The "Songs for 20 Somethings" Series features Amy Speace's "How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat", showcased through August at the Franciscanized World

    GREEN BAY, WI, August 04, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- This month's song offers some suggested navigation through life's challenges. Speace reflect that "Sally Barris and I got together at her house in Nashville one rainy afternoon a few years back to write a song. She had the title "How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat" and that was all. But it resonated with me as a kind of title for an instructional manual.

I'd learned to sail when I was young and I loved the idea of not just the sea as a metaphor for a churning internal tangle, but the boat itself, the vessel being the metaphor for the body. How to sleep in your own skin when the world around you feels unsteady. And for both Sally and me, we know that we can't learn to do this alone but with the help of some kind of 'higher power', some spiritual otherness. I learned this in my meditation practice. That to connect with something outside of my own ego, to still the mind, is the only way to get successfully through any kind of trouble, which life is just gonna bring no matter how balanced and healthy you are."

Baltimore-born singer- songwriter Speace studied classical acting in NYC after graduating with high honors from Amherst College and spent a few years carving out a life spent rushing from lower east side theater rehearsals to film and commercial auditions. She started putting her poetry to music and began appearing at local folk clubs.

She was discovered by Judy Collins in 2005, and released her debut in 2006 on Collins' Wildflower Records, "Songs For Bright Street" to rave reviews. She moved to Nashville from NYC in 2009, releasing "Land Like A Bird" on Thirty Tigers. Her song "The Weight of the World", which Judy Collins has called "one of the best political folk songs I've ever heard" was named as the #4 Folk Song of the Decade by NYC's premiere AAA radio station WFUV.

In 2013 she released "How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat," a song cycle inspired by Shakespearean characters, winning 4 stars from Mojo Magazine and a feature on NPR's "All Things Considered".

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