Tonight on Inland Sessions ♪ There are no ties to bind us down ♪ ♪ we'll say good bye to this old town ♪ Singer songwriter Brittany Jean delivers a sensational performance with a sweet guitar and warm lyrics sharing songs straight fromthe heart.

♪ ♪ We made a promise early doors♪ ♪ Your heart for mine and mine for yours ♪ ♪ Now we're in The Neverend ♪ ♪ Where we will never set it in stone ♪ ♪ I won't ask more than you are able ♪ ♪ Tonight let's tarry at the table ♪ ♪ And dream until the night grows young ♪ ♪ Let every song be sung and known ♪ ♪ All the love I have-the atlas and the photographs All the ♪ ♪ days I live-where I go and where I've been ♪ ♪ All the words I own - home and harbor ♪ ♪ All the love I have is yours ♪ ♪ There are no ties to bind us down We'll say goodbye to this ♪ ♪ old town I'll take care o' you take care o' me ♪ ♪ From the menagerie, we'll fly ♪ ♪ Crossing hearts and county lines ♪ ♪ I claim this ground for me and mine We'll begin again-so steal ♪ ♪ away Find me in the flower fields and rye ♪ ♪ All the love I have-the atlas and the photographs All the ♪ ♪ days I live-where I go and where I've been ♪ ♪ All the words I own - home and harbor ♪ ♪ All the love I have is yours ♪ ♪ Today and everyday ♪ ♪ My love for you remains ♪ ♪ Today and everyday ♪ ♪ I will always... ♪ ♪ All the love I have-the atlas and the photographs All the ♪ ♪ days I live-where I go and where I've been All the words♪ ♪ I own-home and harbor ♪ ♪ All the love I have is yours All the love I have ♪ ♪ All the love I have is yours ♪ A couple weeks back I was in northern California, for the first time, I've never been there.

And while there, I hiked to Alamere Falls, it's a really, really long hike up and down way too many mountains.

It is so, It's beautiful, and I actually I wrote Alamere Falls into a song before I'd actually been there myself, so it was very wonderful to find that it was as magical as I had imagined.

This is Golden Hour.

♪ ♪ I can tell when you're smilin' on the phone ♪ ♪ You said, "The lighthouse, meet me at daybreak" If you♪ ♪were a time of year, I'd call you September-when the trees change ♪ ♪ So this morning we are somewhere on the coast and I ♪ ♪ surrender to this runaway train ♪ ♪ If you were a time of day I'd know you Forever at sunrise... ♪ ♪ Is that strange?

♪ ♪ When everything is red and golden Wearing my best dress, ♪ ♪ I'm holdin' ♪ ♪ My breath in a field of a thousand sunflowers ♪ ♪ Oh honey, you are golden, golden, golden, you are golden ♪ ♪ hour ♪ ♪ I don't mind where the day may go from here If we find ♪ ♪ Alamere Falls by sunset ♪ ♪ If you were a time of year,I'd call you September-when the ♪ ♪ trees change ♪ ♪ This yellow raincoat has been tied around me, dear Since the ♪ ♪ day we met, and I haven't worn it yet ♪ ♪ If you were a time of day I'd know you Forever at sundown... ♪ ♪ When everything is red and golden Wearing my best dress, ♪ ♪ I'm holdin' ♪ ♪ My breath in a field of a thousand sunflowers ♪ ♪ Oh honey, you are golden, golden, golden, golden hour ♪ ♪ Golden, golden, you are golden hour ♪ ♪ Well, maybe every fool believes it And maybe I'm a fool for you ♪ ♪ Oh, maybe every fool believes♪ ♪ But I know it-you are golden... golden!

♪ ♪ When everything is red and gold Wearing my best dress♪ ♪ I'm frozen ♪ ♪ With you in a field of a thousand sunflowers ♪ ♪ Oh honey, you are golden, golden, golden, golden hour ♪ ♪ Golden, golden, you are golden hour ♪ ♪ Golden, golden, golden hour, golden, golden You are golden ♪ There is a highway along the west coast of Ireland that I would just love to take a few weeks and drive the entire thing and stop at all the places.

This is, The Wild Atlantic Way.

♪ ♪ Everything's closed on Sunday It's dark, and it starts to ♪ ♪ rain We're a hundred miles along This detour of a road ♪ ♪ we're on ♪ ♪ Waiting for the sheep ♪ ♪ To cross the cobblestone street ♪ ♪ He throws his head back laughing, ♪ ♪ He says, "Why aren't you as mad as me?"

♪ ♪ Well, there's no one ♪ ♪ No one I'd rather get lost with than you Oh, I don't♪ ♪ mind getting lost with you ♪ ♪ And if we're gonna get lost... if we're gonna get lost...Take♪ ♪ me to the Wild Atlantic Way ♪ ♪ They'll say, "There go those Americans Wrong side of the ♪ ♪ road again ♪ ♪ Trainers, backwards baseball hats, About a thousand ♪ ♪ twenty-five maps..." ♪ ♪ Let's get lost in every Castle on a rim we see ♪ ♪ Take all the whimsy byways Hidden just for you and me-okay♪ ♪ 'Cause there's no one ♪ ♪ No one I'd rather get lost with than you I don't mind♪ ♪ getting lost with you ♪ ♪ If we're gonna get lost... if we're gonna get lost...Take me♪ ♪ to the Wild Atlantic Way ♪ ♪ There's no one ♪ ♪ No one I'd rather get lost with than you I don't mind ♪ ♪ getting lost with you ♪ ♪ If we're gonna get lost... we're gonna get lost...Take me♪ ♪ to the Wild Atlantic Way ♪ ♪ If we're gonna get lost... we are gonna get lost... Take me ♪ ♪ to the Wild Atlantic Way ♪ A couple of years ago, I started to write a song, I had this idea, and I wrote the first couple of lines.

And immediately, I thought, Oh.

These are too, too dark, too heavy to the point where I kept working on it, but I didn't know if I'd finish it.

I found these two words little one.

And it turned it into a it went from a hopeless song to a hopeful song, at least that was my intention.

This is These are the Dark Days.

♪ ♪ These are the dark days, little one ♪ ♪ Civil war is underway ♪ ♪ But you don't have to fold or run ♪ ♪ For you were made to hold ♪ ♪ You are a luminary ♪ ♪ Heir to the lamp you carry ♪ ♪ Undaunted, you walk around this haunted, war torn town And♪ ♪ you don't know how to hate ♪ ♪ Darling heart, stay that way ♪ ♪ For yours, I know, could melt a heart of stone... ♪ ♪ Monsters are real, little love ♪ ♪ And your heart is gold to steal ♪ ♪ They will call to you like foxglove Yet you will know the ♪ ♪ ruse ♪ ♪ You are a luminary ♪ ♪ Heir to the lamp you carry ♪ ♪ Undaunted, you walk around this haunted, war torn town ♪ ♪ and you don't know how to hate♪ ♪ Darling heart, stay that way ♪ ♪ For yours, I know, could melt a heart of stone... ♪ ♪ Can you hold the fire?

Can you hold the storm?

♪ ♪ Can you save the children from the mad dog at our door?

♪ ♪ At times a mountain is for the climb, sometimes no better ♪ ♪ place to die Hold this ground...

Hold this ground ♪ ♪ We be not kings, little lark ♪ ♪ There's aftermath to everything ♪ ♪ As mercenaries draw the dark Another brings the dawn ♪ ♪ You are a luminary ♪ ♪ Heir to the lamp you carry ♪ ♪ Undaunted, you walk around this haunted, war torn town ♪ ♪ and you don't know how to hate♪ ♪ Darling heart, stay that way ♪ ♪ Yours, I know, could melt a heart of stone... ♪ A few summers ago, I was playing at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, and I was really excited because I've never been to Texas.

This is Your Time on the Road, and it started in San Antonio.

♪ ♪ Flew into San Antonio ♪ ♪ For a day and a really great show Need to be in Seattle by ♪ ♪ tomorrow ♪ ♪ I have friends I don't know yet waiting for me ♪ ♪ Oh, Chicago, it's good to be Back where I have a little ♪ ♪ history ♪ ♪ Missed a call while onstage in New York City ♪ ♪ But tonight before we sleep, there's your voice on the ♪ ♪ phone... ♪ ♪ "Wherever you go, just know You can come back home ♪ ♪ Don't stay far away ♪ ♪ I long to hear the tales of your time on the road Sing the ♪ ♪ songs of the road ♪ ♪ And if you don't belong out there Turn around and come home" ♪ ♪ Sing good morning to Raleigh now Then to the coast for a ♪ ♪ most lovely town ♪ ♪ I wrote this down bound for Nashville and the home crowd ♪ ♪ Even now-lost or found-there's your voice on the phone ♪ ♪ Wherever you go, just know You can come back home Don't stay ♪ ♪ far away ♪ ♪ I long to hear the tales of your time on the road Sing the ♪ ♪ songs of the road ♪ ♪ If you don't belong out there Turn around and come home ♪ ♪ And no matter how long you've been gone... ♪ ♪ Wherever you go, just know ♪ ♪ You can come back home ♪ ♪ Don't stay far away ♪ ♪ I long to hear the tales of your time on the road Oh the ♪ ♪ songs of the road ♪ ♪ If you've been too long out there Turn around... and come ♪ ♪ home ♪ My sister, Jenelle, Jenelle Schmidt is an author, and she's written a series of books called The Minstrel Song Series, which I know I'm entirely biased, but they're some of my favorite books.

one of the characters sings a song, I'll leave it at that.

And Janelle, she actually wrote the lyrics and she put them in the book so you can read them in the book.

But she sent me the words, and she asked if I would put them to music for her.

This is that song.

This is the Edge of Wave and World.

♪ ♪ Surround me with horizon over rippling waters blue For ♪ ♪ though, my dear, I love thee, my heart is only true ♪ ♪ To adventure of the seas and the mournful mermaid's songs ♪ ♪ Upon the ocean's wild waves is where my soul belongs ♪ ♪ Surround me with horizon over rippling waters blue For ♪ ♪ though, my dear, I love thee, my heart is only true ♪ ♪ To adventure of the seas and the mournful mermaid's songs ♪ ♪ Upon the ocean's wild waves is where my soul belongs ♪ ♪ oooooh.

ooooooh ♪ ♪ Though her winds may rage and toss my ship about I will ♪ ♪ remain forever loyal and devout ♪ ♪ Chasing my ocean love with every sail unfurled ♪ ♪ Until I die or safely come to the edge of wave and world ♪ ♪ oooooh.

ooooooh ♪ ♪ I'll follow her forever, my one and only love Guided by her ♪ ♪ waves and the constant stars above I'll sail far away with ♪ ♪ her to strange uncharted lands♪ ♪ And beg my lover rest me there upon her nameless sands ♪ ♪ oooooh.

ooooooh ♪ ♪ oooooh ♪ ♪ Chasing my ocean love ♪ ♪ Until I die or safely come to the edge of wave and world ♪ Last year, after losing 40 over 40 shows and struggling with how to deal with that, I was encouraged to focus on what I could do.

So I turned my attention to the Christmas album that I've always wanted to create.

But at that point, I hadn't had the time to do so yet.

So I'm going to play you one of my Christmas songs, if that's all right.

This is Call Me North and I hope you like it.

♪ With the bitter cold and falling snow Longing and belonging call me north To the mellow woods I've always known And a cabin there well -hidden by a storm Evergreens above the weathered door Windows trimmed and brimming golden light Draw me in as they've ever done before Leave behind reminders of the winter's bite Loving arms and voices pull me in I toss my coat and hat upon the floor The walls can hardly hold us all within Yet the heart is always finding room for more We all have a place around the table The empty chairs remain there like we've asked Silver frames overrun the mantle Holding frozen flashes of Decembers past There's room for more Call me north Trying as I might, I can't stay long For an hour now I'll mind the glowing fire Early, long before the Sunday songs I'll take my gloves and make little of the going-I Wish that I could stay a little longer But a taxicab will take me with the dawn Somehow I'm a little stronger here And I miss you all before I have even gone With the bitter cold and all the falling snow Longing and belonging call me north To the mellow woods I've always known And a cabin there well-hidden Call me north