folk/americana + lots of fan interaction

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So, the first day was just a travel day for us.
I’m a music mama, 2 little girlies travel with me wherever I go and today that meant a lot of stopping, reaching into the back seat, and answering the question “are we in California!?” a dozen times before we were even out of Tennessee.

I’m glad we decided to stop in Little Rock for the night before hitting OKC tomorrow, where by the way, I will be playing at The Backroom with the fabulous Emery Clark and Shannon Horn!

So, here’s are short little vid of the day and some pictures too.
The highlight by far was the cover band at Casa Mexicana (best fajitas ever) in Little Rock.
There were probably 6-7 of them and they really liked to harmonize. I think the lady keyboardist thought she was Stevie Nicks. It was amazing.

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Friends,
There is so much happening around here!

*My latest record, “Coming Around” is available!
The record is available as a digital only release for now and for a limited time, you can download the entire album for FREE or pay what you think is fair for the music!
Follow the link for details:

http://floparis.net/free-music
(If you’re on Twitter or Facebook, it is SUPER helpful/awesome when you update your status letting everyone know you just downloaded the album - it helps spread the word!)
*Summer tour kicked off at my favorite East Nashville spot (Ugly Mugs) with an album release show featuring Eric Brown, Katy Bowser and Sandra McCracken.
Thanks to all who came out to listen and celebrate!

Take a look at the tour dates below and visit www.floparis.net for more information.
You can also click “events” on the Flo Paris fan page to get details, RSVP to events, etc.

7/7 - Little Rock, AR (TBA)
7/8 - Oklahoma City, OK (The Backroom w/Shannon Horn & Emery Clark)
7/9 - Albuquerque, NM (Southwest Gift Baskets and Coffee)
7/10 - Phoenix, AZ (TBA)
7/11 - Bellflower, CA (Angel City Café)
7/12 - Hollywood, CA (Hotel Café w/Lakes)
7/19 - Atascadero, CA (ABC)
7/31 - San Luis Obispo, CA (The Clubhouse)
9/5 - Chattanooga, TN (The Barking Legs)

I may possibly be adding Sacramento, CA to the summer tour and Memphis, TN and St. Louis, MO to the fall, so keep checking the website for details.

There will also be daily video blog entries at www.floparis.net/blog during the tour!

Take care, enjoy the record, and hope to see you on the road!
-Flo

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I’m sitting in my favorite coffee shop in Nashville, trying to get some work done for my album release show … which will be here, at Ugly Mugs in less than 2 weeks.

I should be working.

I put my headphones in and picked my poison - a new song my long time friend sent me of his awhile back, and now I can’t get anything done.

I am an unfocused, romantic, right-brainer who spends more time in my own head than probably anywhere else.

When I went to college for music I was a little bit more optimistic. I was more of a dreamer.

I’ve come to admire the organized, the logical and the comedic, and I’m proud that I have been able to stretch myself more to the “left” side of my brain.

Still, as much as I’d like to deny it, I’m still the romantic I was 10 years ago.

So, in go the headphones, off goes my brain.

I feel, I dream, music pumps through my veins and it speaks for me.

I didn’t know anything about music when I was little other than how it was physically satisfying to breathe air in my lungs and have a melody come out.  It felt good to sit in front of our old beat up organ and pound out the stress of  school…of life… of cancer…and it felt safe to fall asleep to the sound of my dad’s fingers sqeaking on the frets and my mom singing Summertime.

I’ve spent 20 years learning the science of music, and forgetting the mystery of it.

On all accounts music makes wonderful, logical sense. There is a scale, there is rhythm, there is always a perfect relative minor to every major.

To some, the circle of fifths, the scale, the  “mathematical-ness” of music is glorious. It is unchanging. It is truth. It is order. Part of  the challenge of being a musician, is creating something unique and beautiful within those rules.

Not to be overly dramatic (okay, maybe a little) but he more I learned the “rules” the more the magic of music left my soul.

Sit down at the piano. Play a chord. Let your fingers travel without knowing the rules. Play another chord. Sing a melody over the top of it. I don’t know how it works, but it sends both thrill and ache through my bones.

That’s how it used to be. And I miss it.

Back to me and the fact that I’m paralyzed with emotion within the first 5 seconds of a song.

How do notes and time and words do such a thing?

On the flip side, something can be put together with amazing skill, but still lack the emotion to move someone.

The reason things make musical sense can be found in any Music Theory textbook.

The reason it stirs my heart will not…and the unfocused, romantic, right-brainer is glad for the mystery.

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"Coming Around" to be released June 27th.

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FAWM is over! Honestly, I think I was just as surprised as anyone at the end of it when I had 14 completed songs, written and recorded in a month. Of course, I owe a HUGE thanks to all of you for submitting over 200 song titles for me to choose from.

It’s been a great privilege and great fun to create something collaboratively with all of you.

After all the writing was over, you got to use your voice and VOTE on the 4 songs that would make it onto an EP.

The winning 4 are:

Mittens and Magnets
You Don’t Know Me
Irrational Fears
Cancel My Reservation

I have decided to add a  favorite of my own to the mix, and you’ll hear which one I chose when the EP is done!

Stay tuned for more news, including a new contest in April involving cover songs and an official date/place for the “Coming Around” CD release.

-FP

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