Emily Barker - Anywhere Away (The Toerag Sessions) @EmilyBarker

Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

The Toerag Sessions - emilybarker.com/thetoeragsessions

The Toerag Sessions is a collection of solo versions of Emily Barker's songs, recorded live to 2-track tape at Toerag Studios in London with Grammy-winning producer Liam Watson (The White Stripes - Elephant).

In the album's sleeve notes, Barker explains how the idea came about: "over the last few years, in between touring with my bands The Red Clay Halo and Vena Portae, I've played lots of solo shows. Often people will come up to me at the end of those shows and ask if there is any way to get hold of recordings of the songs as they've just heard them - just me, my guitar and my harmonica".

After what turned out to be her final tour with The Red Clay Halo, Barker took the opportunity to go in to the studio to record her own selection of songs from her back catalogue. Many of these songs are the ones she was playing in her solo sets at that time, plus a few additions. The songs go right back to her first UK band the-low-country, through all her albums with The Red Clay Halo, and including 'Anywhere Away', written as the theme to Jake Gavin's movie Hector (starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen).

Filmed and edited by Kieran Short and Sinead O'Hara
Hair and makeup by Lesley Vye
Photography by Ben Morse
Recorded live to two track tape at Toerag Studios, January 2015
Produced by Liam Watson
Written and performed by Emily Barker

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