Photo by Brenda Wirth
Many of the songs have a per-
sonal connection to them, but
Maternal Instinct is far from her
most personal album. Kansas was
basically a confessional record
about the ups and downs of love,
divorce, parenting, and the pursuit
of finding one’s self. But the truly
personal distinction likely goes to
her debut, Digging For Daylight.
This was an album that contained
songs written while she was go-
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ing through a divorce. At the time
she was still very raw as an artist.
In fact, she was still learning how
to sing and play the guitar at the
same time, while she poured out
her feelings on that record.
“I was figuring out who I was,”
she recalled. “The album’s name
was because I was a lost soul at the
time. It was a personal album, but
I just wasn’t comfortable as a song-
writer to put the personal thoughts
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