I am feeling quite jaunty and energized today. I know it is a stupid, meaningless thing, but we got a write up in the actual print edition of the City Paper, along with a picture of Kelly and me. A picture! Dude, I’m in the City Paper – the Baltimore City Paper. Excuse me if I am a little star-struck by myself for a second. The last time I was in the paper was probably the Wetzel Chronicle for High School Debate Team or something like that. Dude, I’m in the Baltimore Hipster Hate-everything, uber-cool City Paper and the review is good!
Deep Breath. Okay, okay, now I’m over it.
More importantly, it is so nice to be able to exercise my creative side again after many years of engineering-related dormancy interrupted with the occasional one-off occurrence. There is so much more joy in my life – from both singing and writing again – and I am having FUN. Pure, unadulterated fun. We know we’re not reinventing the wheel with the Bellevederes; we are just creating music for people to dance to and have a good time. And that is more than enough for me.
Now, I fully respect the singer-songwriter, in fact I am wildly envious of a person who can write a beautiful original melody and lyrics – Ryan is truly talented in this - but that is just not me. The fact that I can carry a tune and read music does not automatically mean I have the songwriting knack. Because I do not. And I’m okay with that.
We are preparing to write some original songs for the band, feel we are getting a big enough repertoire that we can take time for some songwriting sessions, and I am confident that, given a good groove and beat, I can help come up with some soul lyrics. I mean, there are really only about three or four topics in 90% of soul music: You are in love and want to do it; Somebody done broke your heart: The man is keepin’ you down; and your car kicks ass. Certainly, we can come up with some lyrics for those topics!
But there is also such a huge catalog of under-appreciated gems, songs that deserve to be heard, songs that will never be played on the oldies stations, and we are actively seeking out those songs to add to our catalog as well.
So stay tuned for more adventures of the Belles!
Listening: Etta James – because she inspires me with her bad-assness
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