Painting The Dragonfly: Abraham-Hicks Style
She ups the anti
sweetens the pie
and drags it all out in the middle of the night
LeNor Barry’s Music
All my friends are here, 3 albums full of songs which flew out of me in the years between 1998 and 2006. They are, Healer: With A Twist!©, Skeletons Die Laughing© and Painting The Dragonfly©.
Skeletons Die Laughing © is the favorite of most people I talk to. There was a lot motivating me to publish this album. In the studio I would just sit down and run through an entire set.
What I liked I kept. I never enjoyed going over my songs and repeating it until it was perfect enough, I felt that all of the raw energy was removed, and it became too mechanical, not alive.
There is a song on Skeletons Die Laughing© called Almond Eyes that is full of rawness, in fact when Ben Ohmart did a review of the album, he said that it was in a way, too personal and he sometimes wondered if the audience should be there. Yes! You should be there Ben!
It could have been the sobbing on Almond Eyes that made him say that. I did try to end the song when I was sure it was obvious I was crying.
Well, I have done my best to avoid success in the music industry [not], and I have succeeded.Not to take the credit for that line, I believe it was Tony Glover who said that. I did succeed in my own eyes.
To answer Dwight Hobbes about why there seems to be no news about LeNor Barry, I played and wrote music until it was not fun anymore. It was never a job to me, it wasn’t really therapy, it was just the most natural thing in the world, songs just poured out. I was in touch with my genius, I never claimed to be one, and I don’t recall that anyone else claimed I was one either, although someone said I was an X-genius. How is that possible? Creativity can be pointed in any direction.
On Healer: With A Twist! © the themes behind the songs are actually latent in the lyrics and music. I would have a theme, but never voice it. I used it to lay the foundation. Most lyrics came from decoding recordings of my practice when I would lay down the vowels and consonants so I could understand what the melody wanted me to say.
Willie Murphy said it’s like pulling teeth to put out a record. I say it’s like removing your spleen to configure a wordpress site for your albums. Sometimes it feels like if you want to go somewhere you have to order the concrete and pour it yourself to make a road to get there. I don’t mind, but some times I need donations to pay for the cement.
Yes, I just had to come out with another CD. The image for the album is an old painting, I forget who the artist is, (and spiritually speaking I do mean IS and not WAS) I will post it later. And “Painting the dragonfly”, is the story she is telling to all the smaller beings around her (in my imagination) . I’m the one who is leaning forward, really interested, with the bonnet on.
But I am each and every little girl there, all aspects of mySelf. Especially the rag doll the child is undressing.
Because like the song Rag Doll says, “you never know what’s in my head, aint nothin’ coming out of my pen”, I just cant seem to get a handle on what I’m thinking unless I’m writing it out.
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LeNor Barry
How imaginative people are to have the idea that there could be an accidental world or that there is not plenty of everything to go around for everyone.
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