One and All

Don Was stripped Pieta Brown's sound down to its essentials for her 2009 EP and Red House label debut. But on her first full-length album for the imprint her dad Greg called home for many years, she co-produces (along with shotgun-riding guitarist legend Bo Ramsey) and beefs up the proceedings considerably. The extra instrumentation includes two drummers on all but three tracks, but the additional percussion never seems busy and never overwhelms her delicate, whispery vocals. Brown's introspective folk is tinged with occasional jazz overtones yet stays in Americana territory as she wraps her silky smooth bourbon voice around music that floats without being nebulous. Her muted delivery is both sensual and startling in its honesty. It seems like she's reading her diary out loud in songs such as "It Wasn't That," one of many reflective moments that feel like you are eavesdropping on Brown singing to herself. It's that subtlety and grace that beckon the listener Siren-like, to delve deeper