Eliot Bronson - Empty Spaces

Over the course of five albums, indie folksinger Eliot Bronson has created his own brand of acclaimed Americana. He's an award winner. A road warrior. An internationally-renowned musician with a voice that swoons and sweeps, making fans out of everyone from his hometown newspaper, The Baltimore Sun — who championed Bronson from the very start, hailing him as "a folk singing wunderkind" back when he was still playing local coffeeshops — to Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb, whose work on 2014's Eliot Bronson and 2017's James placed Bronson on the same client roster as Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, and other heartfelt songwriters. 

Bronson turns a new page with Empty Spaces. Written during a period of tumult — including the breakup of a 10-year relationship, the end of an engagement, and a move from his adopted home of Atlanta to his current headquarters in Nashville — it's an album about loss, redemption, the places we leave, and the homes we make for ourselves. More importantly, it's an album about starting again. Like the soundtrack to a rainy day whose skies steadily give way to sunshine, the music itself is gorgeous and moodily atmospheric, splashed with watercolor streaks of electric guitar, vocal harmonies, strings, Mellotron, and Bronson's sharpest songwriting to date.

About the single “With Somebody”; One of the first songs I wrote after I moved to Nashville. I was renting a little house on the west side in Nashville and living alone for the first time in a decade. The place was fully furnished — crosses made of sea glass and a recipe for "Nana's Fudge Pie" hung from the walls. I felt like I was watching my life from a distance. I had just started dating again. I was seeing someone who was really good to me and I should have been happy, but I wasn't. One afternoon, she left my place and I immediately picked up the guitar and sang this chorus, like it had already been written. I finished the song in one sitting. I didn't edit it. I wanted to capture that raw feeling — not to make it too pretty. We recorded it the same way. We kept the very first take. The vocal are a real and complete performance, not pieces of the best moments like most songs. 

I like to think this is my response to CSN's "Love The One You're With." That's a great tune, but I could never seem to pull off their advice.