Greetings from beautiful Wilmington, NC, where I'm taking a little beachside work-cation in the middle of my tour!

Besides touring, I've been getting my ducks in a row for the new album. We will be in the studio in January, which means I need to come up with a pile of money to fund the dang thing. Thus, I'm about to start running another Kickstarter, starting on October 6th!

I have a special request for you, my darling patrons. I've decided I won't be posting any "paid" work here on Patreon for the month of October; instead, I'll ask you to pledge your monthly patronage to my Kickstarter project. I'll send a reminder on the day the Kickstarter begins (October 6th). 

I'm also looking for HELP DESIGNING, PROMOTING, AND RUNNING my Kickstarter. If you'd be willing to help (with reward ideas, promoting the project online, or by becoming a major donor), SEND ME AN EMAIL at [email protected] Put "hell yes I'll help!" in the subject line, and INCLUDE YOUR PHONE NUMBER. 

I will personally call you next week to discuss!!

Attached, you'll find the last of the 'studio demos' we made back in May, 'Hot Night'. Very excited about this song! Remember, studio demos are but a step on the long road from song-conception to album-birth; a guiding light to shine into our brains when the hours get long and confusing.

Thanks, as always, for everything.

Playfully yours,

Carsie

PS. The image you see in the magic window is MY NEW TATTOO! And you are the first, in all of internet-land, to see it. The work is By David Hale (as always). It's a river otter named Puck, who will be accompanying me into the studio (and everywhere, til I get dead or armless) to remind me to stay playful. Ain't nobody gonna live it for ya, he says.

Ok guys, just ONE MORE Nick Lowe cover, for this rainy afternoon in New Orleans.

This will be my last paid post for a while! Next month I won't be posting anything paid here on Patreon, I'll be asking you to pledge to my Kickstarter campaign instead (starts October 6th!).

THANK YOU for all of your love and support, by the way. I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new book, BIG MAGIC: Creative Living Beyond Fear. It's excellent, and it's reminding me what an absolutely blessed and magical life I'm leading, here in the watermelon, surrounded by guitars, making whatever I fancy to make, on this sweet rainy day.

Rainy, watermelony love to you and all your people.

Carsie

This song was written on the Autumn Equinox (last week!) very late at night under the influence of Malbec.  A friend of mine on Twitter whom I call Warrior Princess (she calls me BMM, an acronym for beautiful music maker - AWWW! She's so sweet!) said she was waiting for the warrior princess song and I was like "Oh! OK! I didn't even know you were waiting for that! I'll get right on it," so I did!

I did a scratch track with a severe cold and half a voice and old guitar strings on, in a room with concrete floors, so the scratch track was brutal, and I later replaced it, or so I thought!  I got a bunch of bleed through via multiple instances of messiness! 

So just a demo here, but I'm crawling through the window while I work out how to fix the door (or some such analogy!) I've been so frustrated with Protools that I just bypassed the whole thing and did something else. It's not perfect or finished, it's a mess, but I wanted to get it out now in its raw form and worry about the rest later!

I have a bunch of other older projects in process, but yesterday I impulsively, yet emphatically, decided I would do something completely different because I'm all excited about this new stuff. Then I suddenly felt like an artist-type doing whatever the hell I wanted instead of going through entirely with logic and linear processes like an engineering project and thought, "Oh my god it's happening, I'm turning into a musician rather than an engineer playing music."

I'm evolving!

This sucker was done entirely on my iPad with nothing but me and a guitar. I played a virtual bass on garage band and used the built in mic.  Crazy.  Take that Protools!

I may upload another very new song that I wrote for Gardening Angel later....

Hope you like it!

And in the interests of getting better about posting lyrics they are attached!

If you've seen the poster and read the blog you know I've had Gardening Angel on the brain.  I was camping a few weeks ago and got some music in my head and figured it out in the dark on my guitar (never leave home without the instrument!) around the campfire and played it over and over so I'd remember it in the morning, since I couldn't easily write it down. Come the light of day, I suddenly remembered there was a new song, sometime after breakfast and before my exploratory hike up the river, and got the guitar out and remembered it and wrote it down....

I wrote the lyrics some night last week then...probably around the time of the blog post...

Not usually how I write songs, but that's how this one got written.

You heard it here on Patreon.  

All the music trivia, all the time!

<3 Kari signing off for September ;p

WOW. Happy OCTOBER everyone.  Wish you each and all the best.