The daughter of two preachers' kids, Brown spent her childhood in Iowa and Alabama amidst a very musical family. In her bare-bones bohemian upbringing in Iowa there was no electricity or running water, and it was here that Pieta was first exposed to a wealth of traditional and rural folk music through her father -- two-time Grammy nominee Greg Brown, whose songs have been covered by the likes of Willie Nelson. Later, while spending time in the deep south of Birmingham, Alabama, with her full-time working mother, Pieta drew on all these influences and began writing poetry then eventually moved into the world of songwriting.

Lyrically and musically poetic, Brown's deceptive simplicity and seductive purity combine to create songs that meet somewhere between Johnny Cash and Neko Case. On each and every track the touches of old-school folk, soul and country are clear, but they are given the modern twist of a Jeff Buckley or the latter-day Loretta Lynn.

"In My Mind I Was Talkin' To Loretta" will be available on Pieta Brown's Remember the Sun, out September 25th from One Little Indian US.