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A long time has passed since my first plans to record the new CD….I would say…the Crazy Ride I’ve been on is finally Over, but I know better than to ever believe life just settles down, when we want it to.  The Swings of HIGH and low are a pendulum in my life, that will always swing, back and forth, up and down.  However, for now I feel as if the last song has been written and the CD is on it’s way to the emotional aspect of studio time. Of course STUDIO TIME for me, means a lot of track recording, listening, recording, listening and then arranging it all, as if it were a story, each song, a new chapter in the book of experience.

I’m calling the CD ‘ DiRTY CRiMES’, something of a theme that has had it’s way with me over the past year or so.  Some of the lyrics are pretty bold and aggressive just dancing on the edges of some rather disturbing images (that is….a matter of thinking and perception of course)…. The easy part is writing the songs, the hard part…is living through…what I write about, and getting through…..it always comes with a price.  My mother said to me the other day ‘ Sorry you had to go thru ‘this or that’..and I found myself responding with… “Noooo, it’s all good, ya gotta go through the sad low low’s in order to write a song!”   It’s like a t-shirt a friend of mine gave me in the Virtual world that said “Break my heart so I can write a song”….I wore that with a big crazy grin, knowing how true, yet how absolutely funny it is, how many of us songwriters……write our songs.

I finished ELEPHANT GIRL and it’s up on nimbit.com as well as a couple others…great site for selling either Albums or Single Songs…they take a small percentage,  but what site that’s good, doesn’t   as far as ‘selling songs’……..I’m quite sure I’ll be putting the new CD out on CD BABY this time…..I have the other 2 cd’s on itunes/amazon … however songcast.com charges a $6 fee a month…and for what???? I ‘ll decide later on whether or not I’ll keep the ‘songcast’ account…or move my cd’s from there, to CD baby..who also sends them to itunes etc……….

Always looking for new ideas, music sites and opportunities to produce, perform, collaborate……….and thanks for those of you who have made some fantastic suggestions to thoughts I’ve posted on my Suzen Juel and Suzen JueL facebook  (the second one is the fan page….do hit LIKE if you haven’t….all my fans ROCK MY WORLD!!! https://www.facebook.com/suzen.juel (regular facebook)    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Suzen-JueL/45430674299 (FAN PAGE)……

Enjoy your week and I”ll keep you updated through the lovely pages of Facebook…and of course here…..I need to find some original art work for the cover of ‘DiRTY CRiMES’ and perhaps a few other fun things I may throw in………..

While I still have today, I would like to somehow, someway, make you smile, or make you think. I would like it if you would take a look inside yourself, and find something that is new, unused, something you haven’t been to before. While I still have today, I would like you to stop forgetting where your flowers are planted, where your seeds have been sewed, where your smiles have harvested. While I am still alive, I would like to know where the bounty of my life has been spent, i would like to see where the path has been cut, so that the next generation can find their way, down a road less traveled.  While I still have this moment…I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who has positively challenged me, taught me a different way, a beautiful way. I would like to say THANK YOU to those that have inspired me, taken my measure in their soul, taken my heart in their thoughts, have known me, personally…not superficially.

While I am still breathing and while my heart still beats, I would like to give gratitude to my  parents, to my sister, to my family, for always, always, always having the heart to listen, the mouth to speak, the soul to forgive. I would like to thank my husband, for all his hard work, his love, his faithfulness, his gratitude, his forgiveness and his unending love….I would like to smile in complete joy, for all the laughs we share, all the stories we mend, all the hearts we hold…he is a work of magic in and of itself.

While I am still here, still breathing, I would like to say WOW BOYS….the children I have raised and have had the joy of watching grow, have done nothing more than amaze me! For this, I am always grateful. What amazing men they have turned out to be. My friends, My SouL Sistah’s…my soulMates, my spiritual connections……Thank you…..from the absolute bottom of my soul and up, ALL the way! Thank you for the most gracious times, the most incredible moments, thank you for your remarkable stories of faith, loss and success, thank you for always being real!