Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms Live in Your House Party

hey everybody welcome to the first churchill in your house party for 2021. we're really excited to have caleb clowder and reid williams with us tonight here on the churchill dance hall stage and we appreciate you all watching from home i have a couple of thank yous before we bring them up to the microphone a big thanks to lauren and jenny and the entire staff at sweet wife baking for helping keep us sane here um over the last 10 months um big thanks to brian twight at launchpad the folks at neodd uh the city and the county who have provided us with some small grants to keep us alive and also to provide these streams that we're doing now so without any further ado please welcome caleb clatter and reeb williams take it away you two all right thank you so much brian good to be here in baker city yeah [Music] and howdy to everybody who's out there at home in your living room we're glad to be in your living room with you saturday night we got a disco ball here's a little uplifting song about things getting better oh my mama told me long that you years she spend all your money wear out your [Music] on my clothes door someday i'll see the train rolling rolling down the line [Music] [Music] door someday [Music] [Applause] [Music] standing right here [Music] is oh [Applause] cause i'm gonna shine on my back door someday all right mark twins gonna blow my blues all the way a little song from the carter family we love the carter family so much so many good songs what [Music] sure there's a nice little waltz thinking about a lot of our friends we haven't seen in a long time and just traveling you know haven't been traveling at all as we all know and uh thinking about a lot of folks everywhere this little song called too sweet to be remembered [Music] remember [Music] when you are far away do do [Music] remember [Music] [Applause] [Music] remember remember when you are far away [Music] okay well hey we know you all are screaming and clapping and going crazy on your couch at home so thank you very much throwing bras throwing bras right hopefully not tomatoes they would just make a mess on your tv screen so don't do that well i'd like to do um it don't show on me you up for that um well we've been here at the churchill school for the last few days working on some new recordings it's been really fun to be here in the studio one of the songs we recorded this next one from buck owens called it don't show on me i learned this song a long time ago from my old pal devin champlin thanks devin all right [Music] you don't know cause it don't show on me [Music] you don't know cause it don't [Music] and you don't know the feeling cause it just don't show on me do [Music] you don't know cause it don't show on me you can't feel the heartache [Music] is [Music] is you don't don't know the feeling cause it just don't show on me [Applause] right there singing for you thanks so much like she said we've been having a blast the last couple days focusing real hard on some music and recording um you know it's funny i've been playing a lot in our time off uh off of touring and i said time off that's just a weird way to phrase it all it's just not really what it is i mean it kind of is but it's like a nightmarish sabbatical all right well the last couple days we've been standing up in front of microphones and uh playing lots of tunes and i actually have a sore spot on my arm where it pivots on the mandolin and uh i never never really remembered that happening before so i got to get back in shape um let's play another one for him huh yeah i want to do uh well can brian ask you guys a question sure that's great of course all right folks those of uh our viewing audience that uh are un how's that it's live so thanks for bearing live stream folks yeah yeah and i've got this mask on to keep you guys safe i'd like to be fish going by behind us yeah live stream for those that aren't familiar with you guys or your um your music like how did you get your start how did you meet and who has influenced you over the years wow you're dropping the big one right away the big question well uh i'll say well we met we met at a really wonderful uh festival uh fiddle contest in idaho and weezer idaho weezer we there and uh we we uh we go camp there and just play music for for days on end and have so much fun picking and grinning and just camping out and reeb and i met there via mutual friends and started singing together right away and here we are now so where'd you get where'd you get your music from reid yeah i mean um well i started playing music when i was young i guess but i didn't really pick up the guitar till i was about 20. and i met some friends in bellingham washington where i lived at the time and we started playing old-time string band music and then yeah we we used to go to weezer every summer and that was like a pilgrimage for us and still is today and yeah i met caleb there we started playing music together and quite a few years later i joined the foghorn string band and started traveling with that band and um now it's ten years later than that and right we're still playing with a foghorn string band we also tour and play with a country band that's ours caleb started it and then we tour as a duo too so yeah i've always been writing songs since i was 14 or 15. my best best buddy and i always wrote songs and so um foghorn's always been a really wonderful band that's been playing really traditional music and traditional repertoire which has been an amazing thing but before i played in the foghorn spring band i was always writing songs and so the the country band that i started was sort of another avenue and outlet for some of the other songs that were less traditional or were not traditional and yeah it's been a nice variety of music we've been going down to louisiana some and playing cajun music with some friends down there we don't i don't sing in french or cajun cajun french but we definitely like to collaborate with them and play play music together we have very similar um um what would you say feelings aesthetics yeah feelings about music and so we seem to get along really well that way um caleb what would you say your major influences are oh wow uh musically oh wow pretty amazing um definitely bill monroe as a mandolin player and there's a whole cast of mandolin players out there frank wakefield ronnie mccurry david pugh um mike compton norman blake are they all there's a lot of those uh songwriters you know steve earl hank williams jimmy martin great singers but then there's all these other like country singers and stars dolly parton you know uh tammy wynette kitty wells i love singing those songs too so how about you reeb what were your names greatest influences you named all mine already really you gotta have a few others in there uh well yeah i'm really inspired by all my friends that play music that's been huge over the years um my bellingham crew of friends has always really inspiring um also my dad and uncles i mean i grew up hearing them sing so that was an early influence and then you didn't say the carter family so we have to put that in there hazel dickens and i don't know there's all kinds we listen to a lot of music so yeah let's sing a hazel dickens song okay maybe we should do uh go away with me or something actually yeah like that's a good one sure all right folks we don't have a uh a set set list this is in your living room right this is casual and uh we're having a good time i think you could make requests too i'm not sure but there's a chat all right they can make a request yeah you can request they're reading the chat for us there's one called go away with me [Music] and you'll realize that your life holds [Music] [Applause] soon we'll [Music] you'll never regret [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] your heart [Music] me and i know [Music] just go and you'll never regret [Music] all right little annie it is i think folks two votes for little annie all right well thanks for the request that's really wonderful any any idea where they're coming from uh little annie carol harley and doug sherburne all right thank you carol and doug two separate uh households and um thank you both for those requests that's wonderful carol just changed it now she wants to hear last night okay you'll get that one as well all right little annie it is first here's one we learned uh off a recording of the lilly brothers [Music] return to the when the trees [Music] [Music] makes me think that springtime won't be very [Music] [Music] the long [Music] me [Music] i will watch for the leaves to return to the trees when the springtime [Music] that's for doug sherburne now out east thanks doug i'm glad you got your tv working he he wrote me an email earlier saying he got a new tv and he's hoping he could figure it out and get youtube on it so i guess it worked that's good to know [Music] let's give our voices a little bit of a all right we got more questions coming in so this is a really wonderful live stream we really feel grateful to be here thank you all so much for organizing this and it's really great to hear that list of support supporters locally that are making this happen that's really impressive and uh i hope more places can get this going on because boy it feels good to be playing music again even though it's virtual it's it feels real somehow yeah thank you so that that's what i wanted to ask you about like as full-time musicians how have you stayed positive about the future of live music being that there's so much uncertainty thanks to the pandemic as to like how the ecosystem of live music you know worldwide is going to be later on that's a really amazing question a really good question do you have any thoughts you want to say well i guess we can maybe we have yet to see um i don't know what'll happen when things you know start to roll again after the pandemic but i know that sadly probably a lot of venues will have closed and i don't know how the festivals are doing it's hard to know but one thing i think helps me stay positive is that people love music and we love to play music and people love to listen to music and gather around music and i don't think that's gonna change i think if anything we'll just be all the more excited to get back together in the ways that we can when things open up again yeah as much as i don't want to advocate for it you know any of the things that i have been seeing online make me feel so happy to see my friends or see somebody that maybe i don't even know playing music and expressing themselves that way it's that kind of gives me hope because i know that there's so many people that are really true to the music and they're going to stick it out and we'll continue to play music and there will be something that will come out of this i know that like rebecca said some of the venues will be gone that the whole climate might be different but we will get together again and we will be playing music it might be smaller groups um but that's just something that has to happen it has to live that keeps me positive about it like and just having conversations with friends over the phone or whatnot just talking about how much music means to each each person is really we've also really had a huge outpouring of support and messages from fans and uh really thanks y'all it's helped to keep us keep our chins up it's amazing our last little online performance we put up our actual physical address our post office address and you could send us a little card if you want and we got so many beautiful cards and messages it was unreal so if you want to try that again get your pencil and paper out we'll give you the address because it was just that was really special we loved getting all the letters we tried to write back to many of you i don't know if we got to everyone yeah it's that's that was pretty overwhelming but amazing uh po box one two three one p.o box one two three one east sound that's one word east sound washington nine eight two four five all right east sound washington nine eight two four five we'll say it again later dust off your paper and pencil and write a good old-fashioned letter all right last of my kind you don't play a tune or um yeah we can do that all right this is a request by carol thanks so much carol and here's a song called last of my kind [Music] today i came to realize [Music] the time do [Music] of my [Music] dreaming [Music] [Applause] my there was a time my family [Music] on me [Music] the last [Music] do [Music] to the earth [Music] my all right all right well uh that's good thanks so much we got a request for one of my original songs what are we going to do rebecca um we've got so many of them yeah let's sing a little sick side and lonesome all right let's do worn out shoes now here's a song we don't play or sing too often this one's called worn out oh shoes standing on a hill i'm looking for you no no savior by my side it is [Music] without you all them castles that we built have crumbled to the sand or you've left me without home i [Music] am [Music] without you [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] a lot of fun we did not record that one this week we recorded that quite a few years ago yeah worn out shoes speaking of that oh hey yeah um how did the songs that you are recording this weekend um come into being oh well some of them we don't know the answer to that question because they came to be somewhere far away from us um and they came into our lists just you know it's kind of those things where you're you're uh you're always kind of collecting songs whether you're writing them yourself or you're hearing them on a recording or you've heard of friends sing it or you've yeah i mean those are the options i guess right and some of some songs just kind of strike you the right way we're both writing songs some and so it's sort of that same feeling you get a feeling to write a song i know some folks really try and write songs i haven't been successful with that yet in my life i've just kind of written songs when they bought me in the head you know but it's the same thing with finding a song finding a song you really love um it kind of just kind of knocks you and you go that's a good song i'm gonna start working on that one yeah yeah and as far as the list we chose for recording here this weekend i don't know i feel like we just picked our favorites of the moment yeah of this point in time things we've been working on from long ago and never recorded or some of them are new material that we've been playing at home during the pandemic a couple of original songs that we wrote and i don't know it's fun it's fun we have we know a lot of songs so um really we haven't recorded very many of them at all so it's fun to put together a list of the ones we wanted to do young at heart yeah all right here's a here's a song that's right along the lines of what rebecca was just talking about oh by the way this is reeb wilms her name is rebecca so i call her rebecca every now and then or reeb you can take your choice take your pick but uh here's a song that i wrote a long time ago and just hadn't gotten around to recording it we brought it to the session and we tried it today and it seemed to feel pretty good so uh we'll give you a little run at it right now this is called the young at heart i guess i got some inspiration from norman blake maybe and and um i don't know lots of other places i would imagine this isn't the guitar style oh we were the young at heart and we never got sad and then the time passed on and everything turned bad oh i gave it to my love and you take it away do oh now as i look back on everything we have a little darling boy a mother and a dad oh see the light ahead as they push on [Music] oh we were the young at heart and we never got sad [Applause] [Music] nothing left to say oh now as i look back on everything we had [Music] as you push on [Music] hey thank you so much thanks to our in-house audience for sure yeah there's only one one robotic camera over there clapping away after our songs don't call lauren a robotic camera you don't want to give away so i've got one more question um for you guys yeah and it's what's been the hardest for you during the pandemic and what's been the most for you i can safely say the hardest has been not getting to see our friends and um seeing uh i mean there's the audience members that are that are friends that we see for you know an hour or two at a show but we actually remember them and recognize them and it's just really sad not seeing them again and our close friends especially our close friends it's really hard to not be around them i would think the same for you but yeah definitely not being able to see friends and family yeah i know i mean maybe it goes without saying i'm sure you know we're lucky not to have lost anyone close to us so far knock on wood but i know a lot of people have lost loved ones and that's been really hard you know so um we look forward to looking for things to inspire us speaking of yeah transformative interesting interesting question i feel like um just even this experience right now has made me realize how much i've relaxed my um anticipation and like desires for musical success out in the world like you know you have this i spent 30 years traveling and touring and like trying to make it and you know it's just this is a constant uphill battle in music and especially folk music and non-mainstream music and so that sometimes can really wear on you and really it really gets grindy you're on the road you're in a car for hours and hours and hours every day that can sometimes you know you wake up 30 years later and you go what am i doing but this last year has made me let go of a lot of that i don't really know what's going to happen so you sort of uh just like brush it off into the wind i don't know if i'm even going to get back on the road again who knows so that's translated into this moment of like recording and performing again right now in a way that feels different than i ever had before which is just a little bit more light actually a lot more light and that's uh that's all i'm going to say about that yeah cool uh i guess transformative for me maybe something similar though i had never thought about it until you said all that stuff just now but um it's just been nice to have a break from the road and get a good deep rest [Laughter] a good deep breath [Music] again thank you brian how much time do we have yeah left sure sure we'll do one more song for you all thanks for listening thanks for tuning in thank you all for organizing we are just so you all know out there in in live stream land we're being very socially distant here we're in a massive gymnasium the cameras are far away and the sound tech is far away and they're all masked so that we can be performing for you all so uh thank you yeah thank you to brian and karine victor and lauren joseph they've been brought us here and lauren's been recording us all weekend and provided this cool space for all kinds of artists to hang out not just musicians [Music] oh yeah right all right folks we're going to try this song for you it's a kind of new one on our charts here and i hope you enjoy it this is a song from george jones in melbourne montgomery it's called please be my love i wanna be with you i can give you the [Music] [Applause] no one can take your place with me [Music] setting me free [Music] just so please [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm loving you just believe the way [Music] [Applause] [Music] i think [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] setting me free [Music] just [Music] please [Music] please be my love all right well uh reeb wilms caleb clowder thank you all so much thanks everyone at home for tuning in [Applause] we miss you all yeah we do hang in there are we seeing you again yeah all right back to the couch back to the couch you

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Published: Sun Jan 24 2021