I am sitting in good ol’ St. Arbucks right now, in my little home of downtown Decatur, GA. I am wearing a sweater. And a scarf. Both of which make me so happy. I am not a hot weather girl. I am a boots, jackets, sweaters, scarves kinda girl. Today, on this very perfect 9th of October, I am releasing the next batch of songs that I worked on over the summer.
When it was hot.
When I recorded the vocals in a hot warehouse storage/band practice area at night, because the sun had gone down and the heat of the day had dissipated for a bit. For the day. For a few hours.
Deke, my good friend, and my genius producer, constructed a little vocal booth out of blankets and a couple rolling walls. We would have a fan blowing in the booth in between takes to try and make it bearable for when I was in there. I can’t listen to these songs now without remembering the heat and the late nights. The only time I will remember heat fondly, I think.
The song “Twine” with its green and white and its strings makes my heart swell.
“Lucille” was written after a particularly painful trip to NYC where I spent time with two different friends who were/are going through very difficult and/or growing (depending on how you look at it) times in their lives. Unrelated and yet not. Separate but always and ever together in these lyrics.
“Spanish Bombs” is a cover song from The Clash’s “London Calling” album. I fell in love with this song after I was asked to cover it for an ATL Collective event last year. I suspect the Spanish in the song is most likely wrong but I chose to sing it true to how good ol’ Joe originally sang it. I just chose to sing, “Oh my heart” at the end. Changing the Spanish to English to reiterate the beauty of the words. It really is a beautiful song. I just hope Joe isn’t turning in his grave.
I sang the song “Sweet Hello” through 3 times. No stopping. No cutting and pasting of vocals. I think I ended up choosing the 3rd take. I wanted that song as close to real as possible.
I just got a notification on my phone that my parking ended. 5 minutes ago. Which, knowing my luck, means that a parking ticket officer fiend person, was standing there waiting on my time to end and is now gleefully dashing off a ticket to put on my windshield with a flourish.
I should go check.
In the meantime, please listen to my latest musical offering. I am already working on the next, and (for this project) last batch of songs. I’m hoping to release “The Hope and the Hurt” sometime in February.
Much love.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!
Was in a ‘funny’ mood tonight, lots of editing to do, albums and so on … feeling very chilled after listening to this. Beautiful work Meg, looking forward to the next one.
gx
Thanks for sharing all those songs. Zack posted a link to some songs a while back and they’re kinda my “photo songs”. I listened to them pretty often, when I was out walking around trying to find some shots. Or I was in my little room working on my lighting techniques for my selfportraits. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100644293353913.1016.100002250271108&type=3
Hope you will have a lough about some of the images cause I really had fun listening to your music.
Ciao Björn
Thank you for your precious gift! I appreciate your songs and heart so much. May they be a blessing to all who hear them.
Beautiful, meaningful songs, songs for the soul!
Love your music! I was just wondering – is there any place aside from iTunes that you sell your songs? Reason is that I don’t have an apple device, and want to play them on my Android tablet. Would love to also be able to get your other albums!