Hello friends, I'm EmilyElizabeth. I'm a singer/songwriter/storyteller, and I'm thrilled to be able to announce my newest project: "The Other Side." The Story Behind the Stories Three years ago, I started to collect stories inspired by people I encountered - whether on the bus, down the street, or elsewhere. I wove my tales using fact and fiction (and then a little more fiction) to create five characters, each one featured on this album, who live in the neighborhood of Riverside. As you encounter each face, each distinctly different set of eyes and ears and hands, you may even find a story that reminds you of your own. These eleven songs are the stories of waking up one morning and realizing that this span of time called childhood has slipped from your grasp; the story of looking in your grandfather's eyes and seeing, for the first time, a person with depth and width who has experienced all of their love and loss, and smiles without any trace of ignorance at all. It is the story of how our cathedrals, full of echoes, became empty, just like tombs...and it is the story of our moments of choosing - choosing to be strong, choosing to be true, choosing to leave that well-worn path for something far more challenging. The concept of using a fictional story to tell deeper truths is certainly not a novel one - from the very first storyteller who gathered her audience around the first campfire to weave her tall tales, we have used the magic of storytelling to communicate and connect with an underlying reality, a method through which to view that enigmatic, ambiguous "other side."