A Diverce Album

 

The songs on here are mostly downbeat. Is that the proper way of saying the opposite of upbeat? (musically speaking. the answer is no. Just trying to make a bit of a joke).

They try to tell stories about life's roads: among those are the ones I was walking on in 2007-2008. Or more so how I was feeling. Sometimes blue, sometimes filled with cautious optimism, sometimes simply wondering. Most of them are melancholy, but, there are three exceptions in "Music", "I Keep Walking the Road That Leads Me Back to You", and "My Kind of Living". The one mentioned second there, is one I wanted to have on the album because I wanted to leave the door open for love again. It was a call, or a prayer, or both. 

"A Different Road" ... does one not feel like one wants to walk on a different road than what one is on from time to time? But, then again, whether or not one is walking on one road or another, one is always walking on one's own road of life.

"Wonderful Heartache". The song was written because I had a song idea and a melody to go with it. It just happened that it fit in with the rest of the walkers/songs. My favorite lyric in the song is "A house so full of loneliness". Do you have a favorite lyric in there? If so, please share in the comments! :)

(post is in progress. Will edit and add some more)

The "Roads" album on Spotify

Music as Happiness

 

In pop culture and art: colors carry meaning. One color can mean different things in different situations and to different people. It's a matter of individual experiences and taste.

Do I sound obvious? (insert positive answer lol)

I used to have blue as my favorite color as a child. Why? Who knows.

All I know is I liked blue. When my children were little, I let them choose ever which colors they liked to wear. 

Until awareness of worldly norms and standards suggested otherwise. Will that thought bring a feeling of the blues along?  If so, here's a song I wrote just for the reason of wanting to write an upbeat 4/4 shuffle that I could sing at a talent show.

Here's a thought of a different color: blue can also mean something very positive. Like blue skies.  

Honoring Freedom

 

Happy July 4th!!!!

 

Yesterday in church, we unexpectedly got to sing "I'm Proud To Be An American", or, as the actual title of the song is: "God Bless The USA". I say unexpectedly, because it was at a church service, but, it really was very, very fitting and that is why I say 'we got to sing' as in 'had the privilege to sing'. Because it is a privilege to be, to exist, to worship and praise God and your country at the same time along with others that feel the same way.

Have a Safe and Special Celebration today!

Foot note: Speaking of privilege ... I once had the pleasure of hearing Lee Greenwood play "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening ceremony at Nissan Stadium (then LP Field) in Nashville, TN for the CMA Festival nightly concerts. He played the saxophone at that particular occasion.

"Music" Kriz Rogers First Official Music Video

I'm excited to share with you and the world that I have released my first official music video!

The song is "Music", which was recorded over in Sweden and released on my Kriztina Åhs & Countryfied project, but the video itself was recorded in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I wrote the song about the feeling, thrill and magic of enjoying - you guessed it! - music.

I hope you find it as enjoyable to watch and listen to as it was for me to sing it.

Follow Kriz Rogers on Social Media and Spotify!

 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/krizrogerscountrymusic

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And listen to all released and unreleased songs by Kriz Rogers on Reverbnation: 

https://www.reverbnation.com/krizrogers/song/3262092-music

Thank you Charley Pride and Tom T. Hall

 

Everything we hear may not move us, but what does, lasts more than lifetimes. Butterfly effect and beyond ...

Thank you for the music.

Songwrites: Inspirations I

"Please Little River"
Songwriting credit: Kriz Rogers

"Roll On Mississippi"

Songwriting credits: Kye Fleming/Dennis Morgan

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJ0DCW0h0U2yXwiBBi4YGJr0AkZqPMP0

Songwrites: Inspirations II

"Gloryville"
Songwriting credit: Kriz Rogers

"I See"

Songwriting credit: Tom T. Hall

Songwrites: Inspirations II playlist

Where "Thank You Song" comes from

Inevitable, there are trials in life. It is a common belief that they will grow you and make you stronger.

"Thank You Song" comes from a place like that. It was a day like any other day (way before this thing in 2020 hit us), and why an event triggered me to write it, is a mystery, just like Life itself, but what I do know is that my husband was still hooked on narcotic pain pills at the time, and the unpredictability of each moment was a constant cloud hanging over us and me. He had had one of his out-lashes and it was  after that moment "Thank You Song" came about.  I turned to my consolers God and music and reached for my guitar and simply started strumming and singing. The words and the melody instantly started flowing through from my heart and the Holy Spirit . There is no other explanation when a song simply starts seemingly out of "nothingness". The purpose for me that evening was to find strength in life's weakness to connect with a feeling of gratitude, so that I could turn a resentment into something uplifting.

In this day and time, when we all are more or less in an adaptive stage of living, my hope is that you will find strength and inspiration from hearing this song.

PS. There is a dictionary on my facebook page that explains some of the terminology I use in the song: https://www.facebook.com/krizrogerscountrymusic/photos/p.10157202566266470/10157202566266470/?type=1&theater

and I would like to add that "Bigger Scheme" refers to God's plans for not just you and me, but for human kind as a whole.