Blue Sky Riders

We’re closing in on it. Coming up to the finish line. We have 10 more days before our record is due to be delivered so we can make our release date of January 29, 2013. We’ve been working really hard on it and then a few weeks ago, something happened. The three of us wrote a new song that we liked so much we decided it had to be on the record. Normally, we’d have to go through a major corporation and try to fight for our case, but being the record-label owners ourselves, it took one call to our distributor to make sure we could still make our release deadline. We were told we could. So even though Kenny was in Santa Barbara and Gary and I were in Nashville and we were up against the clock, we made it happen. Got it recorded and mixed. (more…)

I spent most of my life living hand to mouth when it came to money. Pursuing this dream of music required my taking the kinds of jobs that would allow me to take gigs at night and co-writing appointments during the day. That meant having NO job security. There were bouts in my life when I said SCREW THAT and took a job with benefits but I only gained weight and felt very unhappy because it locked me into a schedule that made me too tired to spend the time necessary to be a good songwriter. Those jobs never lasted long. Since I never married or had children, I figured if I wanted to live life the hard way, that was my prerogative. (more…)

I sang The National Anthem when I was 12 years old at the NBA San Antonio Spurs games. I had no fear. I had sung it about five times and it went so well that they asked me to come back and sing it at the opening season game. It would be nationally televised. I’ll never forget the moment the announcer said, “Would you please stand and join Georgia Middleman in singing ‘The National Anthem.'” The cameras were on and thousands of people stood up and put their hands over their heart. I stepped up to the microphone and sang the first few lines: (more…)

Several years ago, I was performing at Sundance Resort in Park City, UT and had a day off. I decided to go on a scenic lift ride. I had never been on one before and it seemed like a nice idea to go be alone away from everyone. As the lift took me higher and higher, I was elated to be free and hanging in the air like that. Looking ahead, I had the most beautiful view. Looking down, I could see the ground falling away at my feet. (more…)