The Music of Ann Blair

I consider myself a storyteller more than anything else, my writing started as poetry when I was around 8 or 9 years old. When I became a teen I realized I could take the poetry and put melody to it. However all of this was created from my mind. As I play no instrument. Talk about your disadvantage.  But it works and the songs come from nowhere it seems. I just get them and write them down then sing them right away.

After the process is really only when I realize these are pieces of lives, moments that have one way or another touched my life…could be my own life, or someone else’s, nonetheless there is always a message for me within them.

Stories of Inspiration

Back There

Was inspired after hearing about a friend that had an unexpected encounter with someone from the past, someone they rather would have just walked by on the street. However fate brought them face to face after almost 10 years. This friend always wondered what this encounter would be like as the person from the past was not what you would call wonderful to them.

My friend realized that this meeting gave the much needed closure they desired thus allowing them to realize that they could forgive and forget..all the while knowing that they never would go back down that road again.

Wanted You To Know 

I truly wrote this song just sitting on the steps outside one day, it just came out of my mouth, and at the time I had no idea why.  As I started to sing it more I came to understand that it is about someone that is in love with someone and for some reason the timing is not right, for either of them.

They sat in silence with the feelings for so long, then the space became friendly enough to reveal that if things were different this affair might be able to become a reality, they could fall in love and forever, but neither makes a move to change it, perhaps they can’t for many reasons, other obligations, other goals and objectives, too many differences, age or interest, so they part just knowing that the feelings are there and maybe one day the time will be right.

Daddy’s Car

I think this was the first time that I sort of set a goal for a song.  I think it’s really cool that women are rising in car racing and I wanted to honor that, so this song was born, I just took how I feel about what I do as a songwriter and flipped the perspective to being a race car driver.

I felt that the verse about the child watching his mother was important, it makes one realize that fathers are not just the ones to be inspired by or to follow in the footsteps of, but that mother’s can be that role model or inspiration to go far and follow your dreams.

Bottles – n – Bruises

Wow, well many things that touched my life inspired this. Yes the song is about domestic abuse; it’s also about alcoholism. Many people have told me that this song relates to so many situations. In hearing this I know the song has done what I hoped it would. It sends the message.

The message is that there is a way out of any situation that may be harmful to you, that you are more than just someone’s possession; you are not just an object of convenience for any purpose. That no matter how far you think you may be pulled down, inside of you is that strength to pull yourself up, out and beyond a life of pain and regain what and who you are no matter what.
(From every CD sold 1.00 will be donated to a domestic abuse charity)

I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit about my creative mind as well as listening to some of the songs from the album…I hope to change the music page from time to time so keep checking back for different tracks and more stories of inspiration.

All words & music written by – Ann Blair

Wanted You To Know – Tracks

1. On My Way
2. Boy Across Town
3. Bottles -n- Bruises
4. Daddy's Car
5. Wanted You To Know
6. Back There
7. Time To Go
8. To Know You Well
9. Love You, By The Way
10. Hero