Behind the Scenes: Nashville

Wrote a song today with this awesome group of people. Eek, it was so much fun. Recording sometime tonight since I’m hopping on an airplane and heading home tomorrow. Methinks I’m gonna have a hard time coming back down to earth after such a wonderful time here.

I came to Nashville with three songs to record. I am going home with five. Then again, I’m co-writing with two fellow songwriters tomorrow that I’ve never met. So, there may be six. Do you know how weird it is for me to say “fellow songwriters”? I still feel like an imposter in this world, […]

The four of us wrote a song today. Woot woot!

Recorded another one of my songs today. I don’t think I’ve ever cried that much during a session. It was my first time working with this singer and he was incredible. I’d say I need to stop all this blubbering, but isn’t that what music is supposed to do? Get you in the feels?

There are so many times in the studio that the producer and the singer talk back and forth while I sit on the couch with this look on my face. I didn’t go to college, so I am not well-versed in terms of the music industry. Some lingo and theory I’ve learned this week: “Fly […]

Spent ten straight hours in the studio today. I didn’t get back to the motel till after eleven o’clock. I should be going to sleep, but I’m too excited. I’m gonna listen to the 29 videos I took today instead. Tomorrow morning, we’re recording another one of my songs. In the afternoon, a co-write with […]

In the studio today, recording the song we wrote together yesterday. Good times.

I’m sitting in my motel room this morning going over the lyrics for the song I’m recording in a few short hours with my two co-writers. Like I was telling my good friend Katie last night, I can’t stop pinching myself. Not literally, of course, because that would be dumb. How did I turn into […]

Remember when I had a goal of walking 125,000 steps on my recent 10-day trip to Maui and I really did over 153,000? Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ll be lucky to hit 25,000 on this 10-day trip to Tennessee. Hmmm, sitting on my bahookie for hours on end in a recording studio seeing my songs […]

Boy-howdy was today a good day. First, the producer and I went over my two songs we recorded on Saturday. That’s my favorite part: hearing my creations take shape as Dallas adds guitar, drums, bass, and strings to “flesh out the tracks.” Look at me picking up the studio lingo. Then, I wrote a song […]