(Upcoming Show) Pieta Brown Wraps Up The Year Bringing Sawdust Collective to CSPS, Friday 12/1

Friday night (12/1) Pieta Brown is returning to CSPS in Cedar Rapids. It’s her last live show of the year and she’s bringing Bo Ramsey and Marty Christensen as “Sawdust Collective.” Pieta’s shows at CSPS are a rare magical combination of artist, audience and venue and are some of the best shows I’ve seen of hers.

Her latest album, Postcards is a collection of long distance collaborations with artists like Mark Knopfler, Calexico, David Lindley, The Pines, and others– “musical postcards.” In my interview with her for Little Village Magazine earlier this year, she said this about it:

It just came together really seamlessly and it just happened. I started reaching out to some people — kind of wishful thinking people I would want to record with. You know I was really touched and honestly really inspired and kind of encouraged by getting the energy and the super-willingness right back at a time when I was struggling to figure out how to even afford to move forward and make another album. So, it was cool timing. And, it was really neat to do it here and I had never really recorded like that either. Which is to say that all of my other recordings have been recorded in a few days in a row with a live band, with everybody playing together. Maybe rehearse the songs one at a time or maybe have a day of rehearsal and then go in and cut the songs. Very experimental and not a lot of room for getting it exactly right so to speak. [laughs] One thing that was cool was just singing by myself with my guitar — I just have never really recorded that way except for a track here or there.

Pieta and Bo did a Daytrotter session earlier this year focusing on songs from Postcards.

Pieta Brown with Sawdust Collective will be at CSPS tonight. Doors will be at 7PM and the show will be at 8PM. Tickets are $17 in advance and $21 at the door.

Tickets and information are at the Legion Arts website HERE.

(Free Download) Pieta Brown’s New Full Length “One & All” Out April 6th

This week we have been treated to some news about Pieta Brown’s follow up to her Shimmer EP from the folks at Red House Records. Pieta’s new album and first full-length for her new label home, titled One & All will be released on April 6th!

Co-produced by Pieta and Bo Ramsey the record is a culmination of material she’s been performing live since the release of her last full-length Remember The Sun which came out in 2007. She started performing “Calling All Angels” during that solo tour, and I first heard it when she played it on Nic Harcourt’s Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW.

In November, Pieta did a three-night artist-in-residence at The Mill Restaurant called “This Land is Your Music”, which she used as a way to try out different band configurations– solo, duo and full band. She also took the opportunity to perform some of the songs which would become part of One & All, including “Other Way Around,” “Prayer Of Roses,” “Calling All Angels,” “Faller,” and “It Wasn’t That.”

Right now on Pieta’s MySpace page she has “Out of the Blue,” “El Guero” and “Faller” in her music player. Additionally, Red House is making “Faller” available for download. At the first This Land is Your Music show Pieta said that “Faller” is based on meeting Tom Petty when she opened for JJ Cale at McCabe’s Guitar Center. Apparently JJ Cale ran into Petty and Mike Campbell at a bar across the street from McCabe’s and invited them to join him on stage. So, Pieta and Bo met Petty and Campbell. Here is a picture of Bo talking to Petty.

Pieta is going on a 28-date tour with Mark Knopfler who is out supporting his new album Get Lucky, which should gain her some new fans. Bo will be on tour with her and I think that Knopfler and Bo have complimentary music styles so it would be interesting if they’d perform together!

Red House Records will start taking pre-orders for One & All on March 30th and pre-orders will be autographed! Also, you can preorder One & All from Amazon.

Tracklisting for One & All

Wishes Falling Through The Rain
Other Way Around
Out Of The Blue
Prayer Of Roses
Calling All Angels
El Guero
Faller
Flowers In The Kingdom
Shake
Grass Upon The Hills
Never Did Belong
It Wasn’t That

Pieta Brown on Tour With Mark Knopfler (from The Rosebud Agency)

4/8/2010      Seattle WA      Moore Theatre
4/9/2010     Vancouver BC CANADA     Queen Elizabeth Theatre
4/10/2010     Portland OR     Keller Auditorium
4/11/2010     Eugene OR     Hult Center for the Performing Arts
4/13/2010     Oakland CA     Paramount Theatre of the Arts
4/14/2010     Santa Rosa CA     Wells Fargo Center For The Arts
4/15/2010     Temecula CA     Pechanga Resort & Casino
4/16/2010     Los Angeles CA     Pantages Theatre
4/17/2010     Los Angeles CA     Pantages Theatre
4/18/2010     Phoenix AZ     Dodge Theatre
4/20/2010     Denver CO     Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
4/21/2010     Kansas City MO     Midland Theatre
4/22/2010     Saint Louis MO     Fox Theatre
4/23/2010     Chicago IL     Chicago Theatre
4/24/2010     Milwaukee WI     Riverside Theater
4/25/2010     Minneapolis MN     State Theater
4/27/2010     Ann Arbor MI     Michigan Theater
4/28/2010     Buffalo NY     University of Buffalo – Center For The Arts
4/29/2010     Toronto ON CANADA     Massey Hall
4/30/2010     Montréal PQ CANADA     Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place Des Arts
5/1/2010     Mashantucket CT     MGM Grand at Foxwoods
5/2/2010     Washington DC     Warner Theater
5/4/2010     Boston MA     Orpheum Theatre
5/5/2010     Red Bank NJ     Count Basie Theatre
5/6/2010     New York NY     United Palace
5/7/2010     Upper Darby PA     Tower Theater
5/8/2010     Atlantic City NJ     Caesars Circus Maximus
5/9/2010     Albany NY     Palace Theatre

Click Here to download “Faller” from One & All.

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