[Cover photo credit to Ilia Stockert]

Singer/songwriter, yogi, and retreat guide Mary Bue has released “Bedding Down With The Deer,” the second single from her forthcoming album The Wildness of Living and Dying.

She explains of the new track:

In ‘Bedding Down with the Deer,’ I sing of wishing I could sleep with the deer in their soft forest beds as that feels ‘safer than my corner, safer than my own damn bed, safer than my own head.’ The song is my hope for how we could cultivate compassion for those who are processing trauma and hard times.

Following a terrifying carjacking in 2020, Mary Bue took to music to process her healing. The collection of songs that compose The Wildness of Living and Dying express “strength in vulnerability, resilience of the human spirit, the growth experienced within a cycle of destruction, and, ultimately, transformation.”

The Wildness of Living And Dying will be released on February 7, 2025 with tour dates to follow.

The Wildness is her ninth album and first since 2020s The World Is Your Lover. Produced by the Suburbs’ Steve Price, it’s a synthesis that merges pianos and guitars. Her previous albums were “melancholy piano-poems,” yet in 2015 Mary risked a genre switch to electric guitars and a nod to 90’s Grunge.

Mary Bue’s last four albums were 100% fan-funded via Kickstarter. She has been awarded multiple Artist Residencies including The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico ~ Taos, NM, “Escape to Create” Artist in Residence at The Seaside Institute in Seaside, FL, and Big Cypress Nature Preserve Artist in Residence in Ochopee, FL.