ten, a debut album contains
songs written years earlier and
performed dozens or even hun-
dreds of times before ever being
recorded in the studio.
“I wish I could write all of the
time,” admitted Riley. “I always
try to put myself on a daily or
weekly schedule to write a little,
but, for some reason, my brain
just works better if I give myself
a time to just hole myself away
for a couple of weeks. When I
wrote the album, it was basically
within a month and a half. I took
breaks when I got burned out,
but it was pretty much several
hours a day every day. That just
seems to work well for me.”
It’s not like she didn’t have a col-
lection of songs previously writ-
ten to choose from. In another
nod to planning out a musical ca-
reer, Riley spent a full year releas-
ing new music via the Throwaway
Song of the Week. None of these
songs appear on her album, al-
though the best of the 52 songs
are available on her Ultimate Dig-
ital Collection (2015-18), which
Listen to “The Old Lady At The Open Mic” by Amanda Rose Riley
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