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Meg Braun's debut, Tomboy Princess, is the soundtrack to a girlhood of climbing trees, fighting pirates and rescuing princes. She reminds me of Lucy Kaplansky and Dar Williams, two of the folk scene's finest singer-songwriters, and her voice has that clear, strong snap of self-awareness. Like attracts like, and for a relative newcomer, Braun has the knack of drawing talented support. Carolann Solebello, Laurie MacAllister, and Abbie Gardner (collectively, Red Molly); Tom Prasada-Rao, Penny Nichols and producer Mark Dann (Shawn Colvin, Bobby Forrester, Dharma Bums, etc.) are just some of the album's contributors.
Tomboy Princess offers more than just the shine of polished professionals. The songs have wit, fire, and grace enough to light up New York. Fairy tale themes figure strongly throughout the album, but these stories are richer—more Grimm's and less Disney—running the gamut from cheerful sassiness to bittersweet melancholy. Helplessness is both refuted and refused as inevitabilities, but "happily" doesn't always connect to "ever after."
Braun's imagery touches the individual through universal experiences, and the fairy tale story structure binds those images as surely as the mad queen's sleeping potion would doom Snow White. Except that in Braun's version, Snow would thumb her nose at the queen and lead the dwarves to storm the castle. Tomboy Princess is a reminder that we can write our own story's ending.
—Lyn Dunagan, Caught in the Carousel
We've heard plenty of disillusionment from singer/songwriters over the years, but there are certain people who make it go down easier. When Meg Braun wraps her big, buttery alto around the bittersweet lines, “Remember how we used to drive in your daddy's car / for miles and miles, though we never got very far / We'd park and lie outside under the stars / believing, believing, in our dreams...” and “When it's over, you'll know, 'cause you won't miss his voice in the hallway...” we believe everything she says. While the CD ends on a postive note with “After 'Ever After,'” we like the sad, dramatic stuff better. Her writing keeps getting better and better. Definitely someone to watch.
Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live!
