Singer/songwriter Pieta Brown has announced a 10th Anniversary reissue of her album Paradise Outlaw which will arrive on December 13th, 2024 through Righteous Babe Records.
The reissue will include a first time pressing on limited edition vinyl. The digital version will also include six additional “Drifters” outtake tracks that were recorded during the original album sessions.
Among these previously unreleased songs is a remix of “Little Swainson” by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and BJ Burton, out now.
Paradise Outlaw was recorded in four days at Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon’s April Base Studio in Wisconsin with a supporting cast that includes Vernon, Amos Lee, Brown’s father Greg Brown, Iris Dement, Bo Ramsey, and various members of an experimental group of players she called The Sawdust Collective.
It reached #1 on the Roots Music Report Top 50 Americana Country Album chart and remained in the Top 5 for several months. Vernon would also go on to call the album “probably my favorite record ever made at our studio.”
Brown explains:
These songs were recorded live in one big room at April Base Studio in Wisconsin. Fourteen songs became the album, and the other six songs became these outtakes – these drifters – all held aside for one reason or another. I questioned the mixes on ‘Goin’ Up The Country’ and ‘Drifter.’ And I just questioned ‘Parataxis Blues’ and ‘Why Now’ – both experiments in form and both sparked by my ongoing fascination with beat poetry and old folk songs.
The remix of ‘Little Swainson’ by BJ Burton and Justin Vernon didn’t make it onto Paradise Outlaw because the album didn’t end up being a double album, as I had originally imagined. And ‘Just Slip Away’ was written in the studio, and recorded as it was coming in. It was the last thing we recorded on the last day. Another experiment that has gone on to become a song I still sing. After many sweet inquiries at shows from fans about ‘Goin’ Up The Country’ and ‘Drifter,’ I decided to go back and listen to these outtakes. In spite of many rough edges, I heard and felt the openness and the music made. Offered now with love and hope for more musical experiments everywhere.
Paradise Outlaw (10th Anniversary) Track Listing:
01) Wondering How
02) Ricochet
03) Flowers of Love
04) Do You Know
05) No Not Me
06) Before Gas and TV
07) All My Rain
08) Little Swainson
09) Painter’s Hand
10) Heading Home
11) Letter In Hand
12) Back To You
13) Receiver
14) Rise My Only Rose
15) Goin’ Up The Country (Paradise Outlaw Drifters)
16) Parataxis Blues (Paradise Outlaw Drifters)
17) Drifter (Paradise Outlaw Drifters)
18) Why Now (Paradise Outlaw Drifters)
19) Little Swainson (Justin Vernon & BJ Burton remix) (Paradise Outlaw Drifters)
20) Just Slip Away (Paradise Outlaw Drifters)
