Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

This comes from the same period, twenty years ago now, when my tastes where falling into place, I suppose, and I just loved her sense of melody and that power as a woman. And it’s this album in particular, which is a live show – I actually never listened to her recordings, only this live show. I guess it was somebody on my course that was singing something off it and got me hooked.

It’s quite a different piece of music than what we’ve discussed so far…

Yeah! But to me it relates to the next choice too, and ideas of singing and especially of melody…

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