LONG PRAIRIE

If Texas-based singer-songwriter Long Prairie’s name evokes imagery of a heartlands setting where wheatfields wave and dust clouds sometimes roll, that’s intentional. Not only did she choose her performing identity in homage to the same-named Minnesota town near her birthplace, as demonstrated on her new album, By Sunrise, releasing Oct. 4, she writes songs rooted in the heart, filled with a sense of place and nature’s beauty. They carry a keen observer’s appreciation for detail — sometimes colored in tints of nostalgia, sometimes delivered in stark black-and-white — but always conveying essential truths. The kind of songs folk/Americana singers write, reaching into their own hearts and hoping to touch listeners’ souls. OFFICIAL WEBSITE