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Two years later, Cameron completed her first full-length album in Cormier's studio. Cormier plays various instruments on the album and helped in producing. This August, Cameron put her CDs in select stores throughout Inverness County.

The album is full of rolling melodies and straight-up tender lyrics about lost and found loves.

"I would like to be more cryptic, but it doesn't work for me," she says. "It comes from emotions, experience."

 

Some of Cameron's lyrics aren't so obvious. The first track on the album, For Taylor sounds like a waltz perfect for a wedding song, but it's not about a person. It's a tribute to her treasured guitar.

"I love her so much," she says. "I used to wake up at 6 in the morning and bring her back to bed with me and write songs. I know - I'm a geek."

She wrote Lillies and Candles while in Ontario. It is about all the things she loves from home.

"The sound of the river, the smell of clothes on the line, hiking in the hills," she says. "Where I'm from is in my music."

At the same time Cameron is launching her music career, she is still teaching Grade 12 geography and sociology in Mabou. But her contract is only until the end of January. She says if the opportunity came to go on the road and promote her new album, she would.

"Isn't that everybody's dream (to go on the road)? Of course, I'd love to do that. I love performing." >> more