6/13/2023 0 Comments Pieta brown one and allAt the first This Land is Your Music show Pieta said that “Faller” is based on meeting Tom Petty when she opened for JJ Cale at McCabe’s Guitar Center. Additionally, Red House is making “Faller” available for download. Right now on Pieta’s MySpace page she has “Out of the Blue,” “El Guero” and “Faller” in her music player. She also took the opportunity to perform some of the songs which would become part of One & All, including “Other Way Around,” “Prayer Of Roses,” “Calling All Angels,” “Faller,” and “It Wasn’t That.” In November, Pieta did a three-night artist-in-residence at The Mill Restaurant called “This Land is Your Music”, which she used as a way to try out different band configurations– solo, duo and full band. She started performing “Calling All Angels” during that solo tour, and I first heard it when she played it on Nic Harcourt’s Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW. Pieta’s new album and first full-length for her new label home, titled One & All will be released on April 6th!Ĭo-produced by Pieta and Bo Ramsey the record is a culmination of material she’s been performing live since the release of her last full-length Remember The Sun which came out in 2007. But if you crave an emotional landscape of thoughtful images and well-played modern folk, rest your ears in this release.This week we have been treated to some news about Pieta Brown’s follow up to her Shimmer EP from the folks at Red House Records. If you’re looking for story songs like the kind found in classic folk, it won’t be here. Her songwriting is centered on fleeting images, with an emotional content cultivated through arrangement and delivery. The disc ends with the pensive “Rise My Only Rose.” Starting with a bare acoustic guitar riff, it builds gradually. In the end, the widow wonders, “Will we lose what we have won?” In “Back to You” she thinks about going back to someone she left. There’s an old time feel in the melody of “Letter in Hand,” about the futility of war, sung from the perspective of a woman who receives one of those letters you never want to get. “Little Swainson” is a pretty instrumental with an emotional piano, complimentary strings and a sweet pedal steel. She does a great job with Mark Knopfler’s “Before Gas and TV,” with her clawhammer banjo and dad Greg Brown on acoustic guitar (her talent is partly in her DNA). ![]() “No Not Me” features a dreamy electric guitar, crisply strummed acoustic guitar, and rolling banjo, as do many of the songs. You’ll swear they borrowed Etta James’s back-up singers. It feels like a classic sixties R&B piece. “Ricochet” features a repetitious melody with fragments of a story including “motorcycles on Sunrise” and “desert lullabies.” She sings a duet with Amos Lee in “Do You Know,” his craggy voice a wonderful compliment to her smooth notes. “Wondering How” has a feeling of defeat, with the singer wondering how to keep going after a “landslide.” In “Flowers of Love,” there are some beautiful images: “Some are for dresses / Some pinned to a shirt / Moving together / In the wind and the dirt.” The chorus is a sing along that ties it all together nicely. Most cuts have a rootsy feel with her banjo and acoustic guitar, but with modern trappings like husband Bo Ramsey’s vibrato-laden electric guitar, Jon Penner’s solid bass, and a laid back beat from drummer JT Bates. Brown’s wispy voice slides through these deftly written songs centering on freedom, longing and other universal themes. ![]() ![]() Recorded in just four days at Justin Vernon’s (of Bon Iver) April Base studio in Wisconsin, this lovely album has a live feel you can’t get with weeks in a slick studio.
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