The album’s centerpiece is the piano ballad “Ain’t a Day Goes By,” which Carper wrote years ago about the passing of her dog Betty. Betty had been by her side as Carper suffered a series of personal losses and crises. Her parents both died within a year, and she had come to feel as though she’d lost a brother struggling with schizophrenia, too. Then her dog died.
“Betty’s death finally forced me to deal with grief that I had been stifling,” Carper writes in a follow-up email. “I feel like [her] death sort of pushed the grief over the edge. In the past I had used alcohol to numb myself with this kind of loss, but I knew I couldn’t keep that up.” Writing the song, she says, helped her process what she’d been bottling up.
But while the grief may finally be out in the open to confront, Carper has yet to fully feel comfortable as an artist releasing music under her own name. She has reservations about standing onstage by herself and in being a front person, without the safety net and familiar comfort that comes with being a member of a group.
“That’s why it’s taken me this long to even make a solo album, because I’m not that comfortable as the leader in a band,” she says. “It’s definitely something that’s challenging for me, and I’m trying to meet the challenge and overcome my discomfort.” After using up many of her old songs on, Carper has already written an entire new album’s worth of material. She’s excited to start making her third record — even if that means more emails to send.
While she may be surprised by the business realities she’s now staring down, she’s also refreshingly honest in talking about them. Two of the songs on her album are suggestions from a new sync company she started working with: The company wanted her to record Odetta’s “Hit or Miss” and also include a song “about freedom and individuality,” which resulted in the lovely “I Do What I Wanna.”
Just had a listen - really lovely 🎶
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