How Does She Do It!???

She’s a mom, an actress, a blogger, a support system, and the list goes on and on… I don’t know how someone can handle all of these things (clearly, I should read Michael Scott’s book “Somehow I Manage 🤷🏻‍♂️”)!

As the other adult in our house, it’s actually sort of a weird motivation/obligation to keep up with someone like my wife. I’m overwhelmed when I have to mow on a day where I’ve already replaced the toilet paper roll. As a creative person, I find that my best ideas happen if I can hibernate for two days to decompress and then bore myself so much that I start to build up creative pressure…and then I keep hibernating until an idea bursts forward! Corri is different.

Corri somehow has a capacity to either do a million things at once, or tune out the loud (“Mommy!”) chaos around us as she accomplishes a task. If there’s a moment of peace, she doesn’t sneak off to watch Netflix, she thinks of something else to accomplish! One minute she is picking the perfect outfit as she memorizes a script for a tv audition, the next thing I know the kids are eating food they clearly wouldn’t have picked on their own, I’m getting a notification that a new Hi My Name Is Mom podcast just went live, and Corri is in her home studio voicing a bunch of ‘Promos’ for what the country station in Detroit and Pop station in Green Bay are giving away this weekend on-air.. I try to figure out what I’ve accomplished in that same period of time and its often something like ‘I think I could do that shuffle-up-the-stairs dance on TikTok’ (Note: I can’t. I kicked a hole in our drywall and am pretty sure I broke every toe on my right foot…check my tiktok @tybentli…I’m serious).

I think that paints a fair picture of how much of a force my wife is. I’ve talked to a lot of my friends about this and many of us believe it is true of a lot of you out there. This world has some very special people, and many of them are superwomen (what up, Jaden Michaels). I hope that Corri looks at me and sometimes wonders how I was able to do “all that” - but I have a feeling its much less frequent than how often I ask myself that question about her accomplishments.

If there’s someone in your life like this, please take a second to tell them that you see what they’re doing and are so proud of the person they are (this is a reminder to myself, too, cuz I’m sometimes not as verbal about it as I could be. I’m sure this post will help, though)!

Tomorrow

Prospect Park Boathouse. November 8, 2014

When we love someone, we have a deeper understanding of why certain things are important to them. We hurt when they hurt, and we celebrate when they celebrate. I am going to help you understand why my heart ached on behalf of Corri’s heart, this week.

Last week was supposed to include a massive party in the True Music Room at The Cambria Hotel downtown to celebrate Corri’s first solo release - Corri’s sister was secretly planning to fly in from San Diego, friends were hitting up The Showroom to find the perfect dress, industry pals and influencers were coming out! BMI had loved Corri’s upcoming single so much that they shared it with their wine partner; DAOU Vineyards immediately leapt in with their support! They flew Corri and her friends to Paso Robles and hired an elite Hollywood squad (including Corri’s friend, Andy Fickman - who just happens to have directed some of the funniest blockbuster movies ever released) to shoot a music video. They paired the release of their upcoming new rosé wine with the release of Corri’s music and had a team committed to the vision of an unforgettable launch celebration! To have the perspective of how much this support and this moment meant to my incredible soulmate, I should share how much of a longstanding role music has played in Corri’s life.

I met Corri because of her music. As a member of the band Brokedown Cadillac, Corri was invited to perform on the national Jerry Lewis MDA telethon in (2011?). I was hosting the telethon in Los Angeles that year. Prior to the actual weekend of fundraising, I introduced Corri’s band to the kids at MDA Summer Camp in Orange, CA. That day, I was impressed with their song “Can You Hear Me?” and thrilled to learn that Corri lived near me in The Valley (to find out how I “friend zoned” her and then fell in love click here)

What I didn’t know the night of the nationally televised performance - as Corri and her band were being introduced in Las Vegas and I was standing in a tuxedo at the KTLA broadcast studio, stepping over to a monitor to watch - was that the man who had inspired her connection with music was so nervous that he reached over and grabbed the hand of his mother-in-law…. My (future) wife - who is one of the most amazingly confident and calm people I know - had shared the secret that she was nervous about this performance. Her nerves had become her dad’s nerves, and Jack held Memaw’s hand as they watched the TV set in suburban Atlanta. As she belted out the first 15 seconds of “Can You Hear Me?” Corri felt the nerves disappear and spent the next three minutes tugging at the heart of each person watching.

Jack’s musical influence was present in Corri’s world from the day she was born. In college, Jack’s brother had encouraged his musical tenacity and talent…which led to Jack becoming a traveling musician. As Jack and Corri’s mom, Shirlyn, built their life together - and the family grew to include Corri’s sister, Katie - Jack found new pressures and priorities. By the time CJ (her name’s not really “Corri Jo” but I do call her CJ often, for literally no reason - shout out to Corri’s former roommate, Inda Loo Hoo on that one) and Katie (full disclosure, her name is actually Katherine) were kids, Jack had taken up a residency at a resort called Callaway Gardens near Pine Mountain, GA. It was a long drive from Atlanta, so the family would often spend days or weeks of their summer on the resort…Jack playing to the guests at night - often compared to Paul McCartney and Neil Diamond, Jack would spend hours and hours singing (sometimes dancing) and conversing. Corri and Katie were entertaining guests as well - the girls would be pulled into waterski pyramids at Callaway Gardens water shows, they would be clogging or singing on stage with their dad! It is a defining impression from Corri’s childhood. A fundamental building block of her DNA. Her pride in her dad, and love for those memories with her family are a big part of why she has had a special bond with music her entire life.

I barely know the story about the moment that Corri realized she might have a gift as a songwriter. From the time she was a child, Corri was paid to entertain - as a member of the Atlanta Workshop Players, then on TV with Kids Beat and Feed Your Mind (as a kid, I remember seeing these shows - I have been able to see my wife in realtime my whole life without knowing it!). Her entertainment background included some singing, and dancing but was primarily focused on the theatrical side of things. At some point, she was taking guitar lessons and decided to write some random words to go along with the chords she was learning to play
*again - unverified. I’m just pretty sure this is the story
Her guitar instructor stopped what they were doing and asked if she knew that she was a songwriter. “Do you realize that? You are a songwriter. Keep doing this.”

Her whole life, music has been the influence to entertain. Even before she knew it, she was a songwriter. And once she knew it, she never stopped. Just writing that, makes me so in love with her. Because she is SO. GOOD. Corri has starred in movies and tv shows that we have all seen. Even shows I didn’t know she was part of - like I’ll have USA or TNT on and an episode of CSI: Miami or House will come on, and I’m like - that’s my wife! Or our neighbors will stop us on the street and go “My kids were watching Disney+ and you were in the movie we pulled up this morning!” Or someone who listens to my radio show will send me a DM screenshot of a One Tree Hill season they’ve been watching where Corri was the mean girl (she often plays the opposite of who she is in real life - goth juror in Runaway Jury, ditz in Holliston, ‘lady of the night’ in Luke Cage, druggie criminal on NCIS)…. She’s an extremely talented actress. She has a vibrant personality as a host of tv and podcasts. The thing is: her thing is.. MUSIC.

Before too long, the producers and directors on film and TV sets started to learn about Corri’s musical side. Then they’d hear her voice (she hits every note perfectly and has a vulnerability about her voice that’s indescribable). I always tell people that they’ve got to hear her sing, but most people assume I’m just a husband with delusional perspective on a person he adores. I look forward to quietly watching the faces of my friends or fans who hear Corri for the first time at a writers round, or any live setting.. they wanted me to be wrong. Strangely, it seems like they wanted me to be delusional. I delusionally adore her, but I am right. From across Whiskey Row, she’ll still be mid-song as people are texting me: “what!” “whoa” “You didn’t tell me she could sing like this!” (yes, I did…I just didn’t want to be too emphatic and seem like a psycho). I brag about her cuz she’ll never brag about herself. And I also just want you to come see her perform live. Live music is my favorite - that is the way I learn how much I love certain artists: seeing Ashley McBryde at a dive called Blue Bar, hearing Chris and Morgane Stapleton in-person for the first time at Ascend Amphitheater, or watching Thomas Rhett annihilate his opening act performance as fans slowly trickled in for the Aldean/Kid Rock show at Fenway. When they can do it LIVE…they’re for real.

As more and more people in her on-camera world in Los Angeles recognized her secret skillset, they started asking Corri if her band had songs that might fit the vibe of a certain scene in a tv show, or if they could write something to soundtrack a movie. She and her band were playing regularly at small venues around The Valley, and had music that fit many of the needs. If they didn’t have the right song, she was able to team up with people and write it! Although she was an actress, her band started to be part of the invitation to participate in some of the projects that were being created - appearing in Race to Witch Mountain and on one of my favorite tv shows, The Mentalist! Before I had even met Corri, her IMDB acting credits were quickly growing to include musical credits and she was creating a lot of music…eventually leading to that opportunity to play live on the serendipitous MDA telethon.

Now that I’m actually IN the picture, I might be more accurate about the story (I also might not be: sometimes I romanticize life, but I am pretty sure that Corri’s story in my life is romantic on its own…yeah, mushy, shut-app!).

Aside from seeing her perform at the MDA summer camp, my first true lesson in her talent was when Corri wrote a song about me! When we started dating, I was literally in the midst of the most questionable decision of my life - I have learned patience, but was like a gas-fire of impatience at that point. I had a job that had turned out to be different from what I’d thought. My anxiety had convinced me that I was going to be left behind and have no chance to succeed or survive if I stayed in the ‘shadow’ that I felt I was under in LA…dumb. Young.. Dumb. I’ve since apologized to the manager who had to put up with that strange fear/impatience/ignorance. At that time, though, I was asking to leave my contract in Los Angeles or at least be given a chance to pursue and opportunity in New York City (a place that suits my impatient self-motivation a little more than it felt that LA did). Every single morning, for just over two months, I woke up thinking I’d finally be given the word that I was free to go… but it never came. And it was always “tomorrow”…. Meanwhile, I was falling in love with Corri - she knew I really wanted to leave for NYC, but we’d decided to just enjoy getting to know each other better. As I fell in love, apparently she felt the same..and now she was waking up every morning wondering if I’d be told I could pursue moving to NYC. Every night as we fell asleep together in love, she woke up wondering if I’d be gone ‘tomorrow.’

Eventually - as I eluded to - I had burned my bridge with the company in LA to the point where they finally told me to just go for it. Again - I was dumb, if I could turn it to a prouder memory, I would (but not at the expense of where I am now in life) - but I was now free to chase NYC. Corri was about to go to work on a project in New York, as I was planning to go fight for the job I wanted. Her friends had loaned her their apartment, since they were out of town, so we decided to spend a week there, together. And one night during that week, she asked me if I wanted to hear something. She pulled out her laptop to play me a work tape. As I sat on the couch in Katie and Barry’s apartment in Washington Heights, surrounded by thousands and thousands of barely-hidden, boxed baseball cards that Barry collects, she played me a song called “Tomorrow.”

I promise you. This is the moment I knew I’d marry her. If I could! If she’d let me. She had created a song that was so true to the experience we had shared over the last couple of months. She had admitted a vulnerability that she never expressed to me in words (when I realized she loved me, it was a conversation about how much she loved peanut butter…and that she cared about me more than peanut butter…but she had a tough time coming right out with “I love you”). In addition, the song stands on its own two feet as beautiful music.
After I accepted the job to take over where Nick Cannon had left off at New York’s 92.3, and began my morning show 3 time zones away, I spent many Sunday evenings listening to “Tomorrow” on repeat during my cross-country flights home to New York.

As we fell in love and started to build our family - Rad was born at NYC Langone on June 21, 2013 - Corri was still mainly focused on tv/film. In fact, she starred as a blind woman in a horror film called Devil May Call while in her first trimester! She’d kept the secret of her pregnancy from everyone except the wardrobe designer, who helpfully added a hoodie to the character’s style! She did write me another amazing song for our wedding day (November 8, 2014 - although, we’d secretly snuck off to the courthouse a year before and gotten married wearing the same clothes we’d worn the first time we went to dinner together), and had placed some music on tv shows. We returned to LA for a while and she spent more time running around to auditions and continuing the career that had afforded her a life…. She hadn’t, yet, had the right circumstances to put all of her focus on the thing that is probably her greatest gift and her fundamental truth.

Then: Nashville

Rosé All Day

Its possible I just wrote a book on the way to this destination. The city where the music story finally becomes Corri’s own story. It didn’t happen over night. Although Corri’s band had been ‘based’ in Nashville, she’d never really called it home. She had plenty of ties to the city, but it had been a while since she’d flexed her musical chops in a true way. The last show I remember her playing here was a Brokedown Cadillac showcase the day that she learned she was pregnant (and hadn’t told me yet…and hadn’t married me yet…and didn't know how anyone in the whole world was going to react to the news that only SHE knew).

I don’t know that I have ever expressed to Corri how excited I was that she would be living in Nashville, and that she (I hoped) would be in a place to put music at the forefront. I probably mentioned that it would be ‘cool’ or was like “Nashville will be great for both us”…but I was afraid that telling her she should be focused on music and making the point that she has an x-factor level talent for it was going to be a backhanded compliment at the expense of her talent as an actress. Obviously she’s awesome on the acting front - most of us would have been thrilled to point ourselves out in a crowd of unpaid extras on an episode of Property Brothers but she has made a LIVING as an actress (never even got a W-2 paycheck outside of that world). But I was SO excited to see what she would create in a place where music could be her priority.

She didn’t dive right in. Her band had sort of gone on hiatus, and she realized that the motivation wasn’t really within some members of the band nor even in herself. She was a big fan of writing music, but didn’t feel like it was the right time to be performing. The band had done amazing things; some of the coolest memories of her life came from their USO tours for the troops. Corri still has a bag of patches, and coins from the service members that gifted them to her as they explained how much those performances meant. The troops took her to do things that an adrenaline junkie like myself will always be a little jealous of (rolling four-wheel buggies at high speeds on the sand dunes, shooting a grenade launcher…oops - allegedly shooting a grenade launcher - and gunning from choppers.. But all of those memories live in the same place that the band currently does.

Corri explored the idea of setting up writing sessions with some of her friends, but many of them were in their own struggles as they pursued their path in music. Ultimately, she ended up meeting a few new friends who were also writers, and setting up writes with them. In that first year in Nashville, I remember the struggles of balancing creativity and parenting responsibilities. I remember her navigating different personalities and styles of writing. She also happened to create some amazing songs. And then they kept getting better. As the months passed, Corri began to find the grooves where the more dynamic music would generate.. The full scale of time between that beginning of our life in Nashville and the point where Corri has now landed in songwriting (she has written songs that are being cut by a lot of amazing new artists) is a little blurry for me. There is ONE particular piece that I do remember, though.

As you’re learning about years of creating, working, dreaming, and buildup leading up to the MASSIVE launch party that we had planned, there’s one thing that almost derailed it ALL.

Corri was afraid to play in front of others on her own. After years with a band, and knowing the power of all of those musicians coming together on stage, Corri was not confident that her songs and a guitar would be enough. She also was not super confident in her ability on guitar (nonsense, but I understand how we all see potential weakness in ourselves). I told her definitively that she absolutely deserved to be on a stage. I saw the living room concerts, and I knew her voice. Plus, I had fallen in love with several songs and couldn’t wait to see people react to them in my favorite setting - live.

After months of struggle, Corri was invited to play a show - if I’m remembering right, it was thanks to two specific invites that Corri finally realized she should conquer her fears. Sara Beth and KD Amond invited her out to shows at City Winery and Belcourt Taps. Corri and I talked about it (I encouraged her strongly) and she agreed to do it. After putting the burden of commitment on herself, she decided to sign up for some guitar lessons - the woman who plays so well that I am embarrassed to pick up my guitars if she’s in the house wanted to get better - so she found an incredible teacher named Ellen Britton, who helped her gain confidence. Honestly, I could tell that Ellen kinda felt like I do about Corri’s built-in skill level, but she also helped Corri take it even further by helping overcome her fear of playing in public. Corri told me how nervous she was the first time she played in front of her class…and then the level of confidence grew quickly as she was able to see others play around her and recognize that she has nothing to be worried about.

I was so *&^(ing proud (sorry for the language, Mom) watching Corri on that stage at City Winery for her first show! Her friends had shown up, and a couple of my friends had come out, too! As the writers round began and each songwriter took their turn, I bought everyone as many snacks as I could (veggie trays, hummus, chips and dip) to make them aware of how grateful I was that they were there…and then Corri was up! And then she introduced herself and played the song she’d written on an early Sugarland album called “Fly Away”…and I watched my friends, and I watched the room. This was the first time they were hearing my wife sing, and hearing what kind of music she can write. They had all stopped mid-chew (I picture hummus hanging from their mouths and forks mid-air). People all across the top floor of City Winery had quit their conversations and turned to look. Glen Mitchell (on-stage, to her left) had quickly tuned his guitar to Corri’s key so that he could be part of this moment, too. Even if it was just quietly strumming with his guitar muted to the room. I remember my eyes welling up and my smile stretching out across my face. Even writing this now, my eyes just got misty and I am unbelievably proud to be associated with her.

That show and the subsequent one at Belcourt Taps were where Corri learned how quickly the community of Nashville can extend its hand to you. Each show, more of the artists around her would ask if she was available to write. In the last two years, she has found the writers that she loves collaborating with - sometimes a certain song begs for a certain group or cowriter, sometimes a certain cowriter leads to a certain song…Corri says that songwriting is like a puzzle. There’s not necessarily a formula, it just depends on the song and who is in the room - some people want to start with the corner pieces, others build out from the middle, etc.

There are a few more key moments that happened before we got to the point we are at this week - the day she realized she was excited about enough of her music that it could justify studio time for demos. The day her mom and Teresa heard her play “Over You” and a couple other feisty songs and (along with their friends, who became massive fans) encouraged Corri to shake any limitations of content, language, or attitude and just pursue the authentic message of any song she is compelled to write. The first time she played me a song about a relationship that was once strong but had become just ok…little things were happening that were making that relationship less incredible and those tiny imperfections were adding up like a thousand paper cuts. Its the best song I’d heard come out of a Nashville write. Probably tied with “Tomorrow” in its honesty and craft…and then I realized that the reason Tomorrow was so powerful is because I knew that story and the story was true…but was this story of a relationship that had a million cracks also true? What birthday had I forgotten? Should I have offered more foot rubs, instead of making up hour long bedtimes stories for Rad!? Was this about us?

Not to kill the suspense, but: no. She assured me it was not about us - and there have been several other really crafty songs that she’s written since then that I also know are not about HER life, but may have been true of someone else in the room at the write, or a concept that was well expressed. Some of my belief that these aren’t passive-aggressive or coded messages to me is based on my faith in her and the communication that we have as a couple, but it is also because of my belief in her talent as a songwriter and a storyteller and crafter of music.

This kinda brings us to the present day.

Remember that rooftop party at The Cambria that was supposed to happen - the ‘Gram-worthy giant wine glass and live performance for loved and esteemed guests? After years of striving toward this moment, and the joy of seeing it on the horizon, and the hours and days spent planning details and strategy…a pandemic.

Everyone that has lived through the COVID-19 shut-down will remember 2020 our whole lives. In writing the digits of this year just now - two months into stay-at-home orders and social distancing from our friends, working from home, amidst the chaos of our families - I realize that 20-20 is a very poignant year for this to have happened. Our perspectives as humans had been skewed by years of focus on an ever-demanding world; working increasingly longer hours, spending time near our families but with our eyes on Facebook feeds, focused on making sure than strangers on the internet found us interesting, and using instagram posts to convince everyone that our life was a little more magnificent than it actually is.

Suddenly, that jaded perspective and questionable list of priorities was forced into a hard reset! None of us need to trick our friends and internet strangers into thinking our lives are more exciting than theirs…because we all know that no one is actually out at the after-after-party. No one is at a concert you couldn’t go to. The most jealous we can be is that our friends went to the grocery store, and even then we make a mental note that we definitely don’t want to come within six feet of them for at least two weeks. The things that used to make us grateful (like getting upgraded to first class on a flight, or our kids scoring a winning touchdown) are such a thing of the past…the bar is reset. Now we are grateful that our parents are simply NOT sick. Or grateful that our friends are recovering from the scariest virus we’ve ever faced. I’m actually grateful that I get to watch my kindergartener (Radley) do his homework and see in real-time how smart he is. Parents don’t usually get to watch the process - everyday! I get to be home (trying to find a quiet workspace sometimes) to see Bash’s grandpa teach him words like “mailbox” and to use my guidance to teach him how to climb safely back down the stepladder - which led to him clapping emphatically and hopping around in delight, and then repeating the process in our dining room 85 more times. I’m appreciating my house and every little nook and cranny of it. Our escape is as simple as being the one who takes the car to the auto wash - and getting to see the boys’ faces light up as the blue soap hits the windows all around them!

What I’m saying is that in 20/20, we see the important things a bit clearer. The giant rooftop party wasn’t really about the fun of the night…it was about Corri feeling like people appreciated what she was creating. It was something that helped give a reassuring answer to her question of “does anyone even care?” So when it was canceled - like so many of the things in this world have been - it felt like momentum was canceled. It felt like care was canceled. And my heart ached as I saw my wife struggle between being so grateful for the family we have, the health we’re in, the time with each other and the disappointment of the loss of what had been promised. Its not like a football game getting canceled. This was the cancelation of an event that tied to something that is fundamental to her identity. I wanted to give that back to her, but I didn’t understand how or what was missing, yet.

Last night, was the release of the music video for “Rosé All Day” - a digital zoom with DAOU Vineyards plus a FB Live with the Stellar Lense production crew and Andy Fickman replaced what would have been a night in a fancy dress with a K’la strap on her Taylor guitar…her sister in attendance and music blaring through the giant sound system at True Music Room.

As the most beautiful woman I know walked out of our master bedroom and set up a laptop and halo lamp, I was happy to be by her side. It was a more intimate kind of ‘sharing’ that moment. Her dad had taken the kids to the backyard to keep the distractions at bay. The man who had clenched Memaw’s hand as his daughter took the stage on the MDA Telethon was now holding the bird-sh!+ covered hand of his 1-year-old grandson (Bash had found some bird poop to scrape up on the patio) watching his daughter on the screen of his iPhone. As he realized that hundreds of people had turned up for this first Zoom video, I have a feeling he was immensely proud.

What I described above - about how 2020 has shifted our perspective and reset our needs - informed the way that the night played out for me. And for Corri, I hope. What I have learned through that experience and the writing of this LONG ASS post is the real reason that Corri’s joy was a bit shaken when she found that her party wouldn’t happen. Remember the party - the one that would answer the question “does anyone care?” The one that would put a lot of people together, that would allow Corri to see that we care, and share the experience of that song with one another. A celebration for her and a celebration for others…

Below are a few of the photos that were shared with me, last night…I’ll wrap this up, below them, but do you see what I see?

Do you see that! I have so many more examples in my phone right now…but this is just a taste of what I was tagged in or texted (I can’t imagine what Corri’s gotten!) - we had no idea they’d be doing it, but family, friends and music fans had planned this night as a celebration! They had ordered DAOU Rosé in honor of the vineyard where the video was shot. One of my friends in Fargo told me that they’d ordered extra wine so they could do wine drops on their friends’ porches so that the celebration could be extended. We got videos and screenshots of excitement. My heart feels like that moment in the room at City Winery as I watched Corri hit the chorus - “Angel carry me…oh so far away..” - you guys did this for her (and you didn’t even know, but you did this for me).

If it was a question of “does anyone care?” and a sadness at the missed opportunity to make this night a celebration for all involved, the outcome didn’t change just because the party wasn’t downtown Nashville. Instead, it spread…. these are people across the country, across all walks of life, and all generations.

I hope you understand how important this moment was for my sweet wife.

Love, right. I just spent six hours writing a story I didn’t know I had to tell. Cuz my heart does what her heart does. Thank you to everyone who made this week everything it was originally promised to be. And thank you to everyone who extends that joy by sharing the song with friends, and who has reached out to Corri on Facebook or Instagram or Youtube - using the perspective we’ve gained in 2020 to see how much your positive comments and support can impact something that is so important to a fellow human being.

BTW - if you read this far, you’d probably be interested to know about the next few songs on the way…

What’s Next…

Callaway Gardens
”Rosé All Day” started everything on a note of relief and joy that is much needed right now. The next song will show you another side of joy…remember that Georgia summer vacation resort where Corri first saw her Dad perform? Her next song will include a video that takes us inside the bond that she and her family share.
The second Corri wrote “Callaway Gardens” she knew that she and her sister should surprise her dad with the personal song on a very special trip that we all took as a family, returning to Callaway Gardens for Jack’s birthday. It was almost impossible for two daughters to get through it, that first time. And Jack immediately had them sing it again. I think he is still stunned.
But it was the day that Katie flew to Nashville from San Diego to join in the recording of “Callaway Gardens” that will live as one of the best days in Corri’s musical life. Not only was Katie part of the song, but a very special guest appears on the final chorus…and we all see the process play out in the video.

Papercut
That one song that made me question if there was a problem - maybe a subtle message I was supposed to be picking up on, about our relationship missing some of the important elements - the song about the pain that paper cuts can inflict and how serious a multitude of tiny abrasions can be… Its my favorite of the songs she‘ll be releasing, and I can’t wait for it to be shared!

and more…but I don’t want to force her to release things just cuz I make a promise. Although, if you come to a show, definitely demand to hear “Vintage” (with her former Feed Your Mind costar, and now Grammy-winner, Johntà Austin) and “If Wine Could Choose Lips” (which I think she’s recording with Charles Esten, soon). Although, with social distancing you can probably see some of these on her YouTube channel, already.. I should’ve checked before writing this, but we’re up to 7 hours now. How many typos?

*Found one:

The Big News At Our House, This Week...

How Does She Do It!???

Tomorrow

Rosé All Day

What’s Next…