Girl To Country: A Memoir

Homeownership, the world changed; van trouble and playing anywaySongs in this episode (What's So Funny `Bout) Peace Love & Understanding live Sept 21, 2001Don't Ever Change April 24, 2026

Farewell to a forefather; ciao Roma; keeping onTracks in this episode:Flashback from Girl To CityBabysitterRode Hard from The Sugar TreeThanks for listening!

Still hanging out at the artist door - late night TV, lots of touring; Patti Smith's backstage rider.Songs in this episode: Cynically Yours live on Late Night with Conan O'BrienThey Don't Know live at Village Underground Jan 2001 (you can find that recording along with other old live & demo tracks on Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me

Songwriting in Nashville: writing dates, song demos; publisher and friendsTracks in this episode:Keep It To Yourself demo and cassette tape discussion with co-writer Bill DeMainOne More Time cassette demo - Joy Lynn White and me, Joy recorded this song for her 2005 One More Time album co-produced with Kyle Lehning

Dip top cones, John Prine, Whole Wide World and a family slide showLive recording of Cynically Yours (circa...2003?)Rode Hard from The Sugar TreeThanks for listening!

Ups and downs of my first UK tour, back in the year 2000Includes a clip of Wait Til I Get You Home from The Sugar Tree and a little interview snippet, from an archive recording of The Tom Morton Show on BBC Radio ScotlandRode Hard from The Sugar Tree (as of last week, this album is finally available to stream on Apple Music, Spotify, etc )Thanks for listening!

A music convention in Cleveland circa 2000 and the Beachland; summer in Nashville; love with a drummerTracks in this episode20 Questions and Give The Drummer Some from I've Got The World On A Broken StringRode Hard from The Sugar TreeThanks for listening!

Making an album in Nashville circa 2000 with a talented bunch of players; aiming for the heights but falling a little short with the cover photo shoot.Songs in this episode from The Sugar TreeYou Better Stay GoneLet Me In A Little BitHappy For YouRode Hard

Touring with Warren Zevon; Skeeter at the Opry; seeing in Y2K back in Brooklyn; getting it together to make a new albumSongs in this episode:Reconsider Me live at The Space Hamden CT Everything's Different Now rough demo 1999Rode Hard from The Sugar Tree

The challenges of adjusting to Nashville 1999, and a few of the benefits tooSongs in this episode:The Good Girls (from Diary of a Mod Housewife)Always With Me (from Little Fugitive)Rode Hard (from The Sugar Tree)Thanks for listening!

Leaving New York City for Nashville the hot summer of 1999 - can you say car trouble?Songs in this episodeThe Purgatory Principle - live recording circa `93, Faulkner Dylan Heinz & MeBargain Bin - original Last Roundup demo 1983As Is - MiddlescenceThanks for listening!

Love - a major inspiration and near-constant distraction.In the round at the Bluebird, oh lord I want to be in that number.Songs in this episode:Magicians demoRode Hard from The Sugar TreeThanks for listening!

A nice guy from Springfield...The road is long and the struggle is eternal1998 - Still looking at Nashville and Making MiddlescenceA cat named James and a smart kidSongs in this episode:Snippet from Sleeping With The Moon recorded by Jay Joyce (unreleased)Rode Hard from The Sugar Tree

NYC alternate side parking burnout; sophomore album second-guessing, and the siren song of late 20th century Nashville.Songs in this episode:Farmer's Daughter - Shams rehearsal tapeThe Good GirlsRode Hard

New York singer songwriter Amy Rigby finds herself at a church service in Nashville. Thirty-five years old—uncomfortably close to being over the hill —she's exploring the possibility of a songwriting career while she tries to find someone to release her first solo album Diary Of A Mod Housewife."It was 1994, the year Kurt Cobain killed himself and Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley. A few months later, OJ Simpson would be arrested for murder...Church sounded like it could be interesting, or at least amusing. Maybe even helpful? I didn't know what I believed anymore."Songs in this episode:Rode Hard, from The Sugar Tree