Hi!!!! Oh my I can’t believe how the time flies!
It has been a really busy couple of months! and I have some very exciting news to report! I received Female Artist of the Year at the British Columbia Country Music Awards!!! It was the most amazing night and I can 100 percent say I was NOT expecting to win! I was actually in the dressing room changing back into my dress ( because I had just performed) when someone was yelling my name so I quickly got ready and they told me I had won! and to hurry up and accept my award because people were waiting! Anyways, I really don’t know how to thank all of you for believing in me . I know I have yet to release a single and the fact that you voted for me in hopes I will do something truly great once I do, gives me so much momentum to push through this sometimes challenging business. I cannot thank you all enough! It was also a big year for my really good friends and co workers David Wills and Paul Shatto. I know co worker isn’t exactly the right word. Well it isn’t at all because they are so much that that. They are the reason I have gotten to where I am. I met both of them at The BCCMA’s as I was the “trophy girl”. David and I started working together right off the bat as he believed in me and my abilities when I still had a lot to learn. So I just want to say a big congratulations to David Wills for winning “Music Person of the Year” and Paul Shatto for winning Producer of the Year”.
It has been a very busy few months of travelling as well! I went down to Nashville on a writing trip and came back with a song I co wrote with Jason Blaine and Tebey and another I wrote with my good friend Kathleen Higgins. I think Kathleen is probably the sweetest girl I know and she is so incredibly talented. We wrote a song at Deric Ruttans house as we were getting ready to attend an ugly clothing party! I am so excited for you to hear this song because it is really special to me as Kathleen lent her vocals to the song and it is a duet! A month later, I headed back down South to record with Chad Carlson! I was so excited and a little nervous because I have heard so much about Chad and he has worked with Taylor Swift a bunch! The minute we met we totally hit it off and I had the time of my life! I am so excited about these last few songs on the record! And that it is almost finished! I even have the title for the album!!! Which I won’t reveal just yet! It is actually a funny story because the day before we left, I needed one more song to record in Nashville. I listened to a lot of songs, but nothing struck me quite right. I just felt like there was a part of me that still wasn’t present on the record and so I called my pal Jesse Tucker and said “Ok we need to write a song that is a hit and I am going to record it in Nashville”. A little cocky I know! Anyways Jesse came over and I told him my idea and within two hours we had a completed song that is my favorite on the record because it is really my autobiography and its the title track for the record.
Along with Nashville I also got to travel to Switzerland! I have never been before and what a beautiful country! I had fondue! Lot’s of it! My waisline didn’t thank me too much but it was worth it! Took the train to Paris! Anyways it was just so much fun! So now playtime is over and it is time to work! The Christmas song had a lot of adds this year! Thank you to everyone at radio for adding it! My first single will be released next month and I cannot wait! For all of you who know me, you know I have been waiting for this for years!!!
I have just put up some new show dates as well so please check those out! For all of you who read this until the end THANK YOU! I will write a lot sooner now and it won’t be as long I promise!
Well I better run! Talk soon!
xoxoxo
aj
