It's been an eventful four years between Lauren Pratt's debut album and the new The 10 songs on the album were written after, and in many cases reflect upon, an April 2016 fire that gutted the apartment complex where the singer-songwriter was living in Nashville.
But Pratt was not surprised that she ultimately returned to songwriting and recording. "I ended up saying, 'Y'know what? The thing that drew me to music is the empathetic connection that's created between songwriter and audience,'" Pratt explains. "There's usually some pretty universal truths that are shared, if not a universal something more than one person can give to another, or to others.
Meanwhile, Pratt is pleased that she followed some of her own counsel in getting back to her own music. Recording with Don Bates, who lived in the same apartment complex that burned down, Pratt came up with new songs she says "are about trying to reevaluate identity -- that loss of identity, searching for meaning, the typical heart-rendering, not rending, thing. It was quite lovely to get back to Nashville last summer and record with the guys.
As she nears the album's release, Pratt is weighing her future pursuits. She continues to perform, with shows booked most weekends. But with her degree due in May, she's torn "between moving back to Nashville and trying to do music full time and...stay in Boston," where, as the child of a military family herself, she's working with active and veteran service members through Massachusetts General Hospital.
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