Past Event

Pieta Brown & The Sawdust Boys with special guest Lucie Thorne

13th Mar 2012

Presenter: Vitamin Records
Website: http://www.vitamin.net.au/
Event Duration: 150 minutes

To celebrate the Australian release of her stunning new album Mercury, USA folk poet-songwriter Pieta Brown is returning for an Australian tour in March with her trio, The Sawdust Boys, and special guest Lucie Thorne.

A free-spirited beauty who is both self-possessed and disarmingly unaffected, Pieta Brown is being hailed as a modern American troubadour. With a deep abiding saturation in blues and folk beyond her years, Pieta continues to bend forms to suit her unmistakable style and mesmerizing melodies. She has gained the attention of music lovers and media from across the spectrum and counts artists Iris Dement, Mark Knopfler, JJ Cale and John Prine amongst her biggest fans. With her 7th album, Mercury, Pieta evokes the sounds of her native Alabama with raw folk and Americana songs that have strains of Gillian Welch and The Civil Wars with the radio-friendly allure of Feist and Ray Lamontagne.

"When Pieta sings you’re aware of something effortless and natural, like rain on earth."
 - Mark Knopfler

"Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism."
 - Don Was

"The best poet I've heard in a long damn time."  
- Iris DeMent

Pieta Brown (USA) and Lucie Thorne (AUS) are possibly two of the most intriguing, talented and quietly enduring songwriters of their generation and respective homelands – this will be one tour to remember!