Hear one line, into the opening “Lullaby” on Pieta Brown’s self-titled debut “Pieta Brown” (2002), and it hits you — there is magic in this voice. With that release and its follow-up, “I Never Told” (2003), Pieta Brown has established herself as an Americana renegade. She sings and writes with a driven grace and deceptive simplicity, allowing space in both her lyrical constructs and delicate arrangements for words to breathe and bloom.

Teamed (on both releases) with esteemed roots/Americana producer/guitarist Bo Ramsey, Pieta has crafted intensely intimate tales, each set jewel-like in shimmering, gently shifting soundscapes.

Of Pieta Brown, National Public Radio’s “All Songs Considered” cites “a ghostly collection of largely melancholy songs rooted in the blues,” while the Nashville Scene describes her as “gritty and narcotic” and Bay Area-based SFGate suggests “a hushed meeting of Richard Thompson, J.J. Cale, Jeff Buckley and Tom Waits.” The August 2002 issue of Music Row magazine sums up, “Don’t be surprised if you’re hearing about this talented newcomer for quite some time.”

Meanwhile, the self-released “I Never Told,” though under the radar, has garnered critical attention as well. As described by the great music writer Geoffrey Himes, “It’s intoxicating to hear song after song that stirs together folk, country, and blues so thoroughly that you can’t tell where one stops and the others begins — one of the most impressive singer-songwriter projects of the year.”

A die-hard fan of live music, Pieta Brown has traveled coast to coast with side-man, producer and companion Bo Ramsey playing everything from clubs to concert halls gaining fans — one by one — through the music.

As the eldest daughter of Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Greg Brown, much has already been made of Pieta’s upbringing. Both parents were preacher’s kids and she was raised in a bohemian lifestyle where artistic pursuits set the tone as a way to deal with the world. While there were countless moves from house to house, from region to region, she spent much of her childhood with her mother in Birmingham, Alabama, returning to Iowa in her teens. After completing her school years she chose to continue rambling, obsessed with writing, poems mostly. The poems led her back to the music. With two records made in one year, and a third soon to be released, Pieta Brown continues to ramble, dedicated to living the music.

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