Recorded live on Sept. 2, 2015. Raised as the youngest of four children in a big musical family in Swainsboro, Georgia, Bragg lived in a number of Southern musical capitals – Athens, Atlanta, and Nashville – before settling in New York in 2004. Her music is consequently a seamless hybrid of her southern Americana roots and the downtown New York singer-songwriter community of which she became a key member before moving to Nashville in December 2013.Tattoos and Bruises follows her sophomore release, Sugar (2007), which was produced by Darius Jones, and recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her debut album, Certain Simple Things (2004), was co-written, engineered and produced in Athens, Georgia, by Dave Haywood (Lady Antebellum). Winner of the BandPage/ZooLabs Music Residency Contest (2014), Telluride Troubadour Competition Honorable Mention (2012), International Songwriting Competition Honorable Mention (2011), Mary’s music has been compared to Patty Griffin and Mindy Smith. For more on Mary’s music, click here. Photo courtesy of Howard Greenberg