Celebrating 10 Years Sober

I recently celebrated 10 years of sobriety and I can’t believe it has been 10 years already.

It seems like just yesterday I almost died of alcohol poisoning. That was at my worst state when everybody had finally had enough of my shit. From jobs to family to whatever, I almost drank myself to death 10 years ago.

Now here I am now, enjoying life and music, opportunities to help others, getting around. I try to do as much service work as I can that God and time allow. The program that I work continues to save my life every day.

Sheldon Tyacke Country Music Canada

If you’re celebrating your sobriety milestone, you might think the party is over.

But the thing is now the party is Life - it’s enjoying relationships and activities, making it about time instead of letting people and myself down from being drunk and too afraid to go anywhere.

Sheldon in Nashville

 I had a great time playing at the Commodore Grille – the first time I played there in the Nashville Songwriter Showcase.

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What a blast to play with Amanda, Dennis and Pete.

Drove down with my girlfriend named Sofia who is a photographer, and got a lot of cool pictures.

Taylor Lewis, Amanda Colleen Williams, Sheldon Tyacke. Copyright 2022. Photo credit Sofia Petelina. Al Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.

Met some cool people.  A lady from Washington State was there.  We chatted with her a bit after.  She and her friend were in the front row and said they were really digging the show.

While I was in Music City, I got some great recording sessions at 522 Studio with producer and collaborator Amanda Colleen Williams.  There are lots of cool new tracks coming up in the future.

Also had a really cool show at the events center The 7695 and unloaded some Sasquatch gear.

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Had a really cool drive down from Canada, but I have to say Milwaukee was my favorite city besides Nashville.

I did have a special stop off in Chicago.  I’ll tell you that story sometime.

Thinking about putting out some new music soon

Now that things are starting to open up a bit, I’m thinking a lot about getting back down to Nashville to record some new music.

Been writing a lot with my friends from Tennessee and Texas U.S.A., and it’s been over a year since my last visit to The ‘ States.

Passing the time with long motorcycle rides with my photographer friend, Sofia.

Here are a couple of the pictures she took last week.

Motorcycles

I grew up riding motorcycles.

Most of them that I had my dad could never afford expensive ones.  So most of the time, we’d be pushing the motorcycle rather than actually riding the motorcycle.

We come from a mechanical family.  My dad would hand me a wrench and say, here’s how you do it, go to it.

Fix it on your own because I don’t want to fix it when I get home.

I first got to buy my own when I was in my 40s, I guess.  I love it.

And hot girls love motorcycles.