'Americana Queen' Mary Bragg Releases Anticipated New Album

Acclaimed Nashville singer/songwriter and "Americana Queen" (Noisey) Mary Bragg released her new album Violets as Camouflage today via Tone Tree Music. Self-produced and self-engineered at her home studio, the fourteen-song collection is both beautiful and blunt, the work of an artist only just beginning to embrace the full range of her talents. Stream or purchase Violets as Camouflage HERE.

Bragg also shared today the official video for "I Thought You Were Somebody Else." American Songwriter stated "The accompanying video is meant to reflect the song's hazy longing and loneliness, showing Bragg in dreamy natural settings."

Watch "I Thought You Were Somebody Else" HERE

"There's such beauty in trusting people - believing that every magical moment you share with a person is one hundred percent real and true," stated Bragg. "But of course we're all flawed human beings, and it's heartbreaking to realize that your version of a memory is not the same as someone else's. My co-writer Bill DeMain and I wanted to address that particular brand of romantic failure in the song. The video touches on the isolation you feel when a memory replays itself - the details fuzzy, the fantasy gone; you thought you knew that person - you know you did - but still somehow, you got it wrong."

Her most vulnerable, honest, and powerful album yet, Violets as Camouflage is the follow-up to 2017's critically acclaimed Lucky Strike. Hailed as a "sublime distilling of Southern grit" and one of the year's best by NPR Music, Bragg dipped her toes into a kind of radical honesty that she had only hinted at before, and it connected with audiences in profound and deeply personal ways. A Georgia native who grew up "where it's not super common to come right out and say what you feel or talk openly about your intimate emotional experiences," it was the first time she started to fully understand the importance of directly addressing really personal issues and hardship through song. It emboldened Mary to trust her gut in a whole new way on Violets as Camouflage where she reaches deeper than ever before, bares her soul, and opens herself up to the possibility of complete and total heartbreak in order to forge a strong and lasting connection.

The album's lead track "I Thought You Were Somebody Else" is a languid, seductive tune that feels both classic and modern at once. It's an ideal entry point for a record all about the stories in our heads, the little voices that delude us into hearing what we want to hear or weigh us down with self-doubt and insecurity. The Boot called it "A sorrowful, sparse song...lyrics floating along with a light drum beat, mournful guitar and Bragg's soaring vocals." With the release of her song "The Right Track," Nashville Scene named her an "Ace songwriter" and described it as "an upbeat shuffling tune in which Bragg reaffirms her trust in herself." On Valentine's Day, Bragg released two songs "Fight" and Fool." Rolling Stone stated "Both songs depict scenarios in which the characters lay themselves bare, revealing pain even as they open themselves up for more. It's a thread that continues through all of Violets as Camouflage."

Track List:

01) I Thought You Were Somebody Else

02) A Little Less

03) Faint of Heart

04) Fixed

05) Fight

06) Fool

07) Trouble Me Anytime

08) You Rescue Me

09) The Right Track

10) This Feeling

11) Runaway Town

12) Sad Stories

13) The Highest Tower

14) More Than You Do

Tour Dates:

03/07 - Decatur, GA @ Eddie's Attic

03/08 - Athens, GA @ Hendershot's

03/09 - Swainsboro, GA @ Sudie A. Fulford Community Learning Center

03/21 - Nashville, TN @ Trimble House

03/23 - Palo Alto, CA @ House Concert

03/28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Cafe

03/29 - Huntington Beach, CA @ House Concert

03/31 - San Diego, CA @ House Show

04/06 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Warming House

04/10 - Appleton, WI @ Rhythms & Brews at Stone Arch at Riverview Gardens

04/11 - Chicago, IL @ Haymarket Americana Series

04/13 - Cincinnati, OH @ Wyoming Community Coffee

04/19 - Knoxville, TN @ Blue Plate Special

04/20 - Hayesville, NC @ Peacock Performing Arts Center

05/04 - LaGrange, TX @ The Bugle Boy

05/30 - Houston, TX @ Anderson Fair

05/31 - La Grange, TX @ Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe

06/01 - Houston, TX @ Clear Creek Harbour Concerts

06/02 - Houston, TX @ House in the Heights

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