Nicki Bluhm's will be at Houston's HOB this weekend (Sunday, November 18, 25018) and we can expect to see her perform from her latest, To Rise You Gotta Fall. It came out last June.
To Rise You Gotta Fall is a chronicle of Bluhm’s state of mind following both a divorce and a separation from the only band she had ever known. Said Bluhm, “These songs are quite personal. They are the conversations I never got to have, the words I never had the chance to say, and the catharsis I wouldn’t have survived without.”
“I was going to write this really scathing review of a woman I hate and I wrote the whole song and I just didn’t have the last line—the kicker—so I sent it to Ryan and in parentheses I put, ‘something really mean that would hurt her’ hoping he would be able to give me that last line. He wrote back something like, 
‘Scrap everything except the line in parentheses’ and so that’s where the song began. That was the most insightful writing advice I’d ever received from anyone because it taught me to ‘use your stream of consciousness, don’t overthink—say what you mean, say what’s real.’
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