 Just in time for Valentine's
Day, Pieta Brown has released a new video for "Flowers
of Love" from her recent Red House release, Paradise Outlaw. The track was recorded at Justin
Vernon's April Base studio and features Vernon on backing vocals. The video is
by artist Mei-Ling Shaw Williams and is premiering today at the Huffington Post. Pieta will be touring through 2015,
including US and Australian dates with
Iris Dement (scroll down for tour details).
Produced by Pieta, with frequent
collaborator and partner, Bo
Ramsey, Paradise Outlaw was recorded in
four days at Bon Iver mastermind Justin
Vernon's April Base studio in Wisconsin with a supporting cast that includes
Vernon, Amos
Lee, Brown's troubadour father, Greg
Brown and various members of an experimental group of players she calls the
Sawdust Collective. Paradise Outlaw boasts
some of Pieta's most emotionally resonant compositions, and some of her most
expressive performances, to date.
Paradise Outlaw features 12 originals by Brown
plus a co-write and duet with soulster Amos Lee ("Do
You Know") and a cover of Mark
Knopfler's "Before Gas And TV." Such gently intoxicating tunes as "Do
You Know," "Wondering How," "Ricochet" and "Flowers
of Love" feature organically orchestrated arrangements that accentuate the
insight and intimacy of Brown's lyrics, the understated craftsmanship of her
tunes, and the alluring immediacy of her uniquely expressive
voice.
The project was set into motion
in mid-2012, when Brown met Justin Vernon while both were on tour in Australia.
As she recalls, "The initial spark for this quest was when the songs 'Painter's
Hands' and 'Rise My Only Rose'—both of which I wrote before I ever made my first
album—fell out of a notebook onto the floor in a hotel room and landed next to
the copy of Howl by Allen Ginsberg that I'd
happened to bring out on the road. Later that night, I met Justin and he
invited me to check out his studio, and it just rolled from there. It was a fun
track to follow, and one link running through it all was this spark that I
caught from re-reading a lot of beat poetry, especially Ginsberg and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, and thinking about that feverish hunt for freedom, as a
human."
The creative restlessness that
drives Paradise Outlaw has been a constant in
Pieta Brown's life. Born in Iowa, she lived in at least 17 different residences
in multiple states during her youth. Her parents separated when she was two,
but she grew up around many artists and musicians, absorbing all manner of
bohemian artistic influences. By the age of eight, she was writing poetry and
instrumental music on the piano, eventually picking up the guitar and merging
the two into songs.
With Paradise Outlaw documenting a compelling new
chapter of her ongoing musical journey, Pieta Brown continues to seek out and
conquer new creative challenges.
Pieta
Brown
FR 2/27 Denver, CO - Tuft Theater -
8pm
SA 2/28 Ft Collins, CO - Avogadro’s
Number
TH 3/5 Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century
Theater
FR 3/6 Louisville, KY - KCD
Theater
SA 3/7 Bowling Green, KY - The
Warehouse
TH 3/26 Seattle, WA - The Triple Door -
7:30pm
FR 3/27 Portland, OR - Aladdin
Theater
SA 3/28 Sisters, OR - The
Belfry
SU 3/29 Eugene, OR - Cozmic -
8pm
FR 4/10 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural
Center
TH 4/23 Winona, MN - Midwest Music
Festival
SU 6/21 Fairfield, IA - Fair
Fest
Australian
dates with Iris Dement
FR 5/22 Adelaide, SA - The
Gob
SA 5/23 Newcastle, NSW -
Lizottes
SU 5/24 Brisbane, QLD - Old
Museum
TH 5/28 Melbourne, VIC - Thornbury
Theater
SA 5/29 Sydney, NSW - Factory
Theate
| 
