On Wednesday, September 29, a large crowd packed into SESAC to hear Cold River Records artist Katie Armiger perform an acoustic set of songs from her upcoming third album Confessions of a Nice Girl. She was joined onstage by several of her co-writers. During her set, she shared several stories of how she was inspired to write some of the songs.
The event was streamed live online, and watched everywhere by fans from the U.S. to Scotland.
Katie's set list:
"Nice Girl"
"Kiss Me Now" (with Shanna Strassberg)
"That's Why" (with Rebecca Lynn Howard)"Can You Handle It"
"Can't Keep Myself from Loving You" (with Joe West)
"Cry Cry Cry" (with Chad Carlson)
"Ain't Gonna Happen" (with Bruce Wallace)
"Best Song Ever" (with Amanda Flynn) |
| Rebecca Lynn Howard (left) joins Katie onstage to perform their composition "That's Why." |
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| Katie and co-writer Amanda Flynn close out the set with Katie's upcoming single "Best Song Ever." |
What was your favorite song to write?
"I would probably say 'Best Song Ever.' I wrote it with Amanda Flynn and Bruce Wallace. We were, you know, in Amanda's Jeep driving through Kentucky, which is where she lives - well, she lives here, but which is where she came from. I was so much fun! I just never had that much fun writing a song. We were technically on retreat, but we wrote a song during it."
How old were you when you first sang, and thought to yourself, "This is what I want to do"?
"I don't even remember. My first memories are when I was like a teeny teeny toddler, and my mom loves to tell this story where I was kicked out of preschool, because I was not a problematic child - I was just more mischievous. So I would get put in time-out a lot, and I would just write songs in time-out about how much I loved being there, and I would make those teachers so mad that they would be like 'We can't watch her anymore. Send her to another preschool,' and I just always knew that I wanted to sing."
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| Scott Wendy reads off a list of fan questions for Katie to answer. |
"I do! I'm going to actually be on the CBS Early Show on October 9th. We just confirmed it today. We're very excited. So you guys can watch it."
Is there going to be another tour? Do you have plans to do dates, and travel the country so we can go out and see you live?
"Well I definitely have plans to be doing a radio tour, so we're going to try to promote this album so much, and with everything that we can, so definitely we'll be traveling around, and I'll post it on Facebook, on my web site, on everything, so you will know when I'm performing! Just stay in touch."
When your album goes on sale on October 5th, are you actually going to go to a store and buy your own CD?
"You better believe it, yeah! I'm gonna be that person that buys every single copy in the store. I figure if I spend like a hundred dollars on myself, it won't really matter maybe."
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| Katie poses with (left to right) Chad Carlson, Shanna Strassberg, Amanda Flynn, Joe West, and Bruce Wallace. |
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