Tristan Prettyman turns breakup into pure 'Cedar + Gold'

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Tristan Prettyman channeled her frustrations and emotions from her breakup with fiance Jason Mraz into a refreshingly honest album, 'Cedar + Gold.'

Courtesy of EMI

Tristan Prettyman: Cedar+ Gold

Tristan Prettyman is what you might call a reformed commitment-phobe.

The sunny San Diego surfer gal with the piercing eyes and throaty laugh has cultivated a loyal following with her previous two albums, but the truth, Prettyman says, is that she always preferred to toe the line between “just in case” and “what if.”

“I think I always lived really cautiously on the last two (albums),” she says contemplatively. “I’d always come back to the idea of one foot in, one foot out - and that was so true for me in relationships and in life. I was always like, I’m sort of willing to do this, but I’m also ready to jump in case this doesn’t work.

“For a really long time, I never really played full in.”

Prettyman’s latest album, “Cedar + Gold,” comes after a nearly three-year hiatus and represents a movement toward the kind of thoughtful, inward-looking lyrics that have become synonymous with the singer-songwriter’s name.

Since she first emerged onto the music scene in 2005, the former Roxy model has made her mark in the indie-folk realm with catchy, swaying melodies, frequenting venues like The Hotel Cafe and growing a fan base with her signature rasp.

But the words that poured forth when Prettyman put pen to paper this time around were more than just whimsical love songs.

In the time that lapsed between the release of her last album, 2008’s “Hello,” Prettyman had hit a wall.

Her long term relationship with her boyfriend, fellow singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, had gone through a series of ups and downs, ultimately culminating in a broken engagement and a very public heartbreak.

The pair, who frequently collaborated on one another’s songs, announced their engagement in December 2010, but vowed to stave off marriage until gay marriage was viewed as legal and equal.

By June the following year, the pair had split.

“When someone asks you to marry them and you say yes, that’s going all in and the minute I did that, it ended and I had my heart broken,” she says. “And I’d never had my heart broken before. I always really protected it and I was always the person who broke up with the other person first.”

But though the breakup was painful, it turned out to be just the catalyst that Prettyman needed to take a long-needed vacation from the music industry.

“After the last record, I had spent about a year and a half touring, and prior to that I had been on tour for about six years straight and I was so burned out,” she recalls. “It was like, I want to do something else and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do this or not. I went traveling and I went to visit friends and I went to Bali and Costa Rica and I got really into yoga and I just put music on hold.”

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