(woman) "Prairie Musicians" is made possible by the North Dakota Council on the Arts and by the members of Prairie Public.

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[guitar intro] [playing in rock rhythm] ♪ ♪ ♪ Last night I ♪ ♪ Got so drunk I couldn't breathe ♪ ♪ Junebug greets you in the morning ♪ ♪ Sounds rolling over the hills and prairie ♪ ♪ Lights flashing ♪ ♪ Cool dancing ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ But I didn't see a thing ♪ ♪ I was staring at a single light ♪ ♪ Intensively ♪ ♪ Fractured ♪ ♪ Simple circuitry ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Last night I ♪ ♪ Felt so low but so inspired ♪ ♪ That creativity ♪ ♪ Was chained down by a tired feeling ♪ ♪ With sounds rolling over hills and prairie ♪ ♪ Lights flashing ♪ ♪ Cool dancing ♪ ♪ Yeah but I didn't see thing ♪ ♪ Or an empty ambulance lights on wailing ♪ ♪ Fractured system ♪ ♪ Failing oh ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Hi, I'm Sonda Sauers from the band Wildly Appropriate out of Bismark, North Dakota.

I play guitar and sing.

Our other members include Bart Goop who plays guitar and sings with me.

Our drummer, Bryce Mack, bass player Sky Froelich, and keyboards, Gus Lindgren We knew we were going to have to give our sound a name.

Bart who sings a lot of the other songs, a lot of the songs she's written, has a very punk feel to her, very raw.

And I've got a lot of more blues and when you combine them we see things that they seem to work, and we really love playing together.

Also, we practice in my garage, and we've really been a garage band.

My neighbors stop by, and they'll listen for a little bit and hang out.

We've met some interesting folks, so we just decided on groovy garage rock.

♪ Dear sister why so sad ♪ ♪ ♪ "Dear Sister" is a song I wrote as a means of comfort for myself at a moment that I was struggling, but it's really about women uplifting each other and battling internalized depression.

Playing in a band where we have two female fronts, and we're playing electric guitar and pedals, and it's not something that you see incredibly frequently, at least not in North Dakota, and we like to model that for other women and little girls, that we can redefine what a musician looks like.

So "Dear Sister" encapsulates that, but it goes beyond that and just really about, yeah, women uplifting one another.

[playing in slow folk-rock rhythm] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Dear sister why so sad ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Tell me now sister is it really that bad ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Let's build together and not tear down ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Causing pain won't heal your own ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Dear sister why so mad ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Know where it hurts not set fire to it ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Don't put yourself on that homemade island ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Don't hold captive that which we love ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Dear sister please don't fear ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ For it's only passing by ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Dear sister we all must go through it ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ But we're waiting in love on the other side ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh dear sister ♪ ♪ Dear sister ♪ ♪ Oh dear sister ♪ ♪ Dear sister ♪ ♪ Oh dear sister ♪ ♪ Dear sister ♪ ♪ Oh dear sister ♪ ♪ Dear sister ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [playing rhythmic punk rock] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I went sprinting with ♪ ♪ My gray intentions ♪ ♪ You don't answer phone calls ♪ ♪ I try not mention it yes ♪ ♪ Only in passing ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And if you ever really ♪ ♪ Did need something ♪ ♪ I'd come bearing only ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ What I can spare But god damn I'll share ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ But god damn I'd share ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I can't believe ♪ ♪ I've created such a beautiful thing ♪ ♪ Waited all my life just to hear it sing ♪ ♪ I felt you creeping up in the backseat ♪ ♪ I can't believe you had to seize up such a terrible thing ♪ ♪ Waited all my life just to hear it sing ♪ ♪ Felt you creeping up in the back ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I went sprinting with ♪ ♪ My bad transmission ♪ ♪ You don't need to bother me ♪ ♪ If I never mention it ♪ ♪ And only in passing ♪ ♪ I will try to ♪ ♪ Tell you when I do really just ♪ ♪ Need something ♪ ♪ Will you induce the numbing ♪ ♪ Float me out of any care but you say you don't share ♪ ♪ You say you don't share ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I can't believe ♪ ♪ I've created such a beautiful thing ♪ ♪ Waited all my life just to hear it sing ♪ ♪ I felt you creeping up in the backseat ♪ ♪ I can't believe you had to seize up such a terrible thing ♪ ♪ Waited all my life just to hear it sing ♪ ♪ I felt you creeping up in the back ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [playing in rock rhythm] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Well you opened up your mouth ♪ ♪ And out poured our lives ♪ ♪ They entered our home ♪ ♪ Just to watch us die ♪ ♪ Broke into my soul and ♪ ♪ Stole half my mind ♪ ♪ But you left behind a bridge that you ♪ ♪ Burnt up in the fire ♪ ♪ It's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ I'm long long long long long ♪ ♪ Long gone ♪ ♪ It's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ Well I've moved on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ See you left me with nothing but my paper ♪ ♪ And a new name yea yea ♪ ♪ And now I know life without you ♪ ♪ Is really just the same ♪ ♪ Still I can't undo these things we've undone ♪ ♪ No no ♪ ♪ And you've left me with no path to choose but one ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And it's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ I'm long long long long long ♪ ♪ Long gone ♪ ♪ And it's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ Well I ♪ ♪ Oo oo I ♪ ♪ ♪ [keyboard solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ You know it's very true ♪ ♪ What they say yea yea ♪ ♪ You make your own bed ♪ ♪ You're gonna lie in your own grave ♪ ♪ You forced my hand there's nothing I could do ♪ ♪ Tell me why you gotta go and be ♪ ♪ Such a naive fool ♪ ♪ And it's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ I'm long long long long long ♪ ♪ Long gone ♪ ♪ It's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ Well I ♪ ♪ I've moved on ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ It's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ I'm long long long long long ♪ ♪ Long gone oh ♪ ♪ It's too too too too too ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ Too late ♪ ♪ I've moved on ♪ Hi there, my name is Bart Goop, and I play lead guitar and sing in Wildly Appropriate.

A lot of songs I write tend to be layered, and there's a lot of different meanings going on in there and a lot of different things based on what's happening in life that mostly happen because I write all the time.

And so things formulate together that way.

♪ Well last night I ♪ ♪ Felt so low but so inspired ♪ I've done solo shows for years, and even with WIldly Appropriate, after shows when younger kids come up to me and ask me how can I do this too?

That's just-- I love it, I love it!

Because it's just do it.

There isn't a way, I mean, there's formulas and rules you can follow so you can find your way to where you want to go, but just do it.

If you do something genuinely, and you do it because you love it and it's your passion, other people are going to see that you love that thing so much, and they're going to want to join you and be a part of your journey.

For me that's what's so good about it, because I've always been singin', I've always been bangin' on the guitar, and screamin' songs that I make up.

It's just so nice to be able to do it with other people and to be able to have other people enjoy it and to inspire people because it's... yeah, you just gotta do it, you just gotta do it.

It never hurts to have created something.

It's never a waste of time, it's always worth it, always worth it no matter what it is you're making.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [playing in retro rock rhythm] ♪ ♪ ♪ I made a point to say goodbye ♪ ♪ But you're passed out under the stage ♪ ♪ Couldn't even look in your eyes ♪ ♪ Because your hat was over your face ♪ ♪ I was tripping on something sobbing in the Chevy ♪ ♪ At least 20 busted cigarettes around me ♪ ♪ So sorry could we start over ♪ ♪ Without forgetting anything ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ So what are you doing baby ♪ ♪ You maybe had a few scares lately ♪ ♪ God was talking to ya through your TV ♪ ♪ I still think of you Marina ♪ ♪ ♪ [guitar solo] [keyboard solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And the next day it's just the same ♪ ♪ Might always just be okay ♪ ♪ 'Cause to explain is a mess of rambling the solitude ♪ ♪ Pissing my past time away ♪ ♪ Tripping on domino's and decks of cards ♪ ♪ Queen of space with the ace of my heart ♪ ♪ So sorry could we start over ♪ ♪ Without falling apart ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ So what are you doing baby ♪ ♪ You maybe had a few scares lately ♪ ♪ God was talking to you through your TV ♪ ♪ I still think of you ♪ ♪ Marina ♪ ♪ I still think of you ♪ ♪ Marina ♪ ♪ ♪ [establishing the tempo] [playing in rock-blues rhythm] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I will I will I will follow ♪ ♪ I will I will I will lead ♪ ♪ I will be everything you dreamed of ♪ ♪ I will be nothing you need ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I have left behind the body ♪ ♪ I am nothing within ♪ ♪ You may try to free me ♪ ♪ But I'll never let you win ♪ ♪ For I will I will I will follow ♪ ♪ I will I will I will lead ♪ ♪ I will be everything you dreamed of ♪ ♪ I will be nothing you need ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ You have eaten up the sunshine ♪ ♪ You are drunken of the rain ♪ ♪ Dark stars dwell above below you ♪ ♪ Writhing wriggling wrapped in vein ♪ ♪ And I will I will I will follow ♪ ♪ I will I will I will lead ♪ ♪ I will be everything you dreamed of ♪ ♪ I will be nothing you need ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And we will see ♪ ♪ How far we have fallen ♪ ♪ As we descend ♪ ♪ To the valley below ♪ ♪ And we will fear ♪ ♪ As six follows seven ♪ ♪ What lies beneath us ♪ ♪ And patiently grows ♪ [guitar solo] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ We are barren ♪ ♪ We are empty ♪ ♪ We have given all to you ♪ ♪ Now you've tired of the spoils ♪ ♪ Nightmarish fruition ♪ ♪ Your dreams come true ♪ ♪ I will I will I will follow ♪ ♪ I will I will I will lead ♪ ♪ I will be everything you dreamed of ♪ ♪ I'm gonna be nothing you need ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (woman) "Prairie Musicians" is made possible by the North Dakota Council on the Arts and by the members of Prairie Public.