NASHVILLE ARTIST BETTY REED’S LATEST SINGLE “MISUNDERSTOOD” OUT NOW

NASHVILLE ARTIST BETTY REED’S LATEST SINGLE

“MISUNDERSTOOD” OUT NOW  

 MISTAKES MADE, LESSONS LEARNED EP OUT SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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Nashville artist Betty Reed’s message is loud and clear on her new single “Misunderstood” out Friday, July 16th. It’s the second single from her forthcoming EP Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned out on 9/3.

“The polished country-pop tune is meaningful in so many ways, a bold statement about an important issue that for too long has been swept under the rug.” – V13

“The idea of this song came to me after reading an article about the origins of the MeToo Movement,” explains Reed. “In many of cases, there was a lot of victim shaming and blaming. Many times the aggressor would say they simply misunderstood or misread the situation.” 

She continues, “I deliberately chose not to use gender pronouns in this song. EVERYONE (he, she, them) has experienced harassment in some form or another. This song is for all those people who need to hear that ‘no’ means ‘no.’” 

Drawing on personal experiences, Betty Reed relates stories of everyday life through her music. Struggles. Triumphs. Journeys. Her expressive vocals and clever lyrics resonate throughout her debut EP Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned, produced by Bill McDermott.

It’s an eclectic collection of songs that showcase Reed’s ability to write and perform across a musical spectrum. The first single “Karma” is about that moment you are free from an abusive relationship while the other person finally gets their comeuppance.

“Reed’s liberating version of payback is transformed into a modest pop number where instead of wishing ill upon her former partner, she finds freedom in personal happiness and self-love.”

– AudioFemme

 While other songs are about her experiences with depression — the ways in which she finds her way out of the dark and into the light. You can hear this theme in “Let It Out” and “Happy.”  

“Even though the subject matter of most of songs is serious, I mask it with an upbeat vibe—it’s this veneer of cheeriness that you feel you have to project in order to feel normal.”

Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned will be released on September 3, 2021.

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LEFT VESSEL RELEASES NEW SINGLE “THIS YEAR BE” INSPIRED BY SHAMANIC JOURNEY VIA MOTHER CHURCH PEW DEBUT LP ONE (AND DRIFTLESS) OUT ON JUNE 25TH VIA GIFTSHOP RECORDS

LEFT VESSEL RELEASES NEW SINGLE  

“THIS YEAR BE” INSPIRED BY SHAMANIC JOURNEY 

VIA MOTHER CHURCH PEW 

DEBUT LP ONE (AND DRIFTLESS) OUT ON JUNE 25TH  

VIA GIFTSHOP RECORDS 

Photo: Elisa Terrazas Campbell

LISTEN // WATCH: “THIS YEAR BE”   

Oregon-based sound artist Nick Byron Campbell, who records and performs under the moniker Left Vessel, has released his latest single, “This Year Be.” The song appears on his forthcoming debut LP One (and Driftless) mixed by Cory Hanson (of Los Angeles-based band Wand) and out on June 25th via GiftShop Records. “I have an aunt who’s a shaman. For a while we were training together and she was showing me the art of shamanic journeying,” Campbell recalls. “In my journeys with her, I took the form of a fox that would disappear down into a hole in a creek bed by my grandma’s old house in Ohio, where I grew up. Inside that hole was another world. This song came out of those journeys,” he adds. “The faint vocal hook that trails out at the end of the song was my shamanic song that was given to me during one of the journeys.”  

“Envision the idyllic summer day, full of bright sunshine tempered by a cool breeze. There’s always a feel of optimism on those days, coupled with an innate connection to nature, and an almost inexplicable urgency to make the most of the world around us,” said Mother Church Pew in the song’s premiere. “With a dreamy folk haze, those summer sensations are synthesized into song on ‘This Year Be’…Campbell’s delicate-yet-expressive vocals are set beautifully to an acoustic melody full of playful banjo and building strings. The song is a bright, orchestral folk jam that’s a perfect refresher on these summer days.” 

“This Year Be” follows the release of album track “Your Winter,” inspired by life transformations and deep connection with others who are on a completely different trajectory. 

LISTEN // WATCH “YOUR WINTER”  

Campbell, a multi-talented composer, artist, and indie-folk maestro has previously helmed the bands Wages, Sincere Gifts, and Arizona, and his music has been featured in films and television shows. When constructing Left Vessel’s debut LP One (and Driftless) Campbell thought: "What if you could make music with a tree? Not cutting it down and turning it into an instrument, but actually with a living tree, in a way that was beautiful musically but allowed that tree to go on living its life once you were done performing with it?” He set out to do just that and traveled to Minnesota's Driftless Area in search of willing wooden participants.  

One (and Driftless) features several tracks recorded with trees, complete with ambient sounds of the forest in the background—chirping birds, fluttering wings, and feet keeping time on crunchy, fallen leaves. Campbell used his own unique instrumental creation he dubbed "the arbow." The arbow (a play on the Spanish word “arbol,” for tree) is a live tree that is strung, bowed or plucked, and amplified—all in a way that doesn't damage the tree. The core idea is to find a way of making “non-extractive” music: music that doesn't hurt our world but works with it. This video illustrates Campbell’s process: https://vimeo.com/366830629/bff361fd5b 

Left Vessel’s swirling brand of indie-folk, though experimental in its creation, is imminently accessible due in large part to Campbell’s adeptness with winding, catchy hooks. Taken as a whole, One (and Driftless) is a collection of songs about transformation: ecological, societal, personal, and romantic. 

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NEW ZEALAND INDIE POP CHANTEUSE LISA CRAWLEY “GIVES SERIOUS MOODY FIONA APPLE OR CAT POWER-VIBES” ON HER NEW SINGLE “THE RIGHT WAY” OUT 6/18

NEW ZEALAND INDIE POP CHANTEUSE LISA CRAWLEY

“GIVES SERIOUS MOODY FIONA APPLE OR CAT POWER-VIBES” ON HER NEW SINGLE “THE RIGHT WAY” OUT TODAY

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New Zealand-born indie-pop chanteuse Lisa Crawley moved to Los Angeles in early 2020, after career forays in London and Melbourne. Emerging from her first year in LA, during which she eschewed pandemic realities to thrive and survive, Lisa Crawley will release her single “The Right Way,” from the forthcoming EP Looking For Love (In A Major), on 6/18.

“The Right Way” was co-written and produced with Grammy-nominated Rob Kleiner. Lisa and Rob bonded over Jon Brion, The Dresden and The Office (UK). These are just some of the iconic cultural influences that forged the creative process behind “The Right Way”. It will be accompanied by a highly reflective video directed by Heather Ballish that embraces awkwardness, hindsight and introspection, out next week.

“That moment when you think of everything you should’ve said after it’s all said & done perfectly captured in a catchy melody…an anthem for all of humanity” (-BTR Today)

Lisa is a four-time APRA Silver Scroll Award nominee, and was twice selected for the prestigious Banff Centre songwriter residency (Canada), where many of her notable songs were written.

A natural collaborator, Lisa has worked with luminary antipodean songwriters Tim Finn, Greg Johnson and Hugo Race, and created her show “Elizabeth” with Bullet Heart Club (Daffodils). Lisa has performed her own song arrangements with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra and opened for Suzanne Vega, John Mayer, Jools Holland, Paul Weller and Simply Red. More recently, Lisa donned her acting hat to star as ‘GIRL’ in the Tony Award-winning musical ‘Once’.

Over the past year, Lisa harnessed her insatiable creative drive to write “Show You What Love Is”, “Tragedy Boy”, “Clear History” and “See Me Soon”’ all produced with Grammy-nominated Rob Kleiner. Lisa’s songs also graced the airwaves of US TV shows “Nancy Drew”, “Good Trouble”, “Stumptown”, and “Proven Innocent”.

Her upcoming EP ‘Looking For Love (In A Major)’ will be released on July 23, 2021.

BUZZ

“Lisa Crawley’s mastered her own musical destiny from day dot.” – Huff Post

"Lisa Crawley's voice is all her own, her sultry lower register and occasional switches to shrillness selling the drama of her narrative lyrics." -TheMusic

“A breath of fresh air, it’s no wonder Crawley has become one of the country’s most respected ladies in the game.” – The AU Review

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