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Week 2 is off to a good start! Thank you, Jeff, for buying a house concert.
That is huge.

I have eight weeks til I begin recording June 28th.

Your pre-order helps me fund this album (read more about it below)


Many Thanks!

Amy

Cavalcade of Stars - Our Guys Collecting Grammy's

Well I'm closing in on the first week of the launch of my new album project "Majesty" (in the Making) and I can say that I am encouraged. Moved. Grateful. Okay, even "psyched". I have to say thank you to all my fans who are responding with generosity kindness and enthusiasm. Your votes of confidence mean a lot to me and this project. The kind words, the pre-orders, the bandying about of credit cards. I have gone from feeling slightly isolated and alone to surrounded by friends/supporters and well-wishers. Thank you!
And now for a gratuitious celebrity photo: I am posting this picture of Gavin Lurssen and Jay Bellerose at the Grammy's. This is what I'm talking about. My team, Our Team, at the Grammy's this year just collecting Grammy's and hanging out with rock 'n' roll legends and really funny adorable actresses from New York. Gavin sent this photo to me the other day and I think he said it's okay to show him off...I think he did. Didn't he?! These guys are "so cool they could store a side of beef in [them] for a week...(zaphod beeblebrux). And I'm showing them off.

Letter to Fans: "Majesty" in the Making

Hi Everyone,

By pre-ordering the CD, you can get the album before anyone else (oooh, la, la) -- AND you'll be helping me fund it - so thank you.

Like a growing number of artists, I'm looking to my fans, rather than a record company to help produce my next record. So if you want to play a bigger part in helping to create "Majesty" you can choose your speed below -- and get personal gifts direct from me to you for your support.

Read a good article about this trend in The Boston Globe

Questions? Contact me at amy@amycorreia.com

Thank you!
Amy

Note: (The levels of contribution have been moved to the most recent post above.)

What's the Title "Majesty" all about?

Read Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-Reliance".
Since I first read this essay as 10th grader (or part of it), I knew I was reading something I'd be trying to understand the rest of my life. Twenty-five years later I'm still peeling back the layers of what Emerson wrote and trying to understand what it means to be "self-reliant," to trust one's own mind. That's where to find majesty. The kindgom of the real. Now get thee to a Library!

Plans are underway to start recording late June

New Album coming 2009, working title "Majesty"

I’m excited for the opportunity to make my next record with longtime friend, Paul Bryan. He introduced me to drummer Jay Bellerose and the three of us sat down and played together in Los Angeles in Jay's living room. Paul and I are planning to capture the music we started that day for my next record. Ryan Freeland, who has worked with Paul on the last two Aimee Mann albums, will record and mix for us. Paul and I will head to NYC after getting the performances of us as a trio to add some orchestral elements. Gavin Lurssen, who mastered my first album “Carnival Love," will put on the final sonic touches. I have 10-12 songs that I'm planning to record, and am working on additional ones that may make the cut by the time we start.

Paul Bryan - Producer/Arranger/Bassist (Aimee Mann, Mavis Staples, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello and others)

Jay Bellerose - Drummer. (Allison Krauss/Robert Plant, Ray Lamontagne, Marc Cohn, Paula Cole and others)

Ryan Freeland - Engineer (Aimee Mann, Neil Finn, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and others)

Gavin Lurssen - Mastering (Amy Correia “Carnival Love”, everything from Johnny Cash to Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, Cat Power)

And guest spots by classical musicians and friends!

A bit about the songs on the new album

New Album coming 2009, working title "Majesty"

Songs include:

Powder Blue - "Can't Get No Satisfaction" in high heels when a woman hits the bar and the road in a powder blue Trans Am

Took Him Away - A protest song from the point of view of a young boy who's Dad's fighting in Iraq

Love Changes Everything - Less romantic than universal. Inspired in party by Mary Oliver's poem The Wild Geese

Carolina Rail - A train ride to the Tar heel state to try & get a good man back

O Lord - A battle cry in the wilderness

Old Habits - Picture me in a white silk top hat, glittering cape and cane doing a soft shoe. Definite Mary Poppins influence is coming through here.