Christy Jefferson: mover, shaker, lemonade maker.

It seems like every time Fly catches up to the 24-year-old singer-songwriter, she’s in the process of recovering from some traumatic event.

The last time we talked, she was blinking in disbelief at the breakup of her college band. Then she pulled herself together and launched a successful solo career. Lemonade.

This time, she’s recuperating from the dark day last year when all of her instruments and gear were stolen from her car at a gig in New York City.

“That was a really hard hit,” Jefferson says with a weary laugh. “I felt like the world was telling me I shouldn’t be doing this after all. Like, ‘Why would that have happened to me? What’s the deeper meaning in that?’”

But in true Christy Jefferson fashion, the disaster yielded something beautiful.

First of all, she received such an embarrassing amount of support from her fans that the question of whether or not fate was trying to send her a message was thrown out the window.

“People sent me money. Like, lots of money. Lots of money,” Jefferson marvels. “I got enough money to buy a new keyboard that was better than my first one and essentially two guitars instead of just one. I was never expecting what I got.”

But perhaps the best thing to come of the disaster is the soaring new song “Comin’ Round,” a peppy little tune meant to serve as a “thank you” to everyone who helped Jefferson out this past year.

“The whole point of this song is, everything is going to come out better in the end,” she says. “Something good can come from this if you can raise yourself out of those hardest, darkest moments enough to make lemonade out of the lemons.”

“Comin’ Round” is the cornerstone of Jefferson’s new album, Live in Philly, due out this month. Recorded during a performance at the Tin Angel last December, the album emphasizes Jefferson’s best qualities: her fluid piano playing and a voice that makes your belly jump for joy. Overall, it’s a bolder, quirkier collection than her debut EP (2002); there’s a lot more Ben Folds and Tori Amos than Dar Williams and Billy Joel this time around.

“The stories of the songs, they’re all kind of quirky. One is about a snail,” Jefferson says matter-of-factly.

In the three years since she went solo, Jefferson has played an insane amount of shows throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York at colleges, festivals, coffeehouses and famed venues like CBGB (the site of the big theft). All of those days on the road didn’t leave a lot of time for Jefferson to devote to her home life, but that didn’t stop her from getting married last May.

“My husband is the most supportive guy. It would have never worked out, actually, if he hadn’t been,” she says with a smile.

“That was the biggest, quickest eliminating factor in a boyfriend, if I knew he wasn’t going to be supportive. It was like a chopping block,” Jefferson laughs. “I really enjoy the busy schedule. I like to always be gigging at new venues and meeting new people and seeing new places. It’s exciting.”

Although her live album is only coming out this month, Jefferson is already at work in the studio on her next full-length. Apart from that, she’ll spend her “free time” in the coming months touring in support of Live in Philly with her musical partner-in-crime, Jolene.