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Words & Music From a Life Being Lived

Stories, songs and reflections rooted in family, faith, memory and the beauty found in ordinary days.

"Some things are written. Some things are sung. All of them are pieces of a life worth remembering." ~JLB

Dried Flowers

Latest Music

Something new is always playing around here.

Listen to the latest releases and get a first look at the music coming next.

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The Sweet Life

Album · Out Now

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Saturday

Single · Out Now

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October Evenings

Album · Coming October 17

Jamie creates from the life unfolding around her—through words, music, and the stories found in ordinary moments.

A writer, wife, and mother of four daughters, Jamie's work is deeply rooted in family, faith, memory, and the places that shape us. Her writing has explored truth, grief, restoration, and the complicated beauty of becoming. Her music has become another language for the heart and soul—a place to preserve moments that sometimes ask to be felt rather than explained.

Much of her work is created in real time, not from the safety of hindsight. A summer becoming something new. An October evening around the fire. A drive with the windows down. A grandmother deeply missed. Children growing before your eyes. Faith carried through both beauty and loss.

 

Together, the writing and music form a growing body of work—pieces of a life noticed, recorded, and preserved as it is being lived.

When she's not writing or making music, Jamie can usually be found with her family, on her paddle board, training for another adventure, or gathering the people she loves around the table.

About Jamie Lynn Bates

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Music

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Music as a language for the heart and soul.

Songs born from the moments that shape a life- love, loss, family, faith, memory, adventure and the beauty found in ordinary days.

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Writing

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Stories rooted in lived experience, exploring faith, family, grief, restoration and the complicated beauty of becoming.

A Little Girl and Her Colored Bandanas

Literary Memoir - Seeking Representation

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