Redwood Music Video! 🎥

 
 

The first time I visited the Redwood Forest, it felt like home.

It was breathtakingly new to me, but I also... felt as though I'd been there before.

It really is like walking into a cathedral, growing right out of the ground under your feet, casting soft shadows from incredible heights, and the whole world slows down a little bit... 

One of the most beautiful things about redwood trees is something you can't even see: they quite literally hold each other up.

To grow so tall, their roots grow together so they can lean on each other and carry each other. Living arm in arm, hand in hand. Maybe that's why the forest felt so familiar...

I wrote this song for the people who have helped me stand tall in this life, who have carried me and been there always. I owe them everything.

Welcome to my favorite place on earth.

 
 

The BIGGEST Thank You to Grantland Films for this video!
(Thank you, Grant, for giving me a reason to go back to this place I love and for capturing it so ridiculously beautifully!)

I hope you all enjoy!
- Brittany

Lightfoot Video 🎥

NEW video out today! Lightfoot by Brittany Jean - You can find it on YouTube

 
 

Growing up, we always (and I mean always) had music playing in our house. Whether the radio was tuned to US99 Country Radio or 90.1 Moody Radio or if we had a record, cassette, or CD spinning, music was a constant, colorful backdrop. Our parents introduced us kids to artists who have remained my favorites ever since, from John Denver and Judy Collins to Emmylou Harris and Anne Murray... and of course, Gordon Lightfoot.

I heard (what I thought were ALL of) Gordon Lightfoot's songs so often when I was a kid that just a few measures of one of his melodies can put me back in my eight year old shoes.

So many of his songs are dear old friends of mine. In high school, I discovered a new-to-me Gordon Lightoot album, and his achingly perfect "Too Late for Prayin'" made me take a closer look at his lyrics. What a writer. He wrote some truly beautiful treasures. And lines that are so well-crafted I wish I could've thought of them first. (Except I wasn't born yet when he wrote 'em. So... that's not fair.)

From that point on, I admired his writing in an entirely new way. I was seeing his work for the first time. I wanted to write like that, and I hoped to be able to thank him someday for the way his library inspired me (and continues to do so)...

This song is my thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Lightfoot, for the tapestry of music and lyrics you wove through my childhood to this very day.

Redwing Blackbird

 

And this week's new song (and the final color from Colors & Covers) is...

There's a line in this song about being taken by surprise, and "Redwing Blackbird" (the song itself) took me by surprise. I had envisioned a different direction for this one, but it changed up on me. Instead of being a bit of a downer, it grew into something a little sweeter. For it's about being swept up into a beautiful moment--maybe that moment is something you've seen a thousand times but has never ceased to... take you by surprise. The kind of moment that causes you to hold your breath, trying to slow the sand in the hourglass. Trying to live in that beauty a little longer.

This is the sixteenth song on the album and the final song introduction for awhile. (Because I need to go write some more. :) )

So in case I don't have a chance to say it later, I wish you all a very merry Christmas.

Thank you for sticking with me through another year of stories and songs. For sharing your stories, your smiles and tears, your heart... with me.


Thank you for being my redwing blackbirds...

All the love,
Brittany Jean

 

Sand

 
 

"Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
Whose hearts are set on pilgrimage."
Psalm 84:5

Every song I write is like a piece of me, but this one...
For about a year, I found myself reading Psalm 84 every morning. The first morning, I thought it was beautiful, and then... I was reading it every day. Because I wanted to claim the heart of it as my own and feel it echo in my very bones. 

Within those many readings, "Sand" started to drift into the corners of my mind--the walk across a never-ending, dusty desertland, homesickness for a place I've never been, faith that the promises are true, the doorway, the house...  

Maybe it'll drift into someone else's thoughts now, too...

And to the wayfaring wanderer: I know a place of blue water...

This is "Sand."

~Brittany Jean

Redwood

(Colors & Covers is out in the wild now, but there are still a few colors to introduce!)

This week's single was inspired by one of my favorite places I've ever been...

 
 

No, actually...
Yep, the redwood forest is it.
Favorite place.
I hope the road takes me back there...

You can find “Redwood” on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora… all of the places!

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