Brooke Tuley
and the Moon Travelers
Selected Airplay
Featured on 90.9 The Bridge (KC) — Sonic Spectrum with Robert Moore, 6pm
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The Mother and... Project Podcast - Fall, 2025 (playlist)
Press Release
With Chase Me, Kansas City songwriter Brooke Tuley turns grief, love, and everyday wonder into songs that feel like quiet medicine. Her warm, poetic Americana sound was shaped over fifteen months of late-night recording sessions in her home studio — a space she shares with her husband and longtime collaborator Mike Tuley, who engineered and played on the album.
The record brings together a circle of longtime collaborators, including Jimmy Fitzner (guitar), John Nichols (bass), and Jon Kraft (drums), with additional textures from Mark Stover (pedal steel), Betse Ellis (fiddle), and Rick Wheeler (saxophone). Tracks include cameo appearances by Kevin Morby (Build a Ship) and Anna St. Louis and Suzannah Johannes (Rolling By), reflecting the enduring creative communities of Kansas City and Lawrence.
Brooke’s music on this project bridges indie folk and Americana, with lyrical honesty and cinematic textures. A lifelong educator and mother, she writes songs to process life’s changes — from loss and transformation to rediscovering joy.
Chase Me offers songs that help listeners slow down, breathe, and remember the quiet significance of everyday moments.
Chase Me (The Book)
“There are eras in a woman’s life she enters with more confidence than ever — yet rarely is she given a voice there. Chase Me is Brooke Tuley’s assured step into the next phase of her musical journey... Her quiet confidence keeps longtime fans loyal while drawing in new listeners.”
- Fally Afani, Editor, I Heart Local Music
Brooke Tuley isn't easy to classify. Her sound is layered and complex, Laurel Canyon by way of the midwest. You hear Gram Parsons and Judee Sill, but you also hear fireflies and flat highways and the specific humidity of a cornfield and the kind of post-industrial city where housing is still cheap enough that pockets of artists can have time for making art instead of just working. Which is exactly what has happened here- a circle of longtime Kansas City, Lawrence, and Wichita collaborators who have been with Brooke across decades and musical incarnations sit in on instruments or saunter by for guest appearances. The borderless vibe extends to a book that accompanies the album. Lyrics are illustrated with photos, paintings, fiber works, and prints by artists from the Kansas scene. Taken collectively, it's a lush reminder that the best parts of being alive still take place away from the flat eye of the internet.
--Tara Perkins, Hardland Management
Chase Me, both the book and the album, invites you into what I’ve come to think of as the holy grail of comprehension: the story in your ears, the words in your eyes, all at once together.
I recommend this practice for struggling readers—but doesn’t that describe most of us now? Our attention is a limping force. This project can revive and refresh a tired mind.
“Picture this as an 8 x 10”
Do I love this work because I’ve been to the place it comes from? Maybe. I know I loved that time. I know I love having this kind of magic in my hands—and the chance to return to it. That’s what this project gives: time.
“The clock makes fun of time”
This work is deeply personal. I know that because I know who wrote it. But even if you didn’t, it would likely feel like it was written about your own past—your memory, your family, your time.
“How can I be sure that you’re listening to me?
I needed you to talk it through and ease my worried mind—
Two hands reach across the tides beyond the veil tonight”
-- Nova Bradfield, longtime librarian & educator