So yesterday my guitar player for this album I’ve been trying to make, went into the studio for the first time. Unfortunately the scheduled time that worked best was during the day time and I had to be at my day job, but I did get Jered to sit in on the session & I got to sneak away from work for an hour or so to listen & give my wee input. (more…)

verse
I had a vision of you
Letting go of the brokenness
Letting go of the bitterness

And I had a vision of you
Giving into forgiveness
Giving into the truth (more…)

These days I have been feeling a plethora (love that word) of overwhelming emotions. I’ve never really been one to over analyze and compare myself to others, but I have to admit I have been catching myself comparing what I am doing with my life, my music and such to what other people are doing and what they’re accomplishing. Why am I doing that? STOP IT. There, hopefully I listen. (more…)

Like I mentioned in my last blog, I haven’t been writing as much as usual these days. Well, in the last week that has really started to change! Thank heavens! This weekend I went down to Calgary for a night to cowrite with Ashley Rae (country singer/songwriter) and Joni Delaurier (singer/songwriter – winner of a SOCAN songwriter of the year award in fact!!).

Ashley & I wrote two songs together Friday night & Ashley, Joni & I wrote one song together Saturday afternoon. Two weekends ago I got together with my lovely friend Erica Viegas (Edmonton singer/songwriter) and wrote a song with her! So that’s four songs in less than 2 weeks, and my heart feels freer than it has in a while. (more…)

* So it has been a pretty dry spell for writing for me these last few months. Bits & pieces, here & there but no real full song ideas… it’s been rough because I tend to express emotions I didn’t even know I was experiencing through the songs I write. So I’ve been feeling pretty stuck. This song is not only a breath of fresh air for that, but also a description of the way I’ve been feeling in regards to writing and life in general.

verse
these days
they all feel the same
I’m bored out of my brain
and I need a change (oh, oh, oh)

but that change it never seems to come
so I’m holding on
I’m just holding on (more…)

So it’s been a while since I blogged on here about the progress of my record. Well that’s mostly because things have come to a bit of a hault. As I mentioned before we’re in the process of recording the drum tracks, which means my little turtle of a husband is in charge of the pace of the recording these days. Godbless him, he prefers a lot of prep time and practise time, because he likes to be able to play his best (I’m NOT complaining obviously – we all want our musicians to play their very best). So that’s where we are at the moment. He’s been in the studio twice, and recorded 4 drum tracks of the 9 he’s playing on. They sound fantastic and I’m really excited to see what else he has in store. He’s in Vancouver at the moment playing with Shane Yellowbird at the Winter Olympics. His usually hectic gig schedule has been on a bit of a hiatus lately so he has been playing some more local shows with singer/songwriters from around town. (more…)