Brooke Harvey flies in with new single, Little Bird.
“Little bird, little bird when you cry, cry, cry, are you lonesome as the sky?”
Bluegrass influences, alt-country, Americana and the backing vocals of Kasey Chambers, all merge in harmony on Brooke Harvey’s new single, ‘Little Bird’.
The second single off ‘Home’, her forthcoming album, ‘Little Bird’ arrives in the footsteps of her debut single, ‘Southern Sky’.
The NSW Mid-North Coast singer-songwriter said many of the songs from the album were written over quite an extended period.
Love lost, love found, the arrival of her children and the crazy Covid times, all contributed to delay her album’s release.
“Little Bird was written some time back and I wrote the song from a perspective of someone dying or the little bird being a metaphor of life,” she said. “I do love birds , so used them as the metaphor in the song.”
Brooke said ‘Little Bird’ “wrote itself very quickly” and now that she was setting it free into the world, she wanted, most of all, for listeners to enjoy it.
“I would love listeners to get something from it on an emotional level and, of course, for people to enjoy my music when they hear it,” she said.
This will be final single before the release of ‘Home’, Brooke’s album, in May.
“I believe ‘Southern Sky’ and now ‘Little Bird’ are indicative of the sound of the album as all the songs are in that vein: they’ve got quite a traditional country feel. I didn’t particularly target a ‘sound, it just kind of fit,” she said.
The feel of the songs is no surprise, as the Bulahdelah artist is heavily influenced by Lucinda Williams, Lori McKenna, and Justin Townes Earl.
“I love all music, but my style has always remained country singer-songwriter and Americana vibe and bluegrass – those traditional styles.”