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This is an old song, written in 2012. It is one of the original songs that I wrote and that Greg Newlon helped me arrange on guitar not long after MapleDream folded.

This is a confessional song that pokes fun at my realization that up until a few years ago, I was very driven by needing to be seen, not (just) from vanity, but in a “do I exist?” kind of way. It comes, frankly, from growing up female. I’ve largely moved on from the space this song describes, but I sometimes still feel like this, usually when I am not at my best. I wrote it a few years after going on tour with Michelle Shocked, which, among other things, revealed to me how big the hole was around being seen and valued. No matter how much anyone I loved, hadn’t even met, or anywhere in between told me how good I was, how good I looked, how well I played, sang, worked, whatever … I never believed them. Writing this song was a step in staunching that limitless void.

See Me tends to appeal to women, especially women my age, because they get it. One audience member shared with me that the song “finished sentences” for her. I wanted it on the CD despite its age because it’s a gentle and amusing way of pointing something out to help let it go.

I owe a lot to Greg for this one … not least the totally cool guitar part he came up with. I also owe a ton to Kenny, my producer, for helping it find its groove.

In addition to songwriting, lead vocals, and writing the harmony vocals, I played acoustic guitar. Kenny Schick, my producer, sang backing vocals and played or programmed all other instruments. Kenny recorded his parts at Basement3Productions in Nashville, TN, and I recorded my acoustic guitar and vocal parts in April 2019 with Steven Glaze at ToneFreq Studio in San Jose, California.