EMILY BARKER

More from the wonderful Emily Barker from her F/B page and tantalising teasing about her new song and its video



but also she likes to post updates on her sounds and offers playlists on Spotify and adds piquancy with her chosen coffee of the days (a shared passion)



I love these down homie real vids she posts in homage to the music of others which its why I care so much to post her work here

Here she says:

This Monday morning’s Music + Coffee combo...
One of my favourite record stores in the UK is a shop called 'Music's Not Dead' in Bexhill-on-Sea. Not only is the shop-owner, Del an incredibly lovely human, he's also incredibly passionate and knowledgeable about music. Through these qualities a community has formed around the shop and they regularly host in-store shows - the likes of which I have played many times over the years!
I can't wait to head there when it's safe to do so to browse the shelves and play some new music to the Bexhill folks. I ordered this new release by Phoebe Bridgers called 'Punisher' from Del’s shop and am pleased to say that it's just as stunning as her debut 'Stranger in the Alps'. This week's coffee is from a Stroud-based company called Shipped by Sail who import goods that can't be grown in the UK and freight them in via old, engineless sailing ships thus making it emission-free! 
This dark roast is from Colombia and was grown by smallholder farmers around the central Andean village of Salgar. It's mightily yummy.
Here's me in my kitchen making a brew to Phoebe's new record: https://youtu.be/nij8Aj9oqUQ  Enjoy your day!Emily x

#loverecordstores
#independentcoffee

More Emily Barker news . . . . . .

EMILY BARKER RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘RETURN ME’

by FRUK Staff 9 June, 2020

It was in 2017 that Emily Barker last graced us with a solo album. 'Sweet Kind Of Blue' had a defined Memphis sound, shaped by both Emily’s own great musical tastes and her choice of support: Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, Grammy-award winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, Jason Isbell) alongside various members of Memphis ‘music royalty’ as her backing band. While she may not have been looking for any sort of affirmation, it most certainly came when she won UK Artist of the Year at the 2018 UK Americana Awards held at Hackney Empire in London.
Last week the news that she had signed to Thirty Tigers was accompanied by a new single ‘Return Me’, the first from a new album which we hope to have more details on soon. It’s a sweet number on which her band’s sensitive light touch adds to the acoustic warmth of the song adding shades of light to a stripped-back personal number. It has that laid-back country-soul feel which calls to mind long days of summer and here finds her yearning for home.
In recent times Emily has found herself gravitating back to themes that have haunted her lyrics since she first started writing songs. The climate crisis that dominated last year’s news brought burning questions back to the fore, and ‘Return Me’ marks her response – the yearning tug of home and family.
“I started to ask myself whether or not the path I am on is still the right one in light of the sombre and overwhelming revelation that our earth is very sick,” Emily said of the track. “Whether the journey is leading me where I want to go…whether it is time at last to return to my first home – a question that seems to have no answer, despite the number of songs I have dedicated to it.”

The accompanying artwork is by Ange Mullen-Bryan and features a detail of a larger painting that Ange made after listening to her new songs and making a painting in response to them.

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While it’s been a while, since her last album, Emily has hardly been static, only last year she released an album with Marry Waterson – ‘A Window to Other Ways’. They got together after meeting on a songwriting workshop by the hugely talented Kathryn Williams…you can read our interview with Marry Waterson about that collaboration here.

We’re looking forward to hearing the next chapter.

 Folk Radio

www.emilybarker.com

Photo Credit: Emilie Sandy

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 . . . . . . . .!
Facebook say

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'