Blog: Direct Current

Recorded last year for a local PBS feature, this drifting, hypnotic version of "West Monroe" from her fine 2007 album Remember the Sun finds singer/songwriter Pieta Brown 's sweet and smokey drawl bobbing slowly against a dark, stinging electric guitar fill. "Self-styled poetess, folk goddess and country waif, Pieta's music resonates with a seductive simplicity and lyrical grace," declares the BBC. "...Moody, ethereal...I will listen to this album over and over again," NPR's All Things Considered said of Remember The Sun while the Wall Street Journal named it one of the year's best. We agree...and [...]