 When I first met Emily her style was singer-songwriter sad slow acoustic Her new stuff just it's a slap in the face. She's battled a lot of demons. Everyone has a dark side It's pretty Mind-blowing that I'm still here I've always been super attracted to the guitar Like everything about it. My hand was kind of made for that You know, like when I put my hands on a guitar, it just makes sense ever since I was little, you know It's been like my secret thing It happens like three or four songs in the set I'll close my eyes and the light hits my eyelids It feels like whatever gave me my talent is shining on me. And for some reason it looks like Stevie Ray Vaughan My ultimate dream would be to leave a legacy, you know, I want to live forever and to be known for Adding something good to people's lives Anything that I do focus on it's so intense. I have such an addictive personality like that So it does make sense that I fell into an addiction But I never thought alcohol would be that addiction I knew that I wanted to be a musician But my life was holding me back from that and I felt so stuck going down in flames because I drink my inhibitions all Away and all the things we've gotten over they tap me on the shoulder. So, honey Won't you pour it down the drain? Looking back this is a very depressed person It's weird because I was ashamed of it, but I also felt like it was what I was supposed to do I mean, I have a poster of Ryan Adams right there It's even more crazy that I used to do this, but I used to actually Raise a shot glass when I was alone to that poster, you know Because I thought that it was the way to be a badass musician in this weird business It's like you have to be both super egotistical and insecure at the same time Which just makes for people. It was such a just black hole My whole mentality was focused on when am I gonna get this next drink? One day I just woke up so confused. She looked like she had never seen me Ever she was convulsing in her eyes or rolled in the back of her head and foam was coming out of her mouth I freaked out EMS showed up firefighter showed up cop showed up. It was terrible I had some seizures in my cat scan like in the machine I had a seizure because there was blood in my brain. I got a call I think from her mom saying that they were having to do emergency brain surgery because the blood had moved They had to go in and drain the blood that was on top of my brain From my seizures. It was the first time that I laid it out on the table and said if you don't stop drinking I can't be with you anymore and I said, I know I need some help and so a Couple of days after that I went to rehab When she first got sober there was about six months Where she didn't write she was still play music, but she Had writer's block. I could just tell that it was eating her alive I mean there were times when I didn't even feel like I was worthy enough to touch my guitar Because I felt like I had betrayed it I was afraid that I wouldn't have any creative flow that my brain or my mind and my insecurities would stop that Creativity from coming out of me when in reality it did just the opposite my songwriting process before I got sober was very Emotional and very messy I don't know how to describe it, but it wasn't rock like it is today and then out of blues Came out of left field This is the first song that I wrote completely sober The title means It's okay to feel it's okay to have the blues There's danger in what she does. It's not like she Stopped drinking and and just softened up and became you know air supply or something It was an illusion that alcohol was the catalyst to bringing my creativity out of me now Like I can sit down and I can have a calculated approach to it Emily will never stop she'll never stop playing music. She'll never stop Reaching for the next thing. I want to be the core of a new genre. I daydream about my ambitions and my goals and Sometimes I do wonder if my ambitions are too big, but I've always wanted to leave a legacy. That's undeniable Do you know an uncharted musician whose music deserves to be shared with the world? Email artists at who is uncharted