couple of special guests to call up throughout the set so this song is the first song i ever wrote when i was fourteen and it's called fly and it's really about just learning to to be yourself and not listen to any negative thoughts from the outside tell me not to cry if they tell me not to try if they tell me not to be he who i would like and if they found me not to love if they you so it's kind of funny i just realized when i before i came in here that i played it at cafe improv once and you know i was pregnant and now the next person that i'm going to call up to stage one of the next people is my seven year old daughter who was in my belly last time i was here it was kind of cool so my daughter and i play a lot of music together and so did my fiance and i and he's going to come up to and talk more about him as the story goes on but this song isn't this is any end corky and this song is not one i wrote i wish it was it's beautiful but it's called scars to your beautiful  and i think if you listen to the words it's a really powerful song especially for a little girl so so i i'm fourteen and that happened and then i i lived in new york for a long while and so this song this next song i wrote while i was on the subway and  it was inspired by just seeing all the different people getting on and off the subway every day and this song is for them i guess in a way and i just realized that you know we're all we're all the same we may look different we may be different ages we may have different jobs and different shifts but inside we all are the same and so the song is called transcendental  train begins and spins my mind as characters from all walks convene to find that they each speak the same tune with different words and as loud as they speak they are never heard and what is st germain trying to say as they each head out for the same long day and what is it worth and what does it mean to be so unique that you can't even be seeing i write a transcendental  color in them love for the dream so i'm going to call corky back up i have to get my phone ok so obviously i love music and teach music and write music and nothing in the world makes me happier than playing music and when i found corky again i'll talk about ok when we found each other i was like my heart was so happy for so many reasons but one of the main reasons is we just we play music all the time and it just makes and just fills me with so much joy and and happiness so this song again i did not write this song this is a song by the civil wars and it's about quirky and and i feel like i've finally kind of come full circle you know it took me a while to get here and had to go through quite a quite a bit to get here but  i feel really lucky very very lucky i have an amazing daughter and two wonderful step children the really just children like kids and and it's awesome man and so the song is about finding true love and knowing that you found it the moment you found it  n he was born in texas specifically quinlan texas and he uses these country roots to influence his rock full blues singing and performing gutsy sincere and rockin are some of the best  words to describe his performance on stage earl has studied performance arts and is also an accomplished songwriter painter and actor so we are welcoming earl nelson here thank you so very kindly and there's nothing not seen in the in the albums that she showed me before that was a this was it was me and my brother and my sister and all their holidays and you know some vacation there was one picture that she held in her hand and it was a you could tell it's very thank you now there's an ending to this story he goes you know world we almost named you mercury i go why would you do never and that american dream that goes with it and that's what it's all about and we live the american dream long enough we can maybe start to question things just a little that's kind of what i mean and not braggin but that house sold it moved here but i was twice as big for the same price like i was i've been unlucky so many different things but that i you chase and you all over the place so i could do this last one is a slow one but i like it because i tell you what is when i got out here as i grew up in california they're more or less  one ok so just you know the last chorus after brother it's it's history you'll know what i'm talking about  every time i'll hold you  in two thousand and eight that's like ten years right so rodney and eva specialize in lyric driven songs and homespun harmonies this will be their second appearance here so we're going to wrap it up here with a medley of our greatest hit