Nashville Arts Magazine

Poetry | Spring Fever

by Rebecca Brown

I was writing verse by the time I could read and was singing it even before then—from TV jingles to Nat King Cole. A Texas girl, I left home at 18 and began performing my own songs as chick singer in a hippie band. After some time, and with two daughters to raise, I abandoned the life of a starving artist and made a good career in the business end of the music business in Nashville. I left the corporate world a few years ago to again pursue my art, thanks to a patron of the arts—my husband. Today I write, sing, paint a little, and play a lot—with the joys of my life, my daughters and grandsons. Some say I’ve started my artist career way too late in life. I say I come from a long line of late bloomers. www.Beckabrown.com

Click here to listen to Rebecca Brown sing her lyric “Spring Fever”