Robert Deeble Records Heartwarming Collection of Songs To Adopted Daughter On New Album 'Beloved'
Robert Deeble, an American singer-songwriter based in Seattle, has just released sixth album 'Beloved'. The album is a heartwarming collection of lyrical memoirs that recalls the journey of how he and his wife became a family to their adopted daughter.
"Many of these songs were written as letters to my one year old daughter at a time when I was preparing to say good bye", explains Robert. "We first met our daughter as foster parents when she was just 3 days old. But after one year in our care she was returned to her birthmother. So many of these songs were written as part of a grieving process with the hope that she would hear them one day and know how I felt about her."
But in the years that followed, Robert and his wife were reunited to their former foster child, allowed to be Godparents and eventually invited by her birth mother to be her adopted parents.
Produced by Deeble with Graig Markel (Band of Horses, Nada Surf, Jim Carroll), BELOVED was recorded in Seattle with a cast of fellow songwriters. Jen Wood (The Postal Service) gives a stunning vocal on "To Find You" and alongside the harmonies of Tomo Nakayama on "Coal Miner" (also "Uncertain" and "The Mulberry Bird"). Shenandoah Davis guests on "The Mulberry Bird" and Tara Ward opens with "Sunshine" (a haunting version of You Are My Sunshine within a minor key) and then reappears on the title track.
Instrumentally Robert is joined by Josh Golden (Damien Jurado/Pedro The Lion), Shenandoah Davis, Kris Rosentrator, and Antoine Arvizu, Tony Green (from his 1998 EarthSide Down release). The album features lush strings throughout with an arrangement by Ric Hordinski (Monk/Over The Rhine) on the title track "Beloved."
Robert Deeble's first album debuted in 1995 and he has continued to quietly publish meaningful releases since that time. His last record Heart Like Feathers received critical acclaim and regular rotation on XM Satelight's The Loft. As a touring artist Robert has shared bills with Low, Ida, M Ward, Sam Phillips, Over The Rhine, Papa M and Victoria Williams.
