Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Release Party
Current mood:  indescribable
Sunday night at Eddies Attic was amazing!!!!!!! Geoff Melkonian, and a group of fine young men from a band called Y.O.U. backed me. Brian Wiltsey came on stage to sing back up on one of the songs he sang on, on my CD. The audience was amazing and it was a really magical evening. Shalom who is a sound man at Eddies, and just an incredible soul took really good care of the boys and I. It was extra special that Shalom was there because he had been sick earlier this year. The third song I sang was called Goodbye….. and it was so heart warming that, that evening I was saying Hello instead to that special man(smile)! There are people that you can look into the eyes of, and just see goodness. Not only was i blessed with Shalom’s goodness, but also Bob’s. Bob owns Eddies Attic. I must say that he is now another angel in my angel directory. If you have never walked into Eddie’s….You should!!!!!!!!!. Goodness fills that venue. The first song on my CD is about Eddies Attic. I love that place, and Eddie, and Bob because of what they represent. I went to Eddies almost every Monday night the first year I lived in Atlanta. Monday nights are open mic night. I was just a girl who wrote songs, but knew little about art of performing. I would come every week and just absorb what I could…. And also try to catch incredible acts when I could, like Shawn Mullins, Matthew Kahler, Kodac Harrison, and Livingston Taylor, just to name a few. During those open mic nights…. I learned so much about what to do, and what not to do. But I also learned something about the two men that ran the place. They truly wanted to listen to the artists and wanted them to know they were being heard. Weather people sucked or were incredible… they just treated all with such respect and kindness! On those Monday nights… I witnessed lives being saved. To have my release party there was amazing to me, because if you told me 2 years ago that I would be doing that…. I would have laughed at you, and thought I would never be able to do it….. Never be able to do it because of so many different things…. But on Sunday night I got up there and sang my ass off, and had the best time of my life, and it was all because of what I learned on those Monday nights, and all because of the opportunity to learn that Eddie and Bob provided me. If you get a chance to go to my web site…. click on the virtual CD. The first song is about the first time I sang at Open Mic night. I just wanted to put in a special note to Geoff, Y.O.U., Brian Wiltsey, Shalom, Bob, and Eddie to tell them how grateful I am that they played a part in my life on April 13th, and over the last few years…….. Also if you are one of the people that came to the show and packed the house….Thank you so much for that. I will never forget that evening for the rest of my life! Lastly…. I just want to thank whoever I saw in the bathroom before I went on stage…. I was about to through up, but your smile gave me a calm. I used to have stage fright, until Sunday night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(smile) I hope everyone I know breaks threw the barriers of fear! It makes living so much more fun!

Love,
The Lexers