Pieta Brown
It is a voice that demands attention without rattling the cage – soft, seductive, bearing the flickering, genteel ghost of a Southern drawl. You lean into it to get closer, to catch the drift, and quickly discover that this aural voice functions as something of a stealth vehicle for a substantial writer’s voice that’s lean, elegant and – above all – utterly devoid of pretense.
On the sublime ‘Remember the Sun’ (One Little Indian Records), Pieta Brown continues to ride the upward arc begun with her eponymous debut in 2002 and subsequently extended by 2005’s critically acclaimed ‘In the Cool’.
To Brown’s credit, each stop along the way has revealed dazzling growth in artistic maturity and vocal and instrumental command, as well as a palpable expansion in her ability to utilize the studio and her musical cohorts to bring her concepts to fruition.
Like an element of nature or a late night dream, Pieta Brown speaks from a place deep inside, choosing her words carefully, relying on subtle precision and poetry to keep her balance. With insight drawn from a childhood spent half in the hills of Iowa (no heat or indoor plumbing) and half entrenched in the Deep South of Birmingham, Alabama, Pieta forms an equilibrium of raw emotion and sophistication, heavy blues and honest country, rudimental rock and a hint of loss.
Being the eldest daughter of folk icon, singer-songwriter Greg Brown, Pieta has music in her blood. With three critically acclaimed recordings under her belt and a fourth, Remember The Sun, now released, Pieta proves not only her prolific tendencies, but her strong dedication to a deep tradition of highly crafted song-writing and musicianship.
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