Gave my Sad Bastard Songs playlist a much needed update today with songs from @mypoliticmusic.bsky.social @rebeccaportermusic.bsky.social @willpayneharrison.bsky.social @vanplating.bsky.social and more!

Listen here: open.spotify.com/playlist/3vX...

Is @vanplating.bsky.social a Nickelback fan?! #podcast #thebostonchrisshow #musicpodcast #interview #foryou #songwriter #nickelback

Singer/songwriter @vanplating.bsky.social chose Lucinda Williams, Jeff Buckley, June Carter Cash & Dolly Parton on her Mt. Rushmore! #podcast #thebostonchrisshow #musicpodcast #interview #foryou #songwriter #mtrushmore

@vanplating.bsky.social is my #podcast guest this week! Here's her NEW single! #thebostonchrisshow #musicpodcast #interview #foryou #podcast #songwriter

being a fan is awesome.

Highly recommend fangirling over anyone and anything that matters to you.

time to move on

time to get goin’

ugh leaving here always happens too quick

blackberry mountain

Love waking up here

snapshots 📸 from last week in Texas—
🏠 house concert Glen Rose
🦕Hiking in Dino Valley State Park
🥃Pre-soundcheck wandering at Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas
🪗Songs in a former saloon in East Texas

Spring break begins

Texas, I 💛 you.

In fact, I love you so much I’m sending you a loveletter 9 songs long starting in about a week from now 🤩

Comment with a 🎻 if you’re excited for new music!!

📢 Follow along, and tag someone who needs to know 🙌🏼

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my friends at the longest continuous running bar in Dallas. I swapped songs in a former saloon & speakeasy in Quitman Texas and communed with the ghosts of the Wild West—sleeping in the same room Bonnie and Clyde used to hide out in during prohibition
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Last week in Ft Worth-Glen Rose-Dallas-Quitman, Tx was a tornado of memories I’ll always hold onto-

I played songs in a cozy living room in Ft Worth, hiked 7 miles in Dino Valley State park, wrote a song in a farm house in Glen Rose, hollered OBC melodies & fiddled w/

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dang! Where from??

Van Plating Anywhere You Can Find Music

🎧 Stream Orange Blossom Child now
💬 Drop a 🌿 in the comments if you’ve got deep Southern roots—or if you just love good storytelling in music!
📢 Tag a friend who needs to hear this!

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shaped who I am. From cosmic country to raw folk-rock, every track tells a story of home, reinvention, and what it means to belong. Let me take you behind the music…
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Behind the Music: Orange Blossom Child 🌿🎶

This album is my love letter to Florida—the wild, untamed, sun-drenched place that raised me. Orange Blossom Child isn’t just a collection of songs; it’s the sound of cypress swamps, orange groves, and the deep Southern roots that
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I already like it and he didn’t pay me to say that

here’s something that annoys me a little every time I see it —- any post that’s tagged as the “lazy girl”way to do literally anything.

girl. you’re DOING something, that’s not lazy. stop diminishing the effort you put in.

end rant.

yes it’s insulting. yes it’s dumb. does it help? eeehhh mgshdhsjdhshdjx

Women's History Month and You The most wonderful time of the year (????)

new from me at don't rock the inbox - i think we all know that women's history month is kind of dumb but a lot of people still do women's history month things so i felt compelled to once again argue that...it's dumb www.dontrocktheinbox.com/p/womens-his...

it might still be there! sadly since I’m on musician hours I didn’t really get to visit anything during the day—the one day off I had I used up hiking in Dino valley! It was gorgeous!

😍 yay!

If Y’ALL took photos or vids from the shows this week please do send them to me—I never get to capture shows when I’m traveling solo 💔 (the whole one pair of hands thing) and I’d love to share our moments with the greater community—love you all!

📸 corner of Mustang & Grace in downtown Glen Rose Tx

Headed home on a jet plane back to Florida and my sweet tribe. My heart is full. Thankful I get to live this life. Not a single moment do I take for granted. I’m wringing out every drop of goodness while I tread this ball of dirt.

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You literally have to be within 45 of my house while I AM IN TEXAS 😭

Fort Worth tonight!

Dallas Saturday!

Quitman Sunday!

Texas fam I can’t wait to see you!

bad news for everyone:

I think all the core work I’ve been adding in at the gym lately has made me louder

I like noisy records
I like intentionally loose records
I like records that breathe
that you can FEEL were made by human hands
records that take you to into the room, into the moment with them

DALLAS 3/8/25 🎶🎻 really looking forward to coming back to Texas