this song is my favorite release thus far in my career.
Graycie York
“this song is my favorite release thus far in my career.” Graycie York posted on her social media accounts this morning. about her newest single, Dust.
Inspired by country music’s leading ladies Patsy Cline and Miranda Lambert, York knew that she wanted to sing country songs from the time that she was two years old. After a trip with her dad to Nashville in 2018 she realized that not only could she sing it but that she could write it too.
Her first single released in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic, a scary time for her and the state of the world as we once knew it.
Since then she’s kept on writing and playing every chance she gets. I have personally caught her more than once in places like the Blue Light up in Lubbock and in those seedy little dives out in Deep Ellum.
Graycie York a native of Rockwall Tx has a talent that has taken shape like the wind swept plains of Texas. Ever growing.. ever changing and Dust is a great opportunity to showcase this talent in a beautiful body.
Well, I woke up early Sunday mornin’ Had myself a piece of toast Had 50 dollars in my pocket Gonna chase myself a ghost…
Charlie Robison
In 2004 Robison released his song, New Year’s Day, on his Good Times album. The Iconic song about a guy who finds himself making the best of a bad situation and ringing in the New Year in the best way he knew how.. The setting of the song, “boys town” in some border town in West Texas.
There was a time in my own life that this was how I would spend my holiday. In another iconic song the verse says something about crossing the border for some “cultural exchange.” I remember some of those nights in old Mexico. I’m old enough to remember when it was safe to go to those border towns and I don’t disagree or knock the Good Times that were had over there. I sometimes miss the bells ringing from some 100 years old church . The sky was filled with powder from fireworks and/or the occasional pistolero. The Spanish voices would ring out, “Feliz Ano Nuevo.” And we knew that we had arrived to another day and we all had hopes for a better year to come. The closest I’ve been to that in the last decade was a time I camped in Terlingua, Tx over the New Years Holiday- and sometime today I had to stop and ask myself why? That might have been the coldest and darkest day of my life , but I’ll save that story for another time.
What happened this New Years you ask? Well I’m about to tell you.
This New Year’s Day I managed to make a trek up to the Caprock ,instead of a border town I was just North of Lynn County Texas at a little place called Lubbock. The Blue Light was the setting of this story.
Texas singer/ songwriter Dalton Domino had an idea, he wanted to be able to do something that would help the community. He chose to hold a benefit for a children’s home in Lubbock and after a few phone calls- Early Supper was born.
Early Supper the event sponsored by Red Dirt Rebel and Cotton court is held annually at the Blue Light in Lubbock. Yesterday’s event featured more than a dozen of Texas best singer songwriters in the song swap fashion. It was truly amazing to watch. During the event I heard several songs that I had never heard before. I heard unreleased music from more than one artist and I can’t wait to be able to share them with you all on this platform.
I saw plenty of old friends and got to make some new ones and my heart is full. I am looking forward to another year. And I wish you all the best in 2023.
Mason Server of Mason and the Gin LineDalton Domino Ox MartinGraycie York
Images above are just a few shots of the talent that was represented last night. Each and Every artist in attendance was humble and grateful to be helping out. They each took the time out of their own busy life to be of service to the good of the community and in being there they showcased their brand of music to a fan like me.
In the beginning of 2021, just after the world began to awaken after a yearlong slumber, I first heard Graycie York. She had released her single “Texas Rain.” To be quite honest, I only listened to the song that very first time, because I thought it was some sort of Townes Van Zandt tribute. In 2001, a collection of recordings was released on an album of various artists including Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Freddy Fender. The track listing of the album were songs that had been written by Townes. That album was titled, “Texas Rain.”
Graycie York’s Texas Rain wasn’t about Townes at all, it hit different. At the same time those seemingly sad lyrics and sad guitar notes were very similar to that deep cutting dark sounding music that only Townes Van Zandt could make.
Texas Rain now has over 2 million streams on Spotify alone and has placed Graycie York high up the ladder in the Texas Music charts.
York’s latest release her EP Sad Birds gives me indication that she will do it all again this year. She named the EP and her title track song after one of her favorite quotes, “Sad Birds Still Sing.”
Sad birds still Sing
This compilation of sad allows me to reflect upon my past and present. A sad ballad also reminds me that I am the master of my own destiny and that I don’t have to stay stuck in that dark hole. I have been able to find the tools and ask for the assistance necessary to climb out of those holes and begin to see the light of day.
The Graycie Lyn York penned, “Just Another Night.” Is a perfect example of how I used to live my life, and how love changed everything.
Sad birds may still sing, but they also have the ability to fly,
