RUNWAY LIGHTS (Released July 15, 2014)! www.saraswenson.com ! Available on iTunes, CD Baby and !saraswenson.com ! !TRACK LISTING! 1. Darling Dear! 2. Welcome to the Family! 3. *Good Boys Win! 4. Drifting Man! 5. Big Pretty City! 6. Wars and Battles! 7. Runway Lights! 8. Sometimes I Hold You! 9. Transitions! *Suggested single! !!!!!!!! ! Photo by Michael Price/Design by Nathan Lewis !CREDITS! Recorded, produced, and mixed by Don Chaffer at The Conductor Studios, Cane Ridge, TN Assisted by Mike Ingebretson !Mastered by Hank Williams, MasterMix, Nashville, TN! Billy Brimblecom drums, percussion Don Chaffer bass, electric guitars, baritone electric guitar, acoustic guitar, programming, keyboards, piano, percussion, background vocals Lori Chaffer piano, keyboards, background vocals Greg LaFollette programming, keys John Mark Painter horns !Sara Swenson vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, piano, background vocals !All songs written by Sara Swenson (c) 2014 S. Swenson Songs/ASCAP! !BRIEF DESCRIPTION Runway Lights melds Sara Swenson’s compelling vocals with pop, folk, soul and electronic/ !ambient textures to sonically chronicle her international move and love story. !SIMILAR ARTISTS !Feist, Ingrid Michaelson, Sharon VanEtten, Sara Bareillis, Agnes Obel, Sarah McLachlan !ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS Friday, July 18 - Kansas City West Side House Show (limited tickets remain) !Saturday, July 19 - Platte City Outdoor House Show (tickets still available) !Tickets can be purchased from www.saraswenson.com/shows. Swenson’s album release house shows will be an intimate experience with the artist, featuring songs off the new album Runway Lights and the stories that shaped them. !ABOUT SARA SWENSON’S RUNWAY LIGHTS, FROM PRODUCER DON CHAFFER “Sara Swenson has done something you don't always see in singer/songwriters. She's gotten better again. She keeps doing it. Stronger, even more sensitive, emotional, even soulful singing. Her ideas for the shape and sound of the album are ambitious but grounded in real emotions !and real purpose. There's the fun stuff: "Darling Dear," "Drifting Man," and "The Good Boys Win" flex some indy- pop muscles, chew gum, and sock you in the shoulder. They have some unusual themes and delectable turns of phrase in them, as well. "I know you're a drifting man/Off with the tick of the second hand" ("Drifting Man"); "Heart of a tiger/Hands of a scientist/Spine of a giant/Eyes of a hypnotist" ("Good Boys Win"); and the cheeky, hyper-accurate auto-biographical opening line of "Darling Dear": "Sometimes your heart pulls you 4,356 miles/And you pack hope between a !wardrobe of scenarios and saved up smiles.” She’s also got a bundle of thoughts and feelings on this album that are hard-earned, dripping with the difficulties of life and yet still resolutely hopeful. In "Wars & Battles," for example, Sara keens over the conflicts she saw close-up while living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. "Everybody's wrong/Everybody's right/The hurt starts to burn/And the ache ignites," but in the verses she offers lovely reminiscences of the stuff buried in both sides' DNA, "we used to be a garden full of !trees." There are several adoring moments on the album- love songs. They're not overblown, not sexed up, not maudlin, just full of real life-altering affection, the good stuff. The kinds of sentiments you realize you've missed once you hear them."Sometimes I hold you/Because it's me who needs !you/Sometimes I hold you/So you can feel my love." She's a regular engine of profound, emotional art. And as much as she can move you by your tear duct, these days, she's also getting your butt to wiggle, and somehow miraculously, !sounding smart and tasteful while doing it.” —Don Chaffer, Producer Photo by Michael Price Photo by Michael Price ABOUT SARA SWENSON www.saraswenson.com !Contact (816) 804 2045 When an ascending singer-songwriter pursues a movie-worthy international love story and chronicles it in a collection of hybrid soundscapes, it’s worth sitting up and paying attention. Sara Swenson’s fourth studio album — the July 2014 release Runway Lights — captures snapshots of her 18-month experience of living abroad, moving from dating to marriage and sorting through the accompanying transitions and emotions. Produced by Don Chaffer, Runway Lights melds Swenson’s compelling vocals with pop, folk, soul and electronic/ambient textures to deliver her strongest and most !personal work to date. This giant creative step forward comes in succession of other leaps in Swenson’s relatively fresh music career. In just 2007, the Kansas City high school English teacher first tried her hand at songwriting at the offhand suggestion of a guitar salesman. Fast forward four years, and Swenson already had released three records (Sara Swenson, 2008, prod. by Chaffer; All Things Big and Small, 2010, prod. by Chaffer; Never Left My Mind, 2011, prod. by Mike Crawford). In that time frame, she also had picked up two Kansas City Singer-Songwriter of the Year awards, performed with Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair, and placed a song on the season finale of ABC’s “Private Practice.” And the step beyond that? That’s Swenson’s most recent chapter — following love to another country, getting married, and funneling her stories into this newest !creative work, Runway Lights. !DISCOGRAPHY • Never Left My Mind (2011) • All Things Big and Small (2010) • Be Not Far (single) (2009) !• Sara Swenson (2008) !ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Song “Time To Go” featured on the season finale of ABC’s Private Practice (2011) • Kansas City’s Singer-Songwriter of the Year (The Pitch) (2009, 2011) !• Selected to perform at Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair (2010) !CONNECTIONS • Website: www.saraswenson.com • Twitter: @saraswenson !• Facebook: facebook.com/saraswensonmusic RECORD LABEL !Independent LICENSING !Whizbang Inc. HOMETOWN Kansas City, Mo.