WHO Am i?

My name is Kirby Brown.

I was born in East Texas.
I was raised in the Ozark foothills of Arkansas.
I lived in Dallas.
I lived in New York City.
I live in Nashville.

The meaning of my first name is “fenced hilltop settlement” and my middle name means “settlement next to a church”.

For me, the process of writing is a liturgical one--repeatedly walking around the fences of my own life, looking in to see what's hidden, and trying to make heads or tails of what’s going on in there. In a sense, though, I often feels blocked out... on the wrong side of those barricades. The practice of songwriting, when it’s working, is the shortest way across that I have found.

My latest record, Break Into Blossom, was an exercise in revisiting this process: searching for the universal within the personal, peeling back the layers of the world around me to try and get at myself.

As with my own life, the songs are often a synthesis of many varied influences and inspirations in juxtaposition with one another--marriages of both the quotidian and the sacred, the conversational and the poetic, the serious and the playful. Ultimately, they are all roundabout meditations on what’s behind the veil of our seemingly plain human experiences. Sometimes it feels like chaos, and sometimes a bigger picture comes together.

I know that, like a stained-glass window, it’s possible to be many things and one thing simultaneously--what you see depends on where you’re standing.

So, anyway, what do you see?