Cosy Sheridan & Charlie Koch - My Fence & My Neighbor (2018)

The latest CD from Cosy Sheridan and Charlie Koch - seven songs written by Cosy, and four by Charlie. Cosy wrote the title track in the weeks after the January 2017 presidential inauguration - when she was experiencing a need for connection and community despite having built a fence to protect her privacy. “When the neighbors first moved in, I”m the one who built the fence… We are living in interesting times / the sky falls every day… This morning I don’t need my fence; I need my neighbor on the other side." A video of the song received 30,000 views in a matter of days.

“We Plow In The Rain”, was inspired by a return to The Kerrville Folk Festival last spring. Cosy watched the songwriting competition - and sat down afterward with one of the contestants who did not win. “Here in this world we plow in the rain / we toil in the field to gather whatever will grow, / and I know your father was right / this might be the hard way.”

Cosy and Charlie met in 2012 when Charlie was Cosy’s songwriting student at a music camp. Cosy gave him a cd at the end of the week - and Charlie gave her a kiss goodnight. They started playing music together soon after that, and now Charlie tours with Cosy as her bass player.

Charlie spent much of his career as a professional horseman. He says it taught him the value of listening and staying present: good skills for a musician. Charlie’s songwriting is deeply personal - often looking back at life’s passages. In “Missing My Children”, he remembers the pain experienced by many after a divorce: missing events in his children’s life: “I’ve been talking with ghosts in the attic/ they are tattered and frayed, moth-eaten with age/ why is being here again/ supposed to heal the pain”.