It was nearly two years ago that British Columbia musician Shawn Meehan started to write a song about his wife leaving him called Love Me Leave Me Lonely. "I’m going to sound like a country cliché here.
It was nearly two years ago that British Columbia musician Shawn Meehan started to write a song about his wife leaving him called Love Me Leave Me Lonely.
"I’m going to sound like a country cliché here. My dog left me and my truck won’t start," he said. "But I’d just gotten out of this long-term relationship. She was a wonderful lady, it just didn’t work out, we were going our separate ways and that title just came to my head.
"That’s how I was feeling."
But he wanted a female perspective on the song and asked two women he knew to help him write it.
One of those ladies, Carly Rae Jepsen, who Meehan was giving guitar lessons to at the time, ended up becoming a global pop music sensation in the past two years when her single Call Me Maybe became a massive hit.
Meehan said Jepsen’s success has turned into a "lucky break" for his new musical endeavour with singer Jacky Mae, Me and Mae, since the single he wrote with Jepsen, came out the last week of April and is garnering buzz.
"We’re getting a lot of great reaction from the press, from radio. It’s funny because at the time, when I wrote the song with Carly Rae about a year-and-a-half or so ago, she was just a student of mine and we were friends and I was working on some songs and this was one of them."
They’ll bring their blend of "indie country pop" to Tracks Pub on May 4.
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