Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “Behind Closed Doors” from my album ‘What Are You Waiting For?”.

“Behind Closed Doors” was written back in 2009 and is based on personal experiences. Growing up, people that didn’t get the chance to actually know me would jump to conclusions about me. They’d see my picture and automatically think “She’s a slut” (True Story and yet none of my pictures have ever been slutty), or else they’d just assume that I’m a strong person because I didn’t start crying when I was teased, instead I laughed it off. It sucked, but I grew a lot from experiences like that. Still not many people get to know the real me because I always keep my guard up, that damned wall to protect myself so I don’t get hurt… Although to the few that I have let in, I’d do anything for them.  So, this song is a little insider (but no too much) of me personally.

When I wrote this song, I originally had it start with just my guitar rift then the band coming in after. Last second before recording the track for the album, I decided that I wanted the bass to start the song and then have the electric come in.  My bass player/producer Adam was not really thrilled about this, because he wasn’t fond of starting the song off by himself on bass. In the end, I won (lol) and I’m glad we decided to keep it with the bass starting the song off. It just seems have a better flow.

You can listen to the song here:

https://jamierumley.bandcamp.com/track/behind-closed-doors

Enjoy and have a lovely rest of your weekend!

Jamie

Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “Back To You” from my album ‘What Are You Waiting For?”. 

The original version of song was actually an online collaboration that I did with an amazing and talented DJ based in Toronto.  She composed the music and was looking for someone to add lyrics to it. She contacted me through a music site we were both on asking if I could come up with lyrics for the song. I’ve never really done anything like that before and was like “Yes… Yes I’ll do it” then quickly thought afterwards “What did I just agree to?” haha.  Well, she sent me the music and I listened to it and as soon as I heard the progression going into the chorus… I began singing “if I could rewrite it all…” and within a couple minutes the chorus was at least written.
The rest of the words came to me very easily as it slowly became about the last conversation I had on the phone with my Baba on Christmas morning ‘08.  She apologized to me for leaving when I was little and never staying in contact with us… she wished she could of turned back time for all she missed.  She passed away the following month in 2009.

“Back To You” became one of my personal favourite songs and I had asked permission to re-record the song with my band to put on my next album.  After getting the A-okay, the version we created was re-born and I fell more in love with it. (You can still listen to the collaboration recording on YouTube as a fan made an amazing video to go along with it.)

You can listen to the song here:

https://jamierumley.bandcamp.com/track/back-to-you

Enjoy and have a lovely rest of your weekend!

Jamie

Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “Walk On” off my album ‘What Are You Waiting For”.

This song was written back in 2003/2004 and was part of the most creative breakup I’ve ever gone through. At the time I was dating another singer/songwriter and I don’t really remember all that happened, but we got in a fight about something and I asked for some space. Well, I then started receiving songs that were not so nice that they wrote about me (one I still have and listen to often lol), so I got fed up and wrote “Walk On” where I quoted a line from one of my early songs ‘Had To Be’…”Didn’t you remember strings would never be attached to me”. I did a really crappy recording of the song, sent it off to them and well… that was the end of the relationship.

Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “Someday” off my album ‘What Are You Waiting For’.

This song was written back in 2002 and it didn’t make the cut for my first EP ‘renovations’. Not too sure why I didn’t choose it, but am happy I didn’t. It gave me the time to work on the song more where I changed the feel and dynamics that I had first come up with on the rough demo.

Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “So-Called Life” off my last album ‘My New Normal’.

While I was working on this song in 2012, The people of Egypt stood up together and over turned their Government. It wasn’t too long after, that others around the world started taking a more powerful stance for their rights and for their voices to be heard. I found it very empowering watching society come together fighting for what they deserve and it was very inspirational for me while writing this song.

Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “About You” off my album ‘What Are You Waiting For’.

“About You” was written back in 2006… At that point in time, I had just left a relationship and took a well deserved hiatus from a long time friendship. Both were extremely full of toxicity, lies, chaoticness and I needed to distant myself from all that BS. So the song is a mixture of those two worlds melded into one.

Playing bass tonight for Lindsey White & The Octopus at Prairie Ink.
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