As a singer/songwriter working at the cusp of jazz, Appalachian folk and indie rock, Becca Stevens has always drawn on a deep reservoir of emotion to fuel her music.

But her new album “Maple to Paper” emerged from far more visceral experiences than her previous work, passages that began to unfold in the solitude of the pandemic. Marked by profound grief and close observation of her roiling inner life, the music is both raw and exquisitely crafted with the concision of Emily Dickinson verse.

“Writing and recording this music, I was pregnant twice, bookended by the experience of losing my mom,” said Stevens, 41. “Four days after I gave birth to my second daughter, I finished the recording.”

Returning to the Bay Area for her first run of gigs in about a decade, the two-time Grammy nominee

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