Sharon Wolfe

Co-owner of Not So Alone Publishing, LLC,
Lead writer, & lead music business coordinator

Sharon grew up on a farm, the oldest of five. Her career at a newspaper from 1973 to 2009 mostly was as night beat reporter covering spot news & the police beat. But writers have to write something.

 Wolfe is a lifelong volunteer in a small town near Bloomington-Normal & an avid old house fixer-upper...on her 5th & probably last one. She has one grown daughter who lives out of state. 

Lora Gates

Co-owner of Not So Alone Publishing, LLC,
Vocals, lyrics, co-producer, business assistant

Lora is lead vocalist, a song writer & co-producer on all songs.  Lora is number five of seven children, & herself a mother of three.  She works in her family's HVAC business & fills in for her brother Nathan's gospel bluegrass band New Legacy. Lora is also a nanny & karaoke DJ. She grew up singing with her family & living out of a tour bus. Lora lived inside each line of every song we wrote.

Stacie ShawbacK

lyrics

Anastasia "Stacie" Shawback has a full-time day job as an accountant in Bloomington, Il. She is  lead singer in the band Audio-faction. The local band plays "feel good" music like Americana, Southern & Country rock.  She has won local singing contests.

Shawback & Gates worked with Wolfe reworking dozens of songs in scattered sessions over two years. Shawback came up with vastly better song names & numerous  lyrics that took Sharon's orginal songs to better bolder places.

Erik Nelson

 Engineer, lead producer, lyrics, music business & marketing coach

Erik has been in the music studio business in Bloomington-Normal since the 1990s.  Nelson, a Grammy-nominated engineer, producer & song writer, opened Eclipse Studios in 2000 in a non-descript building in a Normal, Il. Industrial park. 

 But what happens inside his studio is anything but ordinary. Erik takes words on paper &  the vision of song writers & makes music magic happen. He was utterly on fire inventing improv lyrics, especially the chorus of our Taverns song.

Nelson, a seasoned multi-instrumentalist, played keyboards, bass, guitars,  drums, dobros & banjoes on the project.

Chris Hays

Vocals, lyrics

Owner of Hays Construction & Remodeling, a small family owned business he started after high school in 1989. Chris is a natural behind the mic at karaoke, but the Taverns & CEO songs were his first time in a music studio.  Both songs involved only two takes each in studio. 

Hays was jaw drop good at lyrics changes in studio with the 2 songs.  He put in a full day at construction before studio in the afternoon.