Anglo-American singer songwriter Sarah Gillespie has just released her fourth album Wishbones.
It was produced by Mercury nominated musician and composer Kit Downes, and the same unique mix of savviness, sensitivity and wry humour runs through Wishbones as has been present on her earlier releases.
Gillespie's vivid, magic-realist lyrics have always distinguished her as a formidable storyteller. Here her dual nationality plays out in the telling of tales from both sides of the Atlantic from the North Dakota Pipeline crisis (The Ballad of Standing Rock) and the detention centres of Texas (The Theft of Marco Munoz) to Brexit Britain caught in anachronistic nostalgia (The Last of the Goodtime Charlies).
As with all of Gillespie's work, the political is meshed with the personal.
Gillespie’s unique vocal phrasing is as enthralling as the tales that she tells, as some words slur into others and one image jump cuts to the next with sentences lassoed into submission.
It should come as little surprise that Gillespie is also the author of a collection of poetry, 'Queen Ithaca Blues', and that she received a first class honours degree in Literature and a Masters in Philosophy and Politics.
That she busked across America, as a teenager should also give us some insight into the free spirit that runs through her music. It’s now almost a decade since she released her debut album and five years since her last, and Wishbones feels like a culmination of all this, not to mention a welcome return.
Sarah will be live in Milton Keynes on Saturday night - catch her at The Stables in Wavendon,
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