Holly O'Reilly - Gifts and Burdens

Holly O'Reilly entered the studio in Tacoma with a group of friends, including producer Evan Brubaker, and began cutting the tracks that would become Gifts & Burdens. She brought the best of her recent material with her and nestled it into intimate acoustic settings. The results were beautiful, sometimes almost painfully so - yet even though she was performing her own songs, she had no idea that they were speaking to her about changes yet to come.

'All my songs on Gifts & Burdens were written between 2003 and '06,” she says. 'Looking back on it, I can only say, 'Wow, how could I not know I was in trouble?' I had no idea that in writing these songs, I was writing about my own life.'

The Seattle Weekly says of Gifts and Burdens, 'the tunes often have a wistful, lonely, late-night quality about them but, at the same time, are not really a downer,' O’Reilly is singled out as 'sounding both compellingly contemporary and ancient simultaneously' by the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange.

• Lay Them Down
• One More Time
• Gifts and Burdens
• Mary, Mary
• Misunderstood
• Everybody Knows
• Boys, the Night Will Bury You
• New York, New York
• Top of the Mountain
• Night Sky
• What You Wanted
• And Am I Born to Die