Chords for SOUNDCHECK: Laurie Lewis & John Reischman // The Bluegrass Situation

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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] This is John Reischman.
_ And this is Laurie Lewis.
[Em] And we're at the Ford Theater in [A] Hollywood, California.
[Em] _ _ We used to be [A] in the same band.
At different times.
Years [Bm] ago, yeah, but not at the same time.
[B] _ Laurie used to be in [Em] this, was an original member of a band called The Good Old Persons,
which is a woman band that started in _ [Bm] 74, 74, 75 in [Em] California.
And I was a fan.
I used to [A] go and hear them.
I used to go listen to them, but I never [Em] considered being in the band because I'd get to be [A] a woman.
[Em] And then later on, I [Bm] saw the band, they had opened it up [Em] to male participants.
_ _ _ [A] _ [Em] And there was a guy playing a mandolin.
I thought, well, I'd like to do that.
[Am] _ [C#] And I eventually did a couple of months later, but by that time, Laurie had traveled [D] on.
Yeah, I left [A] the band.
[E] [A] Change your mind, you'd better [E] stick to [D] your old ways.
Change your [A] mind, you'd better make [E] it your way.
_ I played with this band, [D] The Good Old Persons.
That was the first [E] professional band.
And [A] then during [C#m] that time, I played [Bm] with the [Em] guitar player Tony Rice in the Tony Rice unit.
And then _ _ about [F#m] 12, 13 years ago, I started with Family Jader.
And [A] that's pretty much it.
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_ [D#] That sounded [C] pretty good there.
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[G] _ _ [D] I don't know how many [G] bands [A] I've been in, but [Em] bands I've sort of been committed [A] to is
not all that many.
[E] I'd say The Good Old [Em] Persons, before The Good Old Persons, I was in a great band with Pat
Enright called The Femmes Théoprètes.
My first [A] _ _ good [E] bluegrass band.
I played bass with them.
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Weep for Hood, _ sorrow for me.
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After The Good Old [D] Persons, _ I started a band with my friend Beth Lyle, the [G] Grant Street String Band.
[D] _ [A] And [B] when that band, sort of [D] everybody _ went their own ways, and we had just put an album out.
And then I started getting gigs.
So I called it Laurie Lewis and the Grant Street [F#m] Band, and then shortened it to Laurie
Lewis and Grant Street.
And I've been pretty much doing my [A] own bands _ [Em] since [F] then.
I [C] _ _ do, but _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I do [Gm] my [D#] role, [E] _
[F] _ _ [C] work day and _ [F#] day.
I do close my eyes.
[D] No, I [E] do close my eyes a lot.
But I [D] tend to look more at the band _ _ [F#m] _
and the [G] folks I'm playing with than at the [D] audience.
I get distracted sometimes if [A] I can see the audience really well.
So [E]
I often keep my eyes shut or [D] _ _ averted in some way.
[G] Yeah, I look at the band members too.
[F#m] And the audience somewhat.
You know, when I'm talking, [Em] I'll look at the audience.
But in a beautiful space like this, [A] I'll be looking at the sky and the trees.
_ _ _ This will be a real [Em] lovely time of the evening to play.
[Am] I have a little on [E]-instrument wireless microphone, which works out really good because it has
the illusion of being [A] old-school on [Em] microphone. _
There's a common repertoire with the music, [Bm] and a lot of the [G] tunes have [A] similarities to each other.
So it's not [Em] too tricky putting it [D] together.
If it's a little bit loose, that's [B] fine.
[N] Ragged, but right. _ _
People love to [Em] see train wrecks.
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_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ It's _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
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a few different things.
It's the sharing the music with _ my [N] bandmates.
I'm really a band musician, _ not [Bm] like a solo performer.
I just [B] love to hear what's going to happen around me on stage.
That's really exciting to me.
And [F#] _ _ [B] being part of something that's bigger than myself.
And [E] _
of course, I'm a songwriter, so I love [D] to have an outlet for my songs.
They're like [Em] _
the best way I have [C#] of communicating with the world.
And so getting them out [D] there is _ great. _
[C#] Yeah, I would say pretty much the [G] same thing.
I like the ensemble sound quite a bit.
_ [C#] Sometimes I play in a duet, and that's intimate, and that's fun as well.
But hearing how all [N] the individual instruments work together [G] and create a [Bm] larger _ sound.
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [N] One, one.
Hello, hello, hello.
So he won't sing into the mic until he has to.
So little did you know.
He proves me wrong.
I can hear you from where you are.
I know.