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(cool jazz intro music) This week on Inland Sessions.

♪ Start diggin' ♪ ♪ It's time to start diggin' ♪ Spokane, musician and percussionist, Chris Rieser, and The Nerve perform some of their favorite homegrown music.

(cool jazz music) (guitar solo playing) (cymbals playing) (two guitars playing) ♪ Nicotine ... nicotine ♪ ♪ Sweet tobacco, if you know what I mean ♪ ♪ Gimme a light, I'm a smokin' machine ♪ ♪ Free my soul, I'm a slave to that nicotine ♪ ♪ Nicotine for breakfast, on the way to work ♪ ♪ Smoke my lunch, I chew my dessert ♪ ♪ Coffin nails, carcinogen ♪ ♪ Feed my cancer with a Turkish blend ♪ ♪ Ashes to ashes, butt to butt ♪ ♪ Can I bum a smoke?

♪ ♪ I'm a nicotine slut ♪ ♪ If you don't have a smoke and you don't have a chew ♪ ♪ I'll eat the beer soaked butt from the bottom of your shoe ♪ ♪ Nicotine ... nicotine ♪ ♪ Sweet tobacco, it's a deadly routine ♪ ♪ Please, forgive me if my habit's obscene ♪ ♪ Free my soul, I'm a slave to that nicotine ♪ ♪ I don't know why I want it ...

I want it ♪ ♪ I don't know why I need it ...

I need it ♪ ♪ You won't know why you want it ... you want it ♪ ♪ You won't know why you crave it... ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ After a meal, after sex ♪ ♪ I like to chew while I'm sleepin' ♪ ♪ but the drool makes a mess ♪ ♪ Carbon monoxide, formaldehyde ♪ ♪ 'Scuse me while I step outside ♪ ♪ Rotten teeth, zombie breath ♪ ♪ Skin tinged yellow like the face of death ♪ ♪ I tried the patch with the gum and a pinch of snuff ♪ ♪ Up my nose, in my lip, I wanna shoot the stuff ♪ ♪ Nicotine ... nicotine ♪ ♪ Sweet tobacco, it's a deadly routine ♪ ♪ Please, forgive me if my habit's obscene ♪ ♪ Free my soul, I'm a slave to that nicotine ♪ ♪ Oh yeah ♪ ♪ I'm talking about that nicotine ♪ ♪ I can't stop ♪ ♪ Oh... no ♪ ♪ I can't stop ♪ ♪ Just gimme a little more ♪ ♪ I'm a slave to that nicotine ♪ Nice job.

My name is Chris Rieser.

I've been living in Spokane Washington for about the past on and off the past 47 years.

Originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

I've been playing music since I was six years old, and I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, singing in the choir.

I have been blessed my whole life with being able to work with some of the best people in the industry.

I started off playing in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, playing live in the area, and then eventually worked my way into the studios.

It was an absolute, incredible era from 1969 to I'd say about '75 or '76.

When I went on the road out of Nashville.

And then I wound up in Spokane area.

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(drumsticks beat) (instruments playing) ♪ Well I heard that there comes a time for leaving ♪ ♪ Yes I heard but I never thought I'd see you today ♪ ♪ You and me I'll agree we got a good thing ♪ ♪ But I just can't believe these things that I hear you say ♪ ♪ I can't take it this way ♪ ♪ Shovel start diggin' ♪ ♪ Start diggin' ♪ ♪ Shovel start diggin' ♪ ♪ I'm tired of living this lonely life of mine ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ Now I see you had me for just a play thing ♪ ♪ Well I must have been just a day to day thing to you ♪ ♪ But it's real what I'm feeling for you baby ♪ ♪ But you say ain't no way not even maybe I lose ♪ ♪ So what's the use ♪ ♪ Shovel start diggin' ♪ ♪ Start diggin' ♪ ♪ Shovel start diggin' ♪ ♪ I'm tired of living this lonely life of mine ♪ ♪ I was alone when we used to be together ♪ ♪ Tell all of my dreams goodbye ♪ ♪ Now I'm alone and there's no sense of doing it ♪ ♪ Can't take it can't take it ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ Shovel start diggin' ♪ ♪ Start diggin' ♪ ♪ Shovel start diggin' ♪ ♪ I'm tired of living this lonely life of mine ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ This lonely life of mine ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ Ooooh ♪ (instruments playing) My daughter, Ruby was born in Huntsville, Alabama.

We were on the road and my wife at the time went into labor about three months early, and she struggled really, really hard but she has turned out to be an amazing human being.

She is the brightest light in my life.

We must be a family of fighters.

It was ten years ago that I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, stage four.

And they gave me at the most six weeks.

When I got the diagnosis Ruby was quite young and she was in the room with us.

And I just told the oncologist, there's no way that I'm not gonna fight this, whatsoever.

And by the grace of God, the most excellent doctors at Fred Hutchinson and University of Washington, as well as here in town at Cancer Care Northwest, I have just been so, so very lucky to have come out of it and still be able to play music.

There's always side effects, but you know what?

I've been given ten years.

So I am thankful, really truthfully.

I just feel that I've lived such a blessed life and I'm not done yet.

I've been playing music for over 50 years, 55 years.

And there's still a lot that I wanna do.

I was put on this earth to make music and to be as good a dad as I can possibly be to my daughter.

The name of the band is The Nerve and we have Chris Kelly on the base.

We have Rick Lillemon on the guitar.

My name is Snap, and we're going to do a song that Rick wrote for me several years back during a rough go of it.

(instruments playing) ♪ I'm in remission from my condition ♪ ♪ All my pain is dissipating and I feel like I've grown ♪ ♪ As for you symptoms just leave me alone ♪ ♪ I'm in remission but I still harbor suspicions ♪ ♪ Cause I know you lie in wait deep in my bones ♪ ♪ So don't try and trick me ♪ ♪ Just leave me alone ♪ ♪ So I say to this world I love the most ♪ ♪ Raise your glasses for a toast ♪ ♪ Here's to deliverance and sweet remission ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ I'm on a mission with your permission ♪ ♪ Cause I know I've got to tend all these seeds I have sown ♪ ♪ I've passed the audition so I'm going home ♪ ♪ So I say to this world I love the most ♪ ♪ Raise your glasses for a toast ♪ ♪ Here's to salvation, here's to redemption ♪ ♪ I'm going fishing ♪ ♪ with sweet remission ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ I love my remission ♪ (instruments playing) ♪ In my bones in my bones ♪ ♪ there's true remission ♪ ♪ I've seen ♪ (drums beating) (acoustic guitar music) ("Just Another Day") ♪ Half a world away ♪ ♪ She sits inside her room ♪ ♪ Slipping away ♪ ♪ Time has been unkind ♪ ♪ With all that she's been through ♪ ♪ It's just another day ♪ ♪ At the window she stands by ♪ ♪ A picture, she and you ♪ ♪ A look still brings her a smile ♪ ♪ And as she feels she's done ♪ ♪ Everything that she could do ♪ ♪ She looks the other way ♪ ♪ For a life to live ♪ ♪ Don't let it slip away ♪ ♪ Don't let it go ♪ ♪ You'll find the words to say ♪ ♪ And they will know ♪ ♪ That it wasn't of her choice ♪ ♪ That words could comprehend ♪ ♪ What they're going through ♪ ♪ But had he heard her voice ♪ ♪ His love would not have end ♪ ♪ But what's a girl to do ♪ ♪ I can see it in your eyes ♪ ♪ Just a matter of time ♪ ♪ Then you'll take your love away ♪ ♪ And you'll be on your way ♪ ♪ Just another day in the life that we live ♪ ♪ Just another day in the life that we live ♪ ♪ It's just another day ♪ ♪ It's just another day ♪ ♪ In the life that we live ♪ ♪ Just another day ♪ ♪ Just another day ♪ ♪ Just another day in the life ♪ (upbeat acoustic guitar music) ("Stella's Garden") ♪ Take me down to Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Where everything smells so sweet ♪ ♪ Meet me down at Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Fall in love with everyone you meet ♪ ♪ Roll in the lavender beds ♪ ♪ And the little brown truffles ♪ ♪ Citrus and cinnamon raspberry ruffles ♪ ♪ Breathe through your skin ♪ ♪ Take it all in ♪ ♪ I'll twist some lime in your Coke ♪ ♪ And not drink in the essence ♪ ♪ Scatter your troubles like ashes of incense ♪ ♪ Soak up the rain ♪ ♪ Be born again ♪ ♪ Take me down to Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Where everything smells so sweet ♪ ♪ Meet me down at Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Fall in love with everyone you meet ♪ ♪ We'll fall asleep beneath rainbows of soft summer showers ♪ ♪ Dream in a bed of calendula flowers ♪ ♪ Sail on the breeze ♪ ♪ Capture some Z's ♪ ♪ We'll wade through peppermint tingles and fresh eucalyptus ♪ ♪ Sip lemon drop dew from your skin so delicious ♪ ♪ Au naturel, throw in the towel ♪ ♪ Take me down to Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Where everything smells so sweet ♪ ♪ Meet me down at Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Fall in love with everyone you meet ♪ ♪ Take me down to Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Where everything smells so sweet ♪ ♪ Meet down at Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Fall in love with everyone you meet ♪ ♪ Take me down to Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Take me down to Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Where everything smells so sweet ♪ ♪ Meet me down at Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Meet me down at Stella's garden ♪ ♪ Fall in love with everyone you meet ♪ (cool jazz outro music)