Becky Warren

Becky Warren is a singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has won both the MerleFest Songwriting Contest and the Kerrville New Folk Competition.[1] She formerly performed with the Boston-based alternative country band The Great Unknowns as their frontwoman, beginning in 2003.[2][3] In 2016, she released her solo debut album, War Surplus, a concept album that follows a fictional couple, Scott, and his girlfriend-turned-wife, June. Warren performs all of the album's songs from either Scott's or June's perspective. The album is based on Warren's own life, as she married a soldier in 2005 who was deployed to fight in the Iraq War soon afterward. When he returned, he had developed posttraumatic stress disorder.[4] Four years after they married, Warren and her husband divorced.[5] Warren spent four year writing the songs on War Surplus.[6]

Discography
  • War Surplus (2016)
  • Undesirable (2018)
  • The Sick Season (2020)

References
  1. Joan, Tara (2016-12-01). "Video Premiere: Becky Warren "Dive Bar Sweetheart"". No Depression.
  2. Cornell, Rick (2012-01-11). "Saving Up All Those Regrets: Interview with Becky Warren of the Great Unknowns". No Depression. Archived from the original on 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  3. "About". Beckywarren.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  4. Thanki, Juli (16 February 2017). "Singer-songwriter Becky Warren raises awareness of PTSD". The Tennessean.
  5. Schreil, Cristina (2017-02-01). "Becky Warren Turns Personal Hell into Poetic Song on New Album 'War Surplus'". Acoustic Guitar.
  6. Risch, Eric (28 September 2016). "Becky Warren - "Dive Bar Sweetheart" (premiere)". PopMatters.


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