There’s a particular kind of bravery in handing a fully orchestrated, community-built record back to the quiet room where it was born — and asking it to sing for an audience of one. That’s exactly what Courtney Hartman has done on her newly announced album, With You: From The Garden Shed, a solo guitar and voice reinterpretation of her gorgeous 2025 LP With You, arriving June 12.

The Wisconsin-based, Colorado-born songwriter, guitarist, and 2014 GRAMMY nominee (for her work with folk quintet Della Mae) originally wrote much of With You during the disorienting, luminous early days of becoming a mother. The result — which No Depression praised as “a soft study of motherhood and all the beautiful and harrowing ways it upends life” — leaned into collaboration, featuring Watchhouse, Tift Merritt, Phil Cook, and a wider circle of musician mothers who showed up to help her shape the record.

But after the album landed, Hartman kept returning to the songs in a much smaller setting: sitting on the floor, playing them for her baby daughter. From The Garden Shed is what happened when she carried that intimacy back to its source.

Hartman and her husband bought the garden shed behind their home in Eau Claire as a place to live while they gutted and rebuilt their 1930s house. Once they moved back inside, the shed kept its purpose as a sanctuary. “After we moved back into our house, the shed became a place of quiet and stillness for me, where I would retreat to most mornings to write,” Hartman explains. “Most of the songs on With You began in the gentle hold of that space. It felt right to take them back to the empty room where they began, playing them again against a chorus of May birds and our neighbor’s chimes.”

The full thirteen-song tracklist — the original twelve from With You plus the previously unreleased “Mama Help Me” — was captured live to a Nagra two-track tape machine by co-producer Shane Leonard. No screens. No digital gear. Just Hartman, her guitar, the birds, and the wind.

The first single, “Honey, Honey,” is the album in miniature: a waltzing lullaby Hartman wrote with Tift Merritt as a love letter to her daughter. “Quiet waters, soothe and sway, sunlight and kindness, the cradle of a day. You’re brave as an iris, a bright display, a trumpeter swan lifting up and away,” she sings — a mantra she wants her little one to carry on the mornings she can’t be there to hold her.

“She has taught me about delight, and even as I am the one cradling her, giving her comfort, it is often my own heart being mended by her,” Hartman says. “Tift Merritt co-wrote this song with me, helping me clear the debris and uncover within my own days the scenes I most wanted to sing.”

Stream “Honey, Honey” right here — and consider it a Mother’s Day gift to anyone in your life who could use a little lullaby of their own:

https://open.spotify.com/search/Courtney%20Hartman%20Honey%20Honey

With You: From The Garden Shed Tracklist:
1. Softening
2. Growing
3. Honey, Honey
4. With You
5. Bright Eye Companion
6. Everything At Once
7. Like A Woman
8. Inside Outside
9. Can You See
10. Mama Help Me
11. Hindsight
12. To Carry
13. You

With You: From The Garden Shed is out June 12. Pre-order vinyl for instant access to the digital album, and head to courtneyhartman.com for everything else.