THE STORY INSIDE BETTY'S ROOM

At the risk of using the term “concept album”, though it's not backed by the Montreal Symphony, there is a common thread running through the songs on BETTY'S ROOM. The record is a collection of songs that emerged as I was turning to face the truth about how I fit in this world. It took a lot of introspective thinking and courage to wade through the self doubt, patterned thinking that sounded like a broken tape, me telling myself over and over, “Don't be stupid, nobody cares, the world doesn't need another songwriter, stay quiet, you're too old, you're too scared...” and on and on. These messages became the tapestry I was to unravel and re-work into this CD. The recording of the songs was the culmination of  my process of self-reckoning, the sifting through the narrative of stifled artist, tiny fear-based thinking, pride, ego, and the tuning into my whispering soul.  I found a big home in the space that had for so long been shrouded by self-negation, through the passage of my creative longing....singing my own songs, the revelation of my lifelong secret, my hidden scariest  desire to write songs, was the most authentic, relaxed place I'd ever visited.

BETTY'S ROOM is a chronicle of sorts, personal eclipses, incremental steps to bring me home to myself, captured in these recordings. May as well admit it, it's my first record  and its autobiographical! I'm standing on this ground, and I want to tell others how I came here, help them find their own way. I want to profess my human story, to tell about being in love, being a mother, giving in to sadness, fucking up, to admit to human frailty, fear, ego, pride, arrogance, struggles, striving and flying. I wanted to explose this crazy notion I have that creativity is the beginning of the revolution of the human spirit, that creative expression is the manifestation of our relationship with our true self, that the relationship is personal and universal all at once, by listening to the voice in me that brings me to the most peaceful sense of fulfillment and ease, I am saying out loud there is a god, and she is LOVE imbued with compassion. I wanted to explore where I am in here, somewhere, in the songs, among the chatter of the mysteries, to find myself gone and  realized all at once. If that makes any sense, we're on a similar path.

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