NOT YOUR NORMAL COUNTRY GIRL CUT-BY-CUT - Dan Agency
1.Not Your Normal Country Girl (Stephanie Williams/Dan Williams) Dan Agency Looking at this album and looking at my experiences, I realized that this is how I have always seen myself, as not your normal country girl. I felt like I needed a song that would explain my style of music and why I am who I am. I wanted a song that would capture the whole album. And I knew I wanted it to be a rocking one. So we wrote this one last. I knew the album was complete when I wrote Not Your Normal Country Girl. 2.D-R-U-N-K (Stephanie Williams/Dan Williams/Jerry Kimbrough) Dan Agency We were having a bad day. We were sitting on the couch, and our son was playing in front of us. I looked at Dan and said, I'd love to get D-R-U-N-K, spelling it because I couldn't say it with our son in the room. We're both writers, so we just looked at each other with light bulbs going off over our heads. We wrote the title down and saved it for later. You don't hear a lot of songs about how moms feel. You always have to be so politically correct and not say these things out loud. We wrote it with the idea that you can spell it, and you can dream about it, but you probably don't get to go out and experience it. 3.Her Idea of Fun (Stephanie Williams/Dan Williams/Ron Galloway) This is a fun, pop, party-girl song. I really wanted to test out that writing style with this song. Sheryl Crow is a great influence on me, and I like to think that this is similar to the kind of records she makes. Anyway, when I wrote it, I just got in that frame of mind. I was just going to be quirky and funny with what I put together. 4.PhD in M-E-N (Stephanie Williams/Dan Williams/Ron Galloway) This is a song for girls. I feel like that's my NASCAR song, because it rocks. It's the girly version of being a tough girl. Dan and I wrote a lot of those lyrics together, so that was a lot of fun. 5.Fall at Your Feet (Neil Finn) - Dan Agency That was the first song that Dan and I recorded together. Knowing my voice and knowing the direction that I wanted to go, he just knew right at that moment exactly what he wanted to do with the song. It's a real pinnacle for me, because it was my first time to work with him not just singing commercials. For the first time, he was the producer and I was the singer. The song comes from the Australian pop band Crowded House. 6.Destiny (Stephanie Williams/Dan Williams) - Dan Agency Destiny was Dan and mine's song to each other. I guess it's the most personal song on the album. One of my favorite albums of all time is Dusty in Memphis. One of the things I love about that album is that you're going through it and all of a sudden "The Windmills of Your Mind" pops in. That's the way I hope this hits people when they listen. 7.Time To Do Some Changin' (Dan Willaims) - Dan Agency Dan took an old instrumental track that he had recorded for another project, but never used. I just loved the track and told him, I'd love to have a new song for this track." He wrote 60 seconds of it, sang it and sent it to CMT for a documentary they were doing about Ronald Reagan called True Grit. They loved it and said, "Finish the song." So he ended up writing a full song out of it, and I wound up on the soundtrack of the CMT show. _______________________________________________ Shtoom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/shtoom
