Singer, songwriter, guitar and piano player whose new album will be out next month. She got signed to a publishing deal a year ago and her music has been recognized by the likes of Rolling Stone, CMT, and NPR, and, has gotten placed in films and TV shows. She also co-wrote a song that was on a Grammy-nominated album. On Spotify she has over 27 thousand monthly listeners, and two of her songs on there have gotten more than a million streams each. For her latest single she, just over six weeks ago, released a music video done with a director who has also done the same with Cage The Elephant, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Jack White, among others.
"The producers felt like it would come across a lot more honest - not having a click track in the ear - so, if you wanted to really listen to it, the tempo is not consistent either, so then you really can't go fix things."
"It is very hard to make a music video and have it just be the artist. It's really hard to keep that interesting."
"I'm a hippie at heart."
"She's just one of the few songwriters that I think you get to meet in a lifetime where you're kindred spirits instantly and you just connect on a creative level, which is something that I am so thankful for to have in my life."
"I call it Frankenstein recorded... but, I mean, that's how 99 percent of people make records."
"I'm a piano player and also guitar player and I have a kind of a natural bossa nova almost jazz-influenced style of guitar picking that I play."
"I just feel like that's one of the most powerful messages we can be spreading right now to anybody is to let them know that no matter how hard or dark your life seems there's somebody else that has been through that and they've made it through too and so can you."
"I write so much... I mean, I think last year I turned in 96 songs."
"I just think, what is the point of writing all these songs and recording them if you're not going to put them out? What's the point of them sitting on my computer and never being heard?"
"Because of the pandemic... I'm not going to be touring this album at all. Which is crazy."
"I started to get really sick... They couldn't figure out what I had for about two years, and, I eventually got diagnosed. I almost died."
"I always thought I was kind of chasing after something 'cause I'm very curious by nature. But looking back on it now as an adult woman, I think that I was just running from the pain of losing my dad."
"Holding music back is only going to hold your creative art back."
"Firewalker"
"Alcohol"
** Bonus audio with Shannon LaBrie **