Water & my lucky scarf!

I’m on a little breaky at the studio in Smashville..I call it that cause the goal is to write a smash hit when you are in Nashville..Anyways, I just made Victoria my Pro-ducer a cup of Organic Fair Trade Vanilla Black tea. She loved it..I am getting her into drinking tea..slowly but surely..the problem is that there are no darn kettles in these studios and it is sac-religious ( is that how you spell it??) to make tea in a microwave..I mean fine I am ok with heating your last few sips in the microwave but you gotta start with a kettle to get the water to the right temp. Blah blah obviously this is boring to most people.

So I have been in Smasherville for 5 days and we are 2 songs in cutting the vocals and we have recorded all the instruments for the songs. I worked with the most clever bunch of musicians there is! I felt hyper and excited and lucky and nervous the whole time I worked with them..I wonder if they walk around thinking..yes I am one of the top 3 drummers in country music..yes I am sooo cool?

Maybe they have little moments of that but mostly I think they are good because they have a quiet confidence.

I noticed that a lot of amazing players chew gum while rehearsing and recording…wonder if it keeps them calm? Maybe I am over analyzing. Anyways, they heard me play guitar on the rough track of Roadside Sandwich and I felt really proud and nervous to have these musicians interpret my songs.

We recorded the vocals on FRIED and Part of Your Fantasy today and have a couple hours left. I’m staying at a very beautiful Apartment for this first week and last night there was a very scary storm. I am on the 20th floor and the lightening was flashing every 5 seconds and the whole apartment lit up from 4-5 in the morning! I was scared @$#%$#$%$ -less…and said a little ok maybe this is it prayer.

There is a cute little grocery store in the entrance to the apt. so I have been getting groceries so I can cook at night. I love being able to cook and drink my new white and green tea and have bubble baths and feel kinda of the closest thing to home.

I keep picturing touring this record and there are lots of upbeat songs and I dream with these songs in my head all night cause I am so focused on getting them to sound good.

Happy Spring…who is going to Star Trek tonight? I am not a Trekkie but even I kind of want to see it! They sure picked the perfect guy to play Spock.

xoxo Jessie