1 - Can't Let Go

It was a no brainer when my producer Tony Brown reminded me of this super cool song that was a big hit for Lucinda Williams on her Wheels On A Gravel Road CD. I love it and it fills a perfect void on this album. It has a swagger and groove that I'm totally drawn to! It's the first song on my album and I think I might just open the show with it as well. I got to play a little harmonica on this. "I feel like I've been shot and didn't fall down"...what a GREAT lyric!

2 - Tears Fall Down

I co-wrote this song with two of my favorite people and writers in the world, Leslie Satcher and Al Anderson. Al is such a groove meister, he started playing that melody with such a unique rythym. It reminded us all of some early Fleertwood Mac. Leslie and I started spillin out lyrics and singin with her is always so inspiring. I love the dynamics of this song. You think it's all happy and positive...and then it turns out that it's a woman spilling her guts about her heart being broken and no idea how to deal with it...a little vulnerable. I like that. I LOVE this song.

3 - Johnny And June
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4 - WHAT AM I WAITING FOR

This is such a special song that it needed to be the title of my new album. I wrote it with Jeffrey Steele, and my former bandmates, Ira Dean and Keith Burns. The guys and I had been writing a lot with Jeffrey, who is just a freak of nature, he's so good! We were writing at nights and then the three of us would roll on to the bus and hit the road. I came in one night after listening to a lot of U2....and I had this idea for a song about stepping out...stepping up...not biding your time...taking that chance...getting out of whatever situation is making you miserable, and living your own life. It would be called WHAT AM I WAITING FOR. I started playin that melody and Jeffrey hopped on the piano and we were off to the races. It came out even better than I had imagined and what's really amazing about it....for me...was that I was spilling out my feelings about where I was with Trick Pony at the time.

"I stayed here for love, watched it dissappear, now there's nothin but yesterdays holding me here" This song was my therapy...

When my producer Tony Brown got ahold of it...we both agreed on those big church choir background vocals...and it just raises the hair on the back of my neck. I think a good song should be one that speaks to people's hearts. It should represent what they are feeling or something they are going through. This song does that. It says if he's not treating you right and there's no fixin it, get out! If you hate your job that much and you want to do something else, go do it! It says God has a bigger plan for each of us...if we just open our selves up to it.

5 - LOVE HER AND LOSE ME

This is truly one of my favorite songs on this album! I co-wrote this with the brilliant Dean Dillon and hilarious talented Dale Dodson. What a day! My first time writing with both of them...and I knew it was a beautiful and haunting song the day we wrote it...but it wasn't until we got in the studio with a really rough work tape of the writing session that I watched this song come to life. Sometimes, those are the best times...when the session band has to use their imagination and they don't THINK about where to put their fingers...they just close their eyes and let it happen. Oh my God...it's so gorgeous how this came out. The piano solo on this kills me. This song is so vulnerable and honest...and yet it has a hint of sarcasm in it as well. Gives me chills every time I sing it.

7 - Wreck You

I heard this song in Nashville as a bunch of song pluggers and publishers called CHICKS WITH HITS got together to play me tunes. I had to ask what the title was again cause it took me by surprise. I thought "Wreck You....what a cool title" It was written by the great Lori McKenna and Felix McTeigue. I was immediately drawn to this song. It's starkness....it's darkness....it played out in my head like a movie....about a20woman who can't figure out where the hell her and her man took a wrong turn, but something is wrong..and it doesn't seem to be getting any better...and she just feels beaten down...and no matter what she does, she just seems to wreck him....Good Lord...it's heart wrenching....I have felt this way....and it's a very hopeless feeling. But the key thing is here....IT'S REAL. Anyone who has ever loved and lived has felt this way at least once. I also love the natural dynamics of this song. It builds up and gives me goose bumps....that's always a good sign. Sad song or not....

8 - Nothin' Burns Like A Memory

I wrote this song with my former Trick Pony band mate, Ira Dean and super musician, Eric Silver. Ira had this idea...and it slayed me. Very clever. We just started chipping away at it and out came this super cool groove with this great melody and lyrics that...well basically, explore some emotions we've all felt.... anger and frustration and the emancipation of letting go of those bad memories that are holding us back or down. Everybody has to have at least ONE song with pure angst in it. This is mine. I love that I get to kinda get a little Joplin on this vocal too...it's a really fun song to sing. It should be said too, that this was one of the first songs I played my producer Tony Brown that got him interested in doing my record. So thank goodness for that. It's got big edge to it....i love the edge...don't you?

10 - KNOCKED UP

Let me begin by saying...my Grandmother Nancy did not particularly like this song when she heard it. We still don't talk about it much....we've just agreed to disagree. haha! I HAD TO RECORD THIS SONG! I wish i had written it, but i gotta give the credit to one of my favorite chick writers in Nashville and a legnedary writer too...Angeleena Presley and Mark D Sanders. Let's just say this song is honest and humorous and it rocks the roof off too! I believe this is Angeleena's real story about gettin "knocked up" with her guitar man's child and loving that little boy with all her heart. It reminds me of something one of my biggest hero's Loretta Lynn would write...A modern day "The Pill".

I usually close my show with it...and what's really funny is how, adults and little kids are screamin this chorus with me "knocked up...shame shame...." and then the kids are goin home askin their parents "Mommy what's knocked up mean?" I look at it like this....I've never been knocked up....yet...but I sure know some people who have! And we all gotta have a sense of humor in this big ol world!