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Trouble In Time (single)

from Trouble In Time by Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder

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This song was written during the events surrounding the horrific death of George Floyd, after attending several Black Lives Matter protests in Seattle, seeing all of the very real pain, wanting so badly to see real change, and watching with immense sadness the handling of these events by our president.

This year has been just so so heavy emotionally to sift through, in so many ways, for so many folks. Songwriting is and has been my form of self-therapy,so writing this felt like a natural method for processing at least a little bit of this heaviness.

My husband and I recorded in our home studio, with myself on guitar, and what wound up being just a one-take vocal as the lead vocal, plus lots and lots of harmonies layered in, and Jeff playing pretty much everything else. We asked our dear friend Keith Lowe to join us on the upright bass to help flush out this organic, roots/folk/soul sound. We’re very happy with how it turned out. We hope that it’ll be an emotional balm for you in these troubling times.

lyrics

Watching days unfold
What each day will hold
It's like a bad dream you can't wake up from
Take a step toward
New ways to reform
The old guard's there to bring us back from

Remember unity
Remember grace
Let us to
A better place

Trouble In Time
Trouble In Time

Watching 45
Drive a wedge inside
It's like they told him
Divide and conquer
We're standing on the street
Asking for a seat
At a table we all belong to

Land of liberty
Land of the free
Lead us to
A better day

Trouble in Time
Trouble in Time
Trouble in Time
Trouble in Time

With our children watching
With our parents, grandmas
With our uncles aunties and our brothers
People dying every day
People looking for a better way
We can do it if we try

Land of liberty
Land of the free
Lead us to
A better day

Trouble in Time
Trouble in Time
Trouble in Time
Trouble in Time

credits

from Trouble In Time, track released November 20, 2020
Tekla Waterfield - vocals, acoustic guitar
Jeff Fielder - guitar, drums, percussion, vocals
Keith Lowe - upright bass
Produced/engineered by Jeff Fielder
Mixed by Eric Eagle of Skoor Sound
Mastered by Martin Feveyear

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Tekla Waterfield Seattle, Washington

Award winning Seattle based indie-folk singer/songwriter, Tekla Waterfield and her powerhouse multi-instrumentalist/producer husband Jeff Fielder self-released Waterfield's 2018 album, The Curtain Falls, garnering song placement in indie film, Dakota, with the music video for Nice Try selected by the SIFF and One Reel for screening at 2019 Bumbershoot Music Festival. ... more

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