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Info: “On this album I want the songs and my performance to come alive, unadorned, to be a true representation of what I do. That excites me. The title is taken from a song written on the Indian mound called “In the Blue Light”. In the
blue light When the
darkness rolls Take a
fast train When the
darkness rolls Caught
up in our conversation (c) Wendy Webb Publishing (ASCAP) “The first time I played in public was at a junior high school event. My parents bought me a guitar around age 13 and I was never the same. I listened to the great voices and songs written and recorded by artists Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Laura Nyro, and The Band. My mother loved classical music; my brother brought home soul records and Miles Davis’s “Sketches of Spain”. When you are young everything bleeds into you musically. Years later I found my own voice and style of writing.” “During high school I played every weekend at the local coffee house. In college I began to compose on the piano and became part of a duo that played the Chicago venues and universities in the Midwest for two years and then headed out for California. I appeared on American Bandstand, got tangled up in record deals, formed a band, played the clubs, met some cool people and got a chance to record with some great musicians along the way. As an artist, cycles of pursuit and retreat are natural and solitude is a gift.” “After many years away from the music business I had a recent breakthrough when I started writing my own lyrics. In the past, I concentrated on composing music. I’d sometimes offer my co-writer a line or verse to get things going, but the fact was, I didn’t have to do it and I lacked confidence. Funny, looking back now, I realize I never really tried. For years, a piece of me was missing. It took a trip to London and a bunch of pent –up frustration to realize it. When I came home I wrote “Camden Town”. The process was an awakening. Now I have a whole new avenue of expression, a new voice and feeling of completeness.” -- Wendy
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