CCM:  In terms of expectations, is it hard to know what to expect for your own success at this point?

Joy:  Yeah, I feel the doors are wide open, and the opportunities are meandering and kind of endless. Being free of a conventional record label—Nate [Yetton, husband] has started Sensibility Music, which is our own company that we started—this is such a good era to do this in. We've got a mailing list online, and it's person by person by person, waking people up that there's new music out there. We've had really good responses [to the music]. When it released to iTunes, it was up to No. 28 on the iTunes Pop Chart, which was totally a surprise. I'm excited about what the future will hold and feel the challenges will be many, but so are the thrills.

I'm also excited to learn what it will look like to perform this music live in the next few months. I feel like I'm treading new ground every day. I've never played an instrument live by myself, and now I'm starting to push myself that way which is really, really scary but again really exciting. [Laughs] I feel the more I'm getting pushed, the more I'm discovering what I can do, believe it or not. There are a lot of other people out there doing their own music and paving their own path, and it's possible to do it this way and grow it.

CCM:  So tangibly what does that look like?

Joy:  We're recording new music right now. We were in the studio until late last night, and we'll be coming out with future EPs; and then the next process after a couple EPs will be a full-length album. I'm starting to go out on the road in March with a couple shows and just getting back into the groove of what the road looks like. We have to figure out where this music fits best—whether in coffee shops or colleges or clubs or a “Hotel Cafe Tour” kind of vibe. We're figuring all of this out and just continuing to watch the EP sell online and figuring out ways to distribute it now.

CCM:  So Joy Williams fans can expect several intervals of new music then?

Joy:  We're working on doing a new song every month with a new website launching called Brite Revolution. More details are coming on that, but it will be a website to subscribe to and get unlimited, exclusive music once a month from a bunch of different artists. So I'll be recording a new song each month. Then I'm also working on another EP right now, so there will be some consistent deals for music coming up. [Laughs]

For more information, visit myspace.com/joywilliamsmusic.

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**This feature first published on March 12, 2009.