Thursday, March 04, 2010

Jessica Star blogging from Brooklyn!

Holy socks Batman! It’s been a while since I wrote! Sorry!!!

Okay, I have the best excuse in the world; I’m raising my
little son!

So, Grandma and Grandpa are here with him and I have some
music time. I’m using part of my very precious “me time” to write to you and
keep in touch with my readers.

Hi! Music, music, music. Country music and Country music in
NYC!

Apparently there are some people in Sonoma County, where I
used to live and perform, that thought I was still out there and I guess just
hadn’t been playing out for a while. Funny. I’ve been here in NYC for almost
eight years! That’s a long time not to see someone. Thanks for thinking of me
you folks who have gotten in touch recently to ask when I’m playing next in
Northern California. That’s a nice feeling.

  I’m reading
the best book. It’s called “Finding her voice” an illustrated history of women
in Country music. Such a good read. I love learning the history of things I’m
interested in. This book starts in the Appalachian Mountains with women teaching
their daughters and granddaughters songs that came over with their mothers from
Europe and goes all the way to almost the present time. So many female artists,
who spent their lives and energy making their brand of Country music, most are
names most people have never heard of. 
Does it make their missions any less valid that they weren’t rich or
famous? Some of them were very rich and famous but it was so long ago that no
one knows of them now. I met a girl in her 20’s who didn’t even know who Chrissie
Hynde is (The Pretenders).

  So, learning
that NYC once had a very thriving Country music scene is very interesting to
me. Nashville wasn’t always the epicenter of Country music! I’m learning about
all these folk rock singer/songwriters who came out of California that went on
to be Country musicians! That’s like me! So cool. I mean, cool to be a pioneer
for sure but also nice to know there were others that came before you doing
pretty much what you do, just forty years earlier.

  I just had my
first guitar lesson this week with a new teacher. I’m learning music theory.
Wow. My teachers name is Hiro and he plays jazz guitar. We both agree that Led
Zeppelin is the best Rock band ever.

  Alright, as
much as I’d like to go on, I need to play some music. I’ll just try to write
more often.

 

Live that dream!

 

Jessica Star, NYC