Singer/songwriter Amy Speace is kicking off the road to her upcoming album with its “apolitical, patriotic” title track, “The American Dream.” The Rock-leaning track “captures its narrator as a young girl in the middle of a carefree summer, surrounded by a world that feels weightless and infinite.”

Speace incorporated childhood memories into the song and explains:

I rode that Huffy bike with streamers off the handlebars. There was talk of Carter and Ford. Juliette really had a pool and Cheryl’s dad really played for the Vikings.

She adds:

Looking back on when I wrote it and what has been happening in the country, politically, I wonder if this came out of a ‘trying to get something we lost back. Um, like real conversation. Honestly, I was just giving myself permission to write a country/pop song based on my memories from 1976.

“The American Dream” is the title track from Speace’s upcoming 9th album, The American Dream, out October 18th, 2024 via Windbone Records. Her nearly two decades’ worth of albums are accompanied by honest writing in the form of poems, long-form essays, published books, and blogs.

Catch Amy Speace On Tour:

Aug. 31 – Nashville, TN – City Winery Nashville

Sept. 13 – North Adams, MA – The Railway Tavern

Sept. 14 – West Hartford, CT – Sounding Board Coffeehouse

Sept. 21 – Nashville, TN – Music Makers Stage

Oct. 21 – London, UK – The Slaughtered Lamb

Oct. 25 – Keswick, UK – Walter Yeats

Oct. 26 – Whitby, NE – Musicport Festival

Oct. 30 – Stirling, UK – Tolbooth

Oct. 31 – Hebden Bridge, UK – Trades Club

Nov. 1 – Londonderry, UK – Sandinos

Nov. 2 – Weston, UK – Lover’s Cafe

Dec. 6 – Littleton, MA – Littleton Lyceum

Dec. 8 – Boston, MA – City Winery Boston