Box Elder is a band based in the westside of Atlanta. We are about big choruses and driving grooves.

This is our demo tape.

We are:
Paco Treviño- Guitars, Vox
David Dalziel- Bass
Laura Jauch- Drums
Joel Norman- Keys
Elliot Reardon- Engineering and Mixing

Box Elder Demo

Maybe it was the day that I thought you'd show up
Maybe it was the way I thought I did enough
Now it’s hard to say the way things will end up
Cause I know the timing's tough

You're gone to California
But you never left my mind
And when I go looking for you
I only waste my time

Maybe it was the day that I let you walk by
Maybe it was the way I thought you wouldn't mind
Now it’s hard to say if we will ever find
What seems so far behind

You're gone to California
But you never left my mind
And when I go looking for you
I only waste my time

My memories they chase the past
So ignore your fears break through the glass
I'm convinced that we will last

You're gone to California
But you never left my mind
And when I go looking for you
I only waste my time

You never left my mind

California

She loves like her mother, she’s patient and kind
Always thinks of the other, she taking their side  
And i can’t understand why she’s taken by me
But i won’t disagree

She sure like her father, faithful and true
She reads like no other its a disciplined view,
And I’m trying to keep up as shes taking the lead
But i tend to recede

Still im taking my time
And i’m trying to hide
That i’m terrified and i won’t know

She's strong like her brother, she dont take no shit
She’s warm like her sister, she's my favorite friend
There's a comfort she brings with the silence we keep
Oh what a dream

Still im taking my time
And i’m trying to hide
That i’m terrified that I won’t know

It's not that i don’t think that we can’t make it
Still it's doubt that drives the fear that keeps me shaken
But she‘s know that i could never live without

Still im taking my time
And i’m trying to find
The peace of mind
In being sure

Taking My Time

Ferris wheel goes ‘round like cogs inside my head
There’s letters lost and found with words I wished I’d said
I wanna hear the sound “I want you next to me”
How my world stays round is still a mystery

I wanna waste away my day with you
There’s nothing I would rather do
I wanna waste away my time with you
There’s nothing I would choose to do

In a field of maize I’m lost with no way out
I cannot keep the pace but I know beyond a doubt
Your lips my favorite taste and I don’t want to forget
My minds in a haste for miles my one regret

I wanna waste away my day with you
There’s nothing I would rather do
I wanna waste away my time with you
There’s nothing I would choose to do

So let’s be still, ignore the distances that we can’t fill
So let’s get lost, I don’t mind the wait you’re worth the cost

I wanna waste away my day with you
There’s nothing I would rather do
I wanna waste away my time with you
There’s nothing I would choose to do

Wasting Time

I’m the master of bad ideas
But this one’s not
I understand all your reservation
We won’t get caught

Only time will tell
So go and cast your spell

Climb the rooftop
Come sit by my side
We’ll find the things
That seem to run and hide

Don’t be scared to fall
Underneath it all

Trying hard to be the same
Will never let you find what you’re like
Digging through all the pain
Will show you what you keep hiding  inside

Don’t be scared to fall
Underneath it all
Cause only time will tell
So go and cast your spell

Time Will Tell

You burn like the sun in the desert sky
I can’t turn and run, there nowhere to hide

But I still want you
I still need you
I still want you but you are
My shooting star

There’s a part of me that can’t let go
But still I can see you’re my fools’ man gold

But I still want you
I still need you
I still want you but you are
My shooting star

Even if the skies turn to grey
Even if the clouds brought the rain
There’s no amount of downpour that could come down
And wash me, cleanse me and make me forget

You haunt like the moon on a deep blue night
When I think of you, I die inside

But I still want you
I still need you
I still want you but you are
My shooting star

Shooting Star

Once a month for the rest of the year, I will put out an EP with 3 covers and 1 original song. This is a project to pay tribute to some of my favorite artists who's songs have influenced me, inspired me, and helped shaped my musical tastes, as well as a way to share some of my own songs. This first edition features:

1. Swear to God the Devil Made Me Do It - The Front Bottoms
2. Cath.. - Death Cab For Cutie
3. Walls No. 3 - Tom Petty
4. Home - Paco Trevino

Hope you'll enjoy it and join along for the ride.

Walls No.3 (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

Cath.. (Death Cab for Cutie)

Swear to God the Devil Made Me Do It (The Front Bottoms)

Once a month for the rest of the year, I will put out an EP with 3 covers and 1 original song. This is a project to pay tribute to some of my favorite artists who's songs have influenced me, inspired me, and helped shaped my musical tastes, as well as a way to share some of my own songs. This third edition features:

1. Thanks for the Ride - The Wonder Years
2. Acolyte - Slaughter Beach, Dog
3. In Framing - The Hotelier
4. About Grace - Paco Trevino

Hope you'll enjoy it and join along for the ride:

Acolyte (Slaughter Beach, Dog)

Thanks for the Ride (The Wonder Years)

Once a month for the rest of the year, I will put out an EP with 3 covers and 1 original song. This is a project to pay tribute to some of my favorite artists who's songs have influenced me, inspired me, and helped shaped my musical tastes, as well as a way to share some of my own songs. This fourth edition features:

1. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
2. I Need You - The Beatles
3. Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
4. Wasting Time - Paco Trevino

Hope you'll enjoy it and join along for the ride!

Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen)

Once a month for the rest of the year, I will put out an EP with 3 covers and 1 original song. This is a project to pay tribute to some of my favorite artists who's songs have influenced me, inspired me, and helped shaped my musical tastes, as well as a way to share some of my own songs. This fifth edition features:

1. Jesus Etc. - Wilco
2. Tessellate - Tokyo Police Club
3. Go With The Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
4. Briars & Thieves - Paco Trevino

Hope you'll enjoy it and join along for the ride!

Go With The Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)

Once a month for the rest of the year, I will put out an EP with 3 covers and 1 original song. This is a project to pay tribute to some of my favorite artists who's songs have influenced me, inspired me, and helped shaped my musical tastes, as well as a way to share some of my own songs. This sixth edition features:

1. Lover - Taylor Swift
2. Drove Me Wild - Tegan and Sara
3. Recover - CHVRCHES
4. Some Kind of Gray - Paco Trevino

Hope you'll enjoy it and join along for the ride!

Recover (CHVRCHES)

Lover (Taylor Swift)

This was an unplanned addition to the 3 covers series. All of these songs have in one way or another had an impact on me during quarantine and provided a break from the mundane routines of life at home. This EP features the first live song in the series, its a song Ian Palmer and I played on my birthday a while back at Eddie's Attic. I hope you'll give these a listen and that these songs can be of some comfort for you too.

1. She's American - The 1975
2. Hysteria - Def Leppard
3. Nearer My God - Foxing
4. Soul for Sale - Live at Eddie's Attic

Stay safe out there.

Soul for Sale (Live at Eddie's Attic)

Nearer My God (Foxing)

Hysteria (Def Leppard)

She's American (The 1975)

Paco Treviño is a singer-songwriter from Atlanta, GA. He has spent the past few years playing house shows, bars, and open mics around the country honing his songwriting skills, musical abilities, and his on stage Tom Petty impression. He blends earnest songwriting, vocal harmonies, sweet guitar arrangements and just the right amount of self-deprecating stage banter to invoke both humor and feeling with the every beat.

Paco Treviño

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