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Given Day

by Natalie Tate

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David B. Weaver Don't wait! Download Natalie Tate! Just take the bait, you could listen while you skate or spin plates in Kuwait! This record never seems to deflate, folky glory at a consistent rate. So try to navigate Tate the great, and don't berate, otherwise you and I will engage in a debate. Dix, mate! Favorite track: Queen of the Night.
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1.
CHASED BY THE SUN standing there at the water's edge the sun is halfway up and the heat fills your head i know you want to jump right in but you know that when you do that summer day will begin a landing bird meets its shadow on the ground some will say it's lost others think it's found but the little bird knows someday its wings will fold somehow it keeps on singing never misses a note and there you are reachin' out the mirror in the water draws you near your fingers reach the fingers your wrists slide up the arms and sealing off at the toes you're in and you can't shed that skin you're in and you'll never be free of yourself again you'll recognize this song cuz you've been here all along now you're also that bird lookin' down from above and the days'll go by fast though you try and make 'em stay and there's no right or wrong in it either way and there you are reachin' out the mirror in the water draws you near well you can run chase the sun but the sun is also chasin' everyone
2.
Old Dog 03:37
OLD DOG we had a good life, didn't we we had a home with a cherry tree in the backyard old dog grinning into the sun i can't fall asleep again i had to wake up when you left me and all the things I had to do just to be okay without you all the things i had to do well they made me a better man i still wish i could've done them with you and all the good i've done with you gone all that you've become on your own i love you more and all the ground i've landed on the open roads that you have found i love you more we had a good life, didn't we we had a home with a cherry tree in the backyard old dog grinning into the sun and all the good i've done with you gone all that you've become on your own i love you more and all the ground i've landed on the open roads that you have found i love you more and all the friends i've made with myself all the time you gave to yourself i love you more i love you more i love you more maybe that's what leaving is for
3.
Black Raven 04:12
BLACK RAVEN black raven white skull bone on the side of the road between here and Raton they say New Mexico's an ashtray but my Georgia loved it best her hands were worn out West and there are many secrets in the ground and i can only see them cuz there's nothin' much around roots that clutch branches that grow many things you cannot say for you only know smell of rain but it never hits the stone that old river carved a ribbon to the sea and the road followed and it goes, it goes, it goes, it goes and i can only hope for that same meandering return and now that bird on high is circling over an old scaffold of a sign and the sun is sinking low and i got somewhere to go black raven white skull bone on the side of the road between here and Raton
4.
WAITING FOR THE CREEK TO RISE i got two strong hands gonna make a better plan where every man is a landlord where every man is a landlord if we can make it out West God will give us the rest we'll build a home in the ground we'll build a home in the ground we'll trade the cattle for grain and a few years of good rain seem to follow the plow they seem to follow the plow they built a town in a day how they flashed all that money player pianos and cars player pianos and cars it often seemed like a lie but the prices kept goin' higher maybe the hard times were through maybe the hard times were through we were meant to see the sunrise the earth shouldn't have filled the sky and when the winds would whip us dry we could always wait for the creek to rise well soon the highs turned to lows the stocks fell and the banks froze but we had our land we still had our land so when the price hit the floor we just planted even more tryin' to make up the loss tryin' to make up the loss but the grain just sat there in piles rotting there by the rails the hungry waited in line the hungry waited in line we were meant to see the sunrise the earth shouldn't have filled the sky and when the winds would whip us dry we could always wait for the creek to rise many things cast their shadows but that's the life that we know prairie fires and floods prairie fires and floods but even then we could plan the wheels of fortune would come 'round again they'd come 'round again well those winds have always blown but they'd never taken the gold we had in the ground took years to come back down we were meant to see the sunrise the earth shouldn't have filled the sky and when the winds would whip us dry we could always wait for the creek to rise we could always wait we could always wait for the creek to rise
5.
The Arrow 05:38
THE ARROW one little song get you out of that unfinished thought you're trailin' off one little song get you out of that unfinished thought you're trailin' off come over here we'll find that river again it'll rise i could tell you all about it... i could tell you all about it... or we could just get in get in get in see an old sign an old industrial sign on the skyline a stretch of busy highway hands out the window they're not the only hands to search the dark for a shape that's familiar last service for miles now you are gone discovering the fire and that jealous sun will burn just as sure as the shivering will keep you warm i know we all come wired to a world where sabertooth tigers flee or fight we've got more than that choice tonight we let it all go the heart is a sail, a rudder and a bow and the arrow and the arrow we're livin' like so the heart is a sail a rudder and a bow and the arrow and the arrow one little song to get you out of that unfinished thought you're trailin' off
6.
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT one night a year in that deserted hour the moon the stars the insects conspire beckoning coaxing all she can muster to make that blooming flower that opening flower that white queen of the night waxy white petals slowly unfurling the bats diving the wings clustering how many lovers could she satisfy leading the wolves away to paradise you found a way you found a way you found a way you found a way to make me dream again make me dream again make me dream again or am I just remembering make me dream again make me dream again make me dream again or am I just remembering
7.
Shine 05:24
SHINE the sun isn't afraid the sun isn't afraid the sun isn't afraid at all it is trying to tell you it is trying to tell you it is trying to tell you and say how could i be anything but how could i do anything else how could i give anything less how could i how could i how could i not begin each day awake how could i not wake the open to the eye how could i not open the seed to the breeze how could i not read the garden in each leaf how could i not see when everything is shining one light makes how could we stop ourselves one light makes more light how could we stop ourselves more light makes how could we stop ourselves one light makes more light how could we stop ourselves
8.
ALL THE LIGHTS darlin' go easy on me i don't yet know what i can be all the lights are shaking i need a good shaking too i need a good shaking too i want an '84 ford pickup of a mind sometimes breakin' down somewhere down the line as long as i'm moving i'll learn how to fix it i'll know how to sometimes i'll just have to somewhere down the line you tricky little thing you tricky little thing you tricky little thing you tricky little thing you tricky little thing you tricky little thing you tricky little thing and when i'm really busted flat laid up, low down, real good taking stock of what's left of the wreckage what's on the ground what's under the hood all my belongings feels good to wear things out feels good to wear things out feels good to wear things out all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking all of the lights are shaking i need a good shaking too i need a good shaking too

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released March 29, 2013

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Jeremy Averitt - slide guitar

Macon Terry - upright bass

Natalie Tate - guitar & vocals

Kevin Larkin - mandolin (tracks 3 & 6)

Kris Drickey - vocals (tracks 4, 5 & 6)

Laura Goldhamer - banjo and vocals (track 5)


Shine chorus:
Jesse Elliott
Lindsay McWilliams
Anna Morsett
Kris Drickey


Recorded by Nick Velharticky at The Art Heffron Photography Loft in Denver, Colorado

Mixed & mastered by Jeremy Averitt and Natalie Tate

Album artwork by Laura Goldhamer, liner notes design and layout by Andi Todaro

All songs written by Natalie Tate copyright 2013

www.natalietatemusic.com

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Natalie Tate Denver, Colorado

Natalie Tate's indie-folk-pop music merges the roots sensibilities of her Colorado home with the planes of a more ethereal land. Drawing comparisons to artists Feist, Cat Power and Lykke Li, Tate's voice has a way of bringing us back to the forgotten spaces inside ourselves. Tate was voted Best Singer-Songwriter in the 2016 + 2017 Westword Music Awards and recently made her debut at Red Rocks. ... more

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