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The album was recorded live in 11 days with producers Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall) and Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt, Tunstall) and came on the heels of a romantic breakup. "I just wanted something that sounded a bit like not trying to be uptight. At the end of the day, you're making music. It's supposed to be about how it makes you feel."
The vocals are dirtier and the production pared down, but a listener still might have a hard time finding this attitude of which Prettyman speaks.
She's just too optimistic. "No matter how sad a song is, there's a little hope in the end," she said. She lives in a "cute, little, quaint chateau village near the beach" and loves to get up early in the morning, get coffee and go look at the waves. She's part of Barefoot Wine's Beach Rescue Project to save beaches.
There's not a lot of obvious attitude here.
She does, however, have a depth, as her lyrics suggest, and she mused recently about her drifting friends and her hope for the future. "I'm kind of ready for the whole marriage and kids thing," she said. Or at least, "something bigger than what it is now," she added.
That might seem strange coming from a successful, touring (in a bus!) musician. Or maybe Prettyman knows exactly what she needs to feed her muse. "You have to step away from it awhile so that you have something to write about it. I need an event to happen to shake the mold."
In the meantime, "I'm . . . trying to enjoy the moment," she said.
Not exactly attitude. But she has time for that later.
Tristan Prettyman Opening for G. Love & Special Sauce and the John Butler Trio at Wolf Trap today at 7 p.m. Tickets:$30-34, available at http:/
