"Nothing pleases more than an artist who is diversified, creative, imaginative & has just enough loose musical screws to make him stand out as original" - Americana Highway

Braking Dawn is “a remarkable, experimental album that pays off in every way.”- Glide Magazine

An enigmatic storm of indie/experimental/pop and, believe it or not, folk, Charlie Treat’s Dawn Is Breaking proves once again that we cannot put a finger on this man. He continues to befuddle his fans and listeners, proving that folk music is not your grandpa’s 45’s, and that pop music is more than mindless dance songs and heartbreakers. 

Over the course of just two and half days Charlie sat down at the piano inside Producer Anthony DaCosta’s garage-turned-musical-science-experiment and, with a small live band, tracked his most avant-garde, heady, bold, and poetically charged album to date. “On the bluegrass album I summoned the rhyme dictionary, on this album I summoned the classics”. From The Odyssey, to The Iliad, Greek traditionals, to the Bible, to Rilke, Yeats, Anglo Saxon traditionals, Blake, Bronte, Wallace Stevens, and even medieval poems Charlie, like a looter in a riot, steals freely from literary giants over the course of almost 30 centuries.

The cast of players on Dawn Is Breaking is immense: Anthony DaCosta on guitar; Ross McReynolds on drums; Will Honaker, Calvin Knowles, Jessie Wilson on bass; Josh Blaylock on keys; Lindsay Lou, Rachael Davis, Sierra Ferrell, Jess Nolan, Maya de Vitry, Lydia Luce and Oliver Bates Craven on background vocals. At the center is the sometimes smiley, sometimes mysterious, always changing Charlie Treat. Charlie, a fierce enigma, toes the line between farmer and philosopher, pop star and papa bear, however in this jaunt he sends a clear message from the hill, as if standing on the spaceship waving goodbye to the bluegrass. Charlie leaves some scratching their heads, some crying, and all in awe of the future of musical storytelling. 

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