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Classic Match-up: David Ford w/Amy Correia March 4, 2010 NYC

Amy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:23:15 +0000

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I’m looking forward to this show in a few weeks. Should be good and angst-ridden.

Plans are underway to start recording late June

Amy — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:27:04 +0000

I’m excited for the opportunity to make my next record with longtime friend, Paul Bryan. He introduced me to drummer Jay Bellerose and the three of us sat down and played together in Los Angeles in Jay’s living room. Paul and I are planning to capture the music we started that day for my next record. Ryan Freeland, who has worked with Paul on the last two Aimee Mann albums, will record and mix for us. Paul and I will head to NYC after getting the performances of us as a trio to add some orchestral elements. Gavin Lurssen, who mastered my first album “Carnival Love,” will put on the final sonic touches. I have 10-12 songs that I’m planning to record, and am working on additional ones that may make the cut by the time we start.

Paul Bryan - Producer/Arranger/Bassist (Aimee Mann, Mavis Staples, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello and others)

Jay Bellerose – Drummer. (Allison Krauss/Robert Plant, Ray Lamontagne, Marc Cohn, Paula Cole and others)

Ryan Freeland – Engineer (Aimee Mann, Neil Finn, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and others)

Gavin Lurssen – Mastering (Amy Correia “Carnival Love”, everything from Johnny Cash to Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, Cat Power)

And guest spots by classical musicians and friends!

The Silence of the Ram

Amy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:14:04 +0000

I’m in Los Angeles working on some music for my next record. I saw the movie, The Wrestler, a few nights ago and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Approached with a sense of purpose and love, any occupation could save a person from ruin. It’s not what you do, but how you do it. You could be an excellent mom, goat herder or pro-wrestler. It’s how you choose to pour yourself into your own life (whatever it may be) that has redemptive powers.

To pursue an authentic life, to endure, and resist capitulating to whatever is your version of the deli counter of mediocrity (where Randy the Ram reluctantly worked), that is to triumph. The Ram keeps charging in spite of all his obstacles, failings and flaws. He can’t win back his daughter, he is alone and getting old. The girl he digs can’t save him from a heart attack. He chooses to go out swinging: When he gets up on the ropes that one last time, before he has the final heart attack (as I see it) and the film goes to black, Randy the Ram falls and triumphs simultaneously. He sacrifices himself on the altar of the ring in one final flip to mediocrity. The Ram is a genuine hero in that moment to me, not a super hero with a cape, but a flawed mortal in lime green lycra tights, flying in the face of death and defeat. He chose to do what he loved.