On A Good Day

Album: Reckless Thoughts (2023)
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  • Maia Sharp pulled inspiration from her own life for Reckless Thoughts, including this song about a woman who climbs a slippery slope towards healing after a breakup (Sharp and her wife split in 2018).

    "'On A Good Day' is cautiously celebrating progress and any spells of optimism after a breakup," she told Songfacts in a 2023 track-by-track interview.

    "My co-writer, Kim Richey, came in with the verse chord progression which sounds like a conveyor going around and around, the perfect palette for our story where our character is still working on it but not quite holding steady yet. Some days feel like she's getting a handle on things and some days she slides back. But even the slide-back days are getting better and she keeps proving to herself she can survive them."
  • Co-writer Kim Richey is a country singer-songwriter who co-wrote Trisha Yearwood's 1996 chart-topper "Believe Me Baby (I Lied)." Yearwood was also the first to record the Sharp-penned "Standing Out In A Crowd."
  • The self-produced Reckless Thoughts is the California native's second album since moving to Nashville. It was mostly recorded at Nashville's Resistor Studio, whose owner/engineer, Joshua Grange, also played electric guitars and lap steel throughout the album.

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