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Exclusive video & interview: Ditty TV catches up with Anna Ash on new EP Fire Season, her Michigan roots & why saying “jeez o petes” in L.A. won’t make you friends with the bartender

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On June 25, Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based musician Anna Ash will release her new EP titled Fire Season, featuring songs recorded and mixed at Eli Crews’ home studio in the Catskill Mountains with her friend Eric Kuhn in November of 2020. “Even though we had taken all the necessary covid precautions,” says Ash, “I was still like, ‘Man, let’s just have our own little zones, I’ll stay in my room, you stay in yours, and Eli stays in the control room, and let’s see if we can function.’ And we did. It was really surprising actually how well we could play together without seeing each other.”
 
To learn more about the story behind the new EP and to get to know Ash better in general, we caught up with her for a 5 Questions feature, as well as invited her to perform something for us from Fire Season. She chose to deliver a lovely and vocally impressive song about “how destructive doing nothing can be” called “Dress Rehearsal” and shared some fun and enlightening answers to our questions, including why saying “jeez o petes” in L.A. won’t make you friends with the bartender.
 

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Ditty TV hosts world premiere of new video from Americana artist & cancer-survivor Laura Rabell

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Growing up in Florida, Laura Rabell’s childhood was filled with music. She sang in the Pensacola Children’s Chorus, took piano lessons, and performed in musical-theater productions. But she never gave herself permission to pursue music as a career. Putting her passion for music on the back burner, Rabell ended up working a corporate gig in Charlotte, N.C., after college. But after a few years of careful planning to make it all possible, Rabell and husband EJ packed up and moved to Nashville. Once there, she finished writing the songs that became her first album.

Rabell had proudly announced her debut record to fans, friends, and family via email blast in early 2019. The big reveal? The album would be called 
 Immortal. Three weeks later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She laughs darkly at the recollection: “I guess you shouldn’t call the Titanic unsinkable,” she says. “I guess you shouldn’t call your first album Immortal. You’re just asking for it.”

But Rabell battled through cancer treatment and the album was released in 2020. And now comes the world premiere video for “The Mirror.” Smoky, twisty and self-deprecating, “The Mirror” perfectly distills Rabell’s aesthetic. And the song’s new video is a fitting complement, comprised of footage from the last two years—just after she started chemo; later, after losing her hair; and more recently with her new short hair growing back. The video—in which Rabell and her bandmates smash a half-dozen mirrors—deals with body image and also how music gave her hope to persevere through this dark time in her life.

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Ditty TV premiered David Burchfield & the Fire Guild’s new music video “State to State”

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State to State‘s standout title track is a breezy, wistful anthem about the unbreakable connection we share with the ones we love, no matter the time or the miles in between. And the song’s new video is the perfect complement, following Burchfield along his sonic journey, an Americana travelogue borne of a restless spirit and adventurous heart. 

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