8. Against a Wall “All my friends, they don’t realize, I’m in my bed, only half alive. I’m not dead, I’m just looking at you, feel my pulse, feel a touch of truth, against a wall, I can’t breathe, something real is what I need.”
This songs speaks to how easy it is to hide from reality. I went through several harsh years after losing my baby. My health declined, and in turn I went into deep depression. I could open my computer and write clever status updates, post outdated pictures, and pretend my life was going great--while at the same time I was crying in bed, alone, with my blinds closed. Looking back, I feel that I robbed myself of being loved during the worst time of my life. Social media can’t touch you. It can’t look you in the eye and say, “How are you doing?” Your “friends” on the other end of the status line don’t have to look at your reality. They only have to look at the “reality” you chose to portray.
Album: War & Peace
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Label: LaBrie Records and BUTR Records LLC
Nashville based singer-songwriter Shannon LaBrie has a sound that defies genres and tells insightful stories from an authentic place. She instantly became a favorite among music fans and critics alike with her powerful 2013 debut 'Just Be Honest'. With the hit lead single, “I Remember a Boy,” the independent release reached inside the Top Ten on iTunes and the Triple A Radio charts. Famed music blogger Bob Lefsetz wrote, “This track affected me. Made me believe like the great singer-songwriters of yore, maybe this woman has something to say. That in this crazy, mixed up, shoot-up world she can illuminate her story and people can relate.”
“When I listen to music,” LaBrie says, “a lot of times, it’s to make me feel good. But a lot of other times, it’s to make me not feel alone. So this next record is about embracing who I am and where I’m from. I am a Midwest girl. I grew up on an acreage in Nebraska, swinging around on old oak trees. I grew up really quickly and this album is a hindsight look into my past and learning how to embrace it in the present.”
The Austin Chronicle calls LaBrie, “a true guitarist singer/songwriter whose soulful voice’s sensual honey-crisp highs brings to mind the late, great Jeff Buckley.” She has opened for Dixon, Phoenix, ZZ Ward, The Head and the Heart, The Wild Feathers, Michael Franti and Valerie June. Her résumé includes South By Southwest, the Austin City Limits Festival, Road to the Hangout and Road to Bonnaroo.
