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About the Album
Between Heaven and Earth is a tribute to David Lynch, who cast Alicia Witt in her first film role, as Alia in Dune, when she was seven, and with whom she worked four times and shared a lifelong friendship. The album’s thirteen original songs reflect on love, intuition, grief, and the connections that remain with us. It closes with “The Director,” recorded in one uninterrupted take on the final day of sessions.
Produced by Joe Henry, the album was recorded live over five days in New York City, with Witt on traditional pop piano and vocals alongside a band assembled for the project, voice and instruments captured together with minimal overdubs. “Thank You,” written and performed with 4x GRAMMY® winner John Paul White, turns heartbreak into gratitude.
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“Witt’s best album to date… Ballads sometimes recall Sarah McLachlan, breathe the spirit of the Great American Songbook and, in more playful moments, exude some of the charm of Stephen Sondheim’s musical evergreens… Producer Joe Henry imbues the songs with his signature analog elegance.”
“Another thoughtful, appealing outing from the performing-arts polymath… a warm, wistful album that spends at least as much time on gratitude as on grief… Witt’s knack for elegant melodies is ever-present.”
“Gorgeously sung… if this is what ‘directing from the beyond’ sounds like, it’s rather beautiful.”
“She doesn’t need to push a song toward you. She draws you into it.”
“The record is a tribute to David Lynch that blends mystical, piano-led jazz ballads and acoustic folk stylings from The Civil Wars’ John Paul White.”
“An intimate, spontaneous album.”
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About Alicia Witt
Alicia Witt is a classically trained pianist, singer and songwriter who supported herself as a musician when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her four-decade career as an actor has included many musical highlights: singing with Randy Newman on Ally McBeal, writing original songs for her Hallmark Christmas movies, and numerous roles that draw on her skills as a pianist, including David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, her work as country singer Autumn Chase on ABC’s Nashville, and her breakout role as Zoey on the CBS series Cybill. Witt moved to Nashville nine years ago. Her earlier releases include Revisionary History (2015), produced by Ben Folds and recorded at RCA Studio A; 15,000 Days (2018), produced by Jacquire King; and The Conduit (2021), produced by Witt alongside Jordan Lehning and Bill Reynolds. She wrote or co-wrote all thirteen songs on Between Heaven and Earth and plays piano throughout.
About Joe Henry
Joe Henry is a singer-songwriter and producer. He has won three GRAMMY® Awards as a producer, for Solomon Burke’s Don’t Give Up on Me, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s A Stranger Here and the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Genuine Negro Jig. His other production credits include albums by Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Aimee Mann and Rhiannon Giddens, alongside his own studio albums.
About John Paul White
John Paul White is a singer-songwriter from Alabama and a four-time GRAMMY® winner as half of the duo The Civil Wars, whose albums include Barton Hollow (2011) and The Civil Wars (2013). His solo albums include Beulah (2016) and The Hurting Kind (2019), and he is a co-founder of the label Single Lock Records in Florence, Alabama. He co-wrote and performs on “Thank You.”