It does, I mean I’m used to writing at my own studio quite a bit but also used to going to other people’s places, other publishing companies and things like that which always helps with inspiration and different sounds. ![]() We have all been living this for what seems like a decade but is actually approaching ten weeks now where our social highlights are Zoom calls with our work colleagues or mail from our family to break down the same four walls, but songwriting stems from experience and inspiration so as much fun as quality time with your dog or kitty must be, it can’t be as easy as drawing experiences from playing live and writing with people in the same room so ideas may not come as easily: So my initial plans were to tour a lot and play a lot of shows but I’ve kind of had to switch gears and focus more on studio work, writing and things like that that don’t involve me leaving my house. There’s a couple I’m still to hear from but it’s almost like guaranteed that they are cancelled. ![]() Pretty much all of March then April, May, June and July. I had a lot of live shows booked, a lot of mini tours I was doing and so far I’ve lost all of my shows until August. It’s definitely hard! A lot of what I do is live performances and obviously I can’t do really any of those and I know a lot of people are in the same boat so it’s definitely weird right now. Whilst toilet paper or “loo roll” hasn’t been in that much of a short supply over here (unlike flour, which is a different story as all of us Brits really want to learn how to impress Prue and Paul Hollywood to get on The Great British Bake Off) and we have all fully digested Tiger King on Netflix or been in awe of The Imagineering Story on Disney+ whilst working at home or the UK government’s furlough scheme, life as a musician in Nashville is not quite the same: We have toilet paper again so that’s a good thing so starting to get back to the old normal. ![]() So, we are kind of in phase one of reopening I guess? Bars and restaurants are opening up with half capacity but live music is still not allowed though so everything is slowly started to open back up. ![]() At the time of talking Alyssa enlightened me with the 411 of what’s happening over there: For any American’s reading this, it is safe to say we are moving a little bit slower but saying that we can leave our homes more than once a day where we are able to meet up with one other person that we don’t live with (providing we we remain at least two metres away from them) but it may be quite a while until we can join on mass to listen to live music or even unite in a pub to drink in. We spent some time getting to know this adorable and dynamic songwriter, blissful vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer when we spoke to her during this interesting time that we have all been dealt.īeing from the UK, we understand right now that things are slightly different to what they are over on the other side of the pond. She traded upstate New York for the bright lights of Music City when she moved to Nashville 4 years ago in 2016 and in this time Alyssa Trahan is already becoming a stage warrior playing over a hundred shows a year where she has already opened up for the likes of Charlie Daniels, Jana Kramer, Josh Turner, Lee Greenwood, Lee Ann Womack, Midland and many more.
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