Release Date: September 20th, 2024
Just as Volume II begins with a river's call and the power of exploring what lies underneath the surface, I ended the album with the feeling I had back then. While my life was on a different course than what I had imagined, it felt like there was something still unresolved, something was missing.
Many of my songs come from my dreams. I am that type of songwriter. One of these dreams affected me for a long time. I was living in a canyon long ago and in my dream, this same man and I were in a different future life. A love that was timeless, 2 souls from the past, today and in the future. It was a timeless love.
Release Date: May 1st, 2024
If anyone has ever put you down long enough that you eventually believed them, this song and video is for you. It happened to me and I wrote the song "Believe in Me" as a reminder to believe in myself first. I want to thank the people in this video, who were brave enough to write down the personal messages they were told or had believed about themselves in the past as they appear in this video (they were not scripted). This was a transformational day for all of us and I thank Neilson Hubbard and Joshua Britt at Neighborhoods Apart and the entire crew for making this video so powerful.
I hope you feel it! There is power in writing it down, thinking about it and then tearing it up to release it, then reclaiming your power and the belief you have in yourself.
Release Date: November 10th, 2023
I used to work with mostly men in Information Technology (IT). I remember starting a new job and I wondered why I never got invited for lunch on Friday's by the men I worked with. After a few months, I finally got up the nerve to ask why they never asked me to come to lunch with them. I was told that I wouldn't want to go to the place they were going for lunch. I asked him where they were going. He immediately turned beat red and responsed with air quotes "the ballet around the corner". I'm sure the guys I used to work with there, would be pretty amused knowing that they made it into this song putting all the men that do this on notice. I sure had to kiss my share of frogs before I met my prince as I explained to my co-writers Aaron Lacombe and Jeff Cohen.
What a fun time we had writing this one! After all, I love men and this song is not a song meant to put anyone down, it simply let's them know that "I know what you're doin' when you go out with the guys"...."if you think you're foolin' me, you better think again"
This video is the live song recording in Nashville, Tennessee at Skinny Elephant Studios!
Release Date: October 6th, 2023
We all have to find our own way in life. My parents both told me that and modelled it! My Dad left the town where his family of 15 siblings lived and my Mom left her job in the federal government, to be entrepreneurs in an English town 2 hours away. I saw first hand what it takes to carve your own path and find your own way. My Mom modeled classiness and with my Dad’s love of fast machines and racing and Cadillacs, this attitude is deeply woven in this song about carving your own path, taking control of your life and going for it…AND doing it with class.
Having grown up in the pits at the racetrack and being the first born (yes, my Dad got a girl and not a boy…so I grew up with cars, fishing, hunting etc.), I was a bit of a tom-boy. My Mom is super classy, she loves fashion, clothes and is graceful, she taught me that you CAN be a classy car-chick, ’break the mold, take control” and live life on your own terms.
It takes nerve to chase your dreams, the secret is to do it with class and women are strong enough to do anything when the “prize is worth the pain”, every mother out there can relate to that statement. So don’t wait to take charge of your life because ’just like that car, it’s gonna fly by girl, so hit the gas and enjoy the ride” ..on the racetrack of course!
Release Date: August 18th, 2023
This song is a call to every couple to find a way back to the days when you were “tangled up in sheets” at 3 A.M. Time changes people, and it may seem as though all is lost at times, however, love grows and becomes something new and you realize that you don’t want to go back to that because your love is deeper now.
This song takes you on a journey of longing for the way you used to be when love was young and new. As time goes on, every couple goes through different seasons. While you may long for “The We, We Used To Be”, when you look at your relationship you realize that your love is deeper than the couple you used to be and just “as the planets circle the sun” gravity does pull you back together and always “’Cause deep down, I love you more than I did way back when, we were the we, we used to be”.
Release Date: July 21st, 2023
If you’ve ever worked at a job where you can’t wait to leave it for whatever reason, this song is for you. Maybe you are planning your next career move and are just waiting for the day when you can tell your boss “I’m Outta Here”? I used to LOVE my job. I remember thinking some days that I couldn’t believe I was getting paid so well to do what I loved. Sure, there were stressors but overall, I was creating systems that helped people. I worked on many great projects and to this day still have such pride in what I helped create and how I helped people.
This song is the story of one of the few managers I had in all of my years of working where I couldn’t wait for the day I could leave. I moved to a smaller apartment and started saving my money so I could quit my job and do music full time. Telling her “I’m Outta Here” felt so great and 10 years later still does! I hope she hears this song on the radio somehow and realizes that she did me a favour. Without her being the way she was, I would have never felt the need to leave, and look at me now 10 years later! I traded in my high heels and business suit for a guitar and cowboy boots and haven’t looked back!
Release Date: June 9th, 2023
My Dad is a Barber and hair stylist. We had a family business in the small town of Tweed, Ontario. Claude’s Hair Salon was a gathering place where locals would sit in his chair, share their stories, and receive a rejuvenating haircut! The Barber Shop was it’s own world to me and the salon still holds that charm for me to this day.
I wrote this song when my Dad had been a barber for 50 years. He continued to cut hair for many more years and while he has put the clippers away, he is still an important part of the town of Tweed. This song is in honour of not only my Dad but all those in the hair profession. With a tap of the hand on the back of the chair, signifying that it was your turn to “Come Sit In My Chair”
Release Date: September 30th, 2022
This song celebrates friendship! Especially the special connection women have with our BFFs! Slather on the sun tan lotion and get ready to celebrate your time away with your girlfriends. I started “Girls’ Weekend” when I was getting ready for one of my own Girls’ Weekend Getaways. I love my gal pals and time away with them is really special. We always laugh and cry and get into all kinds of shenanigans!
But most of all we build each other up! I asked my girlfriend and fellow singer-songwriter Patti Dixon from Austin to write it with me. We have a great time when we are together and I wanted that gal pal camaraderie to come through in the song. Given what a great singer Patti is, I asked her to contribute some background vocals to the song. So add this one to your pool playlist, get your girlfriends together, crank it up, sing along and be the Queen Bees you are!
Release Date: June 1st, 2022
I met Fabio at one of the songwriting meetings I hosted. He has a certain style that I thought would suit a party song. I asked him if he would write a song with me about the party we are all going to have with our friends once we able. I was thinking in particular of my group of friends back home and to those X’s I had to move so many times on the calendar and what a party we are going to have. “One Big Party” celebrates the anticipation of the fun time ahead reconnecting with friends round a fire and howling at the moon! I can’t wait to be able to come to where you live and celebrate with you! Who are you planning to reconnect with?
Release Date: April 1st, 2022
And just when you feel that you are falling and you aren’t sure how you will get yourself out of a funk, something happens. A friend calls, someone does something kind and it means everything. I was contacted by Dr. Paul Wong who sent me a poem that he had written about that very subject. How does one keep going? How does one find joy amidst sadness and grief. He asked me if I would work with him to create a theme song for his upcoming conference on personal meaning. I had met Dr. Wong years earlier at a conference that I attended with my “Honey”.
So we met and I took some of his other poems and writings and we created a theme song for the conference. I loved this song so much, that I asked Dr. Wong, if I could make a few changes and create my own version to include my belief in the healing power of music. The power of a song to heal a broken heart and to take us out of our depths. Dr.Wong had the line “we are made of stardust” and our souls “can reach beyond the stars” and those lines resonated deeply for me given my interest in astrophysics and my work as a healer. We all must dig deep to find what we are truly made of, to “hear that small voice whisper” to our forgotten souls and give us hope.
Release Date: January 19th, 2022
As all of us Canadians know, we have had extended and multiple periods of restrictions and lock downs and I am so fortunate to have been locked down with my partner. We would look at each other and say, “I guess we’re gonna have to Hunker Down again”.
When I’d talk to friends on the phone, I heard about how their partners were helping them through. How they became closer as a couple. I felt the same but after an extended time inside, we were all going stir crazy. I knew so many people who had kids at home and were desperate to get away for a much-needed getaway. We all started planning at home date nights. That was the start of the idea for this song.
I asked Dan Washburn to write this song with me and as we were talking about it, we didn’t want to limit the song to the pandemic, even though it was the spark that started the idea. Before the pandemic, we have both had times in our lives when we either couldn’t afford to go out or couldn’t find daycare, so that became the inspiration for “Hunker Down”.
Release Date: January 15th, 2021
And then there is the desire to return back to ourselves after the long cold winter and after hearing the coyote howling, calling for us, the lone wolf. We are humans and need connection. It has been hard for all of us not being able to connect with others, wanting to be home with our families, our parents, our children, our grand children, our friends. I placed this song here to express that desire and need and the hope that one day, we would all be able to go “home”.
I rarely record songs that I haven’t had a hand in writing myself. I was in Italy on a songwriting retreat at a villa in Tuscany. We had a performance night planned at the Villa. My songwriting friend Joy Newby was also at the retreat. As I was getting ready, she knocked on the door and told me that she had just finished a song she had been working on for years and asked if I would sing it at the show that evening. When she played the song for me, I fell in love with it and we performed it together that night.
After that evening, I found I would wake up in the morning with that song in my head. It is a song that mirrors the feeling of wanting to go home ending a long period of being away from loved ones and the isolation that one feels in winter. With all that is going on in the world with the pandemic, I felt it is a song that is needed at this particular moment as we face “a long cold winter” and we all have the desire to be with those we love.
Release Date: July 30th, 2021
Lightning embodies that moment when love takes a hold of you and there is no going back. This James Bond-esque song captures the electricity of the kiss of a lifetime. I remember the moment when I knew my life was “forever changed”.
This song is about the exact moment of the kiss that changed it all!
That magical moment when you know, you are swirling in the clouds, you have been seized by a force and heat enters your veins that is stronger than both of you. You feel “re-arranged” because of this person, you expand and it is wonderful.
Release Date: October 23, 2020
As 2020 rolled on, we were not only dealing with our world being turned upside-down and forever changed by the global pandemic, my neighbours to the south in the America were in much political upheaval, globally there were protests for climate change, fires in the streets to combat racism and revolution. It became very clear that things will never go back to the way they were and nor should they.
I wrote and released the most political song I have ever written about my desire to remember that while we have differences, we are all ONE Human Race against a virus, against climate change and racism. I believe the entire world needs to work together with more love, kindness and respect to find a way forward. There is no reset.
I recorded this song in June with the band in Nashville coming out of the first wave and before a vaccine was known. It was filmed by Joshua Britt. I recorded my vocal from my studio in Leamington and recorded myself singing it. We released a live studio video with the single and it falls nicely after “Red Sky” as a call for action.
Release Date: October 14th, 2019
We didn’t get very far into the year 2020 before we were all reminded how quickly life can change. Not only our own individual personal lives, but the first time in over a century our entire planet changed. Our whole world turned upside-down! The bottom fell out and each one of us felt like we were falling, not knowing where we were going to land.
“Red Sky” was released as a single in Oct 2019 along with the music video shot by skydivers in Kentucky. I feel it accurately describes what I have felt in the past in my life where I haven’t been sure how I’d get through, but somehow by holding onto my children, I did! Children rely on us to keep them safe but they give us a reason to keep going, a reason to survive.
Release Date: August 20th, 2018
When I worked full-time, my children would often call me and leave me a message because I was always in meetings. I was talking to a trucker at a gas station in Austin Texas and he got a phone call and it was his daughter. She was just getting home from school and video chatted with him. I made a comment that it must be hard being away from home so much and he said “Nah! I’m always there for them when they need me. Life is good!” Off he went with his coffee back out to the Open Road.
Release Date: October 12, 2018
I was visiting my Grandmama’s grave in January when I was a teen. I used to wear large glasses. It started to snow and somehow two huge snowflakes found their way onto my eyelash. Since then, I have always believed that a snowflake on my eyelash is a kiss falling from heaven. Thanks to Beth Nielsen Chapman for adding her beautiful voice to this song.
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Someone asked me to describe my feelings for my sweetheart. It is so difficult to describe love. I told them that the first time I don’t feel the need to have a backup plan and I didn’t have a suitcase in the closet ready to go in case I wanted to leave. I know I am finally safe in his arms.
Release Date: June 21, 2019
I had to kiss my share of frogs before I found my life partner. In face, he was right there the whole time. Our lives had weaved in and out of each others paths and I believe that I needed to kiss those frogs to recognize my prince. We had both been in challenging tumultuous relationships and recognize that having peace in love is a good thing.
Little did I know that my long time high school friend would end up being the love of my life.
This is the true story of the start of our journey. Lucky for us, it continues.
Release Date: October 12th, 2018
When I became a Honey, I wanted a Honey song! I came in one day and I said my usual "Honey, I'm Home". I was feeling a bit frisky and I just said "Hey Honey Honey, I AM HOME". That same weekend, I watched the show Shall We Dance with Richard Gere. There is a scene where he comes up the elevator with a rose to take his wife to a dance and I thought of how much us women love a man in a suit and how much a man loves a woman in a red dress.
I was driving in my car on my way home one day and this entire song came to me all at once. I pulled over on the side of the road and recorded this song on my phone. It was a few days before I was headed to Nashville for a recording session. I didn't even figure out the guitar parts or anything, I sang them the song slapping my leg and singing them what I heard for the guitar parts. We went into the studio and this is what came out! I am so so happy with it!
Release Date: February 10th, 2019
I wrote this song for my sweetie and I. We talked about getting married and decided not to. It took me a while to work through my feelings about not getting married, but in the end, I realized that it’s really all about the commitment you make to each other, not the church ceremony.
True love is just bigger than all of that.
Release Date: July 18th, 2019
Written in Emmetten, Switzerland on vacation and realized how stressed I was. St. Jakob Church was just down the street and the bells rang every 15 minutes morning and night. I would wake up in the night and not be able to get back to sleep because I would think of my full calendar and all the things I needed to do.
Release Date: May 10th, 2018
No matter how old you get, you always think of your Mom when you have challenges in life.
As a mother, I wish I really could heal all wounds.
Release Date: October 19th, 2019
We all have experienced times sitting in the doctor’s office waiting for test results. In my case, there happened to be a picture of Marilyn Monroe on the wall. I thought about how Marilyn had a smile on her face no matter what was going on in her life. I was putting up a good front in front of everyone, but I was really scared. I am one of the lucky ones.
Release Date: August 17th, 2019
As a parent, you do the best you can for your children. Every parent wants their children’s lives to be happier, healthier and better than theirs was. But it isn’t that simple. No matter how hard you try, history has a way of repeating itself sometimes. The train goes off the track. And all you can do is hope your family’s roots are strong enough to hold.
Release Date: September 28th, 2019
This song was inspired by conversations with a soldier and the wife of another soldier. This is real life and what real love looks like for people dealing with trauma. Remember that you are not alone. There are people there to hold your hand and stay with you through it all.
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