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In the middle of her current UK tour, Sarah Darling took some time out of her schedule to speak to Maverick about her upcoming album and being on the road ‘Wonderland’ was pushed back a bit, but how’s it all coming along now? I’m so excited to say that we have an official launch date of June 7.  The pre-order is up now and Fire was released as a single. It’s the best feeling in the world having this news – ‘Wonderland’ is coming. The last time we spoke, you seemed very excited to just get it out in the open – what was the reason for it being delayed? The issues with PledgeMusic created a several challenges for the release, so we partnered with Absolute for a more traditional approach to releasing the album. The best news is that I hope to have ‘Wonderland’ more widely heard, as well as having physical distribution in the UK, so we turned lemons into lemonade. Another thing you were hugely excited for was your UK tour! How’s that been going and what can fans expect from the remaining dates of your second headline tour this side of the Atlantic? It’s a much more high-energy, transportive show.  I have a good variety of new and old songs that really has a nice flow together.  It’s the most fun set I’ve ever played to date! When I set out to create ‘Wonderland’, I wanted to make a contemporary British country album – something a little different than what is being produced in the US. After years of writing songs in Nashville, I spent much of 2018 in the UK working with British songwriters and producers to create an album that is true to me, yet distinctly British. I am so excited to share these new songs with my wonderful British fans who inspired me to embark on this journey. You played a few sets at C2C, how did they go for you? It was truly the best C2C I’ve ever had. It kicked off at C2C Berlin for me and then I did five performances at C2C London the next week. It was a great feeling to have every show at full capacity and to be able to share so much new music. You’ve said that the UK feels like a second home to you, what do you think makes it so welcoming for you? The people are so lovely and kind – I’ve felt open arms here from the moment I started coming over. The attentiveness of the crowds is absolutely beautiful and I feel like there’s a hanging on to every word. Also, I feel a bit British now! There’s part of me that could see myself living here. You can pre-order ‘Wonderland’ here

Popular Scottish group Ashton Lane had a quick chat with Maverick about some of the exciting things they’ve been up to before they headlined the Maverick Acoustic Stage on the Friday night What can you tell me about the new album? How has recording gone? Esther O’Connor: Really good – we write in an interesting way as a band. We write ourselves, but we also write in collaboration with our fans sometimes and write songs based around their experiences and we call them our bespoke songs. That’s become a very, very important thing to us as a band and we’ve done lots and lots of them. It’s done two things – it’s meant we’ve really connected really closely with our fans through our music, and it’s been a constant source of inspiration because it’s specifically people’s real life stories they are telling you. They are often very moving and really interesting. It’s been a fascinating journey, so quite a few of those songs will be on the next album too. That’s a very unique way of songwriting, when did that start happening? Tim O’Connor: We’ve done that for a couple of years now haven’t we? Esther: Probably about five years ago. It was an idea we had one day and literally the very first day we did it, we just never looked back. People love it, and it’s been really popular.  The other thing you’ve done recently is a greatest hits album – how was it arranging that? Esther: Yes it’s called ‘The Journey’, and it was a really nice thing to put together. We did it with Graeme Duffin, who has a home recording studio we sometimes work at, but we also sometimes record at the Foundry Music Lab, which Graeme runs with his partner, Sandy. Tim: The Foundry Music Lab is where we recorded ‘Nashville Heart’, so it’s really nice to look back over the albums we’ve done and pick our favourite tracks. It was really good, and it was lovely to release something like that, which showed years of our work.  

Scottish act Raintown were immensely popular at Millport Country Music Festival, and they spoke to Maverick after their set to discuss their future plans. What’s next for Raintown? Claire McArthur-Bain: We don’t have any more shows booked in for 2018 because back in the summer, we were working with a consultant from Nashville and our management and we were instructed to go for a break for writing. So now, we’re going to write and record the third album. Exciting times then? Claire: It’s very exciting. For us, it’s a challenge not to be thinking about playing because we love playing – we love being on stage, but at the end of the day, we have to think about getting the third album out so we can go out and play that again for more tours and shows next year. Paul Bain: We’re always writing down ideas, but now it’s very much a structured approach to specifically write at least every other day as we have a child now. We make time for writing, and we’ve set up a number of co-writes as well, which we are excited about, with very different writers. Everybody is a bit different and has their own spin on what is country to them, which I think could be interesting. And it will just be interesting to see what we can come up with for this third album. There are worse things to be told than to write new material…  Claire: That’s what the consultant from Nashville was saying, she was saying it is not a bad thing to come off the road. I know as an artist it feels like it is, but you will have new things to play, new material to get people excited about, and to go back out again. Paul: It also means you’re not thinking about trying to get people to come along and ways to advertise your music. Because we are effectively independent – I mean, we have management in London – but we are independent artists, and that means you can take care of your own stuff and take care of your own business. Claire: We organise everything really – from the touring, to the writing, to the band…we organise everything. A lot of other artists find it easier to write on tour, but we actually don’t. We don’t find it easier to write on tour, so we need to have the focussed hours of doing it. In terms of your material, what direction are you heading with your next album? Claire: There are parts of it that we are still deciding on, but we’ve been doing a mixture of different things. Paul: We said before we went out with this one, ‘let’s just write whatever’. In previous albums, we’ve probably had more of an idea because there’s been one song that has started the process. For example, we were in some studio Memphis and I said to the guys and Claire, ‘I wonder if they knew when they were doing this music that they were going to change the world with it’. Like, did they see the writing on the wall? And that started a whole process of conversation and songs. Claire: Inspiration for the songs came a lot from that one trip. A lot of the album was based on that trip, so that did have a specific sound to the record, but this time, we get different things to write about. Paul: And that radically changes your viewpoint on so many things. It’s the fact that your perception changes and that’s what you want to write about, because something happens. For us, it was having a child, how your emotions change and how you react to things differently. The one thing is that will remain the same, from now until the end of Raintown, is that we will write about what we know. And for Raintown at the moment, I think the songs all represent this time of change and growing. Claire: We are excited to see where it’s going to go as well. Usually we have everything all mapped out in our heads – for example, how we want to sound, what songs we’re picking, what the order is…but we are going in a bit blind this time, and deliberately so.

The latest interview taken at Millport Country Music Festival is with a band who are very much on the cusp of greatness in The Wandering Hearts, and the four-piece discuss their upcoming tour, lyrical content and new music. You’ve got quite an expansive UK tour coming up soon…  Tara Wilcox: We kick off in Brighton in November, and it’s so lovely. We are going back to some of the venues that we played on the last tour we did, and we’re also hitting some cities that we didn’t get to play, including Dublin! We’ve not been to Ireland before. We’ve met people that are buying tickets, and it’s really exciting. We’ve sold out a couple of venues already. Chess Whiffin: We’ve got the amazing Ruston Kelly supporting us and our wonderful friend Fiona Bevan, so it will be a really cool evening of varied music. Your lyrics very much seem to be an outpouring of emotion, do you find that draining at all? Or is it therapeutic in a way? Tim Prottey-Jones: When we got together we didn’t really know each other very well – we were more or less strangers. And so, writing together, which we did straight off, required us to be very open and sharing with each other. A lot of personal experience went into that, and a lot of imagination as well, but it was a really good way of us getting to know each other, and it was kind of therapeutic. Chess: It’s quite cathartic, I think, the whole song writing process – I never come away feeling drained by it. Tara: You feel closer and it’s how you make friendships. In my experience, you end up making good friends. Someone has a hard time and you go ‘I relate to that, because this happened’, and it broaches some kind of common ground, and you realise you’re not the only person feeling that way. We have that as a forum and what is so lovely is that seems to connect on a wider level, because someone hears a song that we wrote, that means something to us, and they go, ‘I’ve been there, and I’ve done that’. That’s the coolest thing for us, when someone goes, ‘this helped me out of this situation’, and we’re like, ‘that’s good!’ It does seem a very big leap to do that with four strangers. AJ Dean: That’s the only way you can really do it – if you’re going to start writing, you’re going to start writing stuff that matters to you. You’ve got to discover what means what to each other, and before too long you’re having those conversations that are deeply personal, and you’re learning a lot about one another in quite a short space of time, which has been really good for us. Generally speaking, do you think there’s enough time spent on lyrics these days? Tim: Hmm…I think that really depends. Yes and no. Chess: I think in country music more so than anything else, yeah. Tara: It’s difficult though with other genres, because I listen to some really successful minimalistic pop and there’s some great stuff, but sometimes lyrics can be super poignant. It might just be one phrase repeated, so that whole thing, I think, is quite subjective. AJ: Definitely, and also there’s a skill in how they succinctly use something simple that can be very powerful. This is more the case in pop I think, as a lot of the mainstream pop that you hear can sometimes not have that much going on lyrically, but then what they do have manages to be so catchy, hooky or powerful, that you go, ‘oh my god!’ All you need is that phrase there. Tim: We are utilising that too, and that’s maybe where the more commercial stuff comes into our lyrics.  You can have really descriptive verses, or whatever, and then you just get this hook that is something that says it all. When your UK tour comes to an end, what are you doing then, heading back into the studio to record new stuff, or on the road in Europe?  Tim: Hopefully all of the above! Chess: Yeah hopefully we will get to do it all, we will try and maybe get over to Europe soon, maybe even before the end of this year. If not, definitely next year is the plan, and we’re writing a lot so we will be in the studio hopefully recording it for the New Year. Do you think you will have anything out before C2C? AJ: Ooo…maybe!

Continuing our series of interviews taken from Millport Country Music Festival, publisher Peter Mawson spoke to Grammy nominated artist Jerry Harmon before his headline set on the Maverick Acoustic Stage.  Speaking as someone with a lot of experience around the scene, how do you feel about the changes that we are seeing in the music sector? It depends, you know. There’s a music scene from different regions, and a lot of different places, and then there’s the Nashville music scene.  The Nashville music scene…in all honesty, is a business. It’s about money, it’s not about art – it’s about a bank. When I come to places like Millport, it really is heartening to me. I enjoy it because I come to the UK, and I see a lot of artists over here, going out, doing what they do and being true to themselves, and to me that’s what it’s all about. The thing that I’m glad to see here again is that the UK are still supportive on roots – it’s something you don’t see in America. I think the music scene in America has, in my opinion, become way too commercialised and has taken a lot away from it. I don’t see that as much here. I think a lot of people in the UK are just starting to tune into country, Americana, and bluegrass, so that’s quite refreshing to hear… I’ve noticed. I’ve been touring the UK, on average, twice annually for a decade now, and I really believe even more so than when I first started that I see more and more opening up over here. It would be good to see it turn back from competitions on the TV… From what I can gather – and this is from a very good source – a lot of the competitions on the TV already know the outcome before they begin, and that’s sad.  That’s really sad. The audience really pull for people, and it doesn’t matter as the companies already know who is going to win. That is a shame – the need to deceive people and turn it into everything about the money. Using the word deceive and music in the same breath, it kind of feels alien.  They don’t even fit. They should never fit together. Going back to you, you had a Grammy nomination fairly recently… Yeah, I was very honoured. It’s something I never really thought would happen.  To me I’m grateful, and I really didn’t see this one coming, but I don’t think that makes me any better than any other artist. My name just got thrown in the hat and I happened to get plucked out as a nominee. I’m very grateful for that, but that doesn’t make me better than the next. That’s a very humble approach to take. Can we expect any new music from you soon? I do, I’ve been writing some new things. Have you got plans to get into the studio? Yes, I will be heading back to the studio in the spring to record. So, can we expect something towards the end of next year? Absolutely. If nothing goes wrong, I will have an album released in the fall of next year.

For the last eight years, UK born singer-songwriter Callaghan has criss-crossed the USA playing thousands of shows in venues, homes and gardens across 47 states As she gets ready to kick off her UK tour in York on 30 October, we asked her to share her top five memories from years of touring across the USA.  The 30A Songwriters’ Festival, Florida in January 2011 The 30A highway is a very beautiful stretch of road in Florida’s panhandle. Each year, over Martin Luther King Weekend, the small towns dotted along the highway host the 30A Songwriters’ Festival. In January 2011 Shawn Mullins was headlining the event with an outdoor show overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. I had moved to the USA from London about 6 months earlier to record my debut album with Shawn. I had contacted him online a year or two before that as I knew he produced his own albums and I was a big fan. His album Soul’s Core was the record which inspired me to want to become a songwriter. One of my favorite songs from that record is called The Gulf of Mexico. I opened the show for Shawn that day then listened to his incredible band play that track while overlooking the deep blue waters of the gulf. It was a chilly, bright, January day with lovely blue skies and an amazing audience, and I remember thinking that coming to the USA was working out OK! The Giant Redwoods of California On west coast tours traveling betweenPortland Oregon and San Francisco I always try to stop and see the Giant Redwoods in northern California. I think that in all my travels across the USA they are the single most amazing thing I have seen. It’s impossible to convey just how massive they are, and just how small they make you feel. In fact, I think that if you visited them, then went away for 10 minutes and came right back you would be just as amazed all over again because it’s impossible for your brain to compute and remember their sheer size. Some of the trees are 2,000 years old, up to 22 feet wide and 360 feet tall – about as tall as a 35-story skyscraper! There’s a real feeling of peace among the trees and it’s a great place to visit. You do have to watch out for bears though! The Telluride Americana Festival in Colorado Just after my last UK tour ended in Hyde Park we flew back to Chicago and then had to drive 1400 miles in 2 days to get to Telluride for the next show. The city is high up in the Rocky Mountains at 2,600 meters (8,500 ft). It’s surrounded by amazing views and hikes – but you need a day or two to catch your breath and get used to the altitude. It’s quite interesting performing a show at that altitude because it’s easy to get light-headed quickly when singing. In fact the dressing room had an oxygen tank installed just incase! The USA is HUGE That drive from Chicago to Telluride is a reminder of something I’ve never got used to – the sheer size of the USA. It’s one of the reasons my Toyota has 417,000 miles on the clock! One year we did a six-week tour of house shows (concerts in fans’ homes and gardens) which stretched from Key West in Florida to Seattle in Washington State. We called the tour ‘Callaghan Across America – Corner to Corner’. The tour ended on a Sunday and we had to be back in Nashville by Thursday to play at the Bluebird Cafe. Without checking the map we assumed we had plenty of time to get there and could take in some sights like Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore, but when we checked we realised that the drive was 39 hours long! We left on Monday morning and only just made it to soundcheck on time at The Bluebird 4 days later! It’s an incredible journey getting to drive across the country because you pass through so many different landscapes. From the luscious green forests of the North-West corner, to the coastal roads of California, across mountain ranges, and deserts covered in cacti that can sometimes feel like you’re driving on the moon!  It’s hard to beat American hospitality Ever since moving to the USA I’ve been constantly surprised and encouraged by the amazing generosity and kindness of strangers. I’ve been lucky enough to stay with, and even live with, people who hardly know me! I’ve lived in Atlanta, Nashville and now LA and each time the move begins with fans who have become friends saying “why don’t you just stay here for a while?” I’ve also played hundreds of house shows for fans and their friends all across the USA. Now when we tour we hardly ever have to get a hotel. There’s usually someone nearby who we can stay with. Many of our hosts have become friends we stay in touch with and it’s great to go to a family home rather than a hotel after a show.  It’s really helped make touring financially possible, and certainly makes it a lot more fun. I began touring again in the UK in 2015 and over the last couple of years it’s been fun seeing the reaction of the US musicians who come with me to the sights, sounds and tastes of the UK. I should get them to write an article like this one! Callaghan’s UK tour begins on October 30th in York supporting her new self-titled album, described in our review as “a euphoric collection of piano led songs”. The tour includes shows in Edinburgh, Leeds, Preston, Birmingham, Bristol and The Wirral with a special headline show at this year’s London Roots Festival on November 7.  Full details and ticket links are available at www.callaghansongs.com/live

Kicking off a series of interviews taken at the Millport Country Music Festival,  Ashley Campbell spoke to Maverick after her set on Nashfield – the main stage. ‘The Lonely One’ has been out a few months now, how have you found the reaction to that? It’s pretty great. It always amazes me, you put something out and you have no idea how people are responding to it until you come and play a show and people are singing along with the words. There’s no feeling like it, it’s incredible. You’ve got a tour coming to England, at the end of the year including a headline date at Shepherd’s Bush. How are you feeling about that? I’m so excited. I love doing songwriters rounds, because it’s like a collaborative effort. You get to talk to each other, talk about songs, and you get to learn how other songs were written. I feel it’s a really cool experience both for the artist and the audience. Coming from a huge musical family, how do you see the current state of country music right now? I think it’s going in a good direction. I love that more Americana groups are being considered in the country category, because it is all from the same family, so we are getting a lot more diversity, which is really nice. Is there anyone in particular that you are listening to at this moment in time? I’m super digging Katie Musgrove’s album at the moment! Once the tour is done, what is your plan after that? Are you going back into the studio? Yeah, actually I’m recording my next album in December.  So I’m working on that and still writing for it, and I’m also planning on recording an acoustic EP of songs from my current album. Where are you recording it? Nashville.  My friend Parker Cason has an awesome studio there called Creative Workshops. I like using that, it’s very homey and it feels like a log cabin in there. www.ashleycampbellmusic.com

Katee Kross is a 21 year old singer-songwriter from Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow. She is the presenter of the online show #HereandNow on Broadcasting Scotland, has two self-funded albums to her name with a third very on the way, has opened for Seasick Steve at Kelvingrove Bandstand and Wembley, and played C2C Glasgow back in March. Scott Watson spoke to the talented artist ahead of her performance at Millport Country Music Festival.   2018 started off pretty big for yourself taking C2C Glasgow at the Hydro by storm, followed by a headline gig at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut. It has been an amazing year for me so far. But it all started with a brilliant opportunity last year when Seasick Steve asked me to support him at Kelvingrove Bandstand Glasgow, which was a phenomenal gig. I absolutely loved playing C2C Glasgow. The response I got from everyone who attended the gig was outstanding, and a bit overwhelming. The acoustic stage had a capacity of 100, and there was 120 people in the room and a line of 40 outside the room looking through the window, with a queue out the door and around the corner. From that our headliner gig at King Tuts came about, and it was out of this world. It was my first headliner at King Tuts and to top it off, it was on a Saturday night which is unusual for unsigned ‘smaller’ acts to get. …and it didn’t stop there. You’ve had a busy year with regards to live shows and in particular festivals. It has been super busy so far and we have had a great time playing all the different festivals throughout Scotland, getting to meet a whole load of lovely people. Ross and I are very fortunate to be going up to The Perthshire Amber Festival in November, where we will be running the open mic stage (a huge honour). We will be sharing the stage with loads of Scotland finest musicians, and of course I can’t wait to play my first ever Millport Country Music Festival it’s going to be fantastic. You are appearing throughout the weekend at Millport Country Music Festival in September, both on the Cactus Jack’s and Maverick Acoustic Stage. What can the Millport audience expect to hear from you and The Amberjax? The Millport fans can expect to hear some never heard /played live before songs off of our brand new album ‘Body & Soul’, some tracks off of ‘Don’t Fade to Grey’, and some classic country covers. It’ll be so much fun. You are also the host of the Millport Emerging Talent Showcase that weekend, presented by Maverick Magazine. Are you excited about the emerging talent that has been announced? I am very honoured to be hosting the emerging talent showcase. It’s the first time the team in Millport have run this event during the festival, and I love all of the artists that have been picked – they are all fantastically talented! I’m glad I’m not the one that’s making the decision who wins the opportunity to play at Nashfield before the Sunday headliner and  the recording session with Black Room Sessions, because it’ll be a hard one. You seem to be quite heavily involved with mentoring, tutoring and guiding young artists. Is there any advice you would give to young talent hoping to do what you are doing?  I love to help out other musicians. It’s a much more caring, friendlier world if we all just give each other a hand. The advice I would give, is love what you’re doing, work hard and enjoy yourself. It’s going to be hard with a lot of knock backs, but as long as you can say you honestly love what you’re doing, then keep going. Later this year you will be releasing your third self funded album, ‘Body & Soul’. What can we expect from it? Everyone can expect a fantastic album, even if I say so myself. We have worked so hard on this one, and I am bursting with pride at how it has turned out. There’s a lot more maturity with the songwriting, and even during the process of it all, I myself have grown a lot. I would describe it as a classic Americana pop album, and I can’t wait for everyone to hear it. When will the album be launched and will there be a party? The launch on the 13th of October will be held in Nice N Sleazy in Glasgow. There will be special guests in Mick Hargan and the brilliant Tommy McGuire, who are both playing a set each. Tickets are on sale just now! There’s ticket links on our social media pages so go grab a few. It’ll be a night full of laughs and brilliant music! You don’t want to miss it. Album launch and Millport aside, what’s the plans for the rest of the year? Once we get Millport and the album launch out of the way, I think we have about a 30 second breather before we support Sandy Thom at Oran Mor Glasgow, and then on to The Perthshire Amber Festival, and start writing for album four! Who knows,  perhaps even look towards a tour for 2019.   See Katee Kross and The Amberjax throughout the weekend of 7-9th September at Millport Country Music Festival 2018

Ahead of the upcoming release of her upcoming self-titled album, Callaghan took some time out of her US tour to speak to Maverick about the new record – her third as a solo artist.  So, what can you tell us about your new self-titled album? ‘Callaghan’ is a 12 track album written and recorded over the course of one year in Los Angeles. I made the album in 3 stages, recording 4 songs at a time. It was easier to fit around my touring schedule that way, but it also gave me a great amount of freedom to keep writing as the year went on and draw from the experiences I was having and what was going on in the world at the time, and then put all that into the songs I was writing. You recorded the new album in LA, how did that process compare to recording in Nashville? The move to LA has been really great in terms of getting to work with new producers and writers and explore a slightly more pop sound. Both Nashville and LA have amazing musicians and producers to work with. In LA the industry is focused more on the pop and movie side of music, so working with people from LA definitely gave me different perspectives and ideas. It’s also been inspiring taking in new surroundings, living by the ocean and the mountains. I love the feeling of going for a walk on the beach when I’m stuck on a lyric, and letting the environment bring new inspiration. How do you feel your music has progressed from your last album, ‘History of Now’?  I like to call the sound of this record “cinematic pop” because a lot of the songs have very atmospheric production, with brass sections, orchestras and gospel choirs. I named the album “Callaghan” because I felt it reflected me as an artist more than anything I’ve recorded to this point. I’ve explored more of my sound and my voice than ever before, and delved deeper into my soul through these songs. I hope that on both ‘History of Now’ and ‘Callaghan’ people will find songs that move them and which they can relate to their own lives and experiences. You’ve played C2C a few times, and you’re headlining London Roots Festival in November. How important has the UK country/roots scene been to your career so far? And why do you think it’s so successful here in the UK now?  I think the genre of country and roots music in the UK is, in some ways, much wider than it is in the US. So there’s more space for a huge range of artists, all doing their own thing. To me, the most important thing is always the song and whether it makes you feel something, whether that’s making you cry or want to dance around the room. I think that’s at the heart of the UK country/roots scene and that’s why so many people connect so strongly with it. You’re an independent artist, what are some of the advantages and disadvantages of that? I have a lot of creative control as an independent artist which is something I really value. To have the freedom to write and record exactly what I want to express is incredible. However, it’s also an amazing amount of work to be independent, and can be a challenge to reach people without the resources of a label to promote the music. But in today’s world, more and more artists are going it alone and figuring out ways to build their own audience. Having lived in the States for so long, are you ever tempted to move back to the UK? And if you did do you think if would effect your sound?  I love that I get to tour in the UK a couple of times a year and, to be honest, I still miss home a lot! Living in the US has given me some unforgettable experiences and I’ve been able to work with some incredible people through recording my albums in three cities – Atlanta, Nashville and LA. Who knows where my next album will be recorded – I’d love to spend some more time in the UK and possibly work more with writers and producers I’ve connected with over there and see where it takes me next. What is your favourite song on the new album, and why?  It’s always hard to choose a favourite song because they each bring something different, but I have a particular soft spot for a track called “All Through The Night” on my album. I grew up listening to and playing a lot of classical music, and I had always wanted to incorporate that into my music in some way. So this song starts with a 1:30 instrumental prelude that I composed with the producer and arranger, Starr Parodi, which is performed by a 30-piece orchestra and leads into the track. There’s something about this song that always puts me into a trance whenever I listen to it. I would challenge anyone not to feel completely chilled out after listening to it! What is your favourite ever live show, and why?  I recently got to play at British Summertime Festival in London’s Hyde Park this summer with my band. I was on the line up with James Taylor, Bonnie Rait and Paul Simon, which was incredible. There were 65,000 people at the festival and such an amazing atmosphere, topped off by the fact that I got to meet and chat to James Taylor, and he was one of the nicest people I’ve ever met! If you could only listen to one other artist for the rest of your life, who would it be and why?  That’s a tricky question because I think if you could only listen to one artist their music might start to drive you a bit crazy, so it’s a tough one! I guess I’d have to think of the artists that have been in