Mindy Smith drops NEW Album Quiet Town

 Mindy Smith drops NEW Album Quiet Town

“A Welcome Return” —PASTE

"Smith’s best music has always been modest yet mesmerizing, and Quiet Town proves her gift for such musical alchemy is far from lost." —No Depression REVIEW
 
It all speaks of the changing face of Nashville these days, as old, identifying buildings and ‘historic’ meeting places, especially for the music community in most recent times have all been lost. - The Rocking Magpie … Music review from the heart
 
Mindy shared “My new album, Quiet Town, is out today. A big fat HALLELUJAH to finally be able to say that.
https://found.ee/quiet-town (preferred music platform) or LISTEN below
 
In an Instagram post she shared “These songs took me on a journey to find my light again and I’d wandered around looking everywhere but within. I’m reminding you that yours is there too, so let it SHINE BRIGHT!
I am proud and thankful to have entrusted Quiet Town to Neilson Hubbard to produce, and everyone from my co-writers, the players and my team for getting us to today. My continued philosophy is to share my tunes and then let you take whatever you need from them. Thank you all sincerely for always being a “bridge” for me. Big love, Mindy ❤️
 
For Quiet Town, her first album of new material in 12 years, critically acclaimed and Americana Award-winning singer-songwriter Mindy Smith called on producer and musician Neilson Hubbard, and engineer Dylan Alldredge. Hubbard enlisted guitarists Will Kimbrough, Megan McCormick, and Juan Solorzano, bassist Lex Price, Danny Mitchell on keys and horns, and a host of acclaimed vocalists for the background vocals. Smith’s talent for expressing the most human of vulnerabilities is on full display on the new album.
An Americana Association Award winner, Mindy Smith’s songs have been featured in Grey’s Anatomy and in numerous HBO, Showtime, CBS, CW, and NBC series. Quiet Town brings this treasured musical voice back into the spotlight!

Mindy Smith - Quiet Town (Giant Leap Records/ TVX Records) 11 songs 38:13
Standout Tracks: I Always Will, Every Once In a While, Something to Write In Stone, I'd Rather Be a Bridge, Farther Than We Should Have

CD and LP will be SIGNED by Mindy Smith (while this offer is present).
Critically acclaimed and Americana Award winning Singer-songwriter Mindy Smith’s sixth studio album, QUIET TOWN, brings a treasured musical voice back into the spotlight.
 
For Quiet Town, her first album of new material in 12 years, Smith called on producer and musician Neilson Hubbard, alongside engineer Dylan Alldredge. Hubbard enlisted guitarists Will Kimbrough, Megan McCormick, and Juan Solorzano, bassist Lex Price, Danny Mitchell on keys and horns, and a host of acclaimed vocalists for the background vocals, including Maureen Murphy, Nickie Conley, Jodi Seyfried, Matraca Berg, Kate York, and Park Chisolm.
Smith’s talent for expressing the most human of vulnerabilities is in full display on the new album.
 

Beyond the title track, other album highlights include “Jericho,” co-written with esteemed artist and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriter Matraca Berg, which gives voice to anticipation of impending life changes of monumental import; “I’d Rather Be a Bridge,” a plea for compassion and connection; and “Farther Than We Should Have,” co-written with Natalie Hemby and K.S. Rhoads. The latter is a song about overcoming the deck stacked against kindred spirits who together trek through a difficult journey and find footing beyond beating the odds.

Arguably, Smith’s wisdom and insight grew out of the challenges of her youth. Most longtime fans know she was raised on Long Island by her adoptive parents: her non-denominational minister father and her mother, the choir director at their church. However, in 2014, Smith connected with members of the birth family she had never known, living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia.

She also found her newly discovered relatives to be musically inclined, a discovery that helped her make sense of her innate attraction to Americana music. That connection inspired several of the songs on Quiet Town, most notably in the sense of gratitude and reassurance that she offers in “Hour of My Departure,” a duet and co-write with longtime writing partner Daniel Tashian.
 
The spirit of gratitude is the note on which Smith concludes the album. The song “I Always Will,” holds out the promise of an abiding love that can transcend whatever troubles life may bring. “I write for one purpose and that’s to figure out how to live in the world I am in” Smith has been quoted as saying. Responding to her comment from years past with a laugh, Smith says “I hope I never do figure that out, because if I did, I don’t think I’d know what I’d write about.”
 
Smith’s 2004 debut, One Moment More, sold over 400,000 copies and put Smith squarely on the list of artists defining Americana and roots music. A defining element of her music has always been the powerful simplicity of her straight-to-the-heart vocals, rejecting so much fussiness that often characterizes pop music, whether country, pop, R&B, or rock. Although she has carved a path for herself in Americana music, it is telling that she has cited jazz singer Sarah Vaughan as her favourite vocalist. And the Los Angeles Times raved, “Her voice exudes the gentility and grace of [Alison] Krauss, while musically she can evoke an electronics-drenched moodiness of latter-day Emmylou Harris, which can indeed leave a listener yearning for one moment more.”
 
Smith attracted attention in 2003 when she sang a cover version of "Jolene" by Dolly Parton for the tribute album JUST BECAUSE I'M A WOMAN. Soon after, she signed a contract with Vanguard Records, who released her debut album.
"Come to Jesus" was her biggest hit, receiving airplay on country, Christian, adult album alternative (AAA), and adult contemporary radio. The song charted at No. 32 on the Adult Top 40 chart of Billboard magazine.

In 2004 Mindy made an appearance at the Cambridge Folk Festival, which was broadcast nationally on BBC Radio.
In October 2006, Smith released "Out Loud", the first single from her second album Long Island Shores.
In October 2007, Smith released a Christmas album, MY HOLIDAY. She wrote six original songs, including the stunning "I Know the Reason" with Thad Cockrell.

In August 2009, Smith released her fourth studio album, STUPID LOVE which received 4 STARS from Billboard.com who said: “
The lack of woe-is-me melancholy on Mindy Smith's fourth release, Stupid Love, is what makes the heartrending album so intriguing”.
Between 2015 and 2018, Smith contributed (as sole writer or co-writer) several songs to the musical TV drama series NASHVILLE.
 
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