Butterfly rising II
We’ve been tracking the country and western pro-life single, Butterfly. Get background here and here.
I checked in with Jennifer Hicks of the band Bluefield over the weekend and got this report:
I can’t believe your timing! I am right now cutting and pasting quotes off your blog to send to radio!…
We are still hard at it. Our spins are up, but we’re not quite out of the sixties [on the C&W charts]. Hoping to crack into fiftes next week….
Right now we’re holding steady. We just need something to give us a push forward. Kansas City was HUGE for us this week, giving us more than 25 spins – most being morning and daytime spins – which is just huge! Many stations aren’t so brave as to play it in the daytime! Kansas City has jumped on board in a big way, even creating a slot for us on a show there they have coming up. Hopefully other stations will take note and step up, too.
You can help by continuing to call your local C&W radio station and asking it to play Butterfly. Also, if you haven’t downloaded your 99¢ iTunes or Amazon copy of Butterfly, now’s the time. Listen to Butterfly on Bluefield’s MySpace page.

Kansas City was HUGE for us this week, giving us more than 25 spins – most being morning and daytime spins – which is just huge! Many stations aren’t so brave as to play it in the daytime!
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Why is playing this song a form of bravery?
Is it scary?
Nashville mass production pop. Instrumentally uninspired. Vocals bland. Lyrics predictably contrived. An insipid ballad. How this dull piece could be considered worthy of air time let alone be considered within the country genre is beyond me.
Laura 1:51: Why is playing this song a form of bravery?
Is it scary?
The message is counter-cultural in a way. So they want to be sure to find the right audience to begin with and let it fly from there. It’s a beautiful song!
Country music is all about emotion and feelings, right? This one fits right in!
I agree with Sally that the song is kind of too banal to take the world by storm. But…they really are one of the prettiest pairs of singer/songwriters I’ve ever seen, and they’ve got decent voices. If they hooked up with a good producer, they’d probably be on top in no time.
“Butterfly” to “Iron Man” – quite a range.
this comment is for sally:
oh, what a beautiful world it would be if people who see only the bad in something or someone, would just TRY to see something good…..
first of all, let me say, sally, that after nearly 20 years in the music business i am more than thick skinned so this response is not because i found your comment offensive professionally. i found it offensive for your lack of humaneness. are you really so bitter that you choose to tear something to shreds instead of possibly seeing some good that it could do? is your opinion of a songs’ production more important to you than the potential power of it’s message?
we have been playing butterfly all over the country for the last several weeks for all kinds of people & never heard a response such as yours. perhaps because they don’t share your opinion or perhaps some do, they just have very fine manners. upon playing the song, we’ve seen many tears & been touched by so many who have felt compelled to share their stories with us of how they related to it. some heartwarming, some heartbreaking~ but all truly emotionally inspired.
jill isn’t posting about butterfly to solicit ‘music critiques’. she posts about the song to help spread awareness & change. in the short time it’s been released, we have now had four different women contact us to let us know the song changed their mind about having their planned abortions. many more have shared their remorse of having one & find the song to be healing & hopeful to others. it is more than we could have hoped for & we are just getting started.
i’ve never been so excited or passionate about anything in my life than getting this song heard. if i never become famous or never win a grammy or garner any musical accolades, it really doesn’t matter. i have joy knowing that a song i was part of made a difference & saved some lives. that’s what i am going to focus on~ not production flaws or an imperfect vocal or lyric.
most sincerely,
jennifer hicks