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Riding Ponies to the Moon - Rebecca Newton

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Riding Ponies to the Moon

Recorded: 2020-2022

Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by: Jerry Brown, Rubber Room Studios, Chapel Hill, NC

Label: Blue Shirt Records

Rebecca Newton’s latest solo project brings music and fiction lovers a new way to enjoy both mediums in one sitting. “It’s a musical storybook,” says Newton. “It’s based on a book I’ve been working on and has a song that points to each chapter.” She included excerpts from the book, with a working title “A Simple but Kind Gesture on What Was an Otherwise Ordinary Day.” It’s a fictional memoir of Newton’s life with songs creatively woven into the project. Riding Ponies to the Moon, the title track, recalls a teen story of love and enlightenment via psychedelics in the 70s. The record tells a story of heartbreak and trauma, but also focuses on life’s lessons resulting in happiness and deep love and acceptance. It’s a beautiful piece of art, musically, visually, and literally.

Blue Shirt

Recorded: 2019

Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by: Jerry Brown, Rubber Room Studios, Chapel Hill, NC

Co-Producer: Rebecca Newton

Label: Blue Shirt Records

When the opportunity came up to record a solo album at Jerry Brown’s Rubber Room studio in Chapel Hill, Rebecca leapt at it and began a years-long collaborative process to write down her story and assemble it with help from some of the state’s best musicians, including Rob Ladd (Don Henley, Alanis Morrisette, The DBs) Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Joseph Terrell (Mipso) and Robert Sledge, formerly of Ben Folds Five. The product is her new record “Blue Shirt.”

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