2007.


so.
I started a blog about a week ago, and here I am one week later and I feel like somebody else. I can’t really relate to what I was saying then, which is mildly concerning, but ultimately inspiring. I’m always changing. Just like JLo on tour in between songs. So I’m starting over. And no one will EVER KNOW what I said before. (mwuahahahahahahha)
No big deal. I’m just super mysterious sometimes.

So I guess this point of these things is to let you all know what the EFF is going on with stuff regarding my musical life. And I will. But sometimes I want to tell you about personal stuff. And sometimes I don’t. So how am I feeling today?
Like I’m growing up. Like I’m still a little kid. Like I’m learning about all the shitty stuff that’s inevitable in life. Like I’ve bitten off more than I can chew…. But also like I’m really hungry and I’m going to keep chewing. Like there is so much magic to see and feel and write about that I can’t possibly see and feel and write fast enough. But also like I’m infinitely blessed with the opportunity to try.

To answer the question “WHEN IS THE ALBUM COMING OUT?” I can say with a big fat grin, “I HAVE NO IDEA”. J
But my best guess is late spring. I have some optimists, and some realists on my team of people. Not the kind of team that runs hurdles. I hurt my knee that way. Believe me, we ALL want to release the new music, but they keep telling me there’s a system to how this whole process works. And as much as I fight it…for now,
I am but a passenger
On a Safari
That travels by buggy
To an Elephant Sanctuary
Standing on the straw laden platform
Waiting for my turn to ride.
In my humble opinion, nobody analogizes the music industry with Elephant Rides enough.

To give you actual factual (rhyming’s in my blood) details…I have spent the last two days in the studio working on a radio version of Gravity. The album version will be the fruition of my initial vision for this song, and then there is this very new concept of what is appropriate for radio coming into play. I cannot claim to understand it all, and for all of you naturalists out there, don’t think I haven’t gotten my hands dirty in fighting the good fight. But I have to refer you to the Elephant ride thing again. My turn’s coming. I’m a lucky girl to get the opportunity to be heard. And this little voice will hopefully be there soon. J

I had my first photo shoot and it was awesome. Truly. I worked with an incredible photographer who made me feel comfortable and creative. I wore fancy clothes and had my hair did and my makeup done, and played queen of the castle for a day. Thank you to all those who worked to make that happen. It was a really wonderful day. (That’s where this photo is from… and we are printing up more of the sampler EPs to distribute… and this is the cover.) If this whole music thing doesn’t work out, I’m thinking of learning how to use Photoshop. That’s how inspired I was. This is serious.

Other than that, I can report with a bursting heart (in a good way, not a messy, see the doctor way) that my boys and I are hitting the road to hopefully begin what will be a long tradition of touring together. We have all been through so much, and have the battle scars to prove it. Sometimes after a few Coors Lights we compare scars. It’s gross. Don’t watch.
I have been so lucky to work with all the amazing musicians that have come and gone over the past four and a half years. We’ve had an unbelievable run together and I love each and every one of them for that. Don’t get me wrong, I am welcoming the future with a cheesecake and a bottle of wine, but I sure am grateful for the past.

Change is a necessity. Without it, we would all wear the same clothes all the time and look and feel and smell like shit. I’m so genuinely excited and ready to greet this year with an open heart, and my dukes in my back pocket. Well, one duke for each pocket, cause they still don’t make back pockets big enough to fit two fists at a time. Gap, get on it.
Never the less, Thank you for listening, for reading, for supporting, for feeling and for helping me feel like all this is important. I owe you big time.


More love than last time,
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