I don’t often take the time to explain why I put out certain records. When I first heard demos from Mara Miller of Bosque Brown, her simple voice and lyrics immediately captured my attention. Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller is a beautiful record, so sparsely and warmly recorded by Eric Fisher that it makes Mara’s songs live and breathe. The songs are built from the foundation of Mara’s vocals and guitars, but have additional instrumentation such as violins, drums, background vocals from Damien Jurado, even accordion tastefully mixed to strengthen and support. When Mara cries out “I’m still afraid of the dark” on the 7th track, it captures more than just my ears’ attention and pulls on my heart and soul. I am with her and understand. The beautiful “I Think It Snowed” is maybe my favorite album on the record, recalling winter memories in the Midwest looking out from my bedroom window to see the ground dusted in a fresh blanket of snow or even this past winter to see the bleakness of the season brightened up in white. These beautiful melodies and images combine in a truly compelling record that transcends its honest simplicity. I am honored to be involved in releasing such an album.
Tonight, Matthew and I are trucking up some records to NYC to be sent out by our publicists, the fine folks at Fanatic Promotion. We may stop over and see Johnathon and the Me Without You folks at the Knitting Factory if all goes well.
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