honored to share that i recently signed with @soundlymusic & have a lot of new music on the horizon. lately i’ve been finding myself in memories of the winter i moved away from nashville, driving through kansas to jobs that weren’t paying me on payday, listening to Hard Times by Gillian Welch on repeat. i was in a frozen place where i only ever dreamt about playing music, hoping i’d find a way to release the music i loved to make, create the things i loved to create. during that time i couldn’t figure out how to start writing again, doubted i ever would, and then, suddenly, i did. and while i’m still always humbled by how fickle inspiration can be, i trust now without a shadow of a doubt that these things really are cyclical. we kick off from the bottom because we have to, because our lives depend on it, because writing and singing and playing is finally coming up for air, finally filling ourselves with the light we couldn’t imagine seeing again when we were all the way down. and so i’m brimming with gratitude for this new partnership, happy to walk forward along a new path :)
i just finished reading Annie Bot by Sierra Greer last night. i was struck by how tender and terrifying it was and was surprised to find how deeply i related to Annie as a character. around halfway through the book, i started noticing similarities in Annie’s story and one of my songs, Dawn.
self-correction is one of the main themes i resonated with in Annie Bot and it’s one of the main themes that i wrote about in Dawn. it feels like they’re both about the ways our world conditions us to self-correct if we want to embody what a “woman” is. i loved noticing some other little synchronicities, too - her books, her relationship to her body, the dock at Lake Champlain. Dawn started with a line that didn’t actually make its way into the song (“dawn comes somewhere on the other side of the water and it’s the opposite of him”)and I’ve always seen this song taking place at this fictional lake and dock in my head.
reading Annie Bot moved me so deeply that i wanted to share with anyone who has read it. to anyone who hasn’t read it, I highly recommend it :) it’s probably my favorite read of the last two years.
TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT! kicking off our lil tour with a Masquerade Ball at @post82nashville with @allisonyoung.xo !!! doors at 7. show at 8. tickets are $15 at the door. bring cash if you don’t buy tickets ahead of time- there’s an atm at the legion though :)
footage by the iconic @curtis_wayne_millard
