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The Toerag Sessions - emilybarker.com/thetoeragsessions
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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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Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
=========================================
#indiefolk
The Toerag Sessions - emilybarker.com/thetoeragsessions
Subscribe to Emily Barker’s channel for the latest music videos, behind the scenes, live performances and more: youtube.com/@EmilyBarker
Emily's latest album Fragile as Humans is out now: emilybarker.com/fragile
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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
=========================================
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry
=========================================
#indiefolk
