Steven Tyler still recalls the first time he ever heard his new single performed by the writer, and how it was pretty much love at first listen. He was hanging out in Nashville with his songwriter/producer friend, Marti Frederiksen, and Marti was booked to sing in a writer’s round at the world famous Bluebird Café. Steven says, “I didn’t know what I was gettin’ into, but I walked in and it was music in the round, which was foreign to me because there’s no such thing in the rest of the country. I’ve never experienced such a wonderful way for new musicians to express themselves, or even a bunch of old musicians, like me and Marti.”
Steven joined Marti in the round to sing “Dream On” and “Jaded,” and he says, “Right across from me was this girl that sang this song called, ‘Love Is Your Name’, and her name was Lindsey Lee, and she sang it so sweetly and beautiful that it made me cry.”
Eventually when Steven began to work on his debut country album, he knew he had to record “Love Is Your Name.”
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“Well, as the story goes, we were lookin’ for somethin’ to do, and I was hangin’ out with Marti Frederiksen, ‘cause the band was passin’ through, and so Marti said, ‘I’m playing tonight at a club called ‘The Bluebird’, why don’t you come down and we’ll both, we’ll do ‘Jaded’, and you can play ‘Dream On’, and I thought, OK. I didn’t know what I was gettin’ into, but I walked in and it was music in the round, which was foreign to me because there’s no such thing in the rest of the country. I’ve never experienced such a wonderful way for new musicians to express themselves, or even a bunch of old musicians, like me and Marti. So, we did ‘Dream On’ and we did ‘Jaded’, and right across from me was this girl that sang this song called, ‘Love Is Your Name’, and her name was Lindsey Lee, and she sang it so sweetly and beautiful that it made me cry.”