Lilly Hiatt - Royal Blue - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lilly Hiatt felt lost. She'd just returned home from the better part of a year on tour in support of her acclaimed third album, Trinity Lane, and, stripped of the daily rituals and direction of life on the road, she found herself alone with her thoughts for the first time in what felt like ages. So Hiatt did what's always come most natural to her in times of questioning and uncertainty she picked up a guitar. Over the course of the ensuing winter, she wrote a mountain of new music that grappled with her sense of self and place in the world, reckoning with issues that had been bubbling beneath the surface of her subconscious in some cases for years. The result is Walking Proof, Hiatt's fourth and most probing collection to date. Produced by former Cage the Elephant guitarist Lincoln Parish, the record walks the line between Hiatt's rough, rock and roll exterior and her tender, country roots, exuding a bold vulnerability as she takes a deep and unflinching look in the mirror. What emerges is a newfound maturity in Hiatt's writing, an abiding sense of calm in the face of chaos as she learns that sometimes, you have to let go in order to get what you want most. By the time she headed into Parish's Nashville studio in May, Hiatt had piled up more than twenty-five new songs, and with the producer's help, she pared it down to a tight and cohesive eleven. After capturing the core performances live with her band over the course of roughly a week, Hiatt devoted the early part of the summer to finishing touches, which included contributions from friends like Amanda Shires and Aaron Lee Tasjan along with a guest appearance from her father, legendary songwriter John Hiatt, who joins his daughter on record for the first time here. Lilly Hiatt's not feeling so lost these days, and with Walking Proof, she's crafted a roadmap to share with the rest of us. Album Tracks 1. Rae 2

Forever was a record that was written and recorded one track at a time with my husband Coley. After scrapping about 20 songs or so I had written the last few years, I wanted to get to the heart of things. I had a great talk with a friend on the phone and she mentioned she just wasn't sure where I'd been. I realized I wasn't really certain of that either. It'd been a foggy few years after 2020, and the pieces seemed to just be starting to be picked up. I had fallen in love, gotten married, had a dog, a house... things I had always dreamed of. But it took my quite some time to accept them as my life. For a bit, I felt like an outsider watching myself stumble though everything, and was constantly critiquing myself, to the point where I could hardly leave the house for a bit. But then I realized my life was passing me by, and the love I was living in required presence to accept. I started to do the little things you have to do to just show up for people listen, grow, change, write... get outside of my own problems. Time is flying, and I want to be here for it all rather than lost in my thoughts all the time. My love is forever. When I was a kid I used to say to my mom and dad InchI love you forever and alwaysInch then neurotically changed it to InchI love you forever and always and it's true and I mean itInch... because I wanted to make sure they knew how much I wasn't messing around! I still feel that way when I say InchI love youInch to anyone and hope it comes across on this record. Love y'all forever! Album Tracks 1. Hidden Day 2. Shouldn't Be 3. Ghost Ship 4. Somewhere 5. Evelyn's House 6. Forever 7. Man 8. Kwik-E-Mart 9. Thoughts

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R Album Tracks 1. Light Blue Sun (Prelude) 2. Come Here 3. Anything 4. Wounded Dove 5. The Longing 6. Denied (Featuring Alice Coltrane) 7. The Chinese Song 8. Sweetness 9. Seek 10. Home 11. The Promised Land (Featuring George Clinton and Pharoah Sanders) 12. Anything