Amy Speace “Weight of the World”
Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Amy Speace’s song “Weight of the World,” from her forthcoming album The Blue Rock Session, which is set for release on Friday November 21. The album was engineered and mixed by Hayes Howard was the studio engineer and mastered by Alex McCullough.
“Weight of the World” is Amy Speace on guitar and vocals.
This video was created by Jamey Wood. Scenes walking down a lone pathway, Amy playing the guitar and other footage (withheld so as not to spoil the video as it unfolds) results in getting the message across in a pure form. This song is a girl remembering her older brother Michael as a kid with a promising future in sports before things took a turn and he had to go off to the unimaginable realities of war. She kept a box of his letters under her bed that she’d read under the covers by flashlight at night: “I was trying not to read between the lines…. it doesn’t seem fair that an innocent boy should have to carry the weight of the world.” Not his younger sister either. Amy’s vocals hit heights with this openly vulnerable and empathetic gently performed folk song.
As Amy says about this song, “‘Weight of the World’ was written with Jon Vezner and Jud Caswell and recorded by Judy Collins on her 2009 album Paradise. It was a hidden track on my own The Killer In Me but I’d never properly released it.”
Find more information and details here on her website: http://www.amyspeace.com/
