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Before joined us for the /O Sessions, she had recently relocated back to her native home in Colorado after living in New York City. As she said, “I needed to know if I could come back home to where I lived and grew up, and this could be a space that I could create in. We don’t always know what environment we will be able to create in best, but I think it’s worth finding.”

It’s that exploration that drew us into her music...that and how she charmed us with her iPhone demos recorded in a Winnebago or back-country tent after being driven inside by mosquitoes. ”Being here, I love really natural sounds, and I love being in spaces where I can hear my fingers being influenced… lyrically, it shifts everything. Because I draw from what I’m around.”

You’ll experience that sensation in her resonant debut album “Ready Reckoner,” where the songs emerged from walking a 500-mile pilgrimage route across Spain or were written in the solitude of a Brooklyn apartment. We hope you will listen and experience a sense of grounded exploration in her /O Sessions performance of “Reservoir” on NPR Live Sessions with .

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Brianna Straut () captured our hearts with her soaring voice and a deep sense of emotion in her songs, and we were thrilled when she joined us for the /O Sessions Vol. 3. Lucky for us, she found time in her 150+ live show 2019 schedule to join us. Brianna has described herself as easily distracted, which we found surprising given her songwriting's focus and directness. It's a craft that she's honed since her youth growing up in Texas, and those roots have grown stronger here in the Rocky Mountains. You can hear that continuum in "Salt in My Wounds." The song is a thoughtful journey, one we hope will leave you feeling strengthened.

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