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Release Date: 10 May 2024
Label: Must Have Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8713762007201
Genres: Americana Singer Songwriter
Description
With a career that started in the early 2000's in her native Texas, Little has been crafting perfect songs for a long time in relative obscurity, but, with songs covered by some of the biggest names in country music, Heather's songs have garnered her two BMI awards for songwriting and the songs she's written or co-written have been spun millions of times by fans all over the world.
Heather Little's own recordings have been few and far between, 2013's Wings LIke These is her only proper full length release until now. Partnering with the folks at Need To Know Music (producers Brian Brinkerhoff and Frank Swart) has led to an album that Little herself says was "46 years in the making". By Now is poised to not only bring the brilliance of Little's songwriting, but also her vulnerable, awe-inspiring vocals and delivery which has drawn comparisons to the likes of Patty Griffin and Lori McKenna.
The basic tracks for the album were laid down in the Need To Know studios in California in 2023. Once those were in the can, an all star cast of musicians including Audley Freed, Paul Griffith, John Dederick, Jared Tyler and more began recording and sending in parts to flesh out the tunes. On top of that the list of guest vocalists on the album include the aforementioned Patty Griffin, Leslie Satcher, Crystal Bowersox and others. While the talent surrounding Little on this album is impressive it is imperative to note that they all served the star of the show.... Heather Little's songs and voice. The landscape that was created is a perfect backdrop to what will prove to be one of the most compelling collection of songs released this year.
Throughout the album, Little is unafraid to turn her impeccable eye for detail in song onto some of the most universal and difficult issues that affect all of humanity. Whether she is speaking from personal experience or embodying the trials and tribulations of another, Little has given us a master class on understanding the human condition.
Little says of the album, its themes and the journey it took become a reality :
"This record is about how easy it is to be hard on yourself, and how hard it is to be easy and cut yourself a break sometimes. Grace is a dense pigment that takes over what it colors, but so are resentment, contempt, anger, fear, and indifference. It took a long time for me to learn the lessons given by the people I've known along the way thus far, and even longer to see clearly the situations and circumstances I created with my own choices.
There is a good bit of reprogramming, re-parenting, rebuilding, and re-replanting yet to do, but this is a start.
These songs would not exist were it not for the awful parts I did not expect to survive. The existence of this record is proof love will always win in the end: Love of each other as humans, of healing and communication through music, and of what happens when the notes and words and sounds string us all together in the universal language of song. Music is universal. Love is universal. Music is love."
Tracklisting
Matthews Southern Comfort
Kerri Powers
The Weight Band
Shawn Pittman
Heather Little
Kerri Powers
Levi Parham
Eilen Jewell
Tom Speight
Martin Sexton
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