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Named after a river that runs through Stephenville, TX, Bosque Brown is a lightly Christian-flavored alt-country band, but is really, when all is said and done, singer and songwriter Mara Lee Miller, whose haunting, dark, and oddly hopeful and spiritual narratives are somewhat reminiscent of Gillian Welch. Growing up in Stephenville, Miller's Baptist background exposed her to countless hymns and her mother, a piano teacher, made sure her daughters knew how to play those hymns on piano. Miller, meanwhile, was drawn to the country songs she would occasionally hear on the radio. She moved to Denton, TX when she was 18 years old to attend college and quickly became part of the local music scene while discovering artists like Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, and Gillian Welch, all of whom would prove formative in her own writing and singing style. A musician friend, Ryan Miller, offered to record her songs on a four-track recorder, and in the process, the pair fell in love and were married....