Katie Haverly’s new album “Pluto” has been a series of firsts for the Tucson singer-songwriter.
- It was the first time she worked with session musicians. (“It was amazing. I felt like I could let go. … It was wildly different than anything I’ve experienced before.”)
- It was the first time she’s worked with Tucson’s über producer/musician Gabriel Sullivan. ( “He’s incredible. He can play every instrument. He gets an idea and he can lay it down. It was so fun.”)
- And it was the first time she put everything on the line in the studio, allowing herself to be alternately in control and vulnerable.
“For the first time I didn’t hide anything,” Haverly said last week as she put the finishing touches on a pair of record release gigs beginning with a full-band concert at Club Congress on Friday, Feb. 2; she’s doing a stripped down listening party Feb. 24 at downtown’s Exo Roast Co.
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“I put everything on the table. For the first time I didn’t feel like I had to dim myself,” she explained. “That’s a weird thing to say, but I just felt free.”
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Catch her at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The show is free.