Linda Stout

Every day little things are happening with music, and I believe it will add up over time, that one person discovering and enjoying my music will add up to another...and another. I am so grateful to those who are listening and buying, from AZ and Italy, and many from around the Finger Lakes here. Fine little things happen, like coming home and finding that a promoter called and left the message, "We really love your material" along with info. about booking. It's little things like just running into a woman who does a local roots radio show and talking about being on her show. It's getting an e-mail (and a CD sale) from an old friend from long ago I'd lost touch with. It's getting ready for the CD release party (Oct. 23), having a good recent rehearsal with the band (Charlie Shew is just the most happening drummer and nice person), having friends and family carry my CD around and steadily selling them for me -- and love and support from other musicians whose music I love and respect. So far today, with other things going on, I was at the post office again mailing a box of CDs to CDBaby, and the nice postal worker had even remembered my name and that I'm a musician. I've been in there a lot mailing CDs...Also today, I met the owners of very cool modern new club, Felicia's Atomic Lounge, that will open Oct. 1, State St., near Gimmee, in Ithaca. They'll be having live jazz there. In the end, the biggest little thing, which isn't so little at all, is the chance to make music. I was up late and then again up early the other day, working on a new song. I'm usually up late playing music. I've written about eight new songs in the last month, rock, modern jazz and one old-timey jazz tune, most with pop song structures. I remember the first songs I wrote (not bad, but more for practice), and could not believe how lucky I was to be able to listen and pull things out of the air, to make a song where none existed before. It has become more everyday-ish, what with the hard work of editing and re-writing, (melodies being way easier than words for me), but I still feel incredibly lucky to get the chance to write songs. And I'm lucky that I like to perform them. I remember these lucky things when life is hard. -- Linda, the lucky, writer, producer of "Good Luck Child."