A composer, guitarist, and harp guitarist who is celebrating the release of her new CD and board game, just released last month. This follows previous innovative releases that were also not just audio only. Her new release is Top 3 on the folk charts and she has more than 27 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where her top five songs alone have a combined total of more than 3.1 million streams. She has equally amazing numbers on YouTube, where she has gotten a combined total of more than 2.2 million video views. She is performing extensively, including already being booked as far out as February of next year. This marks her third time on this show, having previously been on Episode 319 in March 2020 and Episode 211 in February 2018.
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“I like to continually reinvent myself or I guess it just kind of happens.”
“I had Mark Kibble join me, the great singer from Take Six, and he did all these layers of harmony and just a fantastic job, and so he's on two tunes on the album, and Suzy Bogguss, my favorite female singer, is on it. So, I have my favorite male singer and my favorite female singer on the album, so it's just really exciting to have these wonderful people to work with.”
“I said, ‘This is a gift, this song,’ and sure enough when I woke up, I could remember the melody, the lyrics, the harmony, the two guitars, the bass, drums, every detail of that, and it's only the second time that's ever happened in my life in such detail.”
“I thought, ‘I think this sailing trip is going to result in an album,’ and I made sure to pay attention to the moments, as I wanted to try to capture them in music.”
(the new album’s companion board game) “It’s an extension of creativity and I guess when I was little, I wanted to be an inventor and just come up with new things… I like to do something different with each project, for me that's fun. I mean I used to create games when I was a kid, so it's nothing that different from what I did for fun and creativity when I was young.”
“The thing that's maybe a little bit more difficult is not capturing only the melody that they made but the way they made me feel, and so that's when I felt I really had something… the way that I felt from the experience, that takes a little bit more developing of the melody.”
“After a little tour of the ship I took my guitar out and, to my surprise, he took a guitar out that he had in his cabin and a harmonica. He was a blues player. And we ended up jamming until the sun dipped down.”
(regarding her Monday livestreams) “Somebody comes and says, ‘Oh, you know, this has been such an important part to, you know, lift my spirits, you know, each week,’ and so, okay, I got to continue doing it.”
“I want everyone to leave that room feeling happy, feeling joy, feeling the world is a good place or a better place than it was, and I think that that's what people need, and I think that's my obligation to give them every show.”
“The songwriter in my dream is a better writer than I am and so I'm respecting her wishes.”
“Perseid”
“Sailing Dream”