Gram Parsons - Biography

Imbued with Brandi Shearer’s smoky voice and classic, blues-infl ected

songwriting, Close to Dark is by turns languid and lively, an excursion into

dreamy worlds simmering with understated sexuality. The restrained

arrangements and deft production by Larry Klein (Madeleine Peyroux, Joni

Mitchell) add a delicious tension to the songs and compliment perfectly

Shearer’s less-is-more vocal style.

Shearer assembled well-known players from the Brooklyn roots music scene that

has coalesced around Norah Jones for these sessions and augmented the roster

with a cast of crack L.A. musicians.

Shearer’s artistic path has taken a winding route from her childhood home in

rural Oregon to the cabarets of Hungary and France to the Bay Area in 1998.

Shearer spent several years performing locally before putting together her own

band in 2003 to record her self-released Music of a Saturday Night in a single

day. An intense 4-hour recording session several months later led to her

sophomore disc, The Sycamore.

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