How are you Christy.
I picked up your songbook yesterday and read through a few of my favourites, and the great stories with it.
As much as I have been expanding my musical knowledge, exploring new genres, going up the fretboard playing the guitars, mandolins and beating the bodhrán, I always end up back at my roots playing Bright Blue Rose for my aunt, The Town I Loved so Well for granda, England’s Motorway for Uncle and recently Mary’s Pub by Amble.
I’m loving the writing and new tunes, learning more about music all the time, but as I saw the tribute album on its way for Shane, I recalled in Lyrath the whole crowd singing fairytale, one of my favourite live moments in music. I hope that was a good memory for yourself as it was for me.
-Matty
Hello Christy,
I’ve been thinking about what you said about writing songs about the women in your family.
It led me back to trying to write a song about my Uncle John and what happened to him during the war. The feelings it unearthed, the responsibility to i felt to people still living, and those gone before.
How SCARY it was.
And as a youngish person i found that I didn’t have the bravery to face so much vulnerability in so much open, public space.
Then I thought about Joni Mitchell’s Magdalene Laundries. And how she helped the listener face all of this by putting herself in the centre of it. “Joni was an unmarried girl…”
Anyway, after all that wandering about, what I wanted to say is that I think you are exactly the right person to write these songs about your relatives. The thought of hearing what comes out of you excites me and i am trying not to anticipate it too much. I hope you do it and I wish you so well with it. I’d say. “Good Luck!”, but it’s the years and the life and the practice that you’ve already got that’s the real thing.
How are you Christy.
I picked up your songbook yesterday and read through a few of my favourites, and the great stories with it.
As much as I have been expanding my musical knowledge, exploring new genres, going up the fretboard playing the guitars, mandolins and beating the bodhrán, I always end up back at my roots playing Bright Blue Rose for my aunt, The Town I Loved so Well for granda, England’s Motorway for Uncle and recently Mary’s Pub by Amble.
I’m loving the writing and new tunes, learning more about music all the time, but as I saw the tribute album on its way for Shane, I recalled in Lyrath the whole crowd singing fairytale, one of my favourite live moments in music. I hope that was a good memory for yourself as it was for me.
-Matty
Hello Christy,
I’ve been thinking about what you said about writing songs about the women in your family.
It led me back to trying to write a song about my Uncle John and what happened to him during the war. The feelings it unearthed, the responsibility to i felt to people still living, and those gone before.
How SCARY it was.
And as a youngish person i found that I didn’t have the bravery to face so much vulnerability in so much open, public space.
Then I thought about Joni Mitchell’s Magdalene Laundries. And how she helped the listener face all of this by putting herself in the centre of it. “Joni was an unmarried girl…”
Anyway, after all that wandering about, what I wanted to say is that I think you are exactly the right person to write these songs about your relatives. The thought of hearing what comes out of you excites me and i am trying not to anticipate it too much. I hope you do it and I wish you so well with it. I’d say. “Good Luck!”, but it’s the years and the life and the practice that you’ve already got that’s the real thing.
Rebecca