Month: August 2021

I have been busy growing my sites and group. I am trying to manage about 200 comments and posts a day. It can get a bit overwhelming. I now have circa 330 people in my Matured Musicians Group, close to 300 on my Country Hot Music by Joy Ann LaJeret page and circa 1700 Facebook friends. I am, also, continuing my guitar lessons with Dave Nichols and marketing lessons from Kira Michele and song writing lessons from Roger Fisher, past lead for the band Heart. I go to Physical Therapy once a week in order to be able to get on the stage and play in the future. None of this could have been done without your support.

I recently had a video made and was unaware I did not communicate effectively until it was sent to me. I was horrified that the very things I did not want were on the video. It was a highly expensive mistake! I am shooting another video with a different studio tomorrow, due to needing it quickly. I am so afraid it will not be a good quality shoot. But that lesson is the way it goes. ( UPDATE: It turned out nicely the second time at Mirror Studio. It will post on September 20, 2021.)

Yes, I have Yelp, but I didn’t see how it was the videographers fault if I did not get the picture of what we were hoping to accomplish. I had pictures taken, a few months back, that were not to my liking either. I am beginning to think I need to learn how to communicate in a way these men understand. Being older, lighting and angles are critical for good videos and pictures. Okay lessons learned at a cost of $700.00 dollars. this mistake means fewer dinners out, less money in savings and no new purchases for a while and more overtime for my dedicated husband. A painful lesson indeed.

I have been able to see a few bands perform in that past month, before masking up again. Not my favorite thing to do, masking that is. Because I am a high risk, I catch illnesses easily and hope I do not have another bout of Covid 19. I have conducted interviews a few times and it keeps everyone safe, streaming is safe!. I will probably wait a bit before doing live performances as well. So videos it is, until then.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my interviews and am thankful we have so many talented people in this area. I am really pleased with how many musicians have continued to keep their skills up-to-date during Covid 19. Interviewing them has been the highlight of my week, Please feel free to join me at Matured Musicians Group on Facebook. I am certain you will enjoy watching the stream of the artist/musician interviews.

Stay safe. See you down the road. Please support all genres and musician! We need all of you! Thank you all for the support you have given artists, especially in this greater Seattle area. Please remember you are the reason we work so hard to bring you music. Also, many talented artists are never heard because the music industry has been the gatekeepers until now. Independent artists are the wave of the future!

I have finished streaming the first five songs I wrote. The next five will come out one a month until January 2022. I have put a lot more detail and thought into the new songs. When the songs are finished posting to the streaming agents, I will have set up a store where you can buy a single CD or the Album online.

The song that I wrote and show above, is a song I wrote for my husband on our anniversary in 2020. I could not buy a card by going out to the store because of Covid 19 and didn’t want an online card or one from Amazon. So I sat and thought about our life together and realized music has always been our number one priority. I continued to write hoping my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren would get to know me through my music.

I may not have the finances to continue to write and publish my songs. I need followers and gigs to make the money I need to continue. I am hoping, somehow, I will be able to continue with this endeavor. I have always wanted to be a writer and hoped the university would give me the skills I needed to do so. I just never envisioned writing songs!

I have taken the time and money to go to the studio, Decade Sound Studio, to record a video with me singing and playing the song, ” Southern Hurricane.” I hope, if it goes well, that I can make a few more. My next song, “Move Over Girls’ ” is the next one I hope to record as a video. I was listening to all the young female country artists song writing and singing and realized they aren’t the only women that have stories to tell. Feeling a bit indignant, I wrote the song. Jessica Lynn Witty and Chad Quist are doing the added vocals and Chad does the guitar work with Country Dave Harmonson on the dobro and lap steel. Lynn Sorensen is on the fiddle, as well.

I hope you all continue to support the musicians you love to listen to. I have a group on Facebook called Matured Musician’s Group. I am interviewing artists in every genre I can reach. My stream is every Monday at 2:00 PM unless I have to make special arrangements. I save the recording so those who cannot watch live, can watch on the site and on my FB site. Hope to see you there!

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Butterfly Wings on Flowers.

Just click on the link to hear a snippet of the song!

I wrote this song because I could not leave the house due to Covid 19. It was our anniversary and I could not go out to get a card. Not thinking about the internet, I decided to write my husband a song. I hope he would understand how much I cared about and love him and our life together.

I could not sing it to him for about a week. Every time I tried to sing it, I would burst into tears and get all choked up. Finally I could sing it and decided to have it produced. Chad Quist is playing guitar parts and singing it with me. He is a local independent artist, producer and man of many talents! I am hoping this song would tell our story in a way others could relate to. I guess I will soon find out.