If you ask her about Shotgun, Sally will say: "It's just a demo really." Before telling you she's more proud of it than anything else she's done in her life.
The reason why Shotgun is "Just a demo" is because Sally's intends to get her fans involved in the production side of her music. On both her web site and on an insert inside each Shotgun CD is a letter to fans urging them to vote on her latest batch of songs for reproduction on her next CD.
Sally invites you to become part of her music. Please cast your vote for each song on this CD. The top 3-6 voted-for songs will be reproduced (by a new producer), re-recorded and placed on the next album along with a slew of other new tunes. Let your voice be heard! Become part of the process! Vote!
If you feel so inclined, you may also offer production suggestions for which - if original and authentic, and ones that we end up using on the next record - we'll thank you in the liner notes.
Sally's gearing up for another rigorous summer/fall (2002) tour with her three-piece band comprised of drums, bass, and guitar and a sound engineer/driver/road manager. This will be the fourth summer season the band has toured together. But Sally's no new comer to the music scene. She's been writing songs since she was 15, about which she describes:
"These songs just started coming to me in my sleep when I was 15. I didn't know how to play an instrument yet and so I'd just keep this mini-recorder next to my bed. I'd wake at any odd hour of the night, [with] some song harassing me, to hum some horse crackley lyrics into a little mic before falling back into dreaming, forgetting I'd ever woken up in the first place and always curious in the morning what ghosts had possessed me to paint such songs, sometimes almost finished before I'd opened my eyes. It was as if these stories were coming to me, asking me to be brave enough to open my heart to them and speak their truth through my eyes. I've always been clear that it's the stories that hunt me, shoot me down like birds in the sky and make me their tellers, not the other way around. Sometimes it can be painful. Sometimes very disorienting. Sometimes I yearn for it though, the way floating longs to fly. Sometimes it grows me stronger and stronger until I feel my life all at once, all over me. And then .. It's amazing."
