She is just so beautiful. Pieta Brown is an Iowa-based singer/songwriter. She plays guitar, wurlitzer, and piano. She has released several EP's to date, Pieta Brown (2002), In the Cool (2005), Remember the Sun (2007), and Flight Time (2008).
Pieta was exposed to traditional and rural folk music through her father, Greg Brown, the now beloved Midwestern folk singer. Later, while living with her mother in Alabama during her formative years, Pieta drew on and expanded these influences and began writing poetry and composing instrumental songs on piano.By the time she left home at 18, Pieta had lived in at least 17 different houses and apartments between Iowa and Alabama. Staying true to the disjointed lifestyle of her childhood she wandered from the West Coast to the East. Each locale left its mark on her, accounting for an artist who brings together the unvarnished humility of Loretta Lynn, the honest modern rock punch of P.J. Harvey, the hipster swagger and poetry of Cat Power, and the airy sophistication of Feist. And - coloring it all - a deep abiding saturation in folk and blues that’s beyond her years. All of this, yet she has her own distinctive style, lyrical substance, and voice. She is unmistakably “a songwriter of great depth,” as Indie911.com recently noted.
On the sublime ‘Remember The Sun’ (One Little Indian Records), Pieta Brown continued to ride the upward arc begun with her eponymous debut in 2002 and extended by 2005’s critically acclaimed ‘In the Cool’. 'Remember The Sun' landed at 2 on music critic Michael Ross’ list for the Village Voice’s 35th Annual Critic’s Poll, and the Wall Street Journal included it in their list of the best of 2007.
This enigmatic Midwesterner has also recently released a new EP, entitled "Flight Time", which seemingly arrived out of the blue and has already landed on critic’s lists as well (No Depression Individual Critic’s Picks of 2008). It's a seven-song collection of gems that Pieta recorded lo-fi in Iowa; an intense collection of songs that are beyond what one expects from a young artist - but exactly what you might wish for from an old soul.
Today, Pieta Brown stays focused on her original intention: “Long before I ever put a recording out there for somebody else to hear, my aim was to be a great artist, and that’s what I’ll always be going after. All my life, I’ve been close to writing and music and all kinds of art and that closeness continues to drive me.”
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mp3 In My Mind I Was Talking to Loretta
mp3 Wish Me Luck
mp3 I Never Told
mp3 Are You Free
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