A week in review:

For those of you interested in the life of JoAnna Lynne here is a quick update of things that are going on (Not like I don’t tweet enough)…

 Tuesday and Wednesday Chidori and I took a little trip down to Low Watt studios in Raleigh, NC to do a little touching up on some background harmonies for the new record, and I sang a couple of lead vocals, “Follow You Down” and “Long Ride”. I finally got the inspiration for the second verse of “Follow You Down”, it was really nice to work that out in the studio.

“You run through my hair, with your fingers/I’m running through your heart running through your mind/Pulling all of the strings just right/Learning how to steer this kite/ somewhere up there your heart still lingers/ love me and I’ll fall/ love me and I’ll fall/ Love me and I’ll follow you down”

That song is going to be a kick ass finish to this record, I can’t wait for everyone to hear it!

On the way home Chidori and I were driving behind Chris Cloud and Danny Rogers (They came down to film us in the studio) and realized that our car had a flat. I kept looking around for a motorcycle so that I could make up another reason for the noise other than having a flat tire, but the smell of burning rubber sort of trumped that idea. We pulled off at the next exit which turned out to be in the middle of nowhere… no lights… not a damn gas station for miles. We pulled into a random driveway and Danny changed the tire while Chris filmed and I held Chris’s phone to use as a light. Chidori and I sang happy birthday to Danny, at one point Chris and I broke out into song “Yatta Yatta sue itchy guys uh uh” Danny hands me the lug nuts and there was a whole reenactment of the “Fuuuuuudge” scene from A Christmas Story. It was a fun time, even Chidori helped change the tire…. It was nice to see the stars through the unpolluted sky. We made it home around eehhh 4am

The next day was mostly spent sleeping, I did a little bit of writing on “Wrecker” and another one to be titled.

“I’m no wrecker/Don’t hand me a bag of stones/Cause you’re living in a house made of glass/I’m no wrecker/don’t hand me a bag of stones/my hear is not made of that/and I’d rather be alone/I’m no wrecker…”

And today I wrote a song that started:

“I made my castle out of brick”

I am getting ahead of myself… so Thursday night was a fun night, I spent it talking and listening to new music and the sounds of the rain and drinking tea, all and all a beautiful moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA&feature=player_embedded

“I should have let that happen, that would have been good”

“You probably should have”

Defective Robot. Shame.

I felt ill for most of Friday, good thing for Pepcid. I had a show for the Sea Level Singer Songwriter Fest Friday night, I played for about an hour and a half which I never do. There were quite a few people there that never get to see me play so that was really nice.

I hung out with Lauren and Alfredo for the rest of the night and fell asleep there due to a strange situation that should not be discussed publicly. Lauren and I both fell asleep while she was reading to her son Christian, it was funny.

The next morning I awoke to more drama, but I had to leave it at home to drive to NJ with Chidori. We played a show at the oh so wonderful Barrington Coffee House. These people are like family to us, and it is always a great feeling to play there. At the end of the night Jack (The cool dude from England that we played with) was leaving and I was inspired to write a song… I wrote the chorus to “Come Back Jack” On the way home we stopped at a random gas station on 95 and bought what we thought was going to be the most awesome thing ever “Cheese Jerky” it was not. Actually I threw that out today cause it melted in my car. Chidori also bought “Muddy Bears” apparently they are chocolate covered gummy bears… gross. I still haven’t gotten her review.

Yesterday I spent most of the day sleeping on Chidori’s couch after the drive. We got in at 6am! Later that afternoon I dropped by my BFF Kristen’s house and we went and did girly things. I had my toes done to look like “Rows and rows of little red strawberries” bringing the strawberry obsession to a new and exciting level. They are super girly and cute though.

Spent the night last night listening to a music playlist that I named ‘The night that tea and pie rained from the sky” and discovered just how much I love Fleet Foxes. Still listening to The Middle East as well.

“I was following the pack
all swallowed in their coats
with scarves of red tied ’round their throats
to keep their little heads
from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go
And, Michael, you would fall
and turn the white snow red as strawberries
in the summertime”

<3

And to wrap it all up… I did some writing today as I mentioned before, this one is called “Queen” at least it is right now…

There is a meeting tonight about the arrival of a one Miss Jenyffer Maria on Saturday and the music video that you will all be seeing this June.

The album is soooo close, I can taste it…

Stay tuned for next week!

Jo