"Eat your heart out Diana K(rall)!! There's not a sleeper on this, every track is stellar, GREAT players & production, and your wonderful warm voice sliding over 10 well written songs. great job Kirsten!!" - CHLY 101.7 fm

10 MP3 Songs in this album (39:14) !
Related styles: Pop: Pop, Jazz: Jazz-Pop, Solo Female Artist

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Details:
Kirsten Nash - Vocals, Tenor and Soprano Sax, Acoustic Guitar
John Ellis - Pedal Steel, Electric, Acoustic Guitars, Wurlitzer, Organ
Jay Buettner - Electric guitars
Austin Park - Piano
Rob Becker - Electric/Stand Up Bass
Pat Steward - Drums, Finger Drums and Music Stand

Produced by John MacArthur Ellis
Recorded by Sheldon Zaharko at The Factory Studios, Vancouver BC
Additional recording by John Ellis at Kirstenâs House
Mixed by Sheldon Zaharko and John Macarthur Ellis at the Factory Studios, Vancouver BC
Mastering: Hank Williams at Mastermix, Nashville

âTime is natureâs way of keeping everything from happening at once.â - Anonymous

A couple of years ago I was thinking about reaching the end of my fifth decade on this planet. My oldest son Austin was getting
ready for university and his younger brother Jesse getting ready to not need me so much anymore. I needed to start thinking about
an exit strategy.

It had been almost 15 years since I had played music professionally. During that time I wrote two rock operas, Alice in Modernland
and The Bird and the Waterfall, but their staging meant time away from my family to go New York, London and San Diego,
which was really cool, except for the way it ate away at my soul. I was not a good traveling mom.

I decided to step away from my career, having faith that I was not given artistic gifts as a means of cosmic torture,
that a day would come when it was scarier to go forward without writing and performing than it was to begin the long and daunting
task of trying to revitalize a career so long behind me.

It started with me picking up a guitar and deciding that, for once and for all I was going to learn how to play it decently, enough to
write and sing along with. Itâs hard to do that with a saxophone. A year of practicing and writing later I took a deep breath and called
my friend of almost thirty years, John Ellis, producer/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire and said, âNow. I want to make a record now.â
I waited for him to laugh, but without hesitation he said, âSure, Iâm in!â

Over the next year I wrote and demoed the songs on this album. Johnny and I would get together in the living room, two guitars, a
mic and his laptop, and record them, me nervous as hell at first to play guitar in front of him. We felt ready to go into the Factory to
record in April, and started talking about our dream musicians for the session. I never hesitated in asking if he thought
Pat Steward and Rob Becker would play. I had known Pat since college and Rob and I had played together way back.
They had been like family to me, and I knew they would get where we were going with the album. I felt so grateful when they came
aboard⦠I started feeling like it might actually happen! John also suggested âhis personal guitar playerâ Jay Buettner who brought
a great energy and focus to the room. The final addition, recorded a few weeks later, was my son, Austin Nash Park, on piano.
Sheldon Zaharko, consummate professional and another really nice guy, engineered and together I think we all created something
beautiful and timeless.

âThe View From Hereâ is meant to be less a literal scene than the coming of middle ageâ¦looking back and looking forward. I feel so
blessed to be at this new junction in my life. I love my family and friends and the way sometimes the lines are blurred between the
two. They have supported me through this process of artistic reawakening; their love and honesty has helped shine a light on this
new path they have believed when I have doubted myself. I send my deepest thanks to you all and may none of us ever take our
love for granted.

We never really know where life will take us, but from where Iâm standing, right here, right now âThe View From Hereâ
is pretty darn good! Thanks for taking the time to share it with me.