Monday, September 29, 2008

life in NYC

The Honky Tonk Angels show was FUN! I played solo for a half hour and had a great time doing it. I debuted two new songs: Boxes of Tears and Wild Rose. Yep, hopefully soon I’ll be able to add the video from these shows I’ve been doing onto my website and myspace!

And for all of you who haven’t heard yet…

I’m pregnant! As of now, I’m 17 weeks! Pretty cool. I’ve had three shows so far as a pregnant lady; one in Greenwich Village, one in Harlem, and one in the East Village. Thank God they make stylish maternity clothes! It’s relieving to me to be able to get really cute clothes as I grow bigger and bigger.

  I guess our baby is going to be a New Yorker! I have no desire to live anywhere else.  I love it here. I feel like I’ve thrived as a person and as an artist in this crazy environment.  I’m spoiled now too. Where as I used to shop at flea markets and garage sales, now I never find anything I actually want to have in my possession at those places; nothing used really. I have a theory about the clothes that you get used here in NYC compared to the ones on the west coast; I think the ones here are just more used and stinky. More likely my taste has just changed. Although, because there are so many stylish people here, every once in a while I’ll happen upon a stoop sale with ladies my size and find designer stuff like Betsey Johnson dresses, and they’re cheap! Those I pick up.

  I’m so happy to be home after so much traveling in late August and mid September.

We went to Burning Man, our annual pilgrimage, and as you can guess, I was super tired this year! I never even made it out on the playa at night to check out the art and the parties. Ah well, I was having my own inner party. I pretty much just hung out at camp, ate and slept. It was a hotttt year too. We left two days earlier than planned and thank God for that. There was a nine-hour dust storm on Saturday that pushed the burn back til like, 2am or so. We left on Friday. I’m so grateful for my intuition. We were in my favorite spot, Mt. Shasta, before and after Burning Man and that was awesome. It was our one-year anniversary of being married so we went up to the spot on the mountain where we had our ceremony. What a special place.

  We flew home for one week of sleeping (for me) and then flew out to Seattle for my best friends’ wedding near Port Townsend, WA. It was a beautiful wedding on the beach.  We flew home and it all added up.. All the traveling, all the socializing, I was so pooped! The Dixie Chicks said something about never plan a tour when you’re pregnant and I can totally see why. Just the plane flights are exhausting!

  I’m all better now and just very happy to be home without any big travel plans in the too near future. I just wanted to write a little more than I have been, let you in on a little bit of my life here in this wild city. I wish you, the reader, all the best and hope you’re enjoying your time on this fair planet.





Jessica Star

Monday, September 08, 2008

Jessica Star’s single,"What she is” is in rotation on American Country Radio Network!

Hi!

Things are definitely heating up here for my music!!! This is a radio show my newest song,” What she is” is on AND in rotation!!! Check out the show! Notice that my air date happens to be on the anniversary of 9/11. I dedicate this show to everyone who was affected by this tragedy. May we all experience greater and greater bliss in the times to come,



  Jessica Star



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The following is the playlist for the Ladies of Country Music Radio Show which will air on American Country Radio Network on 9/11. This new show will broadcast at 11 am and re-broadcast at 6 pm and 10 pm (Central Time).

To tune in click on the link below:



http://www.acrn.fm/listen





Thursday – 9/11/08:

Artists featured in this show are:  Jessica Star, Rustie Blue, Danielle Tucker, Natalie Logan, Tabatha and Southern Fryd, Kelly Lee, Valerie Borman, Tori Bigelow, Jenny Brooks, Shauna Faegan, Amanda Nagurney, Ashley McWalter, Ashleigh Cole, The Kelly J Band, Katy Kiefer, Sherry St. John, Sarah Vetrano

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Jessica Star sang at the Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem last night!

Last night I sang with Jason Rosen’s band at the Dinosaur Barbque up in Harlem. It was a lot of fun! We played for about 3 hours I think and ate some delicious food. We got video of the show, some of it good, some of it not so good depending on where my husband was standing with the camera due to the other audience members moving around and in front of it. I must say, I looked a bit like a lady pirate last night, all in black. The idea is to put some of the video up on my website and on myspace. This of course takes editing and converting and time so we’ll see if it happens and how soon.

We’re in town til next Wednesday when we fly off to Seattle for my best friends’ wedding on a beautiful island near Port Townsend, WA. They’re getting married on the beach! I still need cute shoes but the need for shoes always translates to me as the opportunity to acquire new cowgirl boots. Okay, maybe a beach wedding isn’t exactly perfect for boots but I think I can make it work. The tricky part is finding cute boots here in NYC that are REAL cowgirl boots, not just the style, but the real thing. The last good ones I got were in El Paso, Texas.

We’ve been home from the west coast for almost five days now. It’s kind of funny to be home for only a week and then fly off across the country again! It’s preparing me for touring!

Alright you readers!





Jessica Star

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Jessica Star is back from Burning Man 2008!

Hey! Whoo! We just got back from our ten-day trip out to Northern California and Black Rock City, Nevada! It was our one-year anniversary of being married and since we got married right on Mt. Shasta, we went back and celebrated there. We also visited my good friends who live nearby and swam in the most beautiful Castle Lake.

Our Burning Man trip this year was the shortest one ever! We were there all of two days! We got there Wednesday and left Friday. My brother came with us and it was his very first burn. We went back to Mt. Shasta for four more days after Burning Man and mostly slept and relaxed before coming back to our lives in NYC. Now we’re back to work and it’s soon going to be FALL!!! I play at the Dinosaur Barbque tonight, Sept.6th, with Jason Rosen’s band and then at the end of the month, Saturday, Sept.27th I’m playing solo at Banjo Jim’s for the “Honky Tonk Angels” show!

Rock on!

Jessica Star