It wasn't until recently that I gave any thought to pursuing music as an endeavor. You see, a couple of years ago, I was at a local fair picking up my craft exhibit at the end of closing night when I happened upon the "Karaoke Booth." I've been singing at local Karaoke places here and there for a few years, so this particular booth caught my keen interest. A young lady was on a tiny lit up stage singing a Shania Twain song, and doing an OK job of it. As I turned the pages of the song selection book, I started singing along a little bit. The woman operating the booth told me what a good voice I had and convinced me that I'd rather go inside the mini recording studio to record one track instead of just singing on the little stage out front. Since I chose to record, she told me that I was eligible to enter a drawing for a free recording session in Tennessee, USA. So I entered the drawing. As it was very late in the evening, all the other vendors around her were packing up and leaving, but there was a pastor in the next booth across the way who hadn't left yet, so she called him over to pull out a name. I called out, "Pick me! Pick me! I'm still here to claim it!" He smiled and thrust his arm deep into the bin, churned and churned all those entries around, reached down into the bottom of the bin, pulled out a ticket, and read the name off it. IT WAS MY NAME!!! I shrieked with delight! The next summer my husband and I went down to Seymour, TN -- right next to Knoxville -- and I spent a day at Big Mama's Recording Studio, recording ten tracks -- all country music, some old, some new, all karaoke style, of course. We made a whole vacation out of the trip. We went to DollyWood, twice. We visited the Guiness World Records Museum, the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, and a few other places in Gatlinburg. And since we were already 14 hours from home, what would another 3 hours be? So we went to Nashville to visit the Ryman Museum, former site of the original Grand Ole Opry, and, of course, we went to see the Grand Ole Opry in its new location.
Now it is a couple years later, and I've given away most of my copies of my CD, entitled 'Right Place at the Right Time' -- I named it after the circumstances that got me the recording session. One of those CDs landed in the hands of an old country singer named Dusty Adams. He had also been known as Stony Adams back in the day. After listening to my CD, he invited me to be in one of his shows. He strongly recommended that I learn to play the guitar to accompany myself for a few songs in the show... or at least to "air strum" it and fake it pretty good. Since I had been considering learning to play the guitar for quite some time anyways, I took some lessons. My grandparents had purchased a Kay parlor-guitar back in the 1950s or so, and no one had been using it for many years, so they gladly let me take it. Its neck was a little bowed and the strings must have been all original. I sent it out for repair, and got it back the very next day. Its neck was straight as an arrow and it had been restrung. It sounded like a whole new guitar! Six weeks after my first lesson was the date of Dusty's variety show in Woodstock, CT, USA. I must have practiced my three songs for a half an hour every day for those six weeks! The others in the show couldn't believe that I had only been playing for six weeks, and the audience enjoyed my performance, too. In fact, one of the others in the show invited me -- on the spot -- to appear as a guest in his mini-show for the very next day! So I went with my 'antique' Kay and played and sang the only three songs I knew to a very small audience. They all loved my voice, and they too couldn't believe that I had only been playing for six weeks. I still need to work on the timing of my strumming, though... but that'll come with more practice.
Who knows... Maybe one day you'll hear me on the radio!
Since I'm nearly out of CD copies, I'd like to order more. But I'd like to get an idea of how many I should order at once. If you'd like a copy of my CD, please make your request in the form below. Please include enough information so that I can contact you for your modest donation of $5.00 US. Please note that it may take several weeks for me to receive enough requests that I may place an order. I'll try not to let more than 10 weeks go by between your request and my order for more copies. Thereafter, I'll send your copy once I receive my order.
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