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Tara Shupe and The Ponies - Sound of Me

from Open Road Blues by Tara Shupe and the Ponies

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To kiss you goodbye there in the desert
To let your ghost fly, leave the corpses to dust
To loosen the grip on the story you left me
In silence I'm learning to be in the hush

If I could call it what it is
Search through the pieces for poems
I'd write you a thousand versus
Etching out what's beyond flesh and bone

Could not have known the depth of the damage
That I'd hear the echos of years in your throat
That you were a shimmering desert oasis
With miles left for walking to learn what I wrote

What is the symbol for my love
Laid out in language and form
Prose in the columns and steeples
Is meaning the world's or my own

To tell it one way
Just holds down the edges and colors the days
Build a monument to time
By your gravity or by mine

Fly through till morning the summer is calling
Night worn like a cloak in the desert heat
But I will embrace the changing seasons
With my winter wisdom I will set you free

But I'll always be sending my blessings
From the path that you sent me down
Towards dreams that you illuminated
Your light's in the life that I've found
And you'll always be part of the sound of me

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from Open Road Blues, track released April 3, 2020
Tara Shupe: Guitar, Vocals
Megan Michelle Nay: Violin, Vocals
Daron Shupe: Banjo
Matt Ligman: Bass
Bart Olson: Drums
Mixing/Mastering: Daniel Young
Recorded at Orchard Studio in North Salt Lake
Album Cover Photo: Jared Mendenhall

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Tara Shupe Salt Lake City, Utah

A lifetime immersed in bluegrass, old-time, and American roots music influences the multi-instrumental Tara Shupe in her thoughtful arrangements of old-standards and originals.

Starting first on mandolin at age 4 then taking up fiddle, guitar, and recently banjo throughout her extensive career,
Tara's first solo album features her strong instrumentation on achingly personal, yet timely songs.
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