Songwriter Legend Louisa Branscomb

Foresees current events in

Multi-genre Hit album: Gonna Love Anyway

 

Known as a pioneer acoustic performer among women, and the songwriter’s “ultimate” songwriter, Louisa Branscomb has been unstoppable as a songwriter and seer on the art, performer, and recording artist. Her latest of 12 mostly original works, Gonna Love Anyway, set precedents as debuting at #2 on FAI (Folk) Charts, and #1 on many bluegrass charts simultaneously. With 5 songs in the top 10 on at least one chart at a time, the album commanded charts from early 2018 to well into 2020. 

 

Like the theme itself, Branscomb is a force in acoustic music, with Grammy cuts by Alison Krauss and John Denver, two Song of the Year Awards (Steel Rails, Dear Sister, co-written with Lynch), and over 40 years as a performing vocalist and instrumentalist. She has been inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, the Alabama Bluegrass Hall of Fame has performed on two IBMA Recorded Events of the Year, and holds 7 nominations for Songwriter of the Year between IBMA and SPGMA. As her Distinguished Achievement honor states, she has acoustic music songwriting history as a mentor and advocate.

 

Among favored plays on her latest CD is the album’s reunion version of Branscomb’s classic Krauss version of “Steel Rails”, credited with bringing a whole generation into bluegrass. “To be a part of this project with Louisa all these years later is such an honor”, says Molly Tuttle. Years before, however, Branscomb broke ground as the first female to front a bluegrass band, write most of the band’s material, and play banjo. Sierra Hull, and Molly Tuttle, two of the guest artists deem it an “honor” to be on the new project since both credit Steel Rails as a song that shaped their love of the music.

 

As sure as her songs are an arrow to the heart, Louisa has one message: “The song is the most powerful art form to reach heart and soul and transform lives, in the space of only a few minutes of clock time.” This driving passion has taken her far beyond her formidable legacy of songwriting to the hearts of listeners in the U.S. and abroad, from concert halls to living rooms. Folk icon Si Kahn relates, “the raw courage of her work is stunning, unmistakable,” while David McGhee (Engine 145) explains, “Nobody captures the full array of human emotions in all their flawed glory as does Louisa.”

 

Power, grace, and sensitivity distinguish Louisa’s work on and off stage.  Of songs and trains Louisa relates: To surrender, to the song, to destiny, to go on, live anyway, love anyway. Take the bend, take the curves, take the road for all it’s worth. This makes art. And art, like trains, always knows what to do. “

 

So does she. Don’t miss the chance to see why.

 

Branscomb is available as a solo artist, with her all-female band, Geez Louise, and in the trio Branscomb and Williams with bluegrass veterans Jeanette and Johnny Williams.

 

 

 

 

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