What's up everybody? This is Paula Phelps and you're listening to on a positive note.

We know that listening to music offers a soothing emotional experience, but what can it do for the person who writes that song?

Today I'm joined by Morgan James, a Juilliard trained singer whose diverse talent has taken her from

performing on Broadway stages to working with symphony orchestras to writing and recording soulful

R&B music. While working on her latest album, she and Doug Womble, her husband and co-writer,

both were grappling with devastating illnesses of dear friends.

They put the tangled emotions of uncertainty, grief, and loss into a song called All Beholding

On, which also has become the album's video centerpiece. In this interview, Morgan shares how

writing and performing this song has helped her come to terms with grief and how performing music helps her heal.

Let's have a listen.

Morgan, thank you so much for sitting down with me today.

Thank you so much for having me.

You have an incredible body of work, just first of all.

We're going to tell our listeners how they can discover all the different types of music that you've done because you've done some amazing projects. The reason we're here

today is to talk about this song, I'll be holding on. And this is such a powerful piece of music.

And we need to start by letting our listeners know the story behind it. Can you talk about that?

Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me and for listening to the song. The song I wrote with my husband, Doug Womble.

And when we were working on the album, we were going through a pretty traumatic period of time with

our respective best friends. My best friend, Richard, was going through a health crisis. And Doug's best friend, Lanny, Richard was going through a health crisis and Doug's

best friend Lanny was also going through a health crisis. And we didn't know if they were going to make it.

And we wanted to write something to help ourselves through the feeling of helplessness of not being

able to save them, not being able to help them. We wanted to write

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