News: Brad Butcher & Brielle Brown duet in "Lay your head"

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 Brad Butcher and Brielle Brown

Brad Butcher is a Mackay born, central Queensland, singer-songwriter and musician. He has earned himself critical acclaim and recognition nationally as an independent artist and has crafted a career and unique style of songwriter that sets him apart from the norm of Australian country singer songwriters. Brad also has earned a reputation as a sort after and hard working individual ready to lend an hand to the next crop of emerging songwriter. At the core of it all, he is an uncomplicated Australian fella with a passion to create, connect and inspire. After eight years as independent artist, 4 studio albums, two time Golden Guitar Award winner for New Talent (2018) & Alt Country Album of the Year (2020), Q Music Award winner for Best Country Song (2018) and an APRA Professional Development Award Finalist (2013), Brad Butcher has signed a deal with Ambition Records as he steps into a second phase of his career. "Storyteller: the journey so far", his latest album released in January 2022, sees Brad Butcher reflect on the first decade of his career.

"Storyteller" includes a duet with Brielle Brown, that I already had the opportunity to interview on my Instagram account earlier in 2021, so let me introduce her:  Brielle is an artist, writer, mother and mentor based in the greater NYC area, where she lives with her husband and young twin children. She spent the last decade in artist development, running indie label and entertainment company, Monocentric Music and serves on the Steering Committee for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She is the Creative Director for multiple recording artists and two of her mentees have landed runner up and finalist spots on NBC’s The Voice. A self-described eternal student of the human condition, her work continues to question why we’re here, why we love and what it truly means to be alive. Her debut album "The Well" has been described as "a picture of ethereal femininity", "a game changer for the singer/songwriter circuit" and "unapologetically unguarded and naturally trascendent".

In this article I'd like to present to you Brad & Brielle duet: "Lay your head". It is my favorite piece of the whole album "Storyteller": a sweet ballad where their voices exquisitely melt and dance together, in a melody that will give you goosebumps. It's certainly a song that hits the chords of the heart, to listen on repeat.

"The past 10 years have been a myriad of musical trial and error. in many cases one step forward and two steps back, but ultimately I have grown to be the artist I am today because of that journey. Musically the path has never really changed. I write in my own way, record the sounds and the style that I have always loved, and I have stayed true to who I am" says Brad. "Lay your head" with Brielle Brown is of importance to all involved, as it has taken a fresh set of wings upon updating and refreshing this song to fit all of our current family love and life situations.  

"Lay your head"

We both had our share of sorrow 

Broken down a time or two

Somehow better days would follow

Somehow I was meant for you

So lay your head

Lay your head

Lay your head on me

Lay your head

Lay your head

Lay your head on me 

We’re all just drifting though darkness

Trying to find the light that cracks through

Somehow that spirit keeps rising

Somehow I was born to love you 

Chorus

Be my voice without speaking

Be my road without ground

Just let your mind rest easy

And lay it on me, lay it on me

Lay it on me now

Chorus

©️B. Brown, B. Butcher, M. Swersky

"To me, Brad Butcher is a shining light for singer songwriters in our industry. He plays and sings with depth and tells the stories of this land like no other" - Troy Cassar-Daley

"Brad Butcher is one of the most captivating writers of today. His conversational style draws you in with effortless ease. His songs and stories, delivered with a vocal as free as an untrained vine, will grow around you and in you, filling you with nostalgia and emotion. Brad's music is a trusty companion" - Felicity Urquart (Australian Country Music Star) & Josh Cunningham (The Weifs)

"She embraces a melancholic harmony with a grace that nearly left me in tears the first time I listened to The Well in its entirety. Brielle Brown is unlike any other singer/songwriter on the planet, and she really drives that home in her debut" - Vents Magazine

"I think our leading woman is able to establish herself as the intricacy-oriented we need out of alternative folk-rock in 2021" - The Hollywood Digest

Instagram: @bradbutcher_music @briellebrown

Spotify: Brad Butcher - Brielle Brown

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