Anna Graves

Anna Graves is refreshed, both personally and professionally, after returning to her family’s farm in rural southern Minnesota, outside Minneapolis. Her new music, including her single “Made to Love Someone,” features simple production that puts her vulnerable, ripped-from-her-life lyrics at the forefront. Love is the overarching theme on the album she’s working on for Island Records — not only romantic love, but also, and perhaps more importantly, self-love — and she’s not afraid to mine her own experiences for inspiration, nor to be extremely forthcoming with the details. “The best that I can do,” Graves says, “is just write something that’s completely true to me. How else are people gonna relate to something?”