Sky Too Wide finds Tracy Bonham at her most open and unfiltered, revisiting her past and rewriting her future with wit, heart, and zero apologies.
Tracy Bonham has never fit neatly into a box. Classically trained violinist. Berklee College of Music alum. Alt-rock chart-climber. Two-time Grammy nominee. For nearly three decades, Bonham’s music has moved between genres and emotional states with fearless honesty and a touch of mischievous wit. With Sky Too Wide, her newest and perhaps most revealing album yet, she invites listeners into a more personal and reflective chapter, one shaped by vulnerability, resilience, and a rekindled creative fire.
Recorded with her longtime bandmates Rene Hart on bass and Alvester Garnett on drums, and elevated by string and woodwind arrangements, Sky Too Wide is both intimate and expansive. It features fresh material alongside reimagined versions of earlier songs. On it, Bonham confronts old expectations, shakes off artistic armor, and leans fully into who she is today: a woman unafraid to sound exactly like herself.
“This is my best album yet and I have to agree,” Bonham wrote on Kickstarter where she shared that the project was temporarily derailed by a cancer diagnosis - caught early, treated, and now firmly in the rearview. That detour, however, only deepened her connection to the work. “It portrays a woman who is finally shedding the skin of external pressure to be someone she is not. Every track is deep and beautiful while I continue to write in my typical quirky songwriting style. This time it’s a bit more grow’d up.”
That blend of candor and charm has defined Bonham since her 1996 debut The Burdens of Being Upright, which spawned the anthemic single “Mother Mother,” a primal scream wrapped in a phone call, and a feminist war cry that still hits like a jolt. But she’s never been one to coast on past hits. From chamber-pop experiments to children's albums, Bonham has remained relentlessly curious.
To its core, Sky Too Wide celebrates where Tracy Bonham is now. Rebuilding, reconnecting, and ready to bring her full discography to the stage once more. “It is time to feel like a village, now more than ever,” she writes. “We all need each other.”