Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Sleeping Toddlers and CD's


 So Ava is sleeping after a fun day of Moe's Burritos, soft play, Thomas the Train and Chia. That girl absolutely wears me out most days. Anyway,..today i woke up with an overwhelming sense of mommy guilt because yesterday was so busy and i think she spent about four hours with the sitter. Plus, this evening i'll be out late recording the last couple tracks that i need, one for my demo, (notice pic) and two for the purpose of actually securing gig's that pay on a regular basis. What ever the reason i am so excited to have something to send to folks who want to know if they can buy a cd. Thanks to my friend Michael, who also sings and plays guitar with me here in Savannah, i have been able to record and play locally. There are three people that i owe my writing and the music that i have created over the past year, and even my playing at all. Those people are in order, First my dad, because the very day that i gave birth to Ava, he bought me a bran new Martin, mind you i hadn't played guitar seriously for many, many years. When things got really bad for me about the time Ava was about 7 months old i turned to my guitar and wrote "Maybe." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9yI6OWuxs&feature=channel_page
The song doesn't sound like much, but it hurt like hell to admit that maybe i was having a hard time, and that maybe i was hard to be around because of it. The second person, who could also be the first because he always told me that music was my real talent, is my husband Hugo. When I was down, or when i hadn't written in a while he would tell me how much he believed in my music and how much he loved my songs.  Then lastly is Michael. I probably get on his nerves and drive him crazy with all my music stuff, but he will always be more special to me than he knows, for the fact that one day, out of the blue, when we hadn't spoken for a while, he emailed me, and basically said that he thought i was too talented to quit writing and that he would help me in any way that he could.....so here i am....back on track and with a handful of songs that my not be catchy or pop, but that mean everything to me......well i hear Ava so i'd better go.........  

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