Guitar Therapy Sessions

Welcome to Guitar Therapy Sessions 🎸

These sessions are all about getting together with other musicians and playing through songs in a raw, live setting ~ exploring feel, tone, and interpretation in the moment.

Every session has its own energy depending on who was in the room and how the songs came together that day, making each version a little different.

Dive into the sessions, and you'll hear how the music evolved across different players and performances.

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Guitar Therapy Session 1

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I Love My Pussy.Cat

One of my favorite songs! 😻 Not very difficult to figure out why I call myself a “crazy cat lady-in-waiting” 🤪

The original version of this song actually came out on my debut album Dirty Little Secret (originally titled Indy).

It's Up To Me

The second to last song on my third album, Make Your Move 😎

The lyrics are a reminder to myself that no matter what's going on in my life, my attitude is up to me.

I'd love to revisit recording this song is a couple of different musical styles ~ a bluesy rock version (a bit more gritty with the guitar), and a full-on, James Brown-style funk tune with horns!

The World Don't Owe You A Thing/Fly Like An Eagle

The World Don’t Owe You A Thing is a song I began writing waaay back in 2009. I initially began writing this song with acclaimed Nashville songwriter Phil Madeira.

At the time, I didn’t feel like the song fit the album I was working on (Make Your Move), so it wasn't included on that record.

A couple of years later I reworked it and included it on That’s What She Said. It remains a staple of my live shows, with lots of room for all my band members to shine.

You Get What You Settle For

Thelma & Louise, anyone?

The name of this song is actually a phrase Louise says to Thelma in one of my favorite movies of all time. 🤩

That movie and phrase inspired me so much, I decided to write a song around it. I actually began writing You Get What You Settle For in an incredible songwriting retreat I participated in, down in Tulum, Mexico, with my friend Gooding 🇲🇽

Guitar Therapy Session 2

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Devil In The Rearview

Here’s Devil in the Rearview, a song I recorded and released back in 2019.

This was the first time I ever played it live with a band! (In the studio, we recorded it instrument by instrument).

Smoke More Pot

This song is from my 4th album, That’s What She Said, and I’ve played it at gigs with drummer Adam Gust. I really enjoyed having Bob Malone on keys on this song ~ it gave me a lot of freedom to focus on my vocals and not worry tooooo much about rhythm guitar.

Also – check out the guitar solo on this take – see if you recognize that melody from any other song you might know (or that I might have been playing a LOT lately in another band I’m in…) 😜 

Too Much Time On My Hands

This song is SO fun to play as a bluesy tune! Especially with four lead-singer-quality vocalists harmonizing together!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Guitar Therapy Session 3

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Beautiful

This is an incredible song, written by Linda Perry and made famous by the inimitable Christina Aguilera. I highly recommend you seek out Linda Perry performing it ~ there are lots of videos on YouTube. I got to see her play it solo acoustically at a music conference, and it blew my mind…so heartfelt and simple. 💜

Breathing Underwater

Out of my sophomore release, Breathing Underwater, this is one of my favorite songs to play in an acoustic setting 🤍

I Miss You

I Miss You is the first song on my second album, Breathing Underwater. Since we decided to do this third session with an acoustic setup, I thought this song would do nicely. 😊

Thank God For Birth Control

I always have so much fun with this song! Watch out for Bob’s solo, so tasty! I did miss my kazoo solo, though 🤪

Guitar Therapy Session 4

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Everybody's So Naked

Everybody’s So Naked is a song from my fourth album, That’s What She Said. It was inspired by an interview Katy Perry had with Terry Gross on NPR. 

This was actually the very first time I played this song with a full band, and I had SOOOOOO much fun! 😎

I Miss You

This session was very special to me because I met Joe & Bryan through Wes Wehmiller, my bassist back in the early aughts (2000s). And David Leach played in my band with Wes, as well as recorded the album Breathing Underwater with us, before Wes’ death in 2005.

So I chose for us to play I Miss You, a song that Wes recorded with me and David ~ he brought so much to that song through his bass line 💜

You're Still With Me

You’re Still With Me is another song from my 2010 album, Make Your Move.

This song is very special for me, as I wrote it in honor of my wonderful friend and bass player, Wes Wehmiller.

I was really happy with this take and wanted to share it with you. 💜

You're Worth More

You’re Worth More is the fourth song from my 2010 album, Make Your Move.

This song was inspired by an experience my good friend and fellow recording artist, Jamie Green, had with a slimy dude in the music industry.

For this session, we did a very emotional, distorted, electric guitar version of the song.

Guitar Therapy Session 5

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Everybody's So Naked

Here’s another pass at Everybody's So Naked. Which one did you like best? ✨

I Love My Pussy.Cat

Here’s another second pass at a song from Session 1.

Similar to You Get What You Settle For, I feel this one sounds better/fuller.

It definitely makes a difference to have keys supporting the harmony; it gives me much more freedom to focus only on riffs and solos. 😄

 

Smoke More Pot

Wow – I think this is the best version of this song so far… I had SO much fun playing it at rehearsal, and even MORE fun at the show the next night! 🥰🥰🥰

 

You Get What You Settle For

Here’s my second pass at You Get What You Settle For. I think I like this one better, but it has to do more with the fact that this version feels fuller than the previous one.

Session one was a 3-person band, so it definitely had a different vibe. What do you think? 🧐 

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