Brian Hendrix

The "Cardinal's Inn" is a play on words: Cardinal sin. This is a song about spouses who show up so often to the same seedy motel that it's taken on a different name. It could work in any genre. It's a little on the upbeat side, the way I wrote it.

I didn't have much of anything deep or meaningful in mind when I wrote this. It's a love song, particularly about heartbreak, and I just wanted to try a new take on it and try to make a catchy love song that was a little deeper than the initial words on the page.

We still live in a world that has different cultural segments that judge women harshly for meeting their basic human needs. This is a song about a woman (not necessarily from a woman's perspective, but could be) who got lonely and reached out for something to touch that loneliness. The idea behind this song is that women should not feel ashamed of being lonely and seeking human contact. It's something we all need. I just hope the song is good enough to do the idea justice.

Just one of those songs that popped in my head. It came to me while washing dishes, and I just wrote it there at the sink. I like how it turned out. The chorus is really catchy, and I think the verses say a lot more than just the few words on the page would suggest. Like a modern song, is how I envision it.

I live in the Appalachia Mountains in the southern United States, and a lot of people find some sort of shame in that and rush to get out. I like the old stories; the views, the culture, the food, the people. I'm just fine with living here. This song is just a bit of a celebration of my home and a bit of the stories I've heard told.