Lullaby For A Stranger, by Jamie Stillway

Lullaby For A Stranger

by Jamie Stillway

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1.	North Dakota Overture 04:17	buy track
2.	Communication Is A Two Way Street 05:14	buy track
3.	Permanent Medium 05:03	buy track
4.	What's In A Name 03:28	buy track
5.	Instructions For Saying Goodbye 04:22	buy track
6.	The Patience Of Spring 03:54	buy track
7.	Wood And Windows 03:30	buy track
8.	Lullaby For A Stranger 04:43	buy track

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In the fall of 2019, Jamie Stillway moved into a 196 sq. foot cabin on an island in the Puget Sound without internet. From this quiet place, her new album “Lullaby for a Stranger” was born.

The album is inspired by a true story of a journey, one that took place 70 years ago when a pregnant woman made a solo drive from Minnesota to Oregon to deliver her unborn daughter and give her up for adoption. That baby grew up never knowing her mother, and 30 years later gave birth to her own daughter. And as generational trauma is often a circle without completion, that mother then left her own daughter when she was just 6 months old. That child was Jamie Stillway.

In “Lullaby for a Stranger”, Stillway’s most haunting and personal album to date, Jamie writes a letter in sound that chronicles her grandmother’s journey as she imagines it might have been. These are songs of grief, loss, contemplation, and ultimately, beauty. They speak not only to the two women who became her strangers, but also to others who have made the decision to part with a child, and those left behind to grieve in silence. If you have a beating heart, prepare yourself. “Lullaby for a Stranger” will touch anything you have lost and loved.

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released November 11, 2022

For this album, Stillway exclusively used a custom archtop guitar built by Maegen Wells of Forestville, CA. It was recorded and texturized by Dan Phelps at Wreck Room Studios on Bainbridge Island and mastered by Rachel Field of Resonant Mastering of Seattle. All songs written by Jamie Stillway (BMI).

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Jamie Stillway Vashon, Washington

Jamie Stillway has been quietly making her mark on the guitar world for over 25 years. Hailed by Fretboard Journal as “One of the top fingerstyle guitarists of her generation,” she is widely regarded as a master of her craft who plays like a woman with nothing to prove. Her latest album, “Lullaby for a Stranger” was released on 11.11.22 on Portland’s Fluff and Gravy Records. ... more

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