"A Folded Letter" is our second album, released on December 14th, 2016. You can order the physical and digital albums through our website: http://coldweathercompany.com/store, or digital through all major distribution platforms. Thank you for listening, we couldn't have put this all together without people like you!

All songs written and recorded by Steve Shimchick, Brian Curry, and Jeff Petescia.

Additional credits:

Kevin Lucero - Cello (Wide-Eyed, Reflection, Gettysburg)
Stephanie Leotsakos - Violin (When You Run, Gettysburg)
Colin Ryan - Drums (Regeneration, Gettysburg)
Rebecca Emont - Vocals (Another Involved)
James Mehrkens - Additional tracking
Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

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A Folded Letter

These are some tracks from over a decade ago (eep), with my college band, Ballynoola. Added to Soundcloud by request. 

Foggy Dew

My take on one of my favourite tracks from last year. 
I've upped the tempo to turn this euphoric track into something more dance floor friendly

Leviathan (D&B edit)

Cover of Wide-eyed by Cold Weather Company.

Wide-Eyed

She's the reason why 
mother nature is alive 
she's the reason why 
Tennessee survived 

The Flaming Lips, twitched her little hips
the sun and the moon, were forming an eclipse
the birds and the bees, die'n of disease 
mountains coal fountains, killing Tennessee 
doubters used to say, you can't do trapeze
so she tightened her grip 
she never ever slipped 
the doubters looked up to the total eclipse 
and they saw the girl swinging to the flaming lips 
the diamond in the sky made cynicism die 
the diamond in the sky made cynicism nigh 

She's the reason why 
mother nature is alive 
she's the reason why 
Tennessee survived 
She's the reason why, cynicism died 
 
The Flaming Lips twitched all their hips 
while the sun and the moon were waning from eclipse 
the birds and the bee's were breeding in the trees 
Tennessee mountains could breath in the breeze 
doubters became believers of trapeze 
she's the diamond from the sky which made them realize
the clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness

She's the Reason Why

"Wide-Eyed" was the first single from, and is the second track on, our second album, "A Folded Letter." The song was recorded in November, 2015 in a cabin at Lake Wallenpaupack, Pennsylvania.

Written and recorded by Brian Curry, Steve Shimchick, and Jeff Petescia. 
Kevin Lucero - Cello
Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

Lyrics:
People, lost in the haze, defeat their own lives, it seems
Aimless, wandering wide-eyed, I was bound to love again

I will do you no harm, I won't fly
I will do you no harm, I will try

Darling, hazel-eyed mountain song, my soul longs for you
Running, I wasn't gone for long, I've grown all for you

I will do you no harm, I won't fly
I will do you no harm, I will try 
I could die in your arms, I could die
I could die in your arms, I could die

What if I lose all sight and ambition?
What if my heart weakens my vision?
What if all I need is right in front of me? 

I could die in your arms, I could die
I could die in your arms, I could die
I could die in your arms, I could die
I could die in your arms, I could die

Available on iTunes

The track for the Raven King, written & performed by Maggie Stiefvater.
recorded and mastered by Third Stream Music: http://www.3smd.com/
special thanks to Andrew Hummel

He Began To Dream

"When You Run" is the third single from our upcoming album, "A Folded Letter." The album will be out on December 14th, but you can preorder it now through our website! http://coldweathercompany.com/store 

Written and recorded by Jeff Petescia, Brian Curry, and Steve Shimchick.

Stephanie Leotsakos - Violin
Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

Lyrics:

Open days they go...
From the moment you were old enough to dream and hope
We could see a future in your eyes, but sometimes it would change…

I can tell you that you worry when you run that way,
You run that way back home
To the comfort of all comfort

Voices calling out your name but you can only
Peer through the blinds as the passage of time consumes you

I can tell you that you worry when you run that way,
You run that way back home
To the comfort of all comfort

I can only sigh, I can only sigh

When You Run

"Another Involved" is the first track on our second album, "A Folded Letter."

The physical CD, digital download, and other items can be ordered on http://coldweathercompany.com/store

Written and recorded by Steve Shimchick, Jeff Petescia, and Brian Curry.

Rebecca Emont - Guest Vocals
Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

Lyrics:
Slowly, waiting for a chance to tell the blind
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)
It’s lonely, moving my own hands to change the time
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

Lowly, hidden by the flaws in your design
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

I’m solely rusted, in a state to feel a shine
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

Stone bleak, colors on the books you left behind
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)
The stairs creak, crooked in a site that once aligned
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)
Bone weak, buried underneath a web of vines
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)
Why seek, when you seem to show what I will find?
(There’s another involved, there’s a pain in these walls)

They say it’s no use, revealing what you’re feeling
When it all ends too soon
You’re far away, in disarray

The dust just accrues, you’re crumbling with the ceiling
And you watch as your room
Fades into gray and falls away

There’s a fear in these halls

These walls have no use, revealing what they’re feeling
When it all ends too soon
You’re far away, in disarray

The dust just accrues, you’re crumbling with the ceiling
And you watch as your room
Fades into gray and falls away

Another Involved

"Deep Breaths" is the fourth track on our second album, "A Folded Letter."

The physical CD, digital download, and other items can be ordered on http://coldweathercompany.com/store

Written and recorded by Steve Shimchick, Jeff Petescia, and Brian Curry.

Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

Lyrics:

Oh where do you begin?
Who can say what the astray will win?
A thread of the dread cut thin
You’re testing destiny with what’s under skin
To get through, with just two

Two deep breaths to breathe,
Between a daze of your thoughts beneath
Let them weave, lead
Weave, lead

Know the grim isn’t a fright, 
When on a whim into the night
Twisting in the morning when you come home alone
Twisting in the morning when you’re coming, you come come home

No, the grim isn’t a fright,
When on a swim into the white
Twisting in the morning when you come home alone
Twisting in the morning when you’re coming, you come come home

Know the grim isn’t a fright,
When on a limb, setting your sight
Twisting in the morning when you come home alone
Twisting in the morning when you’re coming, you come come home

To get through, with just two

Deep Breaths

"Ink and Paper" is the fifth track on our second album, "A Folded Letter."

The physical CD, digital download, and other items can be ordered on http://coldweathercompany.com/store

Written and recorded by Brian Curry, Steve Shimchick, and Jeff Petescia.
Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

Lyrics:

Darling, in your book of leather, tethered to your chest
There’s a folded letter
Written without rest

Twisting my own words, I wander, trying to convey
This hidden truth, I’ve pondered
Fearing to focus my days

All of my bittersweet lies, my blank smiles and longing goodbyes
Fault of a cowardly mind, I’ve lost all, waiting for signs
Waiting for signs

Desperate in this haze of vapor, words are aligned and unsure
But it’s just ink and paper
Writing to render my core

All of my bittersweet lies, my blank smiles and longing goodbyes
Faults of a cowardly mind, I’ve lost all, waiting for signs
Waiting for signs

Now in the night, how I long for you
Me, foolish pride, and my forlorn truth

All of my bittersweet lies, my blank smiles and longing goodbyes
Faults of a cowardly mind, I’ve lost all, waiting for signs
Waiting for signs

Ink and Paper

"Unbound" is the 10th track on our second album, "A Folded Letter."

The physical CD, digital download, and other items can be ordered on coldweathercompany.com/store

Written and recorded by Steve Shimchick, Brian Curry, and Jeff Petescia.
Ralph Nicastro - Mixing
Alan Douches - Mastering

Lyrics:
And I’m not gonna lay here staring at the flakes in the paint
While they dance in the sun
And I’m not gonna let you show me my direction
My feet know which way to run

And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound
Won’t look down, won’t look down
And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound
Won’t look down, won’t look down

And I’m never gonna let a little metal make me settle for a criminal life
When my soul wanders free
And you’ve got what I want but I’m never gonna let a little barbed wire line
Take what my soul believes

And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound
Won’t look down, won’t look down
And I won’t be bound, won’t be bound
Won’t look down, no, no, no

And with my head down low, at the window with my eyes closed
Along the rope we go, and we jump over the wire
Now we make way for the road

Unbound

written by Maggie Stiefvater & Andrew Hummel.

A track I've written for the audiobook release of Call Down the Hawk (November 5, 2019, read by Will Patton).

The Brothers Lynch

The Chase is the second single off Charlie DeCarlo's upcoming debut album, "Paper Birds." This Singer/Songwriter draws inspiration from some of his favorite artists as well as his own experiences. Charlie combines elements of folk, indie, Americana and pop, to create a sound all his own.

The Chase

The Pieces

by John Shimchick

The Pieces is about all that makes us human and those things we have tried or would have wanted to share with those we love.

It is dedicated to the memory of my father, John Shimchick
and to my friends on the staff of Acacia Hospice whose ministry is to help bring the pieces together in the lives of those they care for.

Words and lyrics, guitar: John Shimchick
Keyboards and production: Stephen Shimchick (Spiral Seas)

Lyrics:

You shared with us the pieces, again and again,
The people and the places, the families and the friends.
Things that were accomplished, all that’s left undone,
The beauty of the morning, the setting of the sun
The pieces now together, the first and the last,
The end in the beginning, the future and the past.

This is how the story goes
Moving in and out, here and there as a river flows.
This is just the way it goes,
How it worked and how it went, all we learned and what no one knows.

The pieces of each day
The colors and the sounds, conversations on the way.
Things that no one said.
That which we knew — but never said.
Things we understood,
What we would have done — if we could.

You shared with us the pieces, again and again,
The people and the places, the families and the friends.
You shared with us the pieces, together and apart,
The stories known by everyone and those within your heart.

(July, 2020)

The Pieces

Coffee. | Beabadoobee. (Cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbrJUDec0Q8

Halloween (Phoebe Bridgers Cover)

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Unbound

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