Bethany Joy - Bethany Joy Music Thread #39: We're still pinching ourselves to make sure all of this new music wasn't just a dream!

**anything but simple** · 12-03-2008, 11:17 AM

Welcome to the 39th Bethany Joy Music Appreciation Thread

I l o v e s i n g i n g. Getting on stage...it's like reaching in to the bottom of my soul and bringing it right up. I love it.

Welcome to the Bethany Joy Music thread. As most Joie fans have come to know, Bethany Joy is not just an actress. She has many talents and one of them is being blessed with an amazing voice, and the gift of music.

In this post you will find everything you need to know about Joie's musical career thus far so you too, can appreciate her amazing talent. Once you're up to date join in on the appreciating!

I wrote my first song when I was maybe like four years old. I was always wandering around the house making things up. Back then, I learned a lot about singing from listening to Mariah Carey. I would sing to her [albums] and try and get all her riffs and stuff. I would be in my room for hours until I could get it right, it helps being an only child because I didn't have anything else to do!

The Background

2002

Bethany Joy released the limited CD Preincarnate featuring eight original tracks, all performed and written by Bethany Joy. However the CD is no longer available for purchase.
Bethany also sang a track in the 2002 movie Undercover Brother called Ebony and Ivory. Her voice was used for Denise Richard's character who was singing a duet with Eddie Griffin's character.

2004

Bethany performed another original song titled Safe at the House of Blues alongside Gavin DeGraw.
She performed a number of songs as Haley James on One Tree Hill
Joie also sung a beautiful version of the National Anthem at a few of the charity football and basketball games organised by some of the OTH cast.

2005

Joie took to the road on the One Tree Hill tour and performed many original songs including five which she has released on a new album called Come On Home. To read about the tour and find pictures visit the tour threads and to listen/watch clips of the concerts visit the tour Audio/Video thread
On April 13th Joie released a new song to her fans via her official site, called The Lonliness Is Better Near Now. She also posted the much sought after lyrics for John and Junior.
During the summer Joie revealed that she had signed with Epic Records and her first official album is due for release in early 2006!
A new song "One More Thing" was discovered online.
On Sept 14th Joie released another new song via her official site, aptly named Ophelia, as she was stuck inside waiting out hurricane Ophelia.
On November 12th Bethany Joy Lenz's official music site at sony Bethany Joy went live. Fans gained access to the full version of three new tracks... Devil Archerist, Then Slowly Grows (Come To Me), and Sunday Storm

2006

On April 28th Bethany Joy released her first official Podcast. She answered questions from fans - She does plan to release John and Junior in the future sometime but not on this album. The new album is due in October and the first single is going to be Never Gonna Be (C'mon C'mon). Podcast transcript
On December 9th, Joy updated her journal and said that her and her music producer, Ron, are full-steam-ahead writing a stage musical, and hope for it to be in some kind of production (workshops, recording, etc) by the end of 2007 at the latest.
In the magazine OK! in October, Joy said that her new CD was titled The Starter Kit and that it was an eclectic mix of music similar to Patty Griffin, Bonnie Raitt and really dramatic Fiona Apple music.
On May 6th, Joie let us know through her personal journal that she and Epic Records have parted ways due to changes in Sony Music, one of these is the change in musical direction in which the label wanted to focus on.

2007

January - Joy wrote and recorded songs for the movie Ten Inch Hero. Read more here and here.

Ten Inch Hero MySpace Mark's Mammoth Music Blog on Ten Inch Hero and talking about Joy's involvement in the music.

The TIH Myspace released 5 pictures of Joy in the studio recording her songs for the movie!

The Farrow has put up a song on his Music Myspace called All Along, featuring Joie for a movie, At the End of August, for which they recorded the song back in 2000-2001. A photo featuring Joy on the set of the movie can be seen at Farrow's personal Myspace. Go take a look and listen to the song at his Music Myspace!

2008

On May 21st, the song "Feel This" by Joy featuring Enation was released on iTunes
On September 19th, Joy performed at a USO Concert for One Tree Hill along with Enation, Kate Voegele, and Angels and Airwaves. She performed "Feel This" with Enation as well as two new songs, "The Sweetest Thing" and a duet with Amber Sweeney, "Home is Me You Are Mine"
On October 14th, Joy and Grace Potter’s song “I Want Something That I Want” was released on iTunes.
On November 5th, an EP, Mission Bell, was released on iTunes and CD Baby by Joy and Amber Sweeney under the name Everly. This EP contained 3 songs, “Home Is Me. You Are Mine.” “Little Children” and “Stars”
Everly’s MySpace
On November 14th, more songs were added to the Mission Bell EP, these include “Mrs. Scott” “Scheming Star” “Hotel Café” and “Karen’s Café”

So much of my heart is in my music. If you pay close attention to the lyrics, you can get a much better perception of who I am when my guard is down.

The Songs

Preincarnate (2002) Track Listing:

Come On Home (2005) Track Listing:

Songs from The Starter Kit (2006):

Mission Bell EP (2008):

Songs Joy sang on the OTH Tour (2005):

John & Junior
Oh God / Foolish Heart
Family Secrets
Another currently unknown song
Billy Joel's Moving Out
Go West's King of Wishful Thinking (from the movie Pretty Woman)

Songs Joy sang on OTH:

Elsewhere [Originally by Sarah Mclachlan] (in Suddenly Everything Has Changed)
Let Me Fall [Written by Unknown] (in Let The Reigns Go Loose)
When The Stars Go Blue with Tyler Hilton [Originally by Ryan Adams] (in multiple episodes)
Halo [Written by Kara Dioguardi and Matthew Gerrard] (in multiple episodes)
Feel This feat. Enation (in multiple episodes)
I Want Something That I Want with Grace Potter (in Messin’ With the Kid)
Karen’s Café (in We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me))

Misc. Joy Songs:

Safe (sung at House of Blues in 2004)
The Lonliness Is Better Near Now (released on her official site)
One More Thing(2001?)
Ophelia (released on her official site
All Along (Duet with The Farrow for an independent movie Joy was featured in, At the End of August)

Songs from Ten Inch Hero:

Songs that might be on The Starter Kit:

Patient Man
Blue Sky (Patty Griffin cover)

Songs that Joy has performed live various years

215
February Leather
Cameron
I'll Never Walk Alone
Like Crazy Girls Do
The Sweetest Thing

Joy in the recording studio for Ten Inch Hero songs.

Official CD Art:

Preincarnate:

Come On Home:

inside art

Feel This:

I Want Something That I Want:

Mission Bell:

Rule:

Before asking for the gmail account:

Before asking for the gmail account, which is an account with all the Joy songs, you have to have 50 posts on this thread. This is not to because we don't want to share songs but because we want people to show their support for Joy! She deserves it and I'm sure everyone here agress!

After you have 50 posts here, we are more than happy to give you the gmail account. You are not allowed to post the gmail account info on any official message boards, as that is how we lost our first gmail account. It is not meant that you will just download the songs and then not buy Joy's new CD once it is released, so please show your support!

Most people on this board are insane Joie fans and pretty much all have Joie's songs and are willing to share them with other Joie fans. If you want to hear Joie's songs then the best thing to do is PM one of the regular posters and ask them if they'd be willing to send you the songs. Alternatively you can post a request in this thread, but those can sometimes be missed.

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NOTE: Show your support to Joy! Downloading her music for free is nice, but please do buy her CDs when you have the chance to!

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NOTE 2: [from Caroline]
Let's stop pirates from gaining profit through Joy's hard work:

There are now 5 CDs with Joy music being sold on eBay and they are all burned. I really hate that people are making money on her music and I am afraid that once her CD is released, less people will buy it if people just copy it and sell it.

The point of sharing her music is not so you don't have to buy her CDs, the point is to appreciate it together and to get to enjoy it if you have no way to get rare CDs like Preincarnate and Come On Home. I think it's awful that people are making money on music that she has worked hard on and to add, it is illegal as far as I know! What sickens me is that some of the song names are not even correctly spelled!

So please, take a few minutes and write to eBay about this and if you don't want to do that then report these items as illegally copied because that is what they are!

Go to eBay and search for Bethany Joy Lenz. (LINK) You can report it (HERE.) I have asked around and I heard that it is in fact illegal and I have reported some and I know other posters have too but eBay staff obviously don't get it.

Resale of copyrighted works
Under the copyright laws, the owner of a particular copy of a copyrighted work is generally entitled to resell the particular copy they own. For example, if you purchase a copy of a DVD movie, you are allowed to resell that particular DVD. Copyright protection prevents you from copying the DVD movie and reselling the copies. If you have licensed the right to use a particular copyrighted item, you should review the license and consult with your attorney to determine whether you can resell the item.

Music is something that is in you. You can touch people with your music even if you're working a job at Starbucks or working a desk job.

**anything but simple** · 12-03-2008, 11:18 AM

Attention! Joy Music Campaign! Please Join!

We would want all Bethany Joy fans to gather to try and get Let Me Fall and Elsewhere released as clean versions. We also recenly found out that they might have recorded a cover song of Sheryl Crow's I Shall Believe for the show with Joy, which was sadly never played or released for her fans.

North Star Post and Sound (North Star Post and Sound) are the company who have Elsewhere and I Shall Believe listed as songs that they have recorded with Joy.

- One Tree Hill – “The First Cut is the Deepest” / Sheryl Crow
- One Tree Hill – “I Shall Believe” / Bethany Joy Lenz
- One Tree Hill – “Say Yes” / Bryan Greenberg

We are also looking into contacting Lindsay Wolfington and anyone else who might be able to do something about this. If we make some noise, the songs might be released on iTunes. Please join this campaign! I know all Joy fans would love to hear some new and old music from Joy. Thank you!

Sign the Free Joy's Music petition! Hopefully, we will get somewhere with this! Stay tuned!

Joy performed under her old name, Joie Lenz, at CBGB (CBGB.com/http://www.cbgb.com/gallery.html) June 28th 2001 (8pm). This performance used to be available at their site to listen to/watch but a bunch of them were taken down. We are working on getting more info on it!

Right now, we are waiting for more information and news on these two projects. Until then, sit back and enjoy the songs we do have. We'll be sure to keep you informed on anything new here at Joy's #1 Music Source!

**UDflyer** · 12-03-2008, 12:06 PM

Thanks so much for getting the new thread started for us, Steph!

It's definitely appreciated. The title is so much truth. I know I keep thinking that. Gah. Loves it!

shoegal27 · 12-03-2008, 02:24 PM

Thanks for the new thread! We've been so spoilt with Joy songs recently that I keep expecting a new one right away, I've lost all the patience I used to have!

**killed the lights** · 12-03-2008, 02:39 PM

Thanks for the new thread!

**joypiter** · 12-03-2008, 02:42 PM

Aww crap I guess i missed the start of the new thread. It was on page 17 last time I checked so I didn't think there was any hurry. You are fast. LOL

TFTNT!

haleyispretty · 12-03-2008, 03:07 PM

Thanks for the new thread

ETA: Love the title, BTW

tepieStar · 12-03-2008, 03:27 PM

a new thread again? man this thing moves fast. thanks steph!!!

i'm looking at the price of everly - mission bell on cdbaby, and the price is still listed as $2.97. if that's correct, i feel cheated somehow, since i bought all 7 songs in 2 groups from itunes, for $6.93.

Karen's Cafe is still #61 in folk at iTunes. yay!!

LHScott · 12-03-2008, 03:30 PM

Tftnt!

Rain Sierra · 12-03-2008, 05:02 PM

Thanks for the new thread.

I reached my 50 post and was wondering if I had to ask anyone in particular for the gmail account?

LHScott · 12-03-2008, 05:24 PM

^ Congrats again hun. So that means you get access to all her songs right?

Rain Sierra · 12-03-2008, 05:48 PM

Thanks again Jess.

Well all the ones in the account but I don't think it is all of her songs.

**anything but simple** · 12-03-2008, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Sierra (View Post)

Thanks for the new thread.

I reached my 50 post and was wondering if I had to ask anyone in particular for the gmail account?

I don't think it's anyone in particular that you have to ask, I can send it to you

LHScott · 12-03-2008, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Well all the ones in the account but I don't think it is all of her songs.

So just the ones released.

Also I have a question to anyone who might know...is it true that Joy sang with Tyler at a concert Missing You? I remember reading that somewhere but could never find the vid for it, if it does indeed exist?

**anything but simple** · 12-03-2008, 08:30 PM

I don't think that exists. On OTH Haley mentions that she sang Missing You with Chris on tour, but that didn't happen with Joy and Tyler on the actual tour.