11/15/2023 0 Comments Alyssa may so done lyrics![]() Pretty much all of March then April, May, June and July. I had a lot of live shows booked, a lot of mini tours I was doing and so far I’ve lost all of my shows until August. It’s definitely hard! A lot of what I do is live performances and obviously I can’t do really any of those and I know a lot of people are in the same boat so it’s definitely weird right now. ![]() ![]() Whilst toilet paper or “loo roll” hasn’t been in that much of a short supply over here (unlike flour, which is a different story as all of us Brits really want to learn how to impress Prue and Paul Hollywood to get on The Great British Bake Off) and we have all fully digested Tiger King on Netflix or been in awe of The Imagineering Story on Disney+ whilst working at home or the UK government’s furlough scheme, life as a musician in Nashville is not quite the same: We have toilet paper again so that’s a good thing so starting to get back to the old normal. So, we are kind of in phase one of reopening I guess? Bars and restaurants are opening up with half capacity but live music is still not allowed though so everything is slowly started to open back up. At the time of talking Alyssa enlightened me with the 411 of what’s happening over there: For any American’s reading this, it is safe to say we are moving a little bit slower but saying that we can leave our homes more than once a day where we are able to meet up with one other person that we don’t live with (providing we we remain at least two metres away from them) but it may be quite a while until we can join on mass to listen to live music or even unite in a pub to drink in. We spent some time getting to know this adorable and dynamic songwriter, blissful vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer when we spoke to her during this interesting time that we have all been dealt.īeing from the UK, we understand right now that things are slightly different to what they are over on the other side of the pond. I hope this is the first of many albums in my career, but if it's the only one I ever make, I would be proud knowing I did it well and it's exactly who I am.She traded upstate New York for the bright lights of Music City when she moved to Nashville 4 years ago in 2016 and in this time Alyssa Trahan is already becoming a stage warrior playing over a hundred shows a year where she has already opened up for the likes of Charlie Daniels, Jana Kramer, Josh Turner, Lee Greenwood, Lee Ann Womack, Midland and many more. "That's not the case with this album because I stand by every single song. "In the past I've let people pressure me into recording certain songs - and then later on I didn't because I didn't even wanna sing those songs and they didn't feel like me," the singer continues. There's not a single song I question or regret recording," she explains. ![]() "I've dreamed of making my debut album for years and at times felt really impatient, but now that it's done, I'm thankful I took the time to write the right songs. Over the course of the process, Micaela had to shift focus away from trying to write what would "impress a label," instead honing in on what she truly wanted to say in her music. The Hard Way was years in the making, and Micaela admits that it's been a tough journey of self-exploration, re-invention and growth. "Lose My Cool" comes off of Micaela's debut album, The Hard Way.
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