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Songs and Samples
Beautiful Ladies
Saving Me
Donuts and Daydreams
I Choose Beauty
The Old Rag Doll Waltz
Ordinary Prayer
Wish I Were A Cowgirl
Stuff
Language Of The Trees
Blinked Our Eyes
Dancing With The Northern Lights
Finally Loving Myself
About Jane Godfrey
St. Louis native, Jane Godfrey, has been singing and playing guitar most of her life. Coming from a large family of musicians and artists, Jane has always been creatively inclined. While in her insomniac phase around the turn of the century, Jane turned to songwriting as a creative outlet for her own amusement.
Jane received validation early in her songwriting career when her song, “Thank You Ms. Juliette,” a bluegrass tribute to Juliette Lowe, the founder of the Girl Scouts, was included in the Girl Scouts of the USA’s CD, “Sisters Hand in Hand.”
Jane’s passion for songwriting grew, prompting road-trips to Nashville where her skills were nurtured by attending songwriting workshops and performing at writers’ showcases, including the infamous Bluebird Café.
Before completing her own CD, another one of Jane’s songs, “Finally Loving Myself,” was chosen to be included on Nashville songwriter Gracie Vandiver’s recovery music CD, “Trail of Light,” which also includes music by such songwriting greats as Paul Williams and Mary Gauthier.
Jane’s own debut CD, “Choose Beauty,” includes twelve songs, many of which are enhanced by a blend of sibling harmonies and musicianship. “Choose Beauty” is a collection of original Americana songs, grown from Jane’s imagination, experience, and observations of the drama, comedy, and beauty in everyday life.
A Message From Jane Godfrey
I Art...Therefore I Am
I write because I’m absolutely passionate about it. I get intense pleasure from every aspect of the process - conceiving the idea; fleshing out the story; figuring out the structure; finding just the right rhyme or line; finetuning my draft; rewriting; experimenting with different chord progressions and melodic lines; feeling it, and singing it, and then that sweet moment when I hear it all come together and I know the song is home.
That's why I write songs.
News and Reviews
Godfrey's gift as a songwriter lies in being able to put a subtle twist on ordinary things. She sings of motherhood, characters stuck in mundane jobs, and self-acceptance with so much attention to detail that the lyrics often stumble upon clever truths that should only be evident to the characters themselves.
In "Donuts And Daydreams" the beehive-haired owner of a donut shop ultimately walks away from her life "to fill the hole inside." In one of the CD's high points, "Stuff," she complains of the clutter in her life: "I needed all this to function, I was dying of consumption." This leads to a massive purge, her liberation and a road trip, only to discover that she can't travel until her Ford Explorer is full of snack foods, maps, CDs, sunglasses, air freshener, a cooler of soda, and "a heated cushion for my rear."
Throughout the CD, Godfrey's crystal clear falsetto voice floats, dips and glides above the acoustic guitars, mandolins and accordions that provide some solid earth on which she occasionally lands.
"Choose Beauty," as the title suggests, persuades us beautifully (and with some self-deprecating humor) that life is really a matter of one's outlook on it.”
-Craig Bickhardt