AMY CORREIA - NEW ALBUM "YOU GO YOUR WAY" Available Now at http://wwamycorreia.com

MY BLOG HAS MOVED! TO WWW.AMYCORREIA.COM

2009-08-13T19:47:00.000-07:00

MY BLOG HAS MOVED TO www.amycorreia.com

This will be my last post here.

Find me at www.amycorreia.com

Thanks for your interest and support.

Amy

Fan-Funded Album "Majesty" in Production Now

2009-07-07T20:16:00.002-07:00

Thanks for helping me make my new album

2009-07-07T20:16:00.001-07:00

Choose your Part, Get Your Perks

THE SAILOR
$20 - Get the new CD weeks ahead of the landlubbers.

COLLIDING ANGEL
$50 - 1 personalized CD and photo, signed & delivered to you with love.

THE BIKER (Pedalling Faster)
$100 -1 signed CD plus bitchin' concert T-shirt.

CARNIVAL RIDER
$250 - All of the above plus free shows for the year. Merci Buttercups!

LAKEVILLIAN (In a light blue canoe)
$500 – A musical greeting I write for your answering machine. Makes a nice gift for a friend, too.

BEAUTIFUL LIFER (Flying over bridges)
$1,000 - Got Skype? Custom-order a personal concert online with me. I'll play a bunch of songs and hang out with you and your friends in cyberspace face-to-face. Online concert: 1 1/2 hours long minimum.

GLORIOUS BLUEBIRD (Singing with flying colors)
$2,500 - Custom song in your honor or of someone else. You give me a title/theme and I do the rest. We'll chat on the phone so you can describe to me your vision. I'll take copious notes and deliver "the goods" with a personalized drawing or watercolor that I make for you inspired by the song.

STARFISHIN'
$4,000 - House Concert - Invite your friends over & let me entertain you in your own living room. Could be nice for a birthday party, wedding or special event. One or two sets.

YOUR MAJESTY'S REQUEST
$5,000 - Executive Producer credit on the album. I'll include your name and title on web, press and promo as well as liner notes and CD.

THE HEIR/HEIRESS
$10,000 - ONLY ONE AVAILABLE. Sit in with me and Paul Bryan on the mastering session of my new album at world-class Lurrsen Studios in Los Angeles. We'll go to dinner and celebrate afterwards, and I'll entrust to you my "red and rusted bicycle built like a tank from Sears and Roebuck circa 1952." It's the bike that inspired the song "The Bike" owned by my Great Uncle Pat.

We're Here

2009-06-28T08:54:00.000-07:00

We start recording tomorrow.
Thank you for helping to make this album a reality.

All Systems Go! First Rehearsals for New Album

2009-06-16T21:04:00.001-07:00

June 13, 2009

I've had my first rehearsals last week with producer/bassist Paul Bryan and drummer, Jay Bellerose. With all the help from fans, I am poised to start recording my third album. We will cut 12-14 songs for my new album starting in a couple weeks.

In July I'll hit the road back East and work on some additional fundraising to help with post-production costs. Because of the generosity and faith of many people,
we're in good shape to accomplish this record and we're all systems go for our start date to record with Ryan Freeland, engineering for us at his studio in Los Angeles on June 29th.

Mojo Risin' - Amy fans get behind her new album

2009-05-21T17:46:00.000-07:00

As of Tuesday May 19, the album fund has hit $10,000.00. This is an incredible beginning and in about one month we are well on our way of reaching the goal of $35,000.00. Why does a record cost this much to make? Can't people make them in their basements? Yes, some can. Maybe someday I will. Especially if I ever have a house with a basement. In the meantime, this is my third album and I'm hiring a producer because I can't do it alone. I'm hiring some world-class musicians and engineers and artists to make this the best album I can. Most of the money is for musicians, producer/arranger and studio time. Then there's post production/mastering, artwork, manufacturing and distribution. My goal is to have a first run out this fall or by the end of this year for people who pre-order the album.

I leave tomorrow to head to Los Angeles, and I'm flying high from all your support and encouragment.

Thank you for playing a part in my new album and giving me an opportunity to make the record I believe I can make. I can't thank you enough. It couldn't happen without you.

Amy

CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING IN LAKEVILLE, MA

2009-05-18T19:11:00.000-07:00

I think I got more exercise today riding "the bike" (the $10,000.00 one) all over Lakeville, MA than I've had in the last two weeks combined. The CBS crew filmed me going over bridges, through a cemetery, up and down a road between two lakes, down Nelson's Grove where my grandmother used to live. Then up and down the street where I grew up. It was a blast and nothing a little Ben Gay won't cure. The story on Jill Sobule and me as people who are making albums with the help of their fans will likely air June 7th, 9am eastern.

I'm four weeks into this drive and have about five weeks left til I record June 28th.
A lot of things are coming together. My fans and friends are getting behind this and giving it power. It's kind of amazing to me that this is really working. I don't know where it all will GO. I know I'm making an album for all of you who care about it. And that's far enough for now.

FRED CORREIA (MY DAD) SOON TO BE TV IDOL

2009-05-13T11:38:00.000-07:00

I'm back from a two-week tour, opening for singer/songwriter Marc Cohn. We went from Fall River, MA to NYC to Philly and Annapolis, MD. I took a bunch of orders for the new album along the way and was really excited to be out there playing again. I mostly played songs that will be on the new album. Now I'm home and working on a few dates (shows) before I get on a plane and head to Los Angeles in about two weeks. A couple days ago I received the "deal memo" (producer agreement) between myself and Paul Bryan: Send lawyers, guns and money! I'm also nailing down the real number of what I need to pull this project off. From soup to nuts. My goal is to do an initial run of CDS so I'm including costs of production as well as "manufacturing and distribution," which ultimately means the cost of everything up to envelopes and stamps.

Last week CBS Sunday Morning News filmed a live show at the Rockwood Music Hall in NYC as part of a feature they are doing on "fan funded" albums. On Monday, Anthony Mason, the host, will come to Lakeville, MA (where I grew up) to interview me and my dad and show me riding around on "the bike." I'm really excited to show off my Dad's barbershop because my dad has had his shop for about 50 years. It's an interesting place. My dad is helping me with this new album project by allowing me the use of his shop as a "clearing house" of sorts. Checks are being sent there because I'm on the road and moving around. If you haven't heard a thank you from me about your check that was sent to my Dad's shop in the last week or so, it's because they haven't been opened so we can open some on the air. I will write to you Tuesday to let you know I received your check and thank you. And thank you to everyone who's sending payments online via Paypal. If you don't have a paypal account, you can still go there and pay securely with a credit card. I'm tired, but I'm so grateful to everyone for helping me make this album. I'm looking forward to diving into the music again soon.

Choose Your Part. Get your Perks.

2009-04-28T03:11:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-24T11:18:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-19T12:29:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-04-12T21:40:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-11T04:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-02T19:25:00.000-07:00

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.

Feb 2, 2009

2009-02-02T03:14:00.000-08:00

I'm in Los Angeles working on some music for my next record. I saw the movie, The Wrestler, a few nights ago and I can't stop thinking about it.

THE SILENCE OF THE RAM

Approached with a sense of purpose and love, any occupation could save a person from ruin. It's not what you do, but how you do it. You could be an excellent mom, goat herder or pro-wrestler. It's how you choose to pour yourself into your own life (whatever it may be) that has redemptive powers.

To pursue an authentic life, to endure, and resist capitulating to whatever is your version of the deli counter of mediocrity (where Randy the Ram reluctantly worked), that is to triumph. The Ram keeps charging in spite of all his obstacles, failings and flaws. He can't win back his daughter, he is alone and getting old. The girl he digs can't save him from a heart attack. He chooses to go out swinging: When he gets up on the ropes that one last time, before he has the final heart attack (as I see it) and the film goes to black, Randy the Ram falls and triumphs simultaneously. He sacrifices himself on the altar of the ring in one final flip to mediocrity. The Ram is a genuine hero in that moment to me, not a super hero with a cape, but a flawed mortal in lime green lycra tights, flying in the face of death and defeat. He chose to do what he loved.