EMILY BARKER

New Single!

LIVE BROADCAST

Emily teased us earlier on Facebook about today not least saying she was going to do a broadcast from home produced by  PMT House of Rock and Thirty Tigers but that there was another mystery to be announced which turned out to be a new single which frankly is stupendous! It's called 'Return Me' Extraordinary after only two listenings it is haunting me. 





She performed this new single solo from home plus a few more (4) songs and a question and answer mini session at the end which yours truly only got two mentions in one of my reflecting on her album Sweet Kind of Blue being inspired by the legendary Sister Rosetta Tharpe where I recounted one of my favourite YouTube clips was the Manchester Gospel & Blues TV show from Chorley Railway station in 1964 where she played 'Didn't It Rain' so no excuse not to play it again (see below) and then another proper question where I had been thinking about one of her songs 'Over My Shoulder' and had wondered whether it was autobiographical at all, so I asked her and she answered straight back in the Q&A almost first! 



For anyone who doesn't know . . . . . where've ya bin!? I have been singing her praises since the theme to Wallander . . . . . . . .!
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This Friday (June 5th) at 7PM, PMT are excited to host the incredible Emily Barker live right here on Facebook!
Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC's hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road (with whom she released a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed “flawless” by The Sunday Times) and has written for film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen.
As a performer, Barker is captivating and accomplished, with an adept understanding of audiences that finds her equally at home touring with punk troubadour Frank Turner as she is with American multi-Grammy-winning musician Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Emily Barker’s 2017 album Sweet Kind of Blue was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all-star cast of Memphis session players. The success of the album, with its seamless mix of soul, blues, country and folk influences, and the globe-trotting tours to support it helped land Emily the accolade of UK Artist of the Year at the recent UK Americana Awards held at Hackney Empire in London.
Website: https://www.emilybarker.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyBarkerHalo/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/25uHIpsCWoj8wEHFOEhbuV?si=mD5T6ni5QOaq6KEqEOvZgA

Inspiration: Sister songs two tracks here and favourites of course, classics too 'Didn't It Rain' and 'Trouble In Mind'