Neon Cowgirl CD

Tracklist:

1. Foolish Heart

2. Salvation Mountain

3. Neon Cowgirl feat. Neil Finn

4. Borrow My Boots feat. Ashley McBryde, Grace Bowers, Shelly Fairchild

5. Love Someone

6. Keep On feat. The Secret Sisters

7. You're Gonna Fall feat. JD McPherson

8. Heartbreak City, USA

9. Loneliness of Love

10.  U Haul Blues

11. One Less Heart

The Neon Cowgirl, towering over Broadway like the patron saint of heartbreak in downtown Nashville as she smiles coyly over her shoulder in red cowboy boots, watched me grow up.

Basking in her glow, I walked wide-eyed into the Ryman Auditorium as a 16 year old, clutching my ticket. Later that night, dreaming of standing on that stage, I drifted off to sleep in the bunk of our home on wheels at the KOA next to the Opry. When I was 18, she saw me flipping through Loretta Lynn CDs in Ernest Tubb Record Shop after performing the breakfast and lunch shows on the General Jackson showboat with my parents and brothers in our family band, The Neilsons. At 25, she watched me running all over town, meeting up with other songwriters- writing, writing, writing- before I had to fly back home to Canada again. At 30, I returned as a newlywed on my honeymoon, flying in from New Zealand where I’d moved for love, holding hands with my new husband in Hatch Show Print, introducing him to her like a family member. A decade passed without her as I built a life on the other side of the world and raised two babies. My heart raced as I returned to her again to showcase at Americanafest, playing to 12 people at 3rd and Lindsley. Five years and many showcases later, I swear she smiled right at me as I stopped to...  more