Daphne and the Mystery Machines Perspective on Easier

This was a very autobiographical song I wrote during some difficult times, in early recovery, everything was $*** if I'm honest during that time, especially, really diving into some of my behaviors during times of active addiction.  When we get sober and have to really face all the wreckage and damage we inflicted on our loved ones and our own lives, it really gets you, and although I wrote this song, with zero intentions of ANYONE ever hearing it, I'm happy the way it worked out, as this song has been used in a few rehab facilities in the US and UK, including the world famous Cumberland Heights.  I love thinking that all the pain and BS from that time, is being used for good, and that, my friend is the power of GOD and the beauty of music. 

I'm told I was quite the Elvis Presley fan as a toddler, but a traumatic brain injury has removed much of my memory, I'm remembering a musical I would watch at my grandmas house called "seven brides for seven brothers" ... and let me tell you, I watched that again recently, for nostalgic purposes and HOLY COW how the times have changed. Some of the things they said on that and the songs...that would NOT fly in todays cultural climate! I got a good chuckle on that.  

I remember my first CDs I got from BMG (a mailing music to you service that I miss very much and I wish they would bring back) Salt N Pepa, Aerosmith, John Michael Montgomery, Ace of Base, to name a few.

I've started playing more solo shows, and as a result my pedal board has evolved to creat a full sonic experience, I double my guitar, One I isolate the bass  with a graphic EQ and send and the other is just my acoustic electric with reverb, and a tasty offering of overdrive in some songs, a little tremelo on some and just a skosh of delay and i love its warmth, I also switched to the FATTEST strings they make for acoustic guitar to help bring the lows up and the tin down, which already was shaping up just due to the fact I switched from Taylor to Breedlove guitars. 

I have a few

Bone Thugs N Harmony , Cher , Brandi Carlile, Jasono Isbell, Watchouse, Jelly Roll, Avett brothers, Salt-N-Pepa, Steven Tyler, Allison Krauss,  Tyler Childers....I have more but they get weird.... Rancid...

Second Sold out night at the Ryman Auditorium. 

By maintaining that I play slots like full bands play, even though I'm only one girl.  Also I think getting such a late start on being a musician and after the long break I was forced to take after a brain injury, coming back stronger than ever is inspirational to others.   There really arent any programs in place for TBI victims and survivors and I HOPE to get the message across to the medical field and the governing bodies who provide assistance and services for them, as I had a very difficult time, and would hate for anyone else to have to try to get by and survive what I went thru. A lot of it seemed like unneccessary difficulty and red tape to even get the most basic things when I was unable to communicate. 

Crying, when I see a big burly grown man in the audience weeping, I know I've done something right. I was told after a show one time that they "experienced every emotion known to man" during my set and have received some pretty high critical acclaim from some unexpected sources. 

Live, in theatres and listening rooms. 

i got a two-fer  --- both at the same ALS fundraiser.   I couldnt' see the crowd at all when I was on stage due to the bright lights in my eyes, but I had a wardrobe malfunction (i'll leave that to the imagination) and then I made a very ....naughty shall we say... joke/innuendo and eluded to the people in the front two rows getting lucky or something to that effect, after the show I found out they were mostly 75 year old and up and most of them had ALS and lets just say I learned a valuable lesson that night.  

I would make it so that it's not so "pay to play" and anyone with great music could get "airtime" more easily.  Also, they payment platform on places like Spotify is not very geared towards indie artists and up and comings.  For example, my first 200,000 spins came organically as in those 200,000 saw me perform live at some point and that was them not buying a cd from me, but spinning my music anyways, and that took a hit when people stopped buying CDs and there was never any reparation made there, and that is unfortunate.