Jesse Lynn Madera - Unchained

“I’ve been moved by the song ‘Unchained’ for a decade or more, and have fantasized about recording it,” says Jesse Lynn Madera. “Unchained” will appear on her forthcoming album, Belle Sent Me. “To get finally to lay these tracks down at Plyrz Studio with Dan Navarro producing and Jim Scott at the board was more than I ever dreamed. They chose the perfect musicians for the job - great players and very cool guys. It was an honor to be there with them. We cut this song in two days, and it was mixed at the end of the 2nd day.

“I connected with this song probably because of my family’s history with depression and anxiety, and because I lived with a person who was pretty hard on me growing up. I’ve read that the way we talk to kids becomes their inner monologue when they’re adults. So I go in and out of a certain headspace and, maybe because I’m a writer, I can watch it happening in real time. I can step out of how I’m feeling and see the ways I’m being destructive. Usually it’s self-destruction, but I can also be hard to live with during those times - overly critical of myself and others. It’s fear based. I get swamped by feelings of not living up to my potential. Those feelings make me strive for the most on better days, and utterly defeat me on others.