Emily Dunbar is an optimist.  Through song she both questions and celebrates her place in the world, tells slice of life stories, and extols simple pleasures. Some stories are hers.  Some are borrowed, but they are all personal and relatable.  However, Dunbar’s optimism is not syrupy.  Her songs depict deep struggles and hard choices, but ultimately profess that though we may not always get the life we think want, we can love, love, love the life we have. 

New Reformation Press says of Emily’s debut album Catch It When You Can (produced by Tom Prasada Rao), “A little bit folk, a little bit country, all Americana, Dunbar’s songs are wonderful (in the many meanings of that term) evocations—and celebrations—of the everyday graces that inhere, for example, in the rootedness of place and family.” 

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