Well, what do 51 songs from all over (literally) the United States look and sound like?

You’re about to find out.

Side Note: All of these are basically the first rough drafts, and what you’re really, truly seeing is something that is unique to itself, created within mere hours from me meeting my musician for the first time in almost every case, to us creating a song from complete scratch - no lyrics, chords, ideas - then us writing, rehearsing, recording it within a matter of hours (3.5-7 on average).

Are they perfect? Hahaha Heaven no!

Are they done? Yes.

Will some be rewritten? Absolutely.

So join the fun in laughing, crying, cringing, pondering, and wandering genres and the States with me via music.

Week + Song 1: Easy Does It Now

State: Texas

The first song of the bunch where my Geico agent became my Texas musician, and I didn’t know what I was doing just yet. Welcome to Austin, Texas!

Week + Song 2: Cold Mister

State: Oklahoma

2nd week of January, freezing rain, in an art alley in OKC, and the 2nd week into the adventure. Say hello to Oklahoma!

Week + Song 3: Elevate

State: Kansas

A Kansas dance song? Yes, yes I did. Also 1 of 2 that was done in an actual studio.Enter Elevate: an uplifting messaged dance song from Kansas!

Week + Song 4: Choices

State: Missouri

Blues song referencing my childhood + Kansas City , Missouri? Introducing the 4th song on the list: Choices.

 

Week + Song 5: Keep It Natural

State: Arkansas

With some of (if not The) tiniest roads I’ve been on in the US, this song was birthed in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This being the natural state and all, we decided on this theme and built a song around it.

Week + Song 6: Mind, Body, Spirit

State: Tennessee

Everyone goes to Nashville - I decided to go to Memphis. Rough around the edges, once you get into it, you find the gold. Welcome welcome to Tennessee’s Mind, Body, and Spirit.

Week + Song 7: Rabbit Hole

State: Mississippi

Where are we? In a hallway? Well, a storage unit hallway, to be precise. Mississippi’s song was created and recorded in a storage unit.

Week + Song 8: French Quarter Life

State: Louisiana

Ahh, New Orleans. Beignets, chicory coffee, life music. Love from my soul.

Week + Song 9: Transitions

State: Alabama

There are many transitions in life, stages of growth we go through, levels in existence from one lesson to the next, aging on year at a time, birth and death. The best thing to come out of Alabama was this Transition.

Week + Song 10: Phoenix Rising

State: Florida

Always rising from the ashes…made in a house that burnt down, was renamed The Phoenix, and built next to a river.

Week + Song 11: KeepHer

State: Georgia

You can’t hold on to the wind, no matter how hard you try.

Week + Song 12: Need To Be

State: South Carolina

I don’t have to be who you thought I was, who you think I am, or anything in between.

 

Week + Song 13: Who Knows?

State: North Carolina

Who knows what the future holds? But, I’m told we make our own fate, so why not make it great?

Week + Song 14: Always

State: Maryland

2 beings from different worlds drawn together…with a sinister twist. Be careful who you trust, and listen between the lines.

Week + Song 15: Where To Go

State: Washington D.C

Why do you do this every time? They will never stop. They never do. You have to make the choice, even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.

Week + Song 16: Stories

State: Virgina

4 hours of driving, 8+ hours of nonstop singing, it turned into night, and my voice was…fucking tired. lol Welcome to what a long day looks like. Listen at your own risk. The story itself is pretty cool - it’s about a powerful woman who releases herself from a curse.

 

Week + Song 17: A Good One

State: New Jersey

Let’s make this human rollercoaster of a life we live a Good One.

Side Note: Woke up and drove an hour+, and as you can probably tell, it’s still morning. We were as awake as we were getting.

Week + Song 18: Dear Child

State: Pennsylvania

From Mother Earth to Us, from the beginning until now. What are we doing with it?? There is no planet B.

Side Note: This song was made the same day as Jersey’s. So, 2 songs + 2 states in 1 day. It was a good day.

Week + Song 19: Waste

State: Delaware

This is about people wasting my time. And I’m obviously annoyed by it. So, don’t waste other people’s time, or mine. Thanks for listening to this broadcast.

Week + Song 20: Stranger

State: Connecticut

Daddy issues, healed.

 

Week + Song 21: Let’s All Come Together

State: Rhode Island

Come on out - you’re welcome here, and in good company. It doesn’t matter where you started. You’re here now.

Side Note: I ended up getting myself into the Portland, Maine pride parade after seeing the pride parade in Boston the week before. Thank you Free Mom Hugs Maine!

Week + Song 22: Faces

State: Massachusetts

Serial killer song (made at night in a possibly haunted building where we heard noises multiple times outside the room), anyone?

Week + Song 23: Live Free Or Die

State: New Hampshire

The most acapella New Hampshire theme song you’ll probably find. Plus, not a bad anthem for self empowerment in general.

Week + Song 24: Hello From Maine

State: Maine

All about Maine. Sunshine, nature, rain, beer, all made in a brewery. Cheers!

 

Week + Song 25: Drifting

State: Vermont

If sweet melancholy were a song that you played on a Sunday morning after going through some rough things..

Week + Song 26: Every Time

State: New York

Though hate comes to battle, Love wins every time.

Week + Song 27: Us

State: West Virginia

A bit of my life and what it looked like in 2019

When we’ve got friends, and love that grows as it mends, nothing stops us but us.

Week + Song 28: Neighborhood

State: Ohio

Mr. Rogers inspired.

 

Week + Song 29: Just, Don’t.

State: Kentucky

The shit women go through - with harmony!

Week + Song 30: Today

State: Indiana

There’s no time like the present, no time like today.

Week + Song 31: Wonder

State: Michigan

I wonder where we all go..

Side Note: We made this in a delicious cidery with the perfect background - thank you The People’s Cider Co.!

Week + Song 32: Welcome To The River

State: Illinois

Come on down to The River of Life - I’ll be your Guide! Promise it’ll be one heaven of an existential journey….:D

 

Week + Song 33: To Be A Child

State: Iowa

Children’s song written from a children’s point of view. Come, reminisce!

Week + Song 34: The Only Constant Is Change

State: Wisconsin

Navigating life isn’t what we think it’s going to be. Full of side quests, distractions, shiny objects vying for our attention. What I’ve learned is that there’s no right or wrong road to take on this journey. And, that the only constant is change.

Week + Song 35: Ceremony

State: Minnesota

Anyone getting married????

Week + Song 36: Like Everybody Else

State: North Dakota

Death. Life. Living. How is your choice.

 

Week + Song 37: Whirlwind

State: South Dakota

When you feel like there’s a shit show coming and you’re stuck in the shit.

Week + Song 38: Anybody

State: Nebraska

Who says what’s right? Who says what’s wrong? Who says who you have to be is set in stone? You don’t have to be anybody else besides yourself.

Week + Song 39: Ain’t Nothing But A Dad Joke

State: Montana

What happens when 2 dorky humans come together, one pieces together a drum kit (literally, those pots are from the kitchen), and they think dad jokes are hilarious? This. This happens. Enjoy!!

Week + Song 40: Soft Landing

State: Alaska

Years of love and heartbreak coming to a edge, then falling off of it.

Side Note: This was the most emotional song of them all, and you can see it.

 

Week + Song 41: The Upside Of Down

State: Washington

Every day I wake to find the beating of the same old drum. Hear the ticking of the clock drone on as my mind goes numb. All I’m doing and yet I’m never moving. Watching my life passing me by…

Side Note: I was just getting over pneumonia.

Week + Song 42: Cycles

State: Oregon

Maiden, Mother, Crone. The stages in life of a woman. You may find this relatable.

“Home is who I am where I belong.”

Side Note: I’m pretty sure I had bronchitis or something similar. I could barely sing and made it through. I seem to have what I’ve been told is grit.

Week + Song 43: Paces

State: Idaho

Taking the small steps to make dreams, new chapters, and a new life come true, along with all of the emotions that are a part of the journey.

Feel the fear, feel the excitement, and find yourself through the paces as you go.

Side Note: this is in a park overlooking Boise, Idaho. We could see the city from basically where we were standing.

Week + Song 44: Roots Run Deep

State: Wyoming

My family roots run deep - chop them down on your own perilously. Not all family is medicine. Some..some are poison.

 

Week + Song 45: A Colorado Lullaby

State: Colorado

A creepy lullaby about a Colorado serial killer - enjoy!

Week + Song 46: Road Less Traveled

State: New Mexico

I don’t where the dusty road less traveled will take me or who it will make me, but I know I’ll find my way. The road less traveled is usually the one we’re meant for anyway..

Week + Song 47: In My Head

State: Utah

How many times do we overthink things? Overanalyze situations? Underestimate ourselves? Both at the same time?? And ooof, let's talk about Doubt. Doubt has killed more dreams than Freddy Krueger. Jokes a(long)side, we've all gone through this; felt these emotions.

This dream, this hope, this joy? It's not in your head: it’s real. And only you can choose to make them a reality.

Week + Song 48: Once In A Lifetime

State: Nevada

There ins’t a one shot and it’s over. Every Day is once in a lifetime, and every day we’re given a choice of how we spend it.

 

Week + Song 49: Seasons

State: California

Through the pages, minutes, chapters, hours, books and seasons of our lives, there will always be change. Movement. And not all of it will we like.

Difficulties, challenges, lessons. They can break us, or they can make us....stronger. Better. More aware, more understanding, more...us. More of who we are. There will always be seasons of life. Whether we find the beauty in them or not is up to us. It's up to you.

Week + Song 50: Go

State: Arizona

Disney adventure-esk? Yep! The song itself is about a young woman who's forced to leave, after a trauma within her family, to find what's needed to save her kingdom; she's longed for adventure, and was surprised when it was thrust upon her in an unexpected way....

And so, She Must Go.

Week + Song 51: A New Way Home

State: Hawai’i

In this journey we're all on, sometimes what used to feel like and be home, no longer is. We move, we grow, we change, we evolve. And in doing so, we have to find a new way.

Just know that you are not alone on this journey we call life. Together, we can find A New Way Home.

 
 
 

Music Born in other countries

“Follow your heart, and it’ll take you everywhere you want to go…”

This song was born in Brazil, in Floripa right around the time Carnaval was happening back in 2018. Did I know how to speak Portuguese? Nope. I knew one friend from Brazil living in the city, and I found musicians, made friends, and made music. Follow is what followed. ;)

Side Note: And yes, I had 80’s highlighter pink hair. Fitting for Carnaval, and that was also not the intention. It was actually supposed to be pastel…but that hairdresser clearly did not know what they were doing…