Tresa Jordan on the Right Track

Upon first meeting Tresa Jordan, we began talking as if we already knew each other. She has yet to reach national attention but with appearances at the CMA Festival, she is definitely on the right path. On Saturday, she participated in the BASSMaster's Tournament in which the CMA paired her up with Thad Takes.

Jordan was excited about her participation in the annual tournament, "I actually caught one of the two fish that we caught, so I was happy about that!" They completed the day with a 2.6 lb. total behind winning duo Amber Dotson [Capitol recording artist] and Paul Elias [1982 BASSMaster Champion] with 8.14 lbs and second place duo Barry Bales [Alison Krauss & Union Station] and Ken Cook with 5.14 lbs.

Sunday brought her off the lake and indoors to sign autographs in the Wrangler Exhibit Hall [located in the Nashville Convention Center]. Appearing in booths for CMT Magazine and Y'all Magazine was fun for Jordan, "It's been wonderful. I love meeting people. They really don't know who I am yet, but I think one by one meeting [them] and just talking to them about how much fun they're having."

When you listen to her first CD, you'll feel like you have met Tresa Jordan. She wrote seven of nine songs on her new compact disc and arranged a tenth. "It is extremely important. When you lived it and you can write about it, I think people can relate to it more. When you have something valid that you've actually felt and experienced."

When you listen to material from a songwriter, you tend to wonder if it was written from experience or observation. With that in mind I requested that Tresa select material from the project that was closer to her personally. "Dancing On Daddy's Feet" for sure because that's a song about me and my Dad, of course. And then "Sweetwater Road" is about my parents. They had a difficult time getting married when they were young. It was tough for them. They gave up a lot for us. So that's a special special song. "Beyond The Blue" is a special song too. That was what kind of helped me through therapeutically with the divorce. Kind of like my healing writing that song and kind of being able to move on again. Those three, not that they're the best, but they are probably the closest to me personally."

One of the songs that should catch a lot of attention, because of it's lending itself well to the father-daughter dance at weddings, will be "Dancing On Daddy's Feet." Jordan hopes that others will relate. "I think it will speak to a lot of different people. I think everybody's either dreamed of that or done that or seen someone do it. It's a special moment or experience that happens to you when you hear that song, that it's kind of like I do that or I've done that. I think people will like it, I hope they do. I think songs about family are just so wonderful. I actually didn't even write this song knowing that it would go on a record eventually one day. I wrote it just because a co-writer {Robin Scoffield, who also recently had a cut with Josh Groban, "When You Say You Love Me"] and I started talking one day. I said I just had one of the most wonderful experiences I ever had, because we were just talking about our families and growing up out in the county [about] things that we did. She asked, 'well what else did you do?' I said did you ever dance on your Daddy's feet? She said 'oh my gosh.' And I said 'are you thinking what I'm thinking?' Yeah, yeah let's write let's write! So we started writing about it and it was wonderful." [Co-writing credits also to Bobby Carmichael for "Dancing On Daddy's Feet"]