lifeblood: songs: backgrounds: give it a go

amy ray quote from 2012-08-24: applause: you indi go, girl, the dallas voice

jpg: the one song on the album that i would say is closest to punk in sound - you mentioned "from haiti" - is "give it a go." it reminds me of a sugar/bob mould song with the treated vocals as well.

i feel like it's important to support new projects because of the suicide rate in the queer youth community. i wrote a song in response to it gets better called "give it a go" on a solo record called lung of love - it's a punk song. i wrote a song for matthew shepard and i wrote one called "let it ring" in support of gay rights marches. there's lots of inspiration from the queer community for the activism that came before us and that still needs to be done.

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amy ray quote from 2012-08-31: amy ray shares her lung of love, jambands.com

jpg: the one song on the album that i would say is closest to punk in sound - you mentioned "from haiti" - is "give it a go." it reminds me of a sugar/bob mould song with the treated vocals as well.

ar: who i love. (laughs) bob mould definitely influenced me a lot. songwriting, too. melodically, he's so great. i recorded the demo on my phone. the only thing i had with me and i was riding. the song came out. my friend greg [griffith] who was working with me on the record said, "i like the way that sounds. we should just record it through a video camera microphone." that's what we did to tape. as far as vocals and guitar and the drums were on regular mics to tape, so it gave it that grungier, desperate feel.

jpg: i didn't know if it used an effect after you did the vocals or you were singing in some beat up microphone.

ar: yeah, we used the video camera mic and we used a good mic too, together. it's live that one, kind of a one shot deal.