Alma Drake: guitar and vocalSebastian Sauder: CellosAnnie Savage: Violin and violaString arrangement: Jean Littlejohn Songs come from … who really knows? The sky? A muse? And muses can be nearly anybody. I’d been working with a batch of Songwriting Mastery students, playing with chords a LOT. This chord progression came up for me after a […]
Usually, after I have recorded a bunch of songs, I immediately start making up new ones. I’ve written a few, and some have been used for other things (like The Harmony Tree and In A Garden of Hope recently choired up by the Family Folk Machine), and some of them are … not quite done,
My shiny new husband has been away for 4 months taking care of parents who are end-of-life stage. It’s got to be done, so he’s there, doing it. Fortunately, or possibly unfortunately, he works “from home,” meaning wherever in the world he is, so he can work from darkest Arkansas as well as from right
Recording has been where all my energy has gone the past 3 weeks, so … here’s another song. But wow, I have made it through the stash of 25 (and added a 26th because reasons) so I’m feeling pretty stoked about that! Nothing to beat the summer blues like making things you’re really happy with.
Ya know what I wanna do? I want to abolish all clocks in my orbit and live exclusively on Solar Time for a solid year, just to see how that feels. It’s not gonna be easy, but man, I really want to. I mentioned it to Michael this morning when the sun was just to
Procrastination is a great big sign. Maybe not from Goddess, or from God (certainly not that one god), but it’s a great big sign nonetheless. I have been stuck in a great big procrastination cycle since about … oh, let’s call it March of 2020. Everything stopped. And never quite got started up again. It
And how’d that work out? He became even more of a superstar because a bunch of uptight fuddy-duddies couldn’t deal with all the hip waggling. They just blasted a giant spotlight of rage on him and all the kids said, “That’s what I want,” and well … Long Live the King. The Stones and the
The Sun is blowing us kisses again. There are auroras forecast for as far south as Alabama tonight (Friday the 10th). Michael and I are gonna head out to a fave dark sky spot and enjoy ’em. And yes, of course I have written a song about auroras. I have seen three of them in
I spent years creating music out of pain. Real pain. Intense frustration. Deep sadness. And then … my life changed and the reason for all that was (ahem) divorced from my world and suddenly, I had room to be pissed off about other things. Climate change. Social justice. Sexual equality. Bodily autonomy. Much more productive
Creating art can be an act of resistance, which is maybe one of the major reasons to do it. Art can show us new ways of thinking, new ways of understanding an idea. Maybe we’re afraid of something and we read a story in which the object of our fear, a spider or a snake
