Tonight on Inland Sessions ♪ I don't know why I feel like I do ♪ Versatile singer songwriter Lucas Brookbank Brown delivers his original style of personal indie rock americana next up on Inland Sessions This song here is called the Valley So Sweet, it's one of those the grass ain't always greener kind of things.

♪ ♪ She'’s got a voice like honey and gravel, I climbed the ♪ ♪ tree, she ate the apple tossed from her garden ♪ ♪ like a stud from a saddle, moved herself away, ♪ ♪ I hit Seattle like a tidal wave but I ain'’t gonna'’ ♪ ♪ stay, I'’ll be runnin'’ '‘till my dyin' days♪ ♪ ♪ She'’s got eyes like the city at night, make you feel sad ♪ ♪ make you feel alright ♪ ♪ Sometimes I know she just don'’t care, ♪ ♪ dependent upon which way she wears her hair But I ain'’t ♪ ♪ going back there, maybe I'’m gone, goin'’ nowhere ♪ ♪ There ain'’t no sense in lying, ♪ ♪ still don'’t the valley seem so sweet ♪ ♪ when your watching from the top of the hill ♪ ♪ from the top of the hill♪ ♪ ♪ Tennessee rain coming down like dogs, ♪ ♪ drank too much '‘till we were croaking'’ ♪ ♪ with the bull frogs fingers in my pockets, mine on her ♪ ♪ hips, bourbon on her lips and she gave me a kiss ♪ ♪ and we'’ll roll in the hay, but she ain'’t gonna'’ ♪ ♪ stay, she'’s a rambler and that'’s okay ♪ ♪ She was born so brave, with looks to kill I'’ve got ♪ ♪ this bottle full of nothing, this empty heart to fill ♪ ♪ And there ain'’t no sense in lying still don'’t the valley ♪ ♪ seem so sweet don'’t the valley seem so sweet ♪ ♪ when your watching from the top of the hill ♪ ♪ when your watching from the top of the hill.

♪ ♪the top the hill♪ ♪ My name is Lucas Brown, and I'm born and raised in Spokane, Washington.

Music is really my primary passion and and focus in life.

When I was 15 years old, I got into a pretty serious bicycle accident.

I woke up in the hospital and was pretty debilitated for several weeks.

And during that time, I found a lot of comfort in music and in the power of music.

And I think ever since then, I've had a very sort of intimate connection with with sound and music and the healing aspects of, of that, I've never really looked back since.

All right, we're going to do this song here called Loneliness.

This is off my first EP entitled Everything Means Something Out Here.

It features Justyn Priest here on some fancy electric guitar work.

We're gonna do an acoustic version here today.

So this songs called Loneliness.

♪harmonica♪ ♪ You can be lonely in the city ♪ ♪ You can be lonely in a crowd ♪ ♪ You can be lonely all by yourself ♪ ♪ Your not the only one lonely now ♪ ♪ You can be lonely at a party lonely when the the ♪ ♪ sun go down.

You can be lonely by your only the ♪ ♪ world is quiet but your mind is loud ♪ ♪ world is quiet but your mind is loud ♪ ♪ You'’re not the only one lonely now, ♪ ♪ You'’re not the only one lonely now, ♪ ♪ You'’re not the only one lonely now, ♪ ♪ You'’re not the only one lonely, ♪ ♪ only one lonely now ♪ ♪ ♪ We can be lonely in the city lonely when we fall apart ♪ ♪ Lonely comes and goes like the weather ♪ ♪ Loneliness can be an art ♪ ♪ Lonely can make you go crazy ♪ ♪ Feelin'’ so low you wanna die ♪ ♪ Lonely like a tear in an old man eye ♪ ♪ Your Just as lonely as a star hanging in the night sky ♪ ♪ You'’re not the only one lonely now, You'’re not the only ♪ ♪ one lonely now, You'’re not the only one lonely now, ♪ ♪ You'’re not the only one lonely, only one lonely, ♪ ♪ ♪ She said loneliness was like holiness everything and nothing ♪ ♪ all at the same time ♪ ♪ Loneliness was a silent kiss you gave ♪ ♪ yourself from the inside out ♪ ♪ Your not the only one lonely now ♪ ♪ Your not the only one lonely now You'’re not the only one ♪ ♪ lonely now, You'’re not the only one lonely, only one ♪ ♪ lonely, only one lonely now.

♪ ♪ ♪ lonely...lonely...lonely... ♪ ♪You can be lonely in the city, you can be lonely in a crowd♪ ♪ You can be lonely all by yourself ♪ ♪ You're not the only one lonely now...the only one lonely now ♪ I'm constantly writing down little words and ideas, and so sometimes it starts with the lyric.

And I will we'll start with that little phrase and go back to it later and and mull it over.

Sometimes things come really quickly.

I played a song called Loneliness that was written.

The music and the words were probably written and, you know, a matter of 15 minutes.

There's other songs like the song Whiskey for a While that I played today where I had the guitar part sitting around for maybe two or three years.

So it happens both ways.

All right, the song here is called Whiskey for a While.

♪Harmonica♪ ♪ O she made the flowers cry In every season I was ♪ ♪ falling down I am the rain Chasing wind and catching ♪ ♪ fire Harvest the sunlight for to melt away my pain ♪ ♪ She said let me be your whiskey for a while ♪ ♪ If its cold won'’t you take a drink on me and ♪ ♪ smile, smile ♪ ♪ She'’s got autumn on a string Ten thousand colors ♪ ♪ showed a deaf how to sing And I'’m a feather on a wing ♪ ♪ Putting on miles, just trying to find ♪ ♪ some peace of mind ♪ ♪ She said lay all your troubles on me ♪ ♪ And if it'’s dark won'’t you be a light so I can see, ♪ ♪ so I can see ♪ ♪ Harmonica ♪ ♪ Mandolin ♪ ♪ She'’s got summer in her eyes ♪ ♪ All the flowers call her by her name ♪ ♪ There ain'’t no shame in my desire ♪ ♪ Out in the field beyond the razor wires ♪ ♪ She said let me be your whiskey for a while ♪ ♪ If it hurts don'’t hang your head child ♪ ♪ If your scared don'’t crawl back in bed Let'’s go ♪ ♪ walking out instead Let'’s go walking out instead ♪ ♪ Let'’s go walking out instead ♪ The next song we're going to play here is called Simple Sounds ♪ Mandolin Solo ♪ ♪ Thoughts been hiding in the back of my head ♪ ♪ Too afraid to come out and play ♪ ♪ Words I was writing on the back of my hands ♪ ♪ Just to make sure I knew what say ♪ ♪ We'’ve been living here ♪Your house is not too far from mine ♪ ♪ This town has been dragging me down ♪ ♪ And filling up my head with simple sounds ♪ ♪ Filling up my head with simple sounds ♪ ♪ Feeling like the wheels on a broken down train ♪ ♪ Waiting on the world to get a'’movin'’ on oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ the coin on the tracks can'’t feel the pain ♪ ♪ And I can'’t find the words to say ♪ ♪ We'’ll be getting lost sometime not too long from now ♪ ♪ This song I will remember you by ♪ ♪ The only proof I have of what I found.

♪ ♪ The only proof I have of what I found.

♪ ♪ ♪ We'’ll be letting go ♪ ♪ Let the memories be passed from me to you ♪ ♪ Sharing what we found ♪ ♪ With pure and simple sounds ♪ ♪ And filling up our hearts with music too ♪ ♪ Filling up our hearts with music too ♪ ♪ Filling up our hearts with music too ♪ ♪ ♪ Thoughts been hiding in the back of my head ♪ ♪ Too afraid to come out and play ♪ ♪ We'’ll go walking out in the field again ♪ ♪ Don'’t you know there ain'’t a thing to say.

♪ Right now, my music career is basically just rooted here in the Spokane area.

There's a podcast that I listen to a lot called The Working Songwriter with the guy, Joe Pug, and he talks about on there how these days you can there's kind of this middle class.

You can be a middle class kind of working musician and kind of make a middle class living at it.

So I think I've found myself in a place that's pretty cool, that I can be kind of middle class working musician.

Do I have aspirations to do bigger things?

Totally.

But we'll see where that goes.

This next tune is called it's okay to feel blue.

I wrote it many years ago and I hope it finds everybody well.

♪ Harmonica and guitar♪ ♪ when the wind won't blow ♪ ♪ when the sun won't shine ♪ ♪ when the street outside my window is as empty as my mind ♪ ♪ when the farmer's field is barren ♪ ♪ the sky a dusty haze that sullen light of winter come ♪ ♪ and show her wicked ways ♪ ♪ I don't know why I feel like I do but when the sun goes down ♪ ♪ I'll be howling at the moon ♪ ♪ and the wind blew into town with a little good news ♪ ♪ for you it's okay to feel blue♪ ♪ it's okay to feel blue ♪ ♪ ♪ when the hard times a' comin' and the high times ♪ ♪ on the wind and the love I've been known' ♪ ♪ is on her way again ♪ when the black bird is cryin' ♪ ♪ and blue bird won't sing and words I've been tryin' ♪ ♪ don't seem to mean a thing ♪ ♪ I don't know why I feel like I do but when the sun goes down ♪ ♪ I'll be howling at the moon ♪ ♪ and the wind blew into town with a little good news for you ♪ ♪ it's okay to feel blue♪ ♪ it's okay to feel blue♪ ♪ ♪ and when the ship don't come in ♪ ♪ faith left along the shore ♪ ♪ when I look up at the sky ♪ ♪ I don't see rainbows anymore ♪ ♪'caus it's a heartache it's a shadow ♪ ♪ it's a teardrop from my eye ♪ ♪ when I think back on yesterday tomorrow up and dies ♪ ♪ I don't know why I feel like I do but when the sun goes down ♪ ♪ I'll be howling at the moon ♪ ♪ and the wind blew into town with a little good news for ♪ ♪ you it's okay to feel blue ♪ ♪ it's okay to feel blue ♪ ♪ it's okay to feel blue ♪ ♪ it's okay to feel blue ♪