~If you see it, you believe it, you do it. This year we want to be the "see it", that encourages the "believe it" that supports the "do it".
When we were in high school a female string duo called Moxie Strings came into our classroom and rocked out on their electric cello and violin and Katie and I decided "we can do that?!" That is how we became the Accidentals, which in turn altered every part of our lives. It gave a couple of shy kids the confidence to create and relate. We were inspired to play guitar by St. Vincent and Kaki King, violin by Scarlett Rivera, and write songs by SEVERAL female artists. ~

Sometimes art inspires art, creativity sparks more creativity, and one line is enough to help you write a whole song. We can't even tell you how many times that has happened for us with Courtney Barnett. She's conversational, casually observational, and then she hits you with a line so funny you forget she's singing about almost dying from an asthma attack, or talking about a dead possum on the side of the road. We write those lines down, and sometimes they lead to something new.

We've been covering this song because it's a really great singalong - one that almost all of us can relate to. At one point, we had all of Moab Folk Festival singing "Iiiiii wanna go out but I wanna stay home." We've all had days like that. Courtney found a way to put it in words.

At her Acoustic Cafe performance in Ann Arbor - a room that fit maybe 100 people, one that our good friend and videographer Charlie Steen snuck us into - she talked about how on her website, she posted the name of her latest album - "Tell Me How You Really Feel" - and left a space for people to write 250 words of what they were feeling to send to her. "It was an interesting project. I was a bit worried that it would be filled with negative things...but...it was really amazing to read what people shared and how vulnerable a lot of people were, and funny. There were a lot of the same kind of things of everyday life and humanity."

Art is about connectivity. And boy, does Courtney Barnett have a way of connecting us to each other in the weirdest, wittiest ways.

Thanks, Courtney.

Audio engineered and Mixed by Evan Klee-Peregon, iPhone video by Kacee Womack. Using Shure microphones, Takamine guitars, D'Addario Strings NS Design electric cellos, and Dream Cymbals.

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