COMING OUT OF THE PAIN part 2

This is shaping up to be an amazing week! My brand spankin new CD has been released into the great wide open! I have gotten one very amazing review at Nashville.com/music  (which I will post in it’s very own blog entry)  and I have heard from so many wonderful friends and fans that they are LOVING the album…. PLUS I have a gig tonight AND I head to FLORIDA (my favorite state)  to play a house concert this weekend! WOW!!! why can’t every week be this cool?

I am so happy that people seem to be loving this music! I can’t tell you how scary it is to work on something for a year and HOPE and PRAY that it ends up being worth it. All I could do was just keep going you know? Just keep writing and singing the best that I knew how. I tried to make good decisions about the color of the packaging, which pictures to choose, what to say inside…everything… so to hear that people like it is a big sigh of relief!  THANK YOU for buying it!!!

I would love to hear your comments/likes/dislikes…about the album…ok, well I dont really WANT to hear your dislikes, but I will…ha

I am off to make oatmeal then take one kid to dance then pack my clothes, then play my gig,  then fly off into the sunset and rock a lake house party  for Labor day :)) more later!

THANKS!!!

amyd

 

what does “Coming out of the Pain” mean? part 1

ok, it sounds ominous. Like I was in this  truly painful state, possibly medicated. hurt. torn. held down. repressed.  and I guess if you look at my music career, you could say I have been all of those things. (except mediated…I just Yoga)  But when we wrote “Coming out of the Pain” I didnt feel bad anymore. I felt hopeful and good and light. It wasnt sad or dark anymore.  I really did feel like I had come out of something. I think it is because for ALL of my life I have dreamed up things in my head. and when you do that, you automatically set an expectation. THEN people fuel those expectations. and when the end goal is not achieved…it hurts.  SO when I didnt “make it” as BIG as I wanted to (insert BLAME wherever you want to here) …I didnt really know what to do with that. Maybe I still dont. So I have gone back to basics. I have asked myself who I authentically am. (I know SO OPRAH  Right?) but I am just being honest here. I AM a songwriter. I AM a singer. I AM a performer. I DO love playing live music. SO that is what I do. as much as I can beg, steal or borrow my way on to the stage in any format.

 

I know everybody says this when they have a new album…but I LOVE this record. I do. I worked hard on it. I dreamed it. I lived it. I have prayed for it. I have put a whole lot of hope into it. I want it to do big things for me and for my family. I love it.  those are expectations right? yes…but somehow it feels different this time. I think its because I am not wildly dreaming anymore. I am keeping it very real. That is not meant to be sad…it  just means that I am more comfortable with the indi/grassroots thing now. cause what it boils down to is this…I can sing. and I can write. and I am damn good live. so that’s what I will do. without radio airplay. without a smarmy manager “handling” things. This is me. And I can do this thing. I can and I will.  I hope you will join this being’ out of the pain’ thing with me :)   hey, tell a friend…talk about “coming out of the Pain”  help me do this :) I so appreciate it. and YOU ;)) more soon

love, amyd

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