Fuck Yeah, Shoshana!

I know you’re not supposed to pick favorites when it comes to your children, but I have to admit…this song is probably the most special to me on the entire album.

It echoes a sentiment of something I think we are all guilty of at one point in time or another. A refusal to accept and see things as they are, a need to control or judge or change, manipulate or force…and while I wrote it at the end of one relationship, I find that it still rings true at the end of another. (Apparently your girl still has some habits to break.) I wish I could say this behavior was exclusive to my intimate relationships, but if I’m being really honest, it applies to my life and the way I’ve been known to do things across the board.

What I am continuing to learn is that the best things, the most natural, the most meaningful… .they take very little effort at all. There is a beautiful ease involved.

As difficult as certain moments of this recording and creation process have been…there has been an overriding joy and an ease present every step of the way.

When I heard the final version of this song I sat and sobbed. Listening to it I was transported back to my childhood home where the records that inspired this album were on constant rotation. I was reminded of long drives with my dad who would play a song that he really loved over and over and over and over again until he was sick of it.  I always imagined if he felt how I feel about music, that he was just trying to get that song inside of him. In his body…as close as possible. Like to consume it.

With Blood From a Stone my team and I achieved exactly what I initially intended and set out to do both sonically and emotionally.   I honor and give gratitude to my producer, my musicians, my singers, my loves and my heartbreaks that make things like this possible.

It is a privilege to share with you. 

xoxox