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Vanessa Brown

Acoustic Inspiration.

About Me

Feeling. Melody. Rhythm. Words that entangle themselves around human emotion and settle in the recesses of your soul. Maybe it’s a love lost, or just the end of a long day and you’ve found a moment of calm. Maybe it’s just distraction, but the melody seeps into your mind and the words just sear themselves into your thoughts…. That’s the kind of music you’ve stumbled on here…. “I want to convey an experience that means something,” Vanessa Brow says. “I write from the soul and I want the listener to see the color of the experience in the melody and feel the deepness of human emotion in the words. If I’ve stirred that in someone, I’ve done what I’ve hoped.” Vanessa’s music has been described as “sweet,” “emotional,” “soulful,” and “intelligent.” It’s a blend of folk and blues, with country and pop seeping into the landscape and it meets the listener where they’re at. It’s stuff that will stick with you. “Beyond whether a song blows someone away with great technicality or a complex melody, I want to reach someone where they’re at. The music and the words hold equal value to me. Somewhere in the melding of the two, I hope the listener finds some common ground.” Vanessa began writing lyrics at age twelve and picked up the guitar some years later. It was always a love for her, but it wasn’t until two years ago that she made a commitment to get the music out there. “It’s always been a great love of mine. College and graduate school were distractions from music for me, but deep down I never knew if I was good enough… But something just kept pulling back to songwriting and I can’t imagine not pursuing it now.” Although she’s still new to the block, Vanessa is jumping in head first. This year she signed a management and promo deal with Tammy Lam and Brighter Day Productions, and has played numerous venues, including Exodus, Sacred Grounds, Les Beans, Southern Nights, and Borders. She participated in the “Women Who Rock Battle of the Bands“, has played shows with Melissa Crispo, Julie Schuur, Michelle Lucey, and JD Danner, was featured on the Battle of the Bands compilation CD, and has been played on WSLR 96.5 FM in Tampa and on “Indie Rock with TammySlam” on InYourFaceRadio.net. The future looks bright for Vanessa, and she shows no signs of slowing down. “I’m excited to see where things go,” she says. “It’s been a lot of fun.” Take a listen. We think you’ll like what you hear.
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Member Since: 9/19/2005
Band Website: In Progress
Band Members: Vanessa Brown, Singer/Songwriter/Guitar
Influences: Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden, Kristen Hall, Jenn Foster, Joel/John, Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Steven C. Chapman, Rule of 7, Harry Chapin, Janis Joplin, Vaughan Rhea, Dar Williams....


Sounds Like: "Lillish Fair-esque," so I've been told. You know, that indie-acoustic chick folk thing.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Middle Ground-- Lyrics

The MiddleThere's the hurt and the painThe joy and the strainOf wanting and waiting in hopeAnd the miles that my soulSpent to find some controlAnd the needing to find my way homeBut somewhere betweenW...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:46:00 PST

Slippin' Through Lyrics

Slippin' Through I can feel the cold tonightMy inhibition's out of sightI don't know the way I foundThe hole beneath this tattered ground to youWhen I feel the seasons changeWithin the dark of hearts ...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:27:00 PST

Second Street Lyrics

Second Street somewhere after midnight down on second street    she's been lost and lonely, she's been in betweensomewhere past the innocence, beyond the place where freedom leftsh...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:15:00 PST

What Is A Kiss-- Lyrics

What Is A Kiss in the lightness of you-- the colors and hues--my world is subdued and the sun fallsand i lie here awake in the beauty you makeand nothing's at stake when the night calls and it pours t...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:24:00 PST

Drift-- Lyrics

Drift when clouds appear upon the edge i waitthere's nothing more for me to doholding on day by daywon't take my mind away could i say i lost a long-held trustto empty hours of lies, deceitcould i say...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:05:00 PST

Ten Past Eight-- Lyrics

Ten Past Eight it's ten past eight and i'm standing on the corneri shake my head at the chaos and disorderi close my eyes to these curiositieswe live our lives sometimes together, seperately life is s...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:58:00 PST

Hold On-- Lyrics

Hold On oh, we dance in shadows and in days of our uncertaintyand sometimes in the stillness of the lightsome days i am letting go and flying in the face of freeand those are times i try to touch the ...
Posted by Vanessa Brown on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:51:00 PST