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Katie Herzig Free My Mind Wasting Time Daisies And Pews Soon after finishing her acclaimed 2008 album Apple Tree, Colorado-born, Nashvillebased singer-songwriter Katie Herzig received a fateful phone call. I sat down to paint one day I hadn t painted in years then I got a ca. more »ll asking me to write a song for the Sex and the City movie, she says. So I put down my paintbrush and haven t painted since! What she did instead, as one assignment led to another, was write music for numerous films and television shows, and in the process, find a surprising and exciting direction for her new album, The Waking Sleep, her first release on Marion-Lorraine Records/Mercer Street Records. I was trying new things, says Herzig, getting outside of what I would normally do as an artist. It was really fun and invigorating to use samples and build tracks digitally. I loved creating like that, and it really allowed me more freedom, because I was doing somethi ....