Mary Bragg Defies Insecurity with Video for New Single FIXED

Acclaimed Nashville singer/songwriter and "Americana Queen" (Noisey) Mary Bragg will release her new album Violets as Camouflage on March 1st via Tone Tree Music. Self-produced and self-engineered at her home studio, the fourteen-song collection was recently hailed by Billboard as "the most intensely personal Bragg has ever written." Both beautiful and blunt, it's the work of an artist only just beginning to embrace the full range of her talents. Today Bragg released the video for her latest single "Fixed," a tender, string-flecked track which takes on the skewed self-perception that many women grow up battling. It debuted on PopMatters who stated "[Bragg] plunges into emotional depths that have never been explored."

Watch "Fixed" HERE.

"The album as a whole addresses many of the things in life that are not as they seem," Bragg told PopMatters. "We cover up harsh realities with little white lies we tell ourselves to make a situation more palatable ('A Little Less,' and dare I say 'The Right Track'); we believe relationships are bound for failure when perhaps it's just state of mind that might need to be altered ('Fight'); we can be inadvertently deceived by people we love, whether it's their fault or our own, thanks to the stories we make up in our heads ('Thought You Were Somebody Else')."

Her most vulnerable, honest, and powerful album yet, Violets as Camouflage is the follow-up to 2017's critically acclaimed Lucky Strike. Hailed as a "sublime distilling of Southern grit" and one of the year's best by NPR Music, Bragg dipped her toes into a kind of radical honesty that she had only hinted at before, and it connected with audiences in profound and deeply personal ways. A Georgia native who grew up "where it's not super common to come right out and say what you feel or talk openly about your intimate emotional experiences," it was the first time she started to fully understand the importance of directly addressing really personal issues and hardship through song. It emboldened Mary to trust her gut in a whole new way on Violets as Camouflage where she reaches deeper than ever before, bares her soul, and opens herself up to the possibility of complete and total heartbreak in order to forge a strong and lasting connection.

The album's lead track "I Thought You Were Somebody Else" is also out now, a languid, seductive tune that feels both classic and modern at once. It's an ideal entry point for a record all about the stories in our heads, the little voices that delude us into hearing what we want to hear or weigh us down with self-doubt and insecurity. Rolling Stone stated "Like the long-lost ballad Patsy Cline never got to croon, 'I Thought You Were Somebody Else' mixes classic country twang with broken hearted sentiment and light touches of pedal steel." The Boot called it "A sorrowful, sparse song...lyrics floating along with a light drum beat, mournful guitar and Bragg's soaring vocals."

Track List:

01) I Thought You Were Somebody Else

02) A Little Less

03) Faint of Heart

04) Fixed

05) Fight

06) Fool

07) Trouble Me Anytime

08) You Rescue Me

09) The Right Track

10) This Feeling

11) Runaway Town

12) Sad Stories

13) The Highest Tower

14) More Than You Do

Tour Dates:

01/18-01/20 - Santa Rosa Beach, FL @ 30A Songwriters Festival

01/25 - Nashville, TN @ Douglas Corner

02/13-02/16 - Montreal, QC, Canada @ Folk Alliance International

02/18 - Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean

02/19 - Lyndonville, VT @ York St. Meeting House

02/20 - Ayer's Cliff, QC, Canada @ Brigitte's Ranch

02/22 - West Stockbridge, MA @ House Concert

02/23 - New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall

02/24 - Washington, DC @ House Concert

03/07 - Decatur, GA @ Eddie's Attic

03/08 - Athens, GA @ Hendershot's

03/09 - Swainsboro, GA @ Sudie A. Fulford Community Learning Center

03/21 - Nashville, TN @ Trimble House

03/29 - Huntington Beach, CA @ House Concert

03/30 - San Diego, CA @ House Show

04/10 - Appleton, WI @ Rhythms & Brews at Stone Arch at Riverview Gardens

04/11 - Chicago, IL @ Haymarket Americana Series

04/20 - Hayesville, NC @ Peacock Performing Arts Center

05/04 - LaGrange, TX @ The Bugle Boy

05/30 - Houston, TX @ Anderson Fair

06/01 - League City, TX @ Clear Creek Harbour Concerts