Loneliness And Poverty

I believe every human being and some animals at times are faced with the idea of loneliness and poverty. It may come and go.
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS SPIRITUAL POVERTY and poverty is a word that covers much.

There is financial poverty...

There is real hunger, for instance in third world countries. (Now that is impoverished!)

This is writing about "Loneliness and Poverty", the song and the subject.
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I wrote the song "Loneliness and Poverty", after a long thought of my fellow man and friends who are homeless and outcast and poor. Take for instance a person who hardly has a quarter for bus fare or food. How might it feel to have nowhere to go and no one to see?

I imagined myself lying on a park bench with nothing but time...no money, not a dime....a transient outsider, banished from family and friends. I went there. I put my own abandonment, loneliness, and fear (all I had ever imagined and experienced) into what another being might be feeling, in hopes of feeling the pain and letting it go. (I went to the place we all are meant to face, and came out the other side)

Why? For my own Wholeness, Freedom, and Justice. I wrote the song "Loneliness And Poverty", knowing the good that would come from my song. (Wholeness, Freedom, Justice)

"Loneliness And Poverty", hmmm I don't buy it and consider it a lie. The breath of life is gift enough for me to rejoice. It was my heart's desire to expose the truth. It was my heart's desire to remind people, that "Loneliness and Poverty" is a state of mind, and not the truth. It was my need to be healed and my purpose to heal others.

Today I have freedom. I do think it takes a bit of effort when the feeling comes to expose the lie-and take control of the mind with right thoughts. It is not anything outside of ourselves that make us whole or complete, but the state of our mind and heart inside that determines our outward lives. There is always someway to GIVE; some way to LIVE free from "Loneliness and Poverty".

Now I am still young and have a way to go, so I do not claim to know everything but today I believe "Loneliness and Poverty" is a deceptive state of mind. Let it go...let it go...

 

Music, Love and Power

Some of you may be aware of my love for dark moody music. I love artists that seem to write and record songs where others fear to tread. They follow paths of sorrow, and find the seedy places of the soul to express and console. Believe it or not, I find this music quite appealing and healing.

Two of my all time favorite artist’s are THE COWBOY JUNKIES and LUCINDA WILLIAMS. Both of these unique artists approach their music in a slighted and realistic way. I fell in love with The Cowboy Junkies when I was facing a major life rising.

The music bug had hit big and I had realized, I was going to single mindedly write and create my catalog in solitude, and that life would bring what it may. I felt a leading to be set free from any bondage and chains through past hurts that were attempting to hold me and mold me into a frozen tiger. I was going to delve into the deep and come out the other side into the roaring lioness I am today.

Seasons came and went and through them was created what is now this great music you are about to hear. And when the quiet became unbearable, I would put my favorite Cowboy Junkies disc in the player and set a fire in the yard and begin to go to the dark place until it felt so good happiness would return.

Listening to songs about death, loneliness and broken hearts (“Lay It Down” and “Pale Sun Crescent Moon” by The Cowboy Junkies were masterpieces that soothed my soul). The music gave me comfort and caused my own loneliness to leave (perhaps for good). Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” embraced the irony of life and love, and assisted me in patiently waiting for my time to come. These writers helped me become a better writer.

There were other writers too, but the reason I am sharing this thought at all, is to say, don’t be afraid of the dark. You have to go through some things to come out the other side. If you never go there and feel your pain, you will likely stuff it and it will likely affect your quality of life. Music is a safe journey and an easy way to tap into your painful emotions without having to endure trouble.

The quote a phrase by William Congreve, in The mourning bride, 1697

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
I've read, that things inanimate have moved,
And, as with living souls, have been informed,
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

My hope is you will delve deeply into my sweet sounds and find yourself changed and moved into a higher place. Be set free from hidden fears. Free to embrace every moment with trust and love.

Carpe diem! (Seize the day!)

Love,
Miss Kristin

LOVE AND PAIN

The other day I was working in the front room of my house with the windows wide open. Outside was a young man in his late twenties or so, crying and screaming into his cell phone as he walked around in front of my house obviously breaking up with his love partner.

He was screaming and crying out, “CAN’T YOU SEE I LOVE YOU? DON’T DO THIS!!! I LOVE YOU!!! WHY ARE YOU RUNNING FROM ME??? I TRY TO LOVE YOU BUT YOU RUN!! I LOVE YOU!! NO, DON’T DO THIS!!”

He was painfully distressed and I was heart wrenched for the guy! It brought me back to a time past when I’d had my heart broken and all this beautiful music was born. Man, CAN LOVE HURT!!

I remembered as my heart was pounding with pain through my ex’s cold response for my loving dilemma. With this particular relationship I was tore up from the floor up! I wanted to die. I lay on the bed sobbing for what felt like days. I flashed on the times (two in hindsight) things went the other way around and I had broken my lover’s hearts. I started to see both sides of the coin. I began to really know how it felt when the dream of love died. Only then was I beginning to see what love really was.

From that point on, I made it a point to walk carefully and handle with care my choices for love. I embraced the idea of loving myself in a big way first and not falling for the easy route hooking up because I did not want to be alone or lonely. I chose to face any fears and loneliness head on and put to rest any co-dependence that comes from insecurity. I’d focus on my personal healing and education of love in order to really have a great love one day. I still believe and contently wait as I become more beautiful and whole by the day.

We are ever changing and as I grow more mature, I see how our needs change. It often takes living through some great pain to realize what it is we really have when we stand in the flame of love. Love is a powerful energy and a state of great enlightenment. It seems so simple yet complicated and illusive. Unconditional love was all I ever hoped for. And a GREAT MAN with a GREAT HEART who loved a GREAT GOD. Am I asking too much? Good things come to those who wait? I still believe.

For now,I shall let the music tell the story.


LOVE TAKES TIME


Hugs and love to you,

Miss Kristin

Miss Kristin Featured on Channel 15 KMTV

Miss Kristin introduces some of her early work on KMTV "The Better Part" for Channel 15 television viewers everywhere. Featured songs from the "Trouble Child" , "The Secret of Your Heart" and "You Can't Hide Love" collections. http://facebook.com/1misskristin

Will it be Indian Summer?

Expecting the Indian Summer August 2010

Summer is nearing it's end and being a warm weather girl, I'm setting my sites toward an Indian Summer. (In more ways than one)

The "Free" CD has been shipped to radio around the world and we have had quite a few positive comments from radio stations and fans who are really enjoying the music! I for one love the single "Indian Summer" and had a great time creating my own video for the music with my handy hi def camera! Please watch it and enjoy the scenery of Sedona, Arizona where much of the short movie was filmed. Watch Indian Summer Here:

I enjoy the concept of this album "Free" and in all I do attempt to incorporate the idea by enjoying creating freely without being too concerned with what people may think. My motto is "Do the best you can with what you've got!" and I live by those words and am thoroughly enjoying the journey! If you have yet to see the "Free" video you may watch it now: Watch The FREE Video Here:

My home is presently in renovation as we are building a new rehearsal space in the garage.The guys are underway with sheet rock and whatever else is needed for soundproofing and such.

I have been invited to play gigs and have more requests coming so my hope is to get the rehearsal room ready and then get underway with the next stage of Miss Kristin music. Now I have performed live for some time solo and with various groups, but the time has come for me to up my game and dial the show in! So stay tuned we will have much more coming for you in the future.

It's A Love In Baby!
The next NEW collection "Whole In My Soul" is about complete and will be released in the near future. We have a track we would like you to grab as a thank you for your continued support. The uplifting and unique "It's A Love In Baby!" is yours free for being a friend of Miss Kristin! You can grab it here: It's A Love In Baby! and Watch The New "It's A Love In Baby!" Video Here:

And if that weren't enough, we also have in production another great collection titled "Miss Kristin's Elephant Groove" featuring the awesome talented Billy Hyatt on guitars with a few more special guests for musical production assistance. "Miss Kristin's Elephant Groove" is a Funky collection with some R&B style and radio singles we know you're gonna love! I just love the freedom of creating within different genres. I find a wider audience for my independent music and more often than not I surprise myself creatively and learn so much! Stay tuned, Lord willing "Elephant Groove' will be a 2011 release!

Have a wonderful Indian Summer friends!

Miss Kristin
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Practicing Non Judgment and MUSIC

Almost every day, in my prayers I ask the Lord to allow me to practice non-judgment. There is a lot of judgment as we walk our individual roads in life. And as we walk further and grow more, it often seems like there is even more division and judgment. This is a crafty trick to cause non-love in our lives. Don’t fall for it! PRACTICE NON-JUDGMENT!

Lately, I have been coming into a lot of criticism, and negative opinions.(This seems to happen especially after each new collection I release.) This happens a lot to folks, who are doing something with their dreams.
Mostly from those who are not. Or people who think they are, but not doing well at seeing their achievements. Some criticism is good and welcome, but always we must understand the motive. What is causing one to desire to judge another?

I am a sensitive woman, and when I feel bombarded by a so called attack, I have been taught to shake it off! Let it go quickly and wait and reply in love. I pray not to partake in the behavior. I do pretty well to be honest with you. Sometimes though around full moon eclipses and vital times of change, I notice the forces coming against me. More often than not, after I have faced some great personal fear.

We as artists need to become strong in Love so that we are well equipped to sing and produce like soldiers going to war. All because we love music and it is a gift that blesses people and lifts spirits.

The music business is a tough business. I don’t have to tell anyone that. It’s expensive, very mysterious and it can be nerve wracking with the work that goes into the live aspect mixed with the writing aspect, mixed with the recording aspect mixed with the business aspect. It’s a lot for anyone to handle. Even more so for independents who don’t have a staff much of the time. (I still believe for mine)

We do the best we can with what we have. We do what we have to do to allow us to create and make a living having the time to do what we love. We are good at multitasking, and doing what it takes, to get to our LOVE.  Music for me is a huge sacrifice, and a huge love. It is a great gift I have been given as a writer first.
My dreams are to compose for other artists as well as myself.  I’d like to do movies and television too.

Presently, my track “Look To You” is in stores across Europe and I am please to be garnering more income from my work. For now, and, at least the next ten years it is all about the MUSIC for ME.
I’m gonna give it all I got, and I don’t care what anyone says! Go ahead, … Tell me I suck!! Tell me to give it up already!! It won’t happen. I love what I do and that’s all that matters. I pray you love it too. Cause I got the music in me!

Soon I will be posting a sneak peak to the new collection WHOLE IN MY SOUL.
Take an early listen and stay tuned for the tracks in the months to come. I love you friends and fans, and look forward making music that delights your souls, sets your spirits free and assists in lightening your load.

God Bless, Stay in peace. Please practice non-judgment. And LOVE!

Always, keen to be,

Miss Kristin

Miss Kristin Imagines What She And The World Could Be With Upcoming “Whole In My Soul”.

One hypothesis for the evolution of human imagination is that it allows conscious beings to solve problems (and hence increase an individual's survival fitness) by use of mental simulation.

The essence of Kristin’s magical compositions on her upcoming collection “Whole In My Soul” from Big Fuss Records, consciously reveals a landscape of grace in our world and what might be, through sight, sound, and emotion.

Envisioning her own imagination preceding reality; Kristin envelops musical life experience of the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties, composing for a new time with songs like “Love In”, “The Whole World Knows” and “Show Me What Love Is”. Kristin contagiously elevates and transcends time beautifully using her own life as conduit.

Kristin’s ability for creating personal realms within her idealistic mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world, seem to transcend the norm and set her apart as one of the great writers of our time.

“Whole In My Soul” again features the influential guitars of Tom Landry and is set for a October 2010 release.

Indian Summer by Miss Kristin

Created by Miss Kristin for her beautiful and original track,
INDIAN SUMMER; Kristin adventures to the mountains and the desert and then back again into her own yard for an entertaining visual of this magical composition.

INDIAN SUMMER features the extraordinary rock guitars of TOM LANDRY and exceptional keyboards of Robert Berry alongside Kristin's sultry and powerful vocals with her own keyboards and guitars.
Intro chant and Native Flute outro by Tethered Eagle. Intro Native Flute by Miss Kristin, Outro Drum and Percussion-Miss Kristin.

Miss Kristin in the pink with “A Miss Kristin Mac Attack” and “Free”, available worldwide March 2010

It is tempting to assume an association between Kristin’s two latest releases; “A Miss Kristin Mac Attack” and “Free”, with two distinctive covers that appear “in the pink”.

Enlisting the help of childlike artistic talent Alison “Dizz” Daniel, “A Miss Kristin Mac Attack” and “Free” display Kristin’s unique approach to music, inviting those who discover her works, to come hither and listen. The color pink has meaning of its own referring to, in perfect condition especially of health. “The earliest citations of 'in the pink' are from the 16th century and, at that time, the meaning was 'the very pinnacle of something', but not necessarily limited to health.

Listening to Kristin’s music, it would be safe to say this persistent woman is on to something smart, and pink! Kristin’s style is individual like others who have gone before her. Great artists like, Sir Elton John, Neil Young, Tom Petty, and Stevie Nicks all having a presentation that upon first introduction had the power to magnetize or repel but eventually fall in love with. Kristin’s personal characteristic vocal fashion is similar.

“A Miss Kristin Mac Attack” is ten early Fleetwood Mac songs produced in a pop/reggae production that brings new life and relevance to Fleetwood Mac favorites of the seventies.
Kristin produced and arranged the entire collection playing most instruments and featuring the reggae elegance of artist Emmanuel Selassie as guest vocalist/instrumentalist. Kristin brings duets alongside solo masterpieces for both young and old to enjoy.

“Free” is Miss Kristin’s own personal journey through fear into strong hearted bravery.
Kristin sings with lyrical wisdom as a woman willing to lead a mighty army to happiness via today’s independent music world. Kristin again features the extraordinarily amazing guitars of Tom Landry for this collection surely not to be missed.

Both “A Miss Kristin Mac Attack” and “Free” are available digitally and physically, March 2010 via iTunes , Amazon.com, CDBaby and Digstation while Miss Kristin remains tickled pink to be free to make her expressive music.

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Miss Kristin “In It To Win It” With Her New Music Release, “FREE” Available February 2010.

These days Miss Kristin is counting her blessings and thankfully crafting genuine uniqueness, as she creatively shines on her new music release “FREE”.

With "FREE" being her eleventh collection over the course of the last decade, Kristin has launched as a genre crossing, multi-talented, writer-composer, who truly enjoys what she is doing.

Better known as a Soft Rock /Triple AAA/ New Age Independent Artist, Kristin Pedderson (aka Miss Kristin) seems determined to demonstrate herself through perseverance in the music industry claiming, “Sometimes You Win”.

“FREE” is composed entirely by Kristin, and produced, with the help of the gifted Tom Landry as guitarist/bassist extraordinaire. Opening with the title track “Free”; Kristin asks her audience, “Who holds the chains, where does it bind you?” With powerful musicianship, “FREE” is a continuation in theme collections where the title track suggests an idea that is carried throughout the entire musical journey setting the mood for a grand adventure.

Miss Kristin continues her poetic crossing without reserve following the title track “Free” with a jazzy single, ”The Best Of Intentions” , in a sexy liberated devil may care moment. Kristin having survived her own level of oppression has the panache to reach her listeners as one who enjoys complete personal liberty. Kristin breaks her own rules with realism to love and appreciate.

A most interesting inclusion is the emotional Sentimental Journey where Kristin performs her own instruments in an epic passage through thought and emotion, reconciling past and present. Kristin’s entrancing empathetic stance confidently seems to seek those bound, calling them to her bold freedom.

Kristin spent her early years working as a hair stylist, while honing her true heart’s desire as a composer, producer, and performer. Kristin is no stranger to pretense and has had plenty of opportunity to consider people firsthand. She regularly assists with music for a local street ministry in San Jose, (her home town) and her real life experience, has given her compositions a compassionate edge.

Clear of obstructions, the first single to be released, “Sometimes You Win” sings, the second time around is the doosey, third time is the charm. Perhaps engaged in her gift, Kristin has stopped counting and is saying what really matters, is she keeps doing what she loves; making great original music.

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