Becky Warren Explained

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Video Premiere: Becky Warren "Dive Bar Sweetheart" . Joan . Tara . No Depression . 2016-12-01.
2. Web site: Saving Up All Those Regrets: Interview with Becky Warren of the Great Unknowns . Cornell . Rick . No Depression . 2012-01-11 . 2017-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170317145223/http://nodepression.com/interview/saving-all-those-regrets-interview-becky-warren-great-unknowns . 2017-03-17 . dead .
3. Web site: About . Beckywarren.com . 2017-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170317143543/http://www.beckywarren.com/about/ . 2017-03-17 . dead .
4. News: Singer-songwriter Becky Warren raises awareness of PTSD . Thanki . Juli . The Tennessean . 16 February 2017.
5. Schreil . Cristina . 2017-02-01 . Becky Warren Turns Personal Hell into Poetic Song on New Album 'War Surplus' . Acoustic Guitar.
6. Web site: Becky Warren - "Dive Bar Sweetheart" (premiere) . Risch . Eric . PopMatters . 28 September 2016.