good by comparison but unfortunately against that we actually some of the the song writers from the thirty's and forty's were continuing to write they were getting old and they just had to make some money and they had they tried to keep writing this one was written in one thousand nine hundred sixty two by johnny mercer so it's don't know what else is going on their lives but it's a good good old tune ok here's another one  you somehow somehow find the time i'll make time traverse i try to do all the intros i try as hard as i can to figure out the interest because they're often as good or better than the rest of the song and surprises people when in the course maybe we're ragged him for travel next get involved after watching the early seasons of american idol with her family she started singing in preschool and picked up the guitar in sixth grade today katie studied psychology at wesleyan university and keeps her music copy alive whether through writing and directing and original musical or keeping up with the liberal arts vibe but with her acoustic guitar on foss hills so haiti c'mon down here get yourself set up here and we w had folks gosh i mean we've had folks that are in either what elementary middle high school fourteen months or eight to you know we get to see them over the years and  for us as a crew it gives us such pleasure to be able to see folks over the years that they may have performed here when they were really young and then they get a chance you get a video of the recordings of the session and they use that and it's just it's just totally fun so we love well it's great to be back i performed a few times in high school and as i mentioned in my bio i really really like american idol my well i told my parents i wanted to be an american idol judge when i grew up and my dad said i had to have a career in music first and here i am so american idol's recently been rebooted and it's great i love it so much and i got in and the other day about doing online video auditions for american idol and i genuinely have no intention of doing it but i texted my girlfriend and i said i think we should do a video audition with let's get it started by the black eyed peas and she said you know if you're actually saying this other song you would probably get on so i'm actually going to start with that one tonight here's my hypothetical audition for american idol i mean yes so i don't know if you're familiar with the structure of american idol but first there's hollywood week and hollywood week they have you do a solo performance and it's usually pretty acoustic and you can sing whatever you want which is really daunting and besides my love of american idol an important thing to know about me is that i really love bruce springsteen and yeah and one of the first songs i learned on the guitar was the river and so i always thought that i would maybe do that eventually i've actually never performed in front of a nonfamily audience and it's about getting your girlfriend pregnant in high school  i've never thought to sing it but it's a good one so we're going to do it top performers so the producers once you get to the top twelve they assign themes to each week and each singer has to pick something with it and they think that it's a good idea to do this sometimes the theme is barry manilow  d not everyone sings copacabana but i always really loved this idea i like being assigned things so one of my favorite themes has always been songs from the movies i think it's a great team and i think one of the best movies is shocked to not track one track to and i think it has one of the best soundtracks it has funkytown it has holding out for a hero it has some really great stuff and  they decided to come up with an original song for the introduction to this movie and they thought they would commission the counting crows to a song and it's called accidentally and love and it is wonderful it i timeless and it's just a lot of fun and i mean what i actually sing it on american idol for this team go this is cafe improv american and also i am doing it tonight loaded with this love so another great theme on american idol is songs from the year you were born unfortunately one nine hundred ninety seven wasn't really a golden age for music i looked it up on line did you know candle in the wind is the only good song written in  ninety seven but in i think it was season four of american idol they did songs from the early two thousand which is funny because that season was probably like two thousand and five but the early two thousand means like two thousand and two two thousand and ten and i personally think that's a golden age for music i grew up listening to hannah montana and taylor swift and very importantly the jonas brothers  ok that's where we're going and i was thinking about it and you know it's hard because the songs are really specific like my hometown and long walk home are very clearly about freehold new jersey and thunder road and born to run make it like i hate new jersey and i very much like it here but so i was going through some things and a song called save my love came up and it's about a long distance relationship and it has this great little musical metaphor happening but it fits very perfectly if you are competing for a record contract on the other side of the country so i thought yeah i would sing save my love so that's what and with tonight now there's some all right but i will tell you about the when when i was trying to study in the library at state university in new york the band that would set up and play really loud and you couldn't study your be really you know it was ten thousand maniac nominee for best alternative country song at the fifteenth annual independent music awards and you can listen to and purchase her music at tracy collette music dot com yes plenty out there yes indeed right collette thank you guys i'm fairly based but i am new jersey born and bred so i love new jersey it's just a little expensive for me sorry so i'm going to all original songs and a little bit more chill i just want to say that i just got back from vacation i love love travelling people who know me like i am travelling maniac in the forty countries and now that i check them off i just love seeing different cultures and stuff so  thank you so i was at the four corners i don't know if any of you been out there you can be in four states at one time it's kind of crazy you have this thing here and you can get your picture taken and we bought a magnet colorado because you have this cross and then you have like there's four spots where you can have these vendor stands but we did mostly utah and monument valley and bryce canyon and north rim and all that was really beautiful  that i'm well people know me i'm a perfectionist and sometimes i make up things in my mind and you know the mind can be a crazy place sometimes when you have expectations about yourself or you're just not happy with where you are in your life and so this song is called release me it's just about as you all know you live your life everybody has a story and that's what inspires my songs my songs is my life like what happens to me so i know a lot of times you grow out of friends and you know you have a boyfriend or girlfriend or something you just know that you have to end it and you may never see them again and it's kind of sad and sometimes it's a good thing when you look further back and sometimes you just you just that person awards it's really been i've been very fortunate to be able to record so anyway this last song i'm going to do is called the right it's fully produced on the album scott fiddle player hall that i do have business cards out there if and this is about kind of taking all those little annoyances that you have in life just relating just being a human being and just making a little bit more positive try to turn around make you love it more pleasant  twenty sixteen album pete woody and me charted at number three in the international folk radio charts so spokane just coming up up here and when we talk about stories about things tell me about your first  always wanted to ask you about this check one two all right it is real it is a real pleasure to be here at the improv i don't know if this is my fifth time or my tense time but i've been coming here i came here once and i had such a fun time i i come here whenever i get invited say something but you don't know what to say and what i do that is i pull out my guitar and just start playing and it's all something comes out and it's a surprise sometimes musician and in the last one hundred years in america he formed up with a group called the all my next singers and they operated by the philosophy that you only needed two books in life it was one book called the bible that would prepare you for the next life and one book that would prepare you for this life was the omen and it was sing the news and they sang the news about the world at the time in a place where they were and that was oklahoma and it was the dust that was something old something new this is what this can be borrowed pete seeger wrote songs all the weapons of the very very end he chopped wood up until the very very end and wood and fire is one of those things that is a metaphor for life one of the many things fire is one of those things that we've been sharing with people in communities back to when we were cave dwellers and fires also metaphorical you could represent the flame could the town it's wise to get prepared now if we are to survive the would build the fire and keep the flame alive keep the flame alive yes we know that we live in very challenging times whichever side of the aisle you prefer to put yourself on we live in very challenging times and the whole question of whether human beings have the innate inherent ability to make choices for themselves is on the table right now or do we go back to author or terry is you know the whole the whole american experience is the belief that we don't need a king hammer the hammer of justice the bell of freedom and the song that we all sang a song of love for all of our brothers and all of our sisters regardless of the color of our skin or the shape of our eyes or the language and use that we speak or who we choose the love for how we identify i mean it's all there and i was very depressed and thinking you know maybe those folks down there in washington d c we're finally going to break the hammer this once and for all the hammer of justice and then a friend of mine john mccutcheon told me that that can't happen because you and i we are the hammer of justice if we live by those and do ideals and we treat other people with dignity the hammer of justice will survive and that made sense to me because i had already figured out that the bell of freedom is not just a piece of metal hanging up somewhere in philadelphia that bella freedom is in our hearts and it's up to us to let that bell of freedom r and when we let it ring it can resonate for our whole entire bodies through a whole entire neighborhood in the whole world and it helps other people's souls and freedom ring too and maybe the most important thing we have if we are going to maintain to continue this experiment of choice is that we have our voice we have a voice that we can use to speak up and sing all the time and i was thinking that no matter what happens we will always always always have a song  if you could break the hammer of justice by democracy the press rests i would still be free in my hearts will always have a place to ring and will always always always have a song to sing here's the chorus always always always ha always have a place to ring and we'll always always always have a  what i'm going to do while i was wondering whether it is how it works sometimes i mean we all have these muses whether we hear hear them speak to us or not and i was driving down here sin is one of most beautiful t shirts ever seen where to get that from interstate eighty one on the way home as they got my sweet heart what i admire about her the most and this is a song called do in the name of love and i think that sometimes is not so much what we do as it is how we do it and sometimes how we do things will inform what we do because if you can't do it in the name of love then maybe you don't do it at all but how do we do that well i think in that we've been equipped with certain tools to help us do things that in the name of their all we the she's got no doubt it's a fact which she points one finger three point ride back when ever she puts into the world echoes back and social do with it in the name of love help me s whose she knows there's time for i mean my thing she knows there is time to put the ego aside and work to bring forth what the whole group decides it is decided in the name of lo write new verses about the world we live in today and write new songs that everybody can sing along to were those songs come from what you want to write about the world we live in today you talk to young people and i'll tell you why because we've already figured it out and look what we've got i took it out of my car and i didn't see it put on the road so how do we learn about the world we live in today i've invited some college students to my house and some college graduates and they told me their stories they all had different stories but there was something running a common thread it could be lots of common threads is just one of them i fell asleep it's a goodbye animal that woke up with a song in my head about the world we live in today it's called ocean i don't even know you it's funny but i've probably always some money the way things are going with hockey oh when the waves are crashing over my head they work too many all nighters is now the bankers keep calling my credit scores call it i can't tell you all the trouble i'm in it keeps getting harder and harder i'm swallowing walter drowning getting harder and harder