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I booked an impromptu recording session and am tracking my first co-write as we speak. (If you remember, I came here in February—the last time I had a few songs recorded—and for the first time ever, I wrote a song with other people: lyrics, melody, and guitar.) I’m improvising on this keyboard with no sheet […]

That moment when you have had a smile perpetually plastered on your face for so many days in a row that you hope it returns to normal.

Did a little backup singing in the recording studio today. I’ve talked before about how nerve-racking that is for me. I told myself that this chance doesn’t come along very often in one’s lifetime, let go, and sang my little heart out. Okay, okay, how it really went down: the husband and producer had to […]

I had my own assistant during last night’s co-write session: Me: “So, Harlan, do you think we should do an instrumental bridge?” Harlan: “Woof.”

It took two hours to complete our co-write session: my second and Ken’s first. And yes, we wrote a happy song (and not just because I uncharacteristically consumed alcohol earlier in the day). I think I could get addicted to this. The co-writing, not the alcohol, just so we’re clear. If you remember, Jennie is […]

Ken and I just finished a tour of the Jack Daniel Distillery which included six samples of whiskey. (If you know me at all, you know I don’t normally drink.) We are now headed to a co-write. My lips are still a bit numb and I’m a tad giggly. Methinks there is another happy song […]

Thirty-one years of marriage with this guy and it just keeps getting better. Celebrating in Nashville with a few more music recordings (like I mentioned yesterday). Yeah, I know, I know…I was only going to do one song. Thanks for everything, Ken. Can we come back here soon, like really, really soon…. uh, I mean […]

Remember that day I was stuck with the Roland keyboard during my last trip here to Nashville? Well, I started composing on that thing and had the main gist of the song done in one hour. (It helped that I “recycled” some instrumental music from a long time ago—one of the only ones I could […]

That glorious moment when you are on your way to Wendy’s for french fries and a Frosty (because you need to kill an hour before your recording session) and you realize you are a within a block of Vui’s Vietnamese restaurant. I may or may not have jumped up and down for joy in their […]

Ken and I toured the Grand Ole Opry this morning. Oh, to stand in “the circle” for realsies. Wait, I’m a songwriter. I guess that hallowed spot is reserved for singers. I don’t know who Roy Acuff is, but I’m going to use his words as my mantra when I try to nail measures 91-106 […]