- Thank you guys so much.

(bright music) - [Narrator] Tonight on Stage, take a front row seat for the inspiration, connection and joy you've been missing.

Two back-to-back episodes of the Lower Town Line, featuring the music of Haley Bonar and Chastity Brown.

♪ The San Francisco lights at dawn ♪ - [Dessa] "The Lowertown Line" is made possible by The State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, and the citizens of Minnesota.

(synthesizer plays softly) (audience applauding) - Thank you guys so much.

(bright music) ♪ The San Francisco lights at dawn ♪ ♪ Blinking down the road that we've been traveling on ♪ ♪ Holding onto what we've got ♪ ♪ Asleep against the window like I'm something you forgot ♪ ♪ The stereo is fading ♪ ♪ I feel that heavy weight again ♪ ♪ The static and the lightning ♪ ♪ Can't keep me from remembering ♪ ♪ I'll be here till morning ♪ ♪ I'll be here till morning ♪ ♪ I'll be here till morning ♪ ♪ Singing slightly out of tune ♪ ♪ Nowhere in Wisconsin underneath a summer moon ♪ ♪ We were somehow out of place ♪ ♪ I knew that I could love you by the shadows on your face ♪ ♪ The rain had started falling ♪ ♪ I grabbed you and began to run ♪ ♪ If we could run forever ♪ ♪ Then we'd never have to kill the fun ♪ ♪ You'll be here till morning ♪ ♪ You will get back on the plane ♪ ♪ Go back to the world ♪ ♪ Where you never knew my name ♪ (bright music) ♪ Holding hands across the sea ♪ ♪ Laughing at the future that was hanging from the trees ♪ ♪ Weekending in Camelot ♪ ♪ We're getting pretty good ♪ ♪ At being something that we're not ♪ ♪ I could be your baby ♪ ♪ And you could take good care of me ♪ ♪ And treat me like a lady ♪ ♪ Be each other's somebody ♪ ♪ You'll be here till morning ♪ ♪ You will get back on the plane ♪ ♪ Go back to the world ♪ ♪ Where you never knew my name ♪ ♪ Where you never knew my name ♪ ♪ Where you never knew my name ♪ (bright music) (audience applauds) - You've been described as an American alternative country singer.

Does that description fit?

Do you think with what you do?

- I think other people consider my music to be more country than I do.

- Yeah.

- I think maybe the way that I sing or my accent, or even though I'm from South Dakota, it seems like that's the connotation that goes with it.

Some of my songs are countryish, but... - In what way?

Like in the lyrics, in the vocals, in the guitar?

Like... - Yeah, there's definitely some train beats (laughs) - Yeah, okay.

- in a couple of songs.

And just like kind of sad and croony, depressing sort of music, yeah.

- Got it.

(Haley laughs) When you're writing a song here at home, do you usually start on guitar, on piano or either/or?

- I usually start on keytar and then... (laughs) - No you don't.

That's a total lie.

(laughs) (Haley laughs) - I don't really have an either/or, it's just whatever I feel like playing.

But I find that I start out most of my songs on the piano.

- All right, and then do they sometimes like jump?

Do they move to guitar?

Okay.

- Yeah.

Some of the songs on my newest record that are pretty fast and rocky, and they started out as just like really slow piano and just like giving myself enough time to make up the lyrics and think about what I'm gonna... And so, it just depends on the song.

- And when did you start making music with a mind of doing that vocationally?

- I don't know.

I feel like it's probably hard to make that decision before you're actually doing it.

I never got into it because I thought I could make a living.

It was just something that I like to do.

But the first time that I got paid to do a show was at a bookstore in Rapid City, and I just like, I couldn't believe it.

I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

And I have to remember that sometimes.

When I'm doing that and I'm stressed out about money or whatever, it's like, well, you get to do what you like and it's cool.

♪ Don't you love a man who cries ♪ ♪ Can't find any of them ♪ ♪ He falls all over everything you write ♪ ♪ Can't find any of them ♪ ♪ Once you loved his hippie ways ♪ ♪ And now you want him to cut off all his hair ♪ ♪ See what he's made of ♪ ♪ Wipe his tears away ♪ ♪ 'Cause you know that he will stay ♪ ♪ And you can get away with anything these days ♪ ♪ We can get away with anything these days ♪ ♪ Oo-oo oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ I don't want no sensitive man ♪ ♪ I don't wanna talk ♪ ♪ Shut your eyes and play me something good ♪ ♪ I don't wanna talk at all ♪ ♪ Just let the record spin ♪ ♪ And I'll punch you in the back ♪ ♪ 'Cause you won't put up a fight ♪ ♪ I have all the strength you lack ♪ ♪ And I can get away with anything these days ♪ ♪ We can get away with anything these days ♪ ♪ We can get away with anything these days ♪ ♪ Oo-oo-oo oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo-oo oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo-oo oo-oo oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo oo-oo ♪ (audience applauds) Thank you.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) (gentle guitar music) (bright guitar music) - [Dessa] So is there a music scene in South Dakota where you grew up?

- There was actually.

I mean, there's a lot of folk music based in South Dakota, but the music that I was exposed to most was like the punk and metal and the indie bands that were coming through, and that was great because I don't think I would have seen any shows besides like the Steve Miller Band if I didn't go and participate in these get-togethers as my mom called it.

- Get-together?

(Haley laughs) Does get-together mean like basement show or were they- - There were basement shows, there was a warehouse, there's shows at the 4-H Club or like in the basement of the old folks home or whatever, and we were always trying to figure out where we could hold the next show.

- And then from South Dakota, you went to college at the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus.

- Yes.

- Right?

Did you have aspirations of becoming a musician or...?

- No, I actually was there to study English Lit and I was getting a minor in Women's Studies.

I found that I spent time that I should have been doing my homework for those classes sneaking down to the piano rooms in the Music Department, and I was always too intimidated to actually enroll in any music classes at the college.

- Why intimidated?

Like scared of performing in front of people or...?

- One, just hearing people play scales and then do classical music, and everyone can read and everyone's very like educated in that regard.

I was super intimidated by that 'cause I can't.

(laughs) Did you play piano when you were a kid?

Like had you taken lessons or...?

- Yeah, I did.

I took lessons kind of off and on for the better part of my childhood, but I honestly never considered studying it, because to me it was too much of a fun thing to do on the side in my spare time.

(soft piano & guitar music) (bright music) ♪ It's not as cold up here ♪ ♪ As you may recall ♪ (bright music) ♪ The fire is wild and warm ♪ ♪ In the last night we have ♪ ♪ In the last night we have ♪ ♪ And of course ♪ ♪ I'm this gun without a horse ♪ ♪ In the last war we had ♪ (bright music) ♪ It's not as lonely up here ♪ ♪ As I was in a dream ♪ (bright music) ♪ We were naked as the day we came ♪ ♪ And the water's up to here ♪ ♪ To here now ♪ ♪ And of course ♪ ♪ I'm this gun without a horse ♪ ♪ In the last words we said ♪ ♪ In the last breath we laughed ♪ ♪ In the last war we had ♪ ♪ In the last war we had ♪ (bright music) (audience applauding) Thank you.

(gentle piano music) - Was there a point when you started when you were 20 where the win might seem like getting signed by a major?

Like that was how you could define success?

Like did you hope to be signed by a major label when you were starting out?

- I actually, I didn't, and I was going to sign to a major label at two different times and I said no.

And- (laughs) - Why did you say no?

- Because they wanted me to sound like a certain part of one of my songs that I had.

They said, "You know that part on 'Car Wreck'?

That song, that sort of vibe that you have, we want that."

And I was like, "Well, you know what?

That isn't all of this.

I got to be creative, and I can't just do that."

I mean, and I'm stubborn and I was way more stubborn back then.

So it was like, "Oh, you want me to be like that, huh?

- Yeah.

- No."

- Oh, yeah.

- I look back and I think, wow, you had some balls back then to do that because a lot of people were like, "How can you just turn down this label and all this money and this 15-year contract including the greatest hits?"

And I was like, because it's terrifying and I'm young and I don't know what I'm doing yet.

And to give that away to somebody with extreme like legal complications - Yeah.

- involved at this point just seemed really, it seemed crazier to me.

(bright music) ♪ After some thought ♪ ♪ On the subject ♪ ♪ I've decided ♪ ♪ That I've kinda lost it ♪ ♪ I feel stupid and confused ♪ ♪ On anything ♪ ♪ That has to do with you ♪ ♪ And I got a bad reputation ♪ ♪ I got a bad reputation ♪ (bright music) ♪ Too much coffee ♪ ♪ And no smoking ♪ ♪ I feel a little lame ♪ ♪ Like I'm kinda boring ♪ ♪ I wish I could ♪ ♪ Date my former self ♪ ♪ She'd be a fun girlfriend ♪ ♪ She'd be a fun girlfriend ♪ ♪ She got a bad reputation ♪ ♪ She got a bad reputation ♪ ♪ She probably needs medication ♪ ♪ She don't care about no reputation ♪ ♪ And I've lost a little bit ♪ ♪ But I'm gonna find a girlfriend ♪ ♪ I'm gonna go find a girlfriend ♪ (bright music) ♪ I have dreams about the end of the story ♪ ♪ There's no explosions ♪ ♪ There's never any holy glory ♪ ♪ Just a bunch of people lost and sleepy ♪ ♪ Trying to find someone ♪ ♪ Trying to find someone ♪ ♪ We got ourselves a bad situation ♪ ♪ We got ourselves a bad situation ♪ ♪ We gotta get to the next space station ♪ ♪ To save ourselves from this bad situation ♪ ♪ And we've lost a little bit ♪ ♪ But we're gonna go find it ♪ ♪ Gotta go find it ♪ (gentle music) ♪ I got a bad reputation ♪ ♪ I got a bad reputation ♪ ♪ I probably need medication ♪ ♪ To save myself from this bad reputation ♪ ♪ Mmm mm-mm-mm-mm-mm ♪ ♪ Mmm mm-mm-mm-mm-mm ♪ ♪ Mmm mm-mm-mm-mm-mm ♪ (audience applauds) Thank you so much.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) - [Dessa] Okay, what about musical influences?

- I grew up listening to the oldies station.

I love what everybody loves, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn and I was influenced greatly by that and also a lot of grunge and rock music in the '90s and stuff.

So- - What kind of grunge stuff?

- Oh, Nirvana of course.

I mean, it's like answering these questions, I always feel like just a big, long cliche.

- I know.

- Like just poops out of my mouth.

(Dessa laughs) It's like I like Nirvana, (Dessa laughs) I like the Beatles, - (laughs) Cool.

- but I do.

(laughs) - Yeah.

- So... - Okay, what about non-musical influences, if there are any?

- Yeah, I can get the same sort of inspiration from reading a good book or watching an awesome film or seeing a dance performance - Yeah.

- as I can seeing a show or listening to a record.

So there's definitely a lot of authors that I love.

Like one of my favorite authors is Charles Bukowski.

I started reading him when I was really young, probably way too young.

- Did you find the book somewhere?

- I did.

- Yeah.

- I found it at the library and it was like, whoa, this is so strange and dark and he's mean,/\ and he's also got this heart and this sweetness to him that I just found was really unique.

(drums crackling) (bright music) ♪ Greener sleeves than apples trees ♪ ♪ I can feel it in between my toes ♪ ♪ And I love you baby heaven knows ♪ ♪ How much it means to me to be alone ♪ ♪ I'd call you on the phone but I hate the phone ♪ ♪ I can barely even answer it while I'm at home ♪ ♪ Besides I'm half my way on down to Mexico ♪ ♪ So I'll see you on the other side ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ You're the only one that loves me unconditionally ♪ ♪ If the condition's like the dishes and the laundry ♪ ♪ You know I'd love to play the monkey but the beer is free ♪ ♪ And I got nothing left to hide ♪ ♪ I'm sure that I'll be missing Christmas in the summertime ♪ ♪ Send a letter with a picture holding baby of mine ♪ ♪ I'll be drinking Coca-Cola gladly wasting time ♪ ♪ Half naked on the Great Divide ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Oo-Oo ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Heaven's made for two ♪ ♪ Oo-oo-oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo... oo oo... oo ♪ ♪ Oo... oo ♪ ♪ Oo... oo ♪ (energetic music) (audience applauds) Thank you so much.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) Thank you guys.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) - [Dessa] "The Lowertown Line" is made possible by The State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, and the citizens of Minnesota.

(bright music) "The Lowertown Line" is made possible by The State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, and the citizens of Minnesota.

(shoes clicking) (gentle guitar music) (water bubbling) (gentle guitar music) (box creaking) (gentle guitar music) (gentle music) ♪ You were on your way up ♪ ♪ I was on my way down ♪ ♪ When I passed you my hand ♪ ♪ I did raise like the old time ♪ ♪ You were on your way to ♪ ♪ The land of the bible ♪ ♪ Where they tell you to kneel down and pray ♪ ♪ It was just solely ♪ ♪ It was solely for me ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely for me ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo-oo ♪ (gentle music) ♪ I called my friend and asked him ♪ ♪ Where did you take him ♪ ♪ Where did you lay him I wanted to see ♪ ♪ So I grabbed him some flowers ♪ ♪ Grabbed him some daisies ♪ ♪ Some things I would have done as a kid ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ Solely ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ I had a day to get there ♪ ♪ I took my sweet time ♪ ♪ I drove through the valleys ♪ ♪ Drove through the plains ♪ ♪ Pulled up at midnight ♪ ♪ The light was still on ♪ ♪ I found myself between ♪ ♪ The stain and the frame ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ Solely ♪ ♪ Solely ♪ ♪ Oo-oo-oo oo ♪ ♪ It was solely ♪ ♪ It was oo-oo ♪ ♪ Solely ♪ (gentle music) (audience applauds) - Thank you.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) - So you're originally from Tennessee, or at least you spent a good share of your childhood there.

- Right.

- Well, what were some of the like biggest differences living in the South versus living up here in Minnesota?

- Well, Minnesotans are indoors for most of the year, whereas down South it's warmer so we're outside more often than not, starting the day, ending the day, and spending whatever you can of the day on the porch.

So this literally is my favorite place.

Like I would rather not be out and about at a club or a bar or coffee shop.

I just kind of enjoy the slow pace.

- But I presume in the South, like everybody's on their front porches.

- Yeah, that is the difference.

I am the only one- - Well, here you're like neighborhood watch.

(laughs) - There's some folks next door.

I love it.

They'll be bundled up playing chess and drinking coffee, so we give the head nod.

Other than that, mostly everyone stays inside.

But I at least get to see folks when they're coming and going.

And I just love picking, writing a song out here is so different than like plugging in anything.

- When you come out here to start writing a song, like do you know what direction you're headed in, or do you just kind of explore it as the sounds happen?

- One of the things about writing on the porch is that there's no, it's the easiest place to be, so therefore, in writing songs, there doesn't need to be any like specific direction.

It's just play, just sing, just write with no boundaries.

We're gonna blow off the porch here.

- I know.

(laughs) (Chastity laughs) (bright music) ♪ I was heading down a road ♪ ♪ Going nowhere ♪ ♪ But I didn't even know ♪ ♪ You know I didn't even care ♪ ♪ But along the way ♪ ♪ Came a word I was needing to hear ♪ ♪ The love came ♪ ♪ It turns ♪ ♪ Talking 'bout love real love ♪ ♪ Love can lift us ♪ ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout love ♪ ♪ Real love lovin' lovin' love ♪ (bright music) I do love all this noddin'.

Thank you all for choosin' to enjoy yourselves.

I appreciate that.

(bright music) I know we are.

(bright music) ♪ So you say you're all alone ♪ ♪ You been drowning in a sea of people ♪ ♪ I will throw you a rope ♪ ♪ Pull you to shore ♪ ♪ So you can feel this ♪ ♪ So love can lift us ♪ ♪ I'm talking 'bout love, real love ♪ ♪ Oh, no, no, love love now love can lift us ♪ ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout love ♪ ♪ Real love oh oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oo-oo ♪ ♪ Oh no no ♪ ♪ Oo ♪ ♪ Get on, get on down down ♪ ♪ Get no no ♪ ♪ Oo-Oo ♪ ♪ Oh no no ♪ ♪ Oh I'm talkin' 'bout ♪ (bright music) ♪ I'm talkin' 'bout ♪ ♪ Real love ♪ ♪ If you've ever been down on the floor ♪ ♪ You ain't got nowhere to go ♪ ♪ Keep on lookin' keep on lookin' ♪ ♪ Got to keep on lookin' up ♪ ♪ Love will lift you up ♪ (soft music) Alright, here comes a sing-along.

It goes early in the mornin', late in the evenin', and anytime in the afternoon.

So I'll set it up and let you beautiful folks take it over.

♪ Early in the mornin' ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Anytime in the afternoon ♪ ♪ Go early in the mornin' ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Anytime ♪ - Put your hands together y'all.

Here we go.

♪ Go early in the mornin' ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Anytime in the afternoon ♪ - Sing it out.

♪ Go early in the mornin' ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Anytime in the afternoon ♪ ♪ Oh yeah ♪ (bright music) ♪ Anytime, anytime, oh anytime ♪ (bright music) Let's shout it out one more time.

♪ Go early in the mornin' ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Anytime in the afternoon ♪ - Let me hear you.

♪ Go early in the mornin' ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ I need your lovin' ♪ ♪ Anytime ♪ ♪ I need your love ♪ ♪ In the afternoon ♪ ♪ Anytime oh anytime oh ♪ ♪ Late in the evenin' ♪ ♪ Anytime ♪ ♪ In the afternoon ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ (bright music) (audience applauds) Thank y'all.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) Thank you.

Thank you for singing.

- [Dessa] So you started playing music in the church.

Right?

- [Chastity] Yeah.

Like is the music that you now play in clubs primarily, right?

- Yeah.

- That's the venue where you perform most often.

Is there still a spiritual aspect to that for you or is this a totally different musical experience?

- No, I mean, I grew up in like a full gospel church, where like music takes over, you get down with a get down.

You have this sense of literally singing out of yourself, so it's a very physical, fully mode of singing.

And so, it wasn't even a matter of like having to translate it, it just seems to be the basis of how I create, which is to feel it and go from there.

- Wow, okay, so is it coming from like a less intellectualized place and a more like feeling place?

My criteria is that the story has to be true, all the elements have to support each other.

When I know that that is the case, then I allow myself to feel it.

There's times where I really feel a song, but I can't figure out how that story comes about, and I won't do it until the story is complete.

- When it does come, I mean, how do you, like is there a scramble to capture it so you don't forget it or you like - Oh, yeah.

- writing in your car, like sing into your iPhone, what do you do?

- I sing it over and over again.

I have never been the type to write songs down.

I just sing again and again and again, and then somehow it just gets locked in.

(slow, rhythmic gospel rhythm) ♪ Lord if you let me ♪ ♪ Live one more day ♪ ♪ I'll go ♪ ♪ And I'll do ♪ ♪ What I never did ♪ ♪ And I send ♪ ♪ Out my love ♪ ♪ To all of my friends ♪ ♪ Lord if you let me ♪ ♪ I'll make amends ♪ ♪ Lord if you let me ♪ ♪ I'll call cousin George ♪ ♪ And thank him for letting me crash there ♪ ♪ When I was on the road ♪ ♪ And I'll tell him ♪ ♪ That our blood ♪ ♪ Is purer than gold ♪ ♪ Oh lord if you let me ♪ ♪ I'll call cousin George ♪ (gentle music) ♪ And lord ♪ ♪ If you let me ♪ ♪ I'll go see my mom ♪ ♪ See she's there with my brother ♪ ♪ Her only son ♪ ♪ And I'll tell her ♪ ♪ Oh that I'm grateful ♪ ♪ For all that she done ♪ ♪ Oh lord if you let me ♪ ♪ I'll go see my mom ♪ ♪ And lord if you let me ♪ ♪ I'll sing one last song ♪ ♪ Till my hands are all bleeding ♪ ♪ And my voice is all gone ♪ ♪ And I'll sing ♪ ♪ Out my heart ♪ ♪ To this one last tune ♪ ♪ Oh lord ♪ ♪ If you let me ♪ ♪ I'll sing them the blues ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Oh lord ♪ ♪ Oh lord oh lord ♪ ♪ Oh lord oh oh ♪ ♪ Oh lord ♪ ♪ Oh lord lord ♪ ♪ Oh lord lord oh lord ♪ ♪ Oh lord ♪ ♪ If you let me ♪ ♪ I'll sing them ♪ ♪ The blues ♪ (soft music) (audience applauds) Thank y'all.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) - Does it feel like you have to know your audience and you have to let them know you better than if you were playing a different kind of music?

- I think so.

In some sort of way, my music requires that because it's storytelling, because it's folk music.

It wouldn't require that, I think, if I were indie rocker or had the type of music to where I could be removed from an audience.

Because I'm telling stories, I'm asking them to connect with me and I can't just assume that I deserve that.

I can't assume that because I love this so much and am passionate that that would somehow like earn me the right for their time.

Playing live in front of an audience, it's the most exhilarating, but at the same time, it took me so long to figure out the dynamic.

- The dynamic between you and the crowd, - Yeah.

- the dynamic between you and the guitar, between you and your players?

- Between it all, but most specifically, I'm the leader of this band, and to figure out what is a respectful way to lock in with an audience, at the same time, be absolutely authentic and in the zone to be able to lock in with these guys.

I've been playing out for a good eight or nine years, and it's only been in the last two years that I feel like I finally understand, and I stopped trying to fight how anxious I get, especially before a show.

- Are you prone to stage fright?

- It's not so much stage fright, as it is.

I'm just an anxious person in general, and so- (laughs) - Really?

You seem so chill.

- You have no idea!

It's like... (laughs) (Dessa laughs) But even like right before walking onstage, I get like very, very nervous and it kinda like runs through my veins.

The couple times that it has not happened, I blew it.

I just like, was just cut off.

At some point, you work so hard to like be so specific with your craft, and the way you put on a show, but those subtle nuances that might be mistakes are also why we love performing.

(soft guitar music) ♪ When I left my home this morning ♪ ♪ You know I didn't even cry ♪ ♪ Oh, when I left my home ♪ ♪ You know I didn't even cry ♪ ♪ I just bowed my head ♪ ♪ Felt like bees were in my eyes ♪ (soft guitar music) ♪ Guess I'll head on down the road ♪ ♪ Just to see what I can find ♪ ♪ Gonna get on down the road ♪ ♪ Just to see just to see what I can find ♪ ♪ Gotta be some work on 'round here ♪ ♪ Oh lord I'm gonna lose my mind ♪ ♪ Well now now I got me some fancy shoes ♪ ♪ Um ♪ ♪ And I've got me a dress to wear ♪ ♪ Put on my dancing shoes ♪ ♪ Get caught out in the midnight air ♪ ♪ Lord knows I done spent my blood y'all my sweat ♪ ♪ And all of my tears ♪ Give it to me!

(happy music) Y'all don't mind the blues, do you?

Help me out on this.

♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Oh when I left my home ♪ ♪ You know I began ♪ ♪ I began to cry ♪ ♪ Oh, when I left my home this morning ♪ ♪ Sho'nuff I began to cry ♪ ♪ I got to thinkin' 'bout what I done did to get here ♪ ♪ Oh it makes me wanna cry yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah give it to me.

Come on.

(happy music) Everyone get on.

(happy music) ♪ Gonna get (sings faintly) ♪ (happy music) ♪ Get on ♪ (happy music) (audience applauds) Alright, thank y'all.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) - [Dessa] "The Lowertown Line" is made possible by The State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota.

(audience applauds) (bright music) (audience applauds) - [Announcer] "Stage" is made possible by the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, the citizens of Minnesota, and by viewers like you.