Life is Congealing...

I think I had to go to Nashville last week for many reasons. Reasons that I had no clue of.

I was in a partnership that changed me when I was in Nashville, for the majority of the time I was there. It focused me in many ways...and in others, I surrendered mysef to become what someone else wanted me to be. With exception of "The Muse", everything I did was a compromise. Even my friendships...my personal relationships...they all had to be managed...never fully realized for fear of someone else's disapproval. The last year was unbearable. I could no longer keep people I wanted to love at arm's length.

I came to New York and started over. For the first time, I was not only able to ask myself what I wanted, but I was also able to excecute that vision, without blinking, for the first time. I have become a new person. Again.

So when I went to Nashville with Elizabeth last week, I was able to touch these people that I loved, but had never been able to fully hold while I was there. I was able to reveal all of me to them...and we were able to embrace each other. It was significant. It was monumental. It was revelatory.

In the process, I made myself a playlist of songs that shaped me when I was growing up. Songs that I've wanted to record. Songs that blend my world view with a transcendant faith. Songs that I did not write, but wish that I did! Songs that my former management told me not to record. But I've never quite been able to quite shake the feeling that I am to record these songs.

So...with a Nashville gig approaching, I began the process today of putting together sessions to record the first half of this project on that trip. What a thrill!!

I am also coordinating the recording (with many thanks to Elizabeth Cunningham) for the first SOULKISS sessions. I cannot tell you how exciting it is to be able to have this group situation...and to be able to do what I want in a solo capacity...Creatively I feel so complete...and free....