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With the release of her freshman solo e.p., Up Up & Away, Nashville based singer-songwriter Shelly Fraley has already earned numerous placements on major network television shows and films such as One Tree Hill, Knight Rider, Ghost Whisper and the unreleased Free Willy 4 (summer of 2010).

Pulling inspiration from artists such as The Cardigans, Josh Ritter, John Mayer, Gemma Hayes, Sheryl Crow, and Coldplay (just to name a few), Fraley maintains pop sensibilities without diminishing the lyrical and musical content in her 5 song e.p.

“Up Up & Away is a collection of songs that sum up my first year in Tennessee and my last year in Kansas. From the title track, “Up Up & Away,” a song about an emotional and physical transition from one place to another - to “I Don't Know,” a song about having to make the heartbreaking decision of ending a relationship, all of the songs are really about what I know best… my life.”

Hailing from the outskirts of a small Kansas town, Burden, Fraley recalls the age when she first began to take an interest in writing and playing music.

“I was pretty small, probably around five, maybe six... I was sitting in the “pink room” in my childhood house, leaning over a notebook, and I came up with the lyrics “you keep cracking me up.” I couldn't understand why my mom laughed when I used the phrase in a breakup song... it seemed like such a serious phrase to me. Either way, from those first lyrics until now, I've been a songwriter at heart. I never thought of myself as a great singer, but I always loved the process of writing and creating something that was my own. I started learning piano on a Casio keyboard with little sticker letters on the keys to learn the notes when I was about eight, and growing up on a relatively isolated farm in Kansas lent to plenty of alone-time to learn the piano and create music, silly as it may have been.”

Everything in between back then and now has really just been a series of trial and error in learning to become a songwriter, and learning to hold my own musically. And regardless of what happens with my music on a professional level, I look forward to seeing where this road leads and what new ideas find their way out of my head. Those moments of conquering and finishing a song are the most satisfying moments in my life.”

Fraley is currently in the process of writing/recording a full-length album to be independently released summer of 2010.