Anyway, OK. Ain't no reason thinks this way, that's how they always been and they intend to stay. I can't explain why we live this way, we do it every day. Preaches on the podium, speaking the saints, profits on the sidewalk, baby, for change, or let us laugh upon the fire escape, and curse in my name. Got a basket full of lemons, and they all taste the same, when I win a pigeon with a broken wing. You could spend your whole life working for something, just to have it taken away. People walk around pushing back their debts, wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets, talking about nothing, nothing about death, every little heartbeat, every little breath. People walk a tire upon a razor's edge, carrying the herd in hatred and weapons. You could be a bomber, a bullet, or a pen, startle a word or a sentence. Ain't no reason thinks this way, that's how they always been and they intend to stay. I can't explain why we live this way, we do it every day. But love will come set me free. But love will come set me free, and I do. But love will come set me free. I know love will come set me free. Some things never change at all. Keep on building bridges, gonna fill them all. Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all. Working your fingers bare to the bone. Breaking your back, make you sell your soul. Like a lungs filled with coal, suffocating slow. The wind blows wide and politicians lie, and I am easy to argue the truth. Hair on my skin, a world under my toes. Slavery stitched in the fabric of my clothes. Chaos in commotion, wherever I go. Love I try to follow. Love will come set me free. Come set me free, and I know. Come set me free, come set me free. It's how they always been and they intend to stay. Say the things I say, but I say them anyway. I figured I'd do a song with a lot of lyrics and not a lot of holding out long notes, which I was gonna come back to by any later. Possibly. Okay, I've got a couple more for you. I'm gonna go real quick. So this next one is called Ghost. This is my favorite song that I've ever written. It is about depression. And I know a lot about that. And it's very common. It's a lot more common than I knew when I was younger. And I think that talking about it helps so much. Like depression thrives in the darkness and the shame. And so it helps me to talk about it. And I hope it helps other people too. So, thanks. Ghost in the garden. It's capo too high. I mean I could have gone with that, but I think that you guys will maybe appreciate. There we go. Okay. Sometimes you go like too long in the wrong place and you're like, oh no, everything's ruined. So I'd rather just like tell everyone about my mistakes. I'm a ghost in the garden. I walk around all day trying to figure it out. It's a scale and distant. They all play cello and snooze. This body can resty just for a few might be gone. It's trying to show up. I appreciate you all more than you know. And I'm so excited because after this song we're going to have a quick break and we're going to get Fox Feather up and I'm going to sing with them. And I'm very excited. So this last one is one of the first songs I ever wrote and it's called California. And if you've ever heard me play then you know the song. It's about my sister. Thank you all for listening once more. I need you to know how much it means to me. So you say, okay everybody welcome back to the second half of our show. Fox Feather has been a bit of a fixture you may know on the local music scene for for a while now. And this is actually yes. This is actually the second show we've had an opportunity to do with Fox Feather. And I'm just thrilled to have them back here back here tonight. They have been working on a or during the summer they released a new album that was recorded at a local local label here called Octave Records and you may have seen that release. If you haven't I highly recommend it. It's been on repeat in my own collection at home for a while and it's just beautifully done. So, I know they have a couple of other shows coming up. They're going to be doing another show with the Gasoline Molly Pops coming up up at the Aggie Theater. I think it's the day after Thanksgiving. I'm planning on going to that show myself so we might see each other again there. And I just heard also that they will be playing on New Year's Eve up at the Gold Hill in what Kate was mentioning in her song. So, some other great opportunities to hear them. I imagine those are probably both shows with the full band. But tonight you get a very special opportunity to hear Fox Feather Duo, Lauren Carly and with Kate as well perform in this intimate environment. So, please join me in welcoming Fox Feather. Well, we're so happy to be here. Thank you all for being here too. Lauren's going to tune her guitar. I tune but it's the weather. It makes you want to tune again. Yeah. The guitar does. 24. That's one of our older songs but we very rarely play it. It's called 24 Years. We wrote it when we were 19. I thought it was new for some reason but it is an old song. It's a newer song. I also want a new album. Thank you all for coming out and supporting. Show of hands. Oh, lots of newbies. This is my first time in the room. Also mine. Wait, you didn't see. Well, technically we have done this before but it was in a different room. Oh. It was when it was old behind the La Vida Bella. Yes. I do remember that. I thought I was like, wait, am I forgetting? You were there. No, I was there. I remember it too. Anyways, we're very happy to be here. Thank you all for listening. Thanks to Tim for making good sound happen. We said we're going to talk about our songs more this time because you guys are all nice and attentive. This next one I will say the songwriting process is always different. This one we almost gave up on ten different times. It was a hard one to write. A lot of times we just sit down and it just flows out and we're like, cool, that was easy. This one was really hard and I'm glad we didn't give up on it. There was enough there to hold on and so much that we made a music video for it later where we're on roller skates, Blake, I don't know if you guys know Blake Smith, our lead guitars, but it was really funny. He can't roller skate. He can't roller skate. He fell down probably 40 times a day. Yeah. Never on a tape that we took. You do. You guys don't have a blooper reel. I'm sure there's one. We should have a bloopers for that tape. I'm not a good skater either. I feel like I got good during that experience. Yeah, she's about to join roller derby. I was. I was like, I'm going to be a roller derby person now. She's all knocking people over. I just want to say I got this. In the pictures you guys took in roller skates, it looked like your natural form. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, it was the hot pants too. Yeah, those do help. Those do help. Anyways, so we're going to play that song now. About songs and stuff. The dishes are gone. The kettle is boiled. Kate's going to be singing with us at the Aggie too. Funny story. The gas and lollipops were playing the Aggie. I was like, hey, Clay, who's a good friend. I was like, hey, can I sing some harmonies with you? And I just wedged my way into the show. And then a few weeks later, I saw on Instagram that Fox Mother was opening. I was like, oh, that's convenient. Laura, she was like, I did the same thing. I saw they were playing and I called. So now we're all going to be playing. It worked, yeah. You all should come on out. It's going to be very fun. Yeah, it is the day after Thanksgiving, perfect because nobody wants to be at their house anymore. Nobody wants to look at the kitchen. Also, they're requiring vaccination for shows at the Aggie, which made me feel a lot safer. Well, everybody here is good then because we all had to show our cards. We're all showing our cards. Putting them on the table tonight. Put them all out. That would have been such a good segue into the end of my row, but it's not going to happen. Okay, missed opportunities. We're going to do a song. We were lucky enough, Laura and I, a few years ago to have, I don't know how many of y'all know Mark Venezia, but he heard us play and then he was like, oh, I want to work on this song with you. And we got to put this song on an album, The Longmont Project. What was it? The Longmont Project. Yeah, and we were so happy to get to work with him and it started a very nice friendship and business relationship. And we're going to play that song, which we also very rarely get to play. So we're going to play it now. Also, we realized that we're dressed for it. We are. Black, blue, black, blue, black, blue, black, blue. Yeah, you're the only one with the only S. Stop. We're good on that. Stop. Okay, those are the lyrics. You'll see. You've been standing outside. I remember what you forgot. You forgot the flowers. You keep on clinging to something you never want to keep hoping. For a hope I hope could be ours, ours, ours, ours. The day you slipped away. There's something that isn't there. You keep breathing breath after breath with no A. Oh, stop. And you start a, and you start a bargain. Could listen to the records you bought. Frow. They'd still skip in all the same spots. But they spinning till I could be ours, ours, ours, ours, ours, ours, ours. Black, blue, black, blue, stop, and you start a. I guess it's not your that you're a coward. I guess it's not my, but you've loved you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thanks, Kate. She'll be back up in a little bit. We'll play a couple of songs without her, I guess. Thank you all so much. Yeah, this is so special. I feel like I'm in a, I feel like I'm on a different plane. Thank you all for sharing this with us. Yeah, Laura's going to tune. So yeah, we came out with a new record this year, which was awesome. We spent 2020 making a record instead of, you know, just crying over our canceled tours and canceled shows and canceled festivals. And it was awesome. We got to do it with PS Audio Octave Records. This song isn't on there, so this is a bad segue. I'm making it. I'm choosing a bad time, but I'm still going to do it. I'm not so good at the talking part. Anyways, we're very excited and we've played a few of those songs for you. We're going to play some more of them coming up, but... We like to write songs about colors unintentionally. That one was black and blue. This song is called Red. Do you have a song called Yellow? We're not going to play that tonight. We're not going to play that one ever again. That's not true. Maybe one day. No, we'll play it again. Don't worry. Don't worry. We'll play it. I don't remember how to play it. No, we just like colors, yeah. We had another one for a while called... Green. No, it was something about blue and red. They weren't mixed. They were separate colors. I believe you. A lot of the songs just don't make the cut. They don't. You forget them. Yeah. You steal the best lines and you put them in other songs. Exactly. We're going to play a song called Red now. Thank you so much. Keep the water works going. We're going to do another sad song. Right when you think we'll make it happy again. We're all, no. Again, we recorded an album during a pandemic, which means we had to write songs during a pandemic. And this song we started before, right before, but we really fleshed it out. Oh, everybody, I made 10,000 steps. Like what's going on on my wrist? 10,000 steps. I thought I'd share that. Okay, guys, now I'm at 10,005. So we wrote this song and that's all. I don't know. Let's just leave it at 10,000 steps. No, I will say, I was answering these questions for the email that went out for this show. The blog. The blog, yes. Thank you. And I don't remember what the question was, but I did really contemplate about all the answers. Emily Carly answers the things. I'm like, you're the writer. You answered the questions. Anyways, I was really thinking about why this show was really exciting and any kind of listening room vibe. And for me, it's like when we're writing songs, it's so important of just getting out what we're going through or what someone else is going through that we know and being able to relate that to other people and being able to connect in a room. I feel like anything, all of our songs, you can see yourself in any of them or someone you know. You know what I mean? It's a way of connecting. And so when we're able to share them with you, I feel like we're just all rolling it together, connecting. That sounds really cheesy, but it's really cool. No, it's really sweet. So this is one of those where it's like, I feel like whether it's yourself or someone else, hopefully you connect to it. I love songs. That's just about being in love. Two of them. It's like a major accomplishment that we wrote a love song during a pandemic lockdown. In our garden to the image of you eating space, you hug the pages and push forth. Here I stand tall in my womb. You take my hand, listen closely, and you settle in. That was beautiful. I don't know what else I was going to say about that. Anyway. It was about you, Kate. I thought so. Maybe that's why I said that. Your southern draw. Yeah. She is. What is she? She's very tall. In heels. I would run away with you. I legitimately would run away with you, Laura. I know. I don't think that the person who that song is about would probably appreciate that. Well. Well. All right. Well, now we're going to do a song. So again. What are we going to do, Carly? You know, I'm trying to like talk about things. I'm so bad at the talking part. It's hard. Again, we wrote a, we wrote some songs during this pandemic. And this song happened to be one that I had it. I just, I woke up in the, at like two or three in the morning and just wrote the whole, all the lyrics down. And I just, I just like on my phone, I was like in a panic. I was like, write them, write them, write them. And then I think I brought it to like the next day. And I was like, I need it. I don't, I don't know what to do with it. But it's here. And then so we made this together. Thanks, Laura. She got it. I was like, it needs to be like, it's not anthemic, but like, you know, like, you know, kind of is. I can say that because I didn't write it. Yeah. The easy ones sometimes were like black blue. I brought her the core progression. I was like, there's this thing and she goes, wait, I know the words to that. I was like, those are the words to that. And this is the opposite. I was like, I know the music to this. She was like, I got you. I was like, thank you. I have all the words. All of them. They're already done. There's even a bridge that never happens. It has a bunch of synth. We call it like the space song. We were in tune with each other and everything. Did you plan that? That's what we're in. It's true. The bass is funky. Yeah. No, I remember the first time I was out of town when they did the synth for the record. And I got back and I listened and I was like, what are we? Are we like, we're in like, are we like Xenon? Xenon girl. Xenon girl at the time. Please. Oh man. This is something. Yeah, well, it's, you know, it's how we thought the 2000s were going to be in the 90s. You know, everything was silver and spacey. But no, the song came together really well. I love it. I'm going to stop messing with my mic. Yeah. The bass line really is whatever. What's in a world to the sky? I was telling everyone on stage, these two, that's it, that I was going to do that bridge and the head voice because I was like, the room's too small for a belt. And then I was just like, ah! You were too damn small for that. The world is too damn small for you. For me, yeah. Got it, got it. I had to belt it. Belt it. Sorry, Tim. This is a good one. Yeah. This one is cool. You can get feedback from me because I didn't write the song, so it's like very convenient to have me here. This is what I'm here for. Yeah. To tell you that their songs are good. Yeah. This was cool. Laura and I wrote this. I don't know when we wrote this in 2018. Sure. October. I mean, I remember where we were. Well, because it was Brett Kavanaugh, right? It was right when Brett Kavanaugh was being elected. Timeline checks out. We were at a hotel in the middle of nowhere on tour. Just the two of us. We had some margaritas. That's important. It's not, but it was fun. And we went back to our very disgusting hotel room. It was really bad that night. We get our best writing done in dirty hotels. We do, because you're like, don't touch anything. Let's just be creative. It was gross. And we wrote this song. And then we didn't debut it for a while. And then we got to record it. And yeah, but Kate was there when we first played it for the very first time out at the Fox. Yes. Yes. That was really special. I still tear up usually when we play this. Yeah. It's scary. I'm not promising anything, but, you know, definitely the first time I was like, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, don't cry. Yeah. The first time we played it, I was like, I got this. It's fine. So anyways, we're going to play a song called The Rules. That's nice. Thank you. See, they know what we're talking about. We have a cool video of this, too. If you want to check out our music videos, we have one of Come and Get Me that we played earlier. That's a roller skating one. We have this one. We're about to have a new one. If anyone wants to be an extra in a film. No, that sounds gross. It sounds really creepy. If anyone wants to be an extra in our music video, talk to us after the show. It's happening this week, and we need you. Yeah. Bring your cowboy hat. Or your tarot cards. Or your tarot cards. We're going to play The Rules now. You know, I mean, there can be hype ladies, but I just think it's a... See, this is going... It's a gender-inclusive term, and now I'm just backtracking it. There's a whole conversation about that. You're a hype person. You're a hype person. I'm a hype person. Yeah. You're 10 feet tall. 10 feet tall. All right. So, again, I'm going to just plug that one more time. We're shooting a music video this week. If you want more information, if you want to be an extra for real, we need some people. It's going to be up in Gold Hill. It's going to be super fun. You can be in our music video. I mean, it starts at two. Thank you, my sister. Thank you, my sister, Sophie, everyone. If you can't come to lunch or work, that's okay. Yeah. Anyways, just talk to us if you're interested. We're going to play the song that it's going to be... That the video... We're going to play the song now. It's really... Sink it in. You guys really want to be part of this now. Right now, I'm scared of those orange and red flowers, and I will use them all against you. This wild woman holds you in her hand. She hears if I've been standing in your shadow. And now appear and I glimmer, bright with gold. My hex is strong and my oar lying deep and fruitful. Don't try to touch me. I'll tear apart your soul. Lightly trade. and down your throat like a snake my poison slithers you thought you try now the damage has been done lightly trade vicious this is a warning thank you so much I was telling Laura secrets I just said I think we should work it's to pick it since Laura is I want to sing the part let's do mama jokes all right whoa Kate Kate picked sorry we're gonna stick with the theme blue green yeah orange blue green yellow red like you know like into my rope strong ladies whorehouses running theme I think I'm gonna sing the part let's see how it goes all right Kate's gonna sing a verse do I look confident you better look hot enough you're gonna do great you're my hype person it's kind of old we haven't done a long time we're gonna do it it's gonna be great you guys are gonna love it boys peek through washboards in the windows foul moons coming in its stride they put the pieces tied together no one else can look inside but we hear her almost nightly as the devil she arrives another night at mama Joe ladies they are pretty the men line up out the door just to see them and to hear them and to get a little more and always scolds me says don't going to hell devils got your soul another night at mama Joe's there are catfish and they're dancing and the music never stops crawled at smoking in the parlor draws the gators from their swamps and the dollar bills I saw her one fine day as she was walking through the square her gown a ruja bustle in her lips whisper today as mother shield the eyes of babies the eyes of men were not she sealed their fate right then in there with that devil now it's midnight and laughter has burned into a drone empty bodies of those crawl dads all their bets had been outdone and the devils stomps she stomps she stomps another night at mama Joe that you enter in the devils got your soul another night at mama Joe's light up colors of the smoke it drifts through the rafters and it can can boys peek through washboards in the windows foul moves coming in its stride they put the pieces tied together no one else can look inside but we hear great job lovely thank you all so much for hanging out with us we're gonna play one more song don't worry we didn't forget hopefully we'll see all over at dryland distillery after this yeah I think you had to have VIP tickets but I mean I if you don't just like it maybe try and just get in you never know I have no control over that but I hope to see all of you there thanks to Tim for having us right running the sound along my media for having us I think I just wouldn't know it's snowing those are leaves no those are leaves small leaves or very big flakes you're not feeling though right like where you're like you're gonna leave a gig and you're like oh crap you're like oh shit as you're doing the show of like this is gonna be tough the van's gonna be stuck thank you all so very much Laura Page Stratton everyone my name is Carly ricks Parker for Fox better thank you so much maybe we'll see you this week at our video shoot if not maybe the Aggie on the 26 the gasoline lollipops is gonna be fun and we'll have our full band for that show as well girls only tonight yeah we'll invite the boys to that I guess all right we're gonna play one more song for you off our new record did I tell you we recorded it in a pandemic all right this is called filling me up saving up my strings for some finer things you've been telling me I'm missing out planning south and it'll happen anyhow met a boy tell that we needed time that he's had his and I've wasted mine cuz I keep filling me up to stay warm we built our that it's without and sent the smoke into the sky you so much for having a give it up for some post session