April 2019 archive

Album Song Stories: Beauty Survives

Post number eight of song stories from ‘Beauty Survives’ is the title song Beauty Survives. The story behind this song is interesting because I kept a lot of the song from the original free-writing I did for it in the first place.  Along the way, I had to decipher what it was about exactly!  If you […]

Album Song Stories: Battlefield

Post number seven of song stories from ‘Beauty Survives’ is the song Battlefield. ‘Battlefield’ is my favourite song to sing live on this album.  The sound resonants with me so well when I’m singing it.  If anyone has ever had a singing lesson with me they’ll know the weird little ways I have about ‘feeling […]

Album Song Stories: Lay It On The Line

Post number six of song stories from ‘Beauty Survives’ is the song Lay It On The Line. I think I mentioned in one of the other posts that I took myself off to Spain to finish writing.  It was 2013, I visited a friend’s apartment in Murcia.  I’ll talk more about it later as well […]

Album Song Stories: I’ll be Gone

Post number five of song stories from ‘Beauty Survives’ is the song I’ll Be Gone. This is a tricky one to write as I have to remember!  Unlike the rest of the songs on the album, this one is very old.  I wrote it about 15 years ago now!!  I dug it out and dusted […]

Album Song Stories: Catch The Sun

Post number four of song stories from ‘Beauty Survives’ is the song Catch The Sun. It’s so strange recalling how and when I wrote these songs, I didn’t think I’d be able to.  But, I do quite vividly!  I grouped these songs together on this album particularly because they were all written over a similar period […]