Album Notes

“It’s hard to believe that big, bellowing, fullbodied howl comes out of her little body. Moriah is fully aware of her bewildering gift, and she boogies all over the stage — swinging her hips with sassy seductiveness.” — J. Adrian Stanley, Colorado Springs Gazette

Raised in Colorado Springs, Fairlight started singing before she started speaking. In sixth grade she wrote her first song and a couple of decades later is still writing, but at a faster pace and with a deeper knowledge of the styles she is using, blues being the main mode in her current writing.

Her experiences turn into song lyrics as they happen – a spell as a rose-peddler in Colorado bars led to “Buy a Rose”, with some of the lyrics coming from lines she sang as she worked at that job, to advertise her wares, like a New Orleans street vendor; her agony over a failed marriage produced “Cryin’ over You Again”, which still causes the ex-husband to cringe if he catches her act; “Desperation Blues” describes a period of financial woe with her family, but more importantly her determination to keep her head above the water and her "face to the light”.

The title song, “Soldier, My Brother”, resulted from a conversation with a soldier returned from Iraq, becoming an expression of compassion for the soldier but without supporting the war itself; the song’s most passionate supporters are people who have relatives and friends serving in the Iraq war.

This song is a gap-bridger, definitely not supporting the war but just as clearly supporting the soldiers themselves.