- Pieta Brown
Pieta Brown is a contemporary folk singer songwriter. She is notable for being critically acclaimed. Her album, Remember the Sun, was named as one of the best albums of 2007 in the Wall Street Journal. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119880394768754403.html?mod=weekend_journal_primary_hs Off the Radar - Wall Street Journal.] Accessed on May 4, 2008.]
Early life
Brown was born in Iowa City, in 1975, the daughter of two preacher's kids. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/09/19/derk.DTL The New Bohemian - San Francisco Chronicle.] Accessed on May 4, 2008.] She grew up in Iowa and Birmingham, Alabama, amongst a bohemian and musical family. She moved quite frequently, returning to Iowa as a teenager, and later lived for a time in the New York area, and also in Tucson Arizona. She was greatly influenced by her father, the two-time Grammy nominee folk artist Greg Brown. Pieta Brown started writing poetry and songs on an old piano when she was just eight years old.
Career
By her early 20s, Brown was known as a gifted performer, and she enlisted the help of highly respected guitarist and producer
Bo Ramsey . He produced her 2002 debut record, ‘Pieta Brown’, and later co-produced her album ‘In The Cool’ in 2005. That album was named one of the year’s best by Amazon.com and a number of newspapers across America. It also broke into the Top 20 of the Americana Music Association radio chart and the Top 30 on the AAA radio chart.Brown's latest album, ‘Remember The Sun’, released in 2007, shows a progression of Brown's writing and recording skills. Pieta sings and plays acoustic and electric guitars, and piano, and is accompanied by Bo Ramsey and many other fine musicians.
Discography
Albums
* "
Remember the Sun " - (One Little Indian, 2007)
* "In the Cool " - (Valley Entertainment, 2005)
* "I Never Told " - (T Records, 2003)
* "Pieta Brown " - (2002)References
External links
* [http://www.pietabrown.com/ Pieta Brown official site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/pietabrown/ Pieta's myspace site]
* [http://www.bellyup.com/artists/detail/pieta-brown/ Belly-Up tavern article]
* [http://folkmusic.about.com/od/artistsaz/p/PietaBrown.htm/ Folkmusic article]
* [http://www.amazon.com/Pieta-Brown/dp/B000066JEY/ Amazon]
* [http://www.rosebudus.com/brown/index.html/ Rosebud Agency]
* [http://www.puremusic.com/pieta.html/ Review of her 2002 Pieta Brown album]
* [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/brownpieta-inthecool.shtml/ Review of her 2005 In the Cool album]
* [http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid%3A64359/ article prior to a concert in Tucson in 2005]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1197/is_4_51/ai_n24218801/ Review of her 2007 Remember the Sun album]
* [http://www.gearwire.com/pieta-brown-gibson-fender.html/ article on the equipment Pieta uses]
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