Molly Ledford: Songs » night http://mollyledfordsongs.com I write songs. But not as often as I should. So maybe I can do this a little more? Every day? Whoa, let's not get crazy. Still, I am going to start posting video performances of songs. Some old, some new. Eventually all new. I have been in two bands, The Verna Cannon and Lunch Money. There might be a third band one day. I put out Lunch Money CDs on my little record label called Squirrel Mechanic Records. Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:42:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 When I’m Sad, I Make My Friends Sing to Me http://mollyledfordsongs.com/2014/02/26/when-im-sad-i-make-my-friends-sing-to-me/ http://mollyledfordsongs.com/2014/02/26/when-im-sad-i-make-my-friends-sing-to-me/#comments Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:57:16 +0000 http://mollyledfordsongs.com/?p=76

A lot of us are intense about music, whether or not we make music ourselves (there are so many ways to build your life around it). You meet people and, when they tell you what albums they love, their taste speaks volumes, right? It’s shorthand. We feel love and loyalty towards our favorite artists and experience a genuine, powerful sense of loss when they are gone.
Through my life as a musician, I have been drawn to fellow songwriters as friends, and it has been our songs that did the introducing, providing that very same shorthand. And one night, when I was up past any hour that would be appropriate to make a phone call, I realized I could go over to my stereo and put on something by one of my friends. And everything got better. Voilà. So this is a love song to records and the people who make them.

You can download the audio at my Soundcloud page.

]]> http://mollyledfordsongs.com/2014/02/26/when-im-sad-i-make-my-friends-sing-to-me/feed/ 0 Better with a Friend http://mollyledfordsongs.com/2012/02/06/better-with-a-friend/ http://mollyledfordsongs.com/2012/02/06/better-with-a-friend/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:32:19 +0000 http://mollyledfordsongs.com/?p=58 There is a teenaged boy who walks around my neighborhood. I see him in the day and in the evening. He usually has an iPod and is always alone. And when I see him I feel a pang because I remember being about his age and being alone a lot. Walking home from the movie theater, where I would go by myself. Taking my dog down the beach past all civilization, or silently through festivals and crowds, or around my neighborhood at night. I remember the feeling of passing houses full of activity and feeling so close and distant at the same time. By some mixture of chance and awkwardness, I went for years without having any real friends my age. It was music that both kept me company and eventually would be my bridge to finding people I could connect with. This song is about those nighttime walks and about the belief that a friend would eventually be found. There’s a nod to a much-loved friend who once told me she was so over-worked she felt like “a shell.”

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