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This is possibly my favorite song on the album, but that’s like trying to identify your favorite child. I decided to make this the title track because is addresses pretty directly what I’m doing when I’m doing music, which is why the CD exists at all …

It started in an unusual and slightly morbid way: when I witnessed the death of my neighbor’s elderly aunt, who had raised my neighbor. Weirdly, my focus in that moment was on the old woman’s hand. I was quietly thinking of all of the things that her hand had done while mothering – preparing food, cleaning, wiping noses and butts, etc. When I went home, I remembered that when my children were little, I sometimes felt like nothing but a pair of hands because they (my hands … and my children) ​​​​​​literally did not stop all day. With my children nearly grown by that time, my hands were again more and more at my disposal, and music was claiming that space. The song is a funky combination of searching, spooky, affirming, and just plain bad-assery. It’s what I was thinking about when the CD cover photo was taken, and it’s what I aspire to be and do.

I just love the grinding, Tom Waits vibe, and I wonder sometimes if I should spend more time writing music like this. It also allowed me to follow Kenny’s advice to discover other flavors in my voice that I definitely want to explore further. After I recorded the vocals, I’m not sure if I was more surprised by Kenny’s suggestion that I sing some doubling takes through a bullhorn, or the fact that Steven Glaze, my sound engineer at ToneFreq Studio in San Jose, just happened to have one on hand. We got some great studio photos that day … in addition to some awesomely funky vocal doubling tracks.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

In addition to songwriting, lead vocals, and writing the harmony vocals, I performed backing vocals on this song. Kenny Schick, my producer, also sang backing vocals and played or programmed all of the instruments. Kenny recorded his parts at Basement3Productions in Nashville, TN, and I recorded my vocal parts in May 2018 with Steven Glaze at ToneFreq Studio in San Jose, California.