Donna Beasley

For nine years I have worked a part time job in Downtown Nashville. My position has now been cut. My place of business has decided to move me to a sleepy area out West, not far from the sleepy area…

Wish I could steal that title (and voice) from Adele. I am emerging after the gut punching couple of years that were 2014 and 2015. I have new music in the works and a new band. Stay tuned for news…

That's what I should call my record, 'cause that's certainly how it seems. Getting together this evening with our good friend (and even gooder bandmate), Scott Neubert, at his Studio 19. Going to rework some of my older songs in…

First a Taylor Swift song by the same name, now a movie called “Begin Again.” That’s the problem with having an idea and just sitting on it for a few years. I remember when, just before putting out my first…

Going to try playing out a little bit - writer's nights, what have you - and see if that pulls me out of my funk. 

Trying to work through it, people...the self-doubt, the self-loathing, the Seasonal Affective Disorder I think we all get to some degree this time of year. Tonight I applied for a second part-time job. Feeling like a cog in a wheel…

Geez, I cannot get motivated to work on this record. It seems insurmountable. Maybe that should be the album title: Insurmountable. Mom has been really sick, in and out of the hospital. Life itself is just too much right now…

We are recording 6 more tracks for my third release on August 20th. Very excited!!!

What a week! My part-time job of the past 7 years changed locations and my mom had surgery. She came through fine. I somehow managed to sandwich all that stress with a Pat Benatar show at the beginning of the…

I am an artist. But I am not much of a self-promoter. And I am not much on social networking these days. I don't know where we're going with this all bragging, politicking, and gut spilling that we've become so…

Finished the Vocal Tech I class and am beginning Vocal Tech II tomorrow. I'd like to be putting this money directly toward making the record. But this is a vital investment towards this record, all future records, all future gigs…

Taking a vocal tech class from the Nashville Jazz Workshop. After only 1 class and 3 days of exercises my voice feels stronger and sounds clearer. Looking forward to trying out my "new voice" Wednesday evening at Two Old Hippies!