- Lily Wilson - Journal

Concert tonight

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

I love show days. I always try to leave the day free if it's in town, so that I can take some time for myself. I love to think about all of the songs I'm playing in the set, and really live inside of them for a day. Today is a beautiful one! It's a perfectly mild summer L.A. day. The sun is out and there's a refreshing breeze. Kora, my pup and I went on a great hike in Griffith Park this morning, and now we're sitting in the backyard. Kora's napping and I'm listening to the birds ..."who can sing a million songs without any words..." (Patty Griffin)

Next up: yoga, steam, another walk, and then I head to the club...

Getting ready for our tour!

Sun, 16 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

We leave in 2 days to tour up the coast and in to Oregon. I am so excited to play these new songs! It's going to be a great way to perform some of them for the first time. Mark and I have been so busy in the studio that we haven't really had much time to just play music! Tonight, we're going through our set list.

Performing Songwriter Mag

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

I'm so sad! I never thought I could get teary about a magazine going out of publication, but here I am reading this announcement and crying into my coffee. Performing Songwriter was an amazing magazine. I've always read it cover to cover, and it has given me a sense of true community in this crazy musical world. Sometimes change is hard.

What a great time last night!

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Thanks to everybody who came out to see me play at Molly Malone's last night. It was such a special night! I love it when the room is packed like that- such great energy! It was so awesome to debut "Still," the song Bernie Barlow and I wrote last week, and to see people bobbing along with it in the audience...

Kiki's early set was amazing as always. I love singing with her!

After my set I chatted with Sasha, who was working at the bar, and she told me that Molly Malone was her grandmother. There's a beautiful painting of Molly over the entry to the music room, and I have always wondered about her... Sasha is so sweet and so passionate about the spirit of her grandmother. It's a beautiful thing- especially in such a big city like L.A. So now Sasha's dad owns Molly's and Sasha works there because she loves it. I have always felt such a great energy at Molly's, and now I do even more.

I stayed till the end of Philip Sayce's amazing set, and loved chatting with all the people who had come out to see us play. I truly appreciate everyone's support. I am so blessed.

Monterey show canceled (4-17-09)

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

I've had to cancel my show tomorrow (Friday, April 17th) night in Monterey because I have bronchitis! Don't worry- I'm resting, drinking plenty of fluids, taking antibiotics, etc., etc. I'm just BUMMED we won't see everyone in the area. We will reschedule, and hope to play another show at Plaza Linda. It's supposed to be a really great venue...

A new light

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Being sick really makes me see things in a new light. I have a bad cold/ flu and I have no energy to be running around doing my millions of different things. I've actually had to cancel about 6 things I had planned on for this week. So, here I sit. On the couch. In the backyard. In bed. On the roof. That's fun. I like it up on the roof. We get the perfect morning sunlight up there and I can take my yoga mat out and soak up some warmth. I feel really grateful for little things in my life. I feel like I could survive on cayenne soup if I had to. My sweetie brought me his AMAZING french toast this morning on the roof. He put orange juice in it and I could just barely taste it. My sense of smell is almost completely gone. I've never experienced it like this before, and so I've been thinking a lot about the importance of being able to smell. Our sense of smell tells us so much, and probably saves our lives frequently. The smell of smoke in the air, the smell of rotten food- it's all about survival. So, I've been leaning on my other senses I guess. Everything feels pretty dull. I miss the bright shiny life where I can sing and hear and smell...

Ahhh the rain...

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

I love it! I'm a Northern California girl, and I really do miss the way the clouds come in and stay for a while during the winter. I have learned to love the desert, where I live now; but I am so comforted by a good storm. Not just a fleeting thundering downpour for a couple of hours, but this kind of soft, misty cloud that wraps around us for days. The strong showers come in waves, and sometimes it's so loud on the roof that we look at each other and laugh. It breathes new life into us. My plants are singing.

IndiEclectic

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

I just added songs from Ã¢â‚¬Å“The Right TimeÃ¢â‚¬Â on IndiEclectic (http://www.indieclectic.com). It's a pretty great site where you can join for a flat $20 a year and have access to a TON of great music. To be an artist on the site, you have to be recommended by another artist on the site, so it keeps the quality levels up :-)

Last night I sang with fellow IndiEclectic artist, Stephanie Schneiderman at the Hotel CafÃƒÂ©. SheÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s awesome. Her new CD is awesome. Check it out!
http://www.stephanieschneiderman.com

My mom says...

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

She says I don't blog enough! So, O.K. here I am blogging... Hi Mom! I really want to be out hiking in this gorgeous, crystal blue sky puffy white cloud day. I loved the rain last week.
I wrote a song with my new friend Kelly Fitzgerald (who is amazing-http://www.kellyfitzgerald.net/), and we recorded it and sent it off to Nashville. It's called "If You Knew," and I think it's pretty great. I love co-writing! I love writing songs, and it's such a fun thing to share with somebody else. It's always an adventure... I'll keep you posted on where this one takes us.

Freedom Cried

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

I wrote a song called "Freedom Cried" with my friend Sonia Leigh for this amazing project called "Dream On!" You can actually download the song for FREE on the website: http://www.thedreamcontinued.org
Please read about their mission, listen to the other songs, and make a donation to one of the charities on the site. It's a celebration of Martin Luther King's vision. He would be 80 years old this month.