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San Francisco-based songstress Jessica Pratt’s music sounds like something you might find on some lost ‘60s folk LP buried at the back of the bin – hushed fingerpicked guitar with a delicate, quivering voice singing poetic lyrics atop. An admitted loner growing up, Pratt was homeschooled throughout high school and spent much of her time in her room making and listening to music. “I didn’t start playing [in public] for a long time, probably because I didn’t see it as a viable thing I could do,” she admits. “It was just kind of a private thing that I did.” But when Tim Presley (White Fence, Darker My Love) discovered her music, he decided to launch his own label with the sole purpose of releasing her debut LP, a collection of home recordings created during a five-year span. Recalling ‘60s and ‘70s folk luminaries like Linda Perhacs, Karen Dalton and Vashti Bunyan, Pratt’s music possesses a similar old-timey sound that Cohen describes as “Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of a Sibylle Baier.”

San Francisco-based songstress Jessica Pratt’s music sounds like something you might find on some lost ‘60s folk LP buried at the back of the bin…