Amy Speace and her new album, The Blue Rock Session, out on 11/21
True life stories, mysteries, and tales brought to life
Sparsely delivered on guitar and piano, along with the veteran’s textured voice
Single “The Sea and The Shore” out on 10/24
“What Amy Speace says – what she sings – she says with a confluence of poetry and honesty, of emotional specificity.” – New York Times
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Amy Speace was accepted into a weeklong songwriting residency at The Blue Rock Retreat and Studio this summer and has 11 songs to show for it. Each song is delicately pieced together; some are old, and some are new, produced by her and the studio engineer, Hayes Howard. Amy’s album will be out on November 21 in time for her U.K. tour dates in December.
“It was a dream. Blue Rock is an enchanted place. Part private home, part artist retreat, part world-class recording studio, part concert hall, there are miles of hiking/walking trails, a rainwater pool, birds, cedars, sagebrush, and blue Texas sky, walls and walls of bookshelves with every conceivable kind of inspiration from science to poetry to autobiography to painting. And it was all there for me, for free, along with beautiful meals and three other incredible artists.” – Amy Speace
“…touching and tender…” – American Songwriter
The instructions were simple: “As part of the residency, we were each given a few hours in the studio with an engineer. I decided to lay down all my new songs on my 1956 Gibson J-45. I didn’t think too much. I just sat in front of the mic and sang the songs, freshly written, still forming in my mouth. Mostly, they were the first or second ‘take’. There was some magic in the air. I brought out my notebook of other new songs I’d written over the past year and kept going. With each song, I’d say to Hayes, “I think there’s something happening here,” and he’d smile and say to me, “Hell yeah, there’s something happening. You’re making a record!” Three hours later, 11 songs down, and I was exhausted and giddy. I’d made a record I hadn’t even intended to make.”
The first single off this odyssey is “The Sea and The Shore,” originally a duet with John Fullbright from her 2013 album, How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat, but Speace always wanted to present it solo acoustic.
Stand out songs: “On A Monday In London”, “The Mother”, “I Found A Halo”
About Amy:
Heralded by Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine, and The New York Times and featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”, Amy Speace was discovered by Judy Collins, who signed her to her record label and has recorded her songs. She’s the 2020 winner of the AMA UK’s International Song of the Year. Her newest record, “The American Dream,” was released in 2025 and became the #1 record; the title track was named the #1 song on the FAI Radio Charts for its first month out. The Cardinals, Amy’s debut collection of poetry, will be published by Red Hen Press in Fall 2026. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, American Songwriter, Salon.com, The Guardian, No Depression, Working Mother, 2 River View, and Euonia. In 2025, she published To The Performer: A Singer-Songwriter’s Handbook, based on her 20 years of teaching performance. In addition to her performance career, she teaches English and Writing at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN.
Amy will be heading to the U.K. in December with a week-long tour. Below are the dates:
10/9 Center For the Arts, Crested Butte, CO
10/10 Steve’s Guitars, Carbondale, CO
10/11 Swallow Hill, Colorado, CO
11/28 Green Note, London
11/29 Town Hall Live, Kirton-in-Lindsey, UK
11/30 Walter Yeat Village Hall, Walter Yeats, UK
12/2 Montrose Folk Club, Montrose, UK
12/3 Tollbooth, Stirling, UK
12/3 Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
12/5 St. Augustine’s Church, Londonderry, UK
