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Amy Speace 5-20-12
Apr 26, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a comment
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I wrote my new record, Land Like a Bird, in a new life that fit and fell on me like new skin, not yet stretched out and worn in. I wrote this record in love and for love and broken by love and moved to the highest heights and the lowest lows, but, always with my eyes and heart trained toward the gleam of light on the topside of the shadow. I wrote these songs as love letters. To someone specific, to nobody in particular, to the girl looking back at me in the morning mirror, who has a few more lines than the last time I looked her way.
I spent the entire last eclipse of my adult life in the Manhattan area, whether on the island or in the outskirts of Brooklyn or Jersey. Surrounded by concrete and asphalt, taxi horns and rushing trains. I got used to it, though I wasn’t native to it, and I fell madly in love with it. I acted and I wrote and directed plays and lived theater, onstage and backstage. After teaching myself guitar, songs fell out in a late-blooming burst and I found home in the clubs of the Lower East Side and found family with my band, the Tearjerks. It was the right place at the right time, and once it seeped deep into my skin it stayed like ink and I was changed.
For more information on Amy please check out her website. www.amyspeace.com