| As The Big Takeover described it, the arrangement of “Get Out of Bed” “builds patiently, matching the lyrical arc: from fog to focus, from stillness to motion.” Parsons’ voice—warm, unpretentious, and edged with bluesy grit—guides the listener through that emotional shift, anchored by a Hammond B3 organ that, as she recalls, “shook the whole room.” “Get Out of Bed” sits as the second track on Back to Back, an album Parsons produced, arranged, and wrote entirely (save for a haunting cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire”). Engineered by Ben Collette (Trey Anastasio, Susan Tedeschi, Sharon Jones) and tracked live-to-tape at Burlington’s iconic Tank Recording Studio, Back to Back is a meticulously crafted orchestral Americana record designed with the intentionality of a handmade space. As Parsons puts it, “Music has always been where I can build a world to embrace all parts of myself.” From the everyday intimacy of the title track “Back to Back”—a bossa nova-tinged meditation on the quiet rhythms of partnership—to the genre-spanning arrangements, Back to Back is both deeply personal and architecturally intricate. The record weaves together elements of folk, jazz, blues, classical, soul, and country into a cohesive sonic patchwork that feels at once timeless and entirely unique. “I strive to write from a place of simplicity,” Parsons says. “I want to leave space for interpretation, to build a room for others to process, to emote, to have their own experiences in.” | 
