Listen to Pieta's collaboration with Mark McCausland…

Written on two different Thursdays in two different countries on two different continents by two almost strangers - also known as Mark McCausland and Pieta Brown - Sweet Thursday (O Where) is a majestically blue and lonesome ballad straight from the mythic hills.  

“This song arrived so suddenly one day…Mark McCausland and I had been working intermittently on some distance music collaborations with Howe Gelb (Giant Sand)  - but one day Mark sent over a recording of one of his own instrumental pieces. It actually stopped me in my tracks... I felt like singing as soon as I started listening to it - and so I did! And luckily I recorded it as the words and vocal melody ideas were landing," Pieta describes. "And I'm not gonna lie...I had been feeling so blue. But, suddenly Mark's melody so sweetly let me in..."

Before long Mark and Pieta invited Rich Hinman (Pedal Steel), Dave Murphy (Various), and John Parish (Drums) to play on the track, too. And Parish (PJ Harvey) even ended up mixing the track on analog gear somewhere in England.

Released October 24th as part of Mark McCausland's soundtrack album, THE SPIN- MUSIC FROM THE FILM - which is indeed music from the Irish Comedy The Spin.  (https://www.filmireland.net/review-th... ).