Set to delicate fingerpicking on an acoustic guitar, Anna Rose Beck’s enchantingly melodic creations take listeners on a journey of emotionally-charged reminiscences, otherworldly imaginings, and philosophical musings. Replete with metaphorical wordplay, Beck's songwriting and her uniquely rich yet effortless vocal delivery take front and center on her 2011 debut EP, The Weathermaker. Weaving together images from nature, folklore, fantasy, and her own experiences. Beck builds entire worlds within her songs, which serve as the dreamy backdrop to personal yet universal stories of self discovery, joy, sadness, fear, and hope.

It’s been a whirlwind past several years for the Austin, TX native, who picked up the guitar on a lark one summer four years ago while in the course of completing a biomedical engineering degree from Duke. "It was just this thing that I immediately became addicted to," she remembers. "I had never had anything like that before. This was the first thing that I sort of fell into and was like, 'Oh my God, I want to spend all my time doing this.'" Over the course of the next year, Beck, who had never been very musical while growing up, taught herself to sing and play guitar.

Inspired by legendary lyricists Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and their contemporaries, she began penning her own songs and performing at local dives shortly thereafter. In 2010, Beck collaborated with Asheville, NC-based producer Andrew Schatzberg (landslidestudio.com ) to create her first EP The Weathermaker: a concise seven-song set that puts Beck's talents out front. Her dreamy picking and resonant vocals are buoyed by conservative yet rewarding full-band arrangements. Seeming at once both bold and understated, she manages piercing reverberations without having to reach. The result is moving and hypnotic, brimming with passion but never overpowering.