About Me and the Blog


I grew up in a little southern Indiana town, where I discovered my two passions; horses and music. While I was in college, I decided to kick off this blog after participating in February Album Writing Month. This was initially a challenge for me to write 100 songs in one year and turned into a journey years in the making. 
After college, I was on craiglist looking for guitar lessons and came across a local artist searching for band members. Of course, I knew that I was coloring outside of the industry lines, but I sent him an email asking if he'd like to write together and the rest is history. We wrote together for 4 years, he cut a few of our tunes, and we wrote for another local artist. In 2015, after months of our friends asking why we weren't a thing yet, we finally gave in and admitted we had more than writing chemistry.




Bluebird Cafe Open Mic 2019

We moved to Nashville in 2017, continued to pursue our musical interests, and got married in 2019. After several years of big city life, we traded in the hustle and bustle for something a little slower. We moved to our farm a little over an hour outside of Nashville to start the next chapter! Although the gardens and the critters keep us busy, we do hit our little studio from time to time to work on new tunes! Who knows what we will come up with next! 

So come back often for new tunes, random ramblings, and all that jazz. As mentioned, Just Keep Writing is the Journey of an Aspiring Songwriter. There will be doozies. But, maybe, there will be some interesting ones as well. 

-Chelsey Layton