Nicolle Galyon - ProfilesArchive

About Me

"Right About Now" Playing on CMT loaded right now. ........**************************************************** *****************When I hear Vertical Horizon I think of Heather Hancock's blue jeep wrangler and I can taste a tall vanilla ice cream cone from the Dairy Dump in Sterling. When I hear George Jones I see my grandpa in a wooden rocker, playing his 1930's Gibson Guitar on a Sunday afternoon, cussing about what's wrong with the world. When I hear "Small Town" by John Mellencamp I can hear squeaky basketball shoes on the gym floor during my high school basketball days. Play just one bar of Amy Grant "Baby Baby" and there I am with my mom-- with wooden spatulas in our hands, lip-synching and dancing in the kitchen. And to this day when I hear the piano lick from "Walking In Memphis" I'm back in the passenger's seat of my first love's white Ford truck. We all have these songs. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! And the longer I live the better I understand the magnitude of their power to take me to a different place, a different time, or a different mood. It's so powerful. So when my friend Kari told me that she wept as she listened to my song "Right About Now" over and over in her car on on her way from Nashville to Wisconsin to see her sick brother a few years ago, it changed my life. I had written a song that meant something to someone other than me, and since then I've continued to put my heart into words (or at least I've attempted to). So that's who I am as a writer...just sharing little pieces of myself with the world in hopes that just maybe someone will feel something. Enjoy.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2006
Band Website: burnlounge.com/nicollegalyon
Band Members: yours truly
Influences: An unexpected phone call from a friend. The evening news. The death of a hero. The birth of an enemy. An out of nowhere, for-no-reason kiss. A watercolor sunset in my kitchen window. An answered prayer. A cadence from a Beethoven Concerto Movement. An insecurity in the mirror. A birthday without my family. An "I love you" from my dad. (These are just for starters-- but they've all brought on an original thought at some point.)
Sounds Like: Nicolle Anne Galyon
Record Label: Warner-Chappell Publishing
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Signed, Sealed, Delivered!!!

If there's anything that Nashville has taught me, it has been patience. Not to say that i've mastered the art of it, but I'm currently enrolled in Patience 101 and passing with probably about an A-/B+...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:55:00 PST

I outran Eddie George today.

Simply stated: we all have to do things in life that we just do not want to do. For some it's working a job you're not passionate about just to pay the bills. For others it's dealing with a problem co...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST

My Dixieland Delight

Sometimes I think that my day-to-day life is worthy of a reality TV show. I'm not kidding. It's not that I, Nicolle, am so remarkable that people would necessarily be compelled to watch because they...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:06:00 PST

I'm for sale.

I have been on the receiving end of some major myspace love lately. So many of you out there have either posted comments, left voicemails, sent texts, or shot me an email about my first cut and/or the...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:11:00 PST

Video killed the radio star.

In 1981 a group of executives went on an exhibition to convince record labels that they should indeed start making music videos to accompany the radio singles of their artists. They had 20 million dol...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:57:00 PST

The first cut is the sweetest

I'm a big advocate of birthdays, holidays, and, well, any day that facilitates celebration, for that matter. So as I rolled out of bed yesterday and it registered in my mind that the date was Decembe...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:25:00 PST

Dear Nicolle

While I was waiting in line at Papyrus yesterday, I found this book titled Letters to My Younger Self. It's a collection of letters penned by a slew of prominent people to themselves at an earlier st...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:27:00 PST

"The Wrath of Cooperman"

One of my old neighbor boys (and babysitting victims back in the 90's), Richard Stromberg, just sent me this message about my brother Cooper, 5, on Facebook. For those of you who know my family know t...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:19:00 PST

About Face!

If you could see me right now, you'd see me shaking my head. I'm truly bothered.As many of you know, our generation has created a stir this week due to the newest capabilities on Facebook. So MUCH hyp...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:20:00 PST

Back to School!

How do I say this? I was made for school. My heart rate spikes at the first sight of supplies in brick-and-mortar retail stores. The dozens of dozens of choices of mechanical pencils and pens makes me...
Posted by Nicolle Galyon on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:48:00 PST