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The story of Molly Parden’s music is a mystery - she’s been known to say it’s something that happened to her more than a vision she sought after. She comes with a classic American folk artist story in which her father built houses, her mother gave birth to enough children to form a baseball team, and she went full black sheep, straying from the flock of her pitch-impaired siblings to find art: first in Atlanta, then a decade in Nashville, and then in New York. One needs only to see her perform live to understand her ease, the way she has befriended her preternatural gifts of melody, singing, and playing guitar. Her quiet confidence exudes as she smiles through a painstaking lyric, assuring the audience that heartache is a natural curve on the path of existence. The intensity of her lyrical matter is offset with pragmatic banter between songs about last night’s meal or a seemingly random poll on modes of transportation, just to make you laugh. Disarming. As one song ends, the listener aches for the next universal truth to be presented in another singable refrain, while bracing for an unexpected chuckle.
Creatively, she doesn’t seem to ask for anyone’s input outside of her studio collaborators. Making music is an intimate conversation, and she keeps her inner artist well protected. Perhaps it is this fierce loyalty to the fire inside that has warranted a pivot from the grueling lifestyle of touring toward a more grounded home life. Clark Kent, The Daily Planet
Creatively, she doesn’t seem to ask for anyone’s input outside of her studio collaborators. Making music is an intimate conversation, and she keeps her inner artist well protected. Perhaps it is this fierce loyalty to the fire inside that has warranted a pivot from the grueling lifestyle of touring toward a more grounded home life. Clark Kent, The Daily Planet
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