But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Honor the Earth's mission is "to create awareness and support for Native [American] environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native [American] communities. Some bands signed to Daemon include Girlyman Magnapop Nineteen Forty-Five Michelle Malone Three Finger Cowboy Danielle Howle and the Tantrums Gerard McHugh New Mongrels Grady Cousins The Oblivious Snow Machine Utah Phillips and Rose Polenzani. Side projects

In addition to the Indigo Girls and her work as a solo artist Ray also runs an independent record label Daemon Records which Amy Ray founded in 1990 and which is based in Decatur Georgia.

Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.