Katie Haverly brought together 38 Tucson women for her “Titanic” video to showcase the “unbelievably amazing women ... that make this city an exceptional place to live.”
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.
“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.”
- Cathalena E. Burch
Catch her at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. The show is free.
