Announcing You've Been A Friend To Me, the first-ever collection dedicated fully to the music of singular vocalist, graphic designer, art director, and member of the Seeger family Sonya Cohen Cramer. You've Been A Friend To Me is available for pre-order now, and will be released digitally and on CD on May 17th. You've Been A Friend To Me is available for pre-order here.

You’ve Been a Friend to Me features nearly thirty years of music sung beautifully by Sonya Cohen Cramer (1965-2015). A musician who mostly practiced the craft for her own enjoyment and fulfillment while she worked as, among other things, a designer of over sixty Smithsonian Folkways record packages, Sonya was a true “singer’s singer” whose musical admirers included Jeff Buckley, Loudon Wainwright III, Joe Boyd, and Meredith Monk.

Sonya was raised in a family committed to revitalizing the oldest songs of the American musical canon. Like her father John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers, she shared a belief in the transformative qualities of folk songs and traditional ballads. You’ve Been a Friend to Me is the first collection featuring Sonya’s singing, and it reveals the full arc of her musical life through collaborations with her aunt Peggy Seeger, uncle Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Littleton, and the folk-fusion group Last Forever. While shaped by the roots of her family tree, the radiating and clear sound of Sonya’s voice is distinctly her own.