music
After first releasing five singles, my debut album, GOLDEN GIRL, is out NOW! My music is available on all streaming platforms, including:
Apple Music
Spotify
Bandcamp
ReverbNation
You can also buy the CD, either through Bandcamp or at various record stores. Check that out!
My CD release show will be on Saturday, August 19, from 9-11pm at the Aster Cafe. (See my find me page.)
I started recording the songs on my upcoming album in late 2021 with fellow musicians and mentors Ryan Smith (of Soul Asylum and The Melismatics) and Mark Wade (of The Melismatics and The Mood Swings), and with my son, Jack Strand, on drums.
I’m lucky enough to be part of the Singer/Songwriter Songwriting Challenge on Facebook. Thanks to that songwriting community’s songwriting prompts and encouragement, I’ve now written 80 songs and counting.
I also play guitar and a little keyboard and do some vocals in local bands here in Minneapolis, including ones set up through Twin Town Guitars. Performance dates are always on my Find Me page. My band, Dodging Potholes, also has two gigs coming up.
Please check out my YouTube channel, Mary Strand Music on Facebook, and Mary Strand Music on Instagram. And for more handy links to where you can find my music, check out my Linktree page.
Dodging Potholes!
ACT AS IF - Mary Strand © 2019
Act as if you don’t want to be set free
Tell me that it’s not just one more line
Hold me like you’ll never, ever leave me
Act as if you’re mine
I’ve known you in a thousand ways
On stormy nights and sunlit days
And even though we’ve come to this
I think I’d always miss your kiss
Life can be a game of pretend
One I thought might never end
But now when I glance back at you
I see the ghosts we’ve turned into
Act as if you don’t want to be set free
Tell me that it’s not just one more line
Hold me like you’ll never, ever leave me
Act as if you’re mine
You and I, we’ve shared big dreams
Even though we’re two extremes
I have no clue how this can go
You’re not the guy I used to know
But I’m not who I used to be
And time’s our only casualty
I gaze up at the moon above
And ask if we can still find love
I read it in your eyes and that quiver of a smile
Can’t ignore the lies; they’ve been goin’ on a while
It’s not that you’re so wrong or that I’m demanding
Did we hang on too long? Will we crash on landing?
Act as if you don’t want to be set free
Tell me that it’s not just one more line
Hold me like you’ll never, ever leave me
Act as if you’re mine