The title track is the story of how my husband Jeremy and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people. "Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.”
“The Closer I Get” was originally meant to be the opener of this double album. "Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying”. I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip. Sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.
Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.
“Malibu” was written with Mike Campbell in his Malibu home after Jeremy and I had driven through the canyon fleeing a forest fire to get my guitar from our AirBnB. I had the start of the song and brought it to him looking to finish it out. I wanted to write something with a country funk/Bobbie Gentry feel, a good long rambling story about the minutia of the day, like Ode to Billy Joe. Mike added the long “California” yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed. He also helped to write some verses with Jeremy and I. Also, shout out to Drew Erickson who nailed the string arrangement on this one.
My favorite line is "love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel."
love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel.
