My latest project, The Breakdown of a Breakup, is an incredibly personal album. It is basically the result of me pouring out my soul after a 20 year relationship (10 years of marriage) came to an abrupt end.

It took quite a bit of time to process it all & after about 6 months...

My latest project, The Breakdown of a Breakup, is an incredibly personal album. It is basically the result of me pouring out my soul after a 20 year relationship (10 years of marriage) came to an abrupt end.

It took quite a bit of time to process it all & after about 6 months I was able to write about it. Each of the songs helped me to really put it all into place and get a bit of perspective. It was as though each song was a rung on a ladder & helped to lift me out of a very dark place.

The album opens with, “Love Wouldn’t Lie To Me,” a song I wrote prior to my honeymoon nearly 10 years ago. I never fully realized the depth of it until I performed not long after my breakup & I was barely able to get through the song.

"I've tried to make it make some sense
How it came and how it went
It's still the same damn consequence
Gone, gone, gone”

“Emily” is a song to the other woman. I believed at the time I wrote it in sympathy, but with a bit of water under the bridge, I see my feelings were far more complicated than I had realized.

"Emily
I can almost see you down there
On your knees
So desperately
Wanting to please
And so you open nice & wide
And let him come inside"

Every song felt like a letter to myself & really helped me to understand why I was feeling so incredibly sad. When I wrote “Beautiful Lie” I had spent the better part of that day roaming around my house & being really angry with myself for not being able to pull it together. It was only after a very late night of writing B.L. & listening to it that I was able to process the feelings and put them away. This song is a snapshot of our lives together from the moment we met till the moment we parted.

"A matinee wings of desire
And from that day we just went higher
Two songbirds perched on a wire
And off we did fly"

Thanks for taking this journey with me from dark to light. Please keep an eye out for my upcoming post as I walk you through the next phase of the breakup.

Listen to and buy Terry's album The Breakdown of a Breakup here.

Established singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Terry Radigan, has been praised by the likes of Billboard, Rolling Stone, People Magazine and Mademoiselle, among others. A prolific songwriter, Radigan has had her songs recorded by powerhouses Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Anuna, City High, Vinyl Pinups and many more.

Radigan released The Breakdown of a Breakup (Catherine The Great Music), this Valentine’s Day (oh, the irony). The album chronicles Radigan’s own journey after her twenty-year relationship came to an abrupt end, taking the listener through her denial, sorrow, anger, and the final phase of empowerment and moving on.