Vanessa Carlton has been going full sprint since she was discovered by legendary record executive Ahmet Ertegun when she was still a teenager. Signed by Jimmy Iovine soon after, she exploded onto the pop scene with the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated Be Not Nobody in 2002. But as she was nearing thirty, Carlton felt lost. Carlton needed a fresh start and ultimately, she made her way to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Box, England, where she created something that harks back to a different era of music-making: ten intimate, evocative songs, recorded direct to tape with a close-knit team of collaborators. The songs that make up Rabbits on the Run, her 2011 release, retain Carlton’s impeccable melodic sensibility, but are consistently surprising and unpredictable. Vanessa released Liberman in 2015 and continues to tour the world.
