Greta Gaines asks ‘What Do You Want?’, her first single from the new album “Bird Before Light”. The song and album were produced by Jim Reilley, mixed by Eric Fritsch and Mill Logan, and were recorded at Ken Coomer’s Cartoon Moon and Eastwood Studios in East Nashville. In addition to Greta playing guitar, the album features drummer Ken Coomer (Wilco), Jim Reilley on bass, Eric Fritsch (Marty Stuart) on electric guitar, piano, keyboards, Grammy winner Tim O’Brien on fiddle and harmony vocals, Adam Ollendorff (Kasey Musgraves) on pedal steel, Kevin Roentgen (Buckcherry) on electric guitar, and Raul Malo (The Mavericks), and Dan Bern (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.)
Gaines explains the inspiration for ‘What Do You Want ?’. “This song is about this time of life, transition time: into being the youngest of the old people 😉 When the kids leave, it’s a huge time of reckoning that begs the questions, What do I want now? What’s still possible for me? Am I too old to keep putting out records? Is it too late to start over?” I DO want a second shot and the last laugh. The song is sung to myself as a reminder just to keep writing and recording.”
She further describes the process of writing all of the songs for this collection. “It explores certain themes that I find myself wrestling with in midlife — empty nesting, newfound anxiety, resistance to change, grief, and betrayal — while also pursuing faith, finding the simple joy that comes with sharing time with old friends, and immersing myself in the beauty of nature and the natural world.”
