Americana artist Pieta Brown discusses her father, Greg Brown s influence and how she was drawn to songwriting as a little girl like a moth to a flame.
Just when you might fear that folk music is dwindling away, Iris DeMent, Greg Brown, Seth Avett, Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons demonstrate how vital it still is.
Sunday night, Ani DiFranco returned to Fort Collins for the first time in a little more than three years on the final Colorado stop of her spring tour.
It might sound contradictory, but the latest one from Iris DeMent is both jubilant and tragic, hopeful and dire. As Pitchfork magazine says, \“Workin’ on a World is like a parade on a stormy day, a celebration beneath increasingly ominous skies\”. What a wondrous thing it is to have one of the Midwest’s – one of the nation’s – greatest songwriters back with a whole album of new original material: her first in over a decade. Those familiar with her might also know her husband is singer/songwriter Greg Brown, who has some songwriting contributions here. Brown’s daughter, Pieta Brown, co-produced the album with Richard Bennett and Jim Rooney.