REPLAY: Crissi Cochrane on Facebook Live, May 9, 2020
Crissi Cochrane
It’s definitely past my bedtime now, but I really wanted to get this blog post out the door!
It’s been a strange evening. We nearly had to delay the live-stream because we were dealing with a small family “crisis” this evening, and I didn’t get to do my make-up/hair until 30 minutes before we went live. The crisis: Adeila wedged a raisin up her nose, and we can’t get it out. So a lot of the stream banter was about us soliciting for tips and tricks on removing the raisin.
(UPDATE as of 8:12am Sunday: we got the raisin out!! We used tweezers and bribed her to lay still with M&Ms. So glad I don’t have to spend all of Mother’s Day contemplating a trip to the ER!!!!)
Highlights of the stream also include me utterly butchering “Sweet & Fine” because my guitar was still in drop D from “Pretty Words”, which is the first time I have ever had to stop playing a song in the middle, and ALSO, earlier in that very stream, I boasted about having never done that very thing, exactly jinxing myself. Also, the lovely Meaghan Blanchard was tuned in and requested a Carole King song, so it was lovely to get to fulfill that request for her!
SET LIST:
9:01 - Hungry Love
14:18 - Get Out
19:48 - Drive All Night
25:23 - Something We Did
30:49 - Look Away
37:51 - Don’t Know Why
42:17 - It’s Too Late
48:38 - Pretty Words
57:17 - Sweet & Fine
1:04:14 - Is This Love
My next live-stream will be this Thursday, May 14, from 9-10PM ET on the Soul City Music Co-op Facebook page. I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a Custom Love Songs Live show, but I’ve got to take some time to run through my selections and make sure I’m feeling good about the majority of ‘em first!
Well, I went ahead and made this banner, so it’s basically official!
I’m also hoping to work on a commissioned love song tomorrow afternoon. Did anybody tell this girl that it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow!?! I honestly didn’t know it until yesterday, so I’ve made zero concessions in my work schedule. I might possibly take a nap in the afternoon (I might need to, considering how late it is, and that Adeila is always up at 6:20am).
I’ve got one other live-stream this month, on May 23. I’m planning to debut my upcoming single, “Can We Go Back”, during the stream. The single comes out on July 17 and I’m super excited to be releasing more new music so quickly! Recording Heirloom really helped us hone and streamline our recording process, so no more 6-year waits for new tunes anymore.
So, how are you holding up? I’ve had a slight cough and a sore throat, so I’m a little paranoid, but I felt fine today. In all honesty, the hardest part for me right now is that, in that vulnerable space between being awake and being asleep, my brain keeps dwelling on the finality of death, and I get so filled with despair that I will instead keep myself up much too late, until the very last second of wakefulness has been spent, so that I can try to bypass that terrible space and go right into sleep. Which unfortunately means I’ve been staying up way too late, all of the time. I feel like there must be some books I could read on the subject to help me get over what seems to be an incredibly basic human struggle, but I don’t know if I can bear to devote any more time to thinking about it than I already do. I’ve had some years where I am plagued with this, and then years where it doesn’t dawn on me at all. I thought having a child would help - that I’d be able to convince myself that some part of me lives on in my children - but in that despair-space, nothing is enough. Stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back into you. I have to just think about something else.
Okay, time to take off my makeup and then read until I fall asleep with my phone in my hand. Love you, hope you’re dealing well, and if you’re a mama, I hope you have a lovely Mother’s Day and that everybody spoils you rotten! But know that, if they don’t, it doesn’t mean you are any less deeply treasured and immeasurably important!!